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Britain's 5G experience 'among the worst in Europe' says MedUX
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.…
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
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.…
UK police dangle £75 million to digitize its VHS tape archives
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.…
Microsoft developer ported vector database coded in SAP’s ABAP to the ZX Spectrum
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.…
Suspected Scattered Spider domains target everyone from manufacturers to Chipotle
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.…
Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung
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.…
Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1
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.…
Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia
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.…
Scholars sneaking phrases into papers to fool AI reviewers
A handful of international computer science researchers appear to be trying to influence AI reviews with a new class of prompt injection attack.…
Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho
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. …
CitrixBleed 2 exploits are on the loose as security researchers yell and wave their hands
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.…
CoreWeave's $9B Core Scientific acquisition is a bid for more power
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.…
Apple tries get €500M EU fine tossed
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.…
Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles
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.…
Move over bit barns, here come Japan’s floating bit barges
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.…
Game, set, botch: AI umpiring at Wimbledon goes long
"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.…
'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data
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."…
Phishing platforms, infostealers blamed as identity attacks soar
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.…
Ordnance Survey digs deep to prevent costly cable strikes
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.…
TUPE or not TUPE? How AI and cloud are rewriting the rules of supplier transitions
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.…