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An anonymous reader shares a report: Companies have been discussing migrating off of VMware since Broadcom's takeover a year ago led to higher costs and other controversial changes. Now we have an inside look at one of the larger customers that recently made the move.
According to a report from The Register today, Beeks Group, a cloud operator headquartered in the United Kingdom, has moved most of its 20,000-plus virtual machines (VMs) off VMware and to OpenNebula, an open source cloud and edge computing.
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PlayStation co-CEO Hermen Hulst has weighed in on on the role of artificial intelligence in game development, saying that while the technology has the capacity to "revolutionise" the games industry, it won't replace the "human touch". Read more Read more âș
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AI and quantum innovations will define APAC cybersecurity in 2025. Businesses should adopt quantum-resistant defences, focus on supply chain resilience. The APAC regionâs cybersecurity landscape is gearing up for a transformative year in 2025 according to Palo Alto Networks, which has shared insights into five key trends that could reshape how organisations defend themselves. AI... Read more » Read more âș
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Tesla notified employees that they did not need to report to work on December 3rd, December 4th, or December 5th, according to an internal memo. Read more âș
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Elon Musk already has Donald Trump's ear on policy discussions â it sounds like Mark Zuckerberg wants in on that too. Read more âș
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Image: Ford Ford continues to exhibit a dedication to diversifying its EV lineup in Europe â a dedication that, frankly, I wish could also be applied here at home â with the reveal of the new, all-electric Puma Gen-E. The Puma is a familiar nameplate in Europe, as the automakerâs best-selling vehicle there since it surpassed the Fiesta in salesin 2021. Now, it's getting a fully electric powertrain to complement... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Musicâs yearly recap is back â and this time, itâs available to see and share from directly within the app. If your iPhone runs iOS 18.1 or later, you can now access Apple Music Replay 2024 from the Home, New, and Search tabs. Otherwise, youâll have to view your yearly stats from the Apple Replay site, as was the case previously. Apple... Read more âș
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The damage caused by the flooding won't be repaired before 2025, a troubling pause given the Sun's current phase in its 11-year cycle. Read more âș
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The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced sweeping action against some of the most important companies in the location data industry, including those that power surveillance tools used by a wide spread of U.S. law enforcement agencies and demanding they delete data related to certain sensitive areas like health clinics and places of worship. From a report: Venntel, through its parent company Gravy Analytics, takes location data from smartphones, either... Read more âș
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Intel officially announced its first two budget-mainstream Battlemage GPUs today, the Arc B580 and Arc B570. Priced aggressively at $249 and $219, respectively, the new architecture offers performance and efficiency improvements that should give Nvidia some much-needed competition. Intel also talked about XeSS 2, with frame generation and low latency modes designed to take on Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR3. Read more âș
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Okay, weâre doing this. Today weâre launching a Verge subscription that lets you get rid of a bunch of ads, gets you unlimited access to our top-notch reporting and analysis across the site and our killer premium newsletters, and generally lets you support independent tech journalism in a world of sponsored influencer content. Itâll cost $7 / month or $50 / year â and for a limited time, if you... Read more âș
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Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is mistakenly removing too much content across its apps, according to a top executive. Nick Clegg, Metaâs president of global affairs, told reporters on Monday that the companyâs moderation âerror rates are still too highâ and pledged to âimprove the precision and accuracy with which we act on our rules.â âWe know that when enforcing our policies, our error rates are still too... Read more âș
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Published in 2012 to act as a guidepost for a tech giant, the book now feels like a forgotten manifesto for a world that no longer exists. Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge Based on testing done by Columbiaâs Tow Center for Digital Journalism researchers, OpenAIâs ChatGPT search tool has some issues when it comes to responding with the truth. OpenAI launched the tool for subscribers in October, saying it could give âfast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources.â Instead, Futurism points out that the researchers said ChatGPT search struggled to correctly identify quotes from articles, even when... Read more âș
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Marriott sees an opportunity to tap into luxury travel spending by millennials and Gen Z, expected to inherit tens of trillions of dollars worldwide over the next couple of decades. -Sean O'Neill Read more âș
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Irelandâs far-right candidates expected to succeed on a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric, but the people rejected them wholesale. Read more âș
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Automaker Jaguar hasn't been getting much attention in recent years, but boy has that changed in the last few days! Last week, the company announced that it had chucked out its roaring cat design in favor of a Bauhaus-esque minimalist logo that was met by the public with a fair degree of shock. Now, the company has unveiled the Type 00 concept car (that's a photo, not an illustration) that's... Read more âș
