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Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

news.ycombinator.com Lindsay Clark 2025-07-28 15:00:23

A survey of 500 IT asset managers in organizations that use Oracle Java has found that 73 percent have been audited in the last three years. Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests READ MORE At the same time, nearly eight out of 10 Oracle Java users said they had migrated, or planned to shift, to open source Java to try to avoid the risk and high costs of the dominant vendor's development and runtime environments. Oracle introduced a paid subscrip

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Your Next Car Might Cost More: Industry Insiders Explain Tariff-Driven Price Increases and How to Offset Costs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-28 15:00:00

It's not just iPhones and TVs. President Donald Trump's tariff policies might be driving up the cost of electric vehicles and combustion cars, too. EVs, in fact, might be especially vulnerable to the new tariffs that target China (a major exporter of critical metals) and the steel industry. China already has a near monopoly on critical minerals and rare earth metals used to manufacture cars, and these tariffs have given China reason to use that as leverage over the United States. That's accordi

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AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-07-28 19:28:28

Lisa Su, chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., during the AMD Advancing AI event in San Jose, California, on Dec. 6, 2023. Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that it will soon restart shipments of its MI308 artificial intelligence chips to China. The stock climbed 7% following the news. The company said Tuesday that the U.S. Commerce Department plans to resume reviewing its license applications to send the products to the world's second-largest economy. AMD said it plans to start ship

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Uber is close to completing its quest to become the ultimate robotaxi app

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-07-28 19:55:18

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Uber just announced a deal today with the company that runs one of the largest robotaxi fleets in China, as the ridehail giant nears its goal of becoming the world’s ultimate autonomous vehicle clearinghouse. Uber and Baidu said they are teaming up to deploy robotaxis in countries outside the US and China, with an initial

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Uber’s latest robotaxi partner is China’s Baidu

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-07-28 23:02:50

Uber has struck another deal with a robotaxi provider, and this time it’s with Chinese tech giant Baidu. The two companies announced Tuesday that they have agreed to a “multi-year strategic partnership to deploy thousands of Baidu’s Apollo Go autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the Uber platform” in multiple markets outside the U.S. and mainland China. Those deployments will start in Asia and the Middle East later this year, the companies said. Uber has been on a tear of AV partnerships lately as it

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Rwazi raises $12M Series A to help companies with consumer insights and intelligence

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-07-29 03:30:00

Joseph Rutakanga spent eight years looking for tools to help companies gather consumer insight data. Eventually, he decided to just build them. Now his startup, called Rwazi, has raised a $12 million Series A led by Bonfire Ventures to help companies with market intelligence and consumer insights. He founded the company in 2021 with co-founder Eric Sewankambo. “There was an abundance of consumer and market-level data for places like the U.S., UK, and a few parts of Western Europe, maybe some t

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Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-07-29 07:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine that competes with Google and ChatGPT, has partnered with identity verification company SheerID to offer up to two years of free premium service to more than 264 million students worldwide, the companies announced Monday. The deal tackles a key challenge for AI companies: providing educational acces

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A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Hackers

news.ycombinator.com Renee Dudley 2025-07-29 06:18:16

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Chinese Tech Support: Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel. Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel. Skills Gap: Digital escorts of

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ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-07-29 07:24:51

Open source database management system Postgres is nearly 40 years old, but has recently started seeing explosive demand due to being very well-suited for AI applications. Despite this rise in popularity, search and analytics functionality remain limited. ParadeDB is changing that. ParadeDB is an open source Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics directly in Postgres without users needing to transfer data to a separate source. The platform integrates with other data

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China's Baidu to bring its driverless cars to Uber globally

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-07-29 11:37:39

A passenger walks near Uber signage after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, on July 10, 2022. Baidu has struck a partnership with Uber to deploy its autonomous cars on the ride-hailing giant's platform outside the U.S. and mainland China. The first deployments are expected to happen in Asia and the Middle East later this year. The two companies said the multi-year partnership will see "thousands" of Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles on Uber globally.

