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The Register ·
Europe’s drive for cloud sovereignty is leading to member states favoring providers from their own nation instead of building a Europe-wide cloud services market, according to a report critical of the EU’s proposed Cloud and AI...
The Register ·
If you want to keep bots from making sense of the code you worked so hard on and using it to write programs of their own, there's a new programming language out there designed to confuse LLMs. What began as software engineer Dominik...
TNW ·
Monday.com has launched Harmony, a voice AI platform that calls, qualifies and follows up on sales leads, then hands them to human reps. It uses small, task-specific AI models and claims replies in about 200 milliseconds. It is...
TNW ·
Apple has confirmed a “Pro and tell” event in Los Angeles on 28 October. Bloomberg reports it will show its first touchscreen MacBook Pro with an OLED screen, an entry-level M6 MacBook Pro, a new iMac and an OLED iPad mini. Apple has...
TNW ·
Amazon has launched TorchNeuron, an open-source backend that lets PyTorch code run on its Trainium AI chips with a one-line change. It goes into public beta on 20 October under the Apache 2.0 licence and supports Trainium2 and...
TNW ·
Donald Trump described his call to Google to a crowd at Northern Kentucky University on Saturday. See, Google wouldn’t have taken my call in the first. Now they kiss my ass.” Donald Trump, at a rally in Highland Heights, Kentucky He was...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Samsung Electronics will make a core part of Nvidia’s custom memory chips on TSMC’s 3-nanometre process. The Seoul Economic Daily reported the move on Sunday, citing industry sources. It would be the first time the two have worked...
TNW ·
Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from New York, plans to bring a video game ownership bill to Congress. He announced the Power To The Players Act on 15 October. The bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to write new rules.
TNW ·
Indie games make up many of the new premium games on the App Store, says Carson Oliver, Apple’s head of App Store Worldwide. More console and PC franchises are also coming to mobile, he said. In all, more premium games have come out...
Silicon Republic ·
If you want to improve your skills, why not consider taking part in an online quantum or deep-tech course? Read more: Free and inexpensive quantum and deep-tech courses to boost your skills
TNW ·
Town, a San Francisco startup that gives each person at work an AI work assistant, has raised $108m in a Series B that values it at $1bn. Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co-led the round, the company announced on Monday. Existing...
The Register ·
A German court has issued an injunction banning SAP from providing certain features of its Signavio product, following a legal challenge from process mining biz Celonis. The ruling only applies to implementations in Germany, but is part...
The Register ·
Uber has dodged a £340 million lawsuit brought by thousands of London black cab drivers after a High Court judge ruled that they'd left it too late to sue. Monday's ruling kills off two claims involving around 13,000 cabbies and former...
TNW ·
Microsoft has announced new tools to control AI agents in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception platform. The tools limit what each agent can reach and tighten those limits when its risk increases. Hayete Gallot, executive vice...
TNW ·
Amnon Shashua’s startup doubleAI has launched Maxwell, an AI model that works inside running software to make it use less computing power. Shashua co-founded the Tel Aviv company and is its chief executive. The company announced Maxwell...
TNW · · Medium severity
A cybersecurity researcher watched a Chinese-speaking hacker break into the websites of more than 100 companies, leaving almost all the work to AI agents. Snorre Fagerland, principal threat researcher at NorForge, set out the findings...
TNW ·
Netflix will report its third-quarter results on Tuesday, October 20, as investors look for signs that viewers are spending less time on the service. Analysts expect revenue to rise 11.8% to $12.87bn, up from about $11.5bn a year...
Electronics Weekly ·
Tesla unveiled its flying Roadster last week, marking a return to the company’s roots. The very first vehicle Tesla ever sold was an electric sports car. The new Roadster is […] The post Who Wants A Sports Car?
TNW ·
MIT researchers left 13 copies of an AI coding agent alone on a virtual island for 30 hours each, with no task. The agents climbed hills, drew pictures with blocks and made up games. They also wrote down what they learned, the team...
