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Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

cnbc.com Jordan Novet Jonathan Vanian 2025-11-03 02:39:50

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta has agreed to spend more than $10 billion on Google cloud services, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agreement spans six years, said the people, who asked not to be named because the terms are confidential. The deal was reported earlier by The Information. Google is aiming to land big cloud contracts as it chases lar

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Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

news.ycombinator.com Jordan Novet Jonathan Vanian 2025-11-03 02:34:33

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta has agreed to spend more than $10 billion on Google cloud services, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agreement spans six years, said the people, who asked not to be named because the terms are confidential. The deal was reported earlier by The Information. Google is aiming to land big cloud contracts as it chases lar

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Microsoft's gutting of discounts for some clients likely baked into guidance, analyst says

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-05 22:18:04

Microsoft said last week that it plans to stop providing discounts on enterprise purchases of its Microsoft 365 productivity software subscriptions and other cloud applications. Since the announcement, analysts have published estimates on how much more customers will end up paying. But for investors trying to figure out what it all means to Microsoft's financials, analysts at UBS said the change is already factored into guidance. "In our view, it is safe to assume that the impact of the pricin

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The game studio building a new BioShock just had mass layoffs

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-06 16:15:48

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The team working on the next BioShock game is losing a third of its staff. According to Bloomberg, Take-Two is laying off more than 80 people at Cloud Chamber, which has been working on a new BioShock title, and the game has been delayed from a planned launch in late 2026 or early 2027. T

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Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 20:47:03

Zedless This is Zedless, a fork of Zed that's designed to be privacy-friendly and local-first. Zedless is currently work-in-progress. Feel free to contribute! Planned Changes from Upstream This is a list of things that Zedless will do differently. No reliance on proprietary cloud services Components and features that strictly rely on non-selfhostable cloud services will be removed. No spyware Telemetry and automatic crash reporting will be removed. Priority on bringing your own infrastruc

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The Rogue Prince of Persia is officially out for PC and consoles

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-07 02:46:21

Ubisoft and Evil Empire's long-awaited The Rogue Prince of Persia is finally out and available for purchase. It's been in early access on Steam for over a year and the developers have made plenty of changes during that time to get the game ready for a general launch. It's available for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, Xbox Series X/S and PS5. It's also playable in the cloud by using the Xbox Cloud service, Ubisoft+ and Amazon Luna. Nintendo fans will have to wait a bit longer. The game's

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Nebraska man gets 1 year in prison for $3.5M cryptojacking scheme

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-09 23:05:03

A Nebraska man was sentenced to one year in prison for defrauding cloud computing providers of over $3.5 million to mine cryptocurrency worth nearly $1 million. Charles O. Parks III (also known as "CP3O") was arrested and charged in April with wire fraud, money laundering, and engaging in unlawful monetary transactions. He was facing up to 20 years in prison in December after admitting that he didn't pay a $3.5 million bill after renting cloud computing time from two providers for his cryptojac

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Microsoft hints at ‘more affordable’ Xbox Cloud Gaming plan

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-12 16:21:21

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Two years ago we learned, thanks to the FTC, that Microsoft was working on a separate “dedicated” version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. Microsoft Gaming CFO Tim Stuart then hinted, a few months later, that there could be a free version Xbox Cloud Gaming in exchange for ads. Now, Microsoft is hintin

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Should Europe wean itself off US tech?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-13 23:03:19

Should Europe wean itself off US tech? 9 hours ago Share Save Daniel Thomas Business reporter, BBC News Share Save Getty Images The big American tech companies dominate the global cloud-computing sector Imagine if US President Donald Trump could flip a switch and turn off Europe's internet. It may sound far-fetched, crazy even. But it's a scenario that has been seriously discussed in tech industry and policy circles in recent months, as tensions with Washington have escalated, and concerns ab

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Microsoft Probing Whether Israel Used Its Cloud to Build Palestinian Surveillance System

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-13 12:45:18

For the past two years, Microsoft has been dogged by accusations—both within and outside the company—that its technology is aiding the Israeli war effort. Microsoft’s own employees have protested the firm’s contracts with Israel, and protesters have disrupted the company’s various talks and conferences. Even the company’s 50th anniversary was ruined by shouts from one of its own employees, who reportedly yelled “Shame on you” while calling the company’s head of AI a “war profiteer” who was “usin

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Rain: Transiently Leaking Data from Public Clouds Using Old Vulnerabilities

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 06:42:11

OpenReview Anonymous Preprint Submission696 Authors Keywords : Cloud computing security; Hardware security; Systems security TL;DR : Leaking memory across virtual machine boundaries at a public cloud provider, bypassing mitigations against these types of attacks. Abstract : Given their vital importance for governments and enterprises around the world, we need to trust public clouds to provide strong security guarantees even in the face of advanced attacks and hardware vulnerabilities. While t

