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Forensics experts say the state of the K8's battery suggests it led to the living room blaze A Scottish woman who suffered a house fire in 2018 has won her case against LG after a judge ruled that her work-issued phone caused the blaze....

Bold, clean, much less legacy tech - and a bit less like old SUSE A release candidate of openSUSE Leap 16.0 is here. It boldly strips out more established legacy tech than almost any other Linux we've seen....

'IOWN' backers think it can replace the PCI bus, reinvent servers, and rewire motherboards In December 2024, Japanese tech giant NTT revealed two impressive feats of high-speed networking....

Veteran engineer explains the fall of 'Fall' in Windows release Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has explained why the megacorp ditched its increasingly twee naming conventions for Windows 10 releases in favor of the blander H1 and H2....

Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has stated in a personal blog that the most advanced developers have "moved from writing code to architecting and verifying the implementation work that is carried out by AI agents."...

Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act Amnesty International claims Elon Musk's X platform "played a central role" in pushing the misinformation that stoked racially charged violence following last year's Southport murders....

Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark Feature "Deceptively spacious." "Prime location." "Up-and-coming area." "Some original features," which occasionally turn out to be asbestos. Estate agents are known for sometimes stretching the truth in pursuit of a sale, but the generative AI boom appears to have thrown things into overdrive - providing an easy way to present images of properties which simply don't reflect reality....

Government plans 1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU The UK public sector expects to spend around 9 billion on Microsoft products and services over five years under its current contract....

All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience Hands On Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because you can download them, you can run them locally....

Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs World War Fee US president Donald Trump appears to have settled his semiconductor tariff strategy....

Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers Uber has revealed its ambition to offer hyper-personalized offers to its customers, but to do so it needs more of them to use more of its apps....

It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program Computer scientist Peter Burke has demonstrated that a robot can program its own brain using generative AI models and host hardware, if properly prompted by handlers....

Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India US President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook made a joint announcement from the White House on Wednesday of another Apple pledge to move manufacturing back to the United States, with an additional $100 billion in funding for domestic projects. The move could keep Apple one step ahead of Trump's unpredictable tariff policy, which threatens to increase costs on iPhones manufactured overseas....

Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign Microsoft has rolled out an autonomous AI agent that it claims can detect malware without human assistance....

Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market Apple now faces challenges to its WebKit browser requirement in three jurisdictions, as authorities around the globe try to jumpstart competition in the mobile software industry....

But strife and criticism continue Regional internet registry the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is now the subject of an investigation ordered by the government of its home country, Mauritius....

gpt-oss-20b can't seem to decide who won the election, but tried to convince us that it was Biden If you're still struggling to come to terms with the results of the 2024 US presidential election, you're not alone. OpenAI's new open-weight language model is also a bit confused....

A good deal, like beauty, is in the ISP of the beholder, after all - at least if you want BEAD funding US states that want to make use of rural broadband deployment funds had better not require ISPs to offer what they consider affordable service. According to the Trump Administration, "affordable" is for the ISP alone to define....

ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions Google confirmed that criminals breached one of its Salesforce databases and stole info belonging to some of its small-and-medium-business customers....

Chip contract manufacturer declines to comment Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is "coming over and spending $300 billion in Arizona, building the biggest plant in the world for chips and semiconductors," US President Donald Trump said Tuesday....

Timber! Meta is following in Microsoft's footsteps and trying out wood as a construction material for its datacenters in a bid to cut greenhouse gas emissions....

Thanks to LLMs, CEO expects to see networks 'back-end and front-end converge' Arista Networks is expecting the AI datacenter industry to be dominated by open standards such as Ethernet or UALink in the near future, and has upped financial forecasts on the back of those hopes....

Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1 It's just become a lot easier for US government agencies to procure AI products from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, as the firms and the feds have signed a government-wide agreement to streamline purchasing....

A crock of what now? Microsoft is reportedly preparing to unleash its latest product on the public: limited edition XP-themed Crocs....

Communication problems for recently launched small satellites NASA is having trouble tracking down two of its spacecraft. One of the TRACERS spacecraft has lost contact with Earth while the Athena EPIC satellite failed to send an important beacon signal....

Cloud giant erased decade of work - denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool An open source developer is claiming AWS deleted his ten-year-old account, wiping all the data. He believes this was due to a botched test of a script designed to prune dormant accounts....

Feds claim suspects rerouted kit through Malaysia Federal authorities in the US have charged two Chinese nationals with secretly exporting advanced AI chips to China....

