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Juices the tooling and support for developers and enterprise customers Canonical has some extra toppings, flavorings, and offers coming for its bigger Java fans - because the suits swallow a lot of the stuff....

Customers booted from system and technical integration missing from upgrade A UK bank serving charities has come under fire from customers unable to log in or make transactions on its new online platform....

Minimalist glue code offers surprising lifeline for stubborn display setups A new project addresses one of the biggest differences between how X11 and Wayland work, and that could be a winning combination....

You probably don't need one, but it's nice to have the option Let's Encrypt, a certificate authority (CA) known for its free TLS/SSL certificates, has begun issuing digital certificates for IP addresses....

Crims have cottoned on to a new way to lead you astray AI-powered chatbots often deliver incorrect information when asked to name the address for major companies' websites, and threat intelligence business Netcraft thinks that creates an opportunity for criminals....

India, Japan, USA and Australia see risks and opportunities in rare earths India, Japan, USA and Australia have launched a Critical Minerals Initiative" they hope will harden supply chains....

Eigen+' finds instances likely to cause out of memory errors and makes sure they can't do damage Alibaba Cloud has revealed a cluster manager it says allows it to run databases more efficiently than its hyperscale rivals....

The second max score this week for Netzilla - not a good look If you're running the Engineering-Special (ES) builds of Cisco Unified Communications Manager or its Session Management Edition, you need to apply Cisco's urgent patch after someone at Switchzilla made a big mistake....

Two flaws in TeleMessage are 'frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors' The US security watchdog CISA has warned that malicious actors are actively exploiting two flaws in the Signal clone TeleMessage TM SGNL, and has directed federal agencies to patch the flaws or discontinue use of the app by July 22....

Lots of manual corrections and data entry still required ai-pocalypse Recent research details how customer service reps at a Chinese utility's call center often struggled when trying to use an AI assistant, and were forced to make manual fixes....

A big shrug to early integration questions HPE has completed its takeover of Juniper Networks, but the conjoined pair isn't yet ready to discuss details about how the networking business will fit into HPE's existing lineup alongside Aruba....

Methane monitoring satellite managed just over a year in orbit before its sudden demise The Bezos-backed MethaneSAT satellite has been declared "likely not recoverable" after losing contact with controllers just over a week ago....

Nonprofit TTAM assures everything is BAU. Whether that makes customers feel better is another matter The medical research nonprofit vying to buy 23andMe is informing existing customers that it plans to complete the deal on July 8....

Dismissal bid denied as 16-count indictment moves toward court in May 2026 Huawei will still have to face trial in the US next year over alleged breaches of sanctions against Iran after a judge declined its request to dismiss various charges....

Reports of 9,000 staff cut Microsoft's recent trend of wide-scale workforce reduction continues, with reports that Redmond is preparing to slash an additional 4 percent of its employees - or around 9,000 people....

Datacenters kept humming along, but there's plenty of blame to be passed around elsewhere The cause of a power outage that cut the juice to London Heathrow airport in March has been identified - along with a chain of failures that allowed it to happen....

NASA science might be cut, but cash can be found to move a 'space vehicle' from museum to museum Lurking in the text contained within the One Big Beautiful Bill, which was passed by the US Senate yesterday, is an $85 million allocation for shifting a "space vehicle" to a new location, widely interpreted as a move of the retired Space Shuttle Discovery orbiter from Virginia to Houston....

Cutting out middle man dents coffers of larger service providers, helps Redmond offset AI investments The sweeping changes Microsoft is making to its licensing incentives for large service providers is taking hold....

Aeza Group accused of assisting data bandits and BianLian ransomware crooks The US Treasury has sanctioned Aeza Group, a Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) provider, and four of its cronies for enabling ransomware and other cybercriminal activity....

Are you sure you wouldn't rather run in our cloud? Microsoft has made Subscription Editions (SE) of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server generally available, marking an end to year-numbered versions....

Open source initiative aims to offer enterprise security feature without vendor lock-in Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a popular approach to encrypting data at the storage layer, beefing up database security. While PostgreSQL has steadily climbed in popularity - especially among professional developers - it has so far lacked this enterprise feature, at least in open source....

Experts say they don't expect the MOVEit menace to do much about it Security experts have uncovered a hole in Cl0p's data exfiltration tool that could potentially leave the cybercrime group vulnerable to attack....

It might be time to update the Submarine Telegraph Act of 1885 Cyberattacks and undersea cable sabotage are blurring the line between war and peace and exposing holes in UK law, a government minister has warned lawmakers....

Mysterious Alloy 30' gets smaller when heated, which could help stabilize super-sensitive space telescopes NASA is exploring the properties of a metal alloy that shrinks as it is heated, as boffins in its Astrophysics Division think it may be needed if the planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is to succeed....

