Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death [Tue Feb 14 2023]

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Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death

Kickstarter backers left empty-handed

 

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R&D engineers given marching orders in 14% headcount reduction

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Atos tossed €20m to build Max Planck Society supercomputer

Unnamed platform boasts three times the application performance of its predecessor, Cobra

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Namecheap admits 'unauthorized emails' pwning its customers

Blames 'third-party provider' as phishers drain Ethereum wallets

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LockBit's Royal Mail ransom deadline flies by. No data released

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Microsoft promises smaller Windows 11 updates with UUP – but there's a catch

A beefy 10GB one-time download that arrives in March

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Twilio axes roughly 1 in 5 staff in fresh round of layoffs

Already decimated staff in September

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Language, schmanguage: NASA's generative AI builds spaceships

Or their parts, at least, which look decidedly skeletal for satellite struts

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Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death

Kickstarter backers left empty-handed

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Spotted in the wild: Chimera – a Linux that isn't GNU/Linux

It's not yet reached alpha, but it's already breaking new ground

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Google's $100b bad day demo may be worth the price

Bad AI is bad, bad search is worse

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'Private cloud server' Jira upgraded for wider teams, dragged into culture wars

Atlassian wants it used more widely … but probably not for reporting misinformation to social networks

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Linus Torvalds releases probably unnecessary release candidate eight for Linux 6.2

Emperor Penguin promised a relaxed seasonal development cycle and has delivered

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Satya Nadella wants to make Google dance in battle for AI chat-powered web search

Plus: Publisher using AI tools generated false health advice for men; how ChatGPT widens economic inequalities

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The Pentagon is shockingly bad at managing its employee smartphones

Officials are using government-issued devices much like a teenager would – and that has security implications

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US military spends weekend shooting down Useless Floating Objects

You wait years for unidentified aerial phenomena then three turn up at once

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UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan

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