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Tough Euro rules on data accuracy apply to AI yammering, formal complaint to watchdog argues A Norwegian man was shocked when ChatGPT falsely claimed in a conversation he murdered his two sons and tried to kill a third - mixing in real details about his personal life....

Palming off the blame using an unknown' best practice didn't go down well either In patching the latest critical remote code execution (RCE) bug in Backup and Replication, software shop Veeam is attracting criticism from researchers for the way it handles uncontrolled deserialization vulnerabilities....

Not even the parts want to be associated with Elon's steel monster Tesla has issued its eighth Cybertruck recall, this time over exterior trim panels that risk detaching while driving - the second time loose body trim has triggered a safety fix....

Enterprise Edition to be offered on OCI inside Redmond's cloud Oracle is expanding its database services on hyperscale clouds outside of its muscle-car Exadata system....

Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt After a seven-year nap, version 3.0 of FOSS image editor GIMP is arriving with a splash, while a long-dormant open video format wakes from its slumbers and lumbers into beta....

Fix testing to stretch into the summer. When will aerospace giant decide enough is enough? Comment The return of Crew-9 from the International Space Station (ISS) in a Crew Dragon has raised the question of what the future holds for Boeing's Calamity Capsule, also known as the CST-100 Starliner....

Industry leaders want broader strategy, citing supply chain gaps, investment needs, and global trade uncertainty European chipmakers want local politicians to look beyond the region's Chips Act and do more to support research and development, materials, and design, not just manufacturing....

How to avoid another SolarWinds, Log4j, and XZ Utils situation Organizations concerned about software supply chain attacks should focus on role-based access control, system monitoring, and boundary protection, according to a new preprint paper on the topic....

Wow, a government project that could be on time for once ... cos it's gonna be wayyyy more than a decade The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today started the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) countdown clock by claiming organizations have ten years to migrate to a safer future....

Testing? We've heard of it Users of Microsoft's email service might be feeling a distinct sense of deja vu after the web version of Outlook last night blocked access to Exchange Online mailboxes....

You might need that - the file system has some hard-to-squish bugs A new version of the handy all-in-one bootable system toolkit distro is here, now with a whole new file system for you to play with....

VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it's already contacted 'known vulnerable customers' UK telco Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is preparing to retire its 3G services, and is set to start with the city of Durham in northeast England this April....

Even looming support deadline isn't tempting ECC users to haul themselves over to S/4HANA, say analysts The majority of SAP's ECC users have not purchased licenses for S/4HANA - meaning its unlikely some of the world's largest businesses will migrate before mainstream support for the legancy platform ends in 2027....

Fedora Asahi Remix 42 still scheduled for release in about a month Another developer has dropped out of Asahi Linux, the project to get Linux up and running on Apple silicon....

Begun, preparation for orbital wars has China has practiced co-ordinated satellite maneuvers in space that resemble aerial combat, according to a US Space Force General....

Japanese tech investor expects its own hyperscalers and e-com giants to collaborate, which could take a bite out of x86 market Japanese tech investment house SoftBank Group has announced its intention to acquire Ampere Computing, the chip design firm that makes server-grade silicon based on the Arm architecture....

Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it Chinese tech giant Tencent has slowed the pace of its GPU rollout since implementing DeepSeek....

We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue IBM insiders believe Big Blue is laying off thousands of people at various locations around the US, including a quarter of staff the company's Cloud Classic operation....

Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money HP Inc. has settled a class action lawsuit in which it was accused of unlawfully blocking customers from using third-party toner cartridges - a practice that left some with useless printers - but won't pay a cent to make the case go away....

SSNs, payment details, and health info too The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) says a July 2024 "security incident" exposed sensitive personal data on more than half a million individuals, including financial and health info....

Cyber-crime is officially getting out of hand One of the world's largest sperm banks, California Cryobank, is in a sticky situation....

Chrome colossus accused of tilting search results, blocking cheaper purchases, while iTitan told to open iOS A year after kicking off its probe into three American tech giants, the European Union has fired off two sets of preliminary findings accusing Google parent Alphabet of failing to comply with Europe's monopoly-busting Digital Markets Act (DMA)....

Big Blue's workstation workhorse patches hole in network installation manager that could let the bad guys in IBM "strongly recommends" customers running its Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) operating system apply patches after disclosing two critical vulnerabilities, one of which has a perfect 10 severity score....

How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then? Elon Musk's DOGE promoted the decision to terminate a deal with service-disabled veterans supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs 10 days before the contract was set to expire anyway....

Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue' Not content to wait for open letters to influence the European Commission, Dutch parliamentarians have taken matters into their own hands by passing eight motions urging the government to ditch US-made tech for homegrown alternatives....

