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No way this will be abused Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech....

H20 silicon under the microscope after slipping through US export bans China's internet watchdog has hauled Nvidia in for a grilling over alleged backdoors in its H20 chips, the latest twist in the increasingly paranoid semiconductor spat between Washington and Beijing....

Trauma-inducing startup sound finally axed Great news! Microsoft has finally squashed a Windows 11 Insider bug. No, it still hasn't "Made the Start Menu Great Again." No, you still can't drag the taskbar wherever you like. But yes, it simply kills the bug that played the Windows Vista boot chime on startup....

Brit chip biz sees demand surge for turnkey compute subsystems, chiplets, and complete SoC designs Chip designer Arm says it is looking to bring more compute subsystems, chiplets, and even end-to-end solutions to market as customers increasingly expect a more complete starting point for their custom silicon....

Russia spying on foreign embassies? Say it ain't so Russian cyberspies are abusing local internet service providers' networks to target foreign embassies in Moscow and collect intel from diplomats' devices, according to a Microsoft Threat Intelligence warning....

US court docs reveal that infamous Chinese snoops filed IP papers like tax returns Security researchers have uncovered more than a dozen patents for offensive cybersecurity tools filed by Chinese companies allegedly tied to Beijing's Silk Typhoon espionage crew....

Passwordless disk locking is coming, a couple of years later than hoped Canonical's Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop has published a roadmap for the 25.10 release, which includes a feature that was originally planned for 23.10....

Regulators around the globe pay attention as results of 21-month cloud probe published Britain's competition regulator says Microsoft and AWS are using their dominance to harm UK cloud customers and proposes to designate both with strategic market status (SMS) to take action against them....

Investors cash in as design firm goes public after takeover dreams dashed Figma is offering 36,937,080 shares of Class A common stock at $33 apiece, in an initial public offering that values the web design tool developer at $19.3 billion....

Government officials say they are monitoring the situation A major supplier of healthcare equipment to the UK's National Health Service and local councils is on the verge of collapse 16 months after falling victim to cyber criminals....

Crew-11 prepares for liftoff on Musk rocket while Boeing's Calamity Capsule remains grounded The next International Space Station (ISS) crew is set to launch today, commanded by an astronaut who gave up her Crew-9 seat to make way for the Boeing Starliner test team....

Startup's workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs Vercel claims it's slashed AWS Lambda costs by up to 95 percent by reusing idle instances that would otherwise rack up charges while waiting on slow external services like LLMs or databases....

Deal for legacy applications support reaches 322M as they continue to be decommissioned UK tax collector His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has awarded Capgemini a 107 million support and services deal, without competition, under a relationship that started more than twenty years ago....

UK's Online Safety Act kicks off about as well as everyone expected Analysis With the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) now in effect, it was only a matter of time before tech-savvy under-18s figured out how to bypass the rules and regain access to adult content....

Ground control to Majorana Deep dive The journal Science is preparing to remove an editorial expression of concern that cast doubt on a five-year-old Microsoft quantum computing research paper....

Italian operator calls for lawmakers to wake up to the critical role played by peering Internet Exchange Points are an underappreciated resource that all internet users rely on, but governments have unfortunately ignored them, despite their status as critical infrastructure....

But may face competition in its core smartphone segment as Samsung says it's found a premium handset-maker who wants its Exynos SoCs Chip design firm Qualcomm says it's in advanced discussions" with a hyperscale customer who wants its silicon to use in datacenters but may lose a major mobile customer to Samsung....

Infosec issues spill into the real world and regional politics Analysis Thai and Cambodian tensions relating to issues including cybersecurity concerns boiled over into a kinetic skirmish at the border last week....

Apple, Google, AI biggies, and for-profit insurance all eagerly rubbing their hands The Trump administration and the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced plans to begin building a new digital health information system, in collaboration with a growing list of private-sector companies. Dubbed the CMS Digital Health Ecosystem, the new program aims to make it easier for patients to access their own medical records and health data....

Few passengers are told they can opt out, and when they do, airport staff may push back US lawmakers are trying to extend the use of facial recognition at airports, despite many airline passengers objecting to the practice....

Chinese e-commerce giant is going back to dedicated instruct and thinking-tuned models as they prioritize quality over convenience One of the headline features of Alibaba's Qwen 3 family of models when they launched back in April was the ability to toggle between "thinking" and "non-thinking" modes on the fly....

Azure numbers shared for the first time. No details about AI, however. Microsoft on Wednesday reported better than expected revenue for the fourth quarter of its 2025 fiscal year, thanks to the company's booming cloud business and, allegedly, to AI....

The latest kerfuffle to stall flights in and out of Heathrow Airlines canceled more than 100 flights across the UK on Wednesday after a "technical issue" with radar systems left air traffic controllers flummoxed....

