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Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info Databricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, w

The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI — and from before the AI lab even

Six months after its launch, research firm Antenna estimates that the Howdy streaming service has more than 1 million subscribers. Roku debuted Howdy in August. The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service is $3 per month and doesn’t have commercials. In an announcement today,

In an order denying Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial, a judge accused the disgraced FTX founder of wasting precious court resources on wild conspiracies. To the judge, the motion seemed like a last-ditch attempt to give himself a MAGA makeover that the Trump administra

Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too Fedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options. The Fedora Project is the community-

Canonical’s plan to add AI features to Ubuntu has some users asking for “a version of Ubuntu that does not include these features,” while others say they’ll stick with older versions of the Linux distro or even switch to a different one. After Canonical’s announcement earlier thi

A data center developer has paused all Middle East project investments after one of its facilities was damaged by an Iranian missile or drone attack. The decision comes as the Iran war is forcing Silicon Valley investors and tech companies to rethink a trillion-dollar plan to bui

Elea Founder: Brazil Expansion to Accelerate After I Squared Deal The acquisition of Elea Data Centers by I Squared Capital will fuel the Brazilian digital infrastructure operator’s expansion plans, according to the company’s founder. Investment firm I Squared Capital announced y

Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in severe and prolonged internet disruptions, from government shutdowns to p

Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI cha

Motorola is crazy about foldables. With each passing year, the company has beefed up its folding phone lineup, and in 2026, there will be four devices launching on May 21. At the top end is the company’s first tablet-style foldable, the Razr Fold. Below that, Motorola will again

Meta's multi-billion-dollar Graviton deal highlights intensifying CPU shortages in AI infrastructure — the industry signals a shift to Agentic inference workloads, pushing demand Supply chains can’t keep up. Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Servi

Google Photos on Wednesday announced a new AI-powered feature that will soon turn photos of your clothes into a digital closet where you can create new outfit ideas, and even virtually try on your creations. Yes, the idea takes obvious inspiration from Cher’s iconic virtual wardr

Uber is breaking into the travel industry. The company on Wednesday announced several new products at its annual Go-Get event in New York as it looks to attract more users to its platform and push to differentiate beyond its mainstay ride-hailing business. Rather than focusing on

The next wave of enterprise productivity is being built on AI factories. As organizations deploy agentic AI systems capable of reasoning, automation, and real-time decision-making at scale, competitive advantage increasingly depends on the infrastructure that supports them. Succe

Google announced on Wednesday a new wave of AI-powered features coming to Google TV, alongside a dedicated short-form video feed that brings YouTube Shorts directly to the home screen. At the center of this update are more Gemini capabilities. Within the Gemini tab, a “Create” bu

Ferveret CEO on Cooling, Power Pains, and ‘Waterless’ Compute Gains Ferveret says fanless, waterless cooling can unlock more compute from fixed power, but deployments remain in pilot stage. Cooling has emerged as one of the defining challenges of the AI infrastructure buildout, a

Mike Vichich grew up in Michigan. His family, he recalls, dedicated their lives to public service. His parents were teachers, his uncle was in the FBI, while both sets of grandparents served in the Army. “Growing up, public service was always a really admirable way to spend one’s

Get 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for just $249 — act fast and don't miss Woot's blowout sale Use code TWENTYOFFPC for an extra $20 off the $269 list price Update - April 29 - 12:22 ET: This deal is now showing sold out at Woot.com - but it has come back into stock on one oc

NASA boss: Make Pluto A Planet Again Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman delivered some potentially good news at a Senate hearing this week, as well as some slightly odd news: in an environment

Whether you’re a gamer trying to play recent AAA titles at high resolutions and maxed-out settings or an AI enthusiast trying to run models locally, we’ve reached the point where a GPU with 8GB of video memory is a pretty limiting bottleneck. But because of ongoing memory shortag

OpenAI has effectively abandoned first-party Stargate data centers in favor of more flexible deals — company now prefers to lease compute and says Stargate is an umbrella term It seems that building and owning its own infrastructure is too expensive for OpenAI. In early 2025, Ope

Google Photos is launching a new AI-powered feature you can use to virtually try on clothes you already have. Using the photos in your gallery, Google will create a virtual “wardrobe,” allowing you to mix and match outfits, save the looks you like, and share them with friends. Go

UKG unlocks real-time workforce intelligence at scale with the Agentic Data Cloud Radhi Chagarlamudi Group Vice President, Product Engineering, UKG Heather White Cloud Data Architect, Google Cloud At UKG, we’ve spent years building and expanding our human capital management (HCM)

The founder’s AI foundation: The top announcements for startups from Next ‘26 Darren Mowry VP, Global Startups and Investor Ecosystem, Google The momentum is undeniable: the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are building with Google Cloud. Instead of stitching together fragment

Even before the Trump administration went to war against DEI and attempts to address historical discrimination, diversity efforts in the US were controversial. A pivotal moment came in 2023, when the Supreme Court ruled that race-based affirmative action programs violated the Con

CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool GrassMarlin leaks sensitive information, provided your targeting phishing skills are sharp enough The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning anyone who uses GrassMarlin, a tool developed by the

Roku’s latest streaming bet is off to a solid start. Its affordable subscription service, Howdy, has now passed 1 million subscribers, according to data from research firm Antenna. This is a notable milestone for a platform that’s still pretty new, and suggests that it’s striking

Uber customers in the United States can now book hotels directly through the app, one of several new features announced Wednesday that pushes far beyond the company’s original ride-hailing purpose and even deeper into its users’ lives. Uber announced the new hotel-booking feature

On Tuesday in San Francisco at an event called "What's Next with AWS," CEO Matt Garman took the stage to announce that AWS is (for what, depending on how you count, is the seventh, eighth, or ninth time) moving up the stack and entering the applications business. The batting line

Tom's Hardware Verdict Colorful’s iGame X870E Vulcan OC V14 is a well-built, overclocking-focused motherboard with robust hardware, thoughtful overclocking features, and a premium design that pushes the brand closer to true high-end territory. But stiff competition at this price