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A Recession Could Be Hiding in Plain Sight. Here’s the Best Advice to Prepare

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 18:00:00

Recession risks are down, but keep your guard up. Getty Images/Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET In April, recession fears surged after President Trump began his chaotic tariff campaign. Forecasts for a severe economic downturn hit 66%, according to Polymarket. As Trump deferred some of his most aggressive trade proposals, those forecasts leveled out, but the contours of a potential recession are hard to ignore. Growth in the first quarter of 2025? Down. Jobless claims? Sharply higher. Consumer sentiment

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This Guy Attached 21 Chef’s Knives to a Slicing Robot Arm to Determine Which One Is Best

wired.com Joe Ray 2025-07-29 20:00:00

After the fifth tomato, I had to know how my knife did. Without judgment, Heimendinger announced that it placed "second to last in the cohort." I felt responsibility for this knife, and a little embarrassment, until I remembered his knives came straight out of the box and into the testing process with an unblemished factory edge. My knife, on the other hand, had been in regular use in my test kitchen for more than six months receiving only the occasional honing. Plus, I noted protectively that t

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Meta to spend hundreds of billions to build AI data centres

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-29 17:59:02

Meta to spend hundreds of billions to build AI data centres The company, which has made most of its money from online advertising, generated more than $160bn in revenue in 2024. Meta has invested heavily in efforts to develop what it called "superintelligence" - technology that it said could out-think the smartest humans. He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size of Manhattan (59.1 sq km/22.8 sq miles). The first multi-gigawatt data centre, called Prometheus, is expected t

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New AI voice tool trained to copy British regional accents

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-29 23:06:09

New AI voice tool trained to copy British regional accents A new AI voice-cloning tool from a British firm claims to be able to reproduce a range of UK accents more accurately than some of its US and Chinese rivals. Because much of the data traditionally used to train AI products with voices comes from North American or southern English speaking sources, many artificial voices tend to sound similar. To combat this, the company Synthesia spent a year compiling its own database of UK voices wit

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Rian Johnson Aimed to Make the ‘Empire Strikes Back’ of the ‘Star Wars’ Sequels

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-07-30 03:45:45

When talking about his time in Star Wars, Rian Johnson often says that he’d like to return to that world one day, at least once he stops making murder-mystery movies and TV shows. But while fans continue to hope he’ll make that once-planned trilogy one day, others can’t quite get past the seeming disappointments contained in his franchise entry, The Last Jedi. In a new interview, Johnson recalls what he was told when he came aboard the Lucasfilm project. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Johnson addre

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Reddit starts verifying ages of users in the UK

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-30 07:03:20

Reddit starts verifying ages of users in the UK Ofcom, the UK regulator, said: "We expect other companies to follow suit, or face enforcement if they fail to act." Reddit, known for its online communities and discussions, said that while it does not want to know who its audience is: "It would be helpful for our safety efforts to be able to confirm whether you are a child or an adult." The social media platform is bringing in the measures to comply with new rules under the UK's Online Safety A

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Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department

news.ycombinator.com Ashley Capoot 2025-07-30 07:16:19

A view of the Pentagon on December 13, 2024, in Washington, DC. Home to the US Defense Department, the Pentagon is one of the world's largest office buildings. The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday said it's granting contract awards of up to $200 million for artificial intelligence development at Anthropic, Google , OpenAI and xAI. The DoD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said the awards will help the agency accelerate its adoption of "advanced AI capabilities to address c

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Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view adult content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-30 06:14:52

Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content" in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act. Reddit said that users "shouldn't need to share personal information to participate in meaningful discussions," but that it will comply with the law by verifying age in a way that protects users' privacy. "Using Reddit has never required disclosing your real world identity, and these updates don't change that," Reddit said

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Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-30 11:14:52

Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content" in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act. Reddit said that users "shouldn't need to share personal information to participate in meaningful discussions," but that it will comply with the law by verifying age in a way that protects users' privacy. "Using Reddit has never required disclosing your real world identity, and these updates don't change that," Reddit said

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Meta removes 10 million Facebook profiles in effort to combat spam

cnbc.com Zach Vallese 2025-07-30 19:40:08

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on before the luncheon on the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump's second Presidential term in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025. Meta on Monday said it's removed about 10 million profiles for impersonating large content producers through the first half of 2025 as part of an effort by the company to combat "spammy content." The crackdown is part of Meta's broader effort to make the Facebook Feed more relevant and authentic by taking action against and

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Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI granted up to $200 million for AI work from Defense Department

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-07-30 23:36:25

A view of the Pentagon on December 13, 2024, in Washington, DC. Home to the US Defense Department, the Pentagon is one of the world's largest office buildings. The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday said it's granting contract awards of up to $200 million for artificial intelligence development at Anthropic, Google , OpenAI and xAI. The DoD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said the awards will help the agency accelerate its adoption of "advanced AI capabilities to address c

