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'I'm sorry, I can't help with that'

Google's latest update to its Gemini family of large language models appears to have broken the controls for configuring safety settings, breaking applications that require lowered guardrails, such as apps providing solace for sexual assault victims.…

As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters

Next  Dominic Johnston is fed up with VMware.…

Jenson Huang's compensation package swells to $49.8M, firm reveals younger Huangs on the payroll too

The gods of executive pay smiled on Nvidia's chief executive in the last full financial year, awarding him a 45 percent bump in total compensation.…

A B2B, API move this ain't, in our view

Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is leaving to become CEO of Applications at OpenAI, reporting directly to Sam Altman, the AI heavyweight announced on Thursday.…

Last big release until trixie shows up

Debian bookworm is getting what could be its last hurrah as the basis for Raspberry Pi's operating system, with what's likely to be its final appearance on a release for the diminutive computers.…

No direct impact on royalty, licensing biz but device end demand in firing line

World War Fee  Arm shares took a tumble after it declined to issue guidance for the year ahead in light of the current economic uncertainty, despite the chip designer claiming record revenue for the quarter just ended.…

Now individual school districts extorted by fiends

An education tech provider that paid a ransom to prevent the leak of stolen student and teacher data is now watching its school district customers get individually extorted by either the same ransomware crew that hit it – or someone connected to the crooks.…

Steven Deobald certainly talks the talk

The GNOME Foundation has hired a new executive director to lead the organization, acting as GNOME's public face and leading the non-profit's fundraising efforts.…

Gartner also says customers say ERP vendor's internal processes cause delays

Users who signed up for the RISE with SAP deal are finding that the costs are higher than expected, and the service levels are worse, research from Gartner indicates.…

Networking biz cashes in on AI hysteria, warns trade tensions could disrupt supply and margins

World War Fee  Arista Networks is warning investors of the fear, uncertainty and doubt caused by the Trump administration's shifting trade policies.…

Icons from a more civilized time

Windows deposits a huge number of files onto a user's PC, some of which are essential for the operating system, and others that are a reminder of gentler times. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen this week took another trip down memory lane to the pixel-tastic world of moricons.dll on his Old New Thing blog.…

Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper

Internet souk Amazon has unveiled a new robot for its warehouses and claims the machine uses a sense of "touch" to shift around 75 percent of the types of packages handled.…

Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse'

NASA's "skinny" budget has rattled its allies. After years of close cooperation, the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking jilted, while others describe the US space scene as adrift in gloom and doubt.…

Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box

Clippy is back - and this time, its arrival on your desktop as a front-end for locally run LLMs has nothing to do with Microsoft. …

Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake

Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default – part of a push to cut memory-related security bugs and lock down core system components.…

Eddy Cue tells DC court Safari to rope in Anthropic, OpenAI and co

Updated  An Apple executive's backhanded endorsement of AI as a replacement for traditional internet searches has sent Google stock tumbling. …

Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed

A federal judge has cleared the runway for a class action from disgruntled passengers against Delta Air Lines as turbulence from last year's CrowdStrike debacle continues to buffet the carrier.…

Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped

Kernel 6.15 is taking shape and it looks like it will eliminate support for Intel's 486 chip and its contemporaries.…

Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity

India’s telecom regulator has signaled it’s ready to let Starlink and other satellite-broadband providers operate – but only if they agree to strict conditions, including setting up “special monitoring zones” within 50km of land borders where law enforcement and security agencies are permitted to monitor users.…

No, really? That's a shocking surprise

Updated  An unidentified miscreant is said to have obtained US government communications from TeleMessage, a messaging and archiving app based on the open-source Signal app and used by ousted national security advisor Michael Waltz.…