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Salesforce tags 5 CVEs after SaaS security probe uncovers misconfig risks
Salesforce has assigned five CVE identifiers following a security report that uncovered more than 20 configuration weaknesses, some of which exposed customers to unauthorized access and session hijacking.…
Starbucks brews up AI to support baristas instead of replace them
After lackluster results from customer-facing automation, Starbucks is now redirecting its tech ambitions toward helping its own employees.…
Cisco returns to load balancing market as it chases VMware refugees
Cisco Live Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta.…
NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts
NASA is shutting down many of its social media accounts, including those dedicated to the Voyager mission and the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers.…
Asia dismantles 20,000 malicious domains in infostealer crackdown
Thirty-two people across Asia have been arrested over their suspected involvement with infostealer malware in the latest international collaboration against global cybercrime.…
Tug reaches flaming ship carrying electric cars off Alaska coast
A tug has reached the Morning Midas, six days after a presumed battery fire broke out, causing the crew to abandon ship.…
Schneider, Nvidia sign pact to cool Europe's AI ambitions
GTC Paris Schneider Electric and Nvidia are jointly developing cooling, management, and control systems for AI datacenters in support of the EU's AI action plan, with Schneider detailing support for racks with 1 MW loads.…
Half of businesses rethink ditching humans for customer service bots
Good news for consumers frustrated by wading through pools of AI treacle in search of customer service - businesses are reportedly turning back to human agents "amid AI integration challenges."…
SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip
Euro chip designer SiPearl has released a reference server design featuring its Rhea1 processor, the chip that powers Jupiter, Europe's most powerful supercomputer.…
UK bets big (and small) on nuclear as datacenter demand expected to climb
The UK has bet big on nuclear power — both big and small — following a series of warnings about energy capacity and supply for datacenter investments.…
Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue'
Microsoft has set a new record with June's security update for the time between release and an admission of borkage.…
UK govt promises digital reform in spending review. We've heard that before
Opinion Today, the UK chief finance minister is set to detail government spending for the next three years and capital budgets for the next four. As the first multi-year spending review since 2021, it is a big deal.…
AI's the end of the Shell as we know it and I feel fine … but insecure
Column Generative AI is changing so rapidly, it’s hard to stay up to date, so I generally avoid the newest shiny thing until it becomes unavoidable.…
Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers
Lenovo has pulled a couple of European supercomputer wins out of the bag, one using Intel chips for Imperial College London and an AMD-based system for the European Institute of Oncology.…
CISO who helped unmask Badbox warns: Version 3 is coming
Badbox 2.0, the botnet that infected millions of smart TV boxes and connected devices before private security researchers and law enforcement partially disrupted its infrastructure, is readying for a third round of fraud and digital attacks, according to one of the threat hunters who uncovered the original scheme.…
Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome
Mozilla is concerned that Google's efforts to build Gemini into its Chrome browser will make it even more difficult for rivals to compete with the search and ads giant.…
Microsoft warns of 66 flaws to fix for this Patch Tuesday, and two are under active attack
Patch Tuesday It's Patch Tuesday time again, and Microsoft is warning that there are a bunch of critical fixes to sort out - and two actively exploited bugs.…
Cisco president says dredging coding syntax from wetware memory wastes engineers' expensive synapses
Cisco Live Cisco president Jeetu Patel wants the company’s engineers to halve the amount of code they write.…
Apple-Intel divorce to be final next year
Apple's macOS operating system will drop support for Intel chips next year, marking the end of a twenty-year relationship.…
Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub
We're less than a month away from the Trump administration's launch of an initiative to push AI across the entire federal government, based on a code repository eagle-eyed onlookers spotted on GitHub before it disappeared. …