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ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client

Wed, 2024-04-17 20:30
The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer

Dutch semiconductor toolmaker ASML has shipped its second-ever high numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine to an undisclosed customer.…

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Kremlin's Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities

Wed, 2024-04-17 19:56
Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant

The Russian military's notorious Sandworm crew was likely behind cyberattacks on US and European water plants that, in at least one case, caused a tank to overflow.…

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Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas is dead, long live the ... new commercial Atlas

Wed, 2024-04-17 19:30
If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished

Video Atlas, the humanoid robot that's been a centerpiece of Boston Dynamics' robot lineup for nearly a decade, has been retired. In its place is, well, Atlas - an all-electric version designed for commercial use. …

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Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures seem to think so

Wed, 2024-04-17 18:55
Won't somebody please think of the shareholders

Kettle The price of everything is going up because corporations gotta corp and produce record profits year after year. That means you and I are expected to cough up more.…

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Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause

Wed, 2024-04-17 18:15
Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert

Roku TVs of the future may throw up targeted ads on the screen whenever you pause a video.…

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NASA confirms nuclear powered Dragonfly drone is going to Titan

Wed, 2024-04-17 17:30
Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034

NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn's Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize its design and get to work building the spacecraft.…

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Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk's voided $56B pay package

Wed, 2024-04-17 16:45
Given the electric car maker's annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it?

A Delaware court may have voided Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package in February, but now the board is asking shareholders to reinstate it.…

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Sandia National Lab takes delivery of Intel's latest brain in a box

Wed, 2024-04-17 16:05
Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI

Intel Labs revealed its largest neuromorphic computer on Wednesday, a 1.15 billion neuron system, which it says is roughly analogous to an owl's brain.…

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Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers

Wed, 2024-04-17 15:30
Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I

Samsung has revealed its upgraded LPDDR5X memory modules, which features improved performance, capacity, and efficiency.…

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Crypto conferences liquidated after biblical flooding in Dubai

Wed, 2024-04-17 15:00
There's something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water

And the Lord looked down upon the crypto bros and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, "I will send down upon thee a flood to wash out thy crypto conference."…

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AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not

Wed, 2024-04-17 14:30
CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux

The bigger RHELatives continue to diverge slightly from Red Hat, with additional drivers and newer kernel versions.…

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Whistleblower cries foul over alleged fuselage gaps in Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Wed, 2024-04-17 14:00
Company rejects claims as 'inaccurate'

A Boeing whistleblower has called for the embattled aircraft manufacturer's fleet of 787s to be grounded for gap checks.…

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Exploit code for Palo Alto Networks zero-day now public

Wed, 2024-04-17 13:30
Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug

Various infosec researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the maximum-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS used in GlobalProtect gateways.…

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ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders

Wed, 2024-04-17 13:00
Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line

Chipmaking kit maestro ASML generated almost half of its sales from China in calendar Q1, amid a wider downturn in orders and plunging profits.…

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Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web

Wed, 2024-04-17 12:30
Anticompetitive remedies? We've heard of them

Apple is turning on Web Distribution for iOS apps, allowing EU users to download applications directly from developer websites.…

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Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout

Wed, 2024-04-17 12:02
Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial'

Birmingham City Council has failed to enter the new financial year with auditable accounting software after a disastrous implementation of Oracle Fusion, which has seen its expected project costs mushroom from around £20 million ($26 million) to around £131 million ($163 million).…

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Logitech intros free tool for ChatGPT prompts... plus a mouse with an AI button

Wed, 2024-04-17 11:00
For when the AI service cannot grok what it's being asked

Logitech has launched a free software tool to help existing users of its kit with ChatGPT prompts, but those that splash out on the upcoming Signature AI Edition Mouse, get a... dedicated AI prompt button.…

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OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories

Wed, 2024-04-17 10:15
While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck

AI agents, which combine large language models with automation software, can successfully exploit real world security vulnerabilities by reading security advisories, academics have claimed.…

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NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later

Wed, 2024-04-17 09:28
Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types

FOSDEM 2024 NetBSD 10 marks a new level of maturity for this venerable open source Unix system, which somehow manages to be both modern and retro at the same time.…

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Devaluing content created by AI is lazy and ignores history

Wed, 2024-04-17 08:29
The answer is not to hide from AI, but to be honest about it

It's taken less than eighteen months for human- and AI-generated media to become impossibly intermixed. Some find this utterly unconscionable, and refuse to have anything to do with any media that has any generative content within it. That ideological stance betrays a false hope: that this is a passing trend, an obsession with the latest new thing, and will pass.…

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