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Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room [Mon Apr 15 2024]

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Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room

And be paid danger money while he did it

 

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Australian operation of web host BlueVPS laid low by storage failure

PLUS: AWS expands India payment options; Alibaba co-founders unite in criticism; Korea invests in AI; and more

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UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch

Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga

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Duet AI in Google Workspace: A new and powerful way of working

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Buyer’s Guide for Generative AI Code Security

Protecting businesses from AI-generated code vulnerabilities

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China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027

There's no Huawei we saw that coming

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Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs

Slow but bona fide made in China

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Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now

Another one bytes the dust

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Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says

Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect

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IT biz trials gadget deliveries by drone to sidestep traffic and emissions

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a hard drive!

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Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room

And be paid danger money while he did it

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Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways

Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes

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Microsoft breach allowed Russian spies to steal emails from US government

Affected federal agencies must comb through mails, reset API keys and passwords

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French issue alerte rouge after local governments knocked offline by cyber attack

Embarrassing, as its officials are in the US to discuss Olympics cyber threats

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Apple stops warning of 'state-sponsored' attacks, now alerts about 'mercenary spyware'

Report claims India's government, which is accused of using Pegasus at home, was displeased

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Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy

Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders

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How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future

'Something is stopping it, even though it clearly can do it'

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AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality

'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content'

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75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively

Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns

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Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China

Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon

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Adobe will fork over cash for clips to train text-to-video AI

Not touching copyrighted material with a barge pole

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OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations

The most secure Unix-like OS to date?

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Microsoft gives Hyper-V ceilings a Herculean hike

Windows Server 2025 will let you run a VM with 2,048 vCPUs, 240 TB RAM, and 68 network adapters

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GCC 14 dropping IA64 support is final nail in the coffin for Itanium architecture

Linux kernel cut it loose, now leading FOSS compiler lands depth-charge on Itanic

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Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source

Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear

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British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts

Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive

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VMware's end-user compute products probably have a new brand: Omnissa

As the rest of Virtizilla's users face a pause in support and education services due to apparent SAP-to-Oracle migration

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Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs

That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability

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BOFH: The new Boss, Aiman, is suspiciously good – for now

Of course our unfriendly neighborhood sysadmin has nothing to do with it

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