They have something like 20,000 people looking after a website which is fundamentally a load of text boxes wrapped in web 2.0 nonsense? Wow.
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Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts
Microsoft 365 price rises are coming – pay up or opt out (if you can find the button)
Workday erases 8.5% of workforce because of ... AI
Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic
Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention
Vodafone and Three permitted to tie the knot – if they promise to behave
Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst
Mystery Palo Alto Networks hijack-my-firewall zero-day now officially under exploit
Photoshop FOSS alternative GNU Image Manipulation Program 3.0 nearly here
Cisco combines Meraki and Catalyst into single wireless brand
French govt finance panel mulls nationalizing Atos
Broadcom juices VeloCloud SD-WAN for AI networking
Microsoft has reached $1M giveaway levels of desperation to attract users to Bing
Floppy discs still run a U.S. metro? Japan steps in with 'project kill floppy'
Microsoft says its Copilot AI agents set to tackle employee tasks in November
It sounds doom-y but I have to agree.
My experience is of course limited, but I've seen precisely 0% accuracy/usefulness come out of everything I've chucked at this supposed "AI". All it's actually achieving is wasting time and god-knows-how-much energy seeing if it can be of any use, and finding that it's not.
That can't be good, and chimes not-at-all with any kind of efficiency, be that sacking dudes or supposedly complimenting them, and critically to every single organisation considering deploying it en-masse: customer satisfaction.
Critical hardcoded SolarWinds credential now exploited in the wild
Hangover from messy Walmart tech divorce ongoing at Asda
City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle
Re: Interesting that there is an allegation of hiding the badness from the elected members.
That's why said Chief Executive needs to grab any and all of the councilors that will be in any way so grabbed, and go for several beers/coffees with them, to educate, persuade and cajole. That's part of their job surely?
Capgemini wins deal with UK tax collector worth up to £574M
British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control'
Is nobody going to comment...
... that "how its systems interact with the Vodafone platform" means precisely nothing, and
... supplier (presumably) to the baggage handler straight under the bus, when it's the direct responsibility of the airline involved to handle the bags. It's as if we've all started accepting that outsourcing stuff means the provider of the actual service to the customer is perfectly allowed to immediately absolve themselves of responsibility.
Wanna curb datacenter outages? Try combating burnout with shorter shifts
Blue screen of death or Eurovision's Windows95man performance – what's less annoying?
Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists
100%. The operation for safety here is to roll along behind the obstructions. Not least because it didn't appreciably overtake anything.
The more concern for me is it just moved into and back out of another lane without any indication of it's intention to do so. That's unnecessarily dangerous regardless of any of the other factors, and leads to the question if that's missing out of it's software, what else is?
Google ponders making AI search a premium option
Garlic chicken without garlic? Critics think Amazon recipe book was cooked up by AI
Developers beware, Microsoft's domain shakeup is coming soon
HPE blames GPU shortage for contributing to unexpected sales slide
"At this point, readers might wonder if, in that context, HPE's planned acquisition of Juniper Networks is such a good idea."
Truth, and not just for the reasons discussed in the article. Problem is, and I mean this with all goodwill to Neri, that he literally can't say anything else. The doublespeak in the call (networking is soft/buying jnpr will fix it) means nothing and we still have to draw our own conclusions.
Dell promises 'every PC is going to be an AI PC' whether you like it or not
Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion... but what about Firefox?
"Firefox did not keep up with the market and what people really want"
I'm bemused by this quote. I think it's pretty clear that browser market share is just market distortion.
Whatever comes pre-installed (historically IE, now Edge, Chrome, Safari) gets used the most. Whatever gets advertised as the thing you should definitely use instead (Chrome, and to a lesser extent Edge) often replaces the pre-installed thing.
There's no competition here based on what people want.
Re: Firefox just does not work on some web sites.
I don't run into many at all that won't work on FF - and the response for me is that the site is not incompatible with Firefox, it's incompatible with the supposedly open and well-documented standards that these bloody browsers are supposed to render.
I remember IE6, the stuff that was written for it's extended ecosystem, then the abandonment of that browser and multiple, very expensive websites that didn't work in anything else, even when IE itself was long dead, and the support, migrations of browser and application platforms, and the extreme expense involved. That should be a history lesson that's recent enough for all in IT to remember, or have the story passed on as recent enough to be vivid.
Demand the website, webapp or whatever the hell else is supposedly written for the web - whatever that means anymore - works in _all_ the browsers. One of the easiest ways is to obstinately continue to use FF, even if just for that one reason.
Zen Internet warns customers of an impending IP address change
Amazon calls off $1.7 billion iRobot buy, blames regulators
Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster?
Official: Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to swallow Juniper Networks in $14B deal
Re: does juniper do much in the "AI" space?
"HPE seems to have so many different switching platforms under their roof, hopefully they can consolidate the user interfaces at least"
There's no chance of that. Comware was on the block 7-8 years ago, and yet go on their site today and you can see their "new" (and recently re-renamed) Comware range. ProVision-based hardware is still sold and recommended on the website even tho that was getting retired 3-4 years ago. Under HPE's tenure another two breeds of switch were invented. Integration on the control plane side has been inexplicably poor - try to determine which of the CX range of switches can be managed in Aruba Central? Who can tell? The only switch range they've properly EOLed is the Aruba MAS, which is probably because the 3 people in the world didn't get upset too much.
HPE has no strategy, leadership or anyone with any gumption or skill in this area, and so it will continue.