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A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely

Updated Neil Smith has been trying to get the railroad industry to listen since 2012, but it took a CISA warning to get there

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon

Updated Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley

Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console

Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns

Kiro, the AWS preview of an agentic AI IDE driven by specifications

Hands-on Fork of Code OSS shows up in a crowded market

Uber to roll out thousands of robo-cabs built by China’s Baidu

Coming soon, somewhere in the Middle East or Asia

AI + ML16 Jul 2025 |

AMD cleared to join Nvidia and resume selling some underpowered AI chips to China

Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish

Systems16 Jul 2025 | 1

Faceless megacorps could be a salary-hungry IT pro's best friend, if you're in AI that is

They might pay more, but don't expect a mega salary anymore

AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 4

Smartphones in the doldrums due to crap demand and tariff woes

Inventories stack up stateside as Apple and co prep for import tax tweaks

Personal Tech15 Jul 2025 | 12

Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open source

Devops15 Jul 2025 | 8

AI creeps into the risk register for America's biggest firms

S&P 500 businesses warn investors they may never see ROI in SEC filings

AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 5

Review: How Passwork 7 helps tame business passwords

A simple interface and new roles-based capabilities make this venerable password manager an attractive proposition

With Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom asks who needs UALink when there's Ethernet?

The never Nvidia networking party just got another option

Networks15 Jul 2025 |

IT consultancy settles US battle over alleged $14.75M government contract fraud

Outfit was accused of charging for specialist IT labor performed by uncertified folks

Public Sector15 Jul 2025 | 1

Former Google DeepMind engineer behind Simular says other AI agents are doing it wrong

Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fill

AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 13

CIOs pause net-new IT investments as global tariff jitters bite

World War Fee Uncertainty to blame as businesses wait to see what US Prez Trump does next

On-Prem15 Jul 2025 | 5

Hands on with Kiro, the AWS preview of an agentic AI IDE driven by specifications

Microsoft shovels extra Copilot features into VS Code amid dev complaints of ‘more AI bloat’

Docker adds AI agents to Compose along with GPU-powered cloud Offload service

Despite 30 months work, core developer says Python’s JIT compiler is often slower than the interpreter

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

Comment Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too

HAMR time: Seagate unleashes 30 TB disks to feed the AI beast

Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere

Storage15 Jul 2025 | 7

Britain's billion-pound F-35s not quite ready for, well, anything

Stealth jets can't fight, can't fly much, and can't shoot UK missiles, says NAO

Security15 Jul 2025 | 102

Meta reveals plan for several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters

First, Zuck takes Manhattan. Then he might actually deliver a product that matters

Off-Prem15 Jul 2025 | 19

The Art Of The GPU Deal

Brazil Lays The Hardware Foundation For Its AI Ambitions

Sizing Up AWS “Blackwell” GPU Systems Against Prior GPUs And Trainiums

Will Companies Build Or Buy Their GenAI Models?

Scientists spot massive black hole collision that defies current theories

Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars

Science15 Jul 2025 | 31

Nvidia to resume sales to China – with Trump administration approval

Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of permission to sell the H20 and a new RTX Pro GPU

Public Sector15 Jul 2025 | 8

Malaysia closes a back door that may have allowed US-sourced AI chips to reach China

Stricter regulation follows last week's tariff whack

Public Sector15 Jul 2025 |

Someone hijacked Elmo's X account to post antisemitic rants

Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'…

Cyber-crime14 Jul 2025 | 19

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon

Updated Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley

Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 9

Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer

Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun

Research14 Jul 2025 | 4

Nvidia CEO says China wouldn't risk building military supers with American AI chips

With half the AI devs in the world, if China can't build on American hardware, they'll build on their own, Jensen warns

HPC14 Jul 2025 | 7

A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely

Updated Neil Smith has been trying to get the railroad industry to listen since 2012, but it took a CISA warning to get there

Security14 Jul 2025 | 55

Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well

On Call First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career

GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box

Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot it

Software14 Jul 2025 | 21

AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding

Delivers specs in the form of user stories

AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 12

xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man

Opinion MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out

AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 88

The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience

Modern threats demand modern defenses. Cloud-native is the new baseline

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EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute

Just because a student reads a book doesn't mean Midjourney gets to eat Disney

AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 39

Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror

First US-Soviet joint mission showed détente in action, but astronauts had a close call on return home

