Новости за 24.04.2024

It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything

It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y'all buying it this time, too?

Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done'

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

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

Privacy Sandbox slips into 2025 after challenges from UK authorities

Google's plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is being postponed to 2025 amid wrangling with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).…

Why OpenJDK is as important as ever in the big picture of IT

Sponsored Feature  For nearly 30 years, Java has been one of the most widely used programming languages in the world, thanks to its versatility, reliability, stability and continuous evolution in addressing the needs of the DevOps community.…

Their holiday options are now far more restricted

The US has charged and sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their alleged roles in various attacks on US companies and government departments, all of whom are claimed to have worked for fake companies linked to Iran's military.…

Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison

Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street

In a dynamic first quarter, Elon Musk's Tesla contended with a terrorist organization, survived an arson attempt, and fiercely competed with hybrid car makers, all against a backdrop of falling prices as competition for electric vehicle customers intensified.…

CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing'

Updated  Euro cloud trade body CISPE has hit back at concessions offered by Broadcom over VMware licensing, saying these do not address key issues that led it to lobby the European Commission into investigating.…

Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval

Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape

International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand

Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators

Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors

GQL, the query language for graph databases, has been recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), offering users more portability of queries and skills between graph database systems.…

One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all

Exclusive  At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers – including an ad-tech biz in China involved in past privacy controversies, a security firm claims.…

You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles

China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines

Giant Chinese telco China Mobile, which boasts over a billion customers, wants to purchase nearly 8,000 AI servers.…

Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA!

The US Senate has passed a bill that compels TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to offload the app to a US-approved buyer or face a ban. President Biden has indicated he will sign it into law.…

Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics

The United States Department of Commerce is reportedly considering lawmakers' calls to make it harder for China to use the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA).…