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Apple owes billions in back taxes over Ireland state aid rule break Final judgment handed down by Court of Justice of the European Union

Off-Prem

Oracle to power 1GW datacenter with trio of tiny nuclear reactors

Isn't saying how much they'll cost or when they'll fire up

Alibaba Cloud struggles after blaze at Digital Realty Singapore datacenter

Chinese giant claims lithium batteries exploded, now one server hall is waterlogged

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Grounding generative AI in enterprise truth Whitepaper

Do you need a better approach to trading partner collaboration? Whitepaper

On-Prem

The future everyone wanted – in-car ads tailored to your journey and passengers

Correction, no one wanted – well, except perhaps these patent filers at Ford

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SambaNova makes Llama gallop in inference cloud debut

AI infra startup serves up Llama 3.1 405B at 100+ tokens per second

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Mainframes aren't dead, they're just learning AI tricks

Kyndryl survey suggests there's life in big iron yet

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Apple owes billions in back taxes over Ireland state aid rule break

Final judgment handed down by Court of Justice of the European Union

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Top EU court crushes Google appeal against $2.65B Shopping antitrust ruling

After years of legal wrangling, judges say Chocolate Factory played dirty

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Down and out: Aegon's pension pothole and TfL's mystery 'maintenance'

When is maintenance maintenance, and when is it 'we've been pwned'?

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Thanks, Edward Snowden: You propelled China to quantum networking leadership

Beijing aimed research at immediate needs – like blocking leaks – while the US sought abstract knowledge

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US spends CHIPS Act cash to explore Indian chipmaking collabs

Starting with an analysis of what India has to offer, which is plenty

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Malaysia's plan to block overseas DNS dies after a day

Minister orders regulator to slow down following immediate backlash

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Gartner® names Google a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platform Whitepaper

Google is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models For Language, Q2 2024 Whitepaper

Security

Microsoft says it broke some Windows 10 patching – as it fixes flaws under attack

CISA wants you to leap on Citrix and Ivanti issues. Adobe, Intel, SAP also bid for patching priorities

Crypto scams rake in $5.6B a year for cyberscum lowlifes, FBI says

Elderly people report the greatest losses

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Software

As major web browser makers snuggle up to AI, these skeptical holdouts remain

Chatbots, generative models 'in many ways the next step in the surveillance economy'

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Pentagon has little to show for two decades of GPS modernization work

Not even the venerable expertise of the US Space Force is enough to push progress

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Private equity commits MariaDB takeover transaction

Post-IPO chapter ends after SQL biz shed jobs, products in bid to find buyer

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We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?

Analyst suggests Redmond's internal distro may one day fly the coop

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ServiceNow moves its backend off MariaDB to homebrew Postgres

Xanadu release also adds a Pro tier, along with lots more AI

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Oracle reports rising top line as it hooks up database service to AWS

Plus: CTO Larry says Big Red uses hardware 'efficiently' but 'labor sparingly because labor is a security risk'

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Cassandra redesigns indexing, storage management for 5.0 release

Users warned to get off 3.x releases as support ends

UK Lords push bill to tame rogue algorithms in public sector

Peer says government needs to learn lessons from Post Office scandal

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We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too

Gartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of workloads

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Offbeat

Ex Samsung execs reportedly arrested for alleged IP theft in China chip caper

Duo accused of stealing $3.2B of 20nm tech and secrets

SpaceX aims high with Polaris Dawn mission

Altitude record within grasp and in-house spacesuits to be put through their paces

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be gone in ten years – for chump change

$7.5 billion needed, the kind of cash Apple makes without trying

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