Google battles Chinese open weights models with Gemma 4
…4's most significant change is perhaps the switch to a more permissive Apache 2.0 license, which gives enterprises much more flexibility as to how and where they can use or…
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SAP's grand cloud escape plan €2B short of the runway
… Last year, SAP replaced RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition with SAP Cloud ERP Private Edition , creating confusion over licensing. …
Oracle AI obsession could mean higher prices, worse support
… Later that year, research from Gartner showed that costs could be between two and five times greater under the new licensing model for using the same software. …
Amazon pays $11.5B for Globalstar to satisfy satellite-envy
… Licensing in the satellite space can be tricky, and Amazon has already tangled with SpaceX in spectrum fights before. …
Nanny state vs. Linux: show us your ID, kid
…With the US Congress advancing its own App Store Accountability Act, and more state lawmakers floating copycat bills, OS‑level age verification is poised to become a standard part of how Americans…
'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby drags Broadcom to Brussels
… "We continue to be committed to investing significantly in our European VMware Cloud Service Provider partners VCSPs helping them offer alternatives to the hyperscalers and meet the evolving needs of European businesses and organisations." MORE CONTEXT VMware prevents some perpetual license holders… …
Nvidia embraces optical scale-up as copper reaches limits
… Unless Nvidia's marketing or roadmap changes again, the actual Vera Rubin NVL576 will use a combination of copper and optical interconnects. …
OpenAI kills Sora, becomes product assassin
…OpenAI tidied up those messes and then signed a deal with Disney that saw the House of Mouse promise to inject $1 billion into the AI upstart and explore using its tools…
Firefox finds a slew of new bugs with Claude's help
… Mozilla engineer Gabriele Svelto said in a recent Mastodon post that he believes that about 10 percent of Firefox browser crashes can be attributed to bit flips – unintentional changes in memory – rather than software errors. …
Outsourcer Telus admits to attack, possibly by ShinyHunters
…and enable MFA and audit logging. He also urged customers “Verify your deployments are on supported, current versions of our products.” That instruction has the potential to see customers need new licenses…