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Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge?

NASA has a new interim administrator. US President Donald Trump has announced that former reality TV star and current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be taking on the role.…

Gemini CLI integration is nice, but there's little polish in building apps from prompts

Google today unveiled updates to Firebase Studio at its Cloud Summit event in London, adding Gemini command-line interface (CLI) integration, initial Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, and "Agent Mode."…

Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automation

Using AI models to generate exploits for cryptocurrency contract flaws appears to be a promising business model, though not necessarily a legal one.…

Politicians uneasy over potential impact on national security, local reports say

Russia, home to some of the world's most lucrative and damaging cybercrime operations, has rejected a bill to legalize ethical hacking.…

Shipments in America flat, surge across ROTW ahead of Win 10 support cutoff

Tariff uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump still hangs over the PC industry despite manufacturers navigating a "complex regulatory maze" to avoid being in the firing line over import taxes when the shooting begins.…

'I don't think there's a spare megawatt sitting anywhere idle in all of Europe, or the US, as a matter of fact'

Microsoft intends to more than double its European datacenter capacity by 2027, but suspects this won't be easy because of all the red tape and environmental safeguards it faces.…

Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of 'AI' companies

Updated  Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying to feed their hungry LLM bots.…

Processing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in Blighty

Google Cloud is attempting to ease concerns about where AI data is stored by offering organizations the option to keep Gemini 2.5 Flash machine learning processing entirely within the UK.…

Cites ‘aggressive licensing changes’ from rivals, but like Broadcom only sells bundles

Citrix has decided to return to the market for mainstream hypervisors with a version of its XenServer product which it currently claims isn’t ready for the job.…

Controversial system requires local NHS investment to maximize productivity

The benefits of the UK health sector's Palantir-powered data and analytics system are being suppressed by the limits of writing back to NHS software, MPs heard this week.…

Source code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on top

Supercomputers are usually associated with scientific exploration, research, and development, and ensuring our nuclear stockpiles actually work. …

New Zealand’s Giant Moa stood over three meters tall but were easy prey

Researchers from New Zealand will try to revive extinct birds, with help from Colossal Biosciences and film-maker Sir Peter Jackson.…

Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ways

China’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according to a professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education.…

'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing

President Trump's budget slashes funding for science and led to the cancellation or reduction of thousands of research programs, so scientists have staged a series of presentations to show legislators innovations that America will miss out on in the future.…

No, really, those are the magic words

A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game.…

Built on Chromium, ironically

Perplexity has released its own web browser called Comet, and it's clearly aimed at Google.…

Hey, teacher, leave those kids to AI

After committing more than $13 billion in strategic investments to OpenAI, Microsoft is splashing out billions more to get people using the technology.…

Welcome back to the age of dark patterns

The US was supposed to celebrate the enforcement date for an FTC rule requiring companies to offer simple, clear, one-click subscription cancellations next Monday, but a panel of appeals court judges has decided otherwise.…

Including frequencies that overlap with Wi-Fi 6E and private mobile networking

updated  A provision in the new US budget bill opens a wide swath of spectrum for sale, including some that overlaps with frequencies currently allotted for private mobile networks and Wi-Fi 6E. …

Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle Sam

The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang.…