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Michael Stonbraker on the neat side effects of putting an operating system on top of a database Database pioneer Michael Stonebraker is promising his new concept of putting the operating system on top of a database could help end ransomware....

In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels Analytics platform Databricks has launched an open source foundational large language model, hoping enterprises will opt to use its tools to jump on the LLM bandwagon....

One might say this is a wurst case scenario The German Federal Office for Information Security (BIS) has issued an urgent alert about the poor state of Microsoft Exchange Server patching in the country....

Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that In-depth Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI....

Government issues stern warning over despot money-making scheme Two executives were issued arrest warrants in Japan on Wednesday, reportedly for charges related to establishing a business that outsourced work to North Korean IT engineers....

Report claims Beijing is most displaced by junta's failure to address slave labor scam settlements The military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces as a way of expressing its displeasure about cyberscam centers operating from the country....

Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster - this time authorities think they've reduced false positives Singapore has improved the AI it uses to detect smokers who light up in the many places where the practice is forbidden across the island nation, to help local law enforcement more efficiently stub out offenders....

Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues A recent paper published in Nature demonstrates that hyperfluorescent OLEDs could significantly reduce the energy required to display the color blue - potentially mitigating, but not solving, screen burn-in....

Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward Video Future AMD processors could feature domain-specific accelerators - even some created by third parties, according to senior execs at the chip shop....

Beware support calls offering a fix Apple device owners, consider yourselves warned: a targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is under way, with the goal of exhausting iUsers into allowing an unwanted password reset....

We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know More than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters....

Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory has had a problem, prompting engineers on the ground to hit the reset button....

Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision' - as users are raided by intruders Thousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that is being abused by miscreants in the wild to steal sensitive data and illicitly mine for cryptocurrency....

Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude Amazon says it has concluded its investment in AI super-startup Anthropic, which now stands at $4 billion, a figure the e-commerce colossus committed to last year....

Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange The SEC's lawsuit accusing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase of operating as an unregistered securities broker has survived its first legal challenge, opening the door for the case to go to trial....

The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite has some gaming and graphics prowess as seen in a demo where a reference laptop was shown to be running Baldur's Gate 3 at 1080p resolution and around 30 frames per second....

Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages There's a total solar eclipse coming up in North America, and NASA plans to shoot some rockets at it to see how the ionosphere changes as the Sun is obscured by the Moon....

Some staff are worried - can't think why Mutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the world's largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their highest-value work....

The Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton Kaby Lake-G, the Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU directly into the CPU package itself, was pronounced dead in 2019, but that hasn't stopped one company from reviving it for a NAS motherboard....

Does anyone actually want one? Intel has muddied the AI PC waters by sharing some of Microsoft's requirements while also claiming that its own take on the concept has Intel silicon at its heart....

AMD, Apple, Intel throw weight - and cash - behind process technology TSMC will see its 3nm node represent over 20 percent of its revenue this year as the node of choice for upcoming processors designed by AMD, Apple, and Intel....

I ain't afraid of no ghosts, but in this case... To spy on rival Snapchat and get data on how the app was being used, Meta - when it was operating as Facebook - allegedly initiated a program called Project Ghostbusters, which intercepted data traffic from mobile apps. And it used that data to harm its competitors' ad business....

Air cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series silicon Analysis Hotter and more power-hungry CPUs and GPUs were already causing headaches for datacenter operators before Nvidia unveiled its 1,200W Blackwell GPUs at GTC last week....

Oh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills Updated Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation have sued Virgin Galactic, alleging the space tourism company has misappropriated trade secrets....

Crooks know where the big bucks are Zero-day exploits targeting enterprise-specific software and appliances are now outpacing zero-day bugs overall, according to Google's threat hunting teams....

Facility to bring major leap in domestic chip production amid government support UK chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has officially opened its latest manufacturing facilities in Durham, just over a year after its CEO threatened to move the company out of the country over the government's lack of support for the chip industry....

Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven't been addressed Competition cops in Europe and the United Kingdom have started paying attention to in-app browsers, a controversial mechanism for presenting web content within native apps....

Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages Joining the list of things that probably don't need improving by machine learning but people are going to try anyway is Belgian beer....

