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Ease the seat back and watch some video in your car with next Apple CarPlay
Apple is enabling video playback on its CarPlay automotive operating system and has integrated it into iOS 26, as long as you're parked.…
Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs
Google Cloud on Wednesday celebrated the debut of virtual machines incorporating Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPU technology, claiming to be the first cloud provider to sell this particular offering.…
US auditors beg Pentagon to pay attention to latest report about IT system flaws
US government auditors have been trying to whip the Pentagon's IT programs into shape for half a decade, and the latest report suggests it continues to be an uphill battle. …
Meta sues 'nudify' app-maker that it claims ran 87k+ Facebook, Instagram ads
Meta has sued an app maker for advertising on Facebook and Instagram a so-called "nudify" app that uses AI to generate nude and sexually explicit images and videos of individuals without their consent.…
Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it
UPDATED Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.…
Single passenger reportedly survives Air India Boeing 787 crash
A Boeing 787 flying from India to London's Gatwick airport has crashed, leaving one reported survivor among the 242 people aboard.…
TSMC strengthens Japan ties with joint R&D lab in Tokyo
TSMC has opened a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo in Japan, the company's first such collaboration with an academic institute outside of Taiwan, amid ongoing concerns over the Trump administration's attitude to foreign tech firms.…
AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030
With Moore's Law on its last legs and datacenter power consumption a growing concern, AMD is embarking on an ambitious new goal to boost the energy efficiency of its chips 20-fold before 2030. And it sees rack-scale architectures as a key design point to get there.…
AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144
AMD offered its best look yet at the rack-scale architecture that'll underpin its MI400-series GPUs in 2026 at its Advancing AI event in San Jose on Thursday.…
CISA loses another senior exec - and the budget cuts haven't even started yet
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has lost another senior leader: executive director Bridget Bean departed on Wednesday.…
Falcon 9 leaks keep Axiom private astronaut mission on the ground
The Axiom-4 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been held up by a liquid oxygen leak in the Falcon 9's first stage.…
AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell
Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators have been on the market for just over six months, and AMD says it's already achieved performance parity with the launch of its MI350-series GPUs on Thursday.…
Amazon has changed its nuclear deal in Pennsylvania to bypass grumpy regulators
Amazon has amended its deal with Talen Energy to buy power for a Pennsylvania datacenter from an adjacent nuclear power plant after regulators raised their eyebrows at the original deal.…
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
Like any other distro with GNOME 49, the next interim release of Ubuntu will be Wayland-only – at least in its GNOME variant.…
Nvidia hits the gas on autonomous vehicle software
GTC Paris Nvidia has officially rolled out its autonomous vehicle (AV) software, despite telling a UK car mag that fully self-driving vehicles are not likely before the next decade.…
Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage
Feature The future of archival data storage is tape, more tape, and then possibly glass-based tech, with DNA and other molecular tech still a distant prospect.…
Google faces billion-quid bruising over Play Store fees in the UK
A billion-pound legal action against Google over Play Store fees can proceed to trial.…
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UK Spending Review prescribes £10B digital remedy for NHS
In the UK's first multi-year Spending Review since 2021, the government has announced £10 billion ($14 billion) in NHS technology and digital transformation by 2028-29, an increase of nearly 50 percent on the current financial year.…
Digital Realty CTO on why storage is the datacenter challenge no one's talking about
Interview When the great and the good of the datacenter world got together in Cannes last week for Datacloud Global Congress, storage was barely mentioned, with shortages of GPUs, power and land the key talking points.…