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Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster

Fri, 2025-10-17 21:08
Cleverly concocked deal keeps debt off Social Media empire's books

Facebook parent Meta has managed to convince private equity firm Blue Owl Capital to finance its 2.2 gigawatt Hyperion datacenter project in Richland Parish, Louisiana.…

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Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington...with X-Energy mini-reactors

Fri, 2025-10-17 18:58
Now they just need to get regulatory approval

Despite technological and regulatory hurdles, Amazon remains convinced that small modular reactors (SMRs) are the answer to the cloud titan's power woes.…

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American Airlines subsidiary Envoy caught in Clop's Oracle EBS raid

Fri, 2025-10-17 17:32
Not a good week for Big Red

Envoy Air, an American Airlines subsidiary, has confirmed that it was among the dozens of organizations compromised via Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) security flaws, following claims by Clop extortionists that its parent company was one of its victims.…

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Thou shalt not let AI run amok: Vatican wants global rules

Fri, 2025-10-17 17:01
'AI is a tool', Pope tells attendees

Recently, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff warned investors to avoid the "false prophets" of AI. Now, the Pope has brought real theological weight to the bot debate, hosting a Vatican seminar that called for global AI regulation and fair distribution of the technology's benefits.…

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Hyperscalers try to beat the heat with larger racks, more air flow

Fri, 2025-10-17 16:32
Most datacenters to ditch 19-inch standard for 21-inch OCP kit by 2030

Datacenters are set to standardize on the larger, 21-inch rack format by 2030, according to Omdia, as hyperscalers and server makers fully embrace it, leaving enterprises to the existing 19-inch standard.…

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Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall

Fri, 2025-10-17 16:03
US biz lobby claims president overstepped his authority with proclamation demanding hefty visa fee

The US Chamber of Commerce (CoC) has filed a suit accusing President Trump of exceeding his authority by seeking to slap a $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications.…

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Have I Been Pwned logs 17.6M victims in Prosper breach

Fri, 2025-10-17 15:30
P2P lending platform says it could not verify the claims at present

Data breach tracker HaveIBeenPwned claims the victim count of peer-to-peer lender Prosper's September cyberattack stands at 17.6 million.…

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Windows 10, huh, what is it good for? PC upgrade cycles actually

Fri, 2025-10-17 14:16
Operating system's end of life D-day resucitates flatlining computer sector

It transpires that Windows 11 is indeed good for at least one thing – driving PC upgrades, according to the latest figures from Gartner.…

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Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance

Fri, 2025-10-17 13:07
Sharing views POTUS doesn't like? Say goodbye to that visa, First Amendment be damned

Lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are helping three US labor unions sue the Trump administration over a social media surveillance program that threatens to punish those who publicly express views that are not harmonious with the government's position.…

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Carmakers fear chip crunch as Dutch sanctions hit Nexperia

Fri, 2025-10-17 12:36
Beijing blocks exports after Netherlands imposes special measures on Chinese-owned chipmaker

Major car, van, truck and bus manufacturers are warning that the Dutch government placing semiconductor biz Nexperia under special administrative measures could result in a shortage of automotive chips.…

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Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit

Fri, 2025-10-17 11:25
NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype

Microsoft has made NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset available on Azure via the Windows giant's Planetary Computer platform.…

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SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA

Fri, 2025-10-17 11:16
A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade

More than a decade after SAP's S/4HANA in-memory ERP system debuted, 95 percent of legacy users say building a positive case to migrate requires a big effort or is genuinely challenging.…

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Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT

Fri, 2025-10-17 10:54
As OpenAI allow chatbot to spout erotic content, former British prime minister makes true feelings known

After a string of marriages and innumerable affairs, former UK prime minister Boris Johnson has come clean about his new squeeze.…

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Literal crossed wires sent cops after innocent neighbors in child abuse case

Fri, 2025-10-17 09:51
Eight-year telco blunder had a profound impact on three wrongly accused in Wales

Details have emerged of a troubling case in which a basic engineering mistake wrecked a digital evidence investigation and led to wrongful accusations.…

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MIT boffins double precision of atomic clocks by taming quantum noise

Fri, 2025-10-17 08:45
'Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise

Researchers at MIT say they have discovered a way to double the precision of optical atomic clocks by quieting the quantum noise that clouds their ticking.…

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Britains's AI gold rush hits a wall: not enough electricity

Fri, 2025-10-17 08:00
Energy Secretary Miliband promises renewable utopia for green and pleasant land... filled with datacenters

Energy is essential for delivering the UK governments' AI ambitions, but Britain faces a critical question: how can it supply enough power for rapidly expanding datacenters without causing blackouts or inflating consumer bills?…

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AI boffins teach office supplies to predict your next move

Fri, 2025-10-17 07:15
What the world's been waiting for: a stapler with wheels to help humans afflicted by RSI

It was only a matter of time. Having invaded the software world, AI has now fixed its sights on once-benign household objects and desk fodder.…

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'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident

Fri, 2025-10-17 06:30
The 1990s called with a reminder that in the time before ransomware, infosec panics could be quite quaint

On Call By Friday it's only natural to look back upon the working week with a certain nostalgia, an emotion The Register celebrates each week in On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tales of tech support trauma.…

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Anthropic brings mad Skills to Claude

Thu, 2025-10-16 23:55
Teaching an old bot new tricks

Paying Anthropic customers can now teach their Claude new tricks, which the company calls Skills.…

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TSMC hurrying to bring advanced chip tech to Arizona fab

Thu, 2025-10-16 23:25
CEO C.C. Wei cites strong demand for AI products. Intel may also be a factor

TSMC is accelerating the rollout of advanced process nodes at its Arizona fabs to meet growing demand for American-made AI products.…

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