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A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis

1 hour 29 minutes ago
Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changes

Interview  Version 8.1 of Valkey was recently released, marking a year since the creation of the Redis fork. Valkey's co-maintainer, Madelyn Olson, is looking ahead to version 9 as the project settles down.…

Richard Speed

EuroHPC lines up AI upgrade for Leonardo supercomputer

1 hour 50 minutes ago
And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remain

Updated  Italy's Leonardo supercomputer is to get an AI upgrade to beef up support for the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) and multi-modal generative AI, in addition to the 13 AI factories now being procured around the EU.…

Dan Robinson

Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos

2 hours 28 minutes ago
AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn’t thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, too

Google's AI shop DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, its "evolutionary coding agent" powered by large language models to discover and optimize algorithms.…

Thomas Claburn

GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help

10 hours 44 minutes ago
More than $100M in costs could be cut by gutting duplicative IT alone, making DOGE itself look a bit redundant

Comment  Cost-trimming in the US federal government is all the rage right now – and a new report finds more than $100 million in savings available to the Feds by doing nothing but eliminating redundant and unnecessary IT investments. …

Brandon Vigliarolo

US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree

12 hours 42 minutes ago
Prince Mohammed bin Bone Saw will take a few hundred thousand GPUs with his missiles and fighter jets

The Saudi government on Tuesday announced a massive $600 billion investment in US defense, transportation, energy, and IT infrastructure.…

Tobias Mann

Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare

14 hours 22 minutes ago
Air Force Dumb

The Trump administration is set to accept a $400 million luxury 747-8 from the royal family of Qatar – a lavish "palace in the sky" meant as a temporary Air Force One. But getting it up to presidential security standards could take years and cost hundreds of millions more.…

Iain Thomson

RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit

15 hours 4 minutes ago
GA date slips out on Japanese site, vanishes from English

Red Hat appears to have quietly made RHEL 10 available to paying customers, days ahead of its expected debut at next week's Red Hat Summit.…

Liam Proven

CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email

15 hours 46 minutes ago
Cripes, we were only joking when we called Elon's social network the new state media

Updated  The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced Monday that going forward, only urgent alerts tied to emerging threats or major cyber activity will appear on its website. Routine updates, guidance, and other notifications will instead be shared via email, RSS, and X.…

Iain Thomson

Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb

16 hours 9 minutes ago
'Legitimate interest' won't wash, says privacy outfit, as Zuck's org claims activists want to 'delay AI innovation'

There's a Max Schrems-shaped object standing in the way of Meta's plans to train its AI on the data of its European users, and he's come armed with several justifications for why Zuckercorp might be violating EU regulations with its stated plans. …

Brandon Vigliarolo

Uncle Sam pulls $2.4B Leidos deal to support CISA after rival alleges foul play

16 hours 19 minutes ago
Nightwing claims insider intel helped secure lucrative CISA work but US says decision is unrelated

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) scrapped a highly lucrative cybersecurity contract originally awarded to Leidos following a legal challenge from rival bidder Nightwing, yet insists the pushback had nothing to do with it.…

Connor Jones

Intel needs external foundry customers to make 14A process node pay off

16 hours 39 minutes ago
Ailing chip giant targets 2027 break-even as costly EUV tools raise stakes

Intel is wooing external chip customers for its 14A process node to justify the high costs involved, and aims for the foundry division to break even by 2027 - as part of ongoing effort to shake off the struggles of recent years.…

Dan Robinson
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