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Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report
Pension scheme members are facing a string of errors and malfunctions as they try to log into and retrieve account details from the UK's civil service portal the government is paying Capita £239 million ($318 million) to build and run.…
Pat Gelsinger's EUV lithography gig gets $150M wink from Uncle Sam
The US Department of Commerce has signed a preliminary letter of intent to provide up to $150 million to xLight, a Palo Alto-based startup led by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, that is working on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.…
Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS
The last new kernel release of 2025 is here, and it's looking likely this will be the new LTS kernel release.…
Here’s your worst nightmare: E-tailer can only resume partial sales 45 days after ransomware attack
Japanese e-tailer Askul has resumed online sales, 45 days after a ransomware attack.…
China using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroad
China has embraced AI to help it censor and surveil its citizens and is exporting its techniques to the world, according to a new report by think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).…
Indian government reveals GPS spoofing at eight major airports
India’s Civil Aviation Minister has revealed that local authorities have detected GPS spoofing and jamming at eight major airports.…
Amazon is forging a walled garden for enterprise AI
Re:Invent Amazon wants to make AI meaningful to enterprises, and it’s building yet another walled garden disguised as an easy button to do it.…
AWS offers AI-in-a-box for enterprise datacenters
re:invent Many businesses and government agencies require that all sensitive data stay on-premises for legal or security reasons. If those orgs want to work with AI, they can't rely on regular public clouds, but now they can let AWS build and manage AI hardware and software in their datacenters.…
AWS admits AI coding tools cause problems, reckons its three new agents fix 'em
Re:Invent Amazon is all-in on agentic AI when it comes to software development, and it sincerely hopes you are too, based on Tuesday's AWS re:Invent keynote. …
Two Android 0-day bugs disclosed and fixed, plus 105 more to patch
Two high-severity Android bugs were exploited as zero-days before Google issued a fix, according to its December Android security bulletin. …
NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece
US President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, is "committed to move the Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston," according to the office of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX).…
University of Pennsylvania joins list of victims from Clop's Oracle EBS raid
The University of Pennsylvania has become the latest victim of Clop's smash-and-grab spree against Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) customers, with the Ivy League school now warning more than a thousand individuals that their personal data was siphoned from its systems.…
Microsoft mops up Mesh after another metaverse misfire
As of December 1, mixed reality collaboration platform Microsoft Mesh is no more, and Redmond has directed customers to immersive events in Teams.…
HPE backs AMD's Helios AI rack with Juniper's scale-up switch
HPE is throwing its weight behind AMD's Helios rack-scale architecture and will offer this as part of its AI portfolio next year, including a purpose-built Juniper Networks scale-up switch.…
Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another
Apple's failure to deliver advanced AI capabilities has triggered a changing of the guard. AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down in favor of a new leader to steady the Siri ship.…
MongoDB talks up its AI chops by talking down PostgreSQL
At the risk of protesting too much in the shifting database landscape, NoSQL-based MongoDB has attempted to trash the competition by claiming PostgreSQL systems lack scalability to keep up with the demands of AI workloads.…
French AI shop Mistral rolls out full suite of Apache-licensed models
Mistral AI has released a suite of open source models under the Mistral 3 banner, aiming to scale from a mobile device or drone up to multi-GPU datacenter beasts.…
Europol nukes Cryptomixer laundering hub, seizing €25M in Bitcoin
Law enforcement agencies in Germany and Switzerland have shut down cryptocurrency laundering platform Cryptomixer in Europe's latest pushback against cybercrime infrastructure.…
AWS joins Microsoft, Google in the security AI agent race
Re:Invent AI agents are key to launching applications more quickly – and making them more secure from the start, Amazon says.…
Amazon primed to fuse Nvidia's NVLink into 4th-gen Trainium accelerators
Re:Invent Amazon says that its next generation of homegrown silicon will deliver 6x higher performance thanks to a little help from its buddy Nvidia.…