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Microsoft drops .NET 10 RC 'go-live' with 55,000 words on why it's faster

Thu, 2025-09-11 17:00
Benchmark bonanza shows big wins across JSON, compression, JIT, and more

The first release candidate of .NET 10 is out, complete with a "go-live" license, meaning that Microsoft supports production use. The company has also detailed performance improvements in this long-term support release, translating to real-world savings for users.…

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Walmart's bet on AI depends on getting employees to use it

Thu, 2025-09-11 16:30
The technology isn't the hard part, says enterprise business services SVP, it's managing people

At Walmart, "everybody's using AI every day across the enterprise," according to David Glick, senior vice president of the retail behemoth's enterprise business services.…

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Anti-DDoS outfit walloped by record packet flood

Thu, 2025-09-11 16:00
FastNetMon says 1.5 Gpps deluge from hijacked routers, IoT kit nearly drowned scrubbing shop

A DDoS mitigation provider was given a taste of the poison it tries to prevent, after being smacked by one of the largest packet-rate attacks ever recorded – a 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps) flood that briefly threatened to knock it off the internet.…

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Nano11 cuts Windows 11 down to size, grabbing just 2.8 GB of disk space

Thu, 2025-09-11 15:30
Slicing Windows 11 to the bone while Microsoft piles on the features

How low can Windows 11 go? Storage-wise, it can take up less than 3 GB, as demonstrated by some impressive engineering from the same individual behind the Nano11 "diet" build.…

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Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets

Thu, 2025-09-11 15:00
AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected

If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and Intel Coffee Lake processors by breaking virtualization boundaries.…

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US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream

Thu, 2025-09-11 14:00
That won't even warm the plasma

America's Department of Energy (DOE) has earmarked $134 million in funding for two programs aimed at securing US leadership in emerging fusion technologies. The move comes amid renewed interest in nuclear power sparked by surging datacenter energy demands.…

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Senator blasts Microsoft for 'dangerous, insecure software' that helped pwn US hospitals

Thu, 2025-09-11 13:15
Ron Wyden urges FTC to probe failure to secure Windows after attackers used Kerberoasting to cripple Ascension

Microsoft is back in the firing line after US Senator Ron Wyden accused Redmond of shipping "dangerous, insecure software" that helped cybercrooks cripple one of America's largest hospital networks.…

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Neo4j cozies up to Microsoft as 'property sharding' promises to overcome scalability struggle

Thu, 2025-09-11 12:30
Graph database fave also punts for transactional workloads

Neo4j has introduced "property sharding" which, according to one analyst, will help overcome its earlier struggles with scalability, while also allowing transactional workloads on the same system.…

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