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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.…

The security nerds' equivalent of the Epstein files saga

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday finally agreed to make public an unclassified report from 2022 about American telecommunications networks' poor security practices.…

Knowledge workers will be most affected

Microsoft researchers have found that people get the most use of AI for writing and knowledge work, but they offer some comfort to worried white-collar workers, saying that their jobs may only change rather than go away completely.…

Strict regulations, lack of funding, and hallucinations remain hurdles to implementation

US federal government agencies have identified a surge in AI use cases over the past year. But rolling them out? That's where things slow down, thanks to funding gaps, compute shortages, outdated policies, and a workforce still playing catch-up.…

New malware, even better social engineering chops

The FBI and a host of international cyber and law enforcement agencies on Tuesday warned that Scattered Spider extortionists have changed their tactics and are now breaking into victims' networks using savvier social engineering techniques, searching for organizations' Snowflake database credentials, and deploying a handful of new ransomware variants, most recently DragonForce.  …

Vibe coding is right out, say most respondents in Stack Overflow survey

According to a new survey of worldwide software developers released on Tuesday, nearly all respondents are incorporating AI tools into their coding practices — but they're not necessarily all that happy about it.…

Auterion CEO explains how autonomy will change the face of warfare

interview  The war in Ukraine is increasingly becoming a battle of drones, and defense software firm Auterion has just won a $50 million Pentagon contract to supply 33,000 AI-powered “strike kits” that aim to augment Ukrainian UAVs and push them to the front lines.…

Alphabet’s driverless darling taps Avis to manage the fleet for 2026 debut

With Tesla horning in on its Texas territory, robotaxi outfit Waymo has decided to expand to a new city in the Lone Star state: Dallas. …

Redmond’s last mostly sane OS nears end-of-life as AI nags take over

It has been ten years since Microsoft made Windows 10 generally available. With mere months left until the plug is unceremoniously pulled on support for many versions, let's take a look at how the last decade went for the one-time flagship operating system.…

Another week, another protest over budget proposals

A letter protesting the imminent demise of US research vessel and icebreaker the Nathaniel B. Palmer was this week sent to the National Science Foundation (NSF) amid proposed funding reductions.…

Some users keen while others point out pile of unresolved bugs in core product

The open source Blender 3D editing suite may be adapted to run on Apple's iPad and other tablets, despite concern from one contributor that the team is already stretched with "thousands of bugs languishing in the tracker."…

Mostly minor changes under the hood – a lot of them

Over the weekend, the world's most famous Finn pushed out the latest version of the Linux kernel – and warned of upcoming disruption.…

Bumper's 1950 liftoff paved way for thousands of missions from iconic spaceport

It is 75 years since the first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral: a two-stage rocket consisting of a German V-2 missile and a US sounding rocket.…