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Iran-linked cyber crew says they hit US med-tech firm
A hacking crew with ties to Iran's intelligence agency claimed to be behind a global network outage at med-tech firm Stryker on Wednesday, and said the cyberattack was in response to the US-Israel airstrikes.…
Most chatbots will help plan school shootings and other violence, study shows
You might expect a bot to have guardrails that prevent it from helping you plan a crime, but your expectations might be too high. According to a study, eight of ten major commercial chatbots will help you prepare to conduct a school shooting.…
Meta, international cops use handcuffs and AI to stop scammers
Not every scam starts with malware or a compromised account. Sometimes all it takes is a friend request or a link shared via chat.…
NASA watchdog report pokes holes in Artemis lunar lander plans
The NASA Office of Inspector General has published a report on the agency's management of the lunar Human Landing System (HLS) contracts, highlighting the risks and arguments behind the scenes.…
DR-DOS rises again – rebuilt from scratch, not open source
DR-DOS is back, and there is already a test version you can download. But as of yet, it's not finished, not FOSS – and not based on the original code.…
ICO fines Police Scotland over data-sharing debacle in gross misconduct case
The UK's data protection watchdog has fined Police Scotland £66,000 ($88,000) for what it calls a "serious failure" in handling an alleged victim's sensitive data.…
Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns
The Ig Nobel Prize, which satirizes its more noble namesake, is moving its award ceremony to Europe following concerns about the safety of those attending the US event.…
Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh
Intel has a new strategy for shoring up its eroding market share: Offering PC buyers more cores per dollar than arch-rival AMD in a refresh of its Arrow Lake range.…
Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system
Exclusive If you thought Nvidia or AMD's 72-GPU rack systems were enormous, silicon Ayar Labs has something much bigger in the works.…
Lightmatter says latest photonics will slash datacenter fiber bills in half
Photonics startup LightMatter says that its latest optical engine can cut the amount of fiber used by modern datacenters in half, and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't rely on co-packaging to do it.…
Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is moving to a weekly release cycle, as well as joining Google in encouraging agentic AI development without manual approval with a new Autopilot feature.…
Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them
A Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.…
Dutch cops bust teen suspected of posing as bank staff to steal cards
Dutch police have arrested a 17-year-old boy who detectives suspect was responsible for 16 bank card frauds across the Netherlands.…
Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study
Broadband subscribers in Scotland suffer the most outages in the UK, according to Broadband Genie, with customers of BT typically experiencing the fewest.…
Hotpatching goes default in Windows Autopatch whether you like it or not
From the department of "what could possibly go wrong?" comes news that Windows Autopatch is enabling hotpatch security updates by default.…
EU legal eagle says banks should refund cybercrime victims first, argue later
Analysis One of the European Union's top legal advisors is trying to change how banks treat cybercrime victims – meaning they could enjoy greater financial protections sooner than expected.…
Your datacenter's power architecture called. It's not happy
Feature Hyperscale computing was built on a foundation of certainty. For years, 12V and 48V rack architectures – implemented at a steady 50–54 VDC (Volts of Direct Current) - ruled the datacenter floor, engineered to perfection for power densities of 10–15 kW per rack. These systems were finely tuned machines, optimized around the predictable, steady-state demands of general-purpose CPUs and storage servers. The infrastructure was stable. The math was settled.…
Watchdog clears £142M Post Office subsidy for Horizon fallout and IR35 bill
The UK's competition regulator has given a conditional thumbs-up to a request for £141.8 million in subsidies to the Post Office – a publicly owned company – to cover its costs in compensation for the Horizon IT scandal in the coming year and a tax liability.…
Whitehall can't cost digital ID until it decides how to build it
The UK government has refused to estimate the cost of its digital identity system, saying this depends on what it decides after a consultation exercise launched yesterday.…
AI has made the Command Line Interface more important and powerful than ever before
Opinion The command line interface is making a comeback because graphical user interfaces are a poor fit for autonomous agents, which could spell trouble for a lot of software – and software makers.…