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Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights
Opinion Palantir had a whopper of a Q4, showing accelerating revenue growth, beating Wall Street's profit estimates, and enjoying a share price jump of as much as 11% during pre-market trading on Tuesday before coming back down to earth.…
Azure outages ripple across multiple dependent Microsoft services
Microsoft has reported two Azure service wobbles in as many days, including a disruption affecting Virtual Machine management ops yesterday and a Managed Identity for Azure resources outage in East US and West US regions today.…
Robotics will break AI infrastructure: Here's what comes next
Partner Content Physical AI and robotics are moving from the lab to the real world— and the cost of getting it wrong is no longer theoretical. With robots deployed in factories, warehouses, and public settings, large-scale simulation has become tightly coupled with real-world operations.…
Europe shrugs off tariffs, plots to end tech reliance on US
US tariffs may be squeezing Europe's trade balance, but they are also pushing governments and businesses to spend big on keeping tech closer to home.…
HP CEO prints final page after six years, moves to PayPal
Longtime HP CEO Enrique Lores is decamping for a top job at PayPal, handing the reins to an interim chief while the business hunts for a permanent successor.…
X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops
French police raided Elon Musk's X offices in Paris this morning as part of a criminal investigation into alleged algorithmic manipulation by foreign powers.…
Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home
Today is the day Azure Storage stops supporting versions 1.0 and 1.1 of Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS 1.2 is the new minimum.…
Polish cops bail 20-year-old bedroom botnet operator
Polish authorities have cuffed a 20-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out DDoS attacks.…
UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything
AI-pocalypse Barnsley, a town in South Yorkshire, England, best known for coal mining and glassmaking, is being thrust into the limelight as the country's first "Tech Town" – shoehorning AI into everything from local businesses to public services.…
Firefox makes AI optional, like it probably should have been all along
Mozilla has decided that if AI is going to live in your browser, you should at least be able to kill it when it gets annoying.…
NASA delays Artemis II to March after hydrogen leaks bedevil countdown test
NASA has concluded a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for Artemis II, but recurring liquid hydrogen leaks forced the test to be halted short of completion, prompting the agency to delay the mission's launch to at least March 2026.…
DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire'
OpenClaw, the AI-powered personal assistant users interact with via messaging apps and sometimes entrust with their credentials to various online services, has prompted a wave of malware and is delivering some shocking bills.…
British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases
Britain's defense personnel will be given the authority to neutralize drones threatening military bases under measures being introduced in the Armed Forces Bill, currently making its way through Parliament.…
Microsoft kills standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans, because they’re not suite enough
Microsoft has slipped out news that it’s killing some standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans.…
South Korea enlists AI to spot pump and dump schemes on social media, or in Spam
South Korea’s government and main stock exchange have developed and deployed AI-powered tools to detect schemes that aim to send the price of cryptocurrencies and shares soaring so that unscrupulous investors can cash in.…
Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun
Elon Musk on Monday revealed his space company SpaceX has acquired his AI outfit xAI, and that the two will work together to escape the surly bonds of Earthly powers by tapping the sun's enduring glow.…
Notepad++ hijacking blamed on Chinese Lotus Blossom crew behind Chrysalis backdoor
Security researchers have attributed the Notepad++ update hijacking to a Chinese government-linked espionage crew called Lotus Blossom (aka Lotus Panda, Billbug), which abused weaknesses in the update infrastructure to gain a foothold in high-value targets by delivering a newly identified backdoor dubbed Chrysalis.…
Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60
That slice of Pi is getting much more expensive. Everyone’s favorite single-board computer, the Raspberry Pi, is jumping up in price again, with increases ranging from $10 to $60, depending on how much memory your board has.…
Intel welcomes memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation refresh
Intel's workstation lineup is getting a much-needed refresh with the launch of its Xeon 600-series processors, boasting up to 86 cores and clocks topping 4.9 GHz. Chipzilla's timing couldn't be worse.…
There's nothing micro about this super-sized Arduino Uno
Arduino boards power everything from robots to RGB lights, but they're a little on the small side. YouTuber UncleStem has his own solution: build a gigantic, yet fully functional one.…