TNW ·
Four AI agents running on Google’s Gemini 4 Argon have defeated the Ender Dragon, Minecraft’s final boss, without human help. It took them 27 hours and 14 minutes from their first program, Google DeepMind researchers wrote in a paper...
The Register ·
Microsoft has acknowledged that the October 2026 Windows Server updates may be destabilizing Exchange Server. The problems are related to this list of Windows Server updates (see here) and Microsoft makes it clear they are not related...
TNW ·
Tenstorrent, the AI chip company run by Jim Keller, has closed a $1.5bn Series E round at a $6.2bn post-money valuation, it announced on Monday. Trace Capital and Innovation X led the round. New and existing investors also took part.
Silicon Republic ·
According to DeepSeek, the updated model has 'substantial improvements' across reasoning, coding, agentic tasks and visual benchmarks. Read more: DeepSeek updates V4.1-Flash model to improve performance
TNW ·
Elon Musk’s pledge covers shares from his own stake, and he says it is only the first giveaway. He posted the pledge on X early on Monday, hours after Anthropic set out its own share plan. “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares...
The Register · · Unconfirmed
Microsoft has reportedly pulled out of plans for Britain's largest AI supercomputer, because the government-backed project is facing the rather inconvenient problem of having no electricity to run it. The tech giant has terminated its...
IT Pro ·
Microsoft pulls plug on Essex data center development
The Register ·
It's been nearly half a century since the Voyager probes launched from Earth on a mission to explore the outer solar system, and they're still running. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle on this page, Spotify, Apple...
The Register · · Unconfirmed
A 16-year-old security flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi software could let attackers hijack millions of routers without knowing the network password, even though the chipmaker reportedly knew about the problem since 2018. Security researcher...
Silicon Republic ·
Pietro Pollo and Michael Kasumovic of UNSW explore the external factors that often dictate which species and organisms are studied and which are ignored. Read more: Is there a hidden bias in how researchers select which species to study?
IT Pro ·
Microsoft’s business software practices under scrutiny by UK markets regulator
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Some investors are pushing back on the roughly $30bn valuation that British AI cloud company Nscale is seeking in its planned New York listing, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. A valuation of $16bn to $19bn would be more likely to attract...
Tech.eu ·
Today the German federal government is holding its first investor conference: the Invest in Germany Summit The event focuses on what Germany needs right now as a business and investment destination. Venture capital leaders warn that the...
TNW ·
Uber said on Monday that it had won its bid to throw out two linked lawsuits in London worth about £340mn. The claims were brought by thousands of black cab drivers and two former minicab companies. The ruling was first reported by...
Tech.eu ·
Energy technology startup Linkener has raised €7.5 million in a funding round led by Klima Energy Transition Fund, Alantra’s energy transition fund, with existing shareholder GoHub Ventures remaining on board. Linkener has developed an...
The Register ·
Today's entry in the catalog of bork comes from Coventry's Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, where an information terminal is showing more about the hardware behind the scenes than the objects on display. Register reader Jeffrey Borinsky...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Norway’s Bulk Infrastructure Group wants a Canadian partner to own most of a planned subsea cable between Europe and Canada. Bulk’s founder, Peder Nærbø, set out the plan to Bloomberg on Monday. Much of Canada’s data and voice traffic...
Electronics Weekly ·
The UKDI (UK Defence Innovation) department is launching a “Tactical Power Challenge” on behalf of the British Army, with support from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). The £2.45 […] The post UKDI powers-up Tactical...
The Register ·
Microsoft has failed to win permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court in the long-running legal spat with ValueLicensing after the Court of Appeal refused its application. The US megacorp was challenging a November 2025 ruling in...
TNW ·
Meta said that a tool linked to Anthropic’s Claude AI triggered the suspension of the No Kings Coalition’s Instagram account on Saturday, October 17. Andy Stone, Meta’s vice president of communications, gave the new explanation in a...
Silicon Republic ·
In a statement, China’s Ministry of Commerce, explained that far greater oversight is needed for technologies with the potential to impact sensitive sectors. Read more: China proposes export controls for solar tech, amid safety concerns
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