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Google and Anthropic wave hands about mega TPU deal worth 'tens of billions'

Thu, 2025-10-23 23:56
But AWS is still the AI upstart's primary partner

Google and Anthropic have struck a deal that will see the AI upstart gain access to up to a million of the web giant’s tensor processing units (TPUs) and involve “tens of billions of dollars.”…

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Don't take AI to Thanksgiving: Bots have hidden biases

Thu, 2025-10-23 23:42
It's not a bug, it's a feature

Large language models, or LLMs, are biased in one way or another - often many. And there may be no way around that.…

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Playtime’s over: Crooks swipe Toys R Us Canada customer data and dump it online

Thu, 2025-10-23 21:53
What?! No complimentary credit monitoring?

The Canadian outpost of retailer Toys R Us on Thursday notified customers that attackers accessed a database, stole some of their personal information, then posted the data online.…

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Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything

Thu, 2025-10-23 19:23
iPhone and iPad users vexed by denial of spreadsheets

Microsoft Excel for the past week has been hanging or crashing on iOS and iPadOS devices, to customers' great annoyance.…

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Norks droning on about your dream job while pwning your PC

Thu, 2025-10-23 18:35
Social engineering? Check. Trojanized open source? Check. Lazarus’ pet RAT? Also check

North Korea's Lazarus Group has successfully compromised Europe's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sector with its Operation DreamJob campaign, which promises job seekers lucrative employment opportunities - but then delivers a malware-laced offer and a compromised computer.…

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Give Europe some space! 3 companies join forces to reach for the stars

Thu, 2025-10-23 16:59
Airbus, Leonardo and Thales seek to 'strengthen Europe’s strategic autonomy in space'

Three European aerospace giants plan to combine their space units into a single heavyweight, hoping to boost the continent's space autonomy.…

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Blinded by the light: Tesla fixes glaringly bright Cybertruck headlights

Thu, 2025-10-23 16:28
Plus: Model 3/Y recall over battery-pack contactors that can cut drive power

Feeling a bit blinded by the light when a Cybertruck rolls by? It's not just you — Tesla's recalling most built to date because the boxy pickup's front parking lights are too bright.…

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Trump's workforce cuts blamed as America's cyber edge dulls

Thu, 2025-10-23 15:57
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission says years of progress are being undone amid current administration's cuts

America's once-ambitious cyber defences are starting to rust, according to the latest annual report from the US Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), which warns that policy momentum has slowed and even slipped backwards thanks to Trump-era workforce and budget cuts.…

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Microsoft suggests temporary registry hack for stricken smart card users

Thu, 2025-10-23 14:59
When is an issue not an issue? When it's intentional

Microsoft accidentally broke several things in the October 2025 Windows Update, but smart card authentication was not one of them. That was intentionally broken, and the temporary workaround requires a registry hack.…

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Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease

Thu, 2025-10-23 14:31
Weak demand for iPhone Air and delays to a costly foldable tablet suggest Cupertino's hardware experiments are struggling

Apple's run of hardware experiments appears to be hitting some turbulence: The company's ultra-thin iPhone Air has reportedly failed to catch on with buyers, while its long-awaited foldable iPad is slipping further down the calendar amid engineering snags and soaring costs.…

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Fedora council approves policy allowing AI-assisted contributions

Thu, 2025-10-23 14:19
Intense discussion approves AI – but subject to full responsibility and disclosure

The Fedora Council has approved AI-assisted contributions to its Linux distribution, following intense debate and subject to strict conditions.…

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Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software

Thu, 2025-10-23 14:04
Check Point helps exorcise vast 'Ghost Network' that used fake tutorials to push infostealers

Google has taken down thousands of YouTube videos that were quietly spreading password-stealing malware disguised as cracked software and game cheats.…

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A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

Thu, 2025-10-23 13:18
Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours

Amazon has published a detailed postmortem explaining how a critical fault in DynamoDB's DNS management system cascaded into a day-long outage that disrupted major websites and services across multiple brands – with damage estimates potentially reaching hundreds of billions of dollars.…

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SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs

Thu, 2025-10-23 13:02
Share price dips as cloud sales outlook disappoints amid slow US public sector bookings

SAP disappointed investors today after reporting full-year cloud revenue at the bottom end of its guidance range, with execs saying customers in manufacturing and the public sector are taking longer to sign contracts.…

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Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles

Thu, 2025-10-23 12:50
Cornyn & co ask DoJ to probe respected research institution for trying to 'influence' public

The saga of the Great Space Shuttle Relocation has taken another turn after US lawmakers asked the Department of Justice to look into alleged lobbying by the Smithsonian museum to prevent a possible transfer of Discovery to Houston, Texas.…

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Amazon's AI specs aim to stop delivery drivers getting lost between van and porch

Thu, 2025-10-23 11:39
Why monitor staff through phones or cameras when Bezos' boxshifter can strap surveillance to their heads?

Amazon is testing AI-powered smart glasses to help its drivers get from their vans to customers' doorsteps.…

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Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem

Thu, 2025-10-23 10:19
Survey probes interest in AI assistance for locally hosted email setups

Microsoft's mission to "Copilot all the things" has reached Exchange Server, with a survey asking if admins want the AI assistant on-prem.…

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SpaceX pulls plug on 2,500 Starlink terminals tied to Myanmar fraud farms

Thu, 2025-10-23 09:22
Criminal outfits had been using Musk's broadband beacons to run cyber-slavery scams across Southeast Asia

SpaceX says it has shut down thousands of Starlink terminals that were powering Myanmar's notorious scam compounds after its satellite network was found to be keeping human trafficking and cyber-fraud operations online in the country's lawless border zones.…

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Microsoft finance slang defines the eternal optimist: The 'hockey stick on wheels'

Thu, 2025-10-23 08:45
The wheels on Copilot's hockey stick must be giving off smoke by now

Microsoft's finance division has a term for an overly optimistic projection that seems to march backward year after year: the hockey stick on wheels.…

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OpenBSD 7.8 out now, and you're not seeing double, 9front releases 'Release'

Thu, 2025-10-23 08:03
New version includes multithreaded TCP/IP and Raspberry Pi 5 support

The 59th version of the OpenBSD operating system is here, six months after 7.7, with multiple improvements in various areas.…

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