ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales

(2024/03/05)

Washington reportedly decided chipmaker hadn’t done too little



Grab shrank its superapp by a quarter in order to survive

(2024/03/05)

Large APKs and disk footprints spell doom in a developing market



Twitter's ex-CEO, CFO, and managers sue Elon Musk for $128M

(2024/03/05)

Musk playbook described as 'Keep money he owes other people, and force them to sue him'



Cloudflare wants to put a firewall in front of your LLM

(2024/03/05)

Claims to protect against DDoS, sensitive data leakage



Anthropic unlocks Claude 3, claims it's better than ChatGPT and Gemini

(2024/03/05)

Boasts of 'near-human levels of comprehension and fluency'



Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data's atomic datacenters for $650M

(2024/03/05)

E-commerce giant on the hook for 480MW of power from Susquehanna plant



American Express admits card data exposed and blames third party

(2024/03/05)

Don't leave home without … IT security



Flying car biz Alef claims 3K preorders, still hasn't done a proper demo

(2024/03/04)

What will happen first by 2026? Model A in production or end of the world?



Change Healthcare attack latest: ALPHV bags $22M in Bitcoin amid affiliate drama

(2024/03/04)

No honor among thieves?



Seoul accuses North Korea of stealing southern chipmakers' designs

(2024/03/04)

Kim Jong Un's all in for home-built silicon says warning



Apple gets in on the AI PC hype, claims fanless M3 MacBook Air is fab for LLMs

(2024/03/04)

Plus a new anodization seal should make Midnight edition more resilient to gamer grease



Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support

(2024/03/04)

Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases



German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

(2024/03/04)

Officials can't tell whether the tape was edited, but fear Kremlin has more juicy bits to release in the future



Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

(2024/03/04)

Copilot failed to shift the dial. Could Moment 5 and upcoming invitations do the trick?



NASA's satellite pit stop project runs out of gas

(2024/03/04)

OSAM-1 – expensive, late, difficult, and no longer what the market needs?



EU takes a bite out of Apple with $2B in-app purchase fine

(2024/03/04)

Cupertino blames Spotify, says Commission is just giving preference to another European company



Ellison-backed med tech startup Project Ronin closes doors

(2024/03/04)

Built on OCI, the cancer-focused analytics company struggled to find sufficient paying customers, one report claimed



Ransomware ban backers insist thugs must be cut off from payday

(2024/03/04)

Increasingly clear number of permanent solutions is narrowing



Micron New York mega fab faces an environmental exam

(2024/03/04)

At least the US Army is thinking about the frogs in those 226 acres of wetland



Cruise's valuation halved after its driverless car hit and dragged a woman

(2024/03/04)

AI in brief Plus: Google CEO admits company got it wrong when it built 'too-woke' AI, and more



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If you stew apples like cranberries, they taste more like prunes than
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