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That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the proposed Trump administration plan to cut $5.6 billion from the space agency's budget.…

DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini

Those pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform to something few users asked for – competing AI services.…

Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow

Two men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation.…

Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs... just another day for users

Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft's assurances it rolled back the configuration change and restored services.…

Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options

European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor in American hands.…

Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating

Opinion  The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase.…

Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or made

The UK's pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it "inadvertently provided", a document that later surfaced in a legal dispute over a £370 million contract.…

Headcounts, however, are mostly holding up

AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants…

Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions

China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…

The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end

Microsoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp.…

Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump

Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data.…

Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding

Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. …

Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings

Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal regulators.…

Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors

The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump's Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.…

After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck

The US Navy’s current carrier-based refueling aircraft may soon be getting help, as Boeing has completed the first flight of its autonomous tanker drone designed for carrier operations.…

We gotta get boring to get graduated

Grafanacon  The co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project says its maintainers may need to turn to AI tools to get some elements robust enough for the project as a whole to graduate.…

Eish shame man! Maybe you shouldn't ask AI to set the rules for AI use?

South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot.…

No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend

It's been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead - sort of - with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve. …

Executives from Citi, Home Depot, and Capcom describe early work with AI agents

While AI agents have moved from experimental tools to customer-facing workers in a matter of months, the next challenge is governance and reliability once those agents touch real money, real shoppers, and real creative output.…

Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on hand

With AI demand growing, Facebook parent Meta is looking for new ways to power its datacenters, with one ambitious project pledging to send solar power down from orbit. Another agreement offers Meta the opportunity to store enough power to keep its bit barns going, even when the grid is over capacity or down.…