The US president also hints at an extra penalty for New Delhi over trade with Russia world war fee Just as signs pointed to a slight easing in global trade tensions, US President Donald Trump opened a new front in his trade offensive, this time with a 25 percent tariff on goods from India....

You get a superintelligence and you get a superintelligence. Everybody gets a superintelligence Meta is plowing tens of billions of dollars into GPU bit barns the size of Manhattan Island, and yet The Social Network has struggled to upstage rivals like OpenAI or Anthropic....

IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance... Organizations rushing to implement AI are neglecting security and governance, IBM claims, with attackers already taking advantage of lax protocols to target models and applications....

Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround The US Navy has announced plans to continue distributing satellite data needed for hurricane forecasting, months after authorities said the data stream was to be turned off....

Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service....

'This was a deliberate, coordinated, digital attack' Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the state's National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the city of Saint Paul....

Can we have this as a global feature in all software? Please? Zed, a fast new Rust-based text editor aimed at programmers, now lets you totally disable LLM bot integration. We're sure some users will rejoice - but how many?...

Competiton regulator smells abuse of a dominant market position, Zuckercorp claims all is well Meta's addition of AI services to encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp has Italian officials suspecting the Silicon Valley giant may be abusing its dominant market position to push unwanted features on users....

The lure? Identity security and privileged access management tools to verify humans and... machines Palo Alto Networks will buy Israeli security biz CyberArk in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal confirmed today....

If at first you succeed, have some more money NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace $176.7 million to deliver a pair of rovers and a trio of scientific instruments to the Moon as part of the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative....

Brazil is the latest browser battlefield Veteran browser maker Opera has filed a complaint with Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) against Microsoft over alleged anti-competitive practices in Windows that favor Edge....

Distie insists global operations restored despite some websites only now coming back online The cybercriminals claiming responsibility for Ingram Micro's ransomware attack put a deadline on leaking its data nearly a month after the raid....

Gigaclear slapped by watchdog for failings, admits 'seriousness of the error' Ofcom is to impose a 122,500 fine (about $164,000) on UK broadband provider Gigaclear for failing to deliver accurate caller location information when customers called the emergency services....

Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new bill Oracle has introduced new licensing terms that some users may see as hidden within the terms for VirtualBox, the general-purpose virtualization software for x86_64 hardware....

Birdsong stores 176 KB, but can it run Doom? Forget flash storage - flock storage is here after it was demonstrated that data can be saved to a bird....

Green rules risk short-circuiting AI ambitions, warns group including AWS, Microsoft and Google A trade body representing datacenter operators in Europe worried about standards for efficiency imposed by the EU has published a report to ensure its arguments are heard first....

Users and developers struggle to comply as situation evolves It is a little more than four years since the European Union first proposed legislation to govern tech companies that build AI systems and how users deploy them. A lot has changed since then....

AI frameworks are becoming a Russian nesting doll of abstraction layers Cisco's Agntcy project is the latest AI framework to find refuge at the Linux Foundation....

We want kids to know who they are before platforms assume who they are' says Minister Australia will require Google to ensure that children aged under 16 cannot sign up for YouTube accounts....

Russian rumbler has authorities across the Pacific warning of possible problems A vastly powerful earthquake that radiated out from the eastern Russian coast on Wednesday has caused a significant tsunami but hasn't disrupted communications or cloud computing services....

I would have liked more flight time but happy with this' says CEO of private rocket outfit Australia's attempt to return to space lasted just 14 seconds, after a Wednesday launch barely made it off the ground....

Q Link claimed subsidies for ineligible customers The former CEO of Florida telco Q Link will spend up to five years in jail after attempting to steal more than $100 million from two US government programs....

The security nerds' equivalent of the Epstein files saga The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday finally agreed to make public an unclassified report from 2022 about American telecommunications networks' poor security practices....

Knowledge workers will be most affected Microsoft researchers have found that people get the most use of AI for writing and knowledge work, but they offer some comfort to worried white-collar workers, saying that their jobs may only change rather than go away completely....

Chinese IT giant's CloudMatrix 384 promises GB200-beating perf, if you ignore power and the price tag Analysis Nvidia has the green light to resume shipments of its H20 GPUs to China, but while the chip may be plentiful, bit barn operators in the region now have far more capable alternatives at their disposal....

Strict regulations, lack of funding, and hallucinations remain hurdles to implementation US federal government agencies have identified a surge in AI use cases over the past year. But rolling them out? That's where things slow down, thanks to funding gaps, compute shortages, outdated policies, and a workforce still playing catch-up....

New malware, even better social engineering chops The FBI and a host of international cyber and law enforcement agencies on Tuesday warned that Scattered Spider extortionists have changed their tactics and are now breaking into victims' networks using savvier social engineering techniques, searching for organizations' Snowflake database credentials, and deploying a handful of new ransomware variants, most recently DragonForce....