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Britain's satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend £17.5 million on a remotely-operated satellite monitoring facility in Cyprus, partly to protect the UK's secure communications system Skynet.…
IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab
Not all employees are created equally, just ask IBM boss Arvind Krishna, who received a financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers.…
Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months
Samsung is killing the Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone after just three months on the market.…
It's not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA
The 5500FP is a ternary CPU implemented on an FPGA. It's not very fast, but it makes it easier to experiment with computers that don't use binary.…
Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing'
Execs from 24 European cloud and digital service providers are urging the European Commission to legislate for real tech sovereignty – not the illusion of it – in the upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA).…
Iran's cyberattack against med tech firm is 'just the beginning'
Businesses should expect that Iran will conduct more aggressive cyber-ops as the war escalates, according to security analysts.…
Alibaba Cloud hikes prices by up to 34 percent, blames hardware costs and AI demand
Alibaba Cloud today informed users it will increase prices for many services by up to 34 percent.…
Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI model – so built its own slop filtering system
Tech companies have in recent years developed a reputation for being rapacious rent-seekers, but can also be unwittingly generous because their penchant to prioritize popularity over quality leaves room for others to sell improvements or repairs.…
Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports
Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.…
Japan to allow ‘proactive cyber-defense’ from October 1st
Japan’s government yesterday decided to allow its Self-Defense Force to conduct offensive cyber-operations, starting on October 1st.…
Nvidia's on-again off-again H200 sales in China are now on again
GTC Nvidia has called on its supply chain partners to begin manufacturing its ageing H200 GPUs to meet demand for chips in China, CEO Jensen Huang said Tuesday.…
World<s>Coin</s>'s newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you
Sam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the mix. Now the technology behind it will be used to identify the human behind bots.…
AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left
Earlier this month, AWS ended standard support for PostgreSQL 13 on RDS. Customers who want to stay on a supported database — as AWS is actively encouraging them to do — need to upgrade to PostgreSQL 14 or later.…
Mistral boasts code-proofing agent offers champagne performance on a <i>budget bière</i>
Your AI may need AI to oversee its work. Gallic AI biz Mistral is leaning into making AI code generation more reliable with Leanstral, a coding agent for proofs constructed using the open source Lean programming language.…
Chips...in...spaaaace - courtesy of Nvidia
gtc Space could be the final frontier for datacenters. Never mind that some analysts have described orbital bit barns as "peak insanity" - Nvidia has designed a new Vera Rubin module specifically to operate above the Earth's atmosphere.…
HPE adds Blackwell, Rubin systems to Nvidia-backed sovereign AI push
HPE has expanded its Nvidia-based AI portfolio with new systems built on Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, alongside updates to its Alletra Storage MP X10000, which it claims is the first object storage platform to achieve Nvidia-Certified Storage validation.…
EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach
The Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.…
Artemis II takes a rain check on return to launch pad as NASA fixes loose wire
The rollback to the launchpad for NASA's monster Moon rocket has slipped by a day, though the agency is optimistic that the long-delayed return of humans to lunar space will still happen in early April.…
Oracle unveils Project Detroit for faster Java interop with JavaScript and Python
JavaOne Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop between Java, JavaScript, and Python.…
Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination
Ofcom is laying out its pathway for fiber broadband almost everywhere across the UK in five years, but concedes that BT still dominates the market.…

