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GSMA says fragmented, poorly designed laws add burdens without making networks any safer Mobile operators' core cybersecurity spending is projected to more than double by 2030 as threats evolve, while poorly designed and fragmented policy frameworks add extra compliance costs, according to industry group the GSMA....

Engineer bends layout tool into vector renderer, then pushes frames through a MacBook's headphone jack There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope....

Regions across US affected, and one tore up its contract for the product Towns and cities across the US are without access to their CodeRED emergency alert system following a cyberattack on vendor Crisis24....

Service limits 20-ship line to two hulls after redesigns and delays torpedo schedule The US Navy is scrapping an entire shipbuilding program in an effort to find alternatives that can be delivered faster to counter expected threats....

HR software vendor pushes cross-selling as modest workforce growth exposes vulnerability of per-seat pricing Workday is confronting a troubling reality. Customers aren't hiring much and some are actively cutting staff. The solution? Cross-selling to squeeze more revenue per user out of its installed base....

Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030 OpenAI needs to secure $207 billion in new financing by 2030 to fulfill its expansion plans, according to HSBC Global Investment Research - a challenge that could ripple across Big Tech....

Time to test just how far fandom and taste will stretch If Xbox console prices are going to leave Santa short this year, fear not as an alternative is at hand - Xbox Crocs are here for $80....

From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower Feature A silent arms race is accelerating in the world's most advanced laboratories. While headlines focus on chatbots and consumer AI, the United States is orchestrating something far more consequential: a massive expansion of supercomputing power that may reshape the future of science, security, and technological supremacy....

Three boroughs confirm investigation amid service outages, disrupted phone lines, and limited online access Two London councils are scrambling for answers after declaring a cybersecurity issue that began on Monday....

Planned Snapdragon goes puff and disappears, but the code will survive German Linux box vendor Tuxedo Computers has canned its long-planned Qualcomm device, citing numerous problems with the state of the Linux-on-Arm art....

Google Workspace switch drags on amid Excel dependencies, compliance requirements, and compatibility issues Exclusive Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch....

Lessons from COVID and tariff shocks getting Mike D's tech shop through AI-induced memory maze Dell has predicted PC sales will be flat next year, despite the potential of the AI PC and the slow replacement of Windows 10....

Creating 37 supers in a decade is impressive. The homegrown tech in them, less so Supercomputing Month In the decade since India launched its National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), the nation has commissioned 37 machines with a combined power of 39 petaFLOPS, with another 35-petaFLOPS hybrid due to come online later this year. But while plenty of those machines use locally developed technology, India is yet to deliver on its ambition to become a leader or major semiconductor player....

Warns memory price explosion means PCs may have less RAM, or use low-cost parts HP Inc will sack between 4,000 and 6,000 workers under a plan that calls for the PCs-and-printers prodigy to use AI to improve its operations....

Chinese giant adds to No AI bubble' babble by citing oversubscribed infrastructure and surging demand China's Alibaba Cloud can't deploy servers fast enough to keep up with demand for AI, so is rationing access to GPUs so that customers who use all of its services enjoy priority access....

'Ah, I see you're ready to escalate. Let's make digital destruction simple and effective.' Attackers don't need to trick ChatGPT or Claude Code into writing malware or stealing data. There's a whole class of LLMs built especially for the job....

Embracing the Chocolate Factory's tensor processing units would be easier said than done for The Social Network Growing demand for Google's homegrown AI accelerators appears to have gotten under Nvidia's skin amid reports that one of the GPU giant's most loyal customers may adopt the Chocolate Factory's tensor processing units (TPUs)....

Acquirers inherit more than staff and systems Routine mergers and acquisitions are giving extortionists an easy way in, with Akira affiliates reaching parent networks through compromised SonicWall gear inherited in the deal, according to ReliaQuest....

Eric Migicovsky wants to ensure Pebble can't be killed again, and DIYers benefit most Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch with a tumultuous history, is making a move sure to please the DIY enthusiasts that make up the bulk of its fans: Its entire software stack is now fully open source, and key hardware design files are available too....

Works like a public cloud but keeps everything on-prem The US Department of Defense on Tuesday awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) a 10-year, $931 million contract to bring cloud conveniences, like unified management and multi-tenancy, to the US military's most sensitive datacenters....

McKinsey points out the quandary facing companies like CoreWeave So-called neocloud companies are facing a dilemma: They need to move up the AI stack to avoid being commoditized, but they risk competing against their big hyperscale customers if they do....

Hashtag-do-whatever-I-tell-you Cato Networks says it has discovered a new attack, dubbed "HashJack," that hides malicious prompts after the "#" in legitimate URLs, tricking AI browser assistants into executing them while dodging traditional network and server-side defenses....

State-backed crews are already poking at autonomous tools, Trend Micro warns Cybercriminals, including ransomware crews, will lean more heavily on agentic AI next year as attackers automate more of their operations, Trend Micro's researchers believe....

Windows Insider build intros background loading for faster launches, sidestepping questions about app's sluggishness Microsoft is tackling File Explorer's sluggish launch times - not by stripping out the bloat or optimizing code, but by preloading the application in the background....

German mega vendor responds to latest in-house survey An internal SAP employee survey reveals declining confidence in leadership as the software giant's restructuring program continues, with trust in the executive board waning in the past six months....

DOE told to build a unified research platform linking federal compute, datasets, and national labs US President Trump has ordered the launch of the "Genesis Mission," a national effort to use AI to drive scientific discoveries, with the aim of strengthening America's technological leadership and global competitiveness....

