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FEATURE In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous. They work in windowless hardware development labs at the center of the structure, surrounded by a ring of office cubicles that afford a view of scarce parking spaces
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Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away Microsoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types – most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s – again
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Personal Tech New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard ANTIQUES CODE SHOW Admirers of Roguelike games have a new distraction: Version 5.0 of NetHack dropped last weekend. NetHack and its ilk trace their origins back to Rogue, a game for Unix
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PaaS + IaaS Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock VMware has announced an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite and tried to make it fit the times by adding features that allow users to run with less hardware. VCF 9.1, announced today, tries to
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ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration SAP has snapped up Dremio, a data integration and analytics provider, to extend the reach of its data analytics and AI agent-building tools into external data sources. The ERP giant spent an undisclosed sum on the Iceberg-based lakehouse biz in a bid
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ServiceNow announced an expansion of its AI Control Tower, transforming what began last year as a governance dashboard into what the company now describes as a command center for managing AI assets across an entire enterprise, including those running outside ServiceNow's own platform. The updated AI Control Tower,
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AI + ML With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2 IBM has added support for Google Vertex AI and Intel Gaudi to boost the AI-based management of its stalwart Db2 database. With the update to its Db2 Genius Hub, launched earlier this year, Big Blue
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AI + ML OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math An executive for ChatGPT maker OpenAI said in court testimony on Tuesday that the AI model
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Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks There’s gold in midmarket IT spend, and Anthropic - backed by private equity and banking heavyweights and tapping its Claude Partner Network - is coming for it. Anthropic and a group of investors
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PaaS + IaaS Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper Amazon Web Services has let AI agents loose in its cloudy WorkSpaces virtual PCs. The new service, currently in preview, allows users to assign agents an identity using Amazon’s Identity and Access Management service. Using
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EXCLUSIVE: Searches go missing, house sales fall through, and a 5G mast erected by mistake Three UK councils have hit problems processing planning applications and land searches following a systems migration to a new software-as-a-service provider. Local citizens have suffered the consequences such as house sales falling through, the installation
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Human progress is usually described as a story of expanding power. We learned to grow food, build cities, harness steam, electrify factories, connect continents, digitize knowledge, and now teach mach1ines to reason, predict, and act. Each step gave humanity greater reach. Each step helped us do more with less physical