Science14 Jul 2025 | 20

Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start

Opinion We need more paranoid Androids. And, well, everything else

Applications14 Jul 2025 | 34

Cloudian plugs PyTorch into GPUDirect to juice AI training speeds

Meta superintelligence push to drive huge demand for storage

Veeam lays groundwork for AI agents to vacuum up backup data

Simulated ransomware attack reveals gaps in recovery planning

GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats

Networks14 Jul 2025 | 65

UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI

Report on serious organized crime fails to account for differences, agency says

Cyber-crime14 Jul 2025 | 27

Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

Who, Me? For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage

Columnists14 Jul 2025 | 65

Reframing investments in security as investments in the business

A little skill in business communication can help get the board on board

Partner content

Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console

Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns

AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 89

Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government

Despite loathing the USA, Iran wants providers who match NIST’s definition of cloud computing

Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 9

Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe

Asia In Brief PLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more

Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 8

Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Bluetooth mess leaves cars exposed; Bitcoin ATMs attacked; Deepfakers imitate US secretary of state Marco Rubio; and more

Security13 Jul 2025 | 7

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it

Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another

Cyber-crime13 Jul 2025 | 112

From A2A to MCP, a look at the protocols that might one day help AI automate you out of a job

Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak?

AI + ML12 Jul 2025 | 6

Looks like 1,300 Indeed and Glassdoor staffers will need their former employer's websites

No reason given for the 6% cull, but the CEO has previously talked up AI taking jobs

Software12 Jul 2025 | 43

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds

Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag

AI + ML11 Jul 2025 | 91

Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video

video An announcement so weird it could only come from the Trump administration

Public Sector11 Jul 2025 | 87

Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show

ai-pocalypse Data poisoning, meet data detox

AI + ML11 Jul 2025 | 18

ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election

As allegations fly regarding fraudulent powers of attorney, one member wants to wind up AFRINIC and start again

Networks11 Jul 2025 | 10

CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn

Intruders looked up how to use curl mid-attack - rookie errors kept damage minimal

Patches11 Jul 2025 | 12

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A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon

Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console

Kiro, the AWS preview of an agentic AI IDE driven by specifications

Uber to roll out thousands of robo-cabs built by China’s Baidu

AMD cleared to join Nvidia and resume selling some underpowered AI chips to China

Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop

Ex-US soldier who Googled 'can hacking be treason' pleads guilty to extortion

German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk

Mistral launches Voxtral speech recognition model

Caught between China and Trump, Apple spends $500M on rare earth recycling

Faceless megacorps could be a salary-hungry IT pro's best friend, if you're in AI that is

Smartphones in the doldrums due to crap demand and tariff woes

Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

AI creeps into the risk register for America's biggest firms

Review: How Passwork 7 helps tame business passwords

With Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom asks who needs UALink when there's Ethernet?

IT consultancy settles US battle over alleged $14.75M government contract fraud

Former Google DeepMind engineer behind Simular says other AI agents are doing it wrong

CIOs pause net-new IT investments as global tariff jitters bite

Hands on with Kiro, the AWS preview of an agentic AI IDE driven by specifications

Microsoft shovels extra Copilot features into VS Code amid dev complaints of ‘more AI bloat’

Docker adds AI agents to Compose along with GPU-powered cloud Offload service

Despite 30 months work, core developer says Python’s JIT compiler is often slower than the interpreter

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

HAMR time: Seagate unleashes 30 TB disks to feed the AI beast

Britain's billion-pound F-35s not quite ready for, well, anything

Meta reveals plan for several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters

The Art Of The GPU Deal

Brazil Lays The Hardware Foundation For Its AI Ambitions

Sizing Up AWS “Blackwell” GPU Systems Against Prior GPUs And Trainiums

Will Companies Build Or Buy Their GenAI Models?

Scientists spot massive black hole collision that defies current theories

Nvidia to resume sales to China – with Trump administration approval

Malaysia closes a back door that may have allowed US-sourced AI chips to reach China

Someone hijacked Elmo's X account to post antisemitic rants

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon

Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer

Nvidia CEO says China wouldn't risk building military supers with American AI chips

A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely

Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well

GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box

AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding

xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man

The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience

EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute

Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror

Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start

Cloudian plugs PyTorch into GPUDirect to juice AI training speeds

Meta superintelligence push to drive huge demand for storage

Veeam lays groundwork for AI agents to vacuum up backup data

Simulated ransomware attack reveals gaps in recovery planning

GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI

Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

Reframing investments in security as investments in the business

Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console

Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government

Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe

Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it

From A2A to MCP, a look at the protocols that might one day help AI automate you out of a job

Looks like 1,300 Indeed and Glassdoor staffers will need their former employer's websites

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds

Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video

Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show

ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election

CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn

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