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Submission + - Could AI's 'usability revolution' kill off small business software?

Submitted by sholto
sholto writes: Coding may be generative AI’s breakout application – just look at billion-dollar startups like Cursor and WindSurf. But what if a bigger killer application is the user interface itself?

Oracle NetSuite’s head of AI, Brian Chess, says we are on the verge of a “usability revolution” that will make enterprise software usable by – well, anyone.

If that’s true, then why do you need to build a dumbed-down version for small business? Oracle NetSuite’s CEO Evan Goldberg is already there.

Scale100: Do you think then we'll have a big consolidation? I mean, you won't need a Xero or QuickBooks if you can just go with –
Goldberg: How cool would that be? “The last ERP system you'll ever have to use.” When that florist goes public, they're still on NetSuite. (Laughs)

Scale100: But why not?
Goldberg: That is definitely a vision that we have.

Scale100: So are you redrawing the TAMs? Is this real?
Goldberg: More to come.

Comment Re:Author sucks at math.. (Score 1) 29

by sholto (#64369044) Attached to: Scientists Complete Construction of the Biggest Digital Camera Ever

Weights, also. Rolls Royces are around the 2,500 Kg mark, even before the armour plating and whatnots go in.

Yeah. It's only 200kg more. i.e. add 3 passengers and you're already there Rolls-Royce Cullinan Length 5,341 mm (210.3 in) Width 2,000 mm (78.7 in) (with mirrors: 2,164 mm (85.2 in)) Height 1,835 mm (72.2 in) Kerb weight 2,660 kg (5,864.3 lb)

Submission + - LinkedIn Agrees to Block Stalkers (boxfreeit.com.au) 2

Submitted by sholto
sholto writes: When Buzzfeed wrote about LinkedIn's stalker problem in June, LinkedIn claimed it had enough privacy tools "to effectively minimize unwanted connections". But a petition by a 24-year-old Ohio woman sexually assaulted by her boss and harassed through the network appears to have won the day for privacy advocates.
“Users on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other sites can easily block other users. LinkedIn appears to be an outlier among other top social media sites,” said petitioner Anna R.

Submission + - Algorithm Blamed as LinkedIn Invites Strangers and Ex-Girlfriends (boxfreeit.com.au)

Submitted by sholto
sholto writes: An aggressive expansion strategy by LinkedIn has backfired spectacularly amid accusations of identity fraud. Users complained the social network sent unrequested invites from their accounts to contacts and complete strangers, often with embarrassing results.
One man claimed LinkedIn sent an invite from his account to an ex-girlfriend he broke up with 12 years ago who had moved state, changed her surname and her email address.
“This ex-girlfriend's Linked in profile has exactly ONE contact, ME. My wife keeps getting messages asking ‘would you like to link to (her)? You have 1 contact in common!,” wrote Michael Caputo, a literary agent from Massachussetts.

Submission + - Putting emails in folders is a waste of time, says (boxfreeit.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There are two types of office workers in the world — those who file their emails in folders, and those who use search. Well, it looks like the searchers are smarter. A 354-user study by IBM research found that users who just searched their inbox found emails slightly faster than users who had filed them by folder. Add the time spent filing and the searchers easily come out on top.
Apparently the filers are using their inbox as a to-do list rather than wanting to categorize information to find it more easily.

Submission + - 4G Broadband May Jam GPS (avweb.com)

Submitted by mferrare
mferrare writes: Avweb is reporting that "[t]he GPS industry is warning that a proposed broadband Internet network could effectively jam GPS signals". The 4G broadband frequencies (1525-1559MHz) live right next to the GPS frequencies (1559-1610MHz) and this could be problematic. Testing is still under way with results expected in June

Submission + - Egyptians turn to Tor to organise dissent online (securecomputing.net.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Even as President Obama prepares to follow Mubarak with his own 'internet kill switch', Egyptians were turning to the Tor anonymiser to organise their protests online. The number of Egyptians connecting to the internet over Tor rose more than five-fold after protests broke out last week before crashing when the Government severed links to the global internet. Information security researcher, Tor coder and writer of the bridge that allowed Egypt's citizens to short-circuit government filters, Jacob Appelbaum, told SC Magazine Egyptians were "concerned and some understand the risk of network traffic analysis". Appelbaum has himself been the subject of attention from US security services who routinely snatch his electronics and search his belongings when he re-enters the country and who subpoenaed his private Twitter account last December.
Australia

Submission + - Aussie spies spooked by cyberwar (securecomputing.net.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Wikileaks cables released overnight revealed that Australia's top cyber spy agency (akin to the NSA) was unprepared for cyberwar in the view of other intelligence agencies in 2008. Australian agencies were so concerned they asked US intelligence to provide the framework to defend the country's critical information infrastructure, modelling on the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. Spooks also discussed how Israel was preparing to take down Iran's nuclear program and how to stay relevant when so much information that was classified was now open source and available to anyone.
Transportation

Submission + - Electric Car Goes 375 Miles on One 6 Minute Charge (allcarselectric.com) 2

Submitted by thecarchik
thecarchik writes: A German-based company has changed all that with a new vehicle capable of driving up to 375 miles at moderate highway speeds. It doesn’t end there. The company responsible for the battery pack, DBM Energy, claims a battery pack efficiency of 97 percent and a recharge time of around 6 minutes when charged from a direct current source. Unlike the small Daihatsu which was heavily modified by a team in Japan earlier this year that achieved a massive 623 miles on a charge at around 27 mph, the Audi A2 modified by DBM Energy was able to achieve its 375 miles range at an average speed of 55 mph.
Earth

40 Million Year Old Primate Fossils Found In Asia 91

Posted by samzenpus from the look-who's-coming-to-dinner dept.
sosaited writes "It has been widely believed that our ancestors originated out of Africa, but a paper published in Nature by Carnegie Museum of Natural History scientists puts this in doubt. The paper is based on the fossils of four primate species found in Asia which are 40 million years old, during which period Africa was thought to not have these species. The diversity and timing of the new anthropoids raises two scenarios. Anthropoids might simply have emerged in Africa much earlier than thought, and gone undiscovered by modern paleontologists. Or they could have crossed over from Asia, where evidence suggests that anthropoids lived 55 million years ago, flourishing and diversifying in the wide-open ecological niches of an anthropoid-free Africa."
Networking

Submission + - Closing in on 1Gbps using DSL (idg.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "DSL vendors are using a variety of methods such as bonding several copper lines, creating virtual ones and using advanced noise cancellation to increase broadband over copper to several hundred megabits per second. At the Broadband World Forum in Paris, Nokia Siemens Networks became the latest vendor to brag about its copper prowess. It can now transmit speeds of up to 825M bps over a distance of 400 meters."
The Military

Submission + - Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles (theatlantic.com)

Submitted by
Pickens
Pickens writes: "The Atlantic reports that a power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, temporarily offline on Saturday. The 90th Missile Wing, headquartered there, controls 150 Minuteman III's. According to people briefed on what happened, a squadron of ICBMs suddenly dropped down into what's known as "LF Down" status, meaning that the missileers in their bunkers could no longer communicate with the missiles themselves. LF Down status also means that various security protocols built into the missile delivery system, like intrusion alarms and warhead separation alarms, were offline. The cause of the failure remains unknown, although it is suspected to be a breach of underground cables deep beneath the base, according to a senior military official."
The Almighty Buck

Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down 725

Posted by timothy from the sucker-punch dept.
Scrameustache writes "The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government. Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist. The apparent blacklisting came a few days after the Pentagon publicly expressed its anger at WikiLeaks and its founder, Australian citizen Julian Assange, for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan."

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