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1 day ago | theregister.com | Chris Preimesberger

Sponsored feature At this time, the most important trend involving AI development in cloud native environments is around the rapidly multiplying integrations of AI/ML workloads with cloud native architectures and practices, also known as Cloud Native AI or AI-Native Cloud.

1 day ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

A legal claim has been brought against Microsoft over alleged licensing practices that could result in a multibillion-pound payout for UK customers. The claim alleges that "the software giant abused its market dominance and engaged in conduct that restricted competition to its new licenses from pre-owned licenses for Microsoft products. That conduct affected and inflated the prices of both new licenses and pre-owned licenses."The software products concerned include Office and Windows.

1 day ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

The odyssey of the Soviet Union's failed attempt to reach Venus came to an end over the weekend with the probe either disintegrating during reentry or what remained of it splashing harmlessly into the ocean. A Venera-8 descent module (source: NASA archive)The spacecraft, dubbed Kosmos 482, had orbited the Earth since it launched in March 1972.

1 day ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

Exclusive European cloud vendor Nextcloud has accused Google of deliberately crippling its Android Files application, which it says has more than 800,000 users. The problem lies with the "All files access" permission, where broad access to files on a device is required. While most applications can make do with Google's more privacy-friendly storage access tools, such as Storage Access Framework (SAF) or the MediaStore API, others require more permissions – hence the "All files access" privilege.

2 days ago | theregister.com | Richard Currie

The dream of every medieval alchemist – turning lead into gold – has finally come true thanks to some impractical physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Physicists at the multibillion-euro atom smasher near Geneva managed to transmute lead into gold during high-speed ion collisions, proving that you can defy nature if you throw enough money, energy, and hardware at the problem.