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Two decades ago, the hyperscalers and cloud builders started remaking the Ethernet switch market in the datacenter in their own image, and now it looks like AI training and inference is going to morph Ethernet switching in the datacenter once again. …

AI Reshapes The Ethernet Datacenter Switch Market was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

German singer-songwriter Alice Merton has taken legal action against West over what she describes as his 'unauthorized sample' of her 2022 song Blindside.

Confirmed: 12,000 people let go over 12 months

Rumours of swingeing layoffs at Dell were not exaggerated, a statement The Register offers after reading the hardware giant’s most recent annual report which reveals its workforce shrank by 12,000 in the year to January 31st, 2025.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Spirited Away." In the last 24 hours, we've seen AI-generated images representing Studio Ghibli versions of Elon Musk, "The Lord of the Rings", and President Donald Trump. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman even seems to have made his new profile picture a Studio Ghibli-style image, presumably made with GPT-4o's native image generator. Users seem to be uploading existing images and pictures into ChatGPT and asking the chatbot to re-create it in new styles. OpenAI's latest update comes on the heels of Google's release of a similar AI image feature in its Gemini Flash model, which also sparked a viral moment earlier in March when people used it to remove watermarks from images. OpenAI's and Google's latest tools make it easier than ever to re-create the styles of copyrighted works -- simply by typing a text prompt. Together, these new AI image features seem to reignite concerns at the core of several lawsuits against generative AI model developers. If these companies are training on copyrighted works, are they violating copyright law? According to Evan Brown, an intellectual property lawyer at the law firm Neal & McDevitt, products like GPT-4o's native image generator operate in a legal gray area today. Style is not explicitly protected by copyright, according to Brown, meaning OpenAI does not appear to be breaking the law simply by generating images that look like Studio Ghibli movies. However, Brown says it's plausible that OpenAI achieved this likeness by training its model on millions of frames from Ghibli's films. Even if that was the case, several courts are still deciding whether training AI models on copyrighted works falls under fair use protections. "I think this raises the same question that we've been asking ourselves for a couple years now," said Brown in an interview. "What are the copyright infringement implications of going out, crawling the web, and copying into these databases?"

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Bella Hadid was reportedly involved in a blazing row with her longtime friend Fai Khadra during Paris Fashion Week this month.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Rose Ayling-Ellis was struggling in her mission to excite the residents at a retirement village with her sign language lessons, on Old Hands, New Tricks.

The potential Friday night winner would top the ranks of the biggest EuroMillions wins by UK players, including the anonymous ticket-holder who scooped the existing record jackpot of £195million.

Niamh Lloyd (pictured) met Lee Makin, a 40-year-old notorious burglar, during her time working at Forest Bank Jail in Salford.

The Chancellor promised to spend 'a minimum of 10 per cent' of the Ministry of Defence's equipment budget on 'novel technologies' such as artificial intelligence and drones.

MPs lined up to round on Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the Commons after her Spring Statement.

In a blow to Labour's deputy leader, the Office for Budget Responsibility said it did not have enough detail about her Employment Rights Bill to deliver a full verdict on its consequences.

Cocaine dealer Evan Holmes, 46, claimed that being sent back to his homeland would strip him of his creative inspiration and make it impossible for him to find work.

Two masked carjackers have been jailed after leaping off a moped and holding a driver at knifepoint until they could get their hands on his keys - and take off in his motor.

sciencehabit quotes a report from Science.org: Whales sing, orcas squeal, and sea turtles croak. But sharks are more the strong, silent type. Now, researchers report the first evidence that sharks make sounds, too, described today in Royal Society Open Science. The animals may be making the sounds -- a series of clicking noises -- by snapping their flat rows of teeth, which are blunt for crushing prey. The sharks can hear mostly low-frequency noise, and the clicks they emit are higher pitched, which suggests they are not for communicating with other rigs. It's possible they are a defensive tactic. Marine mammals that eat rigs, such as leopard seals, can hear in the frequency range of the rig clicks, but the researchers question whether a few clicks would deter an attack. The sounds might be part of their response to being startled, the team says.

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RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: We should be careful about how much weight we attach to social media numbers, but there was something revealing about Tiger Woods's two most recent posts.

INSIDE THE EFL: Carlisle United's American owners arrived in November 2023 to much fanfare and a glittering promise: They were here to 'own the north'. Sixteen months on, those words ring hollow.

RANGERS CONFIDENTIAL: You have to wonder what former Rangers manager Philippe Clement makes of the hype now engulfing one of the club's key midfielders.

Shoppers said they "absolutely love" the necklace

Abba have announced a major change to their smash hit hologram show Abba Voyage, three years after launching the show.

Nicky, 51, from Manchester, said she was so dependent on alcohol to 'numb' the pain that she downed a whole bottle of wine as her husband was being rushed into hospital.