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- Commenters said Altman's lengthy post shows "a nerve was well and truly hit" by Anthropic's advert.
- UKRI boss Ian Chapman said it had been told by the government to "focus and do fewer things better".
- The event was attended by representatives of more than 50 countries, the White House said.
- Prized for its beauty, teak is in short supply, forcing the yacht industry to look for alternatives.
- Social media has been flooded with fake, AI-generated images and videos. But will the majority of users actually care?
- The social media platform recently announced that it was axing around 15% of its workforce.
- Elon Musk's X and Grok platforms are facing increased scrutiny from authorities on both sides of the channel.
- Concerns were raised by a subcommittee including potential price rises and the future of cinemas.
- Musk says the combined firm – which has been valued at more than $1tn – will be an "innovation engine".
- It makes China the first country to stop the use of designs first made popular by Elon Musk's Tesla.
The Register
- The FCC is taking public comments – now’s your chance to tell them this plan is bonkers Elon Musk's pie-in-the-sky plan to launch a massive orbital datacenter satellite constellation has taken a rapid step closer to reality with the Federal Communications Commission advancing SpaceX's application for public comment, technical feasibility be damned. …
- As 2027 ECC support cliff looms, half choose not to re-engineer processes in critical ERP upgrade Nearly 60 percent of SAP migration projects are delayed and over budget as organizations underestimate complexity, allow expansion of scope, and fail to understand internal constraints, according to research from ISG.…
- Breach-tracking site flags dataset following impersonation-based intrusion Breach-tracking site Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) claims a cyberattack on Betterment affected roughly 1.4 million users – although the investment company has yet to publicly confirm how many customers were affected by January's intrusion.…
- Perhaps a little less focus on AI would help as well? Microsoft says "reliability is the priority" for AI in Visual Studio – a reassurance that may raise eyebrows among developers already living with Copilot's quirks.…
- Home Office enlists Microsoft to set industry standards as AI-generated forgeries surge from 500K to 8M in two years The UK government claims it will develop a "world-first" framework to evaluate deepfake detection technologies as AI-generated content proliferates.…
- AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents Microsoft has made OneDrive agents generally available, allowing users to query multiple documents simultaneously through Copilot instead of just one at a time.…
- Component supply is being diverted toward datacenters, squeezing the consumer market PC buyers can expect price hikes as chipmakers continue to prioritize AI production over all else, restricting the supply of key components across the tech industry.…
- Right on cue, petulant hacktivists attempt to disrupt yet another global sporting event Italy's foreign minister says the country has already started swatting away cyberattacks from Russia targeting the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.…
- Patch meant to close a severe expression bug fails to stop attackers with workflow access Multiple newly disclosed bugs in the popular workflow automation tool n8n could allow attackers to hijack servers, steal credentials, and quietly disrupt AI-driven business processes.…
- The RHELatives are more versatile than you might realize FOSDEM 2026 CentOS Connect 2026 took place in Brussels last week, over the two days preceding the sprawling FOSDEM festival of FOSS – the nerd world's Glastonbury, complete with the queues and the questionable hygiene.…