And no, that's not a typo Amazon Web Services has cooked up a new Graviton 4-powered instance tuned for network-intensive applications like cloud firewalls and load balancers....

It's 2025 so even this networking deal is about AI, which is apparently about to change wide area networks Broadcom has sold VeloCloud, the software-defined WAN business VMware acquired in 2017, to Arista....

Frequent flyers' info takes flight Australian airline Qantas on Wednesday revealed it fell victim to a cyberattack that saw information describing six million customers stolen....

Warns investors its codebase is harder to maintain as it bakes in brainboxes Web design tools developer Figma on Tuesday filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to propose an initial public offering of company shares....

Google's TPUs might not be on Altman's menu just yet, but he's never been all that picky about hardware Analysis No longer bound to Microsoft's infrastructure, OpenAI is looking to expand its network of compute providers to the likes of Oracle, CoreWeave, and apparently even rival model builder Google....

Up to $150K tier shelved, perks folded into two-track system Microsoft has retired its program that granted incorporated AI startups with a validated business plan up to $150,000 in Azure credits and replaced it with a two-track system....

The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken down ai-pocalypse Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers by default in a bid to become the internet's gatekeeper....

Customizations not saved with security baseline policy update Microsoft Intune administrators may face a few days of stress after Redmond acknowledged a problem with security baseline customizations....

Trump's budget bill moves back to the House with some mods It took a tie-breaking vote from the Vice President JD Vance to pass Trump's budget reconciliation bill through the Senate on Tuesday, but a controversial section that would have barred states from regulating AI was struck down in a much clearer fashion....

R&D teams are 'separable' says biz, which is open to offers for parts or the whole European RISC-V biz Codasip has put itself up for sale, citing an expression of interest during a recent funding round, and is now openly touting for buyers....

He didn't cover his tracks very well, the iGiant claims in a court filing An ex-Apple employee who allegedly thought he was clever enough to sneak out the back door to a job at Snap loaded up with Cupertino's secrets has instead found himself on the receiving end of a lawsuit....

Body stays coy on details but alludes to similarities with 2023 espionage campaign The International Criminal Court (ICC) says a "sophisticated" cyberattack targeted the institution, the second such incident in two years....

Community vetoes plans to axe i686 compatibility and switch X11 forks The Fedora community has quickly dropped a couple of recent proposed changes - one highly controversial, the other rather less so....

Stricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatment NASA has extended recovery efforts for its stricken Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft to mid-July, but is warning that if the probe remains silent, the mission could end....

176 expressions of interest to erect 'gigafactories' across 16 member states, with 3 million GPUs needed It's pork barrel time in Europe for Nvidia (and possibly AMD) as corporations bid for a slice of the 20 billion ($23.6 billion) fund to build proposed AI Gigafactories to advance the EU's AI credentials....

Copilot's confidence was... misplaced Not content with humiliating ChatGPT at the hands of Video Chess on an Atari 2600 emulator, Robert Caruso has tried again, this time with Microsoft's Copilot....

Plus: Consumers respond to imminent Win 10 cutoff date with collective 'Meh' World War Fee Total PC shipments in the US will increase by just 2 percent this year, thanks to Trump's tariffs and little appetite from consumers for spending on "big-ticket" items, despite the looming end of Windows 10 support....

Kernel 6.16 may be the last with the new disk format The geek titans are clashing once again, and Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has warned: "I think we'll be parting ways" as of kernel 6.17....

Study finds emotional support from chatbots is more readily accepted if participants don't know it's an AI A study of AI chat sessions has shown people tend to have more empathy with a chatbot if they think it is human....

The silly mistakes to the flagrant failures They say that success breeds complacency, and complacency leads to failure. For cybercriminals, taking too many shortcuts when it comes to opsec delivers a little more than that....

Users tired of being 'yanked around' as end of support looms Microsoft's latest attempts to ease the transition to Windows 11 for Windows 10 users "don't go far enough," according to privacy campaigners that worry about the prospect of millions of PCs going to landfill....

Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well A year after the Right to Repair laws passed in California and Minnesota, many product makers still aren't doing much to help consumers fix the gear they bought....

Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple's practices harm privacy Secure comms biz Proton has joined a lawsuit that alleges Apple's anticompetitive ways are harming developers, consumers, and privacy....

Fears that DDR4 has hit the end of the road and the return of tariffs may be to blame Spot prices for DRAM have doubled in the last week....

America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing China's Northwestern Polytechnical University last week flew a hypersonic craft and claimed the test achieved some world-first feats....

Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration Oracle has landed a mystery customer that will add more than $30 billion to the database giant's annual revenues, more than doubling the size of its current cloud business....