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Greater route diversity gives companies primary and secondary Azure connectivity paths, reducing the risk that a single infrastructure event could disrupt essential workloads, says Adil El Youssefi, senior VP and global head of colocation at Africa Data Centres.
The next phase of transformation in the property sector will be driven by a shift towards more cohesive, digital experience-led ecosystems, says Avinash Maharaj, head: digital product strategy at e4.
Armata’s summit provides organisations with the insights they need to rebuild trust and ensure they can adapt to threats and prioritise resilient security.
During my time working at South African Breweries (SAB), I watched young graduates arrive on the factory floor holding hard-earned chemistry degrees. They possessed brilliant theoretical minds, understanding molecular bonds and complex reactions on paper. Yet, when a critical machine on the production line broke down, those degrees often couldn’t get the line moving again. […]
The 12-month programme combines classroom and workplace training to equip youth with telecoms infrastructure skills.
Funding crisis could lead to an exodus that would be a blow for British science and national growth
On a chilly day in December 1945, Bernard Lovell, a physicist at the University of Manchester, struck out for the Cheshire countryside to study cosmic rays, the streams of high-energy particles that crisscross the universe. Peering at the signals from his army surplus radar, he made an unexpected...
US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has warned sanctions and Entity List designations are now on the table.
Apple’s incoming CEO has said he is committed to building on the company’s momentum in the entertainment business.
LAS VEGAS, Nev – Acquisition brings a novel, untethered, multi-shot electric shock projectile portfolio into the combined company, uniting less-lethal engagement and counter-drone protection from a single ecosystem. WCCP will enter a binding LOI for a share exchange with XLabs and a corporate rebrand to War Labs Defense Technologies, Inc. WealthCraft Capital, Inc. (OTC PINK: […]
In this episode from January 2026, Ian Sample puts listeners’ questions about dreams and nightmares to Dr Michelle Carr, the director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory in Montreal’s Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, and the author of the book Into the Dream Lab. They look at why we dream, what we can learn by examining our dreams, and what we can do when dreams turn into...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise. Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__ro_dah”...
The chipmaking giant is in talks with OpenAI to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would be among the largest of the A.I. boom.
Labels and adhesives can prevent paper from being recycled but there’s new tech aimed at changing that.
YouTube Premium will include Peacock Premium at no extra charge beginning in early 2027. “The deal brings a slew of premium content to the [$15.99 per month] YouTube Premium subscription, including live sports like the NFL, NBA and MLB and entertainment like Law & Order, Saturday Night Live and Love Island,” reports The Hollywood Reporter. “It also has the potential to dramatically scale...
Amazon has asked the FCC to approve a 5,105-satellite constellation launching in 2028 that would provide global direct-to-cell “voice, messaging, data, and emergency services,” similar to Starlink’s partnership with T-Mobile. The network would use Globalstar spectrum, support future Apple satellite services, and complement Amazon’s existing Leo broadband constellation. The Verge reports:...
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia and a large group of technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software companies have launched new initiative aimed at developing and sharing open source tools, models, and techniques for securing AI systems and agents. The new Open Secure AI Alliance aims to give defenders more open tools for testing, auditing and protecting AI models and...
The company slipped by the chip maker Nvidia, amid growing concern about costs associated with the artificial intelligence boom.
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Hackaday: Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other ‘AI’ tools will no longer be welcome. This follows on the heels of a similar ban on cryptocurrency-related projects. The community vote was on two issues, the first...
According to The Information (paywalled), a state-backed Shanghai company has begun mass-producing China’s first homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines, with about five units expected this year for SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT. Roughly 20 more units are expected in 2027. Tom’s Hardware reports: The Information didn’t name the manufacturer, but its sources described the operation as having...
Intensive nature of modern chicken farming creates ideal conditions for campylobacter, allowing bacteria to evolve
Industrial chicken farming is accelerating the spread of the world’s most common bacterial cause of diarrhoea, scientists have found.
The study found a dramatic increase in the exchange of campylobacter strains between wild birds and chickens as farming has intensified, creating...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the “broad qualities” of those authors “while remaining distinct in its own voice,” for example. This morning, Ars received the following response to a test...