Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands
UK authorities on Wednesday arrested three individuals in connection with a multi-million-pound bribery probe tied to the construction of a Microsoft datacenter in the Netherlands.…
Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love
+Comment Anthropic has urged the White House to further tighten so-called AI diffusion rules – which are already set to hurt Nvidia and co by limiting or blocking the sale of higher-end GPUs and accelerators outside the US and a select few allies from mid-May.…
Linux in Excel? Sure, why not ruin both
From the department of "but… why?" comes news of Linux running in Microsoft Excel, although all might not be as it seems.…
Dems look to close the barn door after top DOGE dog has bolted
Elon Musk is backing away from his Trump-blessed government gig, but now House Democrats want to see the permission slip that got him in the door.…
Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush
Meta's Reality Labs division continued its losing streak with another $4.2 billion down the drain in the first quarter of 2025. CEO Mark Zuckerberg's stated priorities on Wednesday's earnings call suggest his metaverse dream is well and truly over.…
30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has claimed about thirty percent of code in at least some of the Windows titan's repositories was written by an AI.…
Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot
Microsoft later this month plans to begin loading Word shortly after folks' computers begin booting up – to "optimize performance" or at least improve their perception of it.…
Healthcare group Ascension discloses second cyberattack on patients' data
It's more bad news from Ascension Health which is informing some of its patients, potentially for the second time in the space of a year, that their medical data was compromised during a major cyberattack.…
AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals
Some smart cookies have found that when AI models face a conflict between telling the truth or accomplishing a specific goal, they lie more than 50 percent of the time.…
How Amazon red-teamed Alexa+ to keep your kids from ordering 50 pizzas
RSAC If Amazon's Alexa+ works as intended, it could show how an AI assistant helps with everyday tasks like making dinner reservations or arranging an oven repair. Or things could go terribly wrong: it might turn on the oven and turn dinner plans into a house fire.…
Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race
World War Fee US tariffs - should they go ahead - are likely to result in price bumps for essential components and construction materials in the datacenter industry, and may even cost America its lead in the AI race as investments are paused or canceled.…
Microsoft tries to kill the 'pausing datacenter builds must be bad news for AI' trope
Microsoft’s capital expenditure was slightly lower than forecast, in part due to “normal variability from the timing of delivery of data center leases” that the company was at pains to argue are not in any way bad news.…
Redis 'returns' to open source with AGPL license
Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name, has returned its main system to an open source license, although the move failed to satisfy some critics.…
X marks the drop for European users
Everything is super, over at X (the social media service formerly known as Twitter), which has shed around 10 percent of its European users in the past six months.…
AI infrastructure investment may be $8T shot in the dark
A report from consultancy McKinsey & Company highlights the widespread unease over AI, pointing to the bewildering sums being invested into infrastructure to support it, while warning that forecasts of future demand are based on little more than guesswork.…
Chris Krebs loses Global Entry membership amid Trump feud
Chris Krebs, former CISA director and current political punching bag for the US President, says his Global Entry membership was revoked.…
NASA probes propulsion problem in Psyche's thrusters
NASA is looking into propulsion problems experienced by a probe on its way to orbit the asteroid Psyche.…
Data watchdog will leave British Library alone – further probes 'not worth our time'
The UK's data protection overlord is not going to pursue any further investigation into the British Library's 2023 ransomware attack.…
Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence
Microsoft is responding to mounting "geopolitical and trade volatility" between the US administration and governments in Europe by pledging privacy safeguards for customers worried about using American hyperscalers, and vowing to fight the US government in court to protect Euro customers' data if needed.…
AI software development: Productivity revolution or fraught with risk?
Analysis AI in software development has evolved rapidly since GitHub Copilot caught the world's attention with its June 2021 preview – and shows no sign of slowing down.…
