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- Grok 3 wades into the AI wars with 'beta' rolloutby Richard Speed on February 18, 2025 at 1:24 pm
Musk's latest attempt at a 'maximally truth-seeking' bot arrives Grok 3 has begun rolling out. xAI founder Elon Musk describes the chatbot as "a maximally truth-seeking AI, even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct."…
- Huawei to bring massively expensive trifold smartphone to world marketby Dan Robinson on February 18, 2025 at 12:55 pm
There's everything to play for, but there ain't no Play Store Huawei is bringing its triple-fold Mate XT smartphone to a global audience, but with an eye-watering reported price tag, the question is – who will want to buy it?…
- Kelsey Hightower on dodging AI and the need for a glossary of IT termsby Richard Speed on February 18, 2025 at 11:27 am
The science of the appliance and opening the lid of the black box to find... it's just software Interview The tech industry has a habit of reinventing itself every few years. Kelsey Hightower would like someone to come up with a glossary because software is software, no matter what it gets called.…
- UK electrical utility seeks partner for £81M SAP overhaul as support deadline closes inby Lindsay Clark on February 18, 2025 at 10:27 am
Integrations with third-party software await chosen provider A UK electrical infrastructure biz is seeking a systems integrator to help it migrate from a 25-year-old SAP ERP system to the latest S/4HANA platform in a contract set to be worth almost a quarter of its annual turnover.…
- Lloyds Bank reviews tech and engineering personnel in reorgby Paul Kunert on February 18, 2025 at 9:30 am
Admits it will be saying 'goodbye to talented people' in UK amid fears of jobs being offshored to India Lloyds Banking Group this month launched a review of the technology and engineering professionals working in the UK operation with headcount reductions inevitable and some roles being offshored to Lloyds Technology Center in India.…
- Avaya hangs up on users with fewer than 200 SaaSy contact center seatsby Simon Sharwood on February 18, 2025 at 7:24 am
Customers told to pay up, quit, or wait for promised alternative ‘innovation’ coming real soon now Avaya has advised customers and resellers of a planned “evolution” of its products that starts with a requirement to license at least 200 seats worth of its SaaS-y contact center wares by June 30, 2025.…
- Indian authorities seize loot from collapsed BitConnect crypto scamby Simon Sharwood on February 18, 2025 at 5:29 am
Devices containing crypto wallets tracked online, then in the real world Indian authorities seize loot from BitConnect crypto-Ponzi scheme Devices containing crypto wallets tracked online, then in the real world India’s Directorate of Enforcement has found and seized over $200 million of loot it says are the proceeds of the BitConnect crypto-fraud scheme.…
- DeepSeek disappears from South Korean app stores over privacy concernsby Simon Sharwood on February 18, 2025 at 2:31 am
Nation also orders thousands of GPUs to advance local AI smarts South Korea suspends DeepSeek, which vows to return in better shape Nation also orders enough GPUs to train many more LLMs South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has suspended local availability of apps from Chinese LLM-and-chatbot developer DeepSeek.…
- Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocycle … autocracy… AUTOCOMPLETE!by Simon Sharwood on February 18, 2025 at 12:25 am
Penguin Emperor's weekly State Of The Kernel post went astray Next time autocomplete takes over and you accidentally send an email to the wrong person or group, perhaps it will be a little solace to know that one of the world’s most accomplished technologists – Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds – just made that same mistake.…
- The future of AI is ... analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juiceby Tobias Mann on February 17, 2025 at 8:21 pm
EnCharge claims 150 TOPS/watt, a 20x performance-per-watt edge Interview AI chip startup EnCharge claims its analog artificial intelligence accelerators could rival desktop GPUs while using just a fraction of the power. Impressive — on paper, at least. Now comes the hard part: Proving it in the real world.…
- Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?by Richard Speed on February 17, 2025 at 5:34 pm
If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a possibility? Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has responded to suggestions that the Windows 95 setup was overly complicated. People wanted to know: Why not just do that whole thing in MS-DOS?…
- NAND flash prices plunge amid supply glut, factory output cutby Dan Robinson on February 17, 2025 at 4:13 pm
Flaky demand for PCs and smartphones blamed NAND flash prices are expected to slide due to oversupply, forcing memory chipmakers to cut production to match lower-than-expected orders from PC and smartphone manufacturers.…
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