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Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into open source cloud federation tech
An alliance of cloud service providers in Europe is investing €1 million into the Fulcrum Project, an open source cloud federation tech that gives an alternative to local customers anxious about using US hypercalers.…
UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill
The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration.…
Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success'
Comment Yet another rocket exploded over the weekend and – you guessed it – its CEO called the test flight "a great success." This raises the question: what even counts as failure anymore in the world of so-called "New Space" – the VC-fueled and risk-friendly private rocket sector?…
RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory
A new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware.…
Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount
The UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly £1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, overshooting its original three-year timeline.…
GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison
A student at Britain's top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial.…
Arm reckons it'll own 50% of the datacenter by year's end
Arm expects to see its architecture account for half of the datacenter CPU market by the end of this year, up from 15 percent in 2024, all thanks to the AI boom.…
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it
OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.…
Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’
Microsoft has quietly revealed it’s redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that Windows presents after it crashes so badly a reboot is the only way out.…
Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better'
Intel's newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn things around.…
Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket
Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet – all of which disappeared after he tipped off the team seemingly behind the highly questionable pictures.…
CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw
Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA.…
Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes
A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week.…
Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence vanishes
Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly – it may be scrubbing the web of evidence, too.…
Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems says it has cleared a key hurdle ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO), claiming it resolved concerns about its sources of funding with the US Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS).…
Check Point confirms breach, but says it was 'old' data and crook made 'false' claims
A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of "highly sensitive" data from Check Point - something the American-Israeli security biz claims is a huge exaggeration.…
AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday
Analysis Atomic energy is becoming the preferred solution to address the projected bump in megawatts needed to charge AI in the future, but it simply won't come soon enough in many cases.…
LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite
Gartner says the market for large language model (LLM) providers is on the cusp of an extinction phase as it grapples with the capital-intensive costs of building products in a competitive market.…
Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole
Windows Insiders will soon get their hands on Microsoft's attempt to ward off another CrowdStrike incident, and the company is also closing a loophole for users who don't want a Microsoft account.…
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare
Analysis Disrupt? It's an awful hackneyed term that some analysts, consultants and technologists like to use.…