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The DoE’s planned funding runs through 2030

America's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive up to $125 million through 2030 to develop hybrid computing systems that link quantum and supercomputing technologies.…

Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build

Old school enough to favor Debian, but averse to systemd? Good news: Devuan 6 "Excalibur" is here, and all you need to do is draw it from the stone master its installer.…

Local privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way

AMD will issue a microcode patch for a high-severity vulnerability that could weaken cryptographic keys across Epyc and Ryzen CPUs.…

CEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers

AMD plans to launch its Helios rack-scale architecture in 2026 as a direct challenge to Nvidia in the AI infrastructure market, pending successful integration of its next-gen GPUs and processors.…

Meanwhile, others tried to social-engineer the chatbot itself

Nation-state goons and cybercrime rings are experimenting with Gemini to develop a "Thinking Robot" malware module that can rewrite its own code to avoid detection, and build an AI agent that tracks enemies' behavior, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group.…

S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change

Around two fifths of North America's SAP users have yet to begin migrating to S/4HANA with just two years until mainstream support ends for legacy systems.…

Memory safety costs money: Maintainers Fund to directly pay developers for their work

The Rust Foundation has launched a Maintainers Fund to support developers sustaining the language, addressing a long-standing challenge in open source software.…

PEP 810 approved following lengthy debate among developer community

Python programs are set to get faster startup times with PEP 810 "Explicit lazy imports," which allows scripts to defer loading imported libraries until they're actually needed rather than at startup.…

A ‘three-letter person’ experiments with the new type-safe C, and is impressed

Famed mathematician, cryptographer and coder Daniel J. Bernstein has tried out the new type-safe C/C++ compiler, and he's given it a favorable report.…

Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI

Cloud data platform vendor Snowflake has made its set of PostgreSQL extensions open source in a bid to help developers and data engineers integrate the popular open source database with its lakehouse system.…

Retailer's tech systems aren’t down anymore, but the same can’t be said for its rocky financials

Marks & Spencer says its April cyberattack will cost around £136 million ($177.2 million) in total.…

After a £312M upgrade to the retiring OS, Defra still has 24,000 devices to replace

The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has spent £312 million (c $407 million) modernizing its IT estate, including replacing tens of thousands of Windows 7 laptops with Windows 10 – which officially reached end of support last month.…

Ruled him out just six months ago due to Musky connections

US president Donald Trump on Tuesday decided who he wants to lead NASA, despite having ruled out the same person six months ago.…

Can’t rule out more revenue wobbles given the complexity of big projects

Server-maker and designer Supermicro has promised to improve performance, after missing its guided revenue and revealing its margins aren’t strong.…

Net access cut on election eve, resumed after widely-loathed president was sworn in after disputed poll

The African nation of Tanzania has reconnected to the internet after a five day outage.…

Perplexity likens Amazon's legal threat to an attempt to ban access to ... wrenches?

Amazon.com has sent a cease and desist letter to Perplexity in which it insists the AI company prevent its Comet browser from making automated purchases on behalf of users.…

Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids

Norway's sovereign wealth fund has opposed Tesla CEO Elon Musk's proposed $1 trillion share award, which the carmaker's board says is necessary to retain him.…

Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit

Google on Tuesday announced a new moonshot – launching constellations of solar-powered satellites packed to the gills with its home-grown tensor processing units (TPUs) to form orbital AI datacenters.…

DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them

If you're filing an immigration form - or helping someone who is - the Feds may soon want to look in your eyes, swab your cheek, and scan your face. The US Department of Homeland Security wants to greatly expand biometric data collection for immigration applications, covering immigrants and even some US citizens tied to those cases.…

When you opt in, your taskbar becomes an extension of the Copilot app, but with some search added in

hands on  With Microsoft cramming Copilot into every nook and cranny of its software, it’s no surprise that everyone’s favorite AI assistant is now set to take over the search box. As of the latest Windows Insider Dev and Beta builds, the "Ask Copilot anything" box is available if you know how to switch it on.…