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Catalyst 1200 and 1300 keep perpetual licenses, PoE and stackability Cisco has refreshed its small business switch range, giving the world the Catalyst 1200 and 1300 series devices....

'He can't just make his own rules,' Danish labor leader says of Musk Swedish Tesla employees have gone on strike, and unions in neighboring Denmark and Norway have joined boycotts of Elon Musk's electric automaker....

Don't worry, your developer jobs are safe ... for now Google's latest code-generating model - AlphaCode 2, powered by its Gemini Pro system and making its public debut on Wednesday - reportedly scored above the 99.5 percentile of participants competing in programming contests online....

Plans to share 'vast amounts of data' - very carefully Australia is building a top-secret cloud to host intelligence data and share it with the US and UK, which have their own clouds built for the same purpose....

Also: India's PC ban didn't take into account needs of ecosystem CANALYS APAC FORUMS Lenovo won't stop making Chromebooks despite the machines scoring poorly when it comes to both sustainability and revenue, according to an exec speaking at Canalys APAC Forum in Bangkok on Wednesday....

Canalys mostly agrees, but thinks GPU giant still has a way to go CANALYS APAC FORUM Buyers won't tolerate Nvidia's long lead times to deliver GPUs, enabling new entrants to enter the market, according to Dell Asia Pacific and Japan president, Peter Marrs....

Memory safety vulnerabilities need to be crushed with better code Business and technical leaders should prepare to focus on memory safety in software development, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) urged on Wednesday....

Scheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went Stratolaunch has taken its Talon-A reusable hypersonic aircraft into the sky fully fueled and ready to launch, but the long-delayed test flight isn't happening yet....

Cupertino promises to reveal its data deliveries, ending silence on the matter Government agencies in unspecified countries have compelled Apple and Google to hand over push notification data without telling anyone, thanks to US government regulations, according to US senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)....

Issue has been around since at least 2012 A years-old Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability allows miscreants to connect to Apple, Android and Linux devices and inject keystrokes to run arbitrary commands, according to a software engineer at drone technology firm SkySafe....

Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100 AMD is pushing advanced packaging and chiplets to the limit with the launch of its Instinct MI300-series accelerators, part of a quest to close the gap with rival Nvidia in the AI arena and bolster its standing in the high performance computing (HPC) community....

Gemini accepts text, images, audio, and video and comes in three flavors Google has unveiled Gemini, its most powerful class of transformer-based models yet, which are capable of processing text, images, audio, and video....

Folks are dipping their toes in without a full commitment Despite a huge surge in awareness over the last year, just 10 percent of organizations have adopted generative AI technology in production environments, according to a survey by Intel....

What, spent all your liquid assets on Twitter, Elon? The world's richest man is begging for cash again, this time he'd like $1 billion for his recently formed AI outfit, with individual investors told to offer at least $2 million for a slice of the equity pie....

Commerce Sec threatens redesigned AI-capable chips will be curtailed 'the very next day' Nvidia chief Jensen Huang reckons Huawei and Intel are potential challengers for the GPU-maker's crown in the AI accelerator space, and says it is working out a deal with the US to keep selling products to China....

Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound? Google revealed a performance-optimized version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called the v5p designed to reduce the time commitment associated with training large language models....

Does the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life? Future spacecraft flying close to Enceladus may be able to detect amino acids, an essential class of organic compounds for life on Earth, in the explosive plumes erupting from the moon's surface, a new study suggests....

Insights tool aims to simplify conversion process, but it'll probably cost you Red Hat has suggested that if customers are worried about the impending end of life for CentOS 7, they might wish to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) via its Insights service....

Apparently no one thought to check if this D-Link router 'issue' was actually exploitable A security vulnerability previously added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerability catalog (KEV), which was recognized by CVE Numbering Authorities (CNA), and included in reputable threat reports is now being formally rejected by infosec organizations....

'Inconsistent wiring label definitions' resulted in drogue being cut before it was deployed NASA has revealed how a wiring mix-up resulted in a parachute problem on its otherwise successful OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission....

Bloc risks missing out on first-to-legislate status if timetable slips The European Commission is entering 11th-hour negotiations to hammer out legislation governing the development and use of AI in time to retain its position as first mover on AI rules....

Semiconductor bods get cash injection after threatening to quit UK over lack of government support UK-based chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has netted 182 million ($229 million) in finance to expand production, after threatening to quit the country entirely earlier this year over lack of government support....

Grudge match between quantum mechanics and general relativity attracts new effort to find harmony Since the early 20th century, physicists have struggled to marry theories governing the very big with those for the very small....

There are still good, modern, graphical text editors that are not Electron-based One of the best FOSS text editors for Windows, Notepad++, is turning 20, while cross platform Geany just hit version 2.0 as it turns 18 years old....

Vendor to speak unto vendor with first results expected in 2027 The European Commission is to provide up to 1.2 billion in public funding for the IPCEI Cloud project and expects a further 1.4 billion from the private sector. Both pots of money are to be used to promote local interests in a regional computing sector controlled by US giants....

