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Satnav systems aren't well, IP is being sold too cheap, and thousands of roles remain open India's space program has thousands of vacant roles it's struggled to fill, isn't spending money fast enough to meet its mission timelines, and may be undervaluing intellectual property it sells to the private sector....

Urges scientists to avoid major conference, and looks unkindly on Meta's Manus acquisition China appears to be unhappy about its brightest AI talent going offshore, either to visit or to sell their wares....

AI biz makes some Claude conversations more costly to manage capacity Anthropic on Wednesday adjusted its opaque usage limits for Claude customers by reducing the power of the services it delivers during times of peak demand, in an effort to balance demand with its capacity to deliver service....

You actually thing companies are going to pay Americans to take customer service calls in the AI age? Uncle Sam is trying to make American call centers great again. The question is whether they will be great because they're filled with local workers or whether this will provide yet another excuse for companies to turn customer service jobs over to AI....

Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here. I received an email / billing notification from AWS this week that may be the most diplomatically crafted communication in the history of cloud computing. Here it is, stripped of the usual boilerplate around it:...

Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part AMD aims to extend its lead in desktop gaming with a new CPU, dubbed the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition. This top-of-the-line part has 16 cores fed by an absolutely massive 208 MB pool of cache, with memory spread across both CCDs....

I'm sorry, Dave. I can't give you your job back, but here's the form you fill out to collect benefits There's a joke in Boston that goes: the people in Southie will steal your wallet and help you look for it....

Use of AI coding assistants has surged, but so has the number of vulnerabilities in AI-generated code As more people use AI tools to write code, the tools themselves are introducing more vulnerabilities....

Maybe that's why Tim didn't get an invitation to the President's tech bro club? Apple's American Manufacturing Program (AMP) is expanding, with new suppliers signed on to produce iPhone components - though those parts will still be shipped overseas for final assembly. Tim Apple may continue avoiding tariffs but he probably won't win a lot of brownie points with President Trump....

Your AI rollout isn't failing - your employees just hate it If your company isn't seeing great returns from its investment in AI, you might want to look at the humans tasked with deploying it and how you can motivate them. Right now, many employees fear AI-driven job losses and aren't well trained to use the tech, according to Forrester....

Agent will capture issues and eventually debug code The Linear cloudy issue tracker and project manager has introduced an AI agent and plans to add AI coding assistance, with CEO and co-founder Karri Saarinen declaring that "issue tracking is dead."...

Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away Interview I was at a press luncheon at KubeCon Europe this week when, to my surprise, who should sit down next to me but long-term Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman. Greg, who lives in the Netherlands these days, was there to briefly comment on AI, Linux, and security. We spoke about how, over the last month, AI-driven activity around Linux security and code review has "really jumped" in a way no one in the open source world saw coming....

Prosecutors say trio used Thai front companies to reroute high-end AI servers The US has collared three more people for allegedly attempting to smuggle Nvidia GPUs to China, days after a Supermicro co-founder faced similar accusations....

Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long A member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their answers disappointed....

Central bank turns to homegrown providers to underpin virtual cash push Europe is taking a small step toward breaking its reliance on US Big Tech by hiring only cloud operators headquartered in the EU to work on the backbone of the digital euro project....

Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong' The Welsh government used Microsoft's Copilot to help write a review of an industry liaison body that it then scrapped, its chairman has told a Senedd committee....

300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life The UK government will trial different levels of restrictions on social media for under-16s with the help of 300 families, alongside a public consultation that has already gathered nearly 30,000 responses....

CarStation/PlayMobile won't hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA Sony and Honda have broken up, meaning their joint vision to deliver a revolutionary electric vehicle won't happen....

Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure Indian authorities have reportedly ordered an audit of the nation's CCTV cameras, after police uncovered what they claim was a Pakistan-backed surveillance operation....

Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads Major memory makers have already sold all the kit they can make this year, creating shortages and price increases. Datacenter infrastructure buyers may soon face the same issues when trying to get their hands on backup batteries....

As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data - "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" - to train its AI models....

A proof-of-concept attack on Context Hub suggests there's not much content santization A new service that helps coding agents stay up to date on their API calls could be dialing in a massive supply chain vulnerability....

