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Chip design is a RISC-y business: Codasip puts itself up for sale
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.…
Apple accuses former engineer of taking Vision Pro secrets to Snap
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. …
International Criminal Court swats away 'sophisticated and targeted' cyberattack
The International Criminal Court (ICC) says a "sophisticated" cyberattack targeted the institution, the second such incident in two years.…
Fedora 43 won't drop 32-bit app support – or adopt Xlibre
The Fedora community has quickly dropped a couple of recent proposed changes – one highly controversial, the other rather less so.…
NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone
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.…
EU rattles its purse and AI datacenter builders come running
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.…
Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess
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.…
Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs
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.…
Linus Torvalds hints Bcachefs may get dropped from the Linux kernel
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.…
People have empathy with AI… as long as they think it's human
A study of AI chat sessions has shown people tend to have more empathy with a chatbot if they think it is human.…
Terrible tales of opsec oversights: How cybercrooks get themselves caught
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. …
Critics blast Microsoft's limited reprieve for those stuck on Windows 10
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.…
A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws
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.…
Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open
Secure comms biz Proton has joined a lawsuit that alleges Apple’s anticompetitive ways are harming developers, consumers, and privacy.…
DRAM spot prices doubled last week
Spot prices for DRAM have doubled in the last week, perhaps due to…
China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12
China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University last week flew a hypersonic craft and claimed the test achieved some world-first feats.…
Oracle just signed one mystery customer that will double its cloud revenue in 2028
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.…
US shuts down a string of North Korean IT worker scams
The US Department of Justice has announced a major disruption of multiple North Korean fake IT worker scams.…
Want a job? Just put 'AI skills' on your resume
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. …
AIs have a favorite number, and it's not 42
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.…