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AI gets all the good stuff, including Micron's speedy 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD

1 hour 47 min ago
Consumers have a long wait ahead of them before they can bring that kind of performance home

It's time for a new generation of faster flash storage, but not on your laptop or desktop. Micron's first PCIe 6.0 SSDs have entered mass production and promise eye-watering transfer rates of up to 28 GB/s. However, unless you're building flash storage arrays for AI, you won't have a use for them.…

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AI bit barns grow climate emergency by turning up the gas

2 hours 48 min ago
Companies talk renewables while firing up gas turbines as fast as they can

Bit barns need a lot of power to operate and, as hyperscalers look for ways to generate it, they are adding more dirty energy in the form of new gas turbines. One estimate says that these new power sources could add another 44 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2030, equivalent to the annual emissions of 10 million private cars.…

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Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds

3 hours 39 min ago
Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads?

It's like the movie Inception, but without Leonardo DiCaprio, unless you imagine him. Researchers used carefully timed sound cues to nudge dream content, and in some cases, boost next-morning problem solving. Could dreamtime product placement come next?…

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React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components

4 hours 2 min ago
Not everyone's convinced React belongs on the server as well as in the browser

Devographics has published its State of React survey, with over 3,700 developers speaking out about what they love and hate in the fractured React ecosystem.…

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European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools

4 hours 13 min ago
Who knows where that helpful email summary is being generated?

The European Parliament has reportedly turned off AI features on lawmakers' devices amid concerns about content going where it shouldn't.…

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Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper

4 hours 45 min ago
Palliser Capital says Toto is sitting on hidden semiconductor value – and wants the company to lift the lid

The AI hype cycle has officially reached the toilet, with a Japanese bathroom giant suddenly being pitched as a serious tech play.…

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Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL

4 hours 52 min ago
Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation

A group of influential users and developers of MySQL have invited Oracle to join their plans to create an independent foundation to guide the future development of the popular open source database, which Big Red owns.…

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£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure'

5 hours 45 min ago
With no staff, no funding, and the contract closed, it looks a lot like limbo

The UK's long-promised "Single Trade Window" has quietly run out of steam after burning through more than £111 million ($150 million), with officials confirming the program has been "brought to early closure."…

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All the world's a stage – except this deputy federal CIO job

6 hours 56 min ago
$200K role promises authority, mission, and 'zero patience for theater'

The Trump administration is looking for a deputy federal CIO, and theater fans need not apply.…

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US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China

8 hours 17 sec ago
Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is 'false'

A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China.…

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Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid

8 hours 27 min ago
Police say seized kit contained logins, passwords, and server IP addresses

Polish police have arrested and charged a man over ties to the Phobos ransomware group following a property raid.…

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Gentoo moves to Codeberg from GitHub after airing Copilot concerns

9 hours 5 min ago
Repo mirrors now open for business

Gentoo's official migration from Microsoft-owned GitHub to Codeberg is underway, as the Linux distribution fulfills a pledge to ditch the code shack due to "continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories."…

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CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price

9 hours 41 min ago
Boards demand measurable ROI as budgets, bonuses, and jobs hang in the balance

The clock is ticking for AI projects to either prove their worth or face the chopping block.…

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UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open

10 hours 12 min ago
Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don't stick to basic infosec standards

Britain is telling businesses to "lock the door" on cybercrims as new government data suggests most still haven't even found the latch.…

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Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

10 hours 33 min ago
Social media platform’s legal eagles prepare to fight ever-growing number of countries

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the latest regulator to open an investigation into Elon Musk's X following repeated reports of harmful image generation by the platform's Grok AI chatbot.…

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Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog

11 hours 10 min ago
Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays

Capita is banking on Microsoft Copilot to help rescue the backlog of cases it has inherited in taking over the UK Civil Service Pensions Scheme (CSPS).…

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GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept

11 hours 54 min ago
Won't replace traditional CI/CD – and still in early development – so use 'at your own risk'

Agentic workflows - where an AI agent runs automatically in GitHub Actions - are now in technical preview, following their introduction at the Universe event in San Francisco last year.…

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MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost

12 hours 28 min ago
Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles…and Red Hat

Keir Starmer could ramp up the UK's defense spending plans faster than planned as the MoD reeled off new purchases for Britain's armed forces.…

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Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors

16 hours 2 min ago
To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required

A quartet of Japanese organisations plan to build “advanced ambient internet of things systems” using a newly approved ISO standard.…

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AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances

20 hours 5 min ago
Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC

Amazon Web Services has enabled nested virtualization for a handful of EC2 instances.…

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