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Softbank bets $2 billion on Intel having a future

Tue, 2025-08-19 07:27
Takes two percent stake as rumours swirl Uncle Sam could do something similar

Japanese tech investment concern SoftBank has made a $2 billion investment in Intel.…

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Browser wars are back, predicts Palo Alto, thanks to AI

Tue, 2025-08-19 06:33
CEO says if you buy all your infosec stuff from him, life under assault from bots will be less painful

Brace for a new round of browser wars, according to Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora.…

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China sends an AI to its space station, where Taikonauts use it to prep for spacewalk

Tue, 2025-08-19 01:55
Single spacesuit now worn 20 times

Taikonauts aboard China’s Tiangong space station used an AI model to prepare for a spacewalk.…

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Molten salt nuclear reactors slated to power Google datacenters in 2030

Mon, 2025-08-18 22:47
More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, Kairos will bring it back to Oak Ridge

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, could be home to a molten salt reactor once again if Google-backed Kairos Power has its way.…

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Facial recognition works better in the lab than on the street, researchers show

Mon, 2025-08-18 22:39
High accuracy scores come from conditions that don't reflect real-world usage

Facial recognition technology has been deployed publicly on the basis of benchmark tests that reflect performance in laboratory settings, but some academics are saying that real-world performance doesn't match up.…

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Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells

Mon, 2025-08-18 21:53
Meet the new COPILOT function

Microsoft, in its ongoing effort to AI-ify every product it has, is now adding it right into the cells of Excel.  Available on Monday to beta users of Microsoft 365 Copilot, a new COPILOT function allows you to task Redmond's AI with performing generative tasks right in, for example, C2 or B23.…

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Physicist models new use for nuclear waste: Turning it into super-rare fusion fuel

Mon, 2025-08-18 21:05
Got a particle accelerator? Here’s your tritium startup idea

Tritium is ridiculously rare, incredibly expensive, and central to most fusion energy reactor designs. If research out of Los Alamos National Lab proves to hold true, it might soon become easier to obtain.…

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Pot calls kettle black as China dubs US 'surveillance empire' over chip tracking

Mon, 2025-08-18 20:04
Spy vs spy in the chips

Comment Chinese state media called the US an aspiring "surveillance empire" over its proposed use of asset tracking tags to crack down on black-market GPU shipments to the Middle Kingdom.…

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GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire

Mon, 2025-08-18 19:38
MIT NANDA study finds only 5 percent of organizations using AI tools in production at scale

US companies have invested between $35 and $40 billion in Generative AI initiatives and, so far, have almost nothing to show for it.…

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List or get off the pot: Auditors demand gov’t improve IT reporting or give it up

Mon, 2025-08-18 18:01
A plan to standardize IT record keeping is incomplete after 8 years, and the GAO wants someone to act

The US federal government first planned to standardize its categorization of IT costs, resources, and solutions back in 2017. Eight years later, the project has mostly stalled, say auditors, and now they're demanding that it either get priority or get the axe.…

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AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy'

Mon, 2025-08-18 16:29
Surprise – updated plans way more expensive than initially suggested

AWS has introduced new pricing for Kiro, its AI-driven coding tool, but unlike the pricing originally announced, the latest plans are "a wallet-wrecking tragedy," according to many of its users.…

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Microsoft's Nuance coughs up $8.5M to rid itself of MOVEit breach suit

Mon, 2025-08-18 16:04
Supply chain breach has been a major target of legal action

Microsoft-owned talk-to-text outfit Nuance has agreed to cough up $8.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over the sprawling MOVEit Transfer mega-breach – although it admits no liability.…

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Everybody needs good neighbors – especially ones who sell you solar energy

Mon, 2025-08-18 15:35
P2P power networks beat stingy feed-in tariffs for Aussie households, study finds

Boffins looking into the Australian solar energy ecosystem say that sharing really is caring – and potentially profitable when homes with solar panels can sell their excess energy to neighbors at a preferential rate.…

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Workday warns of CRM breach after social engineers make off with business contact details

Mon, 2025-08-18 14:31
HR SaaS giant insists core systems untouched

Workday has admitted that attackers gained access to one of its third-party CRM platforms, but insists its core systems and customer tenants are untouched.…

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SpaceX prepares itself for a tenth Starship flight test

Mon, 2025-08-18 13:28
If at first you succeed, keep trying until you don't

SpaceX is gearing up for another Starship launch, blaming a previous failure on structural issues and fuel pressurization problems.…

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UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy

Mon, 2025-08-18 12:31
Virtual agents to guide citizens through red tape – but not remove any of it

The UK government has leapt into the AI hype with a raft of "Exemplar" programs it claims will deliver billions in value – including a Clippy-style assistant to help citizens navigate complex forms and legal jargon, rather than simply making them clearer in the first place.…

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From PAYE to P45: HMRC staff fired for prying into taxpayer data

Mon, 2025-08-18 11:30
Agency swears breaches are rare, just not rare enough to stop 186 being binned for sticky fingers

The UK tax authority has been forced to clean house after dozens of staff were caught helping themselves to taxpayer records.…

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Boffins say tool can sniff 5G traffic, launch 'attacks' without using rogue base stations

Mon, 2025-08-18 10:45
Sni5Gect research crew targets sweet spot during device / network handshake pause

Security boffins have released an open source tool for poking holes in 5G mobile networks, claiming it can do up- and downlink sniffing and a novel connection downgrade attack - plus "other serious exploits" they're keeping under wraps, for now.…

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Every question you ask, every comment you make, I'll be recording you

Mon, 2025-08-18 10:00
When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you

Opinion Recently, OpenAI ChatGPT users were shocked – shocked, I tell you! – to discover that their searches were appearing in Google search. You morons! What do you think AI chatbots are doing? Doing all your homework for free or a mere $20 a month? I think not!…

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A Linux alternative? Debian/Hurd shows microkernel Unix dream is alive

Mon, 2025-08-18 09:15
The official GNU microkernel is still breathing – and now it's 64-bit

Before Linux, GNU was working on its own Mach-based Unix compatible OS. Now, in the footsteps of Debian 13, there is a new release.…

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