IBM boasts new Power11 chips are stingy on power usage
In case you'd forgotten, IBM is still blazing its own trail with regard to silicon. And in terms of speeds and feeds, Big Blue's latest crop of Power chips boasts up to 55 percent faster cores than its Power9 chips.…
Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers
A handful of international computer science researchers appear to be trying to influence AI reviews with a new class of prompt injection attack.…
Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth
Serial entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and currently acts as CEO of payments company Block, has released the source code for a peer-to-peer messaging app called bitchat that relies on Bluetooth for network connectivity.…
Army and Navy have both asked for right to repair, now Senators want to give it to them
A bipartisan pair of Senators is so happy with the US Army's right to repair policy that they want to enshrine it in federal law as the standard across military branches. …
Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry
Climate change could pose a threat to the technology industry as copper production is vulnerable to drought, while demand may grow to outstrip supply anyway.…
Suspected Scattered Spider domains target everyone from manufacturers to Chipotle
While the aviation industry has borne the brunt of Scattered Spider's latest round of social engineering attacks, the criminals aim to catch manufacturing and medical tech companies — and even Chipotle Mexican Grill — in their web, as evidenced by hundreds of domains that security researchers say look a lot like phishing websites used by the criminal crews.…
The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience
Partner content Every organization is investing in cyberresilience tools, training, and processes. Unfortunately, only some of them will be able to successfully respond and recover from an attack. Regardless of how hard they work, many IT and security teams are constrained by legacy technology architectures that were built for the challenges of 2015, not 2025.…
SUSE launching region-locked support for the sovereignty-conscious
Linux veteran SUSE has unveiled a new support package aimed at customers concerned about data sovereignty.…
Feds brag about hefty Oracle discount – licensing experts smell a lock-in
The US General Services Administration (GSA) has announced an agreement with Oracle it claims offers a 75 percent discount on the vendor's license-based technology.…
Suspected Chinese cybersnoop grounded in Italy after US tipoff
A man who US authorities allege is a member of Chinese state-sponsored cyberespionage outfit Silk Typhoon was arrested in Milan last week following a tipoff from the US embassy.…
We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10
Windows 11 has finally overtaken the market share of its predecessor, with just three months remaining until Microsoft discontinues support for Windows 10.…
Britain's 5G experience 'among the worst in Europe' says MedUX
The UK's 5G networks are among the worst in Europe when it comes to measurements such as download speed, upload speed, latency, and packet loss, according to a report published today.…
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Opinion Dominance does not equal importance, nor is dominance the same as relevance. The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users.…
UK police dangle £75 million to digitize its VHS tape archives
The UK police service is planning to launch a procurement to purchase tech and services worth up to £75 million ($102 million) in order to digitize its VHS archive.…
Microsoft developer ported vector database coded in SAP’s ABAP to the ZX Spectrum
A Microsoft senior software engineer named Alice Vinogradova has ported a database she wrote in SAP’s ABAP language to the venerable Z80 processor that powered the Sinclair ZX Spectrum – and marveled at the results.…
Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung
Epic Games has settled the case it brought against Samsung over the Korean giant’s treatment of third-party app stores on its Galaxy handsets.…
Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1
World War Fee The Trump administration on Monday announced the tariff rates it will impose on fourteen nations starting on August 1st, and several big technology-producing nations made the list.…
Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia
Analysis During the AI gold rush, the next best thing to selling the shovels – that is, the GPUs –is manufacturing the silicon that makes them possible. But while TSMC and SK-Hynix continue to cash in on Nvidia's successes, Samsung hasn't been nearly so fortunate.…
Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho
The new nuclear age of small modular reactors may not have materialized yet, but that's not stopping the US Department of Energy from getting to work on even smaller, more modular reactors with a couple of new commercial partners. …
CitrixBleed 2 exploits are on the loose as security researchers yell and wave their hands
Multiple exploits are circulating for CVE-2025-5777, a critical bug in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway dubbed CitrixBleed 2, and security analysts are warning a "significant portion" of users still haven't patched.…
