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Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote

New Zealand’s government has signaled its support for a bill to ban social media for children under 16, but without explicitly making it a government initiative.…

We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House

The Attorneys General of 17 states and Washington, DC have sued the Trump administration over an executive order halting all federal approvals for wind energy projects.…

And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere

Omnissa, the former VMware end-user compute business spun out last year as an independent company, is moving beyond its traditional territory of managing endpoint devices and into server management.…

Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction

A developer of mobile sports apps has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple, seeking to recover commissions iBiz allegedly collected in violation of a federal injunction intended to allow developers to use alternative payment systems.…

Zog brain hurt. Zog want Google help make read easier

Exasperated by the prolix verbiage and gratuitously convoluted phraseology that so often permeates technical treatises, philosophical discourses, or the meandering expositions of journalists afflicted by a lack of rhetorical economy? Then Google has a new AI feature for you - provided you use iOS, that is. …

Too much hot air brings down Manchester Uni based neural network project

Exclusive  The brain-inspired SpiNNaker machine at Manchester University in England suffered an overheating incident over the Easter weekend that will send a chill down the spines of datacenter administrators.…

Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far

Only a quarter of AI initiatives have delivered the expected return on investment, according to an IBM survey of 2,000 CEOs.…

(If only that would keep folks off unsanctioned chat app side quests)

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is overhauling its "outdated" software procurement systems, and insists it's putting security at the forefront of decision-making processes.…

Easyjson library's presence in numerous open source projects alarms security biz

Easyjson, a software library for serializing data in Golang applications, is maintained by developers affiliated with Russia's VK Group.…

Brussels rolls out €500M plan to lure boffins with grants and actual respect for research

The European Commission (EC) is looking to make Europe the home of science by tempting researchers and scientists to relocate to the continent amid a more hostile stance toward academic freedom in the US.…

Data giant backs federal austerity push, saying it's 'the right thing' for US

Palantir, the controversial US surveillance and analytics firm, says it welcomes scrutiny of government spending by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the controversial cost-cutting agency led by Elon Musk.…

Azure Virtual Desktop App attach users might want to sit this one out for a bit longer

Microsoft is celebrating the milestone of Windows 11 24H2 reaching broad availability with… yet another "known issue." This time, it is related to Azure Virtual Desktop applications.…

From ubiquitous go-to system for early Noughties startups to a legacy like no other

Before Donald Trump became US president and the UK left the EU – both arguably the result of a new kind of online politics – a rather nervous-looking Mark Zuckerberg shuffled out onto a Harvard University lecture hall floor to offer some insight into the inner workings of a website he had created less than two years earlier.…

'Trust us, we're from Trumpland' may not help Microsoft as much as it hopes

Opinion  It is a nation's first duty to protect its citizens from harm. A fine maxim, and one we can all agree on, even in these disagreeable times. Sadly, that's as far as it goes. What the harm is and how to protect against it is where light turns to heat.…

One distro has to be the most extra – and here it is

A Commodore-themed talking Linux desktop, complete with hundreds of games, makes for the biggest distro we've seen yet.…

Can we turn to govt, academic models instead?

RSAC  Corporate AI models are already skewed to serve their makers' interests, and unless governments and academia step up to build transparent alternatives, the tech risks becoming just another tool for commercial manipulation.…

A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money

Microsoft partners can now tailor private offers that allow buyers to vary the amount and timing of payments for some SaaS products and services.…

State-backed chip slinger inches closer to cloud-scale relevance

Chinese chip designer Loongson claims more than 100 products now run on its homegrown LoongArch architecture, including an OpenStack-based cloud stack from domestic hyperscale heavyweight Inspur.…

Because who needs cybersecurity when there’s culture wars to win

President Trump's dream 2026 budget would gut the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, by $491 million - about 17 percent – and accuses the organization of abandoning its core mission in favor of policing online speech.…

PLUS: AirPlay exploits; Six-year old backdoor opens; Raytheon settles federal charges; and more!

Infosec In Brief  Microsoft has decided to push its consumer customers to dump passwords in favor of passkeys.…