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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....

Tall order for tiny marketshare techies but 'This is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,' says CEO A new, speedier browser has arrived in the form of Vivaldi 7.2, giving its CEO the opportunity to protest the power of tech giants....

'Only' a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture An exploitation avenue found by Trend Micro has been used in an eight-year-long spying campaign, but there's no sign of a fix from Microsoft, which apparently considers this a low priority....

The 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals in Java 24 represent a stochastic sign Oracle JDK 24 debuted on Tuesday with 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals, or JEPs as they're known in the Java programming community....

Ad giant just confirmed its cloudy arm will embrace security shop in $30B deal Infoseccers at Google acquisition target Wiz think they've found the root cause of the GitHub supply chain attack that unfolded over the weekend, and they say that a separate attack may have been to blame....

Dispute over app privacy escalates into legal brawl Phyllis Jager, CEO of New York-based creative agency zuMedia, has perhaps, like some of you, privacy concerns about the pictures DoorDash drivers take to prove they've correctly made their deliveries....

There's nothing bog-standard about this bombshell loo-suit Updated Rival HR technology unicorns are at each other's throats in a courtroom brawl over alleged corporate espionage....

Govt yearns to learn mistakes of serially breached record holders so it can, er, liberalize data sharing regs The UK government is inviting experts to provide insights about the data brokerage industry and the potential risks it poses to national security as it moves to push new data-sharing legislation over the line....

Sending Kubernetes and AI into orbit as devices move from 'glorified sensors' to 'decision-making' SUSECON 2025 Edge technology is finally past the tipping point thanks to inferencing and AI, according to SUSE CTO Brent Schroeder....

SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots SourceHut, an open source git-hosting service, says web crawlers for AI companies are slowing down services through their excessive demands for data....

Don't laugh. This kind of warning shows crims are getting desperate Dark web analysts at infosec software vendor Fortra have discovered an extortion crew named Ox Thief that threatened to contact Edward Snowden if a victim didn't pay to protect its data - a warning that may be an indicator of tough times in the ransomware world for some, at least....

Another success for the 'Moonshot factory' and an extra rival for Starlink et al Google's attempt to provide remote area connectivity with balloons has been floated out as an independent company, a rare success for the company's attempt to develop breakthrough technologies....

One PUT request, one poisoned session file, and the server's yours A trivial flaw in Apache Tomcat that allows remote code execution and access to sensitive files is said to be under attack in the wild within a week of its disclosure....

More light shed on what went down with Marko Elez, thanks to NY AG and co's lawsuit A now-former DOGE aide violated US Treasury policy by emailing an unencrypted database containing people's private information to two Trump administration officials, according to a court document filed Friday....

Microsoft says disappearance of Clippy 2.0 is an error it will shortly fix A buggy Windows 11 update from Microsoft has a silver lining for those who aren't keen on the operating system's Copilot assistant. When installed, the software patch will remove the AI app on at least "some" PCs....

Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway Come March 28, those who opted to have their voice commands for Amazon's AI assistant Alexa processed locally on their Echo devices will lose that option, with all spoken requests pushed to the cloud for analysis....

Cupertino's latest skips iPhone repair gains, iFixit says Anyone hoping Apple's latest MacBook Air might inherit the iPhone's recent repair-friendly tweaks is in for disappointment, iFixit's teardown crew has found....

First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next? Scientists at America's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico say they have developed a Spacecraft Speedometer that satellites can use in orbit to ideally avoid orbital collisions....

Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions A group of technology companies and lobbyists want the European Commission (EC) to take action to reduce the region's reliance on foreign-owned digital services and infrastructure....

Process mining specialist accuses the ERP giant of rigging game with fees, restrictions, and a closed ecosystem German software company Celonis is suing SAP, alleging anti-competitive conduct and claiming its systems lack openness....