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Bubble? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doesn't see one Nvidia kicked the can labeled "AI bubble" down the road on Wednesday....

Attackers may be joining the dots to enable unauthenticated RCE Fortinet has confirmed that another flaw in its FortiWeb web application firewall has been exploited as a zero-day and issued a patch, just days after disclosing a critical bug in the same product that attackers had found and abused a month earlier....

The force-feeding will continue until morale improves Some software developers complain that they're being required to use AI tools to the detriment of code quality and their own skills....

The latest attack on Section 230 is likely to face the same fate as many previous efforts A pair of bipartisan senators wants to hold social media giants accountable for pushing content that radicalizes Americans....

Air-launched antique picked for tricky low-inclination orbit job NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, facing the risk of an uncontrolled dive back to Earth, is set for a rescue ride on a Pegasus XL, the air-dropped rocket that hasn't flown since 2021....

And companies are getting caught in the crossfire interview Warfare has become a joint cyber-kinetic endeavor, with nations using cyber operations to scope out targets before launching missiles. And private companies, including shipping, transportation, and electronics manufacturers, are getting caught in the crossfire, according to Amazon....

Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit DARPA is on the verge of reaching a new low - an orbital one - as the Defense Department's research arm moves its Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) Otter satellite program into the production phase....

Massive jump in spending shows the Great White North isn't betting everything on NASA Canada will boost its investment in European Space Agency (ESA) programs by CA$528.5 million ($376 million USD), a tenfold increase, according to the Canadian Space Agency....

Version 4.21 also brings advances in the datacenter, on ARM, and RISC-V The Xen Project today delivered a major release of its hypervisor and associated tools, including contributions from automaker Ford, which quietly joined the project in June....

A reactor at the site suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 The Trump administration is so eager to get extra power into the grid that it is offering a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy to help it restart the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear facility....

Digital rights groups argue cameras used to unconstitutionally surveil locals The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) are suing the City of San Jose and its police department over alleged abuses of automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) technology....

Burnout and slowing growth push Eugen Rochko into an advisory role after nearly a decade in charge Eugen Rochko, CEO and founder of decentralized social network Mastodon, is stepping down after nearly a decade at the helm and walking away with a sizable exit payment....

Analysts warn LPDDR4 supply is tightening fast with shift to higher-end components Memory prices could soon be double what they were earlier this year as chipmakers switch to advanced products to target the AI market, leaving a shortfall of more mature chips such as those meeting the LPDDR4 standard....

Vendors set up sovereign fallback so customers aren't stranded by foreign interference SAP and Microsoft have struck a partnership designed to provide safeguards for users of the US vendor's cloud services in Europe during "times of crisis."...

Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms Researchers in Austria used a flaw in WhatsApp to gather the personal data of more than 3.5 billion users in what they believe amounts to the "largest data leak in history."...

Event supposedly for IT pros doesn't have much to tell admins on the Windows front The Copilot company kicked off its Ignite shindig this week with AI, AI, and more AI. Oh, and a lot of agents....

Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says Microsoft has announced a distributed PostgreSQL database service designed to rival other hyperscaler systems and third-party RDBMSes such as CockroachDB and YugabyteDB....

Preliminary proposal is already provoking debate The Python community is chewing over a new idea: allowing the C-based reference implementation, CPython, to incorporate Rust. It's only at the "pre-PEP" stage, but it's already sparked lively debate....

B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain In 2020, SAP's CFO told investors that its plans for customer upgrades, cloud migration, and a move to SaaS would give the German software vendor a greater "share of wallet."...

Researchers say attacks are laying the groundwork for stealthy espionage activity Around 50,000 ASUS routers have been compromised in a sophisticated attack that researchers believe may be linked to China, according to findings released today by SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team....

Nobody succeeds alone, and no community thrives without generosity Opinion When I started coding for a living 43 years ago, I didn't know shit from Shinola. I'd written a lot of BASIC, some Z80 assembler, and knew my way around floppy drives and a disk operating system. I knew nothing at all about how to operate as a junior engineer in a professional environment....

MI5 sounds the alarm about attempts to source sensitive information Chinese spies are using social media and fake recruitment agents to recruit sources with access to sensitive information in the UK....

And a cloud PC that's for AI agents only Microsoft has created a new type of AI PC - the Windows 365 AI-enabled Cloud PC"....

Thought it was the victim of a hyper-scale DDoS attack' before finding the fix Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a hyper-scale DDoS attack," before figuring out the real problem....

Vertical integration meets subscriptions "We love moving packets," declared Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, on a stage overlooking San Francisco Bay at the networking startup's annual networking event. He continued, "This crowd probably knows this intimately, but everything in the world is packets. Regardless of what type of work you do, it is just packets all the way down."...

BORK is borked Microsoft has added a new Windows mode that blanks out the Blue Screen of Death on public displays after 15 seconds....

What do you get when you combine Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia? A bubble that blows itself It wouldn't be a week of tech news without more circular exchanges of billions of dollars between AI firms. This time around, it's a $45 billion back-scratching session involving Microsoft, Anthropic, and Nvidia, announced during Redmond's Ignite conference....

Using AI to attack AI Malefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks....

Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too burdensome' The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in 2024, that required telecom carriers to adopt basic security controls....

Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company China is preparing for an early launch of the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft to rescue the crew of Shenzou-21, who were left stranded aboard the Tiangong space station after their emergency rescue of the Shenzou-20 crew earlier this month....

When? Sean Cairncross wouldn't say America is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive - he just isn't saying when....

Seventh Chrome 0-day this year Google pushed an emergency patch on Monday for a high-severity Chrome bug that attackers have already found and exploited in the wild....

Rising AI power demand is straining grids and pushing operators toward hydrogen, batteries, geothermal, and nuclear Gartner warns that fossil fuel dominance in on-site power generation is not sustainable, given the rapid rise in datacenter energy consumption due to AI servers....

Carrier insists network wasn't at fault when smartphone couldn't reach 000 A Sydney resident died after their Samsung handset failed to connect to 000, Australia's primary emergency number, triggering a stark warning from telco TPG that outdated mobile software could be a matter of life or death....

Users who thought they were safely in the program hit errors on day one Microsoft has shipped a fix for commercial customers who believed they were enrolled in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program but received error messages on the first Patch Tuesday after support ended....

Cheaper electricity to lure bit barns north as planning fast-track kicks in While UK households face some of the world's highest energy prices, datacenter operators are set to receive electricity discounts under government plans to accelerate AI infrastructure development....

Case alleges loyal customers continued to pay bundled rates after minimum contract terms ended Britain's biggest mobile phone companies face legal action over claims they overcharged customers through a "loyalty penalty" after a tribunal permitted the cases to proceed....

Consumer group Which? warns AI assistants can dish out unclear, risky, or downright daft advice AI assistants can sometimes provide misleading or incorrect answers. However, almost half of British consumers using the services put more faith in them than they maybe should....

Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regime Researchers have found Starlink's efforts to mitigate the effects of solar storms can create degraded performance that persists for a day or more after geomagnetic conditions ease....

Yet Chinese giant wants users to ask any question, big or small, anytime, anywhere!' Chinese tech giant Alibaba yesterday launched a new chatbot that reported errors soon after launch and is very touchy about some subjects Beijing doesn't like to discuss....

VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief VMware has admitted that its guidance about the hardware needed to run its vSAN virtual storage arrays has been wrong for years....

Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing Interview Scientific computing is about to undergo a period of rapid change as workloads inject AI....