The days of cybercriminals having something of a moral compass are over The parent company of The Big Issue, a street newspaper and social enterprise for homeless people, is wrestling with a cybersecurity incident claimed by the Qilin ransomware gang....

'Temporary' isn't always Windows has a built-in reminder of the perils of temporary solutions thanks to the 30-year-old porting efforts of former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer....

Depending on planning permission being given for facility The Airlander hybrid airship looks set to go into production within a few years, if its maker can get planning approval for a factory....

Liquid cooled, 44.7 Petaflops and with unspecified GPUs The UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has picked Lenovo to build and install a 44.7-Petaflops liquid cooled supercomputer....

Predicts 500 percent increase in consumption over a decade and suggests 800 kilovolt fix John Pettigrew, the CEO of British utility National Grid, warned on Tuesday that datacenter power consumption is on track to grow 500 percent over the next decade....

Finally, a power greater than AI hype: angry fandom Pics The BBC has decided to exterminate its experiments using generative AI to promote venerable SciFi show Doctor Who....

Per-socket licensing regime may explain years of ups and downs XenServer, the Cloud-Software-Group-owned server virtualization spinout from Citrix, has debuted its new/old product, XenServer 8....

Already backed away from cloud spinout, now gradually breaking up with its own breakup plan Chinese tech giant Alibaba has decided not to spin out its logistics limb, Cainiao, and will instead buy back shares in the outfit and integrate it more deeply with its e-commerce operations....

Sigh, AI to the rescue, sigh Dell this week disclosed it has 120,000 workers, which is about 13,000 fewer than it had at the start of 2023. That means it has laid off almost double the number of people it previously indicated....

Chipzilla wants more apps coded for NPUs, not Nvidia Intel has expanded its efforts to encourage programmers to code for so-called "AI PCs" by targeting smaller software houses with a development kit based on Asus's NUC 14 Pro PC....

At last, no more crappy emulation or experimental builds The first official release of Chrome for Windows-on-Arm laptops is landing this week, in time for this summer's Snapdragon X Elite-powered notebooks running Microsoft's operating system....

100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart... 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth Boffins at the European Space Agency (ESA) are very pleased with themselves following confirmation that the de-icing process they devised for Euclid's optics has "performed significantly better than hoped."...

But not, we repeat, not on the desktop Intel's Meteor Lake processors will apparently make it to socketed motherboards after all, but not those of traditional desktops....

Financial firms that help evade existing restrictions in crosshairs It's sanctions central at the US Treasury this week as a further 15 are slapped on organizations and individuals in Russia....

Yet another reason to reconsider that overpriced Creative Cloud subscription Canva is stepping up its competition with Adobe for creative software dominance with the acquisition of popular creative software suite Affinity....

Software slackers urged to up their game The US has clearly had enough of software vendors shipping products with "unforgivable" vulnerabilities, and is now urging them to launch formal code reviews to stamp out SQL injection flaws....

A RAGs to riches story Interview Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference concluded last week, bringing word of the company's Blackwell chips and the much-ballyhooed wonders of AI, with all the dearly purchased GPU hardware that implies....

Up and running in 2028, making crucial HBM, among other tech, reportedly High-bandwidth memory (HBM) leader SK hynix is set to build an advanced packaging facility in Indiana, which is estimated to cost $4 billion and come online in 2028 to potentially package high-end HBM....

SA Special Investigating Unit orders payment within 7 days following alleged breach of public finance laws A Special Tribunal in South Africa has ordered the German software giant SAP to pay a R500 million ($26.4 million, 20.9 million) settlement within a week following a long-running investigation into compliance with public finance laws....

More MS moves just a week after new AI unit and other changes announced Microsoft just put Pavan Davuluri in charge of the company's Windows and Surface teams, while Windows exec Mikhail Parakhin is "to explore new roles."...

An open standard challenger appears The UXL Foundation is readying its open standard accelerator programming model, touted by some as an alternative to Nvidia's CUDA platform, for "a spec release in Q4."...

Andreas Bechtolsheim is paying out less than $1M to SEC amid allegations he illegally bought options A Silicon Valley heavyweight has been charged with insider trading by the US Securities and Exchange Commission....