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Licensing labyrinth for Power Apps and Dynamics 365 must be clarified, warns expert
Lindsay Clark
Rules still unclear for Microsoft users making potentially costly decisions on enterprise applications Microsoft needs to clarify licensing arrangements around its low-code Power Apps and Dynamics 365 software to prevent users from receiving unexpected bills for their projects....
World's first Neuralink patient enjoying online chess, long Civ 6 sessions
Brandon Vigliarolo
While excited by the implant, Noland Arbaugh says it's not perfect and there's still work to be done Neuralink's first human patient is now a public figure, with the company publishing a video yesterday showing him playing chess on a laptop and talking about how "freakin' lucky" he is to be involved in the tests....
Cloud Software Group snubs GPL obligations, say critics
Liam Proven
Spawn of Citrix and Tibco 'no longer able to support the community edition of JasperReports Server' Even if you decide to stop offering free editions, you don't get to stop providing the source code to FOSS, users of JasperReports Server are complaining....
Yacht dealer to the stars attacked by Rhysida ransomware gang
Connor Jones
MarineMax may be in choppy waters after 'stolen data' given million-dollar price tag The Rhysida ransomware group claims it was responsible for the cyberattack at US luxury yacht dealer MarineMax earlier this month....
Uncle Sam, 15 US states launch antitrust war on Apple
Brandon Vigliarolo
Lawsuit alleges iGiant rips off fans, stifles dev innovation, makes it tough to dump iOS for rivals The US Department of Justice has filed an antitrust complaint against Apple, accusing the iMaker of stifling innovation and undermining competitors through its App Store guidelines and developer agreements....
Meta, Microsoft, X, Match pledge selves to Epic battle against Apple App Store
Richard Currie
You have my sword ... and my bow ... and my axe! Meta, Microsoft, X, and Match Group are piling on Apple in support of Epic Games' ongoing legal battle over the Cupertino giant's stranglehold on its App Store....
Micron bounces back as AI drives up memory prices
Dan Robinson
'Our HBM is sold out for calendar 2024,' trills CEO Micron is basking in a market bounceback, crediting the surge of interest in AI for a jump in the company's revenue, even though buyers face the prospect of rising memory prices for the year ahead....
SAP users aren't keen on upping spending right now
Lindsay Clark
Cloud and upgrade conversions remain steady if sluggish, according to ERP spending bellwether DSAG The German-speaking SAP user group has released data showing the region's appetite for budget increases in spending is diminishing, casting a shadow over the prospects for cloud transformation projects....
One rack. 120kW of compute. Taking a closer look at Nvidia's DGX GB200 NVL72 beast
Tobias Mann
1.44 exaFLOPs of FP4, 13.5 TB of HBM3e, 2 miles of NVLink cables, in one liquid cooled unit GTC Nvidia revealed its most powerful DGX server to date on Monday. The 120kW rack scale system uses NVLink to stitch together 72 of its new Blackwell accelerators into what's essentially one big GPU capable of more than 1.4 exaFLOPS performance -- at FP4 precision anyway....
UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled
Thomas Claburn
Right to Repair should be the Obligation to Repair, if we want to avoid drowning in trashed electronics We're creating electronic waste almost five times faster than we're recycling it using documented methods, according to a United Nations report released on Wednesday....
UK council won't say whether two-week 'cyber incident' impacted resident data
Connor Jones
Security experts insist ransomware is involved but Leicester zips its lips Leicester City Council continues to battle a suspected ransomware attack while keeping schtum about the key details....
Qualcomm infuses AI support into Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 platform
Dan Robinson
Boosted on-device generative AI's not just for the flagship smartphone kids Qualcomm is pushing out its second smartphone platform within a week, in this case an extension of its Snapdragon 7 series for high-end devices that are built to a lower price point than flagship premium smartphones....
Nominet to restructure, slash jobs after losing 'major deal'
Richard Speed
Prices also set to rise after being frozen since 2020 Nominet is cutting staff on the back of market pressure, including the loss of a government cyber contract and is considering a domain registration price increase, according to an update from its CEO....
Why France this week fined Google EU250M over web news
Thomas Claburn
Google pulls a few coins from the sofa and says whatever, just clarify who needs to be paid for what The French Competition Authority (FCA) on Wednesday fined Google EU250 million ($272 million, PS214 million) for breaking its promise to figure out a payment plan with French news publishers for using their articles....
