Новости за 04.04.2024

But don't worry, if tech takes your job, we'll retrain you

Of all the tech CEOs touting AI's potential to empower workers, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has been among the most vocal about its ability to replace them.…

State Dept keeps schtum 'for security reasons'

Uncle Sam is investigating claims that some miscreant stole and leaked classified information from the Pentagon and other national security agencies.…

Fifty-one years of community contributions, software, and clever cryptanalysis contributed

At $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive

NASA has selected three companies to develop designs for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) to transport astronauts around the Moon.…

What a great way to inflate those numbers Elon

What Elon taketh away, Elon also giveth. Fee-free blue checks on Twitter are back, but only for users with a certain number of followers who pay for X Premium.…

Ad-free search experience might not be on the cards

Google is reportedly considering tweaks to its search engine, including making some AI features subscription-only - an ad-free search experience is seemingly not on the cards.…

CEO addresses whirlwind start to 2024 and how it plans to prevent a repeat

Targeted ads in Edge may be blocked before they even arrive

Analysis  Inspired by Google's Privacy Sandbox ad tech renovation initiative, Microsoft last month announced plans for a "privacy preserving" mechanism to deliver interest-based ads in its Edge browser.…

'Complete digital sovereignty' ... sounds familiar

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions.…

Think before you pull the trigger, warn analysts

If you're planning to save money by cutting out the unbundled Teams product from your Microsoft 365 subscription, the decision might not be as straightforward as you'd think.…

After slew of AWS deals signed under MoUs, CDDO says current approach might weaken its position

Watchdog concerns about price hikes and consolidation remain unresolved

INC Ransom emerges as a growing threat as some ex-LockBit/ALPHV affiliates get new gigs

The Mercury 7: 'Not one of us knew what he was in for'

Sixty-five years ago this week, NASA introduced its first astronauts, saying they'd be launched into space in the agency's new capsule. They were immediately dubbed The Mercury 7.…

We're really just getting started, says OpenTofu community member

Interview  HashiCorp might be less than impressed with the rise of the Terraform fork, OpenTofu, but where Hashi sees challenges, the maintainers of the open source project see opportunities.…

Watch this webinar for a hair raising journey into the darkest depths of GenAI enabled cyber crime

Rivals and regulators might disagree, so might users that are paying for software they don't need

3.2 glorious gigapixels to make 'the greatest movie of all time'

Construction of the LSST Camera, destined for the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile has been completed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Silicon Valley.…

Desire to build brainboxes will also see optical interconnects go mainstream

'Caracal' improves AI capabilities and is pitched as an alternative to VMware

Nonetheless DRAM prices may yet feel slight aftershocks

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has shrugged off the impact of yesterday's earthquake.…

Sounds so much cooler than 'come back to the office or else'

In an effort to get its employees back into the office, Infosys has reportedly instituted mandatory in-person attendance for select roles – but dubbed the program "In-Person Collab" weeks. Because that's how the young people talk, right?…

Is there no cure for this cyber-plague?

Nearly one million individuals' personal details, financial account information, and medical records may well have been stolen from City of Hope systems in the United States.…

The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027

Analysis  The PCIe 7.0 spec is on track for release next year and, for many AI chip peddlers trying to push the limits of network fabrics and accelerator meshes, it can't come soon enough.…