Google has announced a new undersea cable called Umoja, which will connect several African countries and the continent to Australia for the first time. It will increase the continent's net resilience.
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Amazon is investing €15.7 billion in Spain's Aragon region to bolster its AWS offerings. The company said the investment will contribute billions to the country's GDP and support around 17,500 jobs.
BT has been fined £2,800,000 by Ofcom for failing to provide a summary of its contracts to EE and Plusnet customers before they signed up. BT will also have to let people exit contracts without fees.
Adobe Lightroom has got two new features, Generative Remove and Lens Blur. The prior is in early access while the latter is in general availability. Read on to learn more about these features.
Microsoft has said its Visual Studio Code for Education platform will be made generally available at the end of the month. The platform aims to make it easy to learn to do programming.
Microsoft and Khan Academy have formed a new partnership that will see the Khanmigo teaching assistant AI tool become free of charge for educators in the United States, down from $4 per month.
The UK has launched the independent UK Semiconductor Institute. It will help bring together government, universities, and the private sector to help the country's semiconductor sector do well.
The UK government's AI Safety Institute will launch a San Francisco-based office in the summer. It wants to expand its expertise in AI by having easy access to the creators in San Francisco.
Google will be using the heat generated at its Hamina data centre in Finland to help provide locals with free heating. This will be appreciated by people in the area who face freezing weather.
Amazon is doing a deal on the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Windforce OC 12GB graphics card right now where you can save £90. It usually costs £589.99 but now you can get it for just £499.99.
You can save £29 on the highly-praised AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU on Amazon right now. It's the lowest price that this particular model has been available for since it was listed in April 2023.
The UK government is formulating proposals to help rights holders learn if their content has been used to train AI models. It aims to have these proposals ready before the election in autumn.
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman has issued a response to Jan Leike who raised questions over OpenAI's commitment to safety. The pair said they do care about safety. You can read the response here.
Developers working on GNOME improvements have been busy this week. They have been working on Nautilus improvements, a brand new installer, improvements to the Orca screen reader, and more.
The CMA is no longer looking into Microsoft's partnership with Mistral AI, where it was given a minority stake. This means the regulator doesn't believe the partnership is a threat to competition.
Scottish politicians have completed a trial, which looked at how many abusive messages they got online. 38 of them got 8,000 threatening messages and over 400 abusive messages deemed to be criminal.
The superalignment team at OpenAI has been disbanded less than a year after it was created to ensure super intelligent AI doesn't get out of human control. It comes after senior figures left the firm.
Canonical has shared some of the new features it plans to introduce with Ubuntu 24.10, due in October. A big change is that Nvidia users will now begin using Wayland out of the box.
We have lots of rocket launches coming up this week but the most notable event will be when Blue Origin flies the US' first black astronaut candidate to the edge of space. Ed Dwight is now 90.
GNOME 47 will be coming out on September 18, according to the latest update to the GNOME release schedule. The first point release will land four weeks later instead of the usual five weeks.
One of the UK's biggest mobile networks, Three, has announced connectivity improvements on one of the UK's major transportation networks. It hopes that this will help turn London into a smart city.
Fedora 38 reaches end of life on May 21st meaning that users of this version need to upgrade. If you decide to use this version, your system will gradually become more and more exploitable.
Microsoft has released Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 (KB5037771, KB5037770). You can download them from Windows Update or get them from MIcrosoft Catalog if installing on an offline machine.
Microsoft has announced that Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is now available in the Azure Marketplace so that you can use it in an Azure Virtual Machine. This version will be supported for up to 12 years.
Inflection AI has ended support for its Pi AI on messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. To use the app now, you must use the Android and iOS apps or the Pi AI website.
This week, SpaceX will be using a Falcon 9 to launch Starlink satellites to a low Earth orbit and landing the first stage of the rocket for reuse. Strangely, it's the only mission due this week.
Samsung is releasing One UI 6.1 to older devices in the US, which will enable them to use a plethora of Galaxy AI features, including Circle to Search with Google and translation features.
Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is now available for Apple Silicon Macs. The Fedora Asahi SIG and Asahi Linux teams have worked closely to ensure that Fedora Asahi Remix runs well on these newer Macs.
Worldwide tablet shipments grew by 1% during the first quarter after four consecutive quarters of decline year-over-year. Apple managed to hold its top spot but saw a significant decline.
Canonical has shared the release schedule for Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole. It reveals that the beta will land on Sept. 19, the Release Candidate will come Oct. 3, and the final release on Oct. 10.
Generative AI is already affecting the way computer coding is taught at universities. Several educators have said that they now teach more high-level skills predominantly like debugging and testing.
Linux 6.9-rc7 is now available. It could be the final release candidate before the final release. It adds support for the ASUS ROG Raikiri controller and improves support for the upcoming Lunar Lake.
We have plenty of missions this week but the most interesting will see United Launch Alliance send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA's commercial crew program.
The Apple Studio Display is back down to its all-time low price of $1,299.97. It was there a few months ago, but Apple returned it to its old price, which was hundreds of dollars more.
Amazon Q Developer and Amazon Q Business are now generally available. They're generative-AI solutions which aim to help developers with coding and businesses work with company data more efficiently.
Smartphone global shipments have reached double digit growth for the first time since 2021. The biggest winner year-over-year in Q1 was Transsion followed by Xiaomi, the popular Chinese manufacturer.
OpenAI and FT have entered into a strategic partnership that'll see FT content included where relevant in ChatGPT answers. This could help ChatGPT get up to date information which it doesn't yet have.
Mastodon has become a non-profit in the United States following the revocation of this status in Germany. It has also appointed a new board which includes the co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone.
We have several launches coming up this week, but the most notable will be the Chang'e mission taking off to collect lunar samples and return them to Earth. Read on to learn more about the mission.
Reddit has made some improvements to its Android and iOS mobile apps which make the conversations load faster and work in the same way no matter what the media type of the post is.