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I recommend this Windows laptop to creatives and professionals - even if it's meant for gamers

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-07-30 23:30:15

ZDNET's key takeaways MSI's new Raider 18 HX is retailing for $4,000. This is, without a doubt, the most powerful laptop I've tested in 2025, due to its Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU and GeForce RTX 5080 GPU. As you can imagine, it is quite expensive and rather heavy. View now at New Egg View now at Amazon View now at B&H Photo Video more buying choices At Amazon, the MSI Raider 18 HX with the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is on sale for $4,250, a $950 discount. 2025 has been a big year for mega n

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Meta CEO Zuckerberg says first AI data supercluster will come online in 2026

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-07-31 03:32:42

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest "hundreds of billions of dollars" into artificial intelligence compute infrastructure, and that Meta plans to bring its first supercluster online next year. A supercluster is a large, complex computing network that's designed to train advanced AI models and handle their workloads. "Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook pos

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AI’s fourth wave is here — are enterprises ready for what’s next?

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2025-07-31 03:28:21

Yesterday’s emerging tech is now essential to business success — and the next wave is coming fast. To maintain competitive advantage through the next five years, which innovations must forward-thinking companies prioritize right now? At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Yaad Oren, global head of SAP research & innovation and Emma Brunskill, associate professor of computer science at Stanford, spoke with moderator Susan Etlinger, senior director, strategy and thought leadership, Azure AI Microsoft,

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Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 02:45:32

Samuel Herman and Alexander Baciu never liked using Comcast's cable broadband. Now, the residents of Saline, Michigan, operate a fiber Internet service provider that competes against Comcast in their neighborhoods and has ambitions to expand. "All throughout my life pretty much, I've had to deal with Xfinity's bullcrap, them not being able to handle the speeds that we need," Herman told Ars. "I lived in a house of 10. I have seven other brothers and sisters, and there's 10 of us in total with m

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It took 45 years, but spreadsheet legend Mitch Kapor finally got his MIT degree

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 04:30:53

The funny part to Aulet was that Kapor, who created the groundbreaking spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3 and founded Lotus Development Corp . in Cambridge, had attended Sloan in the 1970s but left without getting a degree. Usually no laughing matter, the Doriot Lecture is a prestigious annual event at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. MIT professor Bill Aulet chuckled to himself when he decided to invite his old friend and famed software programmer and investor Mitch Kapor to give a speech about

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GM, LG to upgrade Tennessee plant to make low-cost EV batteries

news.ycombinator.com Michele Luhn 2025-07-31 07:24:57

Ultium Cells, a joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution, said Monday it's upgrading its facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee, to make low-cost electric vehicle battery cells. GM said the lithium iron phosphate battery cells — abbreviated LFP based on the elements' chemical symbols — could be significantly cheaper than battery packs used in some EVs, in part because they don't require expensive minerals like cobalt and nickel that are used in standard lithium-ion batteries. "T

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Paddy Power and Betfair users warned of 'email danger' after breach

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-31 15:13:40

Paddy Power and Betfair users warned of 'email danger' after breach The company provided affected users with online safety information and told them: "There is nothing you need to do in response to this incident, however we recommend you remain vigilant." Some personal information including IP addresses, email addresses, and online activity data has been compromised. A spokesperson for Flutter Entertainment, which owns the online gambling brands, confirmed to the BBC it had "suffered a data i

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Bill Gates Sounds the Alarm on a Global Health Catastrophe

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-31 15:02:17

Bill Gates will not give up. The Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist is continuing his public campaign against the Trump administration’s drastic cuts to U.S. foreign aid, warning of disastrous and preventable consequences for global health programs. His strategy is twofold: sound the alarm on the immediate human cost while highlighting the long-term benefits of American generosity. He just did both. Gates amplified a harrowing, firsthand account from a doctor in Africa whose clinic, fu

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Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-31 15:43:35

Samuel Herman and Alexander Baciu never liked using Comcast's cable broadband. Now, the residents of Saline, Michigan, operate a fiber Internet service provider that competes against Comcast in their neighborhoods and has ambitions to expand. "All throughout my life pretty much, I've had to deal with Xfinity's bullcrap, them not being able to handle the speeds that we need," Herman told Ars. "I lived in a house of 10. I have seven other brothers and sisters, and there's 10 of us in total with m

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Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

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