They cleverly mimic most traits of a real phone Smartphones have fast become the basis of our digital identities, securing payment systems and bank accounts. Now virtual devices that pretend to be real handsets have become a key tool for financial scammers, according to one company....

Ex-CISA boss also says no reason to panic about AI and security RSAC 2026 "Everybody feels massive FOMO if they don't get to RSAC," Jen Easterly says....

Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC... rsac 2026 There's a theoretical red line with cyber warfare. Cross it, and the US will respond with a physical attack like missile strikes. And that line "is whatever the President says it is," according to former NSA boss retired General Paul Nakasone....

Forget the metaverse Meta has begun laying off employees as it focuses more of its cash on building out datacenters, training its own large language models, and recruiting talent for AI....

Fusion Agentic Applications promise autonomous enterprise decisions. Gartner urges caution Oracle says it's building a suite of AI agents into its cloud-based enterprise applications, claiming they can make and execute decisions autonmomously within business processes. But analysts are urging caution given unresolved questions around data integration and liability....

Plus one actual physicist Donald Trump has named the first members of his President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), largely comprising Trump allies in the tech industry and one actual scientist....

AWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape? OpenAI on Wednesday announced the death of its controversial Sora video creation tool, just two days after publishing a guide on how to use it well....

In other browser news, Opera now caters to penguinista gamers Firefox 149 is here, and although we've already talked about one of the big new features on the way, the release version has some others that will be very welcome....

Effort includes permitting and planning Microsoft is working with Nvidia on nuclear power. Not to build it, but to offer AI-driven tools to deal with all the red tape, help with the design work, and optimize operations for nuclear projects....

Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase? Opinion NASA's Ignition presentation was heavy on space hardware, but light on details. Not least of which was how astronauts are supposed to get from Earth to its moonbase and back....

Bye-bye Code With Me as company focuses on other areas Dev tooling biz JetBrains has previewed Central for agentic AI software development but will retire the Code With Me human pair programming feature....

Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades Dell's upcoming 2026 commercial laptops won't leave recent buyers kicking themselves - but they do bring meaningful upgrades, including a thinner Pro 7, larger batteries, and improved thermals....

I'll just clear up that up, shall I? Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has shared another nugget of Windows lore - what Windows 95 did when installers stomped on its system files....

Insiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiation The UK's tax collection agency has awarded Amazon Web Services - the only remaining bidder - a contract worth nearly 500 million to migrate services from three Fujitsu-run datacenters and host them for up to a decade....

Flagship phone scores 5/10 from iFixit as the parts that break most often remain firmly out of reach Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra has once again scored a middling 5/10 from iFixit, suggesting that while the company knows how to build a repairable phone, it still won't quite follow through....

A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code Opinion Time and again, I see people begging for companies with deep pockets to fund open source projects. I mean, after all, they've made billions from this code. You'd think they could support the code's creators and maintainers. It would be only fair, right?...

BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown Could Sinclair's 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum land a spacecraft on the Moon? YouTuber Scott Manley decided to find out, and the answer is... kind of....

AI and quantum on to-do list for Chief Digital Technology Officer in charge of 140.7M budget. Fancy it? The UK's Ministry of Defence is looking for a new Chief Digital Technology Officer (CDTO) to take responsibility for a budget of 140.7 million ($188 million) and 400 staff....

Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware's virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world's enterprise hardware fleet - and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft....

Apple Business combines corporate device management offerings and a way to buy ads Apple has simplified its business services by combining and rebranding them, and is giving away the reformulated enterprise offering for free....

Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare Alibaba has revealed a new server chip that it says is the most powerful processor ever to use the RISC-V instruction set....

'HP IQ' can chat, share files, and record and summarize meetings You've heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot. Now, get ready for HP IQ, a local AI and collaboration application HP Inc. hopes will make its business laptops stand apart....

Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles Arm CEO Rene Haas took an ice-cold sip of the AI Kool-Aid during a keynote speech at the company's annual conference on Tuesday, teasing a future product that he thinks will pump the British chip designer's total addressable market (TAM) to $1 trillion by the end of the decade....

Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer....

Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$....

They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus An undergraduate chemistry researcher has developed a nail polish formulation that will let people use their nails to tap away on touch screens....

Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code....

Paper argues the real impact isn't job loss but narrowing human work and pay AI isn't killing jobs wholesale - it's quietly chipping away at them, one task at a time....