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Ubuntu Unity hanging by a thread as wunderkind maintainer gets busy with life

Wed, 2025-10-29 20:20
Team begs for help as teenage dev who revived Canonical’s old Unity desktop prioritizes studies

The Ubuntu Unity project is in trouble because its maintainer, a Linux whiz kid, has had less time to work on it due to his studies. Now other team members are appealing to the wider Ubuntu community for help. …

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This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet

Wed, 2025-10-29 19:50
Edge, Atlas, Brave among those affected

Exclusive A critical, currently unpatched bug in Chromium's Blink rendering engine can be abused to crash many Chromium-based browsers within seconds, causing a denial-of-service condition – and, in some tests, freezing the host system.…

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AWS Stargate-smashing Rainier AI megacluster is up and running

Wed, 2025-10-29 18:01
Half a million Trainium2 chips now running Anthropic workloads, with half a million more waiting in the wings

Never mind Sam Altman's Stargate, which is just beginning to open its portal to distant AI-fueled worlds: Amazon's competing mountain of AI compute power is already up and running. …

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Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit

Wed, 2025-10-29 17:33
Think a custom Yoke is cool? Check this out...

How far would you take your flight simulation hobby? Perhaps some extra screens? Maybe some custom controllers? Or would you go as far as to revive a scrapped Boeing 747 cockpit to satisfy your simulation needs?…

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EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long

Wed, 2025-10-29 16:20
The Big Four biz’s big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online

A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the accounting and consulting megacorp's secrets.…

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Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out

Wed, 2025-10-29 15:35
Noncitizens, prepare to have your mugshot stored for up to 75 years

Planning to visit the United States in the near future? If so, get ready to have your picture taken – and stored for decades – upon both entry and exit under a new Customs and Border Protection rule.…

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India to dethrone US for dev numbers as AI reshapes coding, says GitHub

Wed, 2025-10-29 15:08
TypeScript was ranked top programming language

The Indian software developer community will outgrow the US's by 2030, GitHub's Octoverse 2025 report shows. However, today, the United States remains in the lead.…

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Dame Emma Thompson gives the 'AI revolution' both barrels

Wed, 2025-10-29 14:50
Oscar-winning author and performer would prefer Copilot did not offer her writing assistance

Dame Emma Thompson's expletive-laden takedown of AI writing assistants may strike a chord with frustrated users everywhere.…

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Nvidia pitches Omniverse DSX as model for gigawatt-scale AI factories

Wed, 2025-10-29 14:16
GPU giant teams with partners to create digital twin blueprint for next-gen datacenters

Nvidia unveiled Omniverse DSX at its GTC event in Washington DC — a blueprint for designing and operating gigawatt-scale AI datacenters using digital twin technology.…

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AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay

Wed, 2025-10-29 13:30
Bosses banking on automation? 55% will regret those job cuts

Many organizations rushing to cut staff in the name of AI efficiency are expected to quietly rehire those roles – often "offshore or at lower salary."…

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The CAPITAL LETTERS trick that helped merge Windows 95 into NT

Wed, 2025-10-29 12:55
Keeping track of checks, 1990s style

The early versions of Windows NT were the last hurrah for the Windows 3.1-esque Program Manager. But getting the Windows 95 shell into the codebase occasionally required using CAPITAL LETTERS.…

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Marketing giant Dentsu warns staff after Merkle data raid

Wed, 2025-10-29 12:46
Emails confirm payroll and bank details lifted in cyberattack on US subsidiary

Global marketing giant Dentsu is writing to current and former staff after a cyberattack on a subsidiary led to bank, payroll, and other sensitive data being stolen.…

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UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity

Wed, 2025-10-29 12:38
60% of government services rely on Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's clouds

The UK government will publish a plan for handling future cloud outages after last week's AWS failure knocked out several departments.…

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Sole trader dispatched almost 1M spam texts to hard-up Brits, says watchdog

Wed, 2025-10-29 11:46
ICO fined Bharat Singh Chand £200,000 after receiving 19,138 complaints

Britain's data watchdog has fined a sole trader £200,000 for nearly a million spam texts targeting people in debt – almost 20 pence per message.…

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Bolt Graphics unveils Zeus GPU built on RISC-V and path tracing tech

Wed, 2025-10-29 10:36
Onboard cores use a Linux stack based on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Summit One of the more unexpected talks at last week's Ubuntu Summit 25.10 in London was by Antonio Salvemini of Bolt Graphics, who introduced the company's forthcoming range of Zeus graphics accelerator hardware. These are very unlike any conventional GPUs – or indeed anything else.…

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UK government on the lookout for bargain-priced CTO

Wed, 2025-10-29 09:30
Dangles £100K for someone to fix £23B tech mess

The UK government is on the hunt for a new CTO after incumbent David Knott announced his departure, citing family reasons.…

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Zen Internet loses unfair dismissal appeal case with former CEO

Wed, 2025-10-29 08:45
Judges agree broadband biz didn't follow its own procedures when booting boss

UK ISP Zen Internet has lost an appeal against a ruling that it unfairly dismissed former CEO Paul Stobart.…

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9 in 10 Exchange servers in Germany still running out-of-support software

Wed, 2025-10-29 08:00
Cybersecurity agency urges organizations to upgrade or risk total network compromise

Germany's infosec office (BSI) is sounding the alarm after finding that 92 percent of the nation's Exchange boxes are still running out-of-support software, a fortnight after Microsoft axed versions 2016 and 2019.…

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Starlink tells the world it has over 150 sextillion IPv6 addresses

Wed, 2025-10-29 05:58
But the data describing where they're used - which is help to fight crime - isn't very useful

Internetworking wonks have investigated Starlink’s use of IP addresses and found some interesting facts.…

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Australian police building AI to translate emoji used by ‘crimefluencers’

Wed, 2025-10-29 03:48
Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids

Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online.…

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