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Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill

Asia In Brief PLUS: Lexmark’s Chinese owners sell to Xerox; India, Australia, target underwater drones; JPMorgan drops custom TLDs; and more!

VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks

Red Hat and Open Nebula deliver big updates, as Edera tools for Xen with Rust

Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time

Who, Me? Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error

AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game

Opinion A virtual environment makes a great de-hype advisor

Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung

They're both silent on what, if anything, has changed

Legal08 Jul 2025 |

Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1

World War Fee Memory from Korea, hard disks from Thailand, plenty of stuff from Japan

Public Sector08 Jul 2025 | 7

Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia

Analysis Investors advised to brace for massive fall from Q1 to Q2

Systems08 Jul 2025 | 2

Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers

Using prompt injections to play a Jedi mind trick on LLMs

AI + ML07 Jul 2025 | 18

Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho

Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness

Science07 Jul 2025 | 18

CitrixBleed 2 exploits are on the loose as security researchers yell and wave their hands

NetScaler vendor issued a patch but otherwise, stony silence

Patches07 Jul 2025 | 3

'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data

Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings

Networks07 Jul 2025 | 28

Phishing platforms, infostealers blamed as identity attacks soar

Get your creds in order or risk BEC, ransomware attacks, orgs warned

CSO07 Jul 2025 |

Ordnance Survey digs deep to prevent costly cable strikes

Digital map of subterranean infrastructure promised in 2021 set to launch by year end

Networks07 Jul 2025 | 41

TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions

Comment Tips on who pays when staff don't transfer, when the regulations apply ... and when they don't

Legal07 Jul 2025 | 6

Zig lead makes “extremely breaking” change to std.io ahead of Async and Await’s return

Security researcher exploits GitHub gotcha, gets admin access to all Istio repositories and more

Microsoft SQL Server MCP tool: ‘Leap in data interaction’ or limited and frustrating?

Cloudflare container platform in public preview with scale to zero pricing, some initial limitations

AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all

Analysis More fiction than science

AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game

Opinion A virtual environment makes a great de-hype advisor

AI + ML07 Jul 2025 | 25

Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time

Who, Me? Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error

Software07 Jul 2025 | 99

Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway

Airlines get the chance to cool their jets rather than burn fuel on the ground

Offbeat07 Jul 2025 | 81

Silicon One: Many Cisco Chips With One Architecture Chasing Many AI Workloads

How Multi-Agent Systems Revolutionize Data Workflows

How Will Juniper Change HPE’s Datacenter Networking Strategy?

Even AI Can’t Predict How Much Accelerated Iron The World Will Buy

VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks

Red Hat and Open Nebula deliver big updates, as Edera tools for Xen with Rust

Virtualization07 Jul 2025 | 6

Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill

Asia In Brief PLUS: Lexmark’s Chinese owners sell to Xerox; India, Australia, target underwater drones; JPMorgan drops custom TLDs; and more!

Databases07 Jul 2025 | 20

Stalkerware firm gets scooped by SQL-slinging security snoop

Infosec In Brief Also, Swiss ransomware posture looks like its cheese, the CVE Program wants YOU, more sus checks and more

Security06 Jul 2025 | 1

Ingram Micro confirms ransomware behind multi-day outage

Updated SafePay crew claims responsibility for intrusion at one of world's largest tech distributors

Cyber-crime06 Jul 2025 | 18

UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites

Updated Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits?

Science06 Jul 2025 | 49

Massive spike in use of .es domains for phishing abuse

¡Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds

Security05 Jul 2025 | 10

iFixit gives new Fairphone 6 top marks for repairability: 10/10

It's not cheap or high end, but it should last you for years to come

Personal Tech05 Jul 2025 | 34

Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister

Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeeze

Networks05 Jul 2025 | 119

Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator!

On Call When police come to investigate tech support, make sure you have your story straight

Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her

Shira Perlmutter lost her job after her office published report on generative AI and fair use limits

AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 62

Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0

Venerable command line tool to depart Windows

Software04 Jul 2025 | 30

Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far

deep dive It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate

On-Prem04 Jul 2025 | 23

How multi-agent systems revolutionize data work flows

Why spend time massaging data yourself when an army of agents can do it for you?

Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests

New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared

Science04 Jul 2025 | 36

We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10

Three months to go until support ends, and Microsoft's flagship operating system squeaks past its predecessor

OSes04 Jul 2025 | 57

14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders

Exclusive Fears mount while distie remains silent and phone lines down

Channel04 Jul 2025 | 44

Graid going for Nvidia RAID gold

Analysis finds Volumez block storage outpaces cloud giants for PostgreSQL

Nvidia extends LLM memory with tiered KV caching and Dynamo engine

goHardDrive RMA customer details vulnerability

Former and current Microsofties react to the latest round of layoffs

'JFC, again?'

