Should leaders place bets on new PCs or generative AI? (2023/07/11) Here's a hint: Leaders are putting laptop orders on ice
InfluxData apologizes for deleting cloud regions without performing 'scream test' (2023/07/11) Despite attempts to inform customers, some say they never got the memo
Microsoft's 10,000 job cuts didn't quite do the trick (2023/07/11) Redmond confirms new round of layoffs in WARN notice
Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount (2023/07/11) 34% of those surveyed are on stimulants including amphetamines
Putting LLMs into production is a monumental task – vector databases could light the way (2023/07/11) MongoDB joins joins Cassandra, PostgreSQL and SingleStore in implementing AI-friendly features
Ofcom proposes Wi-Fi and cellphones share upper 6GHz band (2023/07/11) It's where the cool kids are at... and 'international harmonization' is important
EU gives its blessing to reopen data pipelines to the US (2023/07/11) 'We already have various legal options in the drawer,' says Max Schrems, lawyer who killed the first two deals
Barts NHS hack leaves folks on tenterhooks over extortion (2023/07/11) BlackCat pounces on 7TB of data and theatens to release it
Foxconn, India's star recruit for semiconductor manufacturing, quits (2023/07/11) Departure won't hurt a bit, insists IT minister, as JV partner presses ahead
Sega COO backs away from blockchain (2023/07/11) Sonic the Hedgehog unsure NFTs are golden rings worth collecting
China striving to be first source of artificial general intelligence, says think tank (2023/07/11) The work is hard to spot – which is bad for science, but good for paranoia
Almost all classic US video games 'critically endangered' (2023/07/11) Let us borrow titles digitally from libraries like we can books and movies, say 'puter historians
Make sure that off-the-shelf AI model is legit – it could be a poisoned dependency (2023/07/11) Updated Another kind of supply chain attack that can quietly mess up bots and apps
Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama (2023/07/10) Big Blue is just a gold digger, says avid auditor of software licenses
Intel patches buggy Sapphire Rapids Xeons, resumes shipments (2023/07/10) Relax, says chip giant, it's an easy fix
Fedora Project mulls 'privacy preserving' usage telemetry (2023/07/10) Presumably Red Hat feels it hasn't alienated enough people recently
Starlink satellites leak astronomy-disturbing EM radiation, say boffins (2023/07/10) The light pollution problem is so 2022
Musk sues law firm for overcharging Twitter when Twitter was suing Musk (2023/07/10) X Corp boss invokes spirit of 'Cops arrest man for burning Burning Man man'
Microsoft's Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm (2023/07/10) Network issues caused by nature's hilarious prank
Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable (2023/07/10) Ive got a bad feeling about this