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Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs
MediaTek is bringing out a new chip for Chromebooks that blurs the boundary with Copilot+ PCs, sporting an 8-core CPU cluster and a neural processing unit (NPU) rated at 50 TOPS.…
Bill Gates unearths Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC.…
Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products?
Someone or something is probing devices made by Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks, and researchers think it could be evidence of espionage attempts, attempts to build a botnet, or an effort to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities.…
Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox
Comment The latest version of Zorin OS, a popular Windows-macOS-like Ubuntu Linux remix, looks good, but there's one change that causes this vulture some concern.…
EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!
The EU has issued its plans to keep the continent's denizens secure and among the pages of bureaucratese are a few worrying sections that indicate the political union wants to backdoor encryption by 2026, or even sooner.…
System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy
The cost of buying servers for business will inevitably rise as a result of US President Donald Trump's trade policies, at least in the short term, as uncertainty grips the supply chain.…
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare
Comment Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it's not floods or fires causing most outages anymore - ransomware now leads the pack, taking down systems faster than any natural disaster.…
UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spend
The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and products drives up the cost of investment, MPs have heard.…
On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia
Opinion Former UK prime minister Tony Blair became famous for standing shoulder to shoulder with allies, even though the fallout from the Iraq war forever sullied his reputation. Nonetheless, the institute that bears his name makes it clear who it stands with when it comes to using copyrighted material to fuel the expansion of machine learning into every human domain.…
Customer info allegedly stolen from Royal Mail, Samsung via compromised supplier
Britain's Royal Mail is investigating after a crew calling itself GHNA claimed it has put 144GB of the delivery giant’s data up for sale, perhaps after acquiring it with the same stolen credentials it used to crack Samsung Germany.…
OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue more VMware customers
The Open InfraFoundation has delivered a new version of OpenStack named “Epoxy” and thinks it’s an even better option for those seeking a VMware alternative.…
OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission
Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.…
Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden
Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.…
Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs
US President Donald Trump has imposed a base ten percent tariff on all imports into America, and higher levies on goods from major producers of digital tech, such as China, South Korea, and Taiwan.…
Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling
The name's not Bond. It's O'Brien - Keith O'Brien, now-former global payroll compliance manager at the Dublin, Ireland office of HR software-as-a-service maker Rippling.…
Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus
Developers on Wednesday announced plans to bring up to 4.5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power online by 2027 at the site of what was once Pennsylvania's largest coal plant, as part of a proposed datacenter campus running AI and high-performance computing workloads.…
Crimelords at Hunters International tell lackeys ransomware too 'risky'
Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become "unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky," and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an apparent rebrand.…
Raspberry Pi not affected by Trump tariffs yet while China-tied rivals feel the heat
Raspberry Pi hasn't felt the sting of US tariffs yet, and having its boards built outside China might give it an edge over rivals, analysts reckon.…
Oracle's masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat
Opinion Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge all of the events as well as allegedly deleting evidence from the web.…
Data doesn't lie, but Microsoft's new Power BI prices might make you cry
Microsoft's Power BI price rises have arrived, with some tiers increasing by up to 40 percent.…