Qubit awkward, you might say GTC Nvidia is investing in a research center to advance quantum computing development, just weeks after its head honcho torpedoed the share price of quantum firms by declaring the tech is decades away from being useful....

Tech channel increases stockpiling amid 'volatile trade policies.' CIOs to get fewer devices for same money Comment US President Donald Trump's "volatile trade policies" are creating uncertainty among suppliers of computers and among biz customers looking to use budgets wisely amid a game of on-and-off Oval Office tariffs....

Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work The creators of the unique Chimera Linux distro are dropping support for RISC-V because kit built on the open instruction set architecture just isn't fast enough and this is holding up the development pipeline....

Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line Comment The Crew-9 mission has safely returned to Earth, marking the end of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's extended time in space and possibly NASA's bipartisan leanings....

Cue deepening existential European dread as Rest of World contemplates Trump turning off the info tap If the United States stopped sharing cyber-threat intel with Ukraine, its European allies and the rest of the Five Eyes nations wouldn't be able to provide all the info Uncle Sam collects, according to former chief of US Cyber Command and the NSA General Paul Nakasone....

Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL Analysis Despite ongoing construction efforts, the North American colocation datacenter market is grappling with record-high occupancy rates. This surge in demand, coupled with delays in new projects due to electricity shortages, has created a challenging environment for both developers and customers....

Services still down and out, but techies working for local government saved the day Nottingham City Council continues to deal with the fallout from its freak IT outage from last week as it confirms in-house IT specialists managed to prevent any data from going missing....

Because guesswork won't keep the lights on GTC Schneider Electric has developed a digital twin system to simulate how an AI datacenter operates in order to accurately design for the appropriate power requirements....

It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in the version after next of Ubuntu, 25.10 - which also means changing the software license....

'Three-year' tech support deal still running The UK's third-largest grocery retailer is set to finish its "three-year" tech divorce project from Walmart in the third quarter of 2025, while most project staff have been moved on....

One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out, in training and inference Researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) tend to parrot buggy code when tasked with completing flawed snippets....

If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout Bioengineers have pulled together to get artificial muscles pulling in multiple directions, an important step towards using them in medical treatments and robots....

Analyst finds 91 percent revenue growth with white box makers leading the way Here's another thing AI can do: Increase revenue from selling servers by 91 percent year-over year, according to analyst firm IDC....

Apparently boosts battery to 20 km range in 10 seconds, although as ever ... YMMV Chinese electric automaker BYD has announced 1,000-volt supercharging technology it claims can fill a compatible vehicle's battery in the same amount of time needed to pump fuel into a conventional car....

Remaining Republicans don't like the right to repair, non-compete clause ban, or some social media moderation Analysis In a surprise Tuesday move, US President Donald Trump fired the two remaining Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission, potentially accelerating a shift in the consumer and competition watchdog's stance towards tech and other businesses....

Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute GTC Nvidia's rack-scale compute architecture is about to get really hot....

Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a (C) The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling that content created by an AI model without human input cannot be copyrighted....

DOGE efficiency in action The upheaval at the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, took another twist on Tuesday, as it moved to reinstate staffers it had fired over the past few weeks - specifically those still in their probationary period - though they've been benched on paid leave for now....

HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work GTC The age of the 20-petaFLOPS desktop is upon us as Dell announced a machine capable of achieving that massive processing power today at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley....

Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server GTC After a Hopper hiatus, Nvidia's DGX Station returns, now armed with an all-new desktop-tuned Grace-Blackwell Ultra Superchip capable of churning out 20 petaFLOPS of AI performance....

Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters - or that's the hope, anyway GTC Nvidia is set to make available Ethernet and InfiniBand switches featuring silicon photonics with co-packaged optics to advance its vision of datacenters with "millions of GPUs," arguing that the equipment can keep power consumption down....

There goes AMD's capacity advantage GTC Nvidia's Blackwell GPU architecture is barely out of the cradle - and the graphics chip giant is already looking to extend its lead over rival AMD with an Ultra-themed refresh of the technology....

Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot Amazon has used tricks, algorithms, and surveillance to discourage warehouse employees from unionizing, according to a paper published in the journal Socius....

Hiring remains relatively strong as analysts warn of slowdown A pair of reports on tech sector employment trends in the United States suggest out-of-work techies right now have relatively decent prospects, but economic uncertainty and rapid policy changes initiated by the Trump administration mean the future job market looks less rosy....

For when a Pico 2 is just too general purpose The Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller is generally available, meaning the chip can now be picked up from resellers rather than as a Pico 2 or on PCBs from manufacturers like JLC....