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Newer OSes for unsupported kit, and new browsers for older OSes. There's always a way

Any day now, a new version of Apple's macOS is due to launch, and it will exclude the bulk of the Intel-powered models the company has ever sold. However, there are multiple ways to breathe new life into Macs that go back as far as 10 or even 15 years.…

Scott LaValley, CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, says robot makers should prioritize social acceptance over capabilities

interview  Scott LaValley, founder and CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, suspects he may have helped encourage Elon Musk to get into the humanoid robot business.…

US boffins say Beijing's bargain wafers are burning rivals below cost

China is moving to dominate the global market for polysilicon, a key material used in chips, by flooding the industry with cheap, subsidised product to drive producers in other countries out of business.…

Although it hasn't been seen in the wild yet

A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched vulnerability to bypass Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot on unrevoked Windows systems, making it the fourth publicly known bootkit capable of punching through the feature and hijacking a PC before the operating system loads.…

The OIG says the Cyber Incentive program was rife with 'fraud, waste, and abuse'

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) mismanaged a program designed to retain skilled security professionals so badly that auditors have concluded it left the agency "unable to adequately protect the Nation from cyber threats." …

Climate change? No worry - we can solve that later, argues Doug Burgum

You would think that the government official responsible for safeguarding the US' natural resources would be opposed to abandoning climate change mitigation pledges in favor of firing up fossil fuels to power AI development. …

Top AI chipmakers count on faster, denser, more efficient memory to boost training

AMD and Nvidia have already announced their next-gen datacenter GPUs will make the leap to HBM4, and if SK Hynix has its way, it’ll be the one supplying the bulk of it.…

A similar vuln on Apple devices was used against 'specific targeted users'

Samsung has fixed a critical flaw that affects its Android devices - but not before attackers found and exploited the bug, which could allow remote code execution on affected devices.…

Gartner survey of Fortune 500 corps shows very few are planning to replace human support staff

ai-pocalypse  You'll be able to talk to a human when you need help for many years to come. A new Gartner study shows that fears about AI replacing humans with bots in call centers are unfounded, at least among Fortune 500 companies.…

It’s a Republican pressing after DOGE whistleblower flags hostile work environment

A US Senator is demanding answers after a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who blew the whistle on DOGE dealings involuntarily resigned last month, citing workplace hostility in response to his concerns. …

Get ready for a fight over who steers the global standard for vulnerability identification

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) nearly let the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program lapse earlier this year, but a new "vision" document it released this week signals that it now wants more control over the global standard for vulnerability identification.…

But it reads at about the speed of punch cards

Imagine replacing thousands of LTO-9 tapes with just one cartridge. It's possible – if a Chinese research team's experimental DNA tape storage system reaches its theoretical maximum capacity.…

Half of TRACERS satellite duo tripped up by power problems

After a month of receiving the silent treatment, controllers have regained contact with a TRACERS spacecraft that went offline shortly after launch.…

One console to manage multiple clusters is table stakes, but some users are betting on mixed environments

Open source virtualization suite Proxmox has taken an important step towards becoming a stronger contender for those considering VMware alternatives by commencing beta testing for a datacenter management tool that can control multiple hardware clusters.…

Managarm, Asterinas, Xous – where disaffected code whisperers could go

Between Rust, new file systems, clashes between developers, systemd absorbing its functionality, and more, rumors of possible Linux forks are being muttered again. But there is another, better way.…

Dorm management refuses to cover costs after payment system borked

More than a thousand university students in the Netherlands must continue to travel to wash their clothes after their building management company failed to bring its borked smart laundry machines back online.…

Ethical concerns raised after crook offered themselves up on silver platter

Security outfit Huntress has been forced onto the defensive after its latest research – described by senior staff as "hilarious" – split opinion across the cybersecurity community.…

Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop

The US House Appropriations Committee has approved a bill that would maintain NASA's budget at the same level as last year. However, lawmakers missed an opportunity to strike out the proposed $85 million relocation of a space vehicle to Houston.…

Graph database fave also punts for transactional workloads

Neo4j has introduced "property sharding" which, according to one analyst, will help overcome its earlier struggles with scalability, while also allowing transactional workloads on the same system.…

The first distro vendor to announces its move says nein, danke

The next kernel will have no new bcachefs code – and the openSUSE versions that use that kernel are going further still.…