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Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China's scientists are sprinting ahead China's government has again made reducing reliance on imported digital technology a major goal....

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license....

Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech Zero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached an all-time high last year, with China-linked cyber-espionage groups remaining the most prolific state-backed users, according to Google....

It's ok, Todd. You're only paranoid if you're wrong. Okta chairman and CEO Todd McKinnon said he believes it would be difficult for an LLM alone to replicate the quality of SaaS applications his company provides, but that doesn't stop him from worrying about competition from bots....

Don't flip the switch until the NRC says you can, okay? Bill Gates-backed nuclear outfit TerraPower finally has approval to build its Natrium reactor. However, it may still face issues finding a steady fuel supply. And, oh yeah, it hasn't built any reactors like this before....

MOIS-linked MuddyWater crew has a new, custom implant An Iranian cyber crew believed to be part of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been embedded in multiple US companies' networks - including a bank, software firm, and airport, among others - since the beginning of February, with more activity in the days following the US and Israeli military strikes, according to security researchers....

Bit tricky enforcing this. What's the penalty if they go up anyway? Seven of the top US AI companies and hyperscalers have officially agreed to protect American consumers from price hikes due to datacenter energy and infrastructure increases caused by the AI build boom....

You made a time machine vapemobile ... out of a Delorean G-Wiz? The world would be a better place if all of us were as willing to upcycle as aggressively as YouTuber Chris Doel, who has demonstrated that batteries from 500 disposable vapes can actually power one of the UK's most famous electric vehicles....

LibreOffice steward says Commish undermines its own standards by asking for feedback via Excel spreadsheet The Document Foundation has taken a swipe at the European Commission over its consultation on guidance for the EU's Cyber Resilience Act - because the feedback template is only available as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet....

Authorization Act seeks to keep lights on until commercial stations are ready The NASA Authorization Act of 2026 has been approved, and alongside a directive for NASA to establish a permanent Moon base, the legislation includes language extending the International Space Station to 2032....

Euro productivity suite appears to be hosted Nextcloud and Collabora Online In the battle of the online office suites, a new contender has entered the ring... but under the wrestler's mask, we think there may be a familiar face....

FCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things Updated The US government is consulting with the telecoms industry about "reciprocity" in satellite services, in a move that could see another dispute erupt with the European Union over regulations....

Project initiated by Nuxt lead Daniel Roe attracts wide support thanks to multiple issues with the official interface A new browser for the npm registry has launched in alpha, following grassroots demand for an alternative to the official npmjs.com interface....

Embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about opt-in Microsoft is rolling out a Copilot update to Windows Insiders that embeds web browsing directly into the assistant, opening links in a side panel rather than launching your default browser....

Contractors tasked with improving AI reportedly had access to intimate footage captured through wearables Britain's privacy watchdog is asking questions about Meta's AI-powered smart glasses after reports that human contractors reviewing recordings from the devices were exposed to extremely private moments captured by unsuspecting users....

Veteran spacecraft overcome computer glitches as atmosphere 'flooded by electrons' Almost two years ago, a solar storm hit Earth, triggering auroras that were seen as far south as Mexico. The storm also reached Mars and was detected by a pair of ESA spacecraft, Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)....

Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider's 27 km vacuum tubes The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and CERN have jointly developed a "mouse-sized robot" to inspect parts of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that are out of reach to humans....

Project dialed back, BT asked to keep current system for another 54 months The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will pay telco BT 94.6 million plus VAT to keep its in-cell Prisoner Telephony Service (PTS) going for another 54 months after repeatedly pushing back procurement of its replacement....

Geopolitical tensions turn up the pressure for European legislators The UK is still in the design phase of digital currency as the EU comes under political pressure to accelerate the development of a digital euro to bolster the bloc's sovereignty and resilience....

Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent of bosses rely on LLMs for help Most business leaders in the United Kingdom appear to have outsourced a lot of their decisionmaking to machine learning models, according to a survey of 200 suits published by data streaming tools vendor Confluent. /p>...

Lower app store fees are on the way, plus an on-ramp for third party digital bazaars Google has spelled out changes it will make to the fees it charges developers who use its app store and payment services, and says they represent the end of its long legal battle with Epic Games....

Offers booming customer accelerator biz as evidence, while VMware props up its software business Broadcom will soon deploy multiple gigawatts worth of custom accelerators at Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, a feat it says shows AI companies and hyperscalers can't successfully develop and deploy their own silicon any time soon....

Meanwhile Chipzilla's 18A process tech could see external deployment after all Intel's Foundry division is near to sealing a deal for its advanced packaging technology that would contribute billions of dollars a year to the struggling chipmaker, CFO David Zinsner said on Wednesday....

Attack infrastructure attributed to 'several Iran-nexus threat actors' Multiple Iranian hacking crews have been targeting internet-connected surveillance cameras across Israel and other Middle Eastern countries since the war started on February 28, according to Check Point security researchers....

