Oracle engineers caused days-long software outage at U.S. hospitals

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Techme101

Oracle engineers triggered a five-day outage at several Community Health Systems hospitals, causing the facilities to temporarily return to paper-based records.

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House Passes Bill to Ban Sharing of Revenge Porn, Sending It to Trump

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Techme101

The Take It Down Act, which united a coalition of conservative and liberal lawmakers, criminalizes the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit images of others and requires companies to remove them.

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Amazon Launches First 27 Project Kuiper Internet Satellites

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Techme101

The spacecraft are the online giant’s entry into beaming wireless service from space, but the company has much to do before it can compete with SpaceX’s Starlink.

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OpenAI is fixing a ‘bug’ that allowed minors to generate erotic conversations

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Techme101

A bug in OpenAI’s ChatGPT allowed the chatbot to generate graphic erotica for accounts where a user registered as a minor, under the age of 18, TechCrunch’s testing revealed, and OpenAI confirmed.  In some cases, the chatbot even encouraged these users to ask for raunchier, more explicit content. OpenAI told TechCrunch its policies don’t allow […]

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Deel officially agrees to be served legal papers in Rippling’s lawsuit

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Techme101

HR tech giant Deel says it has formally accepted to be served legal documents in its ongoing court battle with rival Rippling in Ireland. This ends weeks of suspense after Rippling’s bailiffs couldn’t find Deel’s execs to serve them – only for Deel’s CEO and top lawyer to turn up in Dubai. Deel CEO Alex […]

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Alibaba unveils Qwen 3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Techme101

Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen 3, a family of AI models the company claims matches and in some cases outperforms the best models available from Google and OpenAI. Most of the models are — or soon will be — available for download under an “open” license from AI dev platform Hugging Face […]

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NXP Semi shares sink on tariff concerns, CEO Kurt Sievers to step down

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Techme101

NXP Semiconductor Inc. fell about 6% on Monday after the chip company announced that CEO Kurt Sievers will step down as part of its latest earnings.

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Microsoft says U.S. can’t afford falling behind China in quantum computers

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Techme101

“Simply put, the United States cannot afford to fall behind, or worse, lose the race entirely.”

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Mysterious financier asks judge to stop Canoo asset sale

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Techme101

A mysterious investor out of London has asked a bankruptcy judge in Delaware to stop the sale of EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO, calling it a “flawed” process. Charles Garson, a UK-based investor with no obvious ties to the EV startup, offered $20 million for Canoo’s assets, according to a filing. A lawyer […]

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Hugging Face releases a 3D-printed robotic arm starting at $100

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Techme101

Hugging Face, the startup best known for the AI developer platform of the same name, is selling a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects and perform a few other basic chores. Called the SO-101, the arm is the follow-up to Hugging Face’s previous robotic arm, the SO-100, released last year. […]

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