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Workday confronts existential threat as customers freeze hiring

41 min 21 sec ago
HR software vendor pushes cross-selling as modest workforce growth exposes vulnerability of per-seat pricing

Workday is confronting a troubling reality. Customers aren't hiring much and some are actively cutting staff. The solution? Cross-selling to squeeze more revenue per user out of its installed base.…

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HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

1 hour 42 min ago
Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030

OpenAI needs to secure $207 billion in new financing by 2030 to fulfill its expansion plans, according to HSBC Global Investment Research – a challenge that could ripple across Big Tech.…

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Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80

1 hour 56 min ago
Time to test just how far fandom and taste will stretch

If Xbox console prices are going to leave Santa short this year, fear not as an alternative is at hand - Xbox Crocs are here for $80.…

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The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC

2 hours 47 min ago
From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower

Feature A silent arms race is accelerating in the world's most advanced laboratories. While headlines focus on chatbots and consumer AI, the United States is orchestrating something far more consequential: a massive expansion of supercomputing power that may reshape the future of science, security, and technological supremacy.…

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London councils probe cyber incident as shared IT systems knocked offline

3 hours 28 min ago
Three boroughs confirm investigation amid service outages, disrupted phone lines, and limited online access

Two London councils are scrambling for answers after declaring a cybersecurity issue that began on Monday.…

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Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain

4 hours 17 min ago
Planned Snapdragon goes puff and disappears, but the code will survive

German Linux box vendor Tuxedo Computers has canned its long-planned Qualcomm device, citing numerous problems with the state of the Linux-on-Arm art.…

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Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

5 hours 2 min ago
Google Workspace switch drags on amid Excel dependencies, compliance requirements, and compatibility issues

Exclusive Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch.…

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Dell says Windows 11 transition is far slower than Win 10 shift, yet PC sales have stalled

9 hours 5 min ago
Lessons from COVID and tariff shocks getting Mike D's tech shop through AI-induced memory maze

Dell has predicted PC sales will be flat next year, despite the potential of the AI PC and the slow replacement of Windows 10.…

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India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions

10 hours 3 min ago
Creating 37 supers in a decade is impressive. The homegrown tech in them, less so

Supercomputing Month In the decade since India launched its National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), the nation has commissioned 37 machines with a combined power of 39 petaFLOPS, with another 35-petaFLOPS hybrid due to come online later this year. But while plenty of those machines use locally developed technology, India is yet to deliver on its ambition to become a leader or major semiconductor player.…

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HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting

10 hours 50 min ago
Warns memory price explosion means PCs may have less RAM, or use low-cost parts

HP Inc will sack between 4,000 and 6,000 workers under a plan that calls for the PCs-and-printers prodigy to use AI to improve its operations.…

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Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to satisfy demand for AI

13 hours 14 min ago
Chinese giant adds to ‘No AI bubble’ babble by citing oversubscribed infrastructure and surging demand

China’s Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to keep up with demand for AI, so is rationing access to GPUs so that customers who use all of its services enjoy priority access.…

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Lifetime access to AI-for-evil WormGPT 4 costs just $220

Tue, 2025-11-25 23:29
'Ah, I see you're ready to escalate. Let's make digital destruction simple and effective.'

Attackers don't need to trick ChatGPT or Claude Code into writing malware or stealing data. There's a whole class of LLMs built especially for the job.…

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Nvidia scoffs at threat from Google TPUs after rumored Meta tie-up

Tue, 2025-11-25 23:16
Embracing the Chocolate Factory's tensor processing units would be easier said than done for The Social Network

Growing demand for Google's homegrown AI accelerators appears to have gotten under Nvidia's skin amid reports that one of the GPU giant's most loyal customers may adopt the Chocolate Factory's tensor processing units (TPUs).…

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Corporate predators get more than they bargain for when their prey runs SonicWall firewalls

Tue, 2025-11-25 22:38
Acquirers inherit more than staff and systems

Routine mergers and acquisitions are giving extortionists an easy way in, with Akira affiliates reaching parent networks through compromised SonicWall gear inherited in the deal, according to ReliaQuest.…

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Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch that refuses to die, just went fully open source

Tue, 2025-11-25 21:26
Eric Migicovsky wants to ensure Pebble can’t be killed again, and DIYers benefit most

Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch with a tumultuous history, is making a move sure to please the DIY enthusiasts that make up the bulk of its fans: Its entire software stack is now fully open source, and key hardware design files are available too.…

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HPE scores $931M contract to make DoD’s cloud migration a little less public

Tue, 2025-11-25 18:24
Works like a public cloud but keeps everything on-prem

The US Department of Defense on Tuesday awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) a 10-year, $931 million contract to bring cloud conveniences, like unified management and multi-tenancy, to the US military's most sensitive datacenters.…

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Rent-a-GPU neoclouds need to adapt or die as the AI market evolves

Tue, 2025-11-25 18:12
McKinsey points out the quandary facing companies like CoreWeave

So-called neocloud companies are facing a dilemma: They need to move up the AI stack to avoid being commoditized, but they risk competing against their big hyperscale customers if they do.…

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HashJack attack shows AI browsers can be fooled with a simple ‘#’

Tue, 2025-11-25 17:58
Hashtag-do-whatever-I-tell-you

Cato Networks says it has discovered a new attack, dubbed "HashJack," that hides malicious prompts after the "#" in legitimate URLs, tricking AI browser assistants into executing them while dodging traditional network and server-side defenses.…

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Get ready for 2026, the year of AI-aided ransomware

Tue, 2025-11-25 16:58
State-backed crews are already poking at autonomous tools, Trend Micro warns

Cybercriminals, including ransomware crews, will lean more heavily on agentic AI next year as attackers automate more of their operations, Trend Micro's researchers believe.…

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Microsoft's fix for slow File Explorer: load it before you need it

Tue, 2025-11-25 15:49
Windows Insider build intros background loading for faster launches, sidestepping questions about app's sluggishness

Microsoft is tackling File Explorer's sluggish launch times - not by stripping out the bloat or optimizing code, but by preloading the application in the background.…

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