Think before you download OpenClaw, the AI agent that can manage just about anything, is risky all by itself, but now fake installers for it are wreaking havoc. Users who searched Bing's AI results for OpenClaw Windows" were directed to a malicious GitHub repository that delivered information stealers and GhostSocks onto their machines....

Employees need guidance and support if companies really want to commit to AI adoption If you buy AI, employees will come and take a look, but they won't necessarily change the way they work. For that, you may have to get human resources involved....

Cupertino grabs an aging A18 Pro from parts bin to power its latest attempt at an entry-level MacBook You'll soon be able to get a MacBook that's cheaper than many budget PCs. Apple on Wednesday unveiled the MacBook Neo, a $599 exercise in cost cutting powered by the same silicon as an iPhone 16 Pro....

Spread false medical info, supersize drug orders, and more! A healthcare AI with the power to manage prescriptions is rather open to mind-altering suggestions, according to security experts....

Snowflake, Red Hat, and others warn customers not to wait around for the cloud to recover After aerial strikes damaged AWS datacenters in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Snowflake, Red Hat, and IoT platform EMQX have told customers to open their disaster recovery playbook and move to new bit barns....

Crooks claim 2 GB haul from AWS instance via React2Shell exploit Data analytics giant LexisNexis has confirmed its Legal & Professional division suffered a data breach days after the Fulcrumsec cybercrime crew claimed responsibility for the hack....

Jim Bridenstine says 'adjustments' to Artemis program were needed NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has won an endorsement from his predecessor Jim Bridenstine, who praised Isaacman's shake-up of the perpetually delayed Artemis program....

London GPU farm dances to National Grid's tune in five-day trial, critical workloads not disrupted A UK datacenter has successfully demonstrated it can reduce the amount of power drawn by AI infrastructure in response to grid events, without disrupting critical workloads....

Follows suggestions iPhone-pwning toolset bears hallmarks of zero-days that targeted Russian diplomats Russian cybersecurity outfit Kaspersky is waving away claims that an iPhone exploit kit recently uncovered by Google was developed by the same people who were behind a group of zero-days that allegedly compromised thousands of Russian diplomats in a 2023 campaign....

The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AI Google has released Android Studio Panda 2, a feature drop including an AI agent that can create apps from scratch and an AI-driven version upgrade assistant....

New capacity under construction falls for first time since 2020 as permitting, zoning, and power hurdles mount New datacenter capacity under construction in primary US markets declined in the second half of 2025, as community opposition increasingly disrupted planning approvals - a dynamic commercial real estate firm CBRE says is reshaping the industry....

Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has changed over the decades....

Brand-new stripped-down fork of the Zed all-Rust code editor Gram is a new text editor written in Rust, created by removing almost all the fancy features from Zed... and it has already seemingly caused Zed Industries to change its terms of use service, according to Gram's developer....

James Frith takes reins from Josh Simons, who quit even though he was cleared over journalist vetting scandal Labour MP James Frith has taken over the ministerial roles held by Josh Simons after he resigned over his handling of a report on journalists while running a think tank....

Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again An Oracle outage knocked parts of TikTok offline this week. The incident affected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which trails AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in market share but counts the social media behemoth among its customers....

Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement Capita confirmed today it won a business process outsourcing deal for multiple UK government departments for 370 million over ten years, less than 40 percent of the estimated value outlined during the tender stage....

Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft Microsoft spent last week rejecting emails to Outlook recipients after what appears to be either a fault or overzealous blocking rules, a situation a source described as "carnage."...

Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft The chair of the competition markets authority's cloud inquiry has quit, citing the slow pace of implementing recommendations outlined in a report it published in 2025 to boost market dynamics in Britain's cloud computing market....

Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM The high price of memory and solid-state storage has almost everyone worried - but not VMware, because the most innovative new feature in the Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) private cloud suite it launched last year is memory tiering tech that allows offload of data from RAM to NVMe drives....

Raises hopes birds 40,000km away can be reprogrammed, for science or military purposes The European Space Agency and the Institute of Optoelectronics at China's Academy of Sciences both claim they've achieved gigabit links to satellites in geostationary orbit....

Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe Google will halve the time between releases of its Chrome browser to two weeks, across versions of the software for desktop operating systems, Android, and iOS....

The AI giant is also trying to walk back some terms of its deal with the Defense Department OpenAI says GPT5.3 Instant, the latest addition to its GPT-5.3 family of models, is less inclined to moralize....

Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference It's a good time to be an AI chip startup, especially if you happen to specialize in silicon photonics....

Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed A developer says their company is on the hook for more than $82,000 in unauthorized charges after a stolen Google Gemini API key racked massive usage costs up in just 48 hours....

Go outside and smell some flowers Updated Meta's flagship service, Facebook, is experiencing an outage....

Injected liver cells stayed viable and functional for eight weeks in mice Can't keep waiting on the transplant list? How about an injectable satellite liver" instead? After an MIT research project showed early success, the idea of a mini organ that could be injected into the body to take over for a failing liver doesn't sound so far-fetched....