Fiverr cuts 30% of staff in pivot to being 'an AI-first company'
ai-pocalypse Freelance services marketplace Fiverr has told around 250 staffers that they are back on the market as it pivots to having "a modern, clean, AI-focused infrastructure from the ground up."…
Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf
Google has given the go-ahead to a plan that lets AI agents make purchases on your behalf and, on Tuesday, released its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to make it happen. The system comes with touted safeguards that are intended to prevent thieves from draining bank accounts.…
Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright believes that the country will have at least one small nuclear rector up and running by July 2026, despite the fact that not a single one has been built to date, after multiple failed attempts.…
Apple 0-day likely used in spy attacks affected devices as old as iPhone 8
Apple backported a fix to older iPhones and iPads for a serious bug it patched last month – but only after it may have been exploited in what the company calls "extremely sophisticated" attacks.…
Users in SAP's heartland call for greater license transparency
DSAG, the SAP user group for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, has called for greater transparency in cloud licensing to enable the migration and upgrade of on-prem systems to the cloud.…
Office 2016 and 2019 face October 14 execution date
While Windows 10 might seem to be the biggest casualty as a result of Microsoft's ax-swinging, Office and recent versions of Windows 11 are also set to be chopped.…
Your call is very important to us – which is why we're connecting you to a human
ai-pocalypse You'll be able to talk to a human when you need help for many years to come. A new Gartner study shows that fears about AI replacing humans with bots in call centers are unfounded, at least among Fortune 500 and other companies.…
Google unmasks itself as mystery hyperscaler behind yet another UK datacenter
Google today confirmed it is the mystery hyperscaler behind another European datacenter campus as it cut the ribbon on a facility situated on the outskirts of the M25 in Hertfordshire.…
Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates
European e-waste campaigners are calling on EU leadership to force tech vendors to provide 15 years of software updates, using Microsoft's plan to end Windows 10 support next month — which may make an estimated 400 million PCs obsolete — as a textbook case of avoidable e-waste.…
Trump backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea
Analysis On Sunday, President Trump took to his personal social media channel to calm a growing diplomatic storm with one of America's closest allies, South Korea.…
The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it
Beware the meeting room zombies. We don't mean you when you're listening to a colleague reading out a 100-slide PowerPoint presentation, but some expensive Microsoft meeting room hardware that may be obsolete in a few short weeks.…
Overmind bags $6M to predict deployment blast radius before the explosion
Exclusive How big could the blast radius be if that change you're about to push to production goes catastrophically wrong? Overmind is the latest company to come up with ways to stop the explosion before it happens.…
Linux Mint picks up the pace with LMDE 7 and Wayland-ready Cinnamon
The Linux Mint team plans to speed up its release cycle and get two more versions out in the next few months.…
China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents
Beijing will soon expect Chinese network operators to 'fess up to serious cyber incidents within an hour of spotting them – or risk penalties for dragging their feet.…
It's the final countdown: Windows 10 hits end of support in less than 30 days
Start the countdown! For any administrators living under a rock, Microsoft has posted another warning that Windows 10 22H2 will reach end of servicing on October 14.…
ChatGPT: Why do most of your users ask for help writing - prose, not code?
Users of individual accounts for OpenAI’s ChatGPT mostly use it for research and to help with writing, according to a new study into the kind of queries fed into the service.…
Indian court stops streaming hearings on social media to protect lawyers from mean memes
The High Court of the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh has stopped live-streaming hearings to protect local lawyers from ridicule on social media.…
After years of strife, AFRINIC has elected a board. Now the hard work begins
The African Network Information Center (AFRINIC) last week held elections and announced the appointment of eight directors, which means it has a chance to convene a board for the first time since 2022.…
Even fantasy money can buy a lot of power – just ask Larry Ellison
Opinion When does imaginary money come before real? If you had bought Oracle shares on Tuesday last week and sold them on Friday, you might have some real cash. But everything else lives in a gray area.…
Dems wave hands, stomp feet about ICE using mobile face recognition app
A group of senators has penned a sternly-worded letter to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) saying that they're very worried about the agency's use of facial recognition in its mission to cleanse the nation of immigrants with improper documents. …
