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Maybe finish ripping and replacing your telco networks first? Uncle Sam has decided it's time to free US-connected undersea cables from Chinese influence....

Linking can be helpful - but not always... while disinformation can spread like a virus Beware: the people behind PuTTY, the renowned FOSS SSH client for Windows, are not the same people as those behind the PUTTY.ORG website....

Non-competitive 220M datacenter deal with tax collector tops 510M pile of public money Fujitsu has been awarded around 510 million ($682 million) in UK public sector contracts since a TV dramatization of the Horizon Post Office scandal - including a recent 220 million ($294 million) deal with the UK tax collector, awarded without competition....

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016....

New spin on speculative decoding works with any model - now built into Transformers We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Intel Labs, and d-Matrix could significantly reduce the cost of serving up your favorite large language model (LLM) with just a few lines of code....

The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity Scientists have analyzed data gathered from CERN's Large Hadron Collider to advance our understanding of why anything exists....

It did get sourced, but nobody cared The result of the pioneering joint Psion and Nokia smartphone effort is still out there on GitHub....

It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out - for a price that might buy nothing Microsoft has extended its security update programs for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, and Skype for Business 2015 and 2019....

Bayesian optimizations apparently build better slabs Social media giant Meta has created an AI model to come up with new forms of concrete and used one of the resulting recipes to underpin a new bit barn....

Our sources tell us mostly back office staff were let go, and that the mood in the office is very pessimistic Updated Intel has filed documents that reveal plans to fire around 5,000 staff, mostly in California and Oregon....

The Microsoft cofounder breathed that sigh of relief in a Cipher News interview - just before it folded Despite Trump's budget bill slashing many mature clean-energy tax credits, Bill Gates is less worried, since new nuclear incentives, including those his TerraPower venture will leverage, survived intact....

'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization' Ukrainian hackers claim to have taken out the IT infrastructure at Russia's Gaskar Integration plant, one of the largest suppliers of drones for its army, and also destroyed massive amounts of technical data related to drone production....

Two Russian suspects in cuffs, seven warrants out International cops shut down more than 100 servers belonging to the pro-Russian NoName057(16) network this week as part of the Europol-led Operation Eastwood....

'Everything breaks when you scale that quickly' Thank heavens for former OpenAI engineers inspired to blog about their time at the famously secretive firm, for without them we would have no idea what a wild mess it is in there....

Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three There was a disturbance in the force on July 14 after Cloudflare borked a configuration change that resulted in an outage, impacting internet services across the planet....

Westinghouse taps Big G's cloud smarts to speed up atomic plant builds and keep the grid humming While AI systems are known to spew wrong information and make up facts, Google and Westinghouse Electric are now pressing generative AI models into service to transform how nuclear reactors are constructed and optimize their operation....

Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped provide a snapshot of the formation of a planetary system around a young star for the first time, according to astroboffins....

Someone's OVERSTEPing the mark Updated Unknown miscreants are exploiting fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall VPNs to deploy a previously unknown backdoor and rootkit, likely for data theft and extortion, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group....

Gentoo derivative is the most popular Linux distro, but its days are apparently numbered Google's Android president has confirmed the platform is set to replace ChromeOS - but not when....

AI boom can't mask trade gloom, says Dutch lithography giant World War Fee Shares in ASML fell by more than 8 percent after it warned that tariff uncertainty over future trade was increasing and net sales were down on the previous quarter....

Supermarket announces white hat education scheme as four suspects released on bail Co-op Group's chief executive officer has confirmed that all 6.5 million of the organization's members had their data stolen during its April cyberattack - Scattered Spider is believed to be behind the digital heist....

Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be 'deep breach' of Active Directory Exclusive Aviation insiders say Serbia's national airline, Air Serbia, was forced to delay issuing payslips to staff as a result of a cyberattack it is battling....

Peter Kyle promised alternative to 'ball and chain' of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power Comment Last week, UK minister for science, innovation and technology Peter Kyle spoke at Google Cloud Summit in London to tell the audience: "Now, sometimes I'm accused of being 'too close to big tech'," with the Chocolate Factory's multi-colored logo looming behind him....

Former staffers of struggling UK biz say they don't expect to be paid for July UK cybersecurity shop Adarma has confirmed it has entered administration....

CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line Column Agentic AI will make jobs - but many will involve picking its failures off automated conveyor belts....

Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today Exclusive VMware has advised partners its current channel program will end, and it seems that smaller players won't be invited back....

