Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds
Gen Z can get off their digital high horses because their passwords are no more secure than their grandparents'.…
Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service
A Dutch wind farm operator learned the hard way that its turbines weren't just spinning to generate electricity – they were also powering someone else's crypto wallet.…
Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually
A Chinese-led team of boffins has uncovered tiny grains of hematite and maghemite in materials scooped from the Moon's far-side South Pole-Aitken Basin by the Chang'e 6 probe – iron oxides more at home on rusty tools on Earth than on our bone-dry satellite.…
Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel
SC25 France will get its first exascale supercomputer — Europe's second — when Atos subsidiary Eviden builds Alice Recoque using AMD chips.…
Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium
Servo is an all-new and all-Rust browser rendering engine. As Mozilla falters, it's the world's best option for avoiding a Google monopoly.…
Brits to help foot power bill for datacenters under government AI plans
While UK households face some of the world's highest energy prices, datacenter operators are set to receive electricity discounts under government plans to accelerate AI infrastructure development.…
Vodafone, EE, O2, Three hit with £3B overcharging lawsuit
Britain's biggest mobile phone companies face legal action over claims they overcharged customers through a "loyalty penalty" after a tribunal permitted the cases to proceed.…
Brits believe the bots even though study finds they're often talking nonsense
AI assistants can sometimes provide misleading or incorrect answers. However, almost half of British consumers using the services put more faith in them than they maybe should.…
Starlink’s method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer
Researchers have found Starlink’s efforts to mitigate the effects of solar storms can create degraded performance that persists for a day or more after geomagnetic conditions ease.…
Alibaba releases chatbot that produces error when asked about Tiananmen Square
Chinese tech giant Alibaba yesterday launched a new chatbot that reported errors soon after launch and is very touchy about some subjects Beijing doesn’t like to discuss.…
Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years
VMware has admitted that its guidance about the hardware needed to run its vSAN virtual storage arrays has been wrong for years.…
Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI
Interview Scientific computing is about to undergo a period of rapid change as workloads inject AI.…
'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second
Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.…
Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says
Loose lips sink ships, the classic line goes. Information proliferation in the internet age has government auditors reiterating that loose tweets can sink fleets, and they're concerned that the Defense Department isn't doing enough to stop sensitive info from getting out there. …
AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows
In the world of George Orwell's 1984, two and two make five. And large language models are not much better at math.…
Security researcher calls BS on Coinbase breach disclosure timeline
A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months before it disclosed the data theft.…
Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run
SC25 Europe has officially entered exascale orbit. On Monday, EuroHPC's Jupiter supercomputer became the fourth such machine on the Top500 list of publicly known systems to exceed a million-trillion floating point operations a second in the time-honored High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark.…
Google previews Code Wiki: Can you trust AI to document your repository?
Google has previewed Code Wiki, an AI project that aims to document code in a repository and keep it up to date by regenerating the content after every code change.…
Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints
SC25 Dell continues to push itself as a one-stop shop for enterprise AI infrastructure with a wave of products and services, including updates to servers, storage, and software to expand its offerings.…
Selling your identity to North Korean IT scammers isn't a sustainable side hustle
It sounds like easy money. North Koreans pay you to use your identity so they can get jobs working for American companies in IT. However, if you go this route, the US Department of Justice promises to catch up with you eventually.…