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Microsoft thinks cloud PCs might be overkill, starts streaming just apps under Windows 365

Thu, 2025-09-18 03:15
As old-school virtual desktop player Omnissa distances itself further from VMware

Microsoft thinks cloudy PCs might be overkill for some users, so has started streaming individual apps instead as part of its Windows 365 service.…

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Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns

Thu, 2025-09-18 01:47
It's worst when going over older code, one user tells us

AI coding service Replit is in trouble again as users are protesting steep cost increases and some glitches when employing the newest version of its service.…

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Nvidia GeForced out of China as Beijing demands tech titans embrace homegrown silicon

Thu, 2025-09-18 00:12
Huawei or another, we're gonna getcha off Nvidia

Nvidia has reportedly been cut off from the Chinese market after regulators in Beijing ordered the nation's top tech companies to suspend testing and cancel orders of the GPU giant's accelerators.…

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Russian fake-news network, led by an ex-Florida sheriff's deputy, storms back into action with 200+ new sites

Thu, 2025-09-18 00:00
As the Trump administration guts efforts to counter election disinfo

The Russian troll farm that in the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election posted a bizarro video claiming Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was a rhino poacher, is back with hundreds of new fake news websites serving up phony political commentary with an AI assist.…

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US tech giants pledge $42 billion in UK investment as Trump tours Blighty

Wed, 2025-09-17 21:50
Datacenters galore, plus some vague cooperation on AI, nuclear, quantum, and more

America and the UK have announced a $42 billion (£31 billion) trade pact, funded by Microsoft, Google, and others, that predicts bit barns will spring up over Britain's green and pleasant Land. But there's a lot more than money involved.…

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Scale AI says 'tanks a lot' to Pentagon for data-classifying deal

Wed, 2025-09-17 21:20
First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong?

Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.…

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AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software

Wed, 2025-09-17 20:40
House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software

AMD closed the performance gap with Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators with the launch of the MI355X this spring. Now the company just needs to overcome Nvidia's CUDA software advantage and make that perf more accessible to developers. …

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Scattered Spider gang feigns retirement, breaks into bank instead

Wed, 2025-09-17 18:37
You didn't really trust the crims to keep their word, did you?

Spiders don't change their stripes. Despite gang members' recent retirement claims, Scattered Spider hasn't exited the cybercrime business and instead has shifted focus to the financial sector, with a recent digital intrusion at a US bank.…

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Social Security admin denies DB data leak, DOGEs questions about a copy

Wed, 2025-09-17 18:01
Carefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical database

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has disputed a whistleblower's allegations that claimed DOGE made an unauthorized, unsecured copy of a critical database - but it's what the denial doesn't say that speaks volumes. …

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Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy

Wed, 2025-09-17 17:30
Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'

NASA has delayed a supply delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) after the engines of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft did not perform as expected during an orbit-raising burn.…

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Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helping

Wed, 2025-09-17 16:15
American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform

Wolrd War Fee The US PC industry is suffering from inventory indigestion caused by resellers over-ordering hardware to avoid Donald Trump's expected import taxes on China-made kit.…

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AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025

Wed, 2025-09-17 15:30
And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy

Tech analysts expect worldwide spending on AI to hit nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025, including $268 billion on optimized servers. These investments will also soon appear in even more consumer products.…

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Axiom Space aims for the International Space Station with its Orbital Data Center Node

Wed, 2025-09-17 14:51
But will the ISS still be there to host it?

Axiom Space and Spacebilt have announced plans to add optically interconnected Orbital Data Center (ODC) infrastructure to the International Space Station (ISS).…

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OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance

Wed, 2025-09-17 14:03
Even a wrong answer is right some of the time

AI models often produce false outputs, or "hallucinations." Now OpenAI has admitted they may result from fundamental mistakes it makes when training its models.…

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Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do

Wed, 2025-09-17 13:26
Jared Spataro, boss of modern work and biz apps division, says 'hard to make the ROI argument for it'

A Microsoft exec claims Copilot is boosting productivity among the customers that adopted it yet sustained efforts to convince many them of the returns on investment remains a work in progress.…

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Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25

Wed, 2025-09-17 12:43
But efforts to simplify popular programming language for beginners are unlikely to boost popularity

Oracle has released JDK (Java Development Kit) 25, the first long term support (LTS) version since JDK 21 two years ago. New features include beginner-friendly compact source files, succinct module imports, and more flexible constructors.…

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BreachForums kingpin goes from walk-free deal to 3-year stretch

Wed, 2025-09-17 12:40
Prosecutors say Conor Fitzpatrick's crimes caused 'incalculable' damage

The founder of the popular cybercrime website BreachForums will spend three years in prison after previously being let off with a slap on the wrist.…

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UK telco Colt’s recovery from August cyberattack pushes into November

Wed, 2025-09-17 11:45
Pentesters confirm key system is safe but core products remain unavailable

Brit telco Colt Technology Services says its recovery from an August cyberattack might not be completed until late November.…

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Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group

Wed, 2025-09-17 11:18
Insiders say AI trials involving 'critical network services' underway and some engineering roles being moved to India

Exclusive Sky Group, the Brit-based commercial TV and broadband service slinger owned by Comcast, is chopping up to 600 employees from the Technology, Consumer Group and COO divisions in the UK.…

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Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached

Wed, 2025-09-17 10:51
Redmond woos Blighty with cloud and AI infrastructure splurge as Trump comes to town

Microsoft appears to have trumped Google's UK datacenter ambitions with a $15 billion investment in cloud and AI infrastructure in the country.…

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