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The US president also hints at an extra penalty for New Delhi over trade with Russia

world war fee  Just as signs pointed to a slight easing in global trade tensions, US President Donald Trump opened a new front in his trade offensive, this time with a 25 percent tariff on goods from India.…

You get a superintelligence and you get a superintelligence. Everybody gets a superintelligence

Meta is plowing tens of billions of dollars into GPU bit barns the size of Manhattan Island, and yet The Social Network has struggled to upstage rivals like OpenAI or Anthropic.…

IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance...

Organizations rushing to implement AI are neglecting security and governance, IBM claims, with attackers already taking advantage of lax protocols to target models and applications.…

Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround

The US Navy has announced plans to continue distributing satellite data needed for hurricane forecasting, months after authorities said the data stream was to be turned off.…

Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months

Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service.…

Competiton regulator smells abuse of a dominant market position, Zuckercorp claims all is well

Meta's addition of AI services to encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp has Italian officials suspecting the Silicon Valley giant may be abusing its dominant market position to push unwanted features on users.…

If at first you succeed, have some more money

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace $176.7 million to deliver a pair of rovers and a trio of scientific instruments to the Moon as part of the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.…

Brazil is the latest browser battlefield

Veteran browser maker Opera has filed a complaint with Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) against Microsoft over alleged anti-competitive practices in Windows that favor Edge.…

Distie insists global operations restored despite some websites only now coming back online

The cybercriminals claiming responsibility for Ingram Micro's ransomware attack put a deadline on leaking its data nearly a month after the raid.…

Gigaclear slapped by watchdog for failings, admits 'seriousness of the error'

Ofcom is to impose a £122,500 fine (about $164,000) on UK broadband provider Gigaclear for failing to deliver accurate caller location information when customers called the emergency services.…

Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new bill

Oracle has introduced new licensing terms that some users may see as hidden within the terms for VirtualBox, the general-purpose virtualization software for x86_64 hardware.…

Birdsong stores 176 KB, but can it run Doom?

Forget flash storage – flock storage is here after it was demonstrated that data can be saved to a bird.…

Green rules risk short-circuiting AI ambitions, warns group including AWS, Microsoft and Google

A trade body representing datacenter operators in Europe worried about standards for efficiency imposed by the EU has published a report to ensure its arguments are heard first.…

Users and developers struggle to comply as situation evolves

It is a little more than four years since the European Union first proposed legislation to govern tech companies that build AI systems and how users deploy them. A lot has changed since then.…

AI frameworks are becoming a Russian nesting doll of abstraction layers

Cisco's Agntcy project is the latest AI framework to find refuge at the Linux Foundation.…

‘We want kids to know who they are before platforms assume who they are’ says Minister

Australia will require Google to ensure that children aged under 16 cannot sign up for YouTube accounts.…

Russian rumbler has authorities across the Pacific warning of possible problems

A vastly powerful earthquake that radiated out from the eastern Russian coast on Wednesday has caused a significant tsunami but hasn’t disrupted communications or cloud computing services.…

‘I would have liked more flight time but happy with this’ says CEO of private rocket outfit

Australia’s attempt to return to space lasted just 14 seconds, after a Wednesday launch barely made it off the ground.…

Q Link claimed subsidies for ineligible customers

The former CEO of Florida telco Q Link will spend up to five years in jail after attempting to steal more than $100 million from two US government programs.…

Chinese IT giant's CloudMatrix 384 promises GB200-beating perf, if you ignore power and the price tag

Analysis  Nvidia has the green light to resume shipments of its H20 GPUs to China, but while the chip may be plentiful, bit barn operators in the region now have far more capable alternatives at their disposal.…