UniSuper Google Cloud outage caused by an unfortunate series of events
Google's Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has weighed in on the UniSuper fiasco and confirmed that UniSuper's Private Cloud subscription was accidentally deleted.…
Intel NPU Driver Preparing Hardware Scheduler & Profiling Support
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Plumbs Integration With New ISP Hardware Block
ML suggests all that relaxing whale song might just be human-esque gossiping
A study into whale language using machine learning has uncovered a complex phonetic system, implying the cetaceans may speak to each other much like humans do.…
Limbo Is An SQLite-Compatible OLTP DBMS Leveraging IO_uring & Rust
North Yorkshire Council To Ban Apostrophes On Street Signs To Avoid Database Problems
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Experimental remix finally brings the former Unity 8 back to Ubuntu
Ubuntu Unity Noble Numbat is out, and alongside it, a very much not long-term-supported new variant of the distro: Ubuntu Lomiri.…
Oracle ULA audits are a license to bill
Oracle is threatening software audits as customers seek to exit Unlimited License Agreements (ULAs).…
Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable?
AI model collapse – the degradation of quality expected from machine learning models that recursively train on their own output – is not inevitable, at least according to 14 academics.…
Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' In Whale Songs
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From chips to cloud, tech titans continue to splash cash across APAC
Tech giants including Intel and AWS joined Microsoft and others this week in announcing investments in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region to build out infrastructure - cloud services, datacenters, and chipmaking facilities - in anticipation of growing AI demand.…
Python 3.13 Beta Out For Testing With Experimental JIT, Better Interactive Interpreter
Pop!_OS' COSMIC Desktop Finishing Up Work On App Store
Deepfakes of Your Dead Loved Ones Are a Booming Chinese Business
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Dell Makes Return-To-Office Push With VPN, Badge Tracking
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Asia's hyperscalers hustle for juice as datacenters drain grid
Southeast Asia's hyperscalers face plenty of challenges – from securing talent, property, and keeping construction costs down – but these hurdles pale in comparison to the task of banking enough power.…
Google Will Exit Prominent San Francisco Waterfront Office Tower
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DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic claims AlphaFold 3 predicts bio-matter down to the DNA
Google and DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic Labs has developed an AI model called AlphaFold 3 that can, it's claimed, predict the structure of molecules more accurately than existing tools.…
81% of Young People Say a 4-Day Workweek Would Boost Productivity, Survey Finds
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Ransomware Crooks Now SIM Swap Executives' Kids To Pressure Their Parents
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