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Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'

NASA has delayed a supply delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) after the engines of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft did not perform as expected during an orbit-raising burn.…

American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform

World War Fee  The US PC industry is suffering from inventory indigestion caused by resellers over-ordering hardware to avoid Donald Trump's expected import taxes on China-made kit.…

Arm, AI, and Copilot, oh my!

hands on  The Arm-based Surface Laptop 7 was introduced in 2024, followed by an Intel-powered version a few months later. As with much of the Surface line, it's a well-engineered piece of hardware. I needed something that could run off the battery for a full day, wouldn't break the strap of a courier bag or the bank, and featured a decent spec.…

But will the International Space Station still be there to host its node?

Axiom Space and Spacebilt have announced plans to add optically interconnected Orbital Data Center (ODC) infrastructure to the International Space Station (ISS).…

And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy

Tech analysts expect worldwide spending on AI to hit nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025, including $268 billion on optimized servers. These investments will also soon appear in even more consumer products.…

Insiders say AI trials involving 'critical network services' underway and some engineering roles being moved to India

Exclusive  Sky Group, the Brit-based commercial TV and broadband service slinger owned by Comcast, is chopping up to 600 employees from the Technology, Consumer Group and COO divisions in the UK.…

Former head of Kubuntu and neon says adiós after 25 years

Sad news for KDE: one of the core people guiding the project for the whole century so far has left the building.…

Jared Spataro, boss of modern work and biz apps division, says 'hard to make the ROI argument for it'

A Microsoft exec claims Copilot is boosting productivity among the customers that adopted it yet sustained efforts to convince many them of the returns on investment remains a work in progress.…

But efforts to simplify popular programming language for beginners are unlikely to boost popularity

Oracle has released JDK (Java Development Kit) 25, the first long term support (LTS) version since JDK 21 two years ago. New features include beginner-friendly compact source files, succinct module imports, and more flexible constructors.…

Prosecutors say Conor Fitzpatrick's crimes caused 'incalculable' damage

The founder of the popular cybercrime website BreachForums will spend three years in prison after previously being let off with a slap on the wrist.…

Latest extension to factory closures takes incident response into fourth week

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced a further extension to its multi-site global shutdown, bringing its cyber-related downtime to nearly four weeks.…

Pentesters confirm key system is safe but core products remain unavailable

Brit telco Colt Technology Services says its recovery from an August cyberattack might not be completed until late November.…

Redmond woos Blighty with cloud and AI infrastructure splurge as Trump comes to town

Microsoft appears to have trumped Google's UK datacenter ambitions with a $15 billion investment in cloud and AI infrastructure in the country.…

Safe C++ proposal author claims that 'will not ever work'

The C++ standards committee abandoned a detailed proposal to create a rigorously safe subset of the language, according to the proposal's co-author, despite continuing anxiety about memory safety.…

Screw-up or conspiracy?

Lurking within the Windows Bluetooth stack is a hardcoded reference to the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000. Is this nostalgic favoritism from Microsoft? Or is it just somebody, somewhere, making a mistake that an engineer had to work around?…

Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot

Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of global computer hardware, where the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) with Secure Boot incorporated is a standard. But what does UEFI look like from an Arm perspective?…

Google and ETH Zurich found problems with AMD/SK Hynix combo, will probe other hardware

Researchers from Google and Swiss university ETH Zurich have found a new class of Rowhammer vulnerability that could allow attackers to access info stored in DDR5 memory.…

Suggests using multiple overlapping approaches and being kind to kids who get kicked off

Australia’s eSafety commissioner has told social media operators it expects them to employ multiple age assurance techniques and technologies to keep children under sixteen off social media, as required by local law from December 10th.…

Intrusions bear the same hallmarks as recent Nx mess

The npm platform is the target of another supply chain attack, with crims already compromising 187 packages and counting.…

Tech evolved from PoC to global campaign in under two months

An attack called FileFix is masquerading as a Facebook security alert before ultimately dropping the widely used StealC infostealer and malware downloader on Windows machines.…