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The beatings will continue until usage improves

Techie hiring service Andela says it has trained 200 software developers in the nuances of GitHub Copilot as part of a multi-year effort to bridge the alleged AI talent gap.…

But it's OK to use it for docs and translations

The latest status report from the FreeBSD Project says no thanks to code generated by LLM-based assistants.…

Claude maker hits $183B valuation as bubble fears grow

Opinion  Anthropic has just pocketed another $13 billion, pushing its valuation to a staggering $183 billion – fresh proof that investors still can't kick their AI habit.…

Six years in the making, but some features do not work yet, and has the tool been overtaken by AI?

JetBrains has updated ReSharper, its .NET plugin for Visual Studio, with an out-of-process design that achieves a 61 percent reduction in UI freezes, the company claims. However, the new mode has reduced functionality.…

Board calls move a mutual decision but offers no details on what went wrong

The GNOME Foundation is once again hunting for a new boss after executive director Steven Deobald departed less than four months into the role, a move the board described as mutual.…

Warnings of internal skills shortages fail to quell appetite for hand-holding

The UK Home Office has upped its planned spending on external data and tech consultants by £100 million to a maximum of £350 million.…

Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI

Champagne will be flowing at Google HQ after US District Judge Amit Mehta decided to do very little to rein in the monopolistic web giant.…

Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages

UK supermarket giant Tesco has sued Broadcom for breach of contracts pertaining to its VMware licenses, named Computacenter as a co-defendant, and warned it may not be able to put food on the shelves if the situation goes pear-shaped.…

‘Universities are being used to proxy offensive government operations, turning research access decisions political’

Censys Inc, vendor of the popular Censys internet-mapping tool, has revealed that state-based actors are trying to abuse its services by hiding behind academic researchers.…

It’s been to space. It likely won’t launch India as a semiconductor superpower

India’s government yesterday celebrated an “important milestone” in the development of its semiconductor industry, and therefore the nation’s ambition to become a global contender, but the celebrations seem premature because the chip that was the star of the show is nothing special.…

The $5.7B check has cleared, CFO says

Intel's agreement with the US government includes a clause that would allow the feds to take an additional five percent stake in the chipmaker if it ceases to have a controlling share in its foundry business.…

Show of hands: who WASN'T targeted?

The list of victims keeps growing, as yet another company — Cloudflare — today disclosed that some of its customers' data was also compromised in the Salesloft Drift breach.…

Enough governments love it and it's highly lucrative

Governments can't get enough of hacking services to use against their citizens, despite their protestations that elements of the trade need sanctioning.…

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"

About 1,000 of a set of 15,000 open access scientific journals appear to exist mainly to extract fees from naive academics.…

Privacy advocates don't care if Paragon is based in the US now - they still don't want ICE armed with spyware

ICE may soon have a new weapon in its arsenal. The White House has reversed a Biden-era decision to suspend the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)'s purchase of software from commercial spyware maker Paragon Solutions.…

A host of plugins also make it a better business tool

Mistral AI can now remember personal details about you and use them to offer better prompts. It also has new MCP connectors that businesses can deploy to connect their users to third-party tech services.…

Joins Google, Palo Alto Networks in the ever-growing supply chain compromise

Zscaler is the latest company to disclose some of its customers' data was exposed in the recent spate of Salesloft Drift attacks affecting Salesforce databases.…

Security firm's Salesforce instance accessed using credentials stolen from Salesloft's Drift platform breach

Palo Alto Networks is writing to customers that may have had commercially sensitive data exposed after criminals used stolen OAuth credentials lifted from the Salesloft Drift break-in to gain entry to its Salesforce instance.…

Free Copilot for any agency who actually wants it

Microsoft, the latest tech firm to agree to big software discounts for the US government, is digging even deeper into its bargain bin than the competition by offering a year of free Copilot access to government agencies willing to put up with its other problem products. …

Software glitch means glass may clamp down harder than intended

Tesla vehicles sold in Australia have been recalled over a window that could "close with excessive force" on a body part of an unwary driver.…