Euro-cloud consortium CISPE calls for investigation of Broadcom
Simon Sharwood
Claims members will be bankrupted by new VMware licensing regime, and vital services disrupted Lobby group CISPE - a collective representing Cloud Infrastructure Providers in Europe - has called for regulators to investigate VMware by Broadcom's software licensing arrangements, which it claims will bankrupt some of its members and hurt end-users....
Exposed: Chinese smartphone farms that run thousands of barebones mobes to do crime
Laura Dobberstein
Operators pack twenty phones into a chassis - then rack 'em and stack 'em ready to do evil Chinese upstarts are selling smartphone motherboards - and kit to run and manage them at scale - to operators of outfits that use them to commit various scams and crimes, according to an undercover investigation by state television broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) revealed late last week....
It's 2024 and North Korea's Kimsuky gang is exploiting Windows Help files
Simon Sharwood
New infostealer may indicate a shift in tactics - and maybe targets too, beyond Asia North Korea's notorious Kimsuky cyber crime gang has commenced a campaign using fresh tactics, according to infosec tools vendor Rapid7....
Hong Kong promises its latest national security law is not a ban on social media
Laura Dobberstein
Trust us - we're the government On Tuesday, Hong Kong's legislature unanimously passed the city's latest controversial national security legislation, otherwise known as Article 23....
ServiceNow goes to Washington DC, with a suitcase full of AI
Simon Sharwood
Claims the tech has brought 38 percent improvement to its own dev cycle time ServiceNow has released its "Washington DC" platform update, and done the very 2024 thing of adding generative AI features. It's also done a slightly less 2024 thing by not just hyping the tech, but sharing the benefits it has enjoyed by actually using it....
Nutanix catapults IP theft sueball at DBaaS startup Tessell
Simon Sharwood
Claims former staff ripped off IP and even did demos for their new company on Nutanix computers Nutanix has brought a lawsuit against database-as-a-service startup Tessell, an outfit founded by three of its ex-employees, alleging the upstart's products are rip-offs of Nutanix's own Era database management product....
First the Super Bowl, now this: Kansas City getting a Google bit barn
Brandon Vigliarolo
Exact location, power source, and go-live date unknown. But don't worry, there'll be digital jobs Google has announced plans to drop $1 billion on a new datacenter in Kansas City, Missouri - its first in the state - though when it'll come online is anyone's guess....
It's tax season, and scammers are a step ahead of filers, Microsoft says
Jessica Lyons
Phishing season started early with crims intent on the hooking early filers As the digital wolves dress in sheep's tax forms, Microsoft has thrown a spotlight on a crafty 2024 phishing expedition, unraveled in January, that preys on the unsuspecting herd of early tax filers....
Garlic chicken without garlic? Critics think Amazon recipe book was cooked up by AI
Lindsay Clark
Twitter tipster points to suspicious signs from author producing thousands of recipes Updated Late last year, Sam Altman, the optimistic CEO of chatbot manufacturer OpenAI, predicted artificial general intelligence would be with us in five years, give or take....
London Clinic probes claim staffer tried to peek at Princess Kate's records
Paul Kunert
First: Not being able buy a meat pie with a credit card. Now this The London Clinic where the Princess of Wales had surgery at the start of this year says it is investigating claims an employee tried to access her medical records....
Five Eyes tell critical infra orgs: Take these actions now to protect against China's Volt Typhoon
Jessica Lyons
Unless you want to be the next Change Healthcare, that is The Feds and friends yesterday issued yet another warning about China's Volt Typhoon gang, this time urging critical infrastructure owners and operators to protect their facilities against destructive cyber attacks that may be brewing....
Alibaba's research arm promises server-class RISC-V processor due this year
Simon Sharwood
And teases a laptop to show off its current silicon - running the open edition of Huawei's CentOS spinout Alibaba's research arm, the Damo Academy, has promised to deliver a server-grade RISC-V processor later this year, showed off a RISC-V-powered laptop running the open source cut of Huawei's CentOS spinout, and talked up a growing community working on the permissively licensed CPU instruction set architecture....