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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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Microsoft won’t fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say

Wed, 2025-12-10 17:30
Devs and users should know better, Microsoft tells watchTowr

Security researchers have revealed a .NET security flaw thought to affect a host of enterprise-grade products that they say Microsoft refuses to fix.…

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Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts

Wed, 2025-12-10 17:29
Countries subject to newly proposed rule include supposed trusted friends like the UK, France, and Germany

The next time someone visits the US, customs may ask to see their passport, their Facebook feed, and all of their Instagram posts. The United States maintains a list of 42 countries whose citizens are allowed to enter without a visa, but visitors from those nations may soon have to provide five years' worth of their social media history in order to gain entry. …

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Crisis in Icebergen: How NATO crafts stories to sharpen cyber skills

Wed, 2025-12-10 12:29
1,500 military digital defenders spent past week cleaning up a series of cyberattacks on fictional island

Andravia and Harbadus – two nations so often at odds with one another – were once again embroiled in conflict over the past seven days, which thoroughly tested NATO's cybersecurity experts' ability to coordinate defenses across battlefield domains.…

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Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds

Wed, 2025-12-10 11:41
Recent collision data points to comparable injury rates across modern vehicle types

Electric cars are no more of a danger to pedestrians than conventional vehicles, according to new research.…

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Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software

Wed, 2025-12-10 08:29
They're now good enough to do things well, if you take the time to learn how to steer them

Opinion For most of the last year, the phrase 'vibe coding' seemed more punchline than possibility. That outlook altered significantly over the last month after step-changes in quality mean vibe coding tools now generate code that’s good enough to rewrite expectations about how IT will operate before the end of this decade.…

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Galactic Brain space datacenter coming in 2027, pledges startup Aetherflux

Wed, 2025-12-10 07:17
Getting inferencing infrastructure into orbit may soon be cheaper than building it down here

Space startup Aetherflux says it plans to put its first data center satellite into orbit during the first quarter of 2027.…

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Rocket Lab ready to send a Hungry Hippo into space

Wed, 2025-12-10 05:33
Signoff for re-usable faring should help Neutron launcher get off the ground

Space outfit Rocket Lab says its Hungry Hippo is ready to go into space, a fillip for the company’s plans to fly its new Neutron launch vehicle.…

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Datacenters buy Boom Supersonic a ticket to revive fast air transport

Wed, 2025-12-10 01:45
Adapts its engines to power bit barns, and lands cash to fund its takeoff roll

Boom Supersonic, the company that hopes to revive faster-than-sound air travel, has diverted into the datacenter power business.…

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Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after the horse has bolted

Tue, 2025-12-09 23:47
US export controls on AI accelerators have only succeeded in forcing China to develop its own tech

Half a decade of US trade policy aimed at denying China access to America's most potent semiconductor tech has only served to spur China to develop homegrown alternatives.…

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Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday

Tue, 2025-12-09 23:42
Plus critical critical Notepad++, Ivanti, and Fortinet updates, and one of these patches an under-attack security hole

Happy December Patch Tuesday to all who celebrate. This month's patch party includes one Microsoft flaw under exploitation, plus two others listed as publicly known – but just 57 CVEs in total from Redmond.…

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Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

Tue, 2025-12-09 23:11
Still, the ban has reset expectations and may reduce harm, and that’s kind of enough

Australia's ban on children under 16 holding active social media accounts comes into force on Wednesday. While nobody expects this world-first policy to stop every kid using their favorite online communities, its backers take solace in the mere fact it's sparked global debate.…

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How to answer the door when the AI agents come knocking

Tue, 2025-12-09 21:46
Identity management vendors like Okta see an opening to calm CISOs worried about agents running amok

The fear of AI agents running amok has thus far halted the wide deployment of these digital workhorses, Okta's president of Auth0, Shiv Ramji, told The Register.…

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Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Tue, 2025-12-09 20:19
A win for the contractors

Congress has released the final version of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and critics have been quick to point out that previously proposed rules giving the US military the right to repair its equipment without having to rely on contractors have gone missing. …

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Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents

Tue, 2025-12-09 19:54
An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels on

The Linux Foundation on Tuesday said it has formed the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to provide vendor-neutral oversight for the development of AI agent infrastructure.…

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Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car

Tue, 2025-12-09 17:16
Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuck

Hundreds of Porsches in Russia were rendered immobile last week, raising speculation of a hack, but the German carmaker tells The Register that its vehicles are secure.…

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Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to Debian 13

Tue, 2025-12-09 17:02
Trixie may have gone 64-bit for installs, but WMLive still ships an i686-bootable build

Window Maker Live 13.2 is stubbornly keeping 32-bit PCs alive on Debian 13 "Trixie," shipping a new release that boots on i686 hardware.…

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Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts

Tue, 2025-12-09 17:00
Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say

More than 230 organizations across America have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the construction of datacenters, claiming the current building boom represents a huge environmental and social threat.…

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