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The group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022

Updated  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers (ICANN) has demanded the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) explain why the nomination committee overseeing its board elections suspended voting, or face disciplinary action.…

Brazil debuts, Japan bounces back, and tiny Tuvalu soars on Elon's broadband birds

Eight more nations have passed at least 50 percent IPv6 deployment, according to the Internet Society (ISOC).…

Regulator acknowledges that won’t stop video nasties, but welcomes extra ‘friction’

Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond

Comment  A sharply argued blog post warns that heavy reliance on Microsoft poses serious strategic risks for organizations – a viewpoint unlikely to win favor with Redmond or its millions of corporate customers.…

At least the BSOD acronym will still work

The infamous Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will be replaced later this summer by a new black screen as part of Microsoft's Windows Resiliency Initiative (WRI).…

Pro tip: Don't use your personal email account on BreachForums

The notorious data thief known as IntelBroker allegedly broke into computer systems belonging to more than 40 victims worldwide and stole their data, costing them at least $25 million in damages, according to newly unsealed court documents that also name IntelBroker as 25-year-old British national Kai West.…

837 megawatt reactor now expected in 2027, energy CEO says

A revamped Three Mile Island nuclear plant could be fueling Microsoft's AI datacenters sooner than first thought, according to Constellation Energy executives.…

A 10.0 and a 9.8 – these aren’t patches to dwell on

Cisco has dropped patches for a pair of critical vulnerabilities that could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems.…

22 years on from the last spec, you can now animate your PNGs

The free graphics format that people actually know how to pronounce has been updated.…

The idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers

Analysis  In 2013, Amazon Web Services announced a new C3 instance type and made vague references to what it described as "enhanced networking" enabled by an Intel Virtual Function interface.…

You are not prepared for 5 GW datacenters, Deloitte warns

Power required by AI datacenters in the US may be more than 30 times greater in a decade, with 5 GW facilities already in the pipeline..…

Cosmic research on hold while engineers investigate a problematic motor

NASA's NICER X-ray telescope is pausing operations just weeks after the US space agency boasted that a January repair and reconfiguration had improved its daytime measurements.…

Business data is fragmented and change management is hard

Interview  Adoption of generative AI for enterprise customers isn't taking off in the manner many in the industry expected – and there are major obstacles in the way, according to Rania Succar, recently appointed CEO at Kaseya.…

Nothing confirmed but authority is operating under the assumption that data has been stolen

A cyberattack on Glasgow City Council is causing massive disruption with a slew of its digital services unavailable.…

Privacy campaigner brands Iceland's use of 'Orwellian' camera tech 'chilling,' CEO responds: 'It'll cut violent crime'

Privacy campaigners are branding frozen food retailer Iceland's decision to trial facial recognition technology (FRT) at several stores "chilling" – the UK supermarket chain says it's deploying the cameras to cut down on crime.…

Pathology outage caused by Synnovis breach linked to harm across dozens of healthcare facilities

The NHS says Qilin's ransomware attack on pathology services provider Synnovis last year led to the death of a patient.…

Apple's advanced next-generation Lisp is still being maintained as FOSS

OpenDylan is a Lisp without all the parentheses – just as John McCarthy originally intended for LISP-2.…

Aircraft meant to bolster NATO deterrent will rely on allied support to stay airborne

The UK government is to buy 12 F-35A fighters capable of carrying nuclear weapons as part of the NATO deterrent, but there's a snag: the new jets are incompatible with the RAF's refueling tanker aircraft.…

Despite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up

Updated  British MPs and peers are questioning the government's decision to continue accepting bids for large-scale IT contracts from Fujitsu, despite the Japanese supplier's previous pledge to stop bidding.…

Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out

Five popular AI models all show signs of bias toward viewpoints promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, and censor material it finds distasteful, according to a new report.…