Hyperscalers spending $292 Billion on AI Infrastructure
Published in AI


Still not got customers

The race to scale artificial intelligence infrastructure is accelerating, with hyperscalers, alongside Meta and Oracle, planning to invest $292 billion by 2025 — an 88 per cent increase since 2023.

US is making consumers pay for corporate data centre plans
Published in News


It is the American way

The US has a novel way of funding big IT company data centres and AI plans: it hikes ordinary people's power bills.

IBM shares fall on mixed results
Published in News
Friday, 25 October 2024 09:49

IBM shares fall on mixed results


Propped up by Red Hat

Biggish Blue shares dropped more than six per cent yesterday as the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street were worried about the outfit’s mixed earnings report for the third quarter.

Oracle goes “all in” for AI surveillance
Published in News
Tuesday, 17 September 2024 10:11

Oracle goes “all in” for AI surveillance


Just when you think the company could not be more popular

Just when you think Oracle could not become more popular with the great unwashed, its cofounder Larry Ellison decides to get the company involved with mass AI surveillance.

Oracle project close to bankrupting Birmingham
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Thursday, 07 September 2023 11:25

Oracle project close to bankrupting Birmingham


No one saw that one coming

Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, has declared itself in financial distress after an Oracle project costs ballooned from $25 million to around $125.5 million.

Oracle adapts database to work with Ampere chips
Published in PC Hardware


x86 has reached its limits

Oracle said that it has modified its flagship database software to work on a new category of computing chip, starting with chips from Ampere Computing.

Oracle lays off more employees
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Friday, 16 June 2023 12:10

Oracle lays off more employees


Despite making profits

While Oracle is continuing to make a lot of cash it seems that the staff who bring them all that cash are surplus to requirements.

Pentagon surrenders and divides cloud project among four big tech outfits
Published in Cloud


Saves on court cases later 

The Pentagon is divvying up $9 billion in cloud contracts between Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon, presumably to avoid one of the megatech companies getting offended and suing.

Oracle releases VirtualBox 7.0
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Wednesday, 12 October 2022 11:22

Oracle releases VirtualBox 7.0


Sun never sets

Oracle has released VirtualBox 7.0 - the latest version of the FOSS hypervisor that Oracle acquired along with Sun Microsystems in 2009.

Oracle pays to make bribery charges go away
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Wednesday, 28 September 2022 10:51

Oracle pays to make bribery charges go away


Only in America you can pay to make bribery charges go away 

Oracle has paid $23 million to the US Securities and Exchange Commission to settle corruption charges that subsidiaries in Turkey, United Arab Emirates and India used "slush funds" to bribe foreign officials to win business.