Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit. Spirit hit financial turbulence when COVID-19 blew in during 2020 […]
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Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced
If you’re struggling to stay up to date with Redmond’s regular product re-branding exercises, here’s the site for you: The […]
Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains
The Xen Project, home of the open-source hypervisor, has decided it’s time to get serious about formal safety. That’s not […]
Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore
Are web coders losing their respect for standards? A recent review of the world’s largest sites suggests so. ValidateHTML, a […]
Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales
Payments biz Stripe has reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for at least $7 billion, signaling a shift in […]
Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks
Siemens and fellow German engineering biz Reinhausen are developing a solid-state transformer (SST) to deliver 800-volt DC power directly to […]
An AI broke Snowflake’s code. Then another AI agent exploited it
An AI broke Snowflake’s code; then another AI, an attack agent, autonomously found the bug, exploited it, and extracted credentials […]
Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS
Firefox for iOS now includes an optional ad blocker, or it will soon. According to Mozilla, the experimental feature “is […]
GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate
Microsoft’s GitHub source shack is reporting a 50 percent error rate on repository content downloads. GitHub Copilot is also “experiencing […]
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers
Do you love lasers and hate mosquitoes? For $1,000, you can install your very own bug-zapping surface-to-air missile rig at […]