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Has Pure got the first of its ‘HDD is doomed’ ducks in a row?

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Pure Storage thinks things are slotting into place for its predicted imminent demise of enterprise spinning disk. In December 2024, it announced an unnamed hyperscaler had inked an agreement to take Pure’s DirectFlash Modules (DFMs) as components for storage infrastructure. Meanwhile, Pure Storage now counts Nand flash makers Micron and Kioxia as supply chain partners.…

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EU law could usher in transformative change to digital ecosystems

7 minutes of reading / Alphabet, Apple, compliance, Computer, digital advertising, Google, Meta, social media, Tech / By

In October 2024, the European Commission (EC) published its Digital fairness fitness check report as part of a continued effort to evaluate the effectiveness of European Union (EU) legislation with consumer protection laws. Specifically, it evaluated the efficacy of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the Consumer Rights Directive, and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive. The…

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Why is DeepSeek AI suddenly so popular? 

5 minutes of reading / AI, chatbot, ChatGPT, Git, GitHub, Google, Meta, Tech / By

OpenAI released its Operator AI agent for ChatGPT on Thursday, which should have been a major milestone for the company and AI development in general. While I wouldn’t pay $200/month to test this early version of Operator, what I saw in the OpenAI demos blew my mind. Operator is miles ahead of Google’s AI agents,…

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Perplexity AI may save TikTok with a merger that’s half owned by the US government

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President Trump delayed the US TikTok ban a few days ago, but the reprieve is still temporary. ByteDance, the giant Chinese corporation that owns the social network, still has to sell the US version of TikTok or risk a complete ban in the country once the 75-day deadline expires. The law that forced the situation…

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How government hackers are trying to exploit Google Gemini AI

4 minutes of reading / AI, Google, Intel, Meta, Tech / By

The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has published new information revealing how threat actors, among them nation state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) operations working on behalf of the governments of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, attempted to abuse its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Google said that government actors from at least 20 countries…

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Enterprises need to make better choices to reduce GenAI emissions

4 minutes of reading / AI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Tech / By

The mounting environmental impacts of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems can be significantly reduced if businesses “choose the right model” for their use cases and implement sustainable practices throughout its lifecycle, according to Capgemini Research Institute.Capgemini’s Developing sustainable GenAI report noted that, for the latest generative pre-training transformer (GPT) models, the training alone is roughly…

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It sure sounds like Oakley and Meta are making the best smart glasses ever

4 minutes of reading / AI, AirPods, Apple, Apple Watch, Google, Meta, Samsung, Tech / By

I’m a long-distance runner, always training for the next half-marathon or marathon race. That involves running dozens of miles every week to build up endurance and ensure I have a fighting chance on race day to cross the finish line. I also happen to wear sunglasses at all times, the photochromatic type that darkens progressively…

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Researchers say AI fails to describe complexities of Holocaust

5 minutes of reading / AI, ChatGPT, Google, Meta, social media, Tech / By

Existing artificial intelligence (AI) models available in the public domain fail to provide “complexities and nuances of the past”, and merely offer oversimplified stories about the Holocaust, according to an international Holocaust research lab.In November 2024, the University of Sussex launched the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, an initiative to “ensure a sustainable future for Holocaust…

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Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Apple comments from the Rogan podcast are laughably wrong

7 minutes of reading / AirPods, Apple, Apple Watch, Google, iPhone, MacBook, Meta, Microsoft, Tech / By

When I saw that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast, I had no doubt there’d be fireworks. And true to form, Zuckerberg, with his gold chain on full display, didn’t disappoint. As is typically the case with anything Rogan, Zuckerberg, over the course of a 3-hour interview, provided several soundbites that…

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Barings Law enleagues 15,000 claimants against Google and Microsoft

3 minutes of reading / AI, data privacy, Git, GitHub, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Tech / By

A law firm based in Manchester has gathered around 15,000 claimants for an impending data breach lawsuit against Microsoft and Google. The firm began signing up clients in November 2024 for a class action against the US tech giants. It believes them to be illegally collecting and using peoples’ data to train their artificial intelligence…

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