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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.…

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.…

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.…

Would you believe it, this RaaS cartel says Russia is off limits

DragonForce, a new-ish ransomware-as-a-service operation, has given organizations another cyber threat to worry about — unless they’re in Russia, which is off limits to the would-be extortionists.…

IT department keeps the infrastructure. Then this new persona takes over and handles the AI stuff

Some organizations have started hiring for a new tech job: The Machine Learning Administrator – aka the “ML admin”.…

Partly because America does AI wrong and it can get more done with less

Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough high-end GPUs to train new AI models for years, in part because it’s found more efficient ways to do so.…

Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster

Interview  After some teething pains, TensorWave CEO Darrick Horton is confident that AMD's Instinct accelerators are ready to take on large-scale AI training.…

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. …

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.…

Ransomware or critical infra hit? Top US manufacturer maintains steely silence

Nucor, the largest steel manufacturer in the US, shut down production operations after discovering its servers had been penetrated.…

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.…

Touchdown with no topple? Company aims for third time lucky

Intuitive Machines has blamed poor lighting, a problematic altimeter, and difficulties spotting craters for the company's second lunar lander tipping over.…

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.…

Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts

The future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce.…

Plus: All the fun and frolic of fixes from Adobe, SAP, Ivanti

Patch Tuesday  It's that time of the month again, and Microsoft has made it extra spicy by revealing five flaws it says are under active exploitation – but rates as important rather than critical fixes.…

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.…

Stop us if you've heard this one before

Updated  A legal claim has been brought against Microsoft over alleged licensing practices that could result in a multibillion-pound payout for UK customers.…

'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. …

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.…

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.…