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Hand us the mind bleach, we want to flush our memories of attack

Clorox is suing its service desk provider, Cognizant, for $380 million in a California state court, alleging the IT support crew "enabled a cybercriminal to gain a foothold in Clorox's network" by handing over staffers' passwords to attackers after they simply requested them.…

Vendor sees 'slight deceleration' in cloud backlog as it offers mixed results

SAP is warning of uncertainty in global markets after reporting revenue of €9 billion ($10.55 billion) for caledar Q2, up 9 percent year-on-year.…

Total Recall: Capturing everything you do on your PC screen to become a 'true companion'

Microsoft is again throwing AI at Windows 11 to see what sticks, releasing features including the even more eyebrow-raising successor to its controversial Recall, a screen-streaming remotely processed backseat driver dubbed Copilot Vision.…

Uncertainty continues to knock tech industry confidence

More tariff turmoil emerged this week as Nokia slashed its profit guidance for the year due to looming US levies on imported goods, while Texas Instruments' shares took a beating over fears that growth seen in Q2 will fall away following customer stockpiling to avoid import duties.…

But there are tweaks for everyone – even if some are less welcome than others

Mozilla has delivered the latest version of its web browser, alleviating a long-standing irritation for Linux users… but making its "AI" integration even more pervasive.…

Deal adds to a string of relationships based on improving data and analytics

NatWest Group has announced a five-year contract with AWS and Accenture intended to improve its analytics performance for customer data.…

In space, no one can hear you step on a plastic brick

The Lego bricks are being dusted off for a final time – at least for the Apollo program – to recreate the Apollo Soyuz Test Project via the medium of the plaything.…

Science friction at the far end of time for SpaceX and astronomy

Opinion  Elon Musk's Starlink flying circus is many things. It's a multi-thousand satellite global internet provider, growing by hundreds of new orbiting relays a month. It's part of intricate geopolitical power games between the Pentagon, the US government, Ukraine, and Musk himself.…

Organic waste to be pumped out of sight as part of 4.9M-tonne CO2 removal deal

Microsoft has signed a contract with a company that will pump shit underground for it in exchange for carbon credits.…

Boffins think worry and stress during the plague years changed our wetware, and that the damage can be reversed

A longitudinal study of nearly 996 healthy adults found that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated ageing of their brains.…

Smaller vendors offering alternatives cash in concerns

Analysis  Recent research suggests customers are concerned about the uptime reliability of hyperscalers' PostgreSQL instances, giving smaller alternative vendors an opening to fill the gap.…

Fight back against Redmond's productivity sinks

HANDS ON  Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop operating system, finally beating Windows 10. But it's also loaded with head-scratching default settings that sap your productivity and treat you like a computer illiterate. …

Already reeling from staff cuts, the health agency is choking on slop

ai-pocalypse  Amid expectations that the Trump administration will introduce an AI Action Plan on Wednesday to boost the use of AI in government, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are pleading for less of it.…

The prime beneficiary of the AI boom has global ambitions

Updated  Nvidia is officially bringing its CUDA software stack to RISC-V CPUs.…

Suggests buying local tech to avoid infosec worries

China’s Ministry of State Security has spent the week warning of backdoored devices on land and at sea.…

Who's picking up the tab again?

AI hype man and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has convinced his buddies at Oracle to bring an additional 4.5 gigawatts of datacenter capacity online in the US as part of the startup's Stargate initiative.…

The diner is now open in West Hollywood, and Musk wants to start a chain

video  Facing declining sales and a tarnished reputation, EV manufacturer Tesla is looking to a new industry to generate some revenue: Fast-casual food service.…

Summarizing online content is good for the search giant, not so much for publishers

ai-pocalypse  Google Search users are less likely to click on search result links when those pages have AI Overviews, according to the Pew Research Center.…

No more consideration of affordability or 1 Gbps speed goal if Chairman Carr gets his way

The next edition of the Federal Communications Commission's broadband expansion progress report is going to paint a rosier reality than usual, if a proposal being put to a vote at next month's meeting gets a pass. …

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness

If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies.…