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Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line

Comment  The Crew-9 mission has safely returned to Earth, marking the end of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's extended time in space and possibly NASA's bipartisan leanings.…

Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money

HP Inc. has settled a class action lawsuit in which it was accused of unlawfully blocking customers from using third-party toner cartridges - a practice that left some with useless printers – but won’t pay a cent to make the case go away.…

SSNs, payment details, and health info too

The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) says a July 2024 "security incident" exposed sensitive personal data on more than half a million individuals, including financial and health info.…

Big Blue's workstation workhorse patches hole in network installation manager that could let the bad guys in

IBM "strongly recommends" customers running its Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) operating system apply patches after disclosing two critical vulnerabilities, one of which has a perfect 10 severity score.…

Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a ©

Updated  The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling that content created by an AI model without human input cannot be copyrighted.…

Cyber-crime is officially getting out of hand

One of the world's largest sperm banks, California Cryobank, is in a sticky situation.…

One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out

Researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) tend to parrot buggy code when tasked with completing flawed snippets.…

How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then?

Elon Musk's DOGE promoted the decision to terminate a deal with service-disabled veterans supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs 10 days before the contract was set to expire anyway.…

HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work

GTC  The age of the 20-petaFLOPS desktop is upon us as Dell announced a machine capable of achieving that massive processing power today at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley.…

Remaining Republicans don't like the right to repair, non-compete clause ban, or some social media moderation

Analysis  In a surprise Tuesday move, US President Donald Trump fired the two remaining Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission, potentially accelerating a shift in the consumer and competition watchdog's stance towards tech and other businesses.…

Because guesswork won't keep the lights on

GTC  Schneider Electric has developed a digital twin system to simulate how an AI datacenter operates in order to accurately design for the appropriate power requirements.…

Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server

GTC  After a Hopper hiatus, Nvidia's DGX Station returns, now armed with an all-new desktop-tuned Grace-Blackwell Ultra Superchip capable of churning out 20 petaFLOPS of AI performance.…

Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue'

Not content to wait for open letters to influence the European Commission, Dutch parliamentarians have taken matters into their own hands by passing eight motions urging the government to ditch US-made tech for homegrown alternatives.…

Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway

GTC  Nvidia is set to make available Ethernet and InfiniBand switches featuring silicon photonics with co-packaged optics to advance its vision of datacenters with "millions of GPUs," arguing that the equipment can keep power consumption down.…

Cue deepening existential European dread as Rest of World contemplates Trump turning off the info tap

If the United States stopped sharing cyber-threat intel with Ukraine, its European allies and the rest of the Five Eyes nations wouldn't be able to provide all the info Uncle Sam collects, according to former chief of US Cyber Command and the NSA General Paul Nakasone.…

Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL

Analysis  ​Despite ongoing construction efforts, the North American colocation datacenter market is grappling with record-high occupancy rates. This surge in demand, coupled with delays in new projects due to electricity shortages, has created a challenging environment for both developers and customers.…

Services still down and out, but techies working for local government saved the day

Nottingham City Council continues to deal with the fallout from its freak IT outage from last week as it confirms in-house IT specialists managed to prevent any data from going missing.…

It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel

Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in the version after next of Ubuntu, 25.10 – which also means changing the software license.…

'Three-year' tech support deal still running

The UK's third-largest grocery retailer is set to finish its "three-year" tech divorce project from Walmart in the third quarter of 2025, while most project staff have been moved on.…

If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout

Bioengineers have pulled together to get artificial muscles pulling in multiple directions, an important step towards using them in medical treatments and robots.…