Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

AI + ML

Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all

The RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse

AI AND ML

It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls

Bots, not people, are now the ones who use the internet the most

Canonical Managed Kubeflow lands on Azure

PARTNER CONTENT: Why platform teams are swapping DIY Kubeflow for Canonical's managed service

AI + ML

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools

BOFH

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand

Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light

ON-PREM

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin

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Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble

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• OFFBEAT

C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

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• software

Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle

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• Security

GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely

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• applications

Microsoft to switch off OWA Light after nearly two decades

• AI + ML

Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all

• The RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse

• AI + ML

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

• OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools

• on-prem

AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year

• Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone

• AI and ML

OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter

• With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once

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The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey

• The newly renamed SpaceXAI wants you to believe little ol' Grok is all grown up

Infosec

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Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks

• PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!

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Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack

• PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more

• Black Hat and DEF CON

DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure

• Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included

• Security

EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis

• Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified

• Malware Month

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

• On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it

• Next version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server

KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives

• 6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not

Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up

• Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default

Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form

• Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK

Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'

• More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too

France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well

• Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another