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Mark Carney Criticised For Using British Spellings In Canadian Documents

Wednesday at 01:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Mark Carney says that amid a fundamental shift to the nature of globalization, his government will catalyze the growth in both the public and private sector. But Canadian linguists say that’s a problem. Language experts have called out the Canadian prime minister’s growing “utilization” of British spellings in key documents — including the...

Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code

Wednesday at 00:50 AM, via Slashdot

Intel has quietly stopped maintaining its open-source user-space driver stack for Gaudi accelerators. Phoronix reports: It turns out earlier this year Intel archived the SynapseAI Core open-source code and is no longer maintained by Intel. The open-source Synapse AI Core GitHub repository was archived in February and README updated with: “This project will no longer be maintained by Intel....

Reporter Suggests Half-Life 3 Will Be a Steam Machine Launch Title

Wednesday at 00:10 AM, via Slashdot

A veteran games journalist claims Half-Life 3 is real and still planned as a Spring 2026 launch title tied to Valve’s next Steam Machine push. Ars Technica reports: On the contrary, veteran journalist Mike Straw insisted on a recent Insider Gaming podcast that “everybody I’ve talked to are still adamant [Half-Life 3] is a game that will be a launch title with the Steam Machine.” Straw — who has...

Volkswagen To End Production At German Plant, a First In Company History

Tuesday at 23:30 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The last vehicle will roll off the assembly line at Volkswagen’s plant in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday, marking the first time in the automaker’s 88-year history that it has closed a plant in its home country. Volkswagen warned of potential production cuts last year, as it faced shaky demand in Europe and China, its biggest market, as...

Utah Leaders Hinder Efforts To Develop Solar Energy Supply

Tuesday at 22:50 PM, via Slashdot

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed two bills this year that ended solar development tax credits and imposed a new tax on solar generation despite solar power accounting for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid. The legislation passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature has already had an impact. Since May, when the laws took effect, 51 planned solar...

MI6 Chief: We’ll Be as Fluent in Python As We Are in Russian

Tuesday at 22:10 PM, via Slashdot

The new chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service told officers this week that they must become as fluent in programming languages like Python as they are in foreign languages like Russian as the spy agency adapts to what she described as a space between peace and war. Blaise Metreweli, MI6’s first female chief and previously the service’s director general of technology and innovation,...

Racks of AI Chips Are Too Damn Heavy

Tuesday at 21:30 PM, via Slashdot

The weight of AI server racks has reached a point where legacy data centers cannot accommodate them even with significant retrofitting efforts, The Verge reports. Chris Brown, chief technical officer at Uptime Institute, said most retrofitting attempts would require “bulldozing the building and starting over from scratch.” AI racks are projected to reach 5,000 pounds compared to the 400 to 600...

US Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight

Tuesday at 20:50 PM, via Slashdot

U.S. officials excoriated the European Union for discriminating against American technology companies and threatened to penalize European tech companies in return, in a social media post on Tuesday. From a report: The pronouncement appeared to signal a rockier period for U.S.-E.U. trade relations, as the two governments work to finalize a trade framework they announced this year. The United...

Texas Sues TV Makers For Taking Screenshots of What People Watch

Tuesday at 20:02 PM, via Slashdot

mprindle writes: The Texas Attorney General sued five major television manufacturers, accusing them of illegally collecting their users’ data by secretly recording what they watch using Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology. The lawsuits target Sony, Samsung, LG, and China-based companies Hisense and TCL Technology Group Corporation. Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office also...

McKinsey Plots Thousands of Job Cuts in Slowdown for Consulting Industry

Tuesday at 19:27 PM, via Slashdot

McKinsey, the consulting giant that has spent a century advising companies on how to cut costs and restructure operations, is now turning that advice inward as it plans to eliminate thousands of jobs across its non-client-facing departments over the next 18 to 24 months. The firm’s leadership has discussed a roughly 10% headcount reduction in support functions, according to Bloomberg....

High-Speed Traders Are Feuding Over a Way To Save 3.2 Billionths of a Second

Tuesday at 18:40 PM, via Slashdot

A millisecond used to be a big deal for the world’s quickest traders. A dispute over huge trading profits at one of the world’s largest futures exchanges shows they now think a million times faster [non-paywalled source]. From a report: The controversy is about an arcane technical maneuver in which high-speed traders bombard Frankfurt-based Eurex with useless data. The idea is to keep their...

Sarkee Capital Announces G4 Milestone as Dual-Track Strategy Enters Build-Out Phase

Tuesday at 18:18 PM, via Tech Financials

New York, NY — Sarkee Capital (SKC) today announced a significant milestone in the development of its G4 system, confirming that the firm’s Dual-Track Strategy has successfully completed live-market validation and has formally entered the build-out phase. The advancement follows extensive testing in cryptocurrency markets and reflects SKC’s commitment to disciplined, risk-controlled...

Tech Giants Can’t Agree On What To Call Their AI-Powered Glasses

Tuesday at 18:01 PM, via Slashdot

The glasses-shaped face computers that tech companies have been building for years now face an identity crisis, and their makers can’t agree on what to call them. Meta has asked a journalist to refer to its Ray-Ban glasses as “AI glasses” to distinguish them from Google Glass. Google, whose Project Aura is a collaboration with Xreal, calls the product “wired XR glasses” because the company...

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