Network update reports median 25 ms latency - in the US - as capacity rockets upwards Elon Musk's space broadband service Starlink has hinted that Elon Musk's Starship will be ready for commercial flights in 2026....

Coming soon, somewhere in the Middle East or Asia Rideshare OG Uber has announced a plan to roll out thousands" of robo-taxis from Chinese tech giant Baidu....

Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish The US government has cleared AMD to resume exporting some accelerators to China....

Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop....

File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crime A former US Army soldier, who reportedly hacked AT&T, bragged about accessing President Donald Trump's call logs, and then Googled "can hacking be treason," and "US military personnel defecting to Russia," pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into telecom firms' databases and extort at least $1 million....

Let us delve swiftly into meticulous inquiry with our AI masters Like it or not, ChatGPT and other large language models are changing the world, including affecting how we speak, claims a group of researchers, and the end results could be an erosion of linguistic and cultural diversity....

Apache-licensed plan takes aim at costlier options Mistral has released an open automatic speech recognition (ASR) software bundle called Voxtral in a bid to undercut rivals on price and quality....

MP Materials aims to deliver US-made, recycled magnets by 2027 Apple has signed a deal with the only active rare earth mine under American control to begin sourcing magnets for its iDevices from the US - but not from the mine itself: Apple's going to recycle....

They might pay more, but don't expect a mega salary anymore If you're looking for top dollar and job satisfaction as an IT professional, try for a role in the biggest, most faceless mega-corporation you can find - at least that's what mid-year US salary survey data suggests....

Inventories stack up stateside as Apple and co prep for import tax tweaks The global smartphone industry is taking a hit from increasing uncertainty and volatility in the marketplace caused by a certain US President's unpredictable trade policies....

Big Red's changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open source A survey of 500 IT asset managers in organizations that use Oracle Java has found that 73 percent have been audited in the last three years....

S&P 500 businesses warn investors they may never see ROI in SEC filings America's largest corporations are increasingly listing AI among the major risks they must disclose in formal financial filings, despite bullish statements in public about the potential business opportunities it offers....

The never Nvidia networking party just got another option Chip vendors like AMD may be closing the gap with Nvidia on GPU FLOPS, memory bandwidth, and HBM capacity, but without a high-speed interconnect and switch, like NVLink and NVSwitch, their ability to scale that performance remains limited....

Outfit was accused of charging for specialist IT labor performed by uncertified folks A Maryland IT, cloud, and security consultancy will have to pay the US government at least $14.75 million to settle multiple allegations that it issued false invoices between 2018-2023....

Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fill When Ang Li, co-founder of agent software biz Simular, started working at Google DeepMind in 2017, software engineers at the search giant were skeptical about the usefulness of machine learning, or artificial intelligence (AI) as it has come to be called....

Uncertainty to blame as businesses wait to see what US Prez Trump does next World War Fee Gartner has trimmed its growth forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2025 as an "uncertainty pause" hits net new spending, caused in part by the unpredctability of US President Donald Trump's trade tariff policy....

Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere Seagate has released two 30 TB hard drives based on its HAMR technology, pitching them as more energy efficient cheaper options for datacenter operators dealing with AI workloads....

Stealth jets can't fight, can't fly much, and can't shoot UK missiles, says NAO The F-35 stealth fighter is not meeting its potential in British service because of availability issues, a shortage of support personnel, and delays in integrating key weapons that are limiting the aircraft's effectiveness....

First, Zuck takes Manhattan. Then he might actually deliver a product that matters Meta overlord-for-life Mark Zuckerberg has revealed he plans to build several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters, with the first to come online in 2026....

Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars Researchers have observed the largest ever collision between two massive black holes witnessed by humans, a finding that's sent astrophysicists back to their calculators to re-think models....

Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of permission to sell the H20 and a new RTX Pro GPU Nvidia has announced the US government will allow it to resume sales of its GPUs to Chinese customers....

Stricter regulation follows last week's tariff whack The government of Malaysia on Monday closed a back door that may have allowed the export of AI chips to China....

Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'... Someone hacked Elmo's X account on Sunday, making it appear as if the lovable Sesame Street monster with the habit of referring to themselves in the third-person spewed a series of now-removed antisemitic, racist, and anti-Trump posts....

Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley The Pentagon's embrace of the AI industry just put up to $800million on the table as the Department of Defense has issued a quartet of contracts bringing the biggest names in the biz officially into the fold....