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Insight Partners confirms ransomware hit, more than 12,000 caught in data dragnet
Venture capital giant Insight Partners has confirmed that a January ransomware attack compromised the personal data of more than 12,000 people, including employees, former staff, and the firm's usually-secretive limited partners.…
Panda-monium: China-backed cyber crew spoof Congressman to dig for dirt on US trade talks
Chinese state-aligned online attackers are back at it, targeting US trade policy wonks as Washington and Beijing spar over economic ties.…
China's DeepSeek applying trial-and-error learning to its AI 'reasoning'
Chinese AI company DeepSeek has shown it can improve the reasoning of its LLM DeepSeek-R1 through trial-and-error based reinforcement learning, and even be made to explain its reasoning on math and coding problems, even though explanations might sometimes be unintelligible.…
Microsoft weaves Oracle and BigQuery data mirroring into Fabric platform
Microsoft is extending its Fabric cloud-based data platform by including Oracle and Google's BigQuery data warehouse in its mirroring capability, and launching a new graph database based on an in-house LinkedIn project.…
How and why Linux has thrived after three decades in Kernelland
Open Source Summit At OSS EU, LWN editor and long-time kernel developer Jonathan Corbet shared a long-term perspective on how and why Linux has thrived for a third of a century.…
Toys can tell us a lot about how tech will change our lives
Column Twenty-five years ago this month I published a book called The Playful World that explored a simple idea: that the seeds of the future can be found in the present by considering the dazzling toys we started giving our children at the turn of the millennium.…
Huawei lays out multi-year AI accelerator roadmap and claims it makes Earth’s mightiest clusters
Chinese tech giant Huawei has kicked off its annual “Connect” conference by laying out a plan to deliver increasingly powerful AI processors that look to have enough power that Middle Kingdom users won’t need to try getting Nvidia parts across the border.…
Microsoft thinks cloud PCs might be overkill, starts streaming just apps under Windows 365
Microsoft thinks cloudy PCs might be overkill for some users, so has started streaming individual apps instead as part of its Windows 365 service.…
Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns
AI coding service Replit is in trouble again as users are protesting steep cost increases and some glitches when employing the newest version of its service.…
Nvidia GeForced out of China as Beijing demands tech titans embrace homegrown silicon
Nvidia has reportedly been cut off from the Chinese market after regulators in Beijing ordered the nation's top tech companies to suspend testing and cancel orders of the GPU giant's accelerators.…
Russian fake-news network, led by an ex-Florida sheriff's deputy, storms back into action with 200+ new sites
The Russian troll farm that in the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election posted a bizarro video claiming Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was a rhino poacher, is back with hundreds of new fake news websites serving up phony political commentary with an AI assist.…
US tech giants pledge $42 billion in UK investment as Trump tours Blighty
America and the UK have announced a $42 billion (£31 billion) trade pact, funded by Microsoft, Google, and others, that predicts bit barns will spring up over Britain's green and pleasant Land. But there's a lot more than money involved.…
Scale AI says 'tanks a lot' to Pentagon for data-classifying deal
Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.…
AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software
AMD closed the performance gap with Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators with the launch of the MI355X this spring. Now the company just needs to overcome Nvidia's CUDA software advantage and make that perf more accessible to developers. …
Scattered Spider gang feigns retirement, breaks into bank instead
Spiders don't change their stripes. Despite gang members' recent retirement claims, Scattered Spider hasn't exited the cybercrime business and instead has shifted focus to the financial sector, with a recent digital intrusion at a US bank.…
Social Security admin denies DB data leak, DOGEs questions about a copy
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has disputed a whistleblower's allegations that claimed DOGE made an unauthorized, unsecured copy of a critical database - but it's what the denial doesn't say that speaks volumes. …
Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy
NASA has delayed a supply delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) after the engines of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft did not perform as expected during an orbit-raising burn.…
Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helping
Wolrd War Fee The US PC industry is suffering from inventory indigestion caused by resellers over-ordering hardware to avoid Donald Trump's expected import taxes on China-made kit.…
AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025
Tech analysts expect worldwide spending on AI to hit nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025, including $268 billion on optimized servers. These investments will also soon appear in even more consumer products.…
Axiom Space aims for the International Space Station with its Orbital Data Center Node
Axiom Space and Spacebilt have announced plans to add optically interconnected Orbital Data Center (ODC) infrastructure to the International Space Station (ISS).…