WordPress Parent Company Must Stop Blocking WP Engine, Judge Rules(2024-12-11 03:00:03)

WP Engine just won a preliminary injunction against WordPress.com parent company Automattic. On Tuesday, a California District Court judge ordered Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine's access to WordPress.org resources and interfering with its plugins. From a report: The preliminary injunction com...
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Amazon is Officially in the Online Car Sales Business(2024-12-11 00:00:07)

Amazon expanded Tuesday into online car sales with the launch of Amazon Autos, an e-commerce business that lets customers find, order, and buy new cars, trucks, and SUVs from dealerships. From a report: Amazon is kicking off the new endeavor with Hyundai in 48 U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Boston,...
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Open Source Maintainers Are Drowning in Junk Bug Reports Written By AI(2024-12-10 21:00:03)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a "new era of slop security reports for open source" -- and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results produced by machine learning assistants. Seth Lar...
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Microsoft Unveils Zero-Water Data Centers To Reduce AI Climate Impact(2024-12-10 18:00:08)

Microsoft, trying to mitigate the climate impact of its data center building boom, is starting to roll out a new design that uses zero water to cool the facilities' chips and servers. From a report: Launched in August, the new design will eliminate the more than 125 million liters of water each data...
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Nerds of the world unite(2024-12-10 15:45:50)