Sure, we'll send you to the Moon. But a return will cost you Competition We have a winner. After much discussion, tears, tantrums, and tea, Microsoft's knitted monstrosity is going to a reader who has clearly had a bad experience buying from overseas....

Technology allows us to keep more of our stuff than previously possible - but what use is it if we can't find it? Column I have too many artefacts detailing my digital history, which is stored on too many TRS-80 cassettes that hold sometimes-able-to-load BASIC programs, 3.5'' floppy disks, ZIP disks and HDDs....

Computer-generated image maker fails to quash case on its claimed home turf Getty's lawsuit against Stability AI, claiming the startup "unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright" from its photo archive, will go to trial in the UK....

Bitbucket, Confluence and Jira all in danger, again. Sigh Atlassian has emailed its customers to warn of four critical vulnerabilities, but the message had flaws of its own - the links it contained weren't live for all readers at the time of despatch....

Limited options will be available into 2028, for an undisclosed price Microsoft on Tuesday warned that full security support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025, but offered a lifeline for customers unable or unwilling to upgrade two years hence....

It'll be opt-in at a capsule hotel chain NTT Data has opened a hotel at which it plans to watch people sleep, as part of a plan to gather - and of course sell - data about the snoozing habits of ten million people....

Predicts cyber crims will find binary brainboxes harder to battle Cisco's executive veep for security Jeetu Patel has predicted that AI will change the infosec landscape, but that end users will eventually pay for the privilege of having a binary brainbox by their side when they go into battle....

Swift software development effort saw Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module make an unexpected return to Earth India has revealed an unexpected sequel to its Chandrayaan-3 Moon lander mission....

Data poisoning appears open to all Three Canada-based computer scientists have developed what they call a universal backdoor for poisoning large image classification models....

GRU-linked crew going after our code warns Microsoft - Outlook not good Fancy Bear, the Kremlin's cyber-spy crew, has been exploiting two previously patched bugs for large-scale phishing campaigns against high-value targets -like government, defense, and aerospace agencies in the US and Europe - since March, according to Microsoft....

To be replaced by virtual community and in-person event experience' hosted by vendor Citrix has pulled the plug on its user group....

How could you, Mark? Oh, right - gotta avoid those pesky EU gatekeeper rules Meta plans to end support for cross-app messaging between Facebook Messenger and Instagram, the social media biz quietly announced in a pair of help page updates....

Alt+Tab support added and more in latest update to OS Microsoft has released a patch to deal with Copilot's broken multi-monitor support and reminded users that if they want to keep chatting with the Gen AI preview, they'll need to ditch their local account in favor of something from Microsoft....

And going and going until the probe squeaked its last in 2003 It is 50 years since Pioneer 10, NASA's first all-nuclear electrical powered spacecraft, got up close and personal with our solar system's largest planet, Jupiter....

No fix available yet for over 100,000 Omnipod 5 customers The maker of the Omnipod 5 insulin-delivery system is warning customers that its controller device isn't registering decimal points in every case, potentially leading to dangerous doses being administered....

Talk about inflation - bids are now closing in on $30K A few months after he co-founded Apple on April Fool's Day in 1976, Steve Jobs cut a check to RadioShack for $4.01. That same check could now be yours if you're willing to beat the current top bid of $27,500....

There's an idiotic stunt, then there's obstructing a federal investigation Of all the idiotic things people have done for views on YouTube, few are so reckless as deliberately crashing an airplane. Now, instead of sponsorship cash, Trevor Jacob has earned six months in prison for the stunt....

Tardy IT admins likely to get a chilly reception over the lack of updates CISA has released details about a federal agency that recently had at least two public-facing servers compromised by attackers exploiting a critical Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability....

2.5 million devs can't be wrong - or can they? Microsoft reckons Visual Studio Code has a community of more than 2.5 million Java developers, and coming up next for them is full support for Java 21 and changes intended to improve reliability and stability....

Report says new QA plan currently being worked up The US Department of Energy's watchdog claims that operations and maintenance are being poorly managed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's datacenter, home to advanced computers such as the world's first exascale system, Frontier....

Salary regs could limit the hiring of postdocs from abroad Following the UK's success in rejoining the EU's Horizon science program, the government has promised a "push" to maximize the nation's participation so local academics, researchers, and businesses of all sizes can seize the opportunity of being part of the 100 billion scheme....

Accounting software firm Tipalti says it's investigating alleged break-in of its systems The AlphV/BlackCat ransomware group said it plans to "go direct" to the clients of a firm it allegedly attacked to extort them, claiming to have infiltrated the systems of accounting software vendor Tipalti....

It seems many a sleepless night lie ahead for CIOs Dell thinks it knows what is going to keep CIOs awake at night over the next year, and this includes making generative AI work for their organization, security, and the edge....

Suborbital space tourism outfit to move forward without beardy bailouts Sir Richard Branson is leaving his space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, to stand or fall on its own two feet after declaring that his business empire will not be tipping any more cash into the project....

Won't somebody think of the children? The UK's communications regulator has laid out guidance on how online services might perform age checks as part of the Online Safety Act....