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Bayesian optimizations apparently build better slabs

Social media giant Meta has created an AI model to come up with new forms of concrete and used one of the resulting recipes to underpin a new bit barn.…

The Microsoft cofounder breathed that sigh of relief in a Cipher News interview - just before it folded

Despite Trump's budget bill slashing many mature clean-energy tax credits, Bill Gates is less worried, since new nuclear incentives, including those his TerraPower venture will leverage, survived intact.…

'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization'

Ukrainian hackers claim to have taken out the IT infrastructure at Russia's Gaskar Integration plant, one of the largest suppliers of drones for its army, and also destroyed massive amounts of technical data related to drone production. …

Two Russian suspects in cuffs, seven warrants out

International cops shut down more than 100 servers belonging to the pro-Russian NoName057(16) network this week as part of the Europol-led Operation Eastwood.…

'Everything breaks when you scale that quickly'

Thank heavens for former OpenAI engineers inspired to blog about their time at the famously secretive firm, for without them we would have no idea what a wild mess it is in there. …

Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three

There was a disturbance in the force on July 14 after Cloudflare borked a configuration change that resulted in an outage, impacting internet services across the planet.…

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.…