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But strife and criticism continue

Regional internet registry the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is now the subject of an investigation ordered by the government of its home country, Mauritius.…

gpt-oss-20b can't seem to decide who won the election, but tried to convince us that it was Biden

If you're still struggling to come to terms with the results of the 2024 US presidential election, you're not alone. OpenAI's new open-weight language model is also a bit confused.…

A good deal, like beauty, is in the ISP of the beholder, after all - at least if you want BEAD funding

US states that want to make use of rural broadband deployment funds had better not require ISPs to offer what they consider affordable service. According to the Trump Administration, "affordable" is for the ISP alone to define. …

ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions

Google confirmed that criminals breached one of its Salesforce databases and stole info belonging to some of its small-and-medium-business customers.…

Chip contract manufacturer declines to comment

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is "coming over and spending $300 billion in Arizona, building the biggest plant in the world for chips and semiconductors," US President Donald Trump said Tuesday.…

Timber!

Meta is following in Microsoft's footsteps and trying out wood as a construction material for its datacenters in a bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions.…

Thanks to LLMs, CEO expects to see networks 'back-end and front-end converge'

Arista Networks is expecting the AI datacenter industry to be dominated by open standards such as Ethernet or UALink in the near future, and has upped financial forecasts on the back of those hopes.…

Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1

It's just become a lot easier for US government agencies to procure AI products from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, as the firms and the feds have signed a government-wide agreement to streamline purchasing.…

A crock of what now?

Microsoft is reportedly preparing to unleash its latest product on the public: limited edition XP-themed Crocs.…

Communication problems for recently launched small satellites

NASA is having trouble tracking down two of its spacecraft. One of the TRACERS spacecraft has lost contact with Earth while the Athena EPIC satellite failed to send an important beacon signal.…

Customers compare upgrade to Microsoft's mega-messy Windows 8

UPDATED  Angry users of Atlassian’s Trello project management tool users are dishing out harsh criticism about a recent redesign.…

October 14 is going to be a big day in the Redmond world

It isn't only Windows 10 due for the support axe on October 14. Other Microsoft products will soon be stashed in Redmond's cupboard of forgotten dreams, including the venerable Visual Studio 2015.…

Australia's Castlepoint Systems recruited to avoid repeat of Afghan breach scandal

The UK's Ministry of Defence is the latest to slap its hand on the big red AI button as it seeks solutions to prevent data leaks.…

Upstream changes force users to pick an init system at install instead of boot

Debian 13 "Trixie" is coming, closely followed by a new release of MX Linux, MX 25, which will lose some of its init-system switching abilities.…

Security hardening and DevOps activities the tipping point

It might not be the year of the Linux desktop just yet, but ongoing cyberattacks and a general desire for a more secure posture are driving some businesses to the way of the penguin, according to asset manager Lansweeper.…

Former Space Shuttle support vehicle surfaces after surplus slip-up

Space fans looking to camp out in style have a chance to pick up an Airstream trailer that once served as the Convoy Command Vehicle for NASA's Space Shuttle operations at Edwards Air Force Base – if they have a couple hundred thousand to spare, that is.…

Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch

The second attempt by Europe's largest local authority to implement an Oracle finance and HR system – after the first left it unable to produce auditable accounts – remains on an "Amber-Red" risk rating less than nine months before it is expected to go live.…

First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations

Satellite comms services to standard phones are officially here, but customers expecting a full voice and data experience may have to wait a while longer and make sure their current devices meet the right level of telecoms standard.…

PiStorm adapter and a parasitic OS hijack classic 68000 hardware in the name of retro carnage

Linux developer Matthew Garrett has taken inspiration from the fungus kingdom to give a classic Commodore Amiga a brain transplant – turning it into a single-minded device that does nothing but run id Software's 1993 classic first-person shooter Doom under a "parasitic Linux" operating system.…

Expect the price hikes and channel changes that proved controversial at VMware, Citrix, and DOGE

The Cloud Software Group has acquired data management tools vendor Arctera, the owner of Backup Exec and other data management tools.…