Amazon pays $11.5B for Globalstar to satisfy satellite-envy
… Globalstar has been around since 1991, and it's come up with a bundle of tech in the meantime. …
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NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round
Personal Tech NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement NHS England is spending £46,000 on "benchmarking" as it gears up for what looks like the next round of negotiations behind one of the UK public sector'… …
TurboQuant is a big deal, but it won’t end the memory crunch
… And this tech isn't limited to KV caches either. According to Google, the technology also has implications for vector databases used by search engines. …
Anthropic sues US over national security blacklist
… It was also written six days ago, and is an out-of-date assessment of the current situation." The leaked memo followed the announcement of OpenAI striking a deal with the Department of War to use its AI tech for military applications. …
HMRC hands £473M migration deal to AWS after rivals walk
… Earlier this month, in a parliamentary written question, Conservative MP Julia Lopez asked the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology how much this limited competition was costing public sector bodies. …
CMA warns AI agents may not be 'faithful servants'
AI + ML Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers Autonomous assistants could manipulate choices, push pricier deals, and prioritize their creators Britain's competition watchdog says the next wave of agentic AI assistants could end up nudging people toward wo… …
India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants
… SK hynix close to LPDDR6 production Korean memory-maker SK hynix last week announced it has successfully developed a 16Gb LPDDR6 DRAM based on the sixth-generation 10nm-class 1c process technology. …
Oracle AI obsession could mean higher prices, worse support
… Nick Walter, CTO of professional consulting at commercial advisory firm House of Brick Technologies, said that there were plenty of anecdotal reports that Oracle support outcomes are getting worse, meaning slower service, less skilled help, and “more Oracle Support responses that were obviously wri… …
Amazon thanks loyal Kindle devotees by bricking their kit
… Their accounts and Kindle Library also remain fully accessible through the free Kindle app and Kindle for Web." kindle amazon personal tech on prem
Lightmatter says latest photonics will halve DC fiber bill
… "This will be the last time that the optical engine and the transceiver are not part of the GPU research." Lightmatter's previously announced interposer and CPO photonics tech is certainly more capable than the Passage L20, but regardless of whether Harris' prediction pans out, the company is posit… …