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The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions

The Open InfraFoundation has delivered a new version of OpenStack named “Epoxy” and thinks it’s an even better option for those seeking a VMware alternative.…

GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show

Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.…

CEO hails 'transformative year' as IPO puts 'puter maker on the big board

Updated  Raspberry Pi hasn't felt the sting of US tariffs yet, and having its boards built outside China might give it an edge over rivals, analysts reckon.…

Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find?

Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet – all of which disappeared after he tipped off the team seemingly behind the highly questionable pictures.…

Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune

Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.…

Bosses say theft now the name of the game with a shift in tactics, apparent branding

Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become "unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky," and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an apparent rebrand.…

Double-oh-sh...

The name's not Bond. It's O'Brien - Keith O'Brien, now-former global payroll compliance manager at the Dublin, Ireland office of HR software-as-a-service maker Rippling.…

Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027

Developers on Wednesday announced plans to bring up to 4.5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power online by 2027 at the site of what was once Pennsylvania's largest coal plant, as part of a proposed datacenter campus running AI and high-performance computing workloads.…

Tip-lipped for 30 years before becoming an 'unrivaled advocate' for the site

Obit  Betty Webb MBE, one of the team who worked at the code-breaking Bletchley Park facility in England during the Second World War, has died at the age of 101.…

Has until month end to make an offer for semiconductor design and licensing shop

Qualcomm has confirmed its interest in buying high-speed connectivity module designer Alphawave Semi, a move that could see yet another major British tech operation swallowed up by a foreign business.…

Hike is no joke and users are not laughing

Microsoft's Power BI price rises have arrived, with some tiers increasing by up to 40 percent.…

Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue

Specialist class action lawyers have launched proceedings against Oracle in Texas over two alleged data breaches.…

AI accelerators to see the light, literally

Lightmatter this week unveiled a pair of silicon photonic interconnects designed to satiate the growing demand for chip-to-chip bandwidth associated with ever-denser AI deployments.…

£5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support

International optometry company Specsavers has paused the global standardization of its Oracle ERP system and moved to third-party support, saving £5 million ($6.5 million) that can be reallocated to the business.…

Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak

Some smart cookies have implemented a brain-computer interface that can synthesize speech from thought in near real-time.…

Cupertino already squashed 'em in more recent releases - which this week get a fresh round of fixes

Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent releases.…

With help from UK operatives, because it’s getting tougher to run the scam in the USA

North Korea’s scamming, thieving, and AI-abusing fake IT workers are increasingly targeting European employers.…

Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more

Thunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla's open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform.…

Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder

Vision  Not even Intel's top brass know what's on newly minted CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block.…

But his emails! Sharing them with Google!

Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail accounts to exchange sensitive information.…