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Chip design is a RISC-y business: Codasip puts itself up for sale

Tue, 2025-07-01 17:35
R&D teams are 'separable' says biz, which is open to offers for parts or the whole

European RISC-V biz Codasip has put itself up for sale, citing an expression of interest during a recent funding round, and is now openly touting for buyers.…

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Apple accuses former engineer of taking Vision Pro secrets to Snap

Tue, 2025-07-01 17:30
He didn't cover his tracks very well, the iGiant claims in a court filing

An ex-Apple employee who allegedly thought he was clever enough to sneak out the back door to a job at Snap loaded up with Cupertino's secrets has instead found himself on the receiving end of a lawsuit. …

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International Criminal Court swats away 'sophisticated and targeted' cyberattack

Tue, 2025-07-01 16:34
Body stays coy on details but alludes to similarities with 2023 espionage campaign

The International Criminal Court (ICC) says a "sophisticated" cyberattack targeted the institution, the second such incident in two years.…

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Fedora 43 won't drop 32-bit app support – or adopt Xlibre

Tue, 2025-07-01 15:17
Community vetoes plans to axe i686 compatibility and switch X11 forks

The Fedora community has quickly dropped a couple of recent proposed changes – one highly controversial, the other rather less so.…

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NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone

Tue, 2025-07-01 14:31
Stricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatment

NASA has extended recovery efforts for its stricken Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft to mid-July, but is warning that if the probe remains silent, the mission could end.…

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EU rattles its purse and AI datacenter builders come running

Tue, 2025-07-01 14:02
176 expressions of interest to erect 'gigafactories' across 16 member states, with 3 million GPUs needed

It's pork barrel time in Europe for Nvidia (and possibly AMD) as corporations bid for a slice of the €20 billion ($23.6 billion) fund to build proposed AI Gigafactories to advance the EU's AI credentials.…

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Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess

Tue, 2025-07-01 13:19
Copilot's confidence was... misplaced

Not content with humiliating ChatGPT at the hands of Video Chess on an Atari 2600 emulator, Robert Caruso has tried again, this time with Microsoft's Copilot.…

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Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs

Tue, 2025-07-01 12:29
Plus: Consumers respond to imminent Win 10 cutoff date with collective 'Meh'

World War Fee Total PC shipments in the US will increase by just 2 percent this year, thanks to Trump's tariffs and little appetite from consumers for spending on "big-ticket" items, despite the looming end of Windows 10 support.…

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Linus Torvalds hints Bcachefs may get dropped from the Linux kernel

Tue, 2025-07-01 11:15
Kernel 6.16 may be the last with the new disk format

The geek titans are clashing once again, and Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has warned: "I think we'll be parting ways" as of kernel 6.17.…

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People have empathy with AI… as long as they think it's human

Tue, 2025-07-01 10:23
Study finds emotional support from chatbots is more readily accepted if participants don't know it's an AI

A study of AI chat sessions has shown people tend to have more empathy with a chatbot if they think it is human.…

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Terrible tales of opsec oversights: How cybercrooks get themselves caught

Tue, 2025-07-01 09:27
The silly mistakes to the flagrant failures

They say that success breeds complacency, and complacency leads to failure. For cybercriminals, taking too many shortcuts when it comes to opsec delivers a little more than that. …

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Critics blast Microsoft's limited reprieve for those stuck on Windows 10

Tue, 2025-07-01 08:17
Users tired of being 'yanked around' as end of support looms

Microsoft's latest attempts to ease the transition to Windows 11 for Windows 10 users "don't go far enough," according to privacy campaigners that worry about the prospect of millions of PCs going to landfill.…

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A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws

Tue, 2025-07-01 07:00
Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well

A year after the Right to Repair laws passed in California and Minnesota, many product makers still aren't doing much to help consumers fix the gear they bought.…

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Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open

Tue, 2025-07-01 06:31
Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple's practices harm privacy

Secure comms biz Proton has joined a lawsuit that alleges Apple’s anticompetitive ways are harming developers, consumers, and privacy.…

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DRAM spot prices doubled last week

Tue, 2025-07-01 05:33
Fears that DDR4 has hit the end of the road and the return of tariffs may be to blame

Spot prices for DRAM have doubled in the last week, perhaps due to…

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China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12

Tue, 2025-07-01 04:27
America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing

China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University last week flew a hypersonic craft and claimed the test achieved some world-first feats.…

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Oracle just signed one mystery customer that will double its cloud revenue in 2028

Tue, 2025-07-01 00:03
Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration

Oracle has landed a mystery customer that will add more than $30 billion to the database giant's annual revenues, more than doubling the size of its current cloud business.…

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US shuts down a string of North Korean IT worker scams

Mon, 2025-06-30 22:17
Resulting in two indictments, one arrest, and 137 laptops seized

The US Department of Justice has announced a major disruption of multiple North Korean fake IT worker scams.…

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Want a job? Just put 'AI skills' on your resume

Mon, 2025-06-30 21:21
It could just be the new 'proficient with MS Word'

ai-pocalypse For job seekers wondering which AI skills to bone up on, the answer appears to be simple based on a look at the past year of employment data: Just learn to use it. …

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AIs have a favorite number, and it's not 42

Mon, 2025-06-30 20:28
Ask a model to guess a number from 1 to 50 and it's likely to answer 27

Asked to guess a number between 1 and 50, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Meta's Llama 4 all provided the same answer: 27.…

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