Collaborate Disseminate
The amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in Great Britain would exceed the national current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog. From a report: Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by u… Continue reading New Datacentres Risk Doubling Great Britain’s Electricity Use, Regulator Says
An anonymous reader shares a report: Cyberattacks reached victims faster and came from a wider range of threat groups than ever last year, CrowdStrike said in its annual global threat report released Tuesday, adding that cybercriminals and nation-state… Continue reading CrowdStrike Says Attackers Are Moving Through Networks in Under 30 Minutes
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access to its AI model or face harsh penalties, Axios has learned. Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting on Tuesday that the Pentagon w… Continue reading Hegseth Gives Anthropic Until Friday To Back Down on AI Safeguards
More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers — distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools in 2002 — neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate committee earlier this year that Gen… Continue reading The US Spent $30 Billion on Classroom Laptops and Got the First Generation Less Capable Than Its Parents
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing… Continue reading Microsoft Execs Worry AI Will Eat Entry Level Coding Jobs
Microsoft has spent more than $76 billion acquiring game studios and publishers over the past few years in an attempt to turn Xbox into a Netflix-like subscription platform, and the result is that nobody — possibly not even Microsoft — can clearly ar… Continue reading Billions of Dollars Later and Still Nobody Knows What an Xbox Is
Discord is attempting to distance itself from the age verification provider Persona following a steady stream of user backlash. From a report: In an emailed statement to The Verge, Discord’s head of product policy, Savannah Badalich, confirms the compa… Continue reading Discord Distances Itself From Persona Age Verification After User Backlash
Russia has opened an investigation into Telegram founder Pavel Durov for “abetting terrorist activities,” [non-paywalled source] in the latest sign that his uneasy relationship with the Kremlin has broken down. From a report: Two Russian newspapers, in… Continue reading Russia Targets Telegram as Rift With Founder Pavel Durov Deepens
IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an… Continue reading IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization
Linus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel. From a report: “You all know the drill by now: two weeks have passed, and the kern… Continue reading Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘More Competent Who Isn’t Afraid of Numbers Past the Teens’ Will Take Over Linux One Day