Iran launches 'biological capsule' to low Earth orbit
Precursor to crewed flight can reportedly carry animals
Science07 Dec 2023 | 6
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Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge
Memory safety vulnerabilities need to be crushed with better code
Public Sector07 Dec 2023 | 112
Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in
'He can't just make his own rules,' Danish labor leader says of Musk
Offbeat07 Dec 2023 | 112
Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability
Middling performance, but check out the longevity
Personal Tech07 Dec 2023 | 23
Veteran editors Notepad++ and Geany hit milestone versions
There are still good, modern, graphical text editors that are not Electron-based
Applications06 Dec 2023 | 80
Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack
Issue has been around since at least 2012
Security06 Dec 2023 | 14
Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun
Should have called Vista 'Shitterton' and had done with it
OSes07 Dec 2023 | 44
HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated'
Apparently they're being serious
Bootnotes07 Dec 2023 | 65
Broadcom to divest VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black units
Updated Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces
Virtualization07 Dec 2023 | 5
Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec
CANALYS APAC FORUMS Also: India's PC ban didn't take into account needs of ecosystem
Personal Tech07 Dec 2023 | 45
Google teases AlphaCode 2 – a code-generating AI revamped with Gemini
Don't worry, your developer jobs are safe … for now
AI + ML07 Dec 2023 | 9
'Wobbly spacetime' is latest stab at unifying physics
Grudge match between quantum mechanics and general relativity attracts new effort to find harmony
Science06 Dec 2023 | 80
A year on, CISA realizes debunked vuln actually a dud and removes it from must-patch list
Apparently no one thought to check if this D-Link router 'issue' was actually exploitable
Security06 Dec 2023 | 6
Europe signs off on up to €1.2B in state aid for homegrown cloud project
Vendor to speak unto vendor with first results expected in 2027
PaaS + IaaS06 Dec 2023 | 41
NASA engineers got their parachute wires crossed for OSIRIS-REx mission
'Inconsistent wiring label definitions' resulted in drogue being cut before it was deployed
Science06 Dec 2023 | 23
Red Hat greases migration to RHEL for CentOS 7 holdouts
Insights tool aims to simplify conversion process, but it'll probably cost you
OSes06 Dec 2023 | 17
AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia’s AI empire
Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100
Systems06 Dec 2023 | 6
Google launches Gemini AI systems, claims it's beating OpenAI and others - mostly
Gemini accepts text, images, audio, and video and comes in three flavors
AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 4
Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs
Plans to share 'vast amounts of data' – very carefully
Security07 Dec 2023 | 15
And the winner of the horrible Microsoft Paint sweater is ...
Competition Sure, we'll send you to the Moon. But a return will cost you
Offbeat06 Dec 2023 | 13
Raspberry Pi OS goes goth
First post-Pi 5 update brings dark mode among numerous bug fixes
Personal Tech07 Dec 2023 | 9
US senator claims Google and Apple reveal push notification data to foreign govs
Cupertino promises to reveal its data deliveries, ending silence on the matter
Personal Tech06 Dec 2023 | 9
Attacks abuse Microsoft DHCP to spoof DNS records and steal secrets
Akamai says it reported the flaws to Microsoft. Redmond shrugged
Security07 Dec 2023 | 7
Yet another UK public sector data blab, this time info of pregnant women, cancer patients
NHS Trust admits highly sensitive data left online for nearly three years
Public Sector07 Dec 2023 | 9
Belgian man charged with smuggling sanctioned military tech to Russia and China
Indictments allege plot to shift FPGAs, accelerometers, and spycams
Security07 Dec 2023 | 13
Elon Musk's xAI wants $1B cash infusion in exchange for equity shares
What, spent all your liquid assets on Twitter, Elon?
AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 47
GitLab admits IT ineptitude in finance reporting is ongoing
Code shack has had two years since auditor's 'adverse opinion' to get house in order
Devops07 Dec 2023 | 7
Cisco delivers a powerup to its switches for small and medium biz
Catalyst 1200 and 1300 keep perpetual licenses, PoE and stackability
Networks07 Dec 2023 | 1
Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI training
Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound?
Systems06 Dec 2023 | 2
Shielding the data that drives AI
Why we need the confidence to deploy secure, compliant AI-powered applications and workloads
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Brit bendy chip firm Pragmatic scores funding to boost production
Semiconductor bods get cash injection after threatening to quit UK over lack of government support
Systems06 Dec 2023 | 12
Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch
Scheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went
Science06 Dec 2023 | 10
Nvidia sees Huawei, Intel in rear mirror as it grapples with China ban
Commerce Sec threatens redesigned AI-capable chips will be curtailed 'the very next day'
Systems06 Dec 2023 | 5
Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus
Does the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life?
Science06 Dec 2023 | 10
Dell APJ chief: Industry won't wait for Nvidia H100
CANALYS APAC FORUM Canalys mostly agrees, but thinks GPU giant still has a way to go
Systems07 Dec 2023 |
AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms
World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights
PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 5
EU running in circles trying to get AI Act out the door
Bloc risks missing out on first-to-legislate status if timetable slips
AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 15
Mere minority of orgs put GenAI in production after year of hype
Folks are dipping their toes in without a full commitment
AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 14
Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files
Just install the latest client and follow the instructions, but don't ask questions
PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 10
US and EU infosec authorities pen intel-sharing pact
As Cyber Solidarity Act edges closer to full adoption in Europe
Cyber-crime07 Dec 2023 | 2
Post-Brexit tariffs on EU-UK electric vehicle imports staved off for three years
Between a bloc and a hard place
Legal07 Dec 2023 | 54
Meta starts rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger
Surfing the cryptographic wave
Applications07 Dec 2023 | 2
Five Eyes nations warn Moscow's mates at the Star Blizzard gang have new phishing targets
The Russians are coming! Err, they've already infiltrated UK, US inboxes
Security08 Dec 2023 | 1
Chinese boffins pitch quadcopter for Mars sample return mission
In the race for the Red Planet, NASA is falling behind
Science07 Dec 2023 | 5
Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor
Says it was probably hacked, which isn't good news either
Security08 Dec 2023 | 6
Amazon's game-streamer Twitch to quit South Korea, citing savage network costs
The idea that Big Content should pay network operators is in trouble
Personal Tech08 Dec 2023 | 6
Meta trials Purple Llama project for AI developers to test safety risks in models
Security boosted and inappropriate content blocked in large language models
AI + ML07 Dec 2023 | 3
Locking down the edge
Watch this webinar to find out how Zero Trust fits into the edge security ecosystem
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Cisco's cloud network push will tie licensing change to generational product refreshes
Bundled support has already come to Catalyst – but don't bother asking how it works
Networks08 Dec 2023 | 3
Hubble Space Telescope is back in the game after NASA fixes gyro glitch
No repair mission required – for now
Science08 Dec 2023 | 1
US lawmakers want blanket denial for sensitive tech export licenses to China
Committee worries licenses are being issued to boost and suit business, not national security
Legal08 Dec 2023 |
Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970
On Call Cover-up saved the culprit after a battery of tests diagnosed the problem
On-Prem08 Dec 2023 | 5
Biting the hand that feeds IT
