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NASA was eyeing ISS crew cutbacks before Trump's budget landed
NASA was already considering reducing crew size on the International Space Station (ISS) before cuts to the agency's budget were proposed.…
Research reimagines LLMs as tireless tools of torture
Large language models (LLMs) are not just about assistance and hallucinations. The technology has a darker side.…
Greater Manchester says its NHS analytics stack is years ahead of Palantir wares
A report for a Northern England health authority says its analytics platform is more capable than anything offered under a controversial central government deal with Palantir.…
M&S warns of £300M dent in profits from cyberattack
Marks & Spencer says the disruption related to its ongoing cyberattack is likely to knock around £300 million ($402 million) off its operating profits for the next financial year (2025/26).…
UK 'extremely dependent' on US for space security
The current rhetoric coming from the US is "alarming" for the UK, which depends on a continuation of their long-standing co-operation around space and military tech for the future, the UK's second parliamentary chamber heard this week.…
Scattered Spider snared financial orgs before targeting shops in Britain, America
interview Scattered Spider snared financial services organizations in its web before its recent spate of retail attacks in the UK and US, according to Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.…
AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics
Column Whenever I read the news these days, I see the same warning to developers: Watch out, AI is going to replace you.…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’
Computex Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said the USA’s ban on exports of his company’s most powerful accelerators to China is “precisely the wrong policy” and “a failure”.…
AMD puts Intel in rear view mirror with Threadripper Pro 9000 high-end desktop chips
Computex AMD aims to extend its lead over Intel in the high-end desktop (HEDT) and workstation arenas with its 9000-series Threadripper workstation CPUs teased at Computex this week.…
'Ongoing' Ivanti hijack bug exploitation reaches clouds
The "ongoing exploitation" of two Ivanti bugs has now extended beyond on-premises environments and hit customers' cloud instances, according to security shop Wiz.…
Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love
Google IO Google technical folk laid out a menu of geeky delights on Tuesday at Google I/O, in the hope that software developers will pay to build upon the Chocolate Factory's platforms and services.…
Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things
Google IO Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and its Google subsidiary, opened the 17th annual Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, evangelizing the transformational power of artificial intelligence, as he did last year and the year before that.…
Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create a regulation-free AI hellscape, AGs warn
State attorneys general and activists are sounding the alarm over a provision of President Trump's budget proposal, which passed out of committee over the weekend and is headed to the House for a potential vote that would strip states of the ability to regulate AI. …
Dell creates one private cloud to rule them all and in the datacenter bind them
Dell has created a private cloud that isn't actually a private cloud – but will let users create private clouds built on software stacks from VMware, Nutanix, and Red Hat.…
Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade
New generative AI products mean new higher prices for individual Adobe Creative Cloud customers, unless they downgrade to a version with fewer features.…
Freshly discovered bug in OpenPGP.js undermines whole point of encrypted comms
Security researchers are sounding the alarm over a fresh flaw in the JavaScript implementation of OpenPGP (OpenPGP.js) that allows both signed and encrypted messages to be spoofed.…
Nvidia part of plans for mega 1.4 GW AI datacenter near Paris
Europe's largest AI datacenter campus is to be built near Paris in France, according to blueprints released by a joint venture formed by Nvidia, Mistral AI, the French national investment bank, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) investment fund MGX.…
Actors' union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader
The union representing American actors has complained about Llama Production, which is owned by Epic Games, over the use of generative AI in a new character for Fortnite.…
Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell
Build Microsoft has brought back an old favorite to the Windows command line interface: Edit, a text editor harking back to the halcyon days of DOS and text mode applications.…
Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets
It's more bad news for UK supermarkets with chilled and frozen food distribution business Peter Green Chilled confirming a ransomware attack with customers.…