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
American coders are most likely to use AI
Baseball, apple pie, and assisted programming
Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it
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Sometimes the 'R' in RTFM stands for 'Remember'
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Probably the easiest way to a Google-free smartphone or tablet
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 | 3
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 |
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 | 1
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 | 1
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 |
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 | 23
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 | 2
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 | 21
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 | 12
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 | 26
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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 | 16
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 | 22
Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747
'Black side down,' Lego style
Bootnotes20 Jun 2025 | 23
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
Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it
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Columnists20 Jun 2025 | 79
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 | 21
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 | 28
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 | 33
Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam 'vishing' schemes
To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems
Research19 Jun 2025 | 32
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 | 24
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 | 5
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 | 11
Interactive IEA tracker shows where AI is guzzling the most energy
Observatory maps datacenter hubs and power demand worldwide
Systems19 Jun 2025 | 4
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
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 | 10
ZTE supports AI with full-stack IT offering
Company expands from telco origins to support compute-hungry use cases
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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 | 180
/e/ OS 3.0: Slightly less clunky, slightly more private
Probably the easiest way to a Google-free smartphone or tablet
OSes19 Jun 2025 | 49
Space manufacturing company Varda gets clearance to launch more unmanned rockets
Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space
Science19 Jun 2025 | 2
Europe slams online tat bazaar AliExpress for dodging obligation to stop dodgy traders
Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop ‘em are hopeless
Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 39
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
‘Windows 365 Reserve’ will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed fee
Virtualization19 Jun 2025 | 31
How to bridge the MFA gap
If a credential is worth protecting, it's worth protecting well.
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Iran’s internet goes offline for hours amid claims of ‘enemy abuse’
Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to ‘other areas’
Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 12
Nvidia bets on Gates-backed nuclear startup to keep its AI ambitions from melting down
$650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 2030
Science18 Jun 2025 | 12
Military-tech upstart Anduril pushes further into NATO with German arms maker deal
Move fast and blow things up
Systems18 Jun 2025 | 12
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 | 48
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
Exclusive In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for
Databases18 Jun 2025 | 7
Judge smacks down Pentagon plan to slash university research funding awards
Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it's not like the military needs new tech, right?
Public Sector18 Jun 2025 | 23
KDE Plasma 6.4 ships with major usability and Wayland improvements
The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix
OSes18 Jun 2025 | 19
European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones
Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips
Personal Tech18 Jun 2025 | 116
Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea's extinct after terms updated
Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though
AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 9
Veeam patches third critical RCE bug in Backup & Replication in space of a year
Version 13 can’t come soon enough
Patches18 Jun 2025 | 1
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Microsoft broke DHCP for Windows Server last Patch Tuesday
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Brit space sector struggles to compete with £90K graduate banking salaries
UK needs skills task force to get slice of $1.8 trillion pie, Lords told
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Pulsant and Nine23 offer sovereign service for UK govt, regulated sectors
Amid growing unease that US may compel cloud providers to hand over European data
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Amazon CISO: Iranian hacking crews ‘on high alert’ since Israel attack
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CSO18 Jun 2025 | 8
Google's unloved plan to fix web permissions gathers support
Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions
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Japan set to join the re-usable rocket club after Honda sticks a landing
France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day
Science18 Jun 2025 | 29
Trump administration set to waive TikTok sell-or-die deadline for a third time
Quick reminder: The law that banned the app is called ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’
Public Sector18 Jun 2025 | 45
Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff
Expect headcount reductions over the next few years, says Andy Jassy
AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 48
Salesforce adds AI to everything, jacks up prices by 6%
Little agents everywhere
SaaS17 Jun 2025 | 21
AWS locks down cloud security, hits 100% MFA enforcement for root users
Plus adds a ton more security capabilities for cloud customers at re:Inforce
Security17 Jun 2025 | 1
Dems hyperventilate about Palantir's work with the IRS in letter to CEO Karp
They're taking the data from IRSengard, claim Dems; officials tell us that's not true
Public Sector17 Jun 2025 | 41
Taiwan thumbs its nose at Beijing by blocking chip exports to SMIC and Huawei
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Apple dodges Optis patent payout for now as judge orders a do-over
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Personal Tech17 Jun 2025 | 7
Atlas V glitch delays second Project Kuiper launch
Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad
Science17 Jun 2025 | 9
Sitecore CMS flaw let attackers brute-force 'b' for backdoor
Hardcoded passwords and path traversals keeping bug hunters in work
Patches17 Jun 2025 | 5
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