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Opinionated Arch derivative CachyOS overtakes Mint and MX on DistroWatch

Wed, 2025-08-20 19:01
Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans

CachyOS bills itself as a Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution and that seems to be winning it friends. In the last month, it's the number one distro on the popularity chart on the widely-used DistroWatch comparison site.…

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FBI: Russian spies exploiting a 7-year-old Cisco bug to slurp configs from critical infrastructure

Wed, 2025-08-20 18:20
Snarfing up config files for 'thousands' of devices…just for giggles, we're sure

The FBI and security researchers today warned that Russian government spies exploited a seven-year-old bug in end-of-life Cisco networking devices to snoop around in American critical infrastructure networks and collect information on industrial systems.…

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GSA launches AI sandbox, says it won't be around for long

Wed, 2025-08-20 17:47
GSA AI chief says market can do better but the feds needed a kickstart

The Trump administration just launched a detailed, AI-pushing platform for federal agencies last week, but a government leader is already promising to kill it. …

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Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist

Wed, 2025-08-20 17:23
Plessey sold to Haylo Labs, financed by $100M Goertek loan

The UK's Plessey Semiconductors has been acquired by Haylo Labs, using funding supplied by a Chinese company, Goertek Inc. The move was cleared by the British government.…

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Commvault releases patches for two nasty bug chains after exploits proven

Wed, 2025-08-20 17:03
Researchers disclosing their findings said 'it's as bad as it sounds'

Researchers at watchTowr just published working proof-of-concept exploits for two unauthenticated remote code execution bug chains in backup giant Commvault.…

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'Limited' data leak at Aussie telco turns out to be 280K customer details

Wed, 2025-08-20 16:45
iiNet breach blamed on single stolen login, with emails, phone numbers, and addresses exposed

Aussie telco giant TPG Telecom has opened an investigation after confirming a cyberattack at subsidiary iiNet.…

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GlobalFoundries inks domestic chipmaking deal with Cirrus Logic

Wed, 2025-08-20 15:23
No word yet on when any homegrown hardware production begins

Texas fabless chip firm Cirrus Logic has announced a new partnership with GlobalFoundries on next-generation bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) and gallium nitride (GaN) parts.…

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Google tweaks Play Store fees to keep Euro watchdogs at bay

Wed, 2025-08-20 15:04
Epic boss brands the changes 'malicious compliance'

Google has announced changes to its Play Store rules in an effort to appease the European Commission and dodge Digital Markets Act (DMA) fines.…

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Space industry frets as UKSA set for bureaucratic re-entry

Wed, 2025-08-20 14:15
Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is set to join the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) in an effort to "cut red tape" and, presumably, save some cash.…

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Uncle Sam eyes slice of Intel in return for CHIPS Act cash

Wed, 2025-08-20 13:00
Micron, TSMC, and more have also been awarded billions in subisidies

The US government is considering taking a stake in Intel and other semiconductor companies that benefit from CHIPS Act funding, according to officials from the Trump administration. The move follows SoftBank's $2 billion investment in the faltering chip giant.…

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AI skeptics zone out when chatbots get preachy

Wed, 2025-08-20 12:31
LLMs flop at selling Fair Trade – unless you're a true believer

Interview Large language models stumble when trying to sway buyers with moral arguments, according to research from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Sakarya Business School.…

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Fried chips: UK's nascent semi industry risks faltering

Wed, 2025-08-20 11:34
Good start, but you have to keep it up, say key players

Feature It's not easy to grow a national chip industry. Semiconductor startups are a risky investment. They chew through early-stage capital, often with little to show for it, making them a long-term proposition. Those that pay off can deliver big, but success is far from guaranteed.…

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Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess

Wed, 2025-08-20 10:21
Redmond scrambles to undo damage after tools borked by August patch

Microsoft has moved swiftly to remove the bullet it fired into its own foot with the August 2025 Security Update reset and recovery bug.…

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Anarchy in the AI: Trump's desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles

Wed, 2025-08-20 09:30
Rotten is as Rotten does

Opinion It's 1976, and in the country of the Beatles, another guitar band is giving it some. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols isn't so keen on love and blackbirds. Instead, he sings lustily that he wants to be an anarchist, destroying passers-by and in general promoting anarchy in the UK.…

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Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records

Wed, 2025-08-20 08:31
Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them

Security boffin Eaton Zveare has highlighted some serious holes in the online infrastructure of chip giant Intel – walking through services with coding flaws to gain access to supposedly internal documentation, from non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to the personal details of more than 270,000 Intel staffers.…

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McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

Wed, 2025-08-20 07:34
Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped

A white-hat hacker has discovered a series of critical flaws in McDonald's staff and partner portals that allowed anyone to order free food online, get admin rights to the burger slinger's marketing materials, and could allow an attacker to get a corporate email account with which to conduct a little filet-o-phishing.…

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Open the pod bay door, GPT-4o

Wed, 2025-08-20 06:28
Researchers use LLM in 'AI Space Cortex' to automate robotic extraterrestrial exploration

Businesses may be struggling to find meaningful ways to use artificial intelligence software, but space scientists at least have a few ideas about how to deploy AI models.…

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KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot

Wed, 2025-08-20 04:58
Produces advice in a single day instead of two weeks – without job losses

The Australian arm of consultancy firm KPMG wrote a 100-page prompt to create an agentic system that prepares tax advice far faster than humans.…

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AWS still cares enough about Intel to order up a fresh batch of custom Xeons

Wed, 2025-08-20 02:46
Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types

Amazon Web Services has revealed it’s started running some custom cuts of Intel’s Xeon 6 processors.…

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Top AWS chip designer reportedly defects to Arm as it weighs push into silicon

Tue, 2025-08-19 23:05
Rami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon

British chip designer Arm Holdings has reportedly recruited one of Amazon Web Services' top chip engineers.…

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