China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests
China's CR450 train hit 453 km/h during pre-service trials, surpassing its CR400 predecessor's 420 km/h and outpacing Deutsche Bahn's 405 km/h test record.…
Royal Navy sharpens claws on Wildcat choppers with anti-drone Martlet missiles
Royal Navy helicopters will soon carry drone-busting lightweight Martlet missiles, now declared fully operational following the anti-ship Sea Venom gaining initial operating capability (IOC) earlier this month.…
Carnegie Mellon team claims vector-based system can turbocharge PostgreSQL
Automated database systems based on vector embedding algorithms could improve the performance of default settings on common PostgreSQL database services by a factor of two to ten, according to a database researcher.…
UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach
The UK's data protection regulator declined to launch an investigation into a leak at the Ministry of Defence that risked the lives of thousands of Afghans connected with the British Armed Forces.…
Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI
Google has revealed it’s ported around 30,000 of its production packages to the Arm architecture and plans to convert them all so it can run workloads on both its own Axion silicon and x86 processors.…
OpenAI releases bot-tom feeding browser with ChatGPT built in
In a bid to grab even more eyeballs, OpenAI has finally released Atlas, its long-teased, ChatGPT-powered web browser. Surfing the web may never be the same now that a bot is doing it for you – while training itself at the same time.…
Fake home invasion vid lands woman in real trouble
A Maryland woman who allegedly used AI to fake a home invasion was arrested and charged with making false statements after telling police that the ersatz intruder was part of a prank gone wrong.…
Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
column "It's always DNS" is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does.…
AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds
AI services like OpenAI's ChatGPT have been pitched for potential productivity gains, but their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.…
How malware vaccines could stop ransomware's rampage
Feature What's better, prevention or cure? For a long time the global cybersecurity industry has operated by reacting to attacks and computer viruses. But given that ransomware has continued to escalate, more proactive action is needed.…
AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists
When Amazon's cloud face-planted on Monday, it didn't just take down some of the world's most popular apps – it took down dignity, comfort, and the occasional cat toilet.…
Is PHP declining? JetBrains says yes. And no
JetBrains has released its State of the Developer Ecosystem survey, with more than 24,500 responses, revealing AI's impact on developer tools and programming language trends - including the claim that PHP and Ruby are in "long term decline."…
AI does a better job of ripping off the style of famous authors than MFA students do
Readers of texts created to use the styles of famous authors prefer works written by AI to human-written imitations, but only after developers fine-tune AI models to understand an author’s output.…
Anti-fraud body leaks dozens of email addresses in invite mishap
Anti-fraud nonprofit Cifas was left red-faced after sending out a calendar invite that exposed the email addresses of dozens of individuals working across the fraud space.…
Windows 11 update knocks out USB mice, keyboards in recovery mode
Updated Microsoft has confirmed a bug that disables USB mice and keyboards in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) after installing security update KB5066835, released October 14.…
Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough
Just under four years after the Linux kernel gained built-in read-write access to Windows drives, an alternative option has appeared.…
Microsoft's ancient icon library still lurks deep within Windows 11
The pifmgr.dll still lingers in modern Windows installations - a throwback to a simpler and blockier time, according to veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen.…
SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition
NASA's Acting Administrator has admitted that SpaceX is behind in plans to return astronauts to the Moon, has reopened lander contract competition, and pushed the deadline for a lunar landing to the end of the Trump administration in 2029.…
Brit boffins teach fusion plasma some manners with 3D magnetic field
Scientists at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) claim they have taken a significant step toward making fusion energy possible by applying a 3D magnetic field to counteract instabilities in a spherical tokamak plasma for the first time.…
Muji's minimalist calm shattered as ransomware takes down logistics partner
Japanese retailer Muji is suspending online orders after logistics partner Askul was knocked offline by a ransomware attack.…
