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Includes 'engineering, maintenance, logistics, and material support' under Joint Strike Fighter program US defense giant Lockheed Martin has bagged a $213 million contract for upgrade work to a datacenter connected with the F-35 fighter program at Eglin US Air Force Base in Florida.…

What could go wrong? Study finds waste is more reactive, making it more dangerous The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is set to approve the country's first ever small modular reactor (SMR) design, setting up a potential expansion of small-scale nuclear power stations across the country. …

Please stop leaving credentials where miscreants can find them Want to build your own army? Engineers at CloudSEK have published a report on how to do just that in terms of bots and Twitter, thanks to API keys leaking from applications.…

Put your answers on how to 'eliminate waste and stay entrepreneurial' in Sprint box by mid-August Google is asking its 174,000 workers for areas to improve efficiency and ways to up productivity on the back of last week’s less glitzy financial results and an uncertain global economy.…

It's not the first rival open standard has assimilated – remember Gen-Z? Compute Express Link (CXL) is now set to become the standard high-performance interconnect for linking CPUs to devices and distributed memory as it is set to absorb rival OpenCAPI specification efforts.…

No wonder AWS isn't being shy spending capex on buildouts Enterprises are still splashing the cash on cloud infrastructure services with market revenues leaping by a third in Q2 – unlike other parts of the industry that boomed in the pandemic but are now running out of steam.…

From the department of You Had One Job. Good luck expensing that Uber ride Microsoft's Outlook has been having trouble with emails containing complicated tables.…

Not for the Linux illuminati, but a great starter Linux for non-Linux-heads Linux Mint 21 is here, with a tweaked Ubuntu 22.04 base, natively packaged Firefox, Flatpak instead of Snap, and strategically pruned systemd.…

LofyLife campaign comes amid GitHub security lockdown Cybercriminals continue to use npm packages to drop malicious packages on unsuspecting victims, most recently to steal Discord login tokens, bank card data, and other user information from infected systems.…

Pine64 have other goodies in stock too… just not many right now After a very long delay, Pine64 has once again started shipping its open source devices to hardware and OS hackers.…

Rumors of storage-class memory's demise may have been premature Last week Intel killed its Optane storage-class memory product, because it just couldn't sell enough of it to make a difference to the bottom line.…

'What's being proposed is that we ... read everyone's messages. I don't think people want that' The head of WhatsApp will not compromise the security of its messenger service to bend to the UK government's efforts to scan private conversations.…

And there's a study now to prove it – science! Economists have crafted online fake job ads and found that those incorporating age-related stereotypes discourage older workers from applying – another cause for concern among tech workers as the industry faces multiple lawsuits over ageism.…

CX and marketing teams seem to have borne the brunt of it Oracle employees have taken to social media to reveal many have been laid off by the database and applications giant.…

Gros fromages take on big Pomme Apple faces fresh claims its App Store rules violate antitrust laws and stifle competition, now in a lawsuit filed on Monday, led by three French media conglomerates.…

Tablet sales tumble, too – except at Amazon Chromebook shipments in Q2 2022 fell by 51.4 percent compared to the same period in 2021, according to analyst outfit IDC, but the slump does not reflect the reality that Google has built a sustainable niche for its browser-based hardware.…

Cloudflare may well feel flattered by this offering Tencent Cloud has upgraded its edge cloud service with a suite of security services the company says power its own operations, and says it will expose more of its core services as products in future.…

Banks billions by making servers last even longer than AWS or Google Microsoft has extended the life of the machines powering its cloud by two years and will bank billions as a result.…

Financial watchdog accuses 11 of playing role in alleged scam Forsage, an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme purporting to be a decentralized smart contract platform, bilked millions of investors worldwide out of more than $300 million, according to America's securities watchdog.…

NASA chief slams Beijing for not disclosing Long March 5B trajectory Debris leftover from China's Long March 5B rocket has reportedly crashed down into the sea off the Philippines, and scattered on land by the borders of Indonesia and Malaysia.…

'One common trait is that they have zero regard for the privacy of the individual' Nearly three billion profiles and other pieces of data belonging to "actively pregnant" women or those "shopping for maternity products" worldwide are up for sale by US data brokers.…

Law firm hired to look into lawsuit allegations, sources tell us Exclusive IBM's board of directors has started an investigation into claims that its sales numbers were manipulated, leading to executives securing big bonuses. If the board fails to take any action, it may face a lawsuit to claw back millions of dollars from top staff.…

A dazzling problem SpaceX's has big claims that its second-generation Starlink broadband internet satellites will slash light pollution on Earth, but there's one big catch: they're apparently too heavy to launch.…

Rumored measures put Samsung and SK Hynix in the blast radius Memory vendors Samsung and SK Group could be the latest casualties in America's efforts to derail China’s domestic semiconductor industry.…

The days of destroying and rebuilding to add another CPU core are numbered Never one to shy away from tootling its own trumpet, Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical has talked up the instance modification features of version 1.10 of its lightweight VM manager, Multipass.…

KV Computational Storage Device will be hauled out at Flash Memory Summit next week SK hynix is developing a computational storage device with the US Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) that will focus on accelerating indexing capabilities to speed analysis of massive volumes of data.…

