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Avio bags €40M ESA contract for reusable rocket stage, but don't hold your breath

Thu, 2025-10-02 09:55
Industry insiders whisper more about posturing than practical progress

Italian rocket company Avio has signed a €40 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a reusable upper stage, a project already drawing skepticism from industry watchers.…

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Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files

Thu, 2025-10-02 09:25
570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective

A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive documents belonging to customers. …

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Ionos customers fume at mid-contract Plesk hike

Thu, 2025-10-02 09:00
Web host blames partner's license fee increase, but users say notice was too short and terms unfair

Exclusive Hosting biz Ionos is hiking the price of its server instances, blaming an increase in Plesk license costs. Customers have a month to accept the increase or else disable Plesk on their account.…

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Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects

Thu, 2025-10-02 08:15
Some Big Blue sky thinking needed for tech that promises employment extinction for humanity

Updated The UK's pensions and benefits department has awarded IBM a contract that's worth up to £27 million to explore, deploy and support AI technologies to enhance its services.…

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Lloyds Banking Group says 'digitization' will power more branch closures

Thu, 2025-10-02 07:30
Group promises sandboxing of AI money management tools with 1,000 branches remaining

Lloyds Banking Group — the £18.67 billion turnover UK-based bank — has promised that it will continue to use “digitization” to power a program of branch closures.…

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Microsoft confirms it found a way to make Crocs even uglier – with Windows XP and Clippy

Thu, 2025-10-02 05:23
It looks like you want some horrible shoes. Would you like to win them?

Microsoft has delivered its found a way to make Crocs even uglier by using some of its own software.…

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Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks

Thu, 2025-10-02 04:15
Stray signals are a no-no when you’re trying to tune into the stars

IAC 2025 Work on the datacenter that serves the Square Kilometre Array’s (SKA’s) site in Western Australia is all but complete, including the installation of two Faraday cages to ensure the equipment inside does not leak radio waves that could harm the operation of the giant radio telescope.…

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New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals collapses

Thu, 2025-10-02 02:50
Discovers debt it didn’t fully understand, leaving skilled migrants and students in limbo

New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals has discovered it is insolvent and advised members it has no alternative but to enter liquidation.…

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Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads

Wed, 2025-10-01 23:48
Religion, race, health and other dicey topics supposedly exempt

Meta, having committed hundreds of billions to AI infrastructure and talent, says it will start using people's conversations and interactions with its AI services to create personalized content and advertising.…

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Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down

Wed, 2025-10-01 21:40
And it’s not the first time gunfire has cut Spectrum’s lines

A stray bullet cut through a Spectrum fiber line on Friday, knocking an undisclosed number of Texans offline.…

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Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority

Wed, 2025-10-01 20:29
Use your home subscription with your work Microsoft 365 account

Your job may not support BYOD, but how about BYOC? Microsoft has declared that people can bring their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions to work to access various Copilot features at companies that fail to provide an AI fix.…

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US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew

Wed, 2025-10-01 19:48
The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex Social Security CISO tells The Register

The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on skeleton crews.…

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'Delightful' root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover

Wed, 2025-10-01 19:35
Who wouldn't want root access on cluster master nodes?

A 9.9 out of 10 severity bug in Red Hat's OpenShift AI service could allow a remote attacker with minimal authentication to steal data, disrupt services, and fully hijack the platform.…

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AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study

Wed, 2025-10-01 18:12
Other studies are finding the same thing

Yale researchers say that despite the anxiety about AI taking people's jobs, there's very little evidence of it actually happening.…

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Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach

Wed, 2025-10-01 17:51
Uncle Sam can't quit Redmond

Exclusive The US Air Force confirmed it's investigating a "privacy-related issue" amid reports of a Microsoft SharePoint-related breach and subsequent service-wide shutdown, rendering mission files and other critical tools potentially unavailable to service members.…

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Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing

Wed, 2025-10-01 17:49
Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on… A lot of knobs

Aurora, a relatively young distro from Austria, bills itself as "your stable, privacy-respecting and ultimate productivity OS." These are rather bold claims, though many other Linux distros make the same promise.…

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Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future

Wed, 2025-10-01 17:21
Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told staff on Wednesday that he's appointing Judson Althoff to a new role as CEO of the company's commercial business, so that the big boss can concentrate on Redmond's future plans and strategy.…

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Hundreds of orgs urge Microsoft: don’t kill off free Windows 10 updates

Wed, 2025-10-01 16:27
Petitions pile up on Satya’s desk while Windows 7 mysteriously surges back from the grave

With Windows 10 support set to expire on October 14, hundreds of repair shops, nonprofits, and advocacy groups are urging Microsoft to extend free and automatic security updates instead of stranding hundreds of millions of PCs.…

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Windows 11 25H2 is mostly 24H2 with bits bolted on or ripped out

Wed, 2025-10-01 16:01
Microsoft's Secure Future pitch lands with old bugs still in tow

Windows 11 25H2 has seeped out of Redmond with just two weeks left before free support for most Windows 10 versions goes down the drain.…

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SpaceX rockets toward next Starship launch, set for October 13

Wed, 2025-10-01 15:32
Once more with feeling...

SpaceX has named the date when it will try for another Starship launch without anything exploding. October 13, which is both the Columbus Day / Indigenous People's Day holiday and the last day of Windows 10 support, is the current target.…

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