Broadcom's answer to VMware pricing outrage: You're using it wrong
VCF bundle is worth it if you make the most of every part, says CTO
Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says
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Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it
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Empire State to site 1 GW nuke as AI bit barns guzzle power
It would be the first major US nuclear plant built in over 15 years
Systems23 Jun 2025 |
Second attack on McLaren Health Care in a year affects 743k people
Criminals targeted the hospital and physician network’s Detroit cancer clinic this time
Cyber-crime23 Jun 2025 |
Private equity types to snap up NoSQL biz Couchbase
$1.5 billion offered for database company valued at $1.2 billion four years ago
Databases23 Jun 2025 | 2
Breaking the nerd internet: Three overlapping generations of tech history – in one selfie
Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Dave Cutler have dinner
OSes23 Jun 2025 | 13
Wolfspeed to file for Chapter 11 in deal cutting 70% of debt
Power chip biz to hand over equity to lenders, wipe out most shareholders, and keep running during restructuring
Systems23 Jun 2025 | 4
Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell
Cyber Monitoring Centre issues first severity assessment since February launch
Cyber-crime23 Jun 2025 | 14
Economists sceptical over UK Spending Review's partly AI-driven 10% budget cuts
MPs hear doubts over efficiency savings that are reliant on speculative gains from IT, machine learning
Public Sector23 Jun 2025 | 11
The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world
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On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 5
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown
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On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 73
Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t
Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers
Networks23 Jun 2025 | 26
AI-hosted infomercial shifts $7.5 million worth of product in China
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AI + ML23 Jun 2025 | 2
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Former US Army Sergeant pleads guilty after amateurish attempt at selling secrets to China
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Security23 Jun 2025 | 6
The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge
Turn out the lights, the internet is over
AI + ML22 Jun 2025 | 95
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Offbeat21 Jun 2025 | 122
Netflix, Apple, BofA websites hijacked with fake help-desk numbers
Don’t trust mystery digits popping up in your search bar
Cyber-crime20 Jun 2025 | 14
The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests
Feature Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel
New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers
Welcome to bill shock, AI style
Devops20 Jun 2025 | 31
US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it
'The selected vendor must be willing to receive consideration that is primarily non-monetary,' says the USPTO
AI + ML20 Jun 2025 | 42
EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons
DataFusion and WarehousePG meant to deal with AI-related workloads, not to compete with analytics data platforms
Databases20 Jun 2025 |
Looks like Aflac is the latest insurance giant snagged in Scattered Spider’s web
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck...
Cyber-crime20 Jun 2025 | 5
Qilin ransomware top dogs treat their minions to on-call lawyers for fierier negotiations
It's a marketing move to lure more affiliates, says infosec veteran
Cyber-crime20 Jun 2025 | 4
Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink
French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti
Science20 Jun 2025 | 9
AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick
Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike
Networks20 Jun 2025 | 1
Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development
Comment X11 is very far from dead – no matter if some want it to be
Software20 Jun 2025 | 92
OVHcloud chief talks up sovereignty discussions with the European Commision
... And then promptly deletes comment. Optimism or an opportunity? Or perhaps both
PaaS + IaaS20 Jun 2025 | 8
DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers it calls 'tools of terrorism'
Seizures up 830% since 2021, with devices linked to interference in emergency responses
Networks20 Jun 2025 | 34
Broadcom's answer to VMware pricing outrage: You're using it wrong
VCF bundle is worth it if you make the most of every part, says CTO
Virtualization20 Jun 2025 | 37
Put Large Reasoning Models under pressure and they stop making sense, say boffins
Opinion Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hype
Windows 11 migration heats up... on desktops
What about notebooks, including AI-ready devices? Ah well, still months to go, eh Microsoft
OSes20 Jun 2025 | 61
SAP ECC 6.0 lives to fight another decade under Rimini Street
Third-party provider pledges to support legacy ERP until 2040
PaaS + IaaS20 Jun 2025 | 3
Attack on Oxford City Council exposes 21 years of election worker data
Services coming back online after legacy systems compromised
Cyber-crime20 Jun 2025 | 24
ZTE supports AI with full-stack IT offering
Company expands from telco origins to support compute-hungry use cases
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Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests
Exclusive Framework agreement may rescue some unis from 'financial abyss' after Oracle per-employee Java license, says insider
Software20 Jun 2025 | 43
Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747
'Black side down,' Lego style
Bootnotes20 Jun 2025 | 60
Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it
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Columnists20 Jun 2025 | 175
Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work
Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties
Personal Tech20 Jun 2025 | 36
AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN’s attempt to replace officials fails
Regulator remains concerned about election integrity
Legal20 Jun 2025 | 4
China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar
Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance
Public Sector20 Jun 2025 | 34
How to bridge the MFA gap
If a credential is worth protecting, it's worth protecting well.
