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Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has stated in a personal blog that the most advanced developers have "moved from writing code to architecting and verifying the implementation work that is carried out by AI agents."…

Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act

Amnesty International claims Elon Musk's X platform "played a central role" in pushing the misinformation that stoked racially charged violence following last year's Southport murders.…

Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU

The UK public sector expects to spend around £9 billion on Microsoft products and services over five years under its current contract.…

All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience

Hands On  Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because you can download them, you can run them locally.…

Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs

World War Fee  US president Donald Trump appears to have settled his semiconductor tariff strategy.…

Tokyo Electron reveals a former employee is involved, and that no info reached third parties

UPDATED  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has launched legal proceedings against an unknown number of employees as it investigates a potential breach of trade secrets.…

Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers

Uber has revealed its ambition to offer hyper-personalized offers to its customers, but to do so it needs more of them to use more of its apps.…

It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program

Computer scientist Peter Burke has demonstrated that a robot can program its own brain using generative AI models and host hardware, if properly prompted by handlers.…

As US charges 2 Chinese nationals with illegally shipping chips to China

Federal authorities in the US have charged two Chinese nationals with secretly exporting advanced AI chips to China.…

Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India

US President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook made a joint announcement from the White House on Wednesday of another Apple pledge to move manufacturing back to the United States, with an additional $100 billion in funding for domestic projects. The move could keep Apple one step ahead of Trump's unpredictable tariff policy, which threatens to increase costs on iPhones manufactured overseas. …

Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market

Apple now faces challenges to its WebKit browser requirement in three jurisdictions, as authorities around the globe try to jumpstart competition in the mobile software industry.…

Cloud giant erased decade of work – denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool

Updated  An open source developer is claiming AWS deleted his ten-year-old account, wiping all the data. He believes this was due to a botched test of a script designed to prune dormant accounts.…

But strife and criticism continue

Regional internet registry the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is now the subject of an investigation ordered by the government of its home country, Mauritius.…

gpt-oss-20b can't seem to decide who won the election, but tried to convince us that it was Biden

If you're still struggling to come to terms with the results of the 2024 US presidential election, you're not alone. OpenAI's new open-weight language model is also a bit confused.…

A good deal, like beauty, is in the ISP of the beholder, after all - at least if you want BEAD funding

US states that want to make use of rural broadband deployment funds had better not require ISPs to offer what they consider affordable service. According to the Trump Administration, "affordable" is for the ISP alone to define. …

ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions

Google confirmed that criminals breached one of its Salesforce databases and stole info belonging to some of its small-and-medium-business customers.…

Chip contract manufacturer declines to comment

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is "coming over and spending $300 billion in Arizona, building the biggest plant in the world for chips and semiconductors," US President Donald Trump said Tuesday.…

Timber!

Meta is following in Microsoft's footsteps and trying out wood as a construction material for its datacenters in a bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions.…

Thanks to LLMs, CEO expects to see networks 'back-end and front-end converge'

Arista Networks is expecting the AI datacenter industry to be dominated by open standards such as Ethernet or UALink in the near future, and has upped financial forecasts on the back of those hopes.…

Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1

It's just become a lot easier for US government agencies to procure AI products from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, as the firms and the feds have signed a government-wide agreement to streamline purchasing.…