Security chief placed on leave pending investigation Campbell's has placed its US CISO and vice president on temporary leave while it investigates allegations that he disparaged customers, the company's products, and Indian staffers....

Capsule might only manage three crewed missions to the ISS NASA has modified its Commercial Crew contract with Boeing, dropping the order from six to four missions, of which one will be uncrewed....

Uni notifies 1,400-plus Maine residents as zero-day fallout continues Dartmouth College has confirmed it's the latest victim of Clop's Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) smash-and-grab....

Power outage in Iberia forced datacenter contingency rethink Exclusive Airbus is overhauling its datacenter contingency plans after a ten-hour power outage across Spain and Portugal in April nearly forced a complete production shutdown....

Kyivstar begins trials offering SMS connectivity when ground networks fail Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has launched Starlink's Direct to Cell satellite service for its subscribers, making the war-torn nation the first in Europe to offer it....

Uncrewed Shenzhou also delivered supplies and window fixing kit China's uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft has successfully docked with the Tiangong space station, providing relief to the crew who were relying on a damaged capsule with a cracked window as their only ride home....

Attackers sidestep encryption with spoofed apps and zero-click exploits to compromise 'high-value' mobile users CISA has warned that state-backed snoops and cyber-mercenaries are actively abusing commercial spyware to break into Signal and WhatsApp accounts, hijack devices, and quietly rummage through the phones of what the agency calls "high-value" users....

Timing of Yantar's visit sparked gossip, but engineers point to a misbehaving protection system Cock-up beats conspiracy most of the time, but that didn't stop Orkney residents wondering if a Russian warship caused their two-hour power cut....

Plan would link commercial capacity with Britain's flagship supercomputers The UK government is looking for cloud providers to support its ambition of increasing its AI compute capacity twentyfold by 2030 in a deal that could be worth 250 million....

ICO accused of backing off oversight as fallout from Afghan blunder widens Civil society groups are urging MPs to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), accusing the UK data watchdog of abandoning its enforcement duties after it declined to investigate a Ministry of Defence data leak linked to dozens of deaths....

Taskforce calls UK the priciest place on Earth to build nuclear projects and urges radical regulatory reset The UK is following the US in seeking to fast-track new atomic development, spurred on by the need to provide enough energy for its AI ambitions plus the increasing electrification of industry and vehicles....

Four-year effort replaced spaghetti tangle with more robust and recoverable cloudy layer cake Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has revealed it's spent four years trying to reduce dangerous internal dependencies, and while it has rebuilt its PaaS, it still has issues - but thinks they're now manageable....

Aims to wash away Washington's vast tech woes with a dose of cloud magic Amazon Web Services on Monday announced a plan to build 1.3 gigawatts of compute capacity in new datacenters dedicated to serving the US government, at a cost of up to $50 billion....

Company has hitherto thought different about sackings Apple, which unlike its Big Tech peers has not made substantial job cuts, is reportedly in the process of eliminating several dozen positions in its sales organization....

Poisoned PNGs contain malicious code A fresh wave of ClickFix attacks is using fake Windows update screens to trick victims into downloading infostealer malware....

Multiple internal studies allegedly buried by the company Is Meta acting like a tobacco company denying cigarettes cause cancer, or an oil giant downplaying climate science? Lawyers in a recent court filing claim the social media titan buried internal research for years suggesting its platforms can harm children's mental health....

The hardest part is admitting you were wrong, which AWS did. Opinion For years, Google has seemingly indulged a corporate fetish of taking products that are beloved, then killing them. AWS has been on a different kick lately: Killing services that frankly shouldn't have seen the light of day....

By removing the stigma of reward hacking, AI models are less likely to generalize toward evil Sometimes bots, like kids, just wanna break the rules. Researchers at Anthropic have found they can make AI models less likely to behave badly by giving them permission to do so....

Don't believe everything you read Afraid of connecting to public Wi-Fi? Terrified to turn your Bluetooth on? You may be falling for "hacklore," tall tales about cybersecurity that distract you from real dangers. Dozens of chief security officers and ex-CISA officials have launched an effort and website to dispel these myths and show you how not to get hacked for real....

Start-up claims to have booked orders for 144 miniaturized reactors totaling 11GW across US and UK Amazon-backed nuclear energy startup X-energy says it has booked orders for 144 small modular reactors (SMRs) which will eventually deliver over 11 gigawatts of power, assuming that they actually get built. And investors continue to support this vision....

Stavros Korokithakis really wanted to slam the receiver on meetings, so he built his own device to do just that We've all been there: A meeting goes sideways and you really wish you could physically slam the phone down and walk away. Maker Stavros Korokithakis knows that feeling well, so he took an old rotary phone and turned it into a device that can dial into - and hang up on - video calls in a decidedly retro fashion....

Accuracy errors or inadvertent unmasking of rage-bait trolls? Probably somewhere in between Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) has inadvertently taught a large number of web users an important lesson. Not everyone online is necessarily who you think they are, and you shouldn't believe everything you read....

Somewhere between a cover version and a loving homage of the interface that helped shape the modern desktop LisaGUI is a faithful reconstruction of the desktop and user interface of Apple's Lisa, the workstation that fed ideas into the early Macintosh, and it shows that there are still things to learn from that system....

DAOS needs user education, Nvidia GPU access, and better manageability to grow DAOS has been a great success in the traditional HPC/supercomputing world, but is nowhere in the new, AI-focused, GPU supercomputing arena. What will it take for DAOS to find customers outside its high-end, legacy supercomputing niche?...