October 14 is going to be a big day in the Redmond world It isn't only Windows 10 due for the support axe on October 14. Other Microsoft products will soon be stashed in Redmond's cupboard of forgotten dreams, including the venerable Visual Studio 2015....

Australia's Castlepoint Systems recruited to avoid repeat of Afghan breach scandal The UK's Ministry of Defence is the latest to slap its hand on the big red AI button as it seeks solutions to prevent data leaks....

Upstream changes force users to pick an init system at install instead of boot Debian 13 "Trixie" is coming, closely followed by a new release of MX Linux, MX 25, which will lose some of its init-system switching abilities....

Security hardening and DevOps activities the tipping point It might not be the year of the Linux desktop just yet, but ongoing cyberattacks and a general desire for a more secure posture are driving some businesses to the way of the penguin, according to asset manager Lansweeper....

Former Space Shuttle support vehicle surfaces after surplus slip-up Space fans looking to camp out in style have a chance to pick up an Airstream trailer that once served as the Convoy Command Vehicle for NASA's Space Shuttle operations at Edwards Air Force Base - if they have a couple hundred thousand to spare, that is....

Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch The second attempt by Europe's largest local authority to implement an Oracle finance and HR system - after the first left it unable to produce auditable accounts - remains on an "Amber-Red" risk rating less than nine months before it is expected to go live....

First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations Satellite comms services to standard phones are officially here, but customers expecting a full voice and data experience may have to wait a while longer and make sure their current devices meet the right level of telecoms standard....

PiStorm adapter and a parasitic OS hijack classic 68000 hardware in the name of retro carnage Linux developer Matthew Garrett has taken inspiration from the fungus kingdom to give a classic Commodore Amiga a brain transplant - turning it into a single-minded device that does nothing but run id Software's 1993 classic first-person shooter Doom under a "parasitic Linux" operating system....

Customers compare upgrade to Microsoft's mega-messy Windows 8, Angry users of Atlassian's Trello project management tool users are dishing out harsh criticism about a recent redesign....

Expect the price hikes and channel changes that proved controversial at VMware, Citrix, and DOGE The Cloud Software Group has acquired data management tools vendor Arctera, the owner of Backup Exec and other data management tools....

Worry not, the rest of the business is EPYC and demand is RYZEN AMD's revenue from AI products destined for datacenters dipped in the quarter ended June 28th, thanks to the USA's ban on GPU exports to China....

Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead Broadcom on Monday unveiled a new switch which could allow AI model developers to train models on GPUs spread across multiple datacenters up to 100 kilometers apart. The switch could help pave the way for an alternative to the massive facilities currently being built to power the AI boom, allowing companies to stitch together distant and less power-hungry datacenters....

More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration, silently swapping it for a malicious command without any user prompt....

They want you to use a Microsoft account, but we'll show you how to get around it hands on Redmond really - and I mean really - wants you to log into Windows 11 with a Microsoft account....

GPT-OSS now available in 120 and 20 billion parameter sizes under Apache 2.0 license OpenAI released its first open weights language models since GPT-2 on Tuesday with the debut of GPT-OSS....

The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options A jury has unanimously found Meta guilty of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act by using data from menstruation and fertility app Flo to sell advertising to the social network....

AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network made technical errors in its analysis of Perplexity's operations....

Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys Chromebook demand surged in the second quarter of 2025, Canalys reported Tuesday, but that doesn't necessarily mean permanent growth is on the horizon....

Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics? black hat Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users' devices, steal passwords, and access sensitive data, including fingerprint information, according to Cisco Talos....

CIOs at the EPA, DHS, and GSA are called out for failure to implement critical cybersecurity recommendations The Government Accountability Office (GAO) scolded a trio of federal agencies on Monday because their CIOs haven't implemented IT-related recommendations designed to safeguard national cybersecurity....

Some pinpointed software nasties but were suspicious of printer drivers too Researchers from the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo have discovered exactly how users decide whether an application is legitimate or malware before installing it - and the good news is they're better than you might expect, at least when primed to expect malware....

Tools vendor targets 'creators who've never coded' but devs will be wary IDE and developer tools vendor JetBrains has released a private preview of Kineto, an AI-driven no-code platform for creators and small businesses....

New version season is near, and some of the big names are dropping x86-32 - but not this one NetBSD 11 is taking shape and the code branch for the new release has been created....