Atos scores €1.67 billion funding
French reseller and services provider safe for now
Troubled French IT reseller and services provider Atos has secured €1.67 billion in new financing and reached a lock-up agreement with banks and bondholders.
HP releases “world’s highest-performance AI PC.”
OmniBook Ultra laptop pushes AMD to limits
The maker of expensive printer ink HP has unveiled the OmniBook Ultra laptop, calling it the “world’s highest-performance AI PC.”
Ryzen 9 9950X performance revealed
Along with some other info about Zen 5 Processors
AMD has revealed the performance of its Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 CPUs, as well as new features and specifications, including a new Curve Shaper overclocking tool.
Vole releases spreadsheet large language model
Claims spreadsheetLLM could transform data analysis
Software King of the World Microsoft has announced details of its new "SpreadsheetLLM," claiming it has the "potential to transform spreadsheet data management and analysis."
Chinese create first 6G network
Works on existing infrastructure
Boffins from the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications have set up a field test network to achieve 6G transmission on existing 4G infrastructure.
Apple falls foul of the Indians
Anti-trust
An investigation by India's antitrust body has found that Apple exploited its dominant position in the market for app stores on its iOS operating system, engaging in "abusive conduct and practices."
RISC-V could go the way of Arm and x86
Torvalds’ prophecy
The softly spoken Linux prophet, Linus Torvalds has been consulting his bones and concluded that RISC-V might fall into the same development chasm between hardware and software developers seen by Arm and x86.
Apple is not getting people to switch from Android
Sales increases are from Apple fanboys
The Tame Apple Press has been spreading a story claiming that increased sales in Apple’s iPhones are coming from people abandoning their Android phones. This is untrue.
German Navy looks for something more efficient than floppy disks
Otherwise, they will never get out of port
The German Navy is on the hunt for a new storage system to replace their ancient 8-inch (20cm) floppy disks, which are crucial for running their Brandenburg class F123 frigates.
OpenAI close to fruity breakthrough
Apples are not the only fruit
OpenAI is close to a breakthrough with a new project called "Strawberry," which aims to improve its AI models' reasoning abilities.