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For those for whom a runny white or a hard yolk is just not good un uf Researchers have put computational fluid dynamics software to good use in devising a solution to the age-old problem of the perfect soft-boiled egg....

20 years? More like five for real-world workloads says company's Quantum AI lead Despite ongoing breakthroughs, quantum computing has struggled to shake the perception that it's always another ten years away from being practical. However, researchers at Google now argue the tech is actually much closer to commercial viability than some would have you believe....

Concerns around unfixed problems remain after system resulted in harm to some 150 patients The US Department of Veterans Affairs has restarted a project to implement Oracle electronic health records in its hospitals after the project was suspended in 2023....

Preview arrives in Canary Channel, release planned for Windows 10 and 11 Microsoft has released its first in-box public preview of Windows MIDI Services with full support for the MIDI 2.0 standard....

Fleets built to handle peak demand will lose money, leaving humans driving to the rescue Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is warning that it's not yet possible to commercialize autonomous vehicles due to high costs, seasonal demand fluctuations, and the need to prove "superhuman" safety....

57% higher price point and app compatibility issues aren't helping There remains little love for notebooks containing AI-capable processors and even less for Microsoft's Copilot+ models, with premium pricing, software compatibility, and opaque benefits cited as the reasons....

Lennart Poettering gave packed-out keynote talk. Jack Dorsey ... didn't FOSDEM 2025 FOSDEM returned to Brussels for the first weekend in February - not without some controversial people....

'Fetch' just got a lot more interesting You can teach a robotic dog new tricks, it seems, with mechanic canines now being deployed in tests to detect and defuse bomb threats....

Download speeds of 41.9 Gbps and upload speeds of 20.6 Gbps achieved, claims BT division Network builder and maintainer Openreach says it has tested a 50 Gbps fiber broadband connection in the UK, as a first step towards making it commercially available at some point in the distant future....

Individual publishers could be held liable for visitors' off-topic posts, legal eagle argues Analysis Individuals who run their own website could be held liable for, weirdly enough, off-topic visitor-posted comments that break the UK's Online Safety Act....

Somewhat stale range of Muskmobiles, competition from China, Elon being Elon, or all of the above? Registration of new Tesla cars slumped across Europe in January, as Chinese electric-vehicle makers racked up enormous growth....

The British are coming, the British are coming ... to terms with their loss Arm has given up on terminating one of its key licenses with Qualcomm, leaving the latter free to continue producing homegrown Arm-compatible chips for PCs, phones, and servers....

Are you trying to make this easy for China and Russia? Who bought it, who installed it, and what's happening with the data on it....

Don't laugh: The $4.5m fine proposed for carrier Telnyx shows how the Trump administration will run its comms regulator In its first enforcement action of the Trump presidency, the FCC has voted to propose fining Telnyx $4,492,500 - after scammers pretending to be the watchdog's staff started calling actual FCC staffers via the VoIP telco....

Some worry multiple languages will make it harder to maintain this open source uber-project, others disagree Developers trying to add Rust code to the Linux kernel continue to face opposition from kernel maintainers who believe using multiple languages is an unwelcome and risky complication....

One gives root access, the other lets you steal info and reconfig nodes, in the right (or should that be wrong) circumstances Cisco has fixed two critical vulnerabilities in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root or access sensitive information, modify configurations, and reload affected devices....

Here's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter When Axiom Space's fourth mission to the International Space Station arrives in orbit this spring it'll include Poland's second-ever astronaut, who will bring an essential comfort from home: Pierogi....

CEO of Cloud Software a 'special government employee' probing for Team Elon The US Treasury has revealed Tom Krause - the chief exec of Citrix and Netscaler owner Cloud Software Group - has "read-only" access to a vital federal government payment system that disburses trillions of dollars annually....

Fall in line with executive policy or you're gone, acting OPM chief insists Chief Information Officers across the US federal government face increased job uncertainty as the Trump administration recommends agencies reclassify these positions, potentially making them political appointees....

Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers Blue Origin has sent its reusable New Shepard rocket on another suborbital lob, this time simulating lunar gravity for capsule payloads....

International security squads all focus on stopping baddies busting in through routers, IoT kit etc Netgear is advising customers to upgrade their firmware after it patched two critical vulnerabilities affecting multiple routers....

It looks like you want to irritate Windows users. Do you want some help with that? There are some things that can't be unseen, including Microsoft posting a hand-drawn image of the company's infamous assistant, Clippy, on social media....

Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is leading a project to transform how chips are designed and manufactured, to make them more energy efficient and able to better tolerate environmental conditions such as radiation....

Mountain View clocked onto the scheme with days to spare A Chinese national faces a substantial stint in prison and heavy fines if found guilty of several additional charges related to economic espionage and theft of trade secrets at Google....

That's 1,750 positions about to join the employment queue and it's only February Workday is erasing 8.5 percent of its personnel under a restructuring scheme because... AI....

