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Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU

Thu, 2025-12-04 22:24
The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years

re:invent Amazon on Thursday unveiled Graviton5, its densest, highest performance CPU yet, cramming 192 processor cores into a single socket and promising new levels of AWS performance.…

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PRC spies Brickstromed their way into critical US networks and remained hidden for years

Thu, 2025-12-04 22:10
'Dozens' of US orgs infected

Chinese cyberspies maintained long-term access to critical networks – sometimes for years – and used this access to infect computers with malware and steal data, according to Thursday warnings from government agencies and private security firms.…

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OpenAI turns the screws on chatbots to get them to confess mischief

Thu, 2025-12-04 21:37
'You're absolutely right! I was totally lying to you!'

Some say confession is good for the soul, but what if you have no soul? OpenAI recently tested what happens if you ask its bots to "confess" to bypassing their guardrails.…

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Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says

Thu, 2025-12-04 21:09
He's not alone: DoD inspector general says the whole Defense Department has a messaging security problem

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth definitely broke the rules when he sent sensitive information to a Signal chat group, say Pentagon auditors, but he's not the only one using insecure messaging, and everyone needs better training.…

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Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases

Thu, 2025-12-04 19:48
And then they asked an AI to help cover their tracks

Vetting staff who handle sensitive government systems is wise, and so is cutting off their access the moment they're fired. Prosecutors say a federal contractor learned this the hard way when twin brothers previously convicted of hacking-related offenses allegedly used lingering access to delete nearly 100 government databases, including systems tied to Homeland Security and other agencies, within minutes of being terminated.…

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We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares

Thu, 2025-12-04 18:16
Isaacman: 'We can never accept a gap in our capabilities again'

The US must return astronauts to the Moon before China mounts its first crewed landing there, NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman predicted on Wednesday. He also vowed that the country will not endure another gap in its human-spaceflight capabilities as the International Space Station approaches retirement.…

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Server prices set to jump 15%, PCs 5%, as memory costs spike - channel sources

Thu, 2025-12-04 17:51
Major OEMs are plotting double-digit hikes as DRAM and NAND shortages bite

Exclusive Server and PC prices are climbing sharply as hardware manufacturers grapple with soaring memory component costs, multiple supply chain sources have told The Register.…

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Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up

Thu, 2025-12-04 17:40
$200M deal brings Claude into data cloud, yet its touted ‘90%+’ accuracy needs human oversight

Anthropic and Snowflake announced a deal that will allow the deployment of AI agents capable of complex, multi-step analysis inside Snowflake's governed data environments.…

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Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job

Thu, 2025-12-04 17:19
Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions

If you didn't get your dream job, you might be able to blame your internet provider. Technical glitches on video calls in healthcare, job interviews, and parole hearings can affect real-world decisions, a study has found. The researchers suggest new technologies may even be making the problem worse.…

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EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform

Thu, 2025-12-04 17:08
OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere

The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into Meta after WhatsApp rewrote its rules to block rival AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot.…

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Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative

Thu, 2025-12-04 16:23
Nvidia is along for the ride with chips to offer, naturally

Palantir has always been a company marked by ambition, and it's embarking on what might be its most ambitious project yet with Chain Reaction, a new multi-industry, AI-powered software suite designed to eliminate energy bottlenecks for datacenters.…

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Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse

Thu, 2025-12-04 15:01
Silent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files

Microsoft has quietly closed off a critical Windows shortcut file bug long abused by espionage and cybercrime networks.…

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Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

Thu, 2025-12-04 13:24
Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices

Microsoft has admitted that it might have broken Windows components including the Start menu and Explorer in the latest round of updates.…

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Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL

Thu, 2025-12-04 13:19
Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself

Logitech's CEO says that AI-powered devices are a solution looking for a problem, despite being a strong proponent of AI and her firm pushing out exactly the kind of thing she's talking about.…

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Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet

Thu, 2025-12-04 13:07
Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks

The internet has spent the past three months ducking for cover as the Aisuru botnet hurled record-shattering DDoS barrages from an army of up to 4 million infected machines.…

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Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power

Thu, 2025-12-04 11:21
3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove

New datacenters planned in Scotland would collectively require 75 percent as much energy as the entire country currently consumes, according to tech campaign group Foxglove.…

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UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze

Thu, 2025-12-04 10:00
Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle

UK SAP users say licensing and pricing complexity is muddying the picture for Business Suite, the vendor's new model for cloud applications.…

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Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals

Thu, 2025-12-04 06:52
One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they’ll have to pass it on

Exclusive SaaS-y accounting outfit Xero has advised developers who integrate their products with its services that they’ll soon have to pay for the privilege in a new way.…

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Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail: Gartner

Thu, 2025-12-04 05:34
It’s time to ask your bit barn provider how they’ll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices

Availability of energy will determine the prices charged by datacenter operators, who won’t be viable unless they generate some of their own juice.…

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TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets

Thu, 2025-12-04 04:30
Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear

Systems Approach As we neared the finish line for our network security book, I received a piece of feedback from Brad Karp that my explanation of forward secrecy in the chapter on TLS (Transport Layer Security) was not quite right.…

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