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Latest optical engine may not be CPO, but it's still better than pluggables

Photonics startup Lightmatter says that its latest optical engine can cut the amount of fiber used by modern datacenters in half, and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't rely on co-packaging to do it.…

Project claims legal clarity and zero legacy code, but offers binaries only

DR-DOS is back, and there is already a test version you can download. But as of yet, it's not finished, not FOSS – and not based on the original code.…

Blue-on-blue internal investigation lands force £66k fine

The UK's data protection watchdog has fined Police Scotland £66,000 ($88,000) for what it calls a "serious failure" in handling an alleged victim's sensitive data.…

Russian-speaking attackers lure HR staff into downloading ISO files that disable defenses

A Russian-speaking cyber criminal is targeting corporate HR teams with fake CVs that quietly install malware which can disable security tools before stealing data from infected machines.…

This is not satire, but we wish it was

The Ig Nobel Prize, which satirizes its more noble namesake, is moving its award ceremony to Europe following concerns about the safety of those attending the US event.…

Reference design to stitch more than a thousand accelerators into a single enormous server.

Exclusive  If you thought Nvidia or AMD's 72-GPU rack systems were enormous, silicon Ayar Labs has something much bigger in the works.…

AI factories demand 800 volts because physics doesn't care about your upgrade budget

Feature  Hyperscale computing was built on a foundation of certainty. For years, 12V and 48V rack architectures – implemented at a steady 50–54 VDC (Volts of Direct Current) - ruled the datacenter floor, engineered to perfection for power densities of 10–15 kW per rack. These systems were finely tuned machines, optimized around the predictable, steady-state demands of general-purpose CPUs and storage servers. The infrastructure was stable. The math was settled.…

Google also enables auto-approval of AI agents while their documentation warns against it

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is moving to a weekly release cycle, as well as joining Google in encouraging agentic AI development without manual approval with a new Autopilot feature.…

Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probe

A Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.…

17-year-old allegedly withdrew large sums of cash from ATMs

Dutch police have arrested a 17-year-old boy who detectives suspect was responsible for 16 bank card frauds across the Netherlands.…

Subscribers north of the border suffer the most long-running failures per £100 spent

Broadband subscribers in Scotland suffer the most outages in the UK, according to Broadband Genie, with customers of BT typically experiencing the fewest.…

Microsoft insists rebootless updates are 'the quickest way to get secure'

From the department of "what could possibly go wrong?" comes news that Windows Autopatch is enabling hotpatch security updates by default.…

Advocate General urges rethink of PSD2 to speed compensation after scams

Analysis  One of the European Union's top legal advisors is trying to change how banks treat cybercrime victims – meaning they could enjoy greater financial protections sooner than expected.…

Consultation launched, People's Panel planned, yet still no price tag attached

The UK government has refused to estimate the cost of its digital identity system, saying this depends on what it decides after a consultation exercise launched yesterday.…

Google knows asking agents to navigate GUIs designed for humans is ridiculous. Microsoft might not

Opinion  The command line interface is making a comeback because graphical user interfaces are a poor fit for autonomous agents, which could spell trouble for a lot of software – and software makers.…

Fixed it amid user ire, swears new tool for bigger shifts is up to the job

Atlassian has admitted that the tools it developed to move Jira users into the cloud were actually slower than older code that did the same job, and that its efforts to speed things up also had speed problems.…

Big Red reckons paying for datacenters is easy when you have half a trillion dollars of cloud orders on the books

Oracle says AI code generation tools have become so efficient, and it is so good at using them, that it will dodge the SaaSpocalypse and watch smaller rivals suffer.…

Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines are all trying to conserve fuel

The US government may be ordering staff back to the office, but governments across Asia have sent public sector workers back home to preserve fuel supplies due to supply chain disruptions caused by the war in Iran.…

Cohesity, ServiceNow and Datadog team on recoverability suite

Three more vendors have decided that the world needs tools to roll back mistakes made by AI, after Cohesity teamed with ServiceNow and Datadog on a recoverability service that will hunt down all the files and data corrupted by bad AI actors and restore systems to a “trusted state.”…

Could steal sensitive personal and financial data

After a whopper of a Patch Tuesday last month, with six Microsoft flaws exploited as zero-days, March didn't exactly roar in like a lion. Just two of the 83 Microsoft CVEs released on Tuesday are listed as publicly known, and none is under active exploitation, which we're sure is a welcome change to sysadmins.…