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It might be time to update the Submarine Telegraph Act of 1885

Cyberattacks and undersea cable sabotage are blurring the line between war and peace and exposing holes in UK law, a government minister has warned lawmakers.…

And no, that's not a typo

Amazon Web Services has cooked up a new Graviton 4-powered instance tuned for network-intensive applications like cloud firewalls and load balancers.…

It's 2025 so even this networking deal is about AI, which is apparently about to change wide area networks

Broadcom has sold VeloCloud, the software-defined WAN business VMware acquired in 2017, to Arista.…

Warns investors its codebase is harder to maintain as it bakes in brainboxes

Web design tools developer Figma on Tuesday filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to propose an initial public offering of company shares.…

Google's TPUs might not be on Altman's menu just yet, but he's never been all that picky about hardware

Analysis  No longer bound to Microsoft's infrastructure, OpenAI is looking to expand its network of compute providers to the likes of Oracle, CoreWeave, and apparently even rival model builder Google.…

More fiction than science

Analysis  IT consultancy Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls.…

Up to $150K tier shelved, perks folded into two-track system

Microsoft has retired its program that granted incorporated AI startups with a validated business plan up to $150,000 in Azure credits and replaced it with a two-track system.…

The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken down

ai-pocalypse  Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers by default in a bid to become the internet's gatekeeper.…

Customizations not saved with security baseline policy update

Microsoft Intune administrators may face a few days of stress after Redmond acknowledged a problem with security baseline customizations.…

Trump's budget bill moves back to the House with some mods

It took a tie-breaking vote from the Vice President JD Vance to pass Trump's budget reconciliation bill through the Senate on Tuesday, but a controversial section that would have barred states from regulating AI was struck down in a much clearer fashion. …

He didn't cover his tracks very well, the iGiant claims in a court filing

An ex-Apple employee who allegedly thought he was clever enough to sneak out the back door to a job at Snap loaded up with Cupertino's secrets has instead found himself on the receiving end of a lawsuit. …

R&D teams are 'separable' says biz, which is open to offers for parts or the whole

European RISC-V biz Codasip has put itself up for sale, citing an expression of interest during a recent funding round, and is now openly touting for buyers.…

Body stays coy on details but alludes to similarities with 2023 espionage campaign

The International Criminal Court (ICC) says a "sophisticated" cyberattack targeted the institution, the second such incident in two years.…

Community vetoes plans to axe i686 compatibility and switch X11 forks

The Fedora community has quickly dropped a couple of recent proposed changes – one highly controversial, the other rather less so.…

Stricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatment

NASA has extended recovery efforts for its stricken Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft to mid-July, but is warning that if the probe remains silent, the mission could end.…

176 expressions of interest to erect 'gigafactories' across 16 member states, with 3 million GPUs needed

It's pork barrel time in Europe for Nvidia (and possibly AMD) as corporations bid for a slice of the €20 billion ($23.6 billion) fund to build proposed AI Gigafactories to advance the EU's AI credentials.…

Like being hard to spot? They’d much rather you didn’t

Opinion  There are few tech deceptions more successful than Chrome's Incognito Mode.…

Copilot's confidence was... misplaced

Not content with humiliating ChatGPT at the hands of Video Chess on an Atari 2600 emulator, Robert Caruso has tried again, this time with Microsoft's Copilot.…

Court says State arm cannot be left without maintenance, patches and upgrades because of Broadcom's new licensing model

Broadcom's VMware subsidiary must provide a Dutch government organization with continued software support for at least two years while it manages a migration to an alternative platform, according to a court ruling, or else face fines up to €25 million ($29 million).…

Kernel 6.16 may be the last with the new disk format

The geek titans are clashing once again, and Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has warned: "I think we'll be parting ways" as of kernel 6.17.…