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50 years ago the last Saturn rocket rolled out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building

Wed, 2025-03-26 13:15
Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors

It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.…

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Schneider Electric pumps $700M into US ops as AI datacenter demand surges

Wed, 2025-03-26 11:46
Meanwhile, Apple is lining up '$1B' of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra kit

Schneider Electric plans to spend $700 million through 2027 to expand its US operations and bolster the supply of its power equipment necessary to sustain the proliferation of AI datacenters.…

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NCSC taps influencers to make 2FA go viral

Wed, 2025-03-26 11:00
Who knew social media stars had a role to play in building national cyber resilience?

The world's biggest brands have benefited from influencer marketing for years – now the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has hopped on the bandwagon to preach two-factor authentication (2FA) to the masses.…

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UK satellite smartphone services could get green light this year

Wed, 2025-03-26 10:15
At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE

Britain's telecoms regulator could authorize satellite-to-smartphone services in the UK before the end of this year.…

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British govt wants to mainline AI, but its arteries are clogged with legacy tech

Wed, 2025-03-26 09:30
Spending watchdog says digital professionals need seat at top table to ensure 'transformation'

The parlous state of UK government legacy IT systems is hampering attempts to adopt AI, a report from MPs has warned.…

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Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting

Wed, 2025-03-26 08:35
PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost

Aardvark, a novel machine learning-based weather prediction system, teases a future where supercomputers are optional for forecasting - but don't pull the plug just yet.…

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Jeff Bezos can now taunt Elon Musk: I'm building a moon rover for NASA, when can Tesla do that?

Wed, 2025-03-26 07:26
Firefly Aerospace choses Amazon boss's Honeybee Robotics to supply vehicle for 2028 mission

Elon Musk may have launched hundreds of rockets and sent his own Tesla Roadster into space, but rival billionaire Jeff Bezos will soon be able to boast he’s built a moon rover.…

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VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software

Wed, 2025-03-26 05:32
As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement

VMware has sued industrial giant AG Siemens’s US operations for alleged use of unlicensed software and accused it of changing its story negotiations.…

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India ditches its 'Google Tax', perhaps to tickle Trump and dodge tariffs

Wed, 2025-03-26 02:58
Binned an e-commerce tax last year so this may not be complete capitulation

India again ditches a tech tax, perhaps to tickle Trump and dodge tariffs Already binned an e-commerce tax last year The lower house of India’s parliament on Tuesday passed the nation’s budget for 2025, after making a last-minute change that removed a tax on digital ads.…

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Revenge of the nerds: Boffins sue to undo Trump science funding cuts

Tue, 2025-03-25 23:52
Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right?

Two academic organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday for the allegedly unlawful withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University and associated demands for policy changes.…

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God didn't have a plan for Gelsinger at Intel. Maybe there is one for his new gig, Gloo

Tue, 2025-03-25 23:11
Chip guru preaches virtues of 'values-aligned' pray-I, sorry, AI

Pat Gelsinger, once CEO of VMware and later Intel, has announced he's taken a new job as executive chair and head of technology at Gloo, a Colorado-based startup offering technology tools for churches and other faith-based organizations.…

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Judge halts DOGE's union personal data grab at OPM, Treasury, Education

Tue, 2025-03-25 20:15
Officials likely broke Privacy Act by dishing out info without consent

A Maryland judge has dealt another blow to Elon Musk's cost