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Westinghouse taps Big G's cloud smarts to speed up atomic plant builds and keep the grid humming

While AI systems are known to spew wrong information and make up facts, Google and Westinghouse Electric are now pressing generative AI models into service to transform how nuclear reactors are constructed and optimize their operation.…

Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped provide a snapshot of the formation of a planetary system around a young star for the first time, according to astroboffins.…

Gentoo derivative is the most popular Linux distro, but its days are apparently numbered

Google's Android president has confirmed the platform is set to replace ChromeOS – but not when.…

AI boom can't mask trade gloom, says Dutch lithography giant

World War Fee  Shares in ASML fell by more than 8 percent after it warned that tariff uncertainty over future trade was increasing and net sales were down on the previous quarter.…

Supermarket announces white hat education scheme as four suspects released on bail

Co-op Group's chief executive officer has confirmed that all 6.5 million of the organization's members had their data stolen during its April cyberattack - Scattered Spider is believed to be behind the digital heist.…

Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be 'deep breach' of Active Directory

Exclusive  Aviation insiders say Serbia's national airline, Air Serbia, was forced to delay issuing payslips to staff as a result of a cyberattack it is battling.…

Peter Kyle promised alternative to 'ball and chain' of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power

Comment  Last week, UK minister for science, innovation and technology Peter Kyle spoke at Google Cloud Summit in London to tell the audience: "Now, sometimes I'm accused of being 'too close to big tech'," with the Chocolate Factory's multi-colored logo looming behind him.…

Former staffers of struggling UK biz say they don’t expect to be paid for July

UK cybersecurity shop Adarma has confirmed it has entered administration.…

Coming soon, somewhere in the Middle East or Asia

Rideshare OG Uber has announced a plan to roll out “thousands” of robo-taxis from Chinese tech giant Baidu.…

Neil Smith has been trying to get the railroad industry to listen since 2012, but it took a CISA warning to get there

Updated  When independent security researcher Neil Smith reported a vulnerability in a comms standard used by trains to the US government in 2012, he most likely didn't expect it would take until 2025 to sort the matter out, but here we are. …

CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line

Column  Agentic AI will make jobs – but many will involve picking its failures off automated conveyor belts.…

Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today

Exclusive  VMware has advised partners its current channel program will end, and it seems that smaller players won’t be invited back.…

Network update reports median 25 ms latency – in the US – as capacity rockets upwards

Elon Musk’s space broadband service Starlink has hinted that Elon Musk’s Starship will be ready for commercial flights in 2026.…

Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns

Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs.…

Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish

The US government has cleared AMD to resume exporting some accelerators to China.…

Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop.…

File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crime

A former US Army soldier, who reportedly hacked AT&T, bragged about accessing President Donald Trump's call logs, and then Googled "can hacking be treason," and "US military personnel defecting to Russia," pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into telecom firms' databases and extort at least $1 million.…

Let us delve swiftly into meticulous inquiry with our AI masters

Like it or not, ChatGPT and other large language models are changing the world, including affecting how we speak, claims a group of researchers, and the end results could be an erosion of linguistic and cultural diversity.…

Apache-licensed plan takes aim at costlier options

Mistral has released an open automatic speech recognition (ASR) software bundle called Voxtral in a bid to undercut rivals on price and quality.…

MP Materials aims to deliver US-made, recycled magnets by 2027

Apple has signed a deal with the only active rare earth mine under American control to begin sourcing magnets for its iDevices from the US - but not from the mine itself: Apple's going to recycle. …