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Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group

1 month 2 weeks ago
Insiders say AI trials involving 'critical network services' underway and some engineering roles being moved to India

Exclusive  Sky Group, the Brit-based commercial TV and broadband service slinger owned by Comcast, is chopping up to 600 employees from the Technology, Consumer Group and COO divisions in the UK.…

Paul Kunert

Anthropic Denies Federal Agencies Use of Claude for Surveillance Tasks

1 month 2 weeks ago
Anthropic has declined requests from federal law enforcement contractors to use its Claude AI models for surveillance activities, deepening tensions with the Trump administration, Semafor reported Wednesday, citing two senior officials. The company's usage policies prohibit domestic surveillance, limiting how agencies including the FBI, Secret Service, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement can deploy its technology. While Anthropic maintains a $1 contract with federal agencies through AWS GovCloud and works with the Department of Defense on non-weapons applications, administration officials said the restrictions amount to making moral judgments about law enforcement operations.

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Key KDE developer Jonathan Riddell quits

1 month 2 weeks ago
Former head of Kubuntu and neon says adiós after 25 years

Sad news for KDE: one of the core people guiding the project for the whole century so far has left the building.…

Liam Proven