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Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar has announced he will step down in August, leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes alone at the top of the Australian collaborationware company.…

Chipzilla's Foundry business weighs down the Gelsinger gang - for now Intel has reported double-digit growth in client computing revenue, growing demand for AI PCs, and promised of strong gains in the second half of 2024 – but also reported a first quarter loss that sent the chip biz's stock sliding in after-hours trading Thursday.…

If ML proves an expensive habit in future, these money printers won't have much to worry about... probably Alphabet and Microsoft's stock prices jumped in after-hours trading today after the AI-infatuated businesses delivered higher-than-anticipated quarterly earnings.…

Talk about going round the (South) Bend Amazon Web Services (AWS) is adding $11 billion of datacenter capacity in St Joseph County outside South Bend, Indiana, the cloud giant announced Thursday.…

Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks.…

Cash to go out as refunds to punters The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.…

As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts Between shutting down or selling TikTok, owner ByteDance would prefer doing the former.…

Law responds again to pings The FCC voted Thursday to restore America's net neutrality rules, nearly seven years after they were taken offline.…

Pulumi's CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company Interview Infrastructure as code biz Pulumi has updated its eponymous Deployments product with drift detection and automated clean-up for an untidy reality.…

Suspects in Portugal and the US said to have laundered over $100M Two men alleged to be co-founders of cryptocurrency biz Samourai Wallet face serious charges and potentially decades in US prison over claims they owned a product that facilitated the laundering of over $100 million in criminal cash.…

Watch out Intel... Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incoming Semiconductor giant TSMC has disclosed details of a process technology called A16 that could be delivering the first 1.6nm chips for customers by 2026.…

App maker accuses Cupertino of defying EU rules Spotify claims Apple rejected an update to the popular music streaming app that would have informed users about purchase methods outside of the Apple ecosystem.…

Crew entirely optional DARPA has been working on off-road autonomous vehicles for decades, and now it has a combat-scale unmanned tank to show.…

Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place Birmingham City Council, Europe's biggest local authority, has no way of knowing if financial fraud has been committed after it failed to run security and audit features in a new Oracle Fusion ERP system.…

Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech The global AI infrastructure buying frenzy is still in full swing – so much so that it has pushed the world's second largest memory maker, SK hynix, into its second highest operating profit ever and an all-time high for Q1 revenues.…

Google security crew reveal ‘the four Ds’ to be on the watch for It may come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that experts say, in revealing the most prevalent and likely tactics to meddle with elections this year, that state-sponsored cybercriminals pose the biggest threat.…

Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst? Meta's shares tumbled after company boss Mark Zuckerberg said the quiet bit out loud: it will take a while before AI bets start paying back the huge financial investments it is making.…

Struggling French tech giant posts disappointing Q1 results Crisis-hit tech giant Atos is pushing back the deadline for its refinancing proposals after posting a slim operating profit of €48 million ($51 million) for calendar Q1.…

What do we say to the God of Death? Not today Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has woken up again, having survived three lunar nights.…

The software redemption Teaching prisoners how to design and program websites turns out to improve their sense of self-worth and provides them with digital literacy skills that help them stay out of prison.…

The Thermonator can be yours for just $9,420 Picture Boston Dynamics' nightmare fuel robot dog Spot. Now imagine it 1,000 percent more terrifying.…

Tech giants confident everything's in order UK regulators want to hear from 'interested third parties' on whether Microsoft and Amazon's investments in AI startups is impeding competition.…

'Software companies try to extend their reach and their usage, but this can't be by locking in users,' says process mining lead BMW's process mining leader has called for greater openness among enterprise application and software vendors to avoid data lock-in.…

Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters Systems Approach Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?) and then having safely avoided the AI winter of the late 1980s by veering off into formal verification before finally landing on networking as my specialty in 1988.…

After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank India’s central bank has banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from signing up new customers for accounts or credit cards through its online presence and app.…

Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents Samsung SDI, the Korean giant’s battery biz, on Tuesday promised EV batteries that can charge to 80 percent capacity in a mere nine minutes, plus models that can perform at that level for 20 years.…

Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints IBM has announced it will acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, and touted the deal as meaning its hybrid cloud platform will emerge with a “comprehensive” set of products.…

And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks The director general of Australia’s lead intelligence agency and the commissioner of its Federal Police yesterday both called for social networks to offer more assistance to help their investigators work on cases involving terrorism, child exploitation, and racist nationalism.…

Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too A previously unknown and 'sophisticated' nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes — and possibly attacked network devices made by other vendors including Microsoft, according to warnings from the networking giant and three Western governments.…

Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs Nvidia on Wednesday announced the acquisition of AI-centric Kubernetes orchestration provider Run:ai in an effort to help bolster the efficiency of computing clusters built on GPU.…

It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything Apple, not normally known for its openness, has released a generative AI model called OpenELM which apparently outperforms a set of other language models trained on public data sets.…

It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y'all buying it this time, too? Opinion Elon Musk has a strategy and you may have seen it before: When things aren't going well, he'll say something wild to take everyone's eyes off the trouble, and raise share prices with dreams.…

Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done' Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google — will be required to work together and be securely end-to-end encrypted, if legislation proposed by US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) passes.…

And you thought the Bing begging was annoying Microsoft has made good on its promise, or threat, to put advertisements inside the Windows 11 Start menu with its latest update.…

The SODIMM replacement finally arrives Lenovo's latest ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 laptop is set to be the first to use the new LPCAMM2 memory form factor, the successor to SODIMM sticks.…

Secure-by-default... if your pockets are deep enough Microsoft has come under fire for charging for security add-ons despite the company's own patchy record when it comes to vulnerabilities and breaches.…

Senior execs making $150K+ will still have to abide by them, but they fall away for everyone else The US Chamber of Commerce is saying it will sue the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for officially banning noncompete clauses in employment contracts across America.…

What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares Another Boeing whistleblower has come forward to report problems at his former employer, but that doesn't seem to have upset shareholders, who sent shares skyward on news of a quarter bearing fewer losses than expected.…

The firm 'fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability A company contracted to manage an Amarillo, Texas nuclear weapons facility has to pay US government $18.4 million in a settlement over allegations that its atomic technicians fudged their timesheets to collect more money from Uncle Sam.…