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'Everyone's holding their breath'

Interview  It's hard to pinpoint exactly when the "culture of fear" began to permeate America's top cyber-defense agency.…

Prototype packs triple the energy density of lithium-ion, they claim

MIT boffins have built a prototype fuel cell using liquid sodium and air that could one day power aircraft, and may help capture carbon through its byproducts.…

So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you'

Google co-founder Sergey Brin claims that threatening generative AI models produces better results.…

Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself

LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) is the latest big-name organization to disclose a serious cyberattack leading to data theft, with the number of affected individuals pegged at 364,333.…

Latest kernel includes 14,612 changesets, Penguinistas been busy

Over the holiday weekend, Linus Torvalds released the latest Linux kernel – signalling the end of the line for 486-class chips.…

Researchers find AI models weak for medical reasoning when it comes to X-rays and CT scans

AI is not ready to make clinical diagnoses based on radiological scans, according to a new study.…

Project shutdowns at Mozilla are not encouraging, though

Another month, another new version of Firefox, with several handy changes. The future is less certain, though.…

SimpleHelp was the vector for the attack

Updated  DragonForce ransomware infected a managed service provider, and its customers, after attackers exploited security flaws in remote monitoring and management tool SimpleHelp.…

The latest in a long line of techies to face Putin’s wrath

A Russian programmer will face the next 14 years in a "strict-regime" (high-security) penal colony after a regional court ruled he leaked sensitive data to Ukraine.…

IT leaders in region eyeing American hyperscalers escape hatch

Amid the economic uncertainty of Trump 2.0, dependence on American tech has become a growing concern for many businesses, and a survey of 1,000 IT leaders claims that data sovereignty is now one of the most pressing issues.…

Musk’s rocket co fails to deploy any dummy satellites either

SpaceX's Starship has failed, again.…

Easy, medium, and the sledgehammer approach – or any combination you fancy

hands on  If you're thinking about switching to Linux but there are a few Windows apps you just can't do without, you do have options… and some of them are free.…

Space broadband and space-linked phones all very well, but someone's got to track them

Satellites have evolved, thanks to SpaceX's Starlink and incomer AST SpaceMobile pumping out high-speed broadband and cellular services for everyday phones delivered from low Earth orbit (LEO) hardware.…

And it's all your fault

There is growing dissatisfaction over cloud computing, according to Gartner, and much of this can be put down to unrealistic expectations or customers simply not implementing the tech properly.…

More cases about 2015 software swindle stuck in legal traffic jam

Germany’s Braunschweig Regional Court has reportedly sentenced four Volkswagen executives to jail over “Dieselgate” – the 2015 scandal in which the automaker was found to have fudged software used to test its vehicles’ pollution emissions.…

Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements

Computex  Analysts rate Taiwan’s ASUS the world’s fifth most prolific PC-maker, but the company wants to climb the charts by targeting business buyers, according to Shawn Chang, Head of Go-To-Market for the outfit’s Commercial Business Unit.…

Millions may fall for it - and end up with malware instead

A group of miscreants tracked as UNC6032 is exploiting interest in AI video generators by planting malicious ads on social media platforms to steal credentials, credit card details, and other sensitive info, according to Mandiant.…

He was responding to a gripe from a Russian IT provider about competition from Microsoft and Zoom

Russian President Vladimir Putin said foreign tech providers still operating in Russia should be "strangled" as the country develops domestic alternatives.…

400,000 GB200s could be more than a 1.2GW datacenter can chew

Oracle will reportedly shell out around $40 billion on Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to provide compute power to OpenAI from the first US Stargate datacenter in Abilene, Texas, assuming the site can deliver enough electricity to handle the load.…

No more features for the design darling - now it’s all about chatting with your tabs like they’re sentient

AI is rapidly reshaping how we use the web, or so The Browser Company founder Josh Miller argues. That belief helped drive his team's decision to stop building new features for its Arc browser and shift focus to an "AI browser" dubbed Dia.…