Microsoft's AI PC push meets a wall of RAM prices, but Redmond is still beating the drum
Customers are sweating assets amid tight budgets, yet that doesn't stop an exec from Redmond getting creative with the sales pitch
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Datacenter operators must win hearts and minds, not just permits
Schneider sees no slowdown despite backlash, but says communities deserve answers on power, water, and noise
China outlines plans for moonshot it hopes to land by 2030
We have go for launch, and the ethernet and Wi-Fi standards that will make it happen
AMD on track to overtake Intel as biggest x86 outfit
CEO says supply chain can cope with surging datacenter and AI demand
Aussie Adobe assailant Canva announces layoffs in re-org affecting 22% of staff
No mention of AI, but a nod to the pace of technological change
North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
'It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,' exchange says
Microsoft improves Windows 11 performance on 8 GB PCs as RAM prices keep climbing
We've got a hunch the memory crunch is taking a bite out of Windows revenue
Nvidia is happy to take your money whether you're using open or closed models, says Jensen Huang
At Fireworks Forge, a celebration of specialized models
British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted
Turns out cheap tokens get engineers doing things that save time, like debugging and tackling Jira tickets
AI policy wonks declare 'sovereign agents' a threat to civilization
These are AI agents that operate outside of human control and 'pursue open-ended, evolving survival'
GSMA warns of growing risks to mobile networks from extreme weather
Mobile comms body wants a joined-up approach from governments and regulators to mitigate downtime
Improved asteroid deflection model runs faster, reveals more doomsday worries
“We expected aim to matter ... What surprised us was how much,' says Sandia physicist Nathan Moore
Password manager mSecure tells users to change passwords, won't say why
Customers left wondering what's been compromised after vendor advises resetting passwords, 2FA and passkeys
GhostBSD 26.2 takes the fright out of FreeBSD with a friendlier installer
Full-disk encryption joins the toolkit, MATE and Xfce stay while Gershwin sits this one out
ShinyHunters hit 850k alumni, donors, students, and fam in last year's Harvard University raid
How about them apples? Plenty of personal + donation data leaked by crims, data-sifting breach site claims a year after attack
Pokémon bakeoff reveals best JavaScript frameworks for AI
Sorry React die-hards, Claude prefers lean HTML-first tools over bloated SPAs
NHS counts Palantir benefits at trusts that say they're not using it
Medact flags 29 disputed entries as ministers weigh £330M deal's future
Drax wants to feed Britain's AI habit with £20B datacenter at biomass power station
But first it needs planning permission, government approval and, rather importantly, a customer
Virgin Media O2 outlines plans to lay off thousands as revenue falls
Telco expects to deliver cost savings of £800M by 2029, with £300M coming from staff cuts
Britain on notice: AI-powered ransomware attacks to arrive by 2028
Cyber agency warns critical infrastructure is a likely target as chief urges bosses to stop doing 'tech on the cheap'
Apple's Mac business is booming, but the memory market has other plans
New CEO John Ternus toasts record sales as soaring RAM costs threaten supplies and squeeze margins
Broadcom denied names of cloud providers backing VMware merger challenge
EU court's confidentiality ruling clears a procedural hurdle, not the merits of CISPE's case against Commission approval
UK.gov lacks understanding of climate impact, says watchdog
Risks of changing climate and cost of transition to low-carbon energy poorly measured by government departments
Raspberry Pi hikes prices again, barely a month after the last round
Memory crunch pushes 16GB Pi 5 to $385, more than triple its launch price, just a month after the last round of hikes
Final_FINAL_v7.docx is not a version control strategy
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Forget retraining - AI can now tweak another AI's weights
'Weight-Space Programming' fiddles with nerd knobs to boost benchmark scores
Open models can do 90% of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner
Models are commodities, harnesses are the valuable part
Architect creates open source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hidden
OpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale
Toyota shows off SoC that stores model weights and its OS on integrated memory
Accessing external memory puts the brakes on physical AI, so carmaker has found an economical and speedy shortcut
Anthropic's compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17B
Revised IPO filing warns 12x revenue growth is unlikely to continue