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Defense AI models 'a risk to life' alleges spurned tech firm

In-depth Chatterbox Labs CEO claims Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office unfairly cancelled a contract then accused him of blackmail

SQL king Larry Ellison becomes sequel sultan with controlling interest in Paramount Global

Oh, great: Another tech billionaire owns a media company – although his son probably runs the show

Blood boffins build billions of nanobots to battle brain aneurysms without surgery

Good news for rabbits, maybe great news soon for humans?

Science07 Sep 2024 | 6

FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them

Some brick devices they'd rather not support, kill apps that drive functions, or add post-sale subscriptions

Personal Tech06 Sep 2024 | 48

Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy

Not so much when trying to convert coding veterans

Software06 Sep 2024 | 60

Trump taps Musk to lead 'government efficiency' task force

Surely this duty will be executed without bias toward NHTSA, FAA, DOJ, NLRB

Offbeat06 Sep 2024 | 32

Cisco merch shoppers stung in Magecart attack

The 'security issue' was caused by a 9.8-rated Magento flaw Adobe patched back in June

Security06 Sep 2024 | 3

ESA prints 3D metal shape in space for first time

Tech demo paves way to producing spare parts and tools during missions

Science06 Sep 2024 | 3

Qualcomm reportedly eyeing Intel's PC design biz and more

Chipzilla hasn't collapsed yet but the vultures are circling

Systems06 Sep 2024 |

Of course the Internet Archive’s digital lending broke the law, appeals court says

ICYMI Sorry, no, you can’t just digitize, share copyrighted books without permission

Dutch government takes ASML export measures off Uncle Sam's hands

Photolithography giant assures customers it is under no new restrictions

Systems06 Sep 2024 |

Salesforce now owns Own Company after $1.9B bargain hunt

Acquisition of SaaS backup vendor ends mega-merger moratorium

Storage06 Sep 2024 | 1

Competition watchdog accuses Google of abusing ad dominance

Provisional findings echo worries in the US and EC about the search giant's dominance

Personal Tech06 Sep 2024 | 5

Defense AI models 'a risk to life' alleges spurned tech firm

In-depth Chatterbox Labs CEO claims Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office unfairly cancelled a contract then accused him of blackmail

AI + ML06 Sep 2024 | 4

Foot-thick wall workaround: Gigabit network links beamed through solid concrete

Makes cabling a bit less onerous, says WaveCore maker

Networks06 Sep 2024 | 10

Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI

Carbon capture outfits could be making up to $45B, say analysts

On-Prem06 Sep 2024 | 18

Cooling solutions for high-density workloads

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Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works

FYI Web services souk celebrates 'leader' designation for Q Developer

Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy

Comment Foundry faces a reckoning

CxO06 Sep 2024 | 44

Oak Ridge boffins enlist Quantum Brilliance to make supercomputers sparkle at room temp

Diamond-based accelerators could help smash science problems

HPC06 Sep 2024 |

To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk

On Call When maintenance windows are hard to open, a little lubrication helps

Patches06 Sep 2024 | 88

NOAA Gets $100 Million Windfall For “Rhea” Research Supercomputer

Profiting From The GenAI Boom Is Tough Even If It Democratizes

Cloud HPC Is The ‘SilverLining’ in Global Warming Mitigation

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer

SQL king Larry Ellison becomes sequel sultan with controlling interest in Paramount Global

Oh, great: another tech billionaire owns a media company – although his son probably runs the show

Offbeat06 Sep 2024 | 20

NASA's solar sailing spacecraft is tumbling – but that's part of the plan

Who needs fuel – or even engines – when you could use the sun to push a spacecraft along?

