Hiring in the technology sector and the broader tech workforce took a step back in July with an overall slowdown in job growth, according to a US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report today and an analysis of that data. The tech industry shed an estimated 9,162 jobs last month, according to CompTIA, the nonprofit association…
Enlarge / AI-generated image by FLUX.1 dev: “A beautiful queen of the universe holding up her hands, face in the background.” (credit: FLUX.1) On Thursday, AI-startup Black Forest Labs announced the launch of its company and the release of its first suite of text-to-image AI models, called FLUX.1. The German-based company, founded by researchers who…
On the heels of Apple rolling out an early preview of iOS 18.1 with its first generative AI (genAI) tools, IDC this week released a report saying nearly three-in-four smartphones will be running AI features in four years. Apple first announced its plans to add AI features to devices through its Apple Intelligence platform at…
Apple beat expectations in its third quarter and has wind beneath its wings on strength of the recent Microsoft/Crowdstrike debacle that cost companies billions of dollars. The tide is turning, and turning fast. Regular readers will know we’ve been reporting on the steady rise of Apple in the enterprise over the last decade or so. By focusing on…
Enlarge / There is something so wonderfully obscene about having a town with hundreds of people living their lives, running into conflict, hoping for better, and your omnipotent self is stuck on which bookcase best fits this living room corner. YesBox Naming a game must be incredibly hard. How many more Dark Fallen Journeys and Noun:…
Music label companies Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group sued AI startups Suno and Udio in June, arguing that the companies had trained their AI model by collecting copyrighted material from the internet. Now, according to Engadget, Suno has confirmed that its AI model was indeed trained on copyrighted material from…
Six years ago, the end of net neutrality in the US meant that carriers such as AT&T and Verizon were free to prioritize certain services at the expense of others. Since becoming taking office in 2021, President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s administration has been trying to reverse that decision and restore net neutrality. Those efforts…
After two years of massive layoffs at IT companies, 2024 was expected to be a year of recovery for the IT industry. While there are early signs of that, with global IT spending expected to increase 8% to cross $5.1 trillion in 2024 according to Gartner, jobs continue to be impacted in the sector. Some…
Developer Kokku and publisher Paradox Interactive have announced that Prison Architect 2 has been delayed indefinitely. In a recent blog post, they explained that, following multiple internal reviews, more time is required to get the game to meet the teams’ standards and expectations. Prison Architect 2 was originally slated for a September 3, 2024 release,…
Enlarge / The Pocket 386 is fun for a while, but the shortcomings and the broken stuff start to wear on you after a while. Andrew Cunningham The Book 8088 was a neat experiment, but as a clone of the original IBM PC, it was pretty limited in what it could do. Early MS-DOS apps…