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Itâs that festive time of year again. All of the algorithm elves living inside our favorite music-streaming apps have begun cranking out personalized âbest ofâ lists in the vein of Spotify Wrapped and Apple Music Replay. This year, however, thereâs a new kid on the block. Amazon Music just rolled out its own version of a yearly recap. Itâs called Amazon Music Delivered, which I guess is a play on... Read more âș
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SpaceX is reportedly in talks to sell insider shares that value it at around $350 billion, double from the year prior. Read more âș
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Disney's live-action "Snow White," starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, hits theaters March 21. Read more âș
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Jude Law stars in the 1980s inspired, kid-centric new Star Wars adventure show that's now streaming on Disney+. Read more âș
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More than half of longer English posts on LinkedIn are likely generated by AI, according to research from AI detection firm Originality AI. The company analyzed nearly 9,000 public posts over 100 words published between 2018 and 2024, finding AI usage surged 189% after ChatGPT's launch in early 2023, Wired reported Wednesday. LinkedIn, which also offers AI writing tools to premium subscribers, told Wired that it does not track AI-generated... Read more âș
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An anonymous reader shares a report: ChatGPT users have spotted an unusual glitch that prevents the AI chatbot from saying the name 'David Mayer.' OpenAI's hugely popular AI tool responds to requests to write the name with an error message, stating: "I'm unable to produce a response." The chat thread is then ended, with people forced to open a new chat window in order to keep interacting with ChatGPT. Read... Read more âș
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Climate change has intensified hurricane wind speeds by an average of 19 mph in 84% of North Atlantic hurricanes between 2019-2024, according to new research that links warming ocean temperatures to storm intensity for individual hurricanes. This year, Hurricanes Helene and Milton slammed into Florida, breaking meteorological records and causing catastrophic damage. The study by Climate Central found that higher sea surface temperatures elevated most hurricanes by an entire category... Read more âș
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"Polar oceans constitute emission hotspots during the summer," according to a new paper published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Science Advances. "And including those sea-to-air fluxes in an atmospheric chemistry-climate model "results in a net radiative effect that has far-reaching implications." The research was led by a team of scientists from Spain's Institute of Marine Sciences and the Blas Cabrera Institute of Physical Chemistry, according to an announcement from the... Read more âș
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Oxford University Press: Following a public vote in which more than 37,000 people had their say, we're pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is 'brain rot.' Our language experts created a shortlist of six words to reflect the moods and conversations that have helped shape the past year. After two weeks of public voting and widespread conversation, our experts came together to consider the... Read more âș
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Slashdot reader sciencehabit writes: Most orange cats are boys, a quirk of feline genetics that also explains why almost all calicos and tortoiseshells are girls. Scientists curious about those sex differencesâor perhaps just cat loversâhave spent more than 60 years unsuccessfully seeking the gene that causes orange fur and the striking patchwork of colors in calicos and tortoiseshells. Now, two teams have independently found the long-awaited mutation and discovered a... Read more âș
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A U.S. federal appeals court ruled that sanctions against Tornado Cash, a crypto transaction anonymization service, must be abandoned, stating that its immutable smart contracts do not constitute "property" under U.S. law and that the Treasury overstepped its authority. The ruling is available here (PDF). CoinDesk reports: The decision answers a controversial privacy debate on whether the government -- via a sanctions list maintained by the U.S. Treasury Department --... Read more âș
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Despite significant enterprise AI hype, most job seekers remain unconvinced of its benefits, with 69% doubting its ability to enhance work performance and 62% skeptical it reduces workloads. The findings come from a study conducted by Resume Genius. The Register reports: Consistent with the majority opinion that AI in the workplace has failed to impress, only 34 percent of respondents said they were worried about being replaced by a bot,... Read more âș
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Long-time Slashdot reader jaromil writes: As a fun project, we hacked together a C interpreter (based on Tiny C Compiler) that compiles C code in-memory and runs it live. CJIT today is a 2MB executable that can do a lot, including call functions from any installed library on Linux, Windows, and MacOSX. Slashdot reader oliwer points out "they are also including a REPL, which could be interesting." And the CJIT... Read more âș
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A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, in protest of what they're calling duplicity and "art washing" on OpenAI's part. From a report: On Tuesday, the group published a project on the AI dev platform Hugging Face seemingly connected to OpenAI's Sora API, which isn't yet publicly available. Using their authentication tokens -- presumably from an early access system -- the group created a frontend... Read more âș
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