Science06 Sep 2024 | 15

VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked

CEO says market for non-AI silicon has bottomed out

Virtualization06 Sep 2024 | 7

Nvidia and chums inject $160M into Applied Digital to keep GPU sales rolling

Datacenters are the lifeline for its $30B ML-fueled boom

PaaS + IaaS06 Sep 2024 | 1

Storage news ticker: 6 September 2024

Microsoft says its opting for robots to recycle disk drives

Academics break down the evolution of database architectures

Dell serves Gen AI-optimized Linux from Red Hat

US tightens export controls on quantum kit and chips for China, Iran, Russia

Alloys make the list too, as allies try to ensure foes can't weaponise tech

Public Sector06 Sep 2024 | 3

Homeland security hopes to scuttle maritime cyber-threats with port infosec testbed

Supply chains, 13M jobs and $649B a year at risk, so Uncle Sam is fighting back - with a request for info

Public Sector05 Sep 2024 | 5

White House’s new fix for cyber job gaps: Serve the nation in infosec

Now do your patriotic duty and fill one of those 500k open roles, please?

Security05 Sep 2024 | 15

Raspberry Pi 4 bugs throw wrench in the works for Fedora 41

Problems also afflict the Pi Pico 2's chip

OSes05 Sep 2024 | 35

Visual Studio Code is migrating its own source code to ECMAScript modules

PyPi repository vulnerable to deleted package hijack, say researchers

Microsoft makes breaking change in .NET 9 for security, leaves .NET Framework insecure

Elasticsearch will be open source again as CTO declares changed landscape

Quantum computing is coming – are you ready?

Are you prepared for the day that quantum computing breaks today’s encryption?

AI-pushing Adobe says AI-shy office workers will love AI if it saves them time

knowledge workers, overwhelmed by knowledge tasks? We know what you need

AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 26

Uncle Sam charges Russian GRU cyber-spies behind 'WhisperGate intrusions'

Feds post $10M bounty for each of the six's whereabouts

Cyber-crime05 Sep 2024 | 4

Cisco's Smart Licensing Utility flaws suggest it's pretty dumb on security

Two critical holes including hardcoded admin credential

Security05 Sep 2024 | 8

Verizon snaps up Frontier in $20B fiber power play

Marking yet another round of telecom consolidation

Networks05 Sep 2024 | 6

13 days into the outage, will Kaseya's Traverse trip back to life today?

'Potential issue' in infrastructure of network monitoring tool results in lengthy, ongoing downtime

OSes05 Sep 2024 | 11

Global powers sign AI pact promising to preserve human rights, democracy

No, Russia and China are not on the list

AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 12

Age discrimination layoff case against X granted class-action status

Judge clears path for 149 ex-Twitters over 50 to sue collectively

Legal05 Sep 2024 | 20

Security boom is over, with over a third of CISOs reporting flat or falling budgets

Good news? Security is still getting a growing part of IT budget

CSO05 Sep 2024 | 1

OpenAI co-founder's Safe Superintelligence startup inhales $1B in funding

No product? No problem!

AI + ML05 Sep 2024 | 23

Intel Arrow Lake to be made elsewhere as 20A process node canned

Meanwhile, Broadcom reportedly displeased with 18A wafers

Systems05 Sep 2024 | 12

Cloud HPC the 'SilverLining' in global warming mitigation

Leveraging cloud-based supercomputing to accelerate climate solutions

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Vega rocket's last blast hurls Sentinel-2C satellite into orbit

ESA and Arianespace now twiddling thumbs until Vega-C returns to flight

Science05 Sep 2024 | 1

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

Comment Microsoft's Copilot+ machines suck at one of computing's oldest use cases

Channel05 Sep 2024 | 143

The fingerpointing starts as cyber incident at London transport body continues

Network admins take a ride on the Fright Bus

Cyber-crime05 Sep 2024 | 45

Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England

Exclusive Unless solution found, patients must be allowed to opt out

Databases05 Sep 2024 | 51

AI's thirst for water is alarming, but may solve itself

Comment Its energy addiction, on the other hand, only seems to get worse

Apple accused of hoodwinking UK antitrust cops

Mac maker denial of Safari self-preferencing called out by OWA

AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract

Telco giant slams silicon-and-software shop for trying to bully it into buying software it doesn't want or need, at huge prices

Security biz Verkada to pay $3M penalty under deal that also enforces infosec upgrade

