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Britain's billion-pound F-35s not quite ready for, well, anything

Tue, 2025-07-15 08:30
Stealth jets can't fight, can't fly much, and can't shoot UK missiles, says NAO

The F-35 stealth fighter is not meeting its potential in British service because of availability issues, a shortage of support personnel, and delays in integrating key weapons that are limiting the aircraft's effectiveness.…

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Meta reveals plan for several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters

Tue, 2025-07-15 07:26
First, Zuck takes Manhattan. Then he might actually deliver a product that matters

Meta overlord-for-life Mark Zuckerberg has revealed he plans to build several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters, with the first to come online in 2026.…

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Scientists spot massive black hole collision that defies current theories

Tue, 2025-07-15 06:33
Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars

Researchers have observed the largest ever collision between two massive black holes witnessed by humans, a finding that’s sent astrophysicists back to their calculators to re-think models.…

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Nvidia to resume sales to China – with Trump administration approval

Tue, 2025-07-15 04:07
Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of permission to sell the H20 and a new RTX Pro GPU

Nvidia has announced the US government will allow it to resume sales of its GPUs to Chinese customers.…

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Malaysia closes a back door that may have allowed US-sourced AI chips to reach China

Tue, 2025-07-15 01:02
Will this win Washington's approval and perhaps see tariffs ease?

The government of Malaysia on Monday closed a back door that may have allowed the export of AI chips to China.…

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Someone hijacked Elmo's X account to post antisemitic rants

Mon, 2025-07-14 21:43
Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'…

Someone hacked Elmo's X account on Sunday, making it appear as if the lovable Sesame Street monster with the habit of referring to themselves in the third-person spewed a series of now-removed antisemitic, racist, and anti-Trump posts.…

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Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon

Mon, 2025-07-14 20:45
Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley

The Pentagon's embrace of the AI industry just put up to $800 million on the table as the Department of Defense has issued a quartet of contracts bringing the biggest names in the biz officially into the fold. …

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Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer

Mon, 2025-07-14 20:02
Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun

The Rowhammer attack on computer memory is back, and for the first time, it's able to mess with bits in Nvidia GPUs, despite defenses designed to protect against this kind of hacking.…

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Nvidia CEO says China wouldn't risk building military supers with American AI chips

Mon, 2025-07-14 19:30
With half the AI devs in the world, if China can't build on American hardware, they'll build on their own, Jensen warns

If the US military wouldn't be caught dead building supercomputers using Chinese kit, there's no reason to think the People's Liberation Army would risk doing the same, argues Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.…

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A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely

Mon, 2025-07-14 17:42
Neil Smith has been trying to get the railroad industry to listen since 2012, but it took a CISA warning to get there

When independent security researcher Neil Smith reported a vulnerability in a comms standard used by trains to the US government in 2012, he most likely didn't expect it would take until 2025 to sort the matter out, but here we are. …

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GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box

Mon, 2025-07-14 17:06
Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot it

GParted Live is a tiny live CD image that can copy, move, and resize partitions. It can be a lifesaver – but not for i686 any more.…

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AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding

Mon, 2025-07-14 16:00
Delivers specs in the form of user stories

Amazon Web Services has created what it's calling an "agentic IDE" that it claims avoids the pitfalls of vibe coding.…

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xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man

Mon, 2025-07-14 14:26
MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out

Opinion So, on the 4th of July, a big deal to those on my side of the pond, Elon Musk announced, "We have improved @Grok significantly." On Tuesday, July 8th, the results of those changes appeared.…

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EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute

Mon, 2025-07-14 13:15
Just because a student reads a book doesn't mean Midjourney gets to eat Disney

A research paper commissioned by the European Parliament has called for an EU law to pay writers, musicians, and artists whose work has been used to train GenAI models.…

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Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror

Mon, 2025-07-14 11:44
First US-Soviet joint mission showed détente in action, but astronauts had a close call on return home

It is 50 years since the last hurrah of the Apollo program, with a mission that saw the final launch of an Apollo vehicle, and a subsequent docking with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit.…

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Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start

Mon, 2025-07-14 10:47
We need more paranoid Androids. And, well, everything else

Opinion The 21st century is turning out weirder than we thought. For the entire history of art, for example, tools could be used and abused and would work more or less well, but generally helped the wishes and skills of the user. They did not plot against us. Now they can – and do.…

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GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

Mon, 2025-07-14 10:21
Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats

Britain and France are to work more closely on technology to back up the familiar Global Positioning System (GPS), which is increasingly subject to interference in many regions around the world.…

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UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI

Mon, 2025-07-14 08:37
Report on serious organized crime fails to account for differences, agency says

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has hit back at a think tank after it assessed its US counterpart, the FBI, to be nearly three times more effective.…

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Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

Mon, 2025-07-14 07:40
For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage

Who, Me? Alas, the weekend is over, but The Register tries to make your entry to the working week a little more enjoyable by bringing you a fresh installment of Who, Me? – the column in which you explain your worst slip-ups.…

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Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console

Mon, 2025-07-14 06:46
Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns

Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs.…

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