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Airbus: We were hours from pausing production in Spain
Exclusive Airbus is overhauling its datacenter contingency plans after a ten-hour power outage across Spain and Portugal in April nearly forced a complete production shutdown.…
Ukraine first country in Europe to get Starlink satellite phone service
Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has launched Starlink's Direct to Cell satellite service for its subscribers, making the war-torn nation the first in Europe to offer it.…
Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous
China's uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft has successfully docked with the Tiangong space station, providing relief to the crew who were relying on a damaged capsule with a cracked window as their only ride home.…
CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts
CISA has warned that state-backed snoops and cyber-mercenaries are actively abusing commercial spyware to break into Signal and WhatsApp accounts, hijack devices, and quietly rummage through the phones of what the agency calls "high-value" users.…
Russian spy ship theories sink after Orkney blackout traced to wind farm fault
Cock-up beats conspiracy most of the time, but that didn't stop Orkney residents wondering if a Russian warship caused their two-hour power cut.…
UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite
The UK government is looking for cloud providers to support its ambition of increasing its AI compute capacity twentyfold by 2030 in a deal that could be worth £250 million.…
Calls grow for inquiry into UK data watchdog after MoD leak
Civil society groups are urging MPs to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), accusing the UK data watchdog of abandoning its enforcement duties after it declined to investigate a Ministry of Defence data leak linked to dozens of deaths.…
Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges
The UK is following the US in seeking to fast-track new atomic development, spurred on by the need to provide enough energy for its AI ambitions plus the increasing electrification of industry and vehicles.…
Atlassian ran a tabletop DR simulation that revealed it lived in dependency hell
Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has revealed it’s spent four years trying to reduce dangerous internal dependencies, and while it has rebuilt its PaaS, it still has issues – but thinks they’re now manageable.…
AWS to build 1.3 gigawatts of government-grade supercomputing power for Uncle Sam
Amazon Web Services on Monday announced a plan to build 1.3 gigawatts of compute capacity in new datacenters dedicated to serving the US government, at a cost of up to $50 billion.…
Apple reportedly peels away some sales staff in small round of layoffs
Apple, which unlike its Big Tech peers has not made substantial job cuts, is reportedly in the process of eliminating several dozen positions in its sales organization.…
Fresh ClickFix attacks use Windows Update trick-pics to steal credentials
A fresh wave of ClickFix attacks is using fake Windows update screens to trick victims into downloading infostealer malware.…
Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers
Is Meta acting like a tobacco company denying cigarettes cause cancer, or an oil giant downplaying climate science? Lawyers in a recent court filing claim the social media titan buried internal research for years suggesting its platforms can harm children's mental health.…
Praise Amazon for raising this service from the dead
Opinion For years, Google has seemingly indulged a corporate fetish of taking products that are beloved, then killing them. AWS has been on a different kick lately: Killing services that frankly shouldn't have seen the light of day.…
Anthropic reduces model misbehavior by endorsing cheating
Sometimes bots, like kids, just wanna break the rules. Researchers at Anthropic have found they can make AI models less likely to behave badly by giving them permission to do so.…
Ex-CISA officials, CISOs dispel 'hacklore,' spread cybersecurity truths
Afraid of connecting to public Wi-Fi? Terrified to turn your Bluetooth on? You may be falling for "hacklore," tall tales about cybersecurity that distract you from real dangers. Dozens of chief security officers and ex-CISA officials have launched an effort and website to dispel these myths and show you how not to get hacked for real.…
Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream
Amazon-backed nuclear energy startup X-energy says it has booked orders for 144 small modular reactors (SMRs) which will eventually deliver over 11 gigawatts of power, assuming that they actually get built. And investors continue to support this vision.…
Old-school rotary phone dials into online meetings, hangs up when you slam it down
We've all been there: A meeting goes sideways and you really wish you could physically slam the phone down and walk away. Maker Stavros Korokithakis knows that feeling well, so he took an old rotary phone and turned it into a device that can dial into - and hang up on - video calls in a decidedly retro fashion. …
X's location tags remind users of the internet's oldest rule: Trust nothing
Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) has inadvertently taught a large number of web users an important lesson. Not everyone online is necessarily who you think they are, and you shouldn't believe everything you read.…
LisaGUI recreates Apple's innovative computer OS, without emulating it
LisaGUI is a faithful reconstruction of the desktop and user interface of Apple's Lisa, the workstation that fed ideas into the early Macintosh, and it shows that there are still things to learn from that system.…