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UK government on the lookout for bargain-priced CTO
The UK government is on the hunt for a new CTO after incumbent David Knott announced his departure, citing family reasons.…
Zen Internet loses unfair dismissal appeal case with former CEO
UK ISP Zen Internet has lost an appeal against a ruling that it unfairly dismissed former CEO Paul Stobart.…
9 in 10 Exchange servers in Germany still running out-of-support software
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.…
Starlink tells the world it has over 150 sextillion IPv6 addresses
Internetworking wonks have investigated Starlink’s use of IP addresses and found some interesting facts.…
Australian police building AI to translate emoji used by ‘crimefluencers’
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.…
Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region in trouble again, with EC2 and container services impacted
Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region, which last week caused massive disruption to online services, is having another bad day as internal dependencies again prove problematic.…
OpenAI non-profit will run for-profit that has yet to make a profit
OpenAI has obtained a new lease on life.…
Firewalls and VPNs are so complex now, they can actually make you less secure
Organizations using Cisco and Citrix VPN devices were nearly seven times as likely to suffer a ransomware infection over a 15-month period, according to At-Bay, a provider of cyber insurance and a vendor of managed detection and response products.…
This is Doom, running headless, on Ubuntu Arm… on a satellite
Ubuntu Summit Doom takes place on Mars, but up until recently, it has only been played on Earth. However, at the Ubuntu Summit, one enterprising developer explained how he extended the well-established "will it run Doom?" meme all the way into space.…
Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
The US Department of Energy is partnering with Nvidia and Oracle to build seven new AI supercomputers to accelerate scientific research and develop agentic AI for discovery. Two of these systems, located at Argonne National Laboratory, will together form the DOE's largest AI supercomputing infrastructure.…
Nvidia adds AI peanut butter to Nokia's 6G network chocolate, throws in $1 billion
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday announced a partnership with Nokia to integrate AI technology into its mobile network infrastructure, bringing accelerated computing to the edge and paving the way for 6G-ready networks. As part of the deal, Nvidia will invest $1 billion in Nokia. Team Green's gear will boost spectral efficiency and make AI inference more accessible from mobile devices.…
Android malware types like your gran to steal banking creds
A new Android malware strain, Herodotus, steals credentials, logs keystrokes, streams victims' screens, and hijacks input - but with a twist: it mimics human typing by adding random delays between keystrokes to evade behavioral fraud detection systems.…
OpenAI tells Trump to build more power plants or China wins the AI arms race
OpenAI wants the Trump administration to build 100 gigawatts of additional electricity generation capacity per annum to avoid the US being overtaken by China in the AI arms race.…
Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop
What do you do if you're the richest man on Earth and don't like Wikipedia? Start your own imitation encyclopedia, call it Grokipedia, lift a bunch of pages from the site, and let AI fill in the rest. Obviously, that's a recipe for success.…
Forrester warns AI bubble to deflate as enterprises defer spending to 2027
ai-pocalypse Bubble, meet pin. Large organizations are set to defer a quarter of planned AI spending from next year until 2027, forcing a market correction.…
Think tank decries science friction between countries, demands global cooperation
Why can't we all just get along... for the good of science? New research suggests countries prioritizing national security over the greater good are hindering global research and economic development.…
Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences
Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has issued its third European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) report, praising Microsoft's licensing concessions while accusing Broadcom of worsening anti-competitive practices.…
Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to
Anthropic has opened a waitlist for Claude for Excel, promising spreadsheet devotees that its LLM will be able to understand their entire workbook.…
Clearview AI faces criminal heat for ignoring EU data fines
Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users' faces without consent to train its AI algorithms.…
Cloudflare Q3 report shows the internet still breaks for the strangest reasons
Cloudflare's latest internet disruptions report reads like a global disaster log, with exam-related shutdowns, natural calamities, stray bullets, and even a Starlink software failure all taking chunks out of global connectivity.…