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Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales
The UK will build its first small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear plant at Wylfa on Anglesey, an island off northwest Wales - but it won't generate power until the mid-2030s.…
Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud
A survey of CIOs and tech leaders in Western Europe has found 61 percent want to increase their use of local cloud providers amid global geopolitical uncertainty.…
Rhadamanthys malware admin rattled as cops seize a thousand-plus servers
International cops have pulled apart the Rhadamanthys infostealer operation, seizing 1,025 servers tied to the malware in coordinated raids between November 10-13.…
London left buffering as Hyperoptic backup link refuses to boot
UK broadband provider Hyperoptic learned the importance of testing backup systems this week after the service went dark for customers in London.…
NHS supplier ends probe into ransomware attack that contributed to patient death
Synnovis has finally wrapped up its investigation into the 2024 ransomware attack that crippled pathology services across London, ending an 18-month effort to untangle what the NHS supplier describes as one of the most complex data reconstruction jobs it has ever faced.…
To 'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 has arrived
MX Linux 25 "Infinity" is now available, and the new version has some significant differences from the 2023 release, with things that used to be boot-time choices now more loaded pre-install decisions.…
Networking students need an explanation of the internet that can fit in their heads
Systems Approach When my colleague and co-author Bruce Davie delivered his keynote at the SIGCOMM conference, he was asked a thought-provoking question: How should we think about educating the next generation of students about networking, given how different and more complex the internet is today?…
Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut
A semi-autonomous humanoid robot said to be Russia’s first such machine has fallen over within seconds of facing the public for the first time.…
Google to allow Android users with high pain tolerance to sideload unverified apps
Google has decided to loosen some of its recently introduced rules regarding registration of Android developers and their apps, but isn’t rushing to deliver the modest changes it plans.…
Atlassian twice shunned AWS Graviton CPUs, but now runs Jira and Confluence on them
Atlassian twice marked Amazon Web Services’ Graviton CPUs off-limits for production purposes, but recently relented and now uses the processors to power thousands of server instances that run its Jira and Confluence products. So what changed?…
Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents
Microsoft believes the next generation of AI models will use hundreds of trillions of parameters. To train them, it's not just building bigger, more efficient datacenters – it's started connecting distant facilities using high-speed networks spanning hundreds or thousands of miles.…
OpenAI GPT-5.1 adds more personalities, loses inhibitions
OpenAI on Wednesday introduced GPT-5.1, an AI model update that's "warmer," more conversational, and slightly more willing to blurt out unwelcome observations about sex, violence, and mental health in a way that invites emotional dependence.…
You can now put your US passport into Apple Wallet for domestic travel
Need to fly domestically, but want to leave your passport or driver's license at home? Apple has you covered, as long as you're using an iOS device and traveling between or within one of the dozen or so states that support digital IDs and Apple Wallet. Unfortunately, it's not clear which states those are, and the TSA's web site is not up to date thanks to the ongoing government shutdown.…
Google sues 25 China-based scammers behind Lighthouse 'phishing for dummies' kit
Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed China-based scammers, which it claims have stolen more than 115 million credit card numbers in the US as part of the Lighthouse phishing operation.…
OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft
OpenAI may be burning far more capital serving its GPT-family of models than previously thought. Leaked documents show the company paying more than $12 billion to Microsoft for compute power since 2024 and suggest much weaker revenue than it needs to pay for all those expenses.…
Google apes Apple, swears cloud-based AI will keep your info private
Google, perhaps not the first name you'd associate with privacy, has taken a page from Apple's playbook and now claims that its cloud AI services will safeguard sensitive personal data handled by its Gemini model family.…
First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun
Astronomers have made the first definitive observation of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on a nearby star.…
Attackers turned Citrix, Cisco 0-day exploits into custom-malware hellscape
An "advanced" attacker exploited CitrixBleed 2 and a max-severity Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) bug as zero-days to deploy custom malware, according to Amazon Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses.…
Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas
Apple, the reassuringly expensive US technology brand, is selling a sock in which iPhone owners can house their gadget.…
VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong
If you don't know what app will open a random media file (or URL), VLC is the answer. It runs on everything, plays anything, and it's free – thanks to Jean-Baptiste Kempf.…