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Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside

Lenovo has pulled a couple of European supercomputer wins out of the bag, one using Intel chips for Imperial College London and an AMD-based system for the European Institute of Oncology.…

On your marks, get set... bork!

updated  Microsoft set a new record with June's security update for the time between release and an admission of borkage.…

'BrowserVenom' is pure poison

Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called "BrowserVenom".…

FIN6 moves from point-of-sale compromise to phishing recruiters

In a scam that flips the script on fake IT worker schemes, cybercriminals posing as job seekers on LinkedIn and Indeed are targeting recruiters - a group hated only slightly less than digital crooks - with malware hosted on phony resume portfolio sites.…

Design software slinger warns it won't hire devs who aren't good at modern tools

Australian SaaS-y graphic design service Canva now requires candidates for developer jobs to use AI coding assistants during the interview process.…

Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance

US Navy Secretary John Phelan has told the Senate the service needs the right to repair its own gear, and will rethink how it writes contracts to keep control of intellectual property and ensure sailors can fix hardware, especially in a fight.…

Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic

DARPA has announced a research program to explore whether an "ingestible form factor" device can stimulate gut neurons to modulate stress responses, potentially improving decision-making and reducing the risk of PTSD.…

Stealthy Falcon swoops on WebDAV and Redmond's even patching IE!

Patch Tuesday  It's Patch Tuesday time again, and Microsoft is warning that there are a bunch of critical fixes to sort out - and two actively exploited bugs.…

Everything is AWESOME!!!

OpenAI on Tuesday rolled out its o3-Pro model for ChatGPT Pro and Teams subscribers, slashed o3 pricing by 80 percent, and dropped a blog post from CEO Sam Altman teasing "intelligence too cheap to meter."…

His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more

Obit  Bill Atkinson, widely acclaimed as perhaps the most brilliant computer programmer ever, has succumbed to pancreatic cancer at 74.…

The 16 other flagged issues are on customers, says CRM giant

Salesforce has assigned five CVE identifiers following a security report that uncovered more than 20 configuration weaknesses, some of which exposed customers to unauthorized access and session hijacking.…

Customers weren’t sold on automation, so the search for ROI continues

After lackluster results from customer-facing automation, Starbucks is now redirecting its tech ambitions toward helping its own employees.…

Uses eBPF, which both Google and Meta have proven out at scale

Cisco Live  Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta.…

Interpol coordinates operation, nabs 32 across Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Nauru

Thirty-two people across Asia have been arrested over their suspected involvement with infostealer malware in the latest international collaboration against global cybercrime.…

The botnet’s still alive and evolving

Badbox 2.0, the botnet that infected millions of smart TV boxes and connected devices before private security researchers and law enforcement partially disrupted its infrastructure, is readying for a third round of fraud and digital attacks, according to one of the threat hunters who uncovered the original scheme.…

It's still smoking, but help is on hand

A tug has reached the Morning Midas, six days after a presumed battery fire broke out, causing the crew to abandon ship.…

With 1 MW racks and prefab bit barns, the heat is on

GTC Paris  Schneider Electric and Nvidia are jointly developing cooling, management, and control systems for AI datacenters in support of the EU's AI action plan, with Schneider detailing support for racks with 1 MW loads.…

The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry – we captured backups

Updated  We're less than a month away from the Trump administration's launch of an initiative to push AI across the entire federal government, based on a code repository eagle-eyed onlookers spotted on GitHub before it disappeared. …

Agentless contact center 'not yet technically feasible, nor operationally desirable'

Good news for consumers frustrated by wading through pools of AI treacle in search of customer service - businesses are reportedly turning back to human agents "amid AI integration challenges."…

Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks

Euro chip designer SiPearl has released a reference server design featuring its Rhea1 processor, the chip that powers Jupiter, Europe's most powerful supercomputer.…