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CyberSentry work grinds to a halt

Government funding for a program that hunts for threats on America's critical infrastructure networks expired on Sunday, preventing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from analyzing activity that could indicate a cyberattack, the program director told Congress on Tuesday.…

Sotheby's also flogs off dinosaur skeleton for $26M

Videos  The largest chunk of Mars yet discovered on Earth, a 54-pound (25kg) chunk of the Red Planet, has been purchased at auction for $5.3 million by an unknown bidder.…

Testing shows RNGD chips up to 2.25x higher performance per watt than.... five-year-old Nvidia silicon

South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI scored a major customer win this week after LG's AI Research division tapped its AI accelerators to power servers running its Exaone family of large language models.…

Used stolen info to pitch for Chinese tech talent program

A Silicon Valley engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of trade secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including crucial military technology.…

Fans say low usage no surprise when obscure but beloved feature disabled by default

GitHub has "paused" the removal of the command palette, which enables keyboard control of the GitHub web application, following developer protests.…

With more to come, no doubt

At least three Chinese groups are attacking on-premises SharePoint servers via a couple of recently disclosed Microsoft bugs, according to Redmond.…

Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspot

Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation.…

Credulous minister claims MoU – not contract – with chatbot biz could help 'fix NHS' and 'drive economic growth'

The UK's Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) is jumping into bed with chatbot biz OpenAI, signing a memorandum of understanding to expand OpenAI's footprint in the nation while inserting its tech firmly into the public sector.…

Admins urged to rotate machine keys, restart IIS after emergency fix

Microsoft has good news for administrators running SharePoint Server 2016. The cloud and software megacorp has published updates to close a gaping hole in the document management service.…

The modern art form that redeemed a Windows utility has lessons for all

Opinion  The speedrun is one of the internet's genuinely new artforms. At its best, it's akin to a virtuoso piano recital. Less emotional depth, more adrenalin. Watching an expert fly through a game creates an endorphin rush without the expense or time of doing it for yourself. …

The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions

Column  When you don't like the message, what do you do? You shoot the messenger, of course.…

Voyager Declaration rails against 'indiscriminate cuts' to science and aeronautics research

Updated  NASA's Goddard Center Director, Makenzie Lystrup, is to depart after just over two years in the role.…

High Court judge slashes tech titan's $4B damages claim by almost 80%

A High Court judge has ruled that the estate of Autonomy founder Dr Mike Lynch will not have to pay the billions of dollars sought in damages by HPE following its ill-fated acquisition of Autonomy in 2011.…

'We're going to smash the business model' NHS, councils, and schools told

The UK government is proposing to "ban" public sector organizations and critical national infrastructure from paying criminal operators behind ransomware attacks, under new measures outlined today.…

After abandoning in-house replacement for scandal-hit system, government company looks to off-the-shelf software

The UK Post Office has said the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal is a risk to its £410 million ($552 million) plan to replace its ageing POS and accounting system, and may force changes to awarded contracts.…

Ofcom suggests government should use legislation to back PSB content on the platform

Public service broadcasters (PSBs) need to work with Google-owned YouTube "urgently," says the UK's communications watchdog, Ofcom.…

As long as you get paid like a 5-day gig

Employees work better and tire less when working a four-day week, according to a six-month trial involving thousands of individuals.…

Announces beta for separate production and development databases that will land in a few weeks

Vibe coding service Replit has announced changes to its product that should prevent the database deletion disaster reported by one of its users.…

AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things

The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions not to change any code without permission.…

Deliberate overheating brought relief to Juno probe’s camera, twice

NASA has revealed that one of the cameras on the Juno craft it sent to Jupiter malfunctioned, and that it fixed it with some very, very, remote hardware hacking.…