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HyperX’s claims its latest headset lasts 250 hours on a single charge

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-15 10:51:25

HyperX has announced its latest flagship wireless gaming headset, and once again , the brand’s primary mission statement seems to be chasing eternal life for headphone batteries. The Cloud Alpha 2 will last, according to its maker, for up to 250 hours on a full charge. While that number halves if you make use of the headsets’s simultaneous Bluetooth connectivity, a more than 10-day battery life is impressive for any wireless headset. Its new multi-layer 53mm drivers are engineered to reduce dis

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HP’s New Gaming Headset Promises to Stay Powered From Now Until Judgement Day

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-15 15:43:11

If you really can’t stand the idea of plugging a headset into a spare USB charger after a marathon gaming session, your old buddies Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard may have what you’re looking for. HP’s HyperX lineup of PC gaming peripherals now includes the $300 HyperX Cloud Alpha 2 headset that promises a total of 250 hours of battery life on a full charge. No, it’s not as long as the original $200 HyperX Cloud Alpha’s promised 300 hours back in 2022, but the sequel now includes a big glowing ba

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HyperX’s new gaming headset claims to last 250 hours on a single charge

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-11-17 20:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. HP-owned HyperX is announcing a slew of new gaming headsets and streaming-friendly microphones. The HyperX Cloud Alpha 2 is the new flagship at $299.99. It uses 53mm drivers and 2.4GHz wireless lasting up to 250 hours — an impressive 10+ days of con

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Inside the Box: Aaron Levie on reinvention at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-11-18 10:00:00

There aren’t many founders who can say they’ve steered the same company from scrappy startup to publicly traded platform while keeping their edge — but co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie isn’t most founders. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Levie joins us live on the Disrupt Stage to share how he’s kept Box innovating and relevant through two decades of tech cycles. He’ll unpack what reinvention really looks like inside a public company, what AI

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Leak: OpenAI's browser will use ChatGPT Agent to control the browser

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-19 05:45:32

OpenAI is building an agentic future with its upcoming Chromium-based browser and a new leak confirms GPT Agent integration. ChatGPT already comes with Agent mode, which uses a virtual machine to browse the web. The vrtual machine is powered by Linux and it works in a cloud environment (Azure). While Agent mode can do everything for you, it cannot control your browser. It also cannot see open tabs or other browser-related features. But this could change soon. As spotted by Tibor, OpenAI wirin

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Cloudflare Is Not a CDN

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 05:31:43

I love Cloudflare. I’ve always been a fan of their service and their generous free plan, which they’ve never backtracked from. They still offer unlimited bandwidth with very few limitations. Users have stories about serving terabytes of data per day without Cloudflare knocking on their door to upgrade. We, too, use Cloudflare under the hood, which enables us to offer unlimited bandwidth for our users as well. This might make people wonder: Why pay for a CDN when Cloudflare is free? When I star

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Microsoft tests cloud-based Windows 365 disaster recovery PCs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-26 10:50:37

Microsoft has announced the limited public preview of Windows 365 Reserve, a service that provides temporary desktop access to pre-configured cloud PCs for employees whose computers have become unavailable due to cyberattacks, hardware issues, or software problems. Windows 365 Reserve provides up to 10 days of access per user annually to these cloud-based Windows 365 disaster recovery PCs, enabling organizations to mitigate productivity issues during outages without requiring physical replaceme

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OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

news.ycombinator.com Zsolt Ero 2025-11-27 03:31:30

I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles from Btrfs proved to be a great choice, nginx is amazing, and life is good. Then, out of the blue, I'm getting reports that some tiles are not loading, which normally means tile generation bugs, but not this time. I look into the nginx logs and see this: 20

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Debugging a mysterious HTTP streaming issue

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 18:37:24

The Problem We recently encountered a frustrating issue with HTTP response streaming at Mintlify. Our system uses the AI SDK with the Node stream API to forward streams, and suddenly things stopped working properly. The symptoms were confusing: streaming worked perfectly with cURL and Postman, but failed completely with node-fetch and browser fetch. ‍ Initial Investigation Our first hypothesis centered around stream compatibility issues. We suspected the problem might be related to how the AI

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Microsoft's Clippy Crocs Might Be the World's Weirdest Pair of Shoes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 09:35:00

Crocs are an infamously ugly shoe style that was once named to Time's list of the 50 worst inventions. Clippy is an annoying animated paperclip from Microsoft that once made that same list. So maybe it's fate that the two much-mocked products are teaming up for a pair of limited-edition Crocs the wearer can deck out with a smiling Clippy accessory. According to The Verge, the Crocs are part of Microsoft's celebration of its 50th anniversary, and are right now only available for preorder by Micr

