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Britain's 5G experience 'among the worst in Europe' says MedUX

Tue, 2025-07-08 11:14
Official figures for network performance don't play out in user's reality, says monitoring biz

The UK's 5G networks are among the worst in Europe when it comes to measurements such as download speed, upload speed, latency, and packet loss, according to a report published today.…

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Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

Tue, 2025-07-08 09:35
Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature

Opinion Dominance does not equal importance, nor is dominance the same as relevance. The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users.…

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UK police dangle £75 million to digitize its VHS tape archives

Tue, 2025-07-08 08:30
Those pirated video nasties won’t last forever

The UK police service is planning to launch a procurement to purchase tech and services worth up to £75 million ($102 million) in order to digitize its VHS archive.…

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Microsoft developer ported vector database coded in SAP’s ABAP to the ZX Spectrum

Tue, 2025-07-08 07:29
The mighty Z80 processor ran the code at astounding speed, proving retro-tech got a lot of things right

A Microsoft senior software engineer named Alice Vinogradova has ported a database she wrote in SAP’s ABAP language to the venerable Z80 processor that powered the Sinclair ZX Spectrum – and marveled at the results.…

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Suspected Scattered Spider domains target everyone from manufacturers to Chipotle

Tue, 2025-07-08 06:28
Plus: Qantas makes contact with 'potential cyber criminal'

While the aviation industry has borne the brunt of Scattered Spider's latest round of social engineering attacks, the criminals aim to catch manufacturing and medical tech companies — and even Chipotle Mexican Grill — in tjeor web, as evidenced by hundreds of domains that security researchers say look a lot like phishing websites used by the criminal crews.…

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Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung

Tue, 2025-07-08 05:01
They're both silent on what, if anything, has changed

Epic Games has settled the case it brought against Samsung over the Korean giant’s treatment of third-party app stores on its Galaxy handsets.…

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Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1

Tue, 2025-07-08 03:03
Memory from Korea, hard disks from Thailand, plenty of stuff from Japan

World War Fee The Trump administration on Monday announced the tariff rates it will impose on fourteen nations starting on August 1st, and several big technology-producing nations made the list.…

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Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia

Tue, 2025-07-08 00:35
Investors advised to brace for massive fall from Q1 to Q2

Analysis During the AI gold rush, the next best thing to selling the shovels – that is, the GPUs –is manufacturing the silicon that makes them possible. But while TSMC and SK-Hynix continue to cash in on Nvidia's successes, Samsung hasn't been nearly so fortunate.…

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Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers

Mon, 2025-07-07 22:03
Using prompt injections to play a Jedi mind trick on LLMs

A handful of international computer science researchers appear to be trying to influence AI reviews with a new class of prompt injection attack.…

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Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho

Mon, 2025-07-07 21:30
Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness

The new nuclear age of small modular reactors may not have materialized yet, but that's not stopping the US Department of Energy from getting to work on even smaller, more modular reactors with a couple of new commercial partners. …

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CitrixBleed 2 exploits are on the loose as security researchers yell and wave their hands

Mon, 2025-07-07 20:31
NetScaler vendor issued a patch but otherwise, stony silence

Multiple exploits are circulating for CVE-2025-5777, a critical bug in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway dubbed CitrixBleed 2, and security analysts are warning a "significant portion" of users still haven't patched.…

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CoreWeave's $9B Core Scientific acquisition is a bid for more power

Mon, 2025-07-07 19:59
All the GPUs in the world aren't worth much if you don't have a place to put them

CoreWeave just added 1.3 gigawatts of datacenter capacity to its rent-a-GPU scheme with the $9 billion acquisition of crypto-mining outfit Core Scientific, the companies announced Monday.…

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Apple tries get €500M EU fine tossed

Mon, 2025-07-07 18:39
The iMaker's fight with European regulators continues

Apple is on the hook for a €500 million (US $587 million) anti-steering fine in the EU, so it's reportedly doing what any profit-driven enterprise in such a position would do: Appealing.…

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Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles

Mon, 2025-07-07 15:21
Lucy in the sky with calcium

Astroboffins have found the first evidence of a double-detonated Type Ia supernova, which could explain why we have enough bright points of reference in the skies to plot our place in the universe.…

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Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges

Mon, 2025-07-07 14:28
As power concerns beset builds, this floating datacenter can plug into powership next door

Japanese shipping biz Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is planning to fit out a ship as a floating datacenter that can draw energy from the shore or from an accompanying powership.…

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Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long

Mon, 2025-07-07 13:31
Line-judging tech flubs crucial point, leaving players and fans seeing red

"You cannot be serious" was likely uttered by more than a few folk watching Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova versus Britain's Sonay Kartal at Wimbledon yesterday after the tennis tournament's AI line-calling tech dropped the ball.…

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'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data

Mon, 2025-07-07 12:45
Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings

The US defense department satellite service that's cutting off the flow of data used for hurricane forecasting is doing so "to mitigate a significant cybersecurity risk" to government "high performance computing environments."…

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Phishing platforms, infostealers blamed as identity attacks soar

Mon, 2025-07-07 12:00
Get your creds in order or risk BEC, ransomware attacks, orgs warned

A rise in advanced phishing kits and info-stealing malware are to blame for a 156 percent jump in cyberattacks targeting user logins, say researchers.…

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Ordnance Survey digs deep to prevent costly cable strikes

Mon, 2025-07-07 10:18
Digital map of subterranean infrastructure promised in 2021 set to launch by year end

Ordnance Survey, the UK's official map maker, is seeking a tech supplier to help it obtain and manage data from utilities companies for a project that aims to avoid damage to subterranean infrastructure, which costs around £2.4 billion a year.…

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TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions

Mon, 2025-07-07 09:26
Tips on who pays when staff don't transfer, when the regulations apply ... and when they don't

Comment Few IT leaders or staffers realize just how much automation, AI, and cloud delivery are disrupting the legal and human frameworks that underpin outsourcing - especially when it comes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, better known as TUPE.…

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