AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming
interview Enterprise organizations are still struggling to figure out how AI fits into their business, and that may be for the best because it will take time to understand any problems caused by AI-generated code and content.…
AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’
Amazon Web Services on Saturday celebrated the 20th birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3) and revealed a few little secrets about the service.…
Former Microsoft dev trains AI to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test
A former Microsoft engineer is training AI to beat 1982's Robotron: 2084, an arcade game where a lone human must overcome endless waves of robots following a cybernetic revolt.…
Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers
San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.…
Salesforce stock buyback to saddle company with debt until 2066
Here today; here tomorrow. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s stock buyback will saddle the company with debt until 2066, when he turns 102 years old.…
AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to ‘paralyse’ it
The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has accused one its members of trying to "paralyse" the organization.…
Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security
gtc In Pixar's Toy Story, a trio little green aliens explain, "The claw chooses who will go and who will stay." The claw in that instance was a mechanical claw in a vending machine. …
Robotics surgical biz Intuitive discloses phishing attack
Robotics-assisted surgical tech firm Intuitive said that unauthorized intruders gained access to some of its internal IT business applications after stealing an employee's credentials during a phishing attack.…
Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors
GTC Intel and AMD take notice. At GTC on Monday, Nvidia unveiled its latest liquid-cooled rack systems. But unlike its NVL72 racks, this one isn't powered by GPUs or even Groq LPUs, but rather 256 of its custom Vera CPUs.…
Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time
GTC Nvidia will use Groq's language processing units (LPUs), a technology it paid $20 billion for, to boost the inference performance of its newly-announced Vera Rubin rack systems, CEO Jensen Huang revealed during his GTC keynote on Monday. …
Cybercrime has skyrocketed 245% since the start of the Iran war
Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated reconnaissance traffic aimed at banks and other critical businesses.…
Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown
Vite 8.0 has been released, and it uses Rust-built Rolldown as its single bundler, replacing both esbuild and Rollup, to enable faster builds.…
AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains... for cybercriminals
AI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more profitable than those that aren't enhanced, according to Interpol's latest estimates.…
Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire
The chair of the UK Parliament's public spending watchdog has dubbed the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) decision to award Capita a £370 million shared service contract "extraordinary," given the outsourcing firm's "failings" in supporting the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS).…
Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years
Apple's latest MacBook may be cheap, but it also comes with something modern MacBooks haven't offered in years: a fighting chance of being repaired.…
ServiceNow boss warns AI could push grad unemployment past 30%
Unemployment rates among recent graduates could climb above 30 percent because so many early career routine tasks will be performed by AI agents, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott has said.…
Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems
Opinion There are two ways to look at the California Assembly Bill 1043, known as The Digital Age Assurance Act or DAAA. One is to say it is a 2025 law requiring operating systems and app stores to implement age verification during account setup to protect minors online. The other is to note that the law is all the worst things a law can be.…
Flaw in UK's corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records
Companies House was forced to pull down its record-filing platform for the entire weekend to rectify a "security issue" that exposed the personal details of company directors and other data to any logged in users.…
West Sussex's Oracle rollout pushed back again as costs balloon 15 times
West Sussex County Council has once again delayed the implementation of Oracle Fusion for HR and payroll – set to replace an aging SAP system – following a series of setbacks that have seen expected costs swell to more than 15 times the original estimate.…
India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants
Asia in brief India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change last week staged a two-day national workshop titled “Policy Implementation for Minimizing Elephant Mortalities on Railway Track” – and one of the ideas discussed was using AI to protect the beasts and workers.…
