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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * OpenAI API spend can rise fast if agents run wild. * Hard limits help stop surprise API bills. * Alerts and rate limits add another layer of protection. The other night, I woke up in a damp
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * You can now install Azure Linux on your own server. * Azure Linux may prove a competitor to mainstream enterprise Linux distros. * Is Windows Server long for this world? When my friend and Directions on Microsoft&
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FortiBleed, the large-scale credential-harvesting operation targeting organizations in 150 countries, has led to the deployment of INC Ransom and Lynx ransomware families, SOCRadar reports. Uncovered in mid-June, FortiBleed has been targeting over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls for the deployment of a network sniffer dubbed FortigateSniffer to capture the traffic passing
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The company also noted that its supply chain emissions from its contracted manufacturers and suppliers actually grew by 25 percent because of “an Asia-Pacific supply chain operating on grids that remain undersupplied with carbon-free energy.” The carbon-free energy goal Google has been matching 100 percent of its electricity consumption with
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Taiwanese court has ordered the detention of two Super Micro employees as part of a widening investigation into whether AI servers built with Nvidia chips were illegally routed to China. The Keelung District Court detained the pair, identified in Taiwanese press as managers surnamed Wang and Lin, on the night
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SoftBank has gone back to lenders with a $10bn loan proposal secured against its OpenAI stake, and this time it is offering to personally guarantee the debt, according to Reuters, which cited people familiar with the discussions. The concession gives banks recourse to SoftBank itself if the pledged OpenAI shares
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The US government is negotiating voluntary standards with AI companies covering how new models get released, according to the Financial Times, with an announcement said to be possible within the next week. The standards would reportedly set benchmarks and timelines for advanced models, while clarifying who gets access to them
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Oxmiq Labs has closed a $35m Series A to scale OxCore, a licensable GPU architecture the startup says lets chipmakers build custom AI silicon without running a full, multi-year design programme of their own. The round brings the company’s total capital raised to $60m since its founding by veteran
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Microsoft has joined a consortium led by Singapore-based Lightstorm to build a new subsea cable connecting India with Singapore and Malaysia, the companies announced on Thursday. T he I-2SEA system will run 3,600 kilometres and is intended to support the AI, cloud and hyperscale workloads that have made India
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India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has ordered WhatsApp not to launch its planned usernames feature in the country until further consultations are complete, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The ministry, known as MeitY, has given Meta three days to explain why regulatory action should not
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Rivian is telling investors that it might see better sales year than it expected, despite the many headwinds working against electric vehicles in the U.S. right now. Rivian previously said it would ship between 62,000 and 67,000 vehicles this year, but the company now expects to deliver
