A Databricks exec has 3 tips for new grads — and showing up to work IRL is one of them

Andy Kofoid, president of global field operations at Databricks, advises against blindly following the common advice to ...

Databricks in Talks to Raise Funds at Over $165 Billion, the Information Reports

Data analytics software ⁠firm ⁠Databricks has discussed ⁠raising funds in a round that ​could begin next month and value it ...
InfoQ

Microsoft Announces Azure Linux 4.0, Its First General-Purpose Server Linux Distribution

Microsoft recently announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit North America 2026 in Minneapolis. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based, general-purpose server distribution ...
GitHub

Databricks-AI

Databricks AI helps teams unify data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and governance on an open lakehouse platform for cloud workloads. Download databricks ai to explore a unified data ...
The Hollywood Reporter

YouTube Will Let Creators Use AI to Insert Themselves Into Other People’s Videos

The Google-owned video platform also now has more three billion users, the company revealed Tuesday. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Sora may be dead, but some of its most buzzed-about features are about ...
ZDNet

Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0

Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0. Azure Linux ix split into Azure Container Linux and the virtual machine edition. Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft rejects critical Azure vulnerability report, no CVE issued

Editor's note, May 19th 2026: Following publication, CERT/CC contacted BleepingComputer to clarify its handling of this report. CERT/CC did not independently validate or agree that the reported issue ...
Wall Street Journal

SpaceX and Google Are in Talks to Launch Data Centers in Orbit

Google GOOGL-2.51%decrease; red down pointing triangle is in talks with SpaceX for a rocket-launch deal as the search giant expands its own efforts to put orbital data centers in space, according to ...
Science Daily

Scientists turn plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel using sunlight

Scientists are using sunlight to turn plastic waste into clean fuels like hydrogen, offering a breakthrough solution to both pollution and energy challenges. While still in development, the approach ...
Reuters

Russia's Rosatom begins loading fuel into Bangladesh's first nuclear plant

MOSCOW/DHAKA, April 28 (Reuters) - Russian nuclear energy corporation Rosatom has begun loading nuclear fuel into the first reactor at the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh, it said on Tuesday ...
The Conversation

US government ramps up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, data brokers – and your apps and devices

On a Saturday morning, you head to the hardware store. Your neighbors’ Ring cameras film your walk to the car. Your car’s sensors, cameras and microphones record your speed, how you drive, where ...