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Research lands weeks after the Copilot company said it was still trying to convince customers of benefits

Microsoft's 2024 Work Trend Index makes grand claims about the benefits of AI, but might make disturbing reading for administrators worrying about shadow IT.…

Stick to data pipelines and ontology, says expert after share price dip

Spy-tech biz Palantir has overstated its claim to be a generative AI company, according to one investment analyst who thinks this might explain its recent slowdown in growth from commercial markets.…

Security's an uphill battle... does this latest move have teeth?

RSAC  Some of the biggest names in tech – including AWS, Microsoft, Google, Cisco and IBM – have signed up to a US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency-led effort and promised to take a series of actions within a year to make their products more secure.…

Customers can be pushed into renewing agreements for fear of the unknown, but there are cheaper options

Oracle is threatening software audits as customers seek to exit Unlimited License Agreements (ULAs).…

Despite record revenues, Wall Street doesn't expect growth to last

Chip designer Arm predicts that PCs based on its architecture will account for a significant share of the Windows market within three years as the company claims record revenues for the quarter just ended.…

Intel and Qualcomm reportedly among those cut off

Updated  The US Commerce Department has revoked some of the licenses held by tech companies to supply Chinese megacorp Huawei.…

If it ain't broke, make it less accessible

Much to the chagrin of security pros, VMware security advisories are now only viewable if users sign up for a Broadcom Support account first.…

No it's not happened, but officials want readiness in the South China Sea

The US Secretary of Commerce says it would be "absolutely devastating" if China seized Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and locked down the South China Sea.…

Duplication across geographies no defense against the 'one-of-a-kind' accidental deletion

Google's Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has weighed in on the UniSuper fiasco and confirmed that UniSuper's Private Cloud subscription was accidentally deleted.…

Now this is our kind of click bait

A study into whale language using machine learning has uncovered a complex phonetic system, implying the cetaceans may speak to each other much like humans do.…

Ubuntu Unity 24.04 arrives along with new little sibling, Ubuntu Lomiri

Ubuntu Unity Noble Numbat is out, and alongside it, a very much not long-term-supported new variant of the distro: Ubuntu Lomiri.…

Gosh, here's us thinking recursion was a solved problem

AI model collapse – the degradation of quality expected from machine learning models that recursively train on their own output – is not inevitable, at least according to 14 academics.…

Intel and pals automate manufacturing in Japan while AWS pledges billions to Singapore

Tech giants including Intel and AWS joined Microsoft and others this week in announcing investments in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region to build out infrastructure - cloud services, datacenters, and chipmaking facilities - in anticipation of growing AI demand.…

Power shortages are driving the industry to once-unthinkable places

Southeast Asia's hyperscalers face plenty of challenges – from securing talent, property, and keeping construction costs down – but these hurdles pale in comparison to the task of banking enough power.…

AI may help drug discovery, but not US drug affordability

Google and DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic Labs has developed an AI model called AlphaFold 3 that can, it's claimed, predict the structure of molecules more accurately than existing tools.…

In the first year alone, that's saved us all a lot of money and woe

Interview  As ransomware gangs step up their attacks against healthcare, schools, and other US critical infrastructure, CISA is ramping up a program to help these organizations fix flaws exploited by extortionists in the first place.…

Two years after going live, the project that left employees unpaid still needs work

Updated  The fallout from Edinburgh University's ill-fated Oracle HR and finance implementation continues with one department recording thousands of mis-coded transactions relating to more than £300,000 in spending.…

BogusBazaar ripped off shoppers and scraped card details, but not in China

A crime ring dubbed BogusBazaar has scammed 850,000 people out of tens of millions of dollars via a network of dodgy shopping websites.…

A Pleasant spot to Mount an AI push

After Foxconn failed to turn Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, into an LCD manufacturing mecca as promised, the site is getting a new lease on life: Microsoft will build a $3.3 billion datacenter campus there.…

It's 'essential to national security' ex-Navy intel officer tells us

Interview  As undersea cables carry increasing amounts of information, cyber and physical attacks against them will cause a greater impact on the wider internet.…