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Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data
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Published: November 13, 2024 19:29
Cortex-powered front end for easier access to insights across multiple sources Snowflake is set to preview a new platform it claims will help organizations build chatbots that can serve up data from its own analytics systems and those external to the cloud…
AMD axes 4% of staff while staring hungrily at AI, servers
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Published: November 13, 2024 18:25
LLM, LLM on the wall, who will be laid off first of all? AMD has confirmed plans to cut approximately four percent of its global workforce - about 1,000 jobs out of a total headcount of roughly 26,000.…
Mozilla's Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?
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Published: November 13, 2024 15:34
A former exec believes in the non-profit's mission, says the battle lines have changed Mozilla's Firefox browser clocked its second decade over the weekend, an event celebrated by Mozilla Corporation CEO Laura Chambers.…
How Apollo Tyres modernized its database in the cloud
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Published: November 13, 2024 15:05
Find out how to transform your business with AWS and RISE with SAP Webinar In today's fast-paced business landscape, companies are looking for ways to stay ahead and modernizing their SAP environments in the cloud could be a good place to start.…
AWS opens cluster of 40K Trainium AI accelerators to researchers
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Published: November 12, 2024 22:30
Throwing novel hardware at academia. It's a tale as old as time Amazon wants more people building applications and frameworks for its custom Trainium accelerators and is making up to 40,000 chips available to university researchers under a $110 million…
To kill memory safety bugs in C code, try the TrapC fork
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Published: November 12, 2024 21:24
Memory-safe variant is planned for next year Exclusive C and C++ programmers may not need to learn Rust after all to participate in the push for memory safety.…
Will Windows Insiders find Recall lurking under the Christmas tree?
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Published: November 12, 2024 16:34
Satya Claus has something special for all the good little girls and boys Microsoft's next deadline for shipping its controversial Recall technology to Windows Insiders is fast approaching. Following a privacy outcry and mushrooming conspiracy theories,…
Fujitsu does not trust Post Office in use of Horizon data in future third-party prosecutions
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Published: November 12, 2024 12:30
Europe boss also speaks of 'nervousness' in any extension to the use of the controversial, ageing system Fujitsu's Europe boss has told a public inquiry into the Post Office scandal — one of the widest miscarriages of justice in UK history — that the…
Clues to Windows Intelligence found in Windows 11 builds
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Published: November 12, 2024 11:22
Somewhere to find AI settings, or just a button to uninstall the operating system once and for all? Microsoft seems set to rebrand the AI-powered features in Windows to "Windows Intelligence" even if some of the more controversial elements, such as Recall,…
QNX 8 goes freeware – for non-commercial use
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Published: November 11, 2024 18:30
It's not the first time the embedded microkernel OS has changed its terms Version 8 of the Software Development Platform for the QNX microkernel real-time OS has gone freeware – but there are some strings attached.…
Microsoft 'resolves' and 'mitigates' Windows Server 2025 update whoopsie
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Published: November 11, 2024 14:18
No sign of 'rollback' yet Microsoft has finally admitted that some instances of Windows Server 2019 and 2022 were unexpectedly upgraded to Windows Server 2025.…
A sit-down with Ubuntu founder Mark 'SABDFL' Shuttleworth
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Published: November 11, 2024 11:31
Talking to the distro's self-appointed benevolent dictator for life about 20 years of Ubuntu Ubuntu Summit 2024 Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth spoke to The Reg FOSS desk at Ubuntu Summit 2024 in The Hague about the Linux distribution's…
When Windows Server 2025 is delivered like it's 1999, nobody gets to party
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Published: November 11, 2024 09:30
What's the difference between a broken update system and a malware injection engine? Opinion A seemingly simple, single mistake in metadata that auto-trashes a critical, major component in the Windows ecosystem sounds bad. And it is, in so many ways.…
Everything you need to know to start fine-tuning LLMs in the privacy of your home
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Published: November 10, 2024 16:01
Got a modern Nvidia or AMD graphics card? Custom Llamas are only a few commands and a little data prep away Hands on Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably effective at generating text and regurgitating information, but they're ultimately limited by…
WordPress's Automattic openly tracks websites bailing from rival WP Engine
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Published: November 8, 2024 22:58
The new normal The feud between Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and rival web hosting firm WP Engine has led Automattic to create a website that lists WordPress customers who have moved their site hosting away from WP Engine and those who haven't.…
Judge tosses publishers' copyright suit against OpenAI
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Published: November 8, 2024 22:28
Raw Story and AltNet allowed to amend complaint A US judge has thrown out a case against ChatGPT developer OpenAI which alleged it unlawfully removed copyright management information (CMI) when building training sets for its chatbots.…
The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++
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Published: November 8, 2024 18:01
Does anyone want to tell Linus Torvalds? No? I didn't think so Opinion I must be a glutton for punishment. Not only was my first programming language IBM 360 Assembler, my second language was C. Programming anything in them wasn't easy. Programming safely…
Microsoft still not said anything about unexpected Windows Server 2025 installs
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Published: November 8, 2024 16:25
Affected business calls situation 'mindbogglingly dangerous' as sysadmins reminded to check backup and restore strategies Microsoft remains silent over Windows Server 2025 turning up in the guise of a security update earlier this week, much to the chagrin…
Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever
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Published: November 8, 2024 12:32
Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation UK government-appointed commissioners have labeled Birmingham City Council's Oracle Fusion rollout as "the poorest ERP deployment" they have…
Watchdog finds AI tools can be used unlawfully to filter candidates by race, gender
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Published: November 8, 2024 10:24
UK data regulator says some devs and providers are operating without a 'lawful basis' The UK's data protection watchdog finds that AI recruitment technologies can filter candidates according to protected characteristics including race, gender, and sexual…
Flanked by Palantir and AWS, Anthropic's Claude marches into US defense intelligence
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Published: November 7, 2024 23:40
An emotionally-manipulable AI in the hands of the Pentagon and CIA? This'll surely end well Palantir has announced a partnership with Anthropic and Amazon Web Services to build a cloudy Claude platform suitable for the most secure of the US government's…
Single-platform approach may fall short for AI data management
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Published: November 7, 2024 21:06
Data platform vendors can't meet all your needs, warns Gartner Users should beware of the single platform approach when preparing for the demands of AI and machine learning on their data management systems, Gartner is warning.…
Microsoft rolls out AI-enabled Notepad to Windows Insiders
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Published: November 7, 2024 17:13
Rewrite 'please leave my text editor alone' Windows Insiders will soon get firsthand experience of Microsoft's AI ambitions for Paint and Notepad: the image editor is getting Generative Fill and Erase and the text editor is getting a Rewrite function.…
Unlocking productivity with GenAI
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Published: November 7, 2024 14:47
Watch this webinar to find out how Amazon Q Business and Q Apps can help you do it Webinar Generative AI (GenAI) is starting to reshape how businesses approach their work.…
Killer app for AI is still years away, says industry analyst
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Published: November 7, 2024 13:40
IT spend set to rise nonetheless and it's not all about wundertech Three is the magic number, or more specifically the amount of time in years before a killer app emerges that helps businesses more usefully use generative AI to drive meaingful producitivty…