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Linux Mint 22.2 polishes the desktop, but kernel updates are the real deal

Fri, 2025-09-05 14:02
Point release brings Cinnamon tweaks, shiny apps, and Ubuntu's Hardware Enablement stack

The latest point release to the current version of Linux Mint brings a newer Cinnamon (if that's your thing) and updates for all.…

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Trump tells Big Tech: Your power woes? Totally fixable

Fri, 2025-09-05 13:01
White House hosts back-slapping dinner for Tim Apple and co, datacenter grid connection relief promised by US Prez

President Donald Trump has pledged to sort out the power and grid connection nightmares plaguing the US datacenter industry.…

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Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype

Fri, 2025-09-05 12:30
Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI

Microsoft researchers in Cambridge have unveiled its latest iteration of an Analog Optical Computer (AOC) and have inevitably incorporated AI into the technology's capabilities.…

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OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart

Fri, 2025-09-05 11:33
Move over LinkedIn, Altman's crew wants a piece of the action

For those worried that AI is going to disrupt their jobs, OpenAI has the solution – take its certification and use a newly announced jobs board to find a new role.…

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Fujitsu under fire for bidding on UK public sector deals despite Horizon scandal vow

Fri, 2025-09-05 10:34
Millions continued to flow after Japanese supplier said it would step back

The coordinator of a parliamentary campaign to end Fujitsu's grip on UK government contracting in the wake of the Post Office Horizon scandal has slammed the Japanese vendor's lack of transparency over its promise not to bid for new government work.…

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Huawei's battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK

Fri, 2025-09-05 09:26
Sources say decision to pull products takes effect from end of 2025

Exclusive Huawei's product portfolio in Britain is about to shrink again with suppliers informed that its battery energy storage systems (BESS) are to be discontinued locally by the end of 2025.…

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Knock-on effects of software dev break-in hit schools trust

Fri, 2025-09-05 08:30
Affinity Learning Partnership warns staff after Intradev breach

A major UK education trust has warned staff that their personal information may have been compromised following a cyberattack on software developer Intradev in August.…

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Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers

Fri, 2025-09-05 07:31
Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at risk

On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column in which we share your tech support stories.…

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AI code assistants make developers more efficient at creating security problems

Fri, 2025-09-05 06:29
Fixes typos, creates timebombs

AI coding assistants allow developers to move fast and break things, which may not be ideal.…

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Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers

Fri, 2025-09-05 06:01
Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators

Broadcom has impressed investors by posting record revenues but admitted it has sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers.…

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Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models

Fri, 2025-09-05 02:58
Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb

Uber’s Indian arm has started using its app to offer rideshare and delivery drivers the chance to make a Rupee by classifying data used by AI systems.…

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Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info

Thu, 2025-09-04 23:59
Because nobody's going to spend billions to retrain a model built on dubiously legal content

Researchers have found promising new ways to have AI models ignore copyrighted content, suggesting it may be possible to satisfy legal requirements without going through the lengthy and costly process of retraining models.…

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Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys

Thu, 2025-09-04 23:14
You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch

Unknown miscreants are exploiting a configuration vulnerability in multiple Sitecore products to achieve remote code execution via a publicly exposed key and deploy snooping malware on infected machines.…

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Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system

Thu, 2025-09-04 22:18
AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production apps

AI models get slammed for producing sloppy bug reports and burdening open source maintainers with hallucinated issues, but they also have the potential to transform application security through automation.…

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Gigs in space: Amazon breaks bandwidth barrier with Kuiper's satellite broadband

Thu, 2025-09-04 21:41
Signs up JetBlue for in-flight connection, but not until 2027

Amazon showed off download speeds peaking at 1.28 Gbps from its nascent Project Kuiper internet satellite service and announced an airline deal with US commercial airline JetBlue to provide Wi-Fi in the sky.…

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China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results

Thu, 2025-09-04 20:57
Defrauding search with custom malware, Potato-family exploits

A new China-aligned cybercrime crew named GhostRedirector has compromised at least 65 Windows servers worldwide - spotted in a June internet scan - using previously undocumented malware to juice gambling sites' rankings in Google search, according to ESET researchers.…

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Sky-high budget gap: FAA launches air traffic overhaul, lacks cash to finish it

Thu, 2025-09-04 20:08
Agency wants a single private integrator to herd 74K bits of kit with only 40% of the funding so far

Get ready to start flying American skies with a renewed sense of confidence, at least eventually, as the Federal Aviation Administration has finally decided to start soliciting ideas for an overhaul of the US' antiquated air traffic control systems. In classic Trump administration style, the FAA wants a single private-sector integrator to run the overhaul, with the public footing the bill. …

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No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others

Thu, 2025-09-04 19:13
We’ve got hungry American datacenters to feed, argued the lawmaker - a revival Nvidia dubs ‘doomer science fiction’

+Comment US lawmakers are looking to apply Trump's America-First agenda to advanced semiconductors by giving US buyers first dibs while restricting the sale of most high-end chips needed for AI to the rest of the world.…

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Microsoft inches toward Rusty Windows drivers, production use still a no-no

Thu, 2025-09-04 17:15
Crates, cargo-wdk, and kernel hooks show progress, but hurdles remain

Developers keen to write Windows drivers in Rust now have improved tools and samples, but progress is slow and obstacles to production use remain.…

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SpaceX Dragon gives International Space Station a kick up the orbit

Thu, 2025-09-04 16:33
But what goes up will also have to come down

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has successfully reboosted the International Space Station (ISS), raising the perigee of its orbit by approximately one mile and further eroding the complex's reliance on Russian rocketry.…

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