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'Tha e comasach inneal spreadhaidh dachaigh a' thogail le stuthan taighe'

The safety guardrails preventing OpenAI's GPT-4 from spewing harmful text can be easily bypassed by translating prompts into uncommon languages – such as Zulu, Scots Gaelic, or Hmong.…

Lightweight rivals, both based on Crunchbang, OpenBox, and Debian

Crunchbang++ and Bunsen Labs each aim to continue the tradition of the very lightweight Crunchbang Linux, although both distros have thickened around the waist a bit over the years.…

Don't have to deal with sanctions if you build it yourself

China has given itself a goal to become a world-leading source of AI infrastructure by 2027, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced in a policy document released on Monday.…

Made-in-China social network allegedly made lowball licensing offer and abused its platform power

Multinational music giant Universal Music Group – home to Taylor Swift, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Bilie Eilish and plenty of other prominent musicians – has accused made-in-China social network TikTok of abusing its market power using tactics including promoting music created by AI.…

Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team to help build datacenters, data team to create new services

Amid widespread tech layoffs, Oracle is hiring for two new teams to help it build more cloud facilities, and services.…

Q4 results reveal AI is the answer to – or the reason for – everything: a cloud profit, wobbly ads, boosting subscriptions

Google's parent company, Alphabet, has revealed it banked $3 billion by extending the working life of its hardware.…

Chip biz aims to sell $3.5 billion worth of its Instinct GPUs and APUs in 2024 alone

AMD is depending on its newly launched MI300 accelerators and continued AI demand to offset an otherwise challenging start to 2024.…

No longer willing to be a friend with benefits – perhaps thanks to Big B killing OEM licenses?

Updated  Dell has terminated its distribution deal for VMware products.…

$423K luxury motor makes the Spirit of Ecstasy want to fly away

Mere months after launch, Rolls-Royce's Spectre EV is being recalled due to a faulty ground connection cable that could make the vehicle very hot stuff.…

More human than human, eh?

Computer scientists have found that misinformation generated by large language models (LLMs) is more difficult to detect than artisanal false claims hand-crafted by humans.…

AI and the chips that power it are at the center of the equation

Artificial intelligence and the chips that fuel its evolution have given rise to a new arms race between the US and China.…

What goes together better than Redmond and respecting people's preferences? Everything, really

Updated  Windows users, take notice: Microsoft's Edge browser is said to be actively importing open Chrome tabs and slurping other data from Google's browser without permission and even if the "feature" that makes that happen is disabled. …

Invaders inveigle infrastructure

The US Justice Department and FBI may have scored a win over Chinese state-sponsored snoops trying to break into American critical infrastructure.…

Multiple publicly available exploits have since been published for the critical flaw

The number of public-facing installs of Jenkins servers vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical vulnerability is in the tens of thousands.…

Limited-time offer may reduce cost of migration by up to 50%

SAP is rolling out an incentive package to encourage users to adopt its cloud transformation programs, RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP.…

It's all in the software

The European Space Agency (ESA) has celebrated the Galileo satellite navigation system meeting civil aviation standards governing flight phases from take-off to landing and explained how the feat was done.…

Vendor gets tangled in its own web of undisclosed vulnerabilities

Juniper Networks has disclosed separate vulnerabilities it was previously accused of concealing, and apologized to customers for the error in communication.…

Bing hasn't much benefited from its AI infusion but Google's rivals sense an opening

Feature  Ask Google's Bard chatbot about the future of search and you'll get a summary of trends that suggest there's more to search than finding keywords in an index of documents.…

Bankers appointed, but CEO insists nothing will change while he's in charge

The Raspberry Pi company is again preparing the ground for an initial public offering (IPO), appointing bankers Peel Hunt and Jefferies ahead of a planned listing on the London Stock Exchange.…

Remember making Windows and DOS talk to a network? You could go back to the future with this assignment

If you were thinking about forcing an AI to write a job ad for an administrator of an obsolete operating system, it looks like somebody has beaten you to it with a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 techie.…