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Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s

The British government has signed a deal with Rolls‑Royce to carry out the design work on small modular reactors (SMRs).…

Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25

Having blocked new installations of Outlook Lite in October 2025, Microsoft will " complete the retirement" of the app on May 25.…

Already £1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 years

The UK's state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous transformation program, including busting the current timeline.…

Advisers say fewer staff could mean slower answers and tougher renewals

Oracle customers have been warned to watch for changes in support and pricing as Larry Ellison’s company makes huge datacenter spending commitments to support its AI ambitions.…

Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold

When IBM PCs set the standard for personal computing and Madonna topped the charts, Japan led the semiconductor industry. But that 1980s dominance faded as the fabless design and foundry model evolved.…

Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently

Opinion  It's not the first time this has happened to me and it won't be the last. I pulled a laptop that I hadn't used for six months out of a drawer, then waited through three hours and four rounds of reboots for it to update Windows 11 completely.…

Tiny variation in temperature weakened a component and when a critical moment arrived, that mattered

Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure of a satellite launch using its locally developed H3 rocket.…

One was patched almost 14 years ago

Crooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities - one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity - according to America's lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday gave federal agencies two weeks to patch them.…

What, you think basic usability is improved just for your benefit, human?

Cloudflare is rebuilding Wrangler’s command-line tooling by adding commands for products and interfaces that still lack CLI support. And yes, AI agents are a big reason why.…

Brief outage follows growing number of quality complaints

Once the AI darling of programmers everywhere, Anthropic's Claude has been stumbling mightily, both in terms of cost and perceived quality. The service was down briefly on Monday with "a major outage," service trouble that only amplifies growing discontent from customers that even a bot can see.…

'AI is now infused in every package that we offer to our addressable market,' SVP John Aisien told us

ServiceNow's latest product announcements show how hardcore the company has become about embedding AI across its go-to-market strategy.…

Google Sites lure leads to bogus root certificate

Imagine getting asked to do something by a person in authority. An unknown malware slinger targeting open source software developers via Slack impersonated a real Linux Foundation official and used pages hosted on Google.com to steal developers' credentials and take over their systems.…

Dev reports suggest long sessions now burn through usage much faster

Anthropic last month reduced the TTL (time to live) for the Claude Code prompt cache from one hour to five minutes for many requests, but said this should not increase costs despite users reporting faster depleting quotas.…

Hallucinations don't fly in a court of law

Opinion  For a sector at the heart of US economic growth, AI claims and counter-claims remain curiously hard to reconcile. Models are improving at the speed of light, AI firms claim, yet the message from the codeface remains that benefits are more than offset by the downsides.…

ShinyHunters claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party tool

ShinyHunters is back, this time pinning Rockstar Games to its leak site and claiming it didn't so much hack its way in as walk through a door someone else left wide open.…

GG noob, who cleared you to land?

The Federal Aviation Administration continues to face an air traffic controller shortage, and it's hoping that a new demographic of potential applicants can fill the ranks: Video gamers. …

Makes Rust support official, adds code for ancient Alpha and SPARC CPUs

Linus Torvalds has released version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…

MoD plans rapid procurement of Cambridge Aerospace's Skyhammer system at home and abroad

Britain is set to buy interceptors from a homegrown startup to counter Iranian Shahed-style attack drones, equipping both its own armed forces and allies in the Persian Gulf region.…

Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they’re coming back!

In a world wracked by wars, beset by difficult economic conditions, and struggling with exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them.…

AI gubbins still there, just tucked under 'Writing Tools'

Copilot is on its way out of Notepad, but a return to the basic text editor is not on the cards.…