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Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads

Thu, 2025-12-11 14:22
Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras

Legacy Update was already extremely useful if you chose to disembark from Microsoft's upgrade railroad. Now it's even more so.…

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Taikonauts inspect cracked Shenzhou-20 window during Tiangong spacewalk

Thu, 2025-12-11 13:50
Eight-hour EVA was also first outing for new spacesuits

A pair of taikonauts ventured outside China's Tiangong space station this week to take a closer look at the cracked viewport window of the Shenzhou-20 vehicle.…

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Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion

Thu, 2025-12-11 12:56
DOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academia

President Trump's "Genesis Mission" is taking shape with the award of more than $320 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to advance AI in scientific research.…

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Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme

Thu, 2025-12-11 12:42
Skills gained later fed Beijing's cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert

A security researcher specializing in tracking China threats claims two of Salt Typhoon's members were former attendees of a training scheme run by Cisco.…

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Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life

Thu, 2025-12-11 12:25
Copilot – your cuddly companion for nighttime introspection

Microsoft analyzed 37.5 million de-identified Copilot conversations from January to September 2025, excluding commercial and educational accounts. The findings reveal distinct usage patterns based on device, time, and day.…

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10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet

Thu, 2025-12-11 11:26
Flare warns devs are unwittingly publishing production-level secrets

Docker Hub has quietly become a treasure trove of live cloud keys and credentials, with more than 10,000 public container images exposing sensitive secrets from over 100 companies, including a Fortune 500 firm and a major bank.…

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Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030

Thu, 2025-12-11 10:15
Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline looms

Exclusive Airbus is undertaking a major overhaul to migrate its sprawling SAP environment to S/4HANA – and potentially to the cloud – as the aerospace giant grapples with the same deadline pressures facing thousands of enterprise customers worldwide.…

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Users report chaos as Legal Aid Agency stumbles back online after cyberattack

Thu, 2025-12-11 09:30
Workers frustrated with security-first changes to workflows and teething issues

Exclusive Seven months after a landmark cyberattack, the UK's Legal Aid Agency (LAA) says it's returning to pre-breach operations, although law firms are still wrestling with buggy and more laborious systems.…

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India’s government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models

Thu, 2025-12-11 05:46
Proposes central body to collect royalties and dole out cash to creators

The government of India wants AI companies to pay for accessing content they use to train models, but only once they start producing revenue.…

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Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

Thu, 2025-12-11 04:26
‘Chute opened early and snagged on a stabilizer

VIDEO An Australian parachuting club has been told to improve the software it uses to manage jumps, after an accident in which a jumper’s ‘chute hooked on an aircraft’s tailplane.…

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NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter

Thu, 2025-12-11 03:01
Didn’t phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows why

Houston, we have a problem: NASA has lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.…

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Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties

Thu, 2025-12-11 01:10
Blame changed market conditions and attitudes, not the return of Nvidia's H200 to China

Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon have called off their planned merger.…

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Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors

Thu, 2025-12-11 00:20
But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming

Oracle expects its FY 2026 capital expenditures will be $15 billion higher that previously predicted, as the cloudy database biz invests to accommodate AI workloads.…

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Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can

Wed, 2025-12-10 23:18
If you opt in to the paid service that is

Nvidia is developing a new inventory management service that could be used by customers to verify the location of their existing GPU stockpiles.…

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700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent

Wed, 2025-12-10 21:31
More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised

Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day bug in Gogs, a popular self-hosted Git service, and the open source project doesn't yet have a fix.…

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US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains

Wed, 2025-12-10 21:19
Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, it’s a worry

Alongside TikTok and Instagram, teens have added ChatGPT to the mix. Pew says about two-thirds of US teenagers have tried an AI chatbot, with nearly a third using one every day. Negative mental-health warnings be damned!…

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Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers

Wed, 2025-12-10 20:59
Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting

Most big AI providers scrape the open web, hoovering up content to improve their chatbots, which then compete with publishers for the attention of internet users. However, more AI orgs might have to pay up soon, because the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) spec has reached version 1.0, providing guidance on how to set machine-readable rules for crawlers.…

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US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy

Wed, 2025-12-10 20:51
Meet "ShipOS'

Palantir and the US Navy have signed a two-year deal to test whether its Foundry operational software can streamline the nation’s shipbuilding efforts and steer the Secretary of the Navy's top budget priority into port.…

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Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition

Wed, 2025-12-10 20:25
California chipset giant says it’ll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel

Qualcomm could soon be serving up RISC-V cores alongside its custom Arm ones following the acquisition of Ventana Micro Systems on Wednesday.…

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US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia

Wed, 2025-12-10 17:56
The digital intrusion allegedly caused thousands of pounds of meat to spoil and triggered an ammonia leak in the facility

A Ukrainian woman accused of hacking US public drinking water systems and a meat processing facility on behalf of Kremlin-backed cyber groups was extradited to the US earlier this year and will stand trial in early 2026.…

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