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UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn

1 hour 33 min ago
Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services

The UK's House of Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee has published a scathing report, "The Space Economy: Act Now or Lose Out," declaring that the 2021 National Space Strategy has "failed to turn its ambitions into reality."…

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China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

4 hours 32 min ago
Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship

China has matched the European Space Agency’s feat of taking a snapshot of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from a Mars orbiter.…

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Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever

7 hours 29 sec ago
Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners

Qualcomm and Arm have offered differing predictions regarding the market for inferencing silicon.…

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Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit

10 hours 12 min ago
Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want

Microsoft Australia has apologized to users of its M365 suite after regulators accused it of steering them towards pricey bundles that include its Copilot AI service.…

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Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks

Wed, 2025-11-05 23:47
Some clever networking hacks open the door

AI search provider Perplexity's research wing has developed a new set of software optimizations that allows for trillion parameter or large models to run efficiently across older, cheaper hardware using a variety of existing network technologies, including Amazon's proprietary Elastic Fabric Adapter.…

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Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'

Wed, 2025-11-05 23:09
Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs

Microsoft has warned of a “thermal event” impacting Azure users in its West Europe region, and perhaps elsewhere.…

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Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees'

Wed, 2025-11-05 21:11
Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent

AI models are filled to the brim with bias, whether that's showing you a certain race of person when you ask for a pic of a criminal or assuming that a woman can't possibly be involved in a particular career when you ask for a firefighter. To deal with these issues, Sony AI has released a new dataset for testing the fairness of computer vision models, one that its makers claim was compiled in a fair and ethical way.…

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Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer

Wed, 2025-11-05 20:16
For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store

hands on Normally, when you install an application in Windows, it comes either from a direct download or as a single choice from the Microsoft Store. But what if you could install several different apps at the same time by creating a custom group?…

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Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M

Wed, 2025-11-05 19:53
An hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands

Who needs a drone when you can fly a Black Hawk from a tablet? DARPA's $6 million award to Sikorsky paid off when a National Guard soldier, trained in under an hour, used a handheld tablet to command an optionally piloted Black Hawk through multiple autonomous missions. …

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Google's $32B deal for Wiz gets the all-clear from Uncle Sam

Wed, 2025-11-05 17:48
Second time's the charm for after Wiz rejected Google's $23B offer last year

Google's second attempt to acquire cloud security firm Wiz is going a lot better than the first, with the Department of Justice clearing the $32 billion deal, which ranks as Google's largest-ever acquisition.…

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Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers

Wed, 2025-11-05 17:19
The DoE’s planned funding runs through 2030

America's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive up to $125 million through 2030 to develop hybrid computing systems that link quantum and supercomputing technologies.…

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When Debian won't do, Devuan 6 'Excalibur' Linux makes the grade

Wed, 2025-11-05 16:49
Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build

Old school enough to favor Debian, but averse to systemd? Good news: Devuan 6 "Excalibur" is here, and all you need to do is draw it from the stone master its installer.…

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AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system

Wed, 2025-11-05 16:34
CEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers

AMD plans to launch its Helios rack-scale architecture in 2026 as a direct challenge to Nvidia in the AI infrastructure market, pending successful integration of its next-gen GPUs and processors.…

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Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP

Wed, 2025-11-05 15:47
S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change

Around two fifths of North America's SAP users have yet to begin migrating to S/4HANA with just two years until mainstream support ends for legacy systems.…

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AMD red-faced over random-number bug that kills cryptographic security

Wed, 2025-11-05 15:01
Local privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way

AMD will issue a microcode patch for a high-severity vulnerability that could weaken cryptographic keys across Epyc and Ryzen CPUs.…

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Attackers abuse Gemini AI to develop ‘Thinking Robot’ malware and data processing agent for spying purposes

Wed, 2025-11-05 14:00
Meanwhile, others tried to social-engineer the chatbot itself

Nation-state goons and cybercrime rings are experimenting with Gemini to develop a "Thinking Robot" malware module that can rewrite its own code to avoid detection, and build an AI agent that tracks enemies' behavior, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group.…

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Rust Foundation tries to stop maintainers corroding

Wed, 2025-11-05 13:20
Memory safety costs money: Maintainers Fund to directly pay developers for their work

The Rust Foundation has launched a Maintainers Fund to support developers sustaining the language, addressing a long-standing challenge in open source software.…

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Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions

Wed, 2025-11-05 12:13
Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI

Cloud data platform vendor Snowflake has made its set of PostgreSQL extensions open source in a bid to help developers and data engineers integrate the popular open source database with its lakehouse system.…

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M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump

Wed, 2025-11-05 11:54
Retailer's tech systems aren’t down anymore, but the same can’t be said for its rocky financials

Marks & Spencer says its April cyberattack will cost around £136 million ($177.2 million) in total.…

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Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction

Wed, 2025-11-05 10:43
Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands

A survey of datacenter professionals reveals that supply chain constraints and power availability are hampering the industry's efforts to scale datacenter capacity.…

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