Optimizing for beauty while trying to suppress sensationalism Interview In 2008, David Holz co-founded a hardware peripheral firm called Leap Motion. He ran it until last year when he left to create Midjourey.…

Not to worry, admins: Hardware Compatibility Program still the same as Windows 10 2004 The first Release Preview of Windows 10 22H2 was the most significant Windows build last week, along with a confirmation to admins it would be business as usual on the hardware compatibility front.…

Strike one: Amazon rival's audits apparently haven't satisfied the SEC Chinese tech giant Alibaba is the latest company to run afoul of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which has threatened delisting from US stock exchanges.…

Plus: Why ML research is difficult to produce – and Army lab extends AI contract with Palantir In brief In the early days of AI research it was hoped that once electronics had equalled the ability of human synapses many problems would be solved. We've now gone way beyond that.…

Plus: Rival countries line up similar incentives The US Commerce Department says it will strictly control use of subsidies under the recently passed CHIPS and Science Act, which promises to unlock billions of dollars in funding for domestic chip manufacturing.…

The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped Analysis Intel is ending its Optane product line of persistent memory and that is more disastrous for the industry than is visible on the surface.…

The hope? Killing diesel backup gennies in the name of carbon reduction Microsoft has successfully tested a hydrogen fuel cell system with 3MW capacity, and plans to install a similar system at a research datacenter to test the feasibility of replacing diesel backup generators with an energy source that generates as little carbon dioxide emissions as possible.…

Singer and actor was a trailblazer on and off the screen OBIT Nichelle Nichols, who long ago achieved immortality in her role as Uhura on Star Trek, has died at the age of 89.…

SME financial software vendor acknowledges customers expect systems to work for longer, but fails to appease them Global accounting giant Sage is facing accusations it mis-sold software after customers bought perpetual licenses for products the vendor now says must move to a subscription model for technical reasons.…

Barrier to building homes in overcrowded city? An overdrawn electricity grid Housing in London, western Europe's largest city, is famously in short supply, but it seems there is a new barrier to building more homes in England's capital – the electricity grid can't supply enough power and datacenters are being blamed for using up all the capacity.…

Should we be worried? Well, size isn't everything Opinion After decades trailing the rest of the world in leading-edge chip making, Chinese sand stamper Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has quietly got into the 7nm business. That's a huge and unexpected leap. Has the West's embargo of the latest fab furniture failed?…

There's nothing to do. Oh look, the chairs have wheels... Who, Me? Welcome to an episode of Who, Me? in which a race between office chairs results in an unexpected escalation rather than the lifting of a trophy.…

A 'sophisticated, global botnet' held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days Akamai Technologies squelched the largest-ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Europe earlier this month against a company that was being consistently hammered over a 30-day period.…

Will also be first cable to go from South America to Australia Chilean state-run infrastructure fund Desarrollo País and Singapore-based BW Digital subsidiary H2 Cable have issued a request for proposals to build a 15,000km submarine cable to connect Latin America, Asia Pacific, Oceania – and Antarctica.…

Can't say what caused cooling failure, admits to re-routing traffic away from working resources Google has revealed the root cause of the outage that disrupted services at its europe-west2-a zone, based in London, during a recent heatwave.…

Yahoo! was blocked too, but … meh Indonesia has blocked access to PayPal, Yahoo!, plus Epic Games and Steam, sparking outrage among local netizens so fierce that the Ministry responsible has wound back its restrictions on PayPal for a few days.…

Something Hunter Biden probably wishes computers had ages ago Samsung has added a "repair mode" to its Galaxy smartphones, hiding users' data when they entrust an ailing device to a technician.…

Local manufacturer to build modest kit for modestly sized supers India's ambition to become self-sufficient in hardware has taken a small step forward after the nation's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) contracted a local manufacturer to build the designed-in-India servers for a future supercomputer project.…

PLUS: India open to space tourism; China/Indonesia infosec pact; Paytm denies breach; Infosys dodges government again; and more Asia In Brief Australia's federal police (AFP) on Friday charged a man with creating and profiting from spyware that allowed total remote control of victims' computers.…

Hails the combo as finally making Arm 'usable as a development platform' Linus Torvalds has released version 5.19 of the project, and hailed Apple's homebrew silicon – and the Asahi Linux distribution that runs on it – for making Arm-powered computers useful for developers.…

Also, malicious VBA macros are out and container files are in, Robin Banks helps criminals rob banks, and more In brief Canadian fast food chain Tim Hortons is settling multiple data privacy class-action lawsuits against it by offering something it knows it's good for: a donut and coffee.…

MSP should just stand for My Server's Pwned! A Russian-language miscreant claims to have hacked their way into a managed service provider, and has asked for help monetizing what's said to be access to the networks and computers of that MSP's 50-plus US customers.…

Mom, what's an eye pad? On the one hand, Apple Mac and iPad revenues are shrinking and the tech goliath is doing less business in China and Japan.…

Popcorn stocks soar Updated The legal showdown between Twitter and Elon Musk is finally set to go to trial on October 17 and will last five days, according to a court schedule published this week.…