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Apple debunks reports that it trained AI on stolen YouTube videos

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This week, a report by Wired revealed that Apple, NVIDIA, and other tech companies were using hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos to train their AIs. The YouTube Subtitles dataset had video transcripts from education and online learning channels, from MIT and Harvard to Mr. Beast, MKBHD, and PewDiePie.After the controversy, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac…

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Kubernetes at 10: From stateless also-ran to ‘platform to build platforms’

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Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. But, says Sergey Pronin, group products manager at Percona, which develops open source products for SQL and NoSQL databases, it wasn’t always in that position. Pronin recalls the early years when Kubernetes arrived in the market, pretty much locked into orchestration of…

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Fewer than half of organisations achieve GenAI efficiency gains

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Research based on a survey of 800 IT leaders has found that less than half of the organisations polled have seen improvements in operational efficiency (43%) after deploying generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) initiatives. The Hitachi Vantara sponsored report from Enterprise Strategy Group highlights the importance of ensuring enterprise IT infrastructure is ready to support GenAI.…

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Trends in the cloud database market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, containers, Database, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, SAP, serverless, Tech, Workday / By

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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AMD’s new FSR 3.1 loses first round fight to Nvidia DLSS in battle of the frame rate boosters

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AMD’s FSR 3.1 only launched last week, on June 27, with support for a handful of games to begin with, but already some fresh testing has revealed that DLSS 3.7, the latest take on Nvidia’s rival upscaling solution, is still miles ahead with its image quality.Digital Foundry’s testing also showed off how FSR 3.1’s frame…

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UK must push forward greater use of open tech

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While the public sector has adopted open source technologies, there remains little understanding of it, the latest edition of OpenUK’s State of open report has warned. Phase two: The open manifesto urges policymakers to build skills in open source software, enable the UK public sector to do open source software better and ensure artificial intelligence…

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Kubernetes at 10: Building stateful app storage and data protection

5 minutes of reading / AI, API, Cloud, cloud-native, containers, disaster recovery, Docker, Git, Google, Kubernetes, open source, Snap, Tech / By

Kubernetes is 10 years’ old. Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. That decade started as containers emerged as a new way to virtualise applications, but storage and data protection functionality was practically non-existent. Now, Kubernetes offers a mature container platform for cloud-native applications, with all that’s required for the storage…

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Watching Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet code a video game blew my mind

4 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, Apple TV, iPad, iPhone, open source, Tech / By

There’s so much progress in artificial intelligence right now that it feels like, with every new model, some new feature or capability has gone from seemingly impossible to completely possible.That’s what this latest release feels like. Today, in a blog post, Anthropic announced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its latest large language model (LLM) that the company…

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IT leaders share tips for AI success

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With artificial intelligence (AI) the recurring theme of the Domino Data RevX 2024 London event that took place on 13 June, training with real users and separating AI from IT infrastructure were revealed as areas IT leaders recognise as best practices. IT leaders have plenty of choices when implementing AI to improve business processes. They…

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Kubernetes at 10: Persistent storage matures, helped by Operators

7 minutes of reading / AI, automation, cloud-native, containers, Docker, Google, Kubernetes, open source, Tech / By

Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. It’s a decade that started with containers emerging as a novel way of virtualising applications but storage and data protection that was practically non-existent. Now, Kubernetes offers a mature container platform for cloud-native applications with all the functionality required for the…

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