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Worry not, the rest of the business is EPYC and demand is RYZEN

AMD’s revenue from AI products destined for datacenters dipped in the quarter ended June 28th, thanks to the USA’s ban on GPU exports to China.…

Maybe sooner in other places

Updated  Amazon’s Project Kuiper space broadband service will be ready for commercial services “from the middle of 2026” according to NBN Co, the operator of Australia’s National Broadband Network. The Register understands the network may be available elsewhere before that time.…

Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead

Broadcom on Monday unveiled a new switch which could allow AI model developers to train models on GPUs spread across multiple datacenters up to 100 kilometers apart. The switch could help pave the way for an alternative to the massive facilities currently being built to power the AI boom, allowing companies to stitch together distant and less power-hungry datacenters.…

More evidence that AI expands the attack surface

Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration, silently swapping it for a malicious command without any user prompt.…

They want you to use a Microsoft account, but we'll show you how to get around it

hands on  Redmond really – and I mean really – wants you to log into Windows 11 with a Microsoft account.…

GPT-OSS now available in 120 and 20 billion parameter sizes under Apache 2.0 license

OpenAI released its first open weights language models since GPT-2 on Tuesday with the debut of GPT-OSS.…

The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options

A jury has unanimously found Meta guilty of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act by using data from menstruation and fertility app Flo to sell advertising to the social network.…

AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it

AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network made technical errors in its analysis of Perplexity's operations.…

Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys

Chromebook demand surged in the second quarter of 2025, Canalys reported Tuesday, but that doesn't necessarily mean permanent growth is on the horizon. …

Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics?

black hat  Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users' devices, steal passwords, and access sensitive data, including fingerprint information, according to Cisco Talos.…

CIOs at the EPA, DHS, and GSA are called out for failure to implement critical cybersecurity recommendations

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) scolded a trio of federal agencies on Monday because their CIOs haven't implemented IT-related recommendations designed to safeguard national cybersecurity. …

Some pinpointed software nasties but were suspicious of printer drivers too

Researchers from the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo have discovered exactly how users decide whether an application is legitimate or malware before installing it – and the good news is they're better than you might expect, at least when primed to expect malware.…

Tools vendor targets 'creators who've never coded' but devs will be wary

IDE and developer tools vendor JetBrains has released a private preview of Kineto, an AI-driven no-code platform for creators and small businesses.…

'Plague' malware has been around for months without tripping alarms

Updated  Researchers at German infosec services company Nextron Threat have spotted malware that creates a highly-persistent Linux backdoor and said that antivirus engines did not initially flag the code as malicious.…

New version season is near, and some of the big names are dropping x86-32 – but not this one

NetBSD 11 is taking shape and the code branch for the new release has been created.…

Wiz Research details flaws in Python backend that expose AI models and enable remote code execution

Security researchers have lifted the lid on a chain of high-severity vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on Nvidia's Triton Inference Server.…

Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment

NASA has called it quits on attempts to contact its Lunar Trailblazer probe, notching up a failure in its low-cost, high-risk science program.…

Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports

The Trump administration wants better ways to track the location of chips, as part of attempts to prevent advanced AI accelerator hardware from getting into Chinese hands.…

OneWeb constellation may be smaller, but it's suddenly looking like a safer bet for some

Paris-based Eutelsat is reporting rocketing revenues in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite services, driven partly by an uptick in interest from governments seeking to reduce reliance on US providers.…

You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000

Before humanoid robots walk among us, they'll be operated remotely, in part to gather the training data to develop Vision-Language-Action Models for autonomous, nonlethal bipedal ambulation.…