CU15 MIA as Redmond scrambles to fix issues Microsoft has yet to deliver its promised Cumulative Update 15 for Exchange Server 2019 due to some issues, as the countdown to the end of support for the email platform continues....

Techie complains as biz ignores contractual working hours OnCall... even when I'm not Do you ever feel like you're on-call even when you're technically not on call?...

More Catastrophic Capsule than Calamity Capsule for Boeing's beancounters Boeing's CST-100 Starliner project has added a reach-forward loss of $523 million for the aviation giant, taking total losses for the program beyond the $2 billion mark....

At $61 per device, doubling each year, security updates from November are going to add up quickly Microsoft has quietly updated a support document on how the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10 will work and how much it will cost - and for some it might cause their stomach to churn....

You'll upgrade that aging piece of kit and you'll like it For the past three years, Microsoft documented a way to run Windows 11 on PCs that lack Trusted Platform Module 2.0 hardware - but that workaround has now disappeared from its help page....

Big Red accused of stalling or derailing legal fight by challenging fraud claim Oracle this week asked the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to partially dismiss a challenge to its JavaScript trademark....

New home, Platform9, says it's also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs Exclusive Rackspace is moving some of its back-office workloads off VMware and onto a platform called Private Cloud Director offered by cloud infrastructure outfit Platform9....

As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms Australia's Department of Home Affairs has banned the use of DeepSeek on federal government devices....

Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive AMD's chief exec Lisa Su has predicted the chip designer's Instinct accelerators will drive tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue in coming years, despite DeepSeek-inspired speculation that next-gen AI models may not need the same level of compute infrastructure used to produce such tools today....

Whaddya gotta do to impress investors these days? Maybe convince them you're not overspending on AI? Google's parent Alphabet has achieved $100 billion in annual net income for the first time....

Will now happily unleash the bots when 'likely overall benefits substantially outweigh the foreseeable risks' Google has published a new set of AI principles that don't mention its previous pledge not to use the tech to develop weapons or surveillance tools that violate international norms....

Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD's security - allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its processors to modify the silicon's behavior as they wish - but also demonstrated this by producing a microcode patch that makes the chips always output 4 when asked for a random number....

Plus, Middle Kingdom announces levies and export controls of its own Google is the latest target in the brewing US-China trade war, with Beijing hitting the search giant with an antitrust probe while rolling out fresh tariffs and export controls in response to new US levies on Chinese goods....

Maybe Musk just wants the alien space tech that definitely doesn't exist? A previously undisclosed group of FBI agents who investigate UFOs, or "unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs)," as the government calls them, are worried they may not survive an impending Trump-led political purge....

Lawyers argue billionaire's 105-page complaint 'lurches from theory to theory' Updated Elon Musk's legal grudge against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft could soon be over - again - if a California judge responds favorably to the latest filings in the case....

Researcher says ecosystem's auto-caching is a net positive but presents exploitable quirks A security researcher says a backdoor masquerading as a legitimate Go programming language package used by thousands of organizations was left undetected for years....

Um, does anyone wanna switch seats? Palantir CEO Alex Karp says one of his aims when building the controversial spytech company was to "power the West to its obvious innate superiority."...

Contact info and partial payment details may be compromised US food and grocery delivery platform Grubhub says a security incident at a third-party service provider is to blame after user data was compromised....

Suspect, still at large, said to back concept that 'code is law' New York feds today unsealed a five-count criminal indictment charging a 22-year-old Canadian math prodigy with exploiting vulnerabilities in two decentralized finance protocols, allegedly using them to fraudulently siphon around $65 million from investors in the platforms....

Missed the AI processor boat, split with CEO savior, lost #1 seat to Samsung Eight out of the top ten semiconductor vendors recorded healthy revenue growth last year, fueled by burgeoning GPU and AI processor sales to datacenter customers. Intel and Infineon were the notable exceptions....

Hey, it's not like any governments know what they are doing The Republic of Ireland's new AI minister should probably consult ChatGPT immediately to ask for pointers on how to do her job....

No reason to upgrade other than the looming end of Windows 10 Comment Users are still steering clear of Windows 11, with some customers describing the sales pitch as "like trying to sell sand at a beach."...

Healthcare chiefs say impact will persist for months NHS execs admit that last year's cyberattack on hospitals in Wirral, northwest England, continues to "significantly" impact waiting times for cancer treatments, and suspect this will last for "months."...

When cloud customers don't clean up after themselves, part 97 Abandoned AWS S3 buckets could be reused to hijack the global software supply chain in an attack that would make Russia's "SolarWinds adventures look amateurish and insignificant," watchTowr Labs security researchers have claimed....

Everybody is going to play nice, OK? Telecom watchdog Ofcom has granted a license application from Amazon Kuiper Services Europe for satellite connectivity in the UK....