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First commercial flight trials of a quantum-based system that could be a backup for GPS

The UK has just completed commercial flight trials of quantum-based navigation systems that are designed to be immune to conventional jamming and spoofing.…

SoftBank to focus on AI, but might pick up LINE, Yahoo! holding company

SoftBank, once Alibaba's biggest investor, has sold its stake in the Chinese tech company, it told investors on an earnings call.…

STS-125 – the Space Shuttle mission that almost never happened

It is fifteen years since the Hubble Space Telescope was captured by a Space Shuttle for the final time.…

When PoC code is released within a day of disclosure, it's only a matter of time before attacks kick off

The UK's NHS is warning of the possibility that vulnerabilities in Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) software are being actively exploited.…

NHS England's own survey also reveals suspicions that it would sell data to third parties

Four out of five patients worry NHS IT systems may be vulnerable to cyber attacks while around half are concerned that the world's largest single health system will sell their data, according to a recent survey.…

Aux.computer fragments the community – but doesn't fix the technological objections

Comment  Recent ructions in the Nix project over moderation, leadership, and funding, have led to a fork… but one that fails to address the technical and human issues with Nix packaging itself.…

Breaking news, perhaps literally: AI content blocking tool in Safari for iOS

The UK News Media Association (NMA) has written to Apple, warning that its reported plan to provide AI-powered ad blocking in iOS 18 threatens the revenue of news publications.…

What good is great power use effectiveness if your DC is packed with inefficient kit?

ISC  Power use effectiveness – PUE for short – has long been the spec by which datacenter efficiency has been measured. But after nearly two decades Nvidia believes it's time for a new metric.…

'If they were to call me today, I'd tell them to f%*k off'

Amid the hullabaloo over SpaceX building out its rocket-launching empire in Texas, there are signs it's not all tickety-boo – in that it seems not everyone is being paid on time.…

With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot

ISC  Argonne National Laboratory's Aurora supercomputer has officially breached the exaFLOPS barrier, but, once again, it's fallen short of unseating Oak Ridge's Frontier system for the number one spot on this spring's Top500.…

If there's one thing infosec needs right now, it's a little pick-me-up

Kettle  San Francisco hosted tens of thousands of computer security folk last week for 2024's RSA Conference – and the vibe was a mix of gloom about the state of infosec and some hope for improvement.…

The o is not short for 'Oh sh...' for Google and co

OpenAI on Monday showed off GPT-4o, its latest multimodal machine learning model, making it partially available to both free and paid customers through its ChatGPT service and its API.…

Three most energy-friendly systems all driven by Nv's CPU-GPU chip. AMD's APU could soon change that

Analysis  Despite growing alarm over spiraling datacenter power consumption, this spring's Green500 ranking of the world's most sustainable publicly known supercomputers shows that the same energy-hungry server accelerators behind the AI boom are also driving sizable improvements in efficiency.…

Emergency ambulances diverted while techies restore systems

US information security agencies have published advisories on how to detect and thwart the Black Basta ransomware gang – after the crew claimed responsibility for the recent attack on US healthcare provider Ascension.…

No negotiations on tech sanctions, just talks about not destroying the world

American and Chinese officials will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday to try and broker a deal for the two countries to get on the same page concerning AI and potential restrictions on its use.…

And the windows are opened to 6.10 in September or so

Linux kernel 6.9 is here, with many under-the-covers improvements that won't be very visible to users, but which tidy things up, fix bugs, and pave the way for future changes.…

Going once, going twice, going offline

Christie's website remains offline as of Monday after a "technology security issue" shut it down Thursday night – just days before the venerable auction house planned to flog $840 million of art.…

Staff in Maryland want better pay and steady schedules; New Jersey doesn't want to rock the boat

It's been a labor-(movement)-intensive few days for Apple, which found out it faces a potential employee strike at one store, while elsewhere defeating another union organizing vote about which its organizers are calling foul. …

Adios, dentures?

Japanese researchers plan to begin human trials of a tooth regrowth drug this fall at Kyoto University Hospital following successful animal trials.…

Korean-controlled silicon slinger could be coming back to the fold

Not everything in the semiconductor industry is about shearing off every last nanometer, which is why the Biden administration is splashing out CHIPS Act funding to those pursuing less cutting edge processor production. …