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Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster

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Quantum computing next (very) cold war? US House reps want to blow billions to outrun China

House reps hope to jumpstart qubit race with R&D

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Ventana bumps performance on Veyron RISC-V silicon to surely speed up servers

Bugatti ain't got nothing on this V2

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WeBroke WeWork, WePromise WeFix it: How subleasing giant hopes to survive bankruptcy

Coworking gambit divided office space – and got conquered

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Intel to build hush-hush fabs to bake chips for US military

'Secure enclave' reports point to separate production line with blocked off access

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Synopsys joins RISC-V party with trio of embedded core designs

Recent industry support a game-changer, especially in the software sector

Epyc 3 ain't done yet – AMD extends availability to 2026, unleashes six more SKUs

Three-year-old cores, but hey – they're cheap, relatively speaking

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Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5 million bank transactions

Running infrastructure in the tropics has its challenges – but so do failed disaster recovery plans

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Hardware hacker: Walling off China from RISC-V ain't such a great idea, Mr President

America could drive innovation... or inject fear and doubt and kill off choice

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Ireland to develop datacenter powered by fuel cells

Green move comes against backdrop of 82 energy-sucking bit barns with growing power draw needs

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Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage

A little peek behind the control panel, analytics curtain

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Woo-hoo, UK ahead of Europe in this at least – enterprise IT automation

But plenty of tech folk wish management would just leave them alone

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You can buy personal info of US military staff from data brokers for just 12 cents a pop

Health records, financial situations, religious leanings, it's all out there, or so this study says

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Microsoft likens MFA to 1960s seatbelts, buckles admins in yet keeps eject button

Admins have 90 days to opt out before MFA is deployed automatically

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UK may demand tech world tell it about upcoming security features

Campaigners say proposals to reform laws are 'dangerous' and an attack on safety

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Fresh find shines new light on North Korea’s latest macOS malware

Months of work reveals how this tricky malware family targets... the financial services sector

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Google Bard AI contractors unionize amid anger over 'retaliatory' layoffs

Not actually our problem, says Chocolate Factory, but watchdog decides otherwise - again

Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle

Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster

Cruise admits its driverless robo-taxis need a human at the remote-control wheel

Plus: Parent GM taps brakes on AI van production

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AI gold rush continues as Aleph Alpha scores more than half a billion dollars

HPE and Lidl co-owners among consortium funding 'sovereign' Generative AI company

GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening for the Linux loyal

Traditional Unix sanity plus your choice of MATE or Xfce

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SAP jumps on AI-assisted coding wagon, but uses its own ABAP language

The cloud-only move may leave out devs writing for on-prem systems, which still make up the majority

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Open source work makes me appreciate software testing. It's not an academic exercise

Literally...

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While it waited for Broadcom, VMware set out to do to data services what it did to storage

And decided Intel's GPUs are worthy of on-prem AI action

Beijing prepares for imminent rise of humanoid robots

Mass production of C-3POs pitched for 2025

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M-Trends 2023: Lessons from this year's cyberattack frontlines report

Report

Offbeat

NASA gasping for ideas to extract oxygen from Moon dirt

Wants 'tens of metric tons of O2 production per year' on the cheap

4,000 days of Curiosity: Rover still 'strong' despite worn joints, vision issues

Trundlebot has trundled 32km across 'punishingly cold environment bathed in dust and radiation'

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Italy seizes from Airbnb $836M in alleged unpaid taxes

Biz says it's just following EU rules instead

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ESA goes back to the future with a space freighter... yes again

Repeat performance will be able to return to Earth and might one day carry crew

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