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Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit
Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?
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Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play?
Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports
Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed'
OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies
A B2B, API move this ain't, in our view
AI + ML08 May 2025 |
The final bookworm-based Raspberry Pi OS update arrives
Last big release until trixie shows up
OSes08 May 2025 |
IRS hopes to replace fired enforcement workers with AI
Another mask-off moment, although fresh research says RoI for the tech is still lacking
AI + ML08 May 2025 | 11
GNOME Foundation's new executive director is Canadian, a techie, and a GNOME user
Steven Deobald certainly talks the talk
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Arm says it isn’t worried by tariffs, but won't give guidance for FY'26
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Systems08 May 2025 | 1
Users find RISE with SAP service levels below industry standard
Gartner also says customers say ERP vendor's internal processes cause delays
Databases08 May 2025 | 3
Arista cats purr over $2B quarter while tariff time bomb ticks
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Networks08 May 2025 | 1
Nvidia boss gets 45% pay bump, but is the billionaire happy?
Jenson Huang's compensation package swells to $49.8M, firm reveals younger Huangs on the payroll too
Systems08 May 2025 | 11
The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit
Icons from a more civilized time
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NASA JPL boss bails for 'personal reasons' as budget cuts bite
Laurie Leshin to leave in June
Science08 May 2025 | 12
Amazon touts Vulcan – its first robot with a sense of 'touch'
Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper
Offbeat08 May 2025 | 11
Edge processing revolution: Rethinking AI data infrastructures
F5 iRules, programmability delivering speed, consistency, and TCO benefits
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ESA feeling weightless and unwanted amid proposed NASA cuts
Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse'
Science08 May 2025 | 7
'I see you're running a local LLM. Would you like some help with that?'
Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box
Bootnotes08 May 2025 | 6
Sudo-rs make me a sandwich, hold the buffer overflows
Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake
OSes08 May 2025 | 46
Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus
Newly completed substation will help bear the load
AI Infrastructure Month08 May 2025 | 20
Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill
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PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Looks like crooks lied
Now individual school districts extorted by fiends
CSO08 May 2025 | 25
After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – jobs cuts, leaning on AI
CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate'
CSO07 May 2025 | 11
India ready to greenlight Starlink – as long as it lets New Delhi censor, snoop
Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity
Networks07 May 2025 | 8
Apple exec sends Google shares plunging as he calls AI the new search
Updated Eddy Cue tells DC court Safari to rope in Anthropic, OpenAI and co
Personal Tech07 May 2025 | 35
Google tries to greenwash massive AI energy consumption with another vague nuclear deal
Chocolate Factory promises early-stage capital to atomic upstart Elementl
AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 13
Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos
Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed
Security07 May 2025 | 1
You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection
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Security07 May 2025 | 44
Fedora 42 now an official Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 distro
Modern Linux, vintage kernel
OSes07 May 2025 | 14
90-second Newark blackout exposes parlous state of US air traffic control
United Airlines canceling flights as chaos mounts
Networks07 May 2025 | 55
Nutanix stops being so opinionated about where data must dwell
Next Shifts data services to containers and goes back to the future with Pure Storage tie-in
Virtualization07 May 2025 |
Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages
Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit
AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 5
Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower
FYI What was the plan, showing her his big iron?
Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu
Plus it is solving the 'I can't find the settings' problem with AI. That's what you wanted, right?
OSes07 May 2025 | 95
NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs
It's not rocket science, it's budgeting
Databases07 May 2025 | 5
Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports
Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed'
Security07 May 2025 | 51
AI agents promise big things. How can we support them?
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Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support
Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped
OSes07 May 2025 | 60
Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists
Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines'
Bootnotes07 May 2025 | 115
Qt Bridges: Hiding C++ and bringing Qt UI to any language
OpenSearch 3.0 hits: First major release under Linux Foundation as it battles ElasticSearch for mindshare
V8 JavaScript engine gets eager compilation hints, but will devs use sparingly as advised?
AWS adds MCP support to Q Developer command-line, IDE promised soon
Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs
World War Fee Seeing as IT giant's CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious
Virtualization07 May 2025 | 26
New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts
Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote
Public Sector07 May 2025 | 27
Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington
We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House
On-Prem07 May 2025 | 57
AI success starts with the right IT infrastructure
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Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp court battle
Don't f&#k with Zuck
CSO06 May 2025 | 17
Developer sues Apple to claw back commission payments
Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction
Software06 May 2025 | 6
Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you
Zog brain hurt. Zog want Google help make read easier
AI + ML06 May 2025 | 34
FYI: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM, LOL
Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far
AI + ML06 May 2025 | 13
Microsoft burnishes green cred by paying Swedes to burn biomass and bury CO2
Updated Schemes like this are just a license to pollute for tech giants, or so critics say
Science06 May 2025 | 12
Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source
(If only that would keep folks off unsanctioned chat app side quests)
Public Sector06 May 2025 | 66
From Russia with doubt: Go library's Kremlin ties stoke fear
Easyjson library's presence in numerous open source projects alarms security biz
Software06 May 2025 | 9
EU tells US scientists to dump Trump for a lab in Europe
Brussels rolls out €500M plan to lure boffins with grants and actual respect for research
Science06 May 2025 | 92
Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning
Data giant backs federal austerity push, saying it's 'the right thing' for US
Databases06 May 2025 | 31
Cerebras CEO actually finds common ground with Nvidia as startup notches IBM win
Feldman calls US's AI Diffusion rules ‘bad policy’
AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 1
Windows 11 24H2 now 'broadly available' ... complete with yet another 'known issue'
Azure Virtual Desktop App attach users might want to sit this one out for a bit longer
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Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us
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Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans
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Virtualization06 May 2025 | 4
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Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess
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Security05 May 2025 | 38
OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge
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AI + ML05 May 2025 | 5
Teens maintained a mainframe and it went about as well as you'd imagine
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Columnists05 May 2025 | 86
Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’
Hails DOGE operatives for computer skills during interview in which he also flubbed some tech investment figures
Public Sector05 May 2025 | 73
India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease
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Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all - at least for consumers
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RSA Conf wrap: AI and China on everything, everywhere, all at once
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Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America
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Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025
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Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme
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