Software04 Jul 2025 | 105

Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy

Comment There's more to the Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia

Offbeat04 Jul 2025 | 18

'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress

On Call Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could not

Personal Tech04 Jul 2025 | 76

FinOps isn't dead – you're just doing it alone

A more collaborative approach to managing cloud costs is giving this discipline an evolutionary boost

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EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players

Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations'

AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 38

Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day

Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it

Public Sector04 Jul 2025 | 17

Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork

If you come out of a coma in 2026, this is the machine you might see staring down at you

On-Prem04 Jul 2025 | 39

Microsoft leaves Pakistan but promises customers won't notice the change

Exclusive Job cuts aren’t big, symbolism of quitting the world’s fifth-most-populous nation might be

Software03 Jul 2025 | 24

Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box

A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool

Science03 Jul 2025 | 41

US budget bill passes without controversial block on states regulating AI

And with some increases to rural broadband funds, fresh spectrum auctions, and wholesale dismantling of clean energy subsidies

Public Sector03 Jul 2025 | 18

AI models just don't understand what they're talking about

Researchers find models' success at tests hides illusion of understanding

AI + ML03 Jul 2025 | 64

US Air Force holds hypersonic resupply site review amid seabird concerns

Red-tailed tropicbirds stymie Johnston Atoll maneuvers

Public Sector03 Jul 2025 | 18

Musk's antics and distractions are backfiring as Tesla's car business stalls

Comment Robotaxis, humanoid robots, and fights with Trump can't hide declining EV sales

On-Prem03 Jul 2025 | 133

Microsoft Windows Firewall complains about Microsoft code

Just ignore the warnings. Nothing to see here. Move along

Security03 Jul 2025 | 20

Young Consulting finds even more folks affected in breach mess – now over 1 million

The insurance SaaS slinger may trade under a different name, but past continues to haunt it

Cyber-crime03 Jul 2025 | 1

Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters

World War Fee Biz needs AI infra for training ever larger models, but something's gotta give

On-Prem03 Jul 2025 | 7

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Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill

VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks

Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time

AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game

Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung

Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1

Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia

Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers

Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho

CitrixBleed 2 exploits are on the loose as security researchers yell and wave their hands

CoreWeave's $9B Core Scientific acquisition is a bid for more power

Apple tries get €500M EU fine tossed

Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles

Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges

Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long

How ZTE turns green goals into climate action that works

'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data

Phishing platforms, infostealers blamed as identity attacks soar

Ordnance Survey digs deep to prevent costly cable strikes

TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions

Zig lead makes “extremely breaking” change to std.io ahead of Async and Await’s return

Security researcher exploits GitHub gotcha, gets admin access to all Istio repositories and more

Microsoft SQL Server MCP tool: ‘Leap in data interaction’ or limited and frustrating?

Cloudflare container platform in public preview with scale to zero pricing, some initial limitations

AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all

AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game

Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time

Airbus okays use of ‘Taxibot’ to tow planes to the runway

Silicon One: Many Cisco Chips With One Architecture Chasing Many AI Workloads

How Multi-Agent Systems Revolutionize Data Workflows

How Will Juniper Change HPE’s Datacenter Networking Strategy?

Even AI Can’t Predict How Much Accelerated Iron The World Will Buy

VMware’s rivals ramp up their efforts to create alternative stacks

Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill

Stalkerware firm gets scooped by SQL-slinging security snoop

Ingram Micro confirms ransomware behind multi-day outage

UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites

Massive spike in use of .es domains for phishing abuse

iFixit gives new Fairphone 6 top marks for repairability: 10/10

Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister

Don't shoot me, I'm only the system administrator!

Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her

Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0

Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far

How multi-agent systems revolutionize data work flows

Mars was once a desert with intermittent oases, Curiosity data suggests

We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10

14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders

Graid going for Nvidia RAID gold

Analysis finds Volumez block storage outpaces cloud giants for PostgreSQL

Nvidia extends LLM memory with tiered KV caching and Dynamo engine

goHardDrive RMA customer details vulnerability

Former and current Microsofties react to the latest round of layoffs

Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy

'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress

FinOps isn't dead – you're just doing it alone

EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players

Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day

Kawasaki and Foxconn build robot nursing assistant to tackle hospital scutwork

Microsoft leaves Pakistan but promises customers won't notice the change

Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box

US budget bill passes without controversial block on states regulating AI

AI models just don't understand what they're talking about

US Air Force holds hypersonic resupply site review amid seabird concerns

Musk's antics and distractions are backfiring as Tesla's car business stalls

Microsoft Windows Firewall complains about Microsoft code

Young Consulting finds even more folks affected in breach mess – now over 1 million

Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters

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