French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft’s Office suite and plans to adopt Linux and PostgreSQL.… #theregister #IT

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for FOSS

: Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice

Japanese company using mee-AI-ow to detect stressed cats Rabo’s ‘Catlog’ smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app A Japanese company called Rabo that makes a smart collar for cats and uses the motto “Because nine lives are never enough” has started using AI to monitor feline stress levels.… #theregister #IT

Japanese company using AI to detect stressed cats

: Rabo’s ‘Catlog’ smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app

ICANN writes angry letter to African regional internet registry after election suspended The group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers (ICANN) has demanded the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) explain why the nomination committee overseeing its board elections suspended voting, or … #theregister #IT

ICANN angry as AFRINIC election suspended then annulled

Updated: The group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022

Intel totals automotive group Lip-Bu Tan calls in the crusher Intel is shuttering its automotive efforts and laying off the bulk of the team responsible.… #theregister #IT

Intel totals automotive group

: Lip-Bu Tan calls in the crusher

Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free The US State Department last week said foreign nationals seeking to study in the US must make their social media profiles public, prompting some students to delete their social media posts.… #theregister #IT

US student visa applicants must make social media public

: Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free

Citrix bleeds again: This time a zero-day exploited - patch now Two emergency patches issued in two weeks Hot on the heels of patching a critical bug in Citrix-owned Netscaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that one security researcher dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," the embattled networking device vendor today issued an emergency patch for yet another super-serious flaw in the same prod… #theregister #IT

Citrix bleeds again: This time a zero-day

: Two emergency patches issued in two weeks

Rack-scale networks are the new hotness for massive AI training and inference workloads Terabytes per second of bandwidth, miles of copper cabling, all crammed into the back of a single rack Analysis  If you thought AI networks weren't complicated enough, the rise of rack-scale architectures from the likes of Nvidia, AMD, and soon Intel has introduced a new layer of complexity.… #theregister #IT

An introduction to rack-scale networking

Analysis: Terabytes per second of bandwidth, miles of copper cabling, all crammed into the back of a single rack

Amazon's Ring can now use AI to 'learn the routines of your residence' It's meant to cut down on false positives but could be a trove for mischief-makers Ring doorbells and cameras are using AI to "learn the routines of your residence," via a new feature called Video Descriptions.… #theregister #IT

Ring can use AI to

: It's meant to cut down on false positives but could be a trove for mischief-makers

Cosmoe: New C++ toolkit for building native Wayland apps New UI library has 23 years of history – and unexpected roots Cosmoe is a modern C++ UI library, but it's also a new iteration of a project with roots in one of the most elegant GUIs ever written.… #theregister #IT

Cosmoe: New C++ toolkit for building native Wayland apps

: New UI library has 23 years of history – and unexpected roots

Computer vision research feeds surveillance tech as patent links spike 5× A bottomless appetite for tracking people as "objects" A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.… #theregister #IT

Surveillance-linked computer vision patents jump 5×

: A bottomless appetite for tracking people as 'objects'