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Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers

Fri, 2025-09-05 06:01
Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators

Broadcom has impressed investors by posting record revenues but admitted it has sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers.…

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Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models

Fri, 2025-09-05 02:58
Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb

Uber’s Indian arm has started using its app to offer rideshare and delivery drivers the chance to make a Rupee by classifying data used by AI systems.…

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Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info

Thu, 2025-09-04 23:59
Because nobody's going to spend billions to retrain a model built on dubiously legal content

Researchers have found promising new ways to have AI models ignore copyrighted content, suggesting it may be possible to satisfy legal requirements without going through the lengthy and costly process of retraining models.…

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Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys

Thu, 2025-09-04 23:14
You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch

Unknown miscreants are exploiting a configuration vulnerability in multiple Sitecore products to achieve remote code execution via a publicly exposed key and deploy snooping malware on infected machines.…

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Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system

Thu, 2025-09-04 22:18
AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production apps

AI models get slammed for producing sloppy bug reports and burdening open source maintainers with hallucinated issues, but they also have the potential to transform application security through automation.…

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Gigs in space: Amazon breaks bandwidth barrier with Kuiper's satellite broadband

Thu, 2025-09-04 21:41
Signs up JetBlue for in-flight connection, but not until 2027

Amazon showed off download speeds peaking at 1.28 Gbps from its nascent Project Kuiper internet satellite service and announced an airline deal with US commercial airline JetBlue to provide Wi-Fi in the sky.…

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China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results

Thu, 2025-09-04 20:57
Defrauding search with custom malware, Potato-family exploits

A new China-aligned cybercrime crew named GhostRedirector has compromised at least 65 Windows servers worldwide - spotted in a June internet scan - using previously undocumented malware to juice gambling sites' rankings in Google search, according to ESET researchers.…

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Sky-high budget gap: FAA launches air traffic overhaul, lacks cash to finish it

Thu, 2025-09-04 20:08
Agency wants a single private integrator to herd 74K bits of kit with only 40% of the funding so far

Get ready to start flying American skies with a renewed sense of confidence, at least eventually, as the Federal Aviation Administration has finally decided to start soliciting ideas for an overhaul of the US' antiquated air traffic control systems. In classic Trump administration style, the FAA wants a single private-sector integrator to run the overhaul, with the public footing the bill. …

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No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others

Thu, 2025-09-04 19:13
We’ve got hungry American datacenters to feed, argued the lawmaker - a revival Nvidia dubs ‘doomer science fiction’

+Comment US lawmakers are looking to apply Trump's America-First agenda to advanced semiconductors by giving US buyers first dibs while restricting the sale of most high-end chips needed for AI to the rest of the world.…

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Microsoft inches toward Rusty Windows drivers, production use still a no-no

Thu, 2025-09-04 17:15
Crates, cargo-wdk, and kernel hooks show progress, but hurdles remain

Developers keen to write Windows drivers in Rust now have improved tools and samples, but progress is slow and obstacles to production use remain.…

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SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit

Thu, 2025-09-04 16:33
But what goes up will also have to come down

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has successfully reboosted the International Space Station (ISS), raising the perigee of its orbit by approximately one mile and further eroding the complex's reliance on Russian rocketry.…

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Windows starts asking for admin rights where it shouldn't after security fix

Thu, 2025-09-04 15:45
Patch closes vuln but leaves standard users locked out of common apps

Microsoft's August 2025 Windows Security Update is causing pain for administrators after a fix for a vulnerability led to some unintended consequences.…

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PostgreSQL 18 eyes analytics boost and distributed future

Thu, 2025-09-04 15:00
Async I/O and UUID v7 highlights of the September release, though some SQL features are delayed

Users and developers can expect the release of PostgreSQL 18 in September, the new iteration of the popular open source database, promising new features to enhance analytics and distributed architectures.…

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Atlassian acquisition drives dream of AI-powered ChromeOS challenger

Thu, 2025-09-04 14:12
'A cross-platform browser as an OS is now closer than ever,' claims $610M richer cofounders of The Browser Company

Atlassian today revealed it has purchased New York startup The Browser Company, and it appears the pair have plans to reinvent the ChromeOS wheel with added... AI.…

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Linux Lite relief: 7.6 keeps it simple, shiny, and mostly slim

Thu, 2025-09-04 13:30
Ubuntu 24.04.3, with a prettified Xfce 4.18

Linux Lite 7.6 is the latest, slightly updated release of this technologically moderate distro from New Zealand.…

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Ex-NASA chief: China likely to land humans on Moon before Uncle Sam does again

Thu, 2025-09-04 12:45
Overly complex architecture featuring SpaceX's Starship to blame

A former NASA administrator has told the US Senate Commerce Committee that it is "highly unlikely" the US will return humans to the Moon before a Chinese taikonaut plants a flag on the lunar surface.…

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Enterprises sticking with Windows 10 could shell out billions for continued support

Thu, 2025-09-04 12:01
Nexthink estimates ESU bills could top $7.3B as millions of devices set to miss upgrade deadline

Free support is ending for many editions of Windows 10 on October 14, and enterprises unable to make the jump are on the hook for billions to keep the fixes flowing.…

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SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

Thu, 2025-09-04 11:12
German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoric

SAP says it will pump €20 billion into expanding sovereign cloud infrastructure in Europe over the next ten years, pitching itself as a secure and compliant alternative to American cloud giants.…

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UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government

Thu, 2025-09-04 10:22
ARIA spent £16.5M, has £600M in the tank, and no one asked for it back

ARIA – the UK science and technology agency inspired by DARPA in the US – was not asked to make savings leading up to the Spending Review, unlike other government departments.…

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UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

Thu, 2025-09-04 09:15
AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

A UK government department's three-month trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot has revealed no discernible gain in productivity – speeding up some tasks yet making others slower due to lower quality outputs.…

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