Virgin Media O2 lays off hundreds of UK jobs
Super soaraway Brexit brings new joys
Virgin Media O2 has become the latest telco reportedly looking to cut hundreds of jobs in the UK.
Microsoft finally allows us to swear
Not that there has been a problem for us
Software King of the World Microsoft is toning down the power of its profanity filter on its options and settings.
Baidu’s Ernie bot already outperforming OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Ernie 3.5 based on more data
China’s search engine outfit Baidu claims that the artificial intelligence model underpinning its chatbot outperformed OpenAI’s ChatGPT in several key areas.
Lithium-ion battery inventor finally runs down
At age 100
The splendidly named inventor of the lithium-ion battery, John B. Goodenough has died. He was 100.
Supremes refuse to revive case against Google
This means it does not steal song lyrics
The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit by music website Genius Media accusing Alphabet's Google of stealing millions of song lyrics.
Americans hate their ISP
They only hate their petrol station more
Americans hate their internet service providers (ISPs) more than any other segment of the consumer economy -- except gas stations.
Nvidia partners with Snowflake on AI
Will help customers build their own products
Cloudy Snowflake is partnering with the chipmaker named after a vengeance daemon Nvidia to allow customers to build AI models using their own data.
IBM close to writing a $5 billion cheque for Apptio
Cloud shift continues
Big Blue is about to get bigger after buying software Apptio for $5 billion from Vista Equity Partners Management.
TeleSign in GDPR allegations
Secretly collected data and shipped it to the US
TeleSign, a US-based fraud prevention company, allegedly collected data from millions of EU citizens and processed it in the United States using automated tools without their knowledge an Austrian privacy advocacy group claims.
White hat hackers will try to break into a satellite
August DEFCON hacker convention project
White-hat hackers at the DEFCON hacker convention will compete to try and breach the computer systems on a satellite in orbit.