Allowed access to 150K cameras, some in sensitive spots, but has been done for spamming

White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown

Russia has seemingly decided who it wants Putin the Oval Office

North Korean scammers plan wave of stealth attacks on crypto companies, FBI warns

Feds warn of 'highly tailored, difficult-to-detect social engineering campaigns'

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Defense AI models 'a risk to life' alleges spurned tech firm

SQL king Larry Ellison becomes sequel sultan with controlling interest in Paramount Global

AI's thirst for water is alarming, but may solve itself

Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy

Despite cyberattacks, water security standards remain a pipe dream

Blood boffins build billions of nanobots to battle brain aneurysms without surgery

FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them

Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy

Trump taps Musk to lead 'government efficiency' task force

Cisco merch shoppers stung in Magecart attack

ESA prints 3D metal shape in space for first time

Qualcomm reportedly eyeing Intel's PC design biz and more

Of course the Internet Archive’s digital lending broke the law, appeals court says

Dutch government takes ASML export measures off Uncle Sam's hands

Salesforce now owns Own Company after $1.9B bargain hunt

Competition watchdog accuses Google of abusing ad dominance

Defense AI models 'a risk to life' alleges spurned tech firm

Foot-thick wall workaround: Gigabit network links beamed through solid concrete

Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI

Cooling solutions for high-density workloads

Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works

Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy

Oak Ridge boffins enlist Quantum Brilliance to make supercomputers sparkle at room temp

To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk

NOAA Gets $100 Million Windfall For “Rhea” Research Supercomputer

Profiting From The GenAI Boom Is Tough Even If It Democratizes

Cloud HPC Is The ‘SilverLining’ in Global Warming Mitigation

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer

SQL king Larry Ellison becomes sequel sultan with controlling interest in Paramount Global

NASA's solar sailing spacecraft is tumbling – but that's part of the plan

VMware revenue bounces for Broadcom, chips were a little undercooked

Nvidia and chums inject $160M into Applied Digital to keep GPU sales rolling

Storage news ticker: 6 September 2024

Microsoft says its opting for robots to recycle disk drives

Academics break down the evolution of database architectures

Dell serves Gen AI-optimized Linux from Red Hat

US tightens export controls on quantum kit and chips for China, Iran, Russia

Homeland security hopes to scuttle maritime cyber-threats with port infosec testbed

White House’s new fix for cyber job gaps: Serve the nation in infosec

Raspberry Pi 4 bugs throw wrench in the works for Fedora 41

Visual Studio Code is migrating its own source code to ECMAScript modules

PyPi repository vulnerable to deleted package hijack, say researchers

Microsoft makes breaking change in .NET 9 for security, leaves .NET Framework insecure

Elasticsearch will be open source again as CTO declares changed landscape

Quantum computing is coming – are you ready?

AI-pushing Adobe says AI-shy office workers will love AI if it saves them time

Uncle Sam charges Russian GRU cyber-spies behind 'WhisperGate intrusions'

Cisco's Smart Licensing Utility flaws suggest it's pretty dumb on security

Verizon snaps up Frontier in $20B fiber power play

13 days into the outage, will Kaseya's Traverse trip back to life today?

Global powers sign AI pact promising to preserve human rights, democracy

Age discrimination layoff case against X granted class-action status

Security boom is over, with over a third of CISOs reporting flat or falling budgets

OpenAI co-founder's Safe Superintelligence startup inhales $1B in funding

Intel Arrow Lake to be made elsewhere as 20A process node canned

Cloud HPC the 'SilverLining' in global warming mitigation

Vega rocket's last blast hurls Sentinel-2C satellite into orbit

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

The fingerpointing starts as cyber incident at London transport body continues

Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England

AI's thirst for water is alarming, but may solve itself

Apple accused of hoodwinking UK antitrust cops

AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract

Security biz Verkada to pay $3M penalty under deal that also enforces infosec upgrade

White House seizes 32 domains, issues criminal charges in massive election-meddling crackdown

North Korean scammers plan wave of stealth attacks on crypto companies, FBI warns

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