Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails [Fri Aug 30 2024]

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Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails

As the hardware got more capable, the messes got more expensive

 

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Salesforce mulls charging per AI chat as investors sweat over fewer seats

Benioff sees 'very high margin opportunity' in bid to 'monetize' productivity gains

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DataVita declares sovereignty with 'National Cloud' for UK

Scottish provider promises no hidden fees, full control, and safe haven for data

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Nvidia admits Blackwell defect, but Jensen Huang pledges Q4 shipments as promised

The setback won't stop us from banking billions, CFO insists

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AMD's Victor Peng: AI thirst for power underscores the need for efficient silicon

Moore's Law may be running out of steam, but there are still knobs to turn and levers to pull

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Verizon taps another satellite operator to make texting from the middle of nowhere easier

iPhone-like functionality coming to other devices on the network soon

Ex-Windows boss who tried to save the Start Menu now Shopify tech wizard

Time to make e-commerce great again instead?

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Hangover from messy Walmart tech divorce ongoing at Asda

UK grocer suffers IT issues with clothing orders, self-scanning, and store picker app

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Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails

As the hardware got more capable, the messes got more expensive

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US indicts duo over alleged Swatting spree that targeted elected officials

Apparently made over 100 fake crime reports and bomb threats

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What a coincidence. Spyware makers, Russia's Cozy Bear seem to share same exploits

Google researchers note similarities, can't find smoking-gun link

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Feds claim sinister sysadmin locked up thousands of Windows workstations, demanded ransom

Sordid search history 'evidence' in case that could see him spend 35 years for extortion and wire fraud

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Rock Chrome hard enough and get paid half a million

Google revises Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program with higher payouts for bug hunters

Brain Cipher claims attack on Olympic venue, promises 300 GB data leak

French police reckon financial system targeted during Summer Games

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Fintech outfit Klarna swaps humans for AI by not replacing departing workers

Insists it's not cutting jobs and pays harder-to-automate people more with AI savings

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Brit teachers are getting AI sidekicks to help with marking and lesson plans

Isn't the education system in enough trouble already?

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CrowdStrike's meltdown didn't dent its market dominance … yet

Total revenue for Q2 grew 32 percent

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Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome

But users aren’t optimistic it will land softly

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Nvidia's growth slows to a mere 122 percent but it’s still topping expectations

Still growing in China, ramping Hopper prods and predicting Blackwell billions soon

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SETI boldly looks beyond the Milky Way in latest alien hunt

Civilizations detectable at galactic distances could harness all of a star's energy output, boffins reckon

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Yelp accuses Google of being a local search bully in antitrust lawsuit

Chocolate Factory claims rival is trying to revive cases it's already lost

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Astronomers back call for review of bonkers rule that means satellite swarms fly without environment checks

Space boffins want pollution from the likes of Starlink regulated

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EU tries to pin down China on definition of 'important data'

Rules on cross border data transfers have European businesses scratching their heads

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