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Japan's sequel to Fugaku supercomputer will be Arm'd to the teeth
Fujitsu picked to build system using 'MONAKA-X' CPUs
Systems19 Jun 2025 | 4
American coders are most likely to use AI
Baseball, apple pie, and assisted programming
AI + ML19 Jun 2025 | 36
Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam 'vishing' schemes
To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems
Research19 Jun 2025 | 36
Microsoft 365 brings the shutters down on legacy protocols
FrontPage Remote Procedure Call and others set to be blocked in the name of 'Secure by Default'
Applications19 Jun 2025 | 28
EU Advocate General advises top court to toss Google appeal against €4B fine
Case over bundling Play Store with Chrome and Google Search set to continue
Legal19 Jun 2025 | 7
Uncle Sam seeks time in tower dump data grab case after judge calls it 'unconstitutional'
Feds told they can't demand a haystack to find a needle
Cyber-crime19 Jun 2025 | 17
Interactive IEA tracker shows where AI is guzzling the most energy
Observatory maps datacenter hubs and power demand worldwide
Systems19 Jun 2025 | 4
Glazed and confused: Hole lotta highly sensitive data nicked from Krispy Kreme
Experts note 'major red flags' in donut giant's security as 161,676 staff and families informed of attack details
Cyber-crime19 Jun 2025 | 48
ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge filament of missing matter
Veteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works
Science19 Jun 2025 | 20
UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash
Good to see government that values its academics (cough cough). Plus: New board criticized for lacking 'ops' people
Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 11
SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground
Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero
Science19 Jun 2025 | 212
/e/ OS 3.0: Slightly less clunky, slightly more private
Probably the easiest way to a Google-free smartphone or tablet
OSes19 Jun 2025 | 56
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Europe slams online tat bazaar AliExpress for dodging obligation to stop dodgy traders
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Sneaky Serpentine#Cloud slithers through Cloudflare tunnels to inject orgs with Python-based malware
Phishing, Python and RATs, oh my
Cyber-crime19 Jun 2025 | 2
Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears
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Iran’s internet goes offline for hours amid claims of ‘enemy abuse’
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Nvidia bets on Gates-backed nuclear startup to keep its AI ambitions from melting down
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Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find
EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much
AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 56
Minecraft cheaters never win ... but they may get malware
Infostealers posing as popular cheat tools are cropping up on GitHub
Cyber-crime18 Jun 2025 | 7
Asana's cutting-edge AI feature ran into a little data leakage problem
New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks
Security18 Jun 2025 | 2
Voltron Data throws its weight behind AMD for GPU-accelerated SQL
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Judge smacks down Pentagon plan to slash university research funding awards
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European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones
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Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea's extinct after terms updated
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AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 9
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Veeam patches third critical RCE bug in Backup & Replication in space of a year
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Patches18 Jun 2025 | 1
ScyllaDB paddles toward scale and profit with Raft-powered upgrade
Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm
Databases18 Jun 2025 | 4
Microsoft broke DHCP for Windows Server last Patch Tuesday
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