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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.…

Analyst finds 91 percent revenue growth with white box makers leading the way

Here’s another thing AI can do: Increase revenue from selling servers by 91 percent year-over year, according to analyst firm IDC.…

Apparently boosts battery to 20 km range in 10 seconds, although as ever ... YMMV

Chinese electric automaker BYD has announced 1,000-volt supercharging technology it claims can fill a compatible vehicle’s battery in the same amount of time needed to pump fuel into a conventional car.…

Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute

GTC  Nvidia's rack-scale compute architecture is about to get really hot.…

SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots

SourceHut, an open-source-friendly git-hosting service, says web crawlers for AI companies are slowing down services through their excessive demands for data.…

Tall order for tiny market share techies but 'this is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,' says CEO

A new, speedier browser has arrived in the form of Vivaldi 7.2, giving its CEO the opportunity to protest the power of tech giants.…

DOGE efficiency in action

The upheaval at the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, took another twist on Tuesday, as it moved to reinstate staffers it had fired over the past few weeks - specifically those still in their probationary period - though they've been benched on paid leave for now.…

'Only' a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture

An exploitation avenue found by Trend Micro in Windows has been used in an eight-year-long spying campaign, but there's no sign of a fix from Microsoft, which apparently considers this a low priority.…

The 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals in Java 24 represent a stochastic sign

Oracle JDK 24 debuted on Tuesday with 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals, or JEPs as they're known in the Java programming community.…

Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot

Amazon has used tricks, algorithms, and surveillance to discourage warehouse employees from unionizing, according to a paper published in the journal Socius.…

Hiring remains relatively strong as analysts warn of slowdown

A pair of reports on tech sector employment trends in the United States suggest out-of-work techies right now have relatively decent prospects, but economic uncertainty and rapid policy changes initiated by the Trump administration mean the future job market looks less rosy.…

There's nothing bog-standard about this bombshell loo-suit

Updated  Rival HR technology unicorns are at each other's throats in a courtroom brawl over alleged corporate espionage.…

For when a Pico 2 is just too general purpose

The Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller is generally available, meaning the chip can now be picked up from resellers rather than as a Pico 2 or on PCBs from manufacturers like JLC.…