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The War for the Web Has Begun

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-11-28 10:54:30

A high-stakes war has just broken out over the future of the internet. In one corner is Cloudflare, a giant of web infrastructure that acts as a gatekeeper for a huge portion of online traffic. In the other is Perplexity, a darling of the AI world, a search engine threatening to upend Google’s dominance. The accusation is explosive: Cloudflare claims Perplexity is a bad actor, a rogue bot that ignores the internet’s oldest rules to secretly scrape data from websites that have explicitly told it

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Amazon's cloud business giving federal agencies up to $1 billion in discounts

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-02 00:01:23

Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Amazon Web Services has agreed to provide U.S. federal agencies with up to $1 billion in discounts for cloud adoption, modernization and training through 2028, an agency overseeing government procurement announced Thursday. The agreement is expected to speed up migration to the cloud, as well as adoption of artificial intelligence tools, the General Services Adm

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Grand Canyon ‘Megafire’ Explodes in Size and Is Now Creating Its Own Weather

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-03 15:15:02

Despite over a month of firefighting efforts, the Dragon Bravo fire experienced a surge of growth this week, doubling in size within just a few days. The northern Arizona “megafire” is now the largest active blaze in the continental U.S. and the largest of 2025 so far. As of Wednesday, August 6, the Dragon Bravo fire has torched 130,520 acres along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, according to the national wildfire monitoring database InciWeb. This fire sparked to life when lightning struck the ar

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Perplexity says Cloudflare's accusations of 'stealth' AI scraping are based on embarrassing errors

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-06 15:37:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Cloudflare claims Perplexity ignores websites' wishes in its content hunt. Other AI companies, such as OpenAI, don't wipe content, Cloudflare says Cloudflare now offers services to block aggressive AI crawlers. Perplexity is denying Cloudflare's claims. Cloudflare, a leading content delivery network (CDN) company, has accused the AI startup Perplexity of evading websites' "no crawl" directives by stealthily deploying web crawlers to scrape

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Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-07 05:33:03

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler gone wild. Many people came to Perplexity’s defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable. And this is a controversy that will certainly grow as AI agents flood the internet: Should an agent accessing a website on b

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Perplexity is sneaking onto websites to scrape blocked content, says Cloudflare

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-07 10:42:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Cloudflare claimed Perplexity ignores websites' wishes in its content hunt. Cloudflare said other AI companies, such as OpenAI, don't wipe content. Cloudflare now offers services to block aggressive AI crawlers. Cloudflare, a leading content delivery network (CDN) company, has accused the AI startup Perplexity of evading websites' "no crawl" directives by stealthily deploying web crawlers to scrape content from sites that have explicitly bl

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AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens

news.ycombinator.com Written 2025-12-08 17:44:58

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be the only fully-featured, independently operated sovereign cloud, backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances and legal protections. It will have no critical dependencies on non-EU infrastructure, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is operated only by personnel who are European Union (EU) residents located in the EU, subject to EU law. Based on evolving customer requirements for digital sovereignty in Europe, we are adding EU citizenship t

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Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-09 00:11:10

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to be "stealth crawling" sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls. Robots.txt is a simple file websites host that lets web crawlers know if they can scrape a websites' content or not. Perplexity's official web crawling bots are "PerplexityBot" and "Perplexity-Us

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AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-09 10:16:26

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and optimization service Cloudflare said Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers who had disallowed Perplexity scraping bots by implementing settings in their sites’ robots.txt files and through Web application

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Latest Tech News

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B

Microsoft's gutting of discounts for some clients likely baked into guidance, analyst says

The game studio building a new BioShock just had mass layoffs

Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

The Rogue Prince of Persia is officially out for PC and consoles

Nebraska man gets 1 year in prison for $3.5M cryptojacking scheme

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Rain: Transiently Leaking Data from Public Clouds Using Old Vulnerabilities

HyperX’s claims its latest headset lasts 250 hours on a single charge

HP’s New Gaming Headset Promises to Stay Powered From Now Until Judgement Day

HyperX’s new gaming headset claims to last 250 hours on a single charge

Inside the Box: Aaron Levie on reinvention at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Leak: OpenAI's browser will use ChatGPT Agent to control the browser

Cloudflare Is Not a CDN

Microsoft tests cloud-based Windows 365 disaster recovery PCs

OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

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Microsoft's Clippy Crocs Might Be the World's Weirdest Pair of Shoes

The War for the Web Has Begun

Amazon's cloud business giving federal agencies up to $1 billion in discounts

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AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens

Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again

AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

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