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Software Maker SAP Becomes Europe's Largest Company
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: German software company SAP overtook Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk as Europe's largest company by market capitalization on Monday. At 0900 GMT, SAP had a market cap of $340 billion, slightly more than Novo Nordisk, according to Reuters calcu...
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Jack Ma-Backed Ant Touts AI Breakthrough Using Chinese Chips
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Jack Ma-backed Ant Group used Chinese-made semiconductors to develop techniques for training AI models that would cut costs by 20%, according to people familiar with the matter. Ant used domestic chips, including from affiliate Alibaba and Huawei, ...
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Pentagon Axes HR System After 780% Budget Overrun
The Pentagon has canceled its troubled Defense Civilian Human Resources Management System after years of delays and budget overruns, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. The project, launched in 2018 with a one-year timeline and $36 million budget, ultimately ran eight years and exceeded costs by $2...
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Why the Internet Archive is More Relevant Than Ever
It's "live-recording the World Wide Web," according to NPR, with a digital library that includes "hundreds of billions of copies of government websites, news articles and data."
They described the 29-year-old nonprofit Internet Archive as "more relevant than ever."
Every day, about 100 terabyte...
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Another Large Black Hole In 'Our' Galaxy
RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) writes:
A recent paper on ArXiv reports a novel idea about the central regions of "our" galaxy.
Remember the hoopla a few years ago about radio-astronomical observations producing an "image" of our central black hole — or rather, an image of the accreti...
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