Tim flogs off fixed-line business to Americans
First to part from landlines
Telecom Italia, which has the Monty Python acronym Tim, has flogged off its fixed-line network to US private equity firm KKR for €19 billion.
Red Hat revolt coming
Even its staff hate the paywall
It is starting to look like Red Hat will have its first rebellion on its hands after announcing that it will paywall Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL.
Musk releases his AI
Imaginatively titled xAI
With much hype and years behind the rest of the industry, Elon [look at me] Musk has released an AI chatbot, despite saying he would never do that.
Brits make Amazon and Facebook sign data pledge
Can’t sell it to give them an unfair advantage
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has made Facebook and Amazon promise not to sell third-party seller data that gives it an unfair commercial advantage.
CNN says Microsoft’s AI addiction has ruined MSN.com
MSN.com has become false and bizarre
One of the world’s most visited websites, MSN.com has gone down the toilet because Microsoft decided to use AI to curate the site.
Microsoft extends Surface PC firmware support
Six years of updates in some cases
Microsoft has extended the firmware update support for some Surface PCs from four to six years.
Itanium retired from Linux by Torvalds
It was a long time coming
Linus Torvalds removed some 65,219 lines of Itanium-supporting code in a commit earlier this week, giving the architecture a “well-earned retirement as planned.
AMD's FSR might end up in smartphones
Samsung and Qualcomm are rumoured to have signed up
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Samsung and Qualcomm have signed up for AMD's FSR "FidelityFX Super Resolution" & Ray Tracing Technologies,
Beatles release new single
Even if half of them are dead
More than 50 years after the Beatles broke up, John, Paul, George and Ringo have released a final track, thanks to AI.
UK Prime Minister worried that AI will cause human extinction
Then who will we have to ship to Rwanda?
UK Prime Minister and son-in-law of Infosys boss N.R. Narayana Murthy, Rishi Sunak is suddenly worried that AI will make humans extinct.