Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M
…A regulatory filing this week stated that Oracle’s 2026 Restructuring Plan is increasing from $1.6 billion in Q2 to $2.1 billion in the quarter ending February 28. Oracle’s…
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Tiny violins as Amazon execs face pay packet pinch
…Amazon’s revenue rose 12 percent year-on-year to $716.9 billion in 2025 , while net income climbed 31 percent to $77.7 billion, thanks in no small part to AWS…
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
…Colorado's Senate Bill 26-051 [PDF], titled "A Bill for an Act Concerning age attestation for users of computing devices," requires OS vendors to collect and store age brackets for users…
Nanny state vs. Linux: show us your ID, kid
…Senate Bill S8102A explicitly forbids self-reporting. The state Attorney General will decide how to enforce it. For example, to use Linux, you might need to submit a driver's license. This…
'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby drags Broadcom to Brussels
…The only way to stop bullies is to stand up to them.” CISPE claims that, since Broadcom completed its $69 billion takeover of VMware in October 2023, prices have risen tenfold, payment…
Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access
Software Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code OPINION Time and again…
Nvidia embraces optical scale-up as copper reaches limits
…company's $2 billion tie up with Marvell announced earlier this week. As part of that investment, Nvidia will work with Marvell to integrate NVLink Fusion, a licensed version of its high…
Firefox finds a slew of new bugs with Claude's help
…orders of magnitude higher than previously reported, with 25,000 to 70,000 errors per billion device hours per Mbit and more than 8 percent of DIMMs affected by errors per year…
OpenAI kills Sora, becomes product assassin
…OpenAI tidied up those messes and then signed a deal with Disney that saw the House of Mouse promise to inject $1 billion into the AI upstart and explore using its tools…
PrismML debuts 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud
…parameter-class." AI models based on the Transformer architecture involve neural networks with millions or billions of weights , which control the strength of connections between neurons and influence how the model performs…