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Former reality TV star appointed NASA Interim Administrator
NASA has a new interim Administrator. US President Donald Trump has announced that former reality TV star and current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be taking on the role.…
NCA arrests four in connection with UK retail ransomware attacks
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four individuals suspected of being involved with the big three cyberattacks on UK retail businesses in recent weeks.…
Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud keeps AI data in UK, but not the support
Google Cloud is attempting to ease concerns about where AI data is stored by offering organizations the option to keep Gemini 2.5 Flash machine learning processing entirely within the UK.…
Outlook takes another sick day – Microsoft says it'll get better soon, promise
Microsoft Outlook is down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the past 11 hours.…
Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform
The benefits of the UK health sector's Palantir-powered data and analytics system are being suppressed by the limits of writing back to NHS software, MPs heard this week.…
At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto
Using AI models to generate exploits for cryptocurrency contract flaws appears to be a promising business model, though not necessarily a legal one.…
Swiss boffins just trained a 'fully open' LLM on the Alps supercomputer
Supercomputers are usually associated with scientific exploration, research, and development, and ensuring our nuclear stockpiles actually work. …
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds
Researchers from New Zealand will try to revive extinct birds, with help from Colossal Biosciences and film-maker Sir Peter Jackson.…
Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well
China’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according to a professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education.…
Citrix signals return to the mainstream hypervisor market with a product it says isn’t ready for the job
Citrix has decided to return to the market for mainstream hypervisors with a version of its XenServer product which it currently claims isn’t ready for the job.…
Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts
President Trump's budget slashes funding for science and led to the cancellation or reduction of thousands of research programs, so scientists have staged a series of presentations to show legislators innovations that America will miss out on in the future.…
How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up
A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game.…
Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet
Perplexity has released its own web browser called Comet, and it's clearly aimed at Google.…
Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses
After committing more than $13 billion in strategic investments to OpenAI, Microsoft is splashing out billions more to get people using the technology.…
Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality
The US was supposed to celebrate the enforcement date for an FTC rule requiring companies to offer simple, clear, one-click subscription cancellations next Monday, but a panel of appeals court judges has decided otherwise.…
US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader
The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang.…
AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs
AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead to information disclosure.…
Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO
US Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer has a blunt message for AI hype-chasers: Shiny-object syndrome too often drives teams to leap into AI without defining a clear use case or vetting their data, leaving them to wonder why it doesn't work.…
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying to feed their hungry LLM bots.…
Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip
Euro chip designer SiPearl has finally taped out its Rhea1 processor destined for Jupiter, the first European exascale supercomputer, just as its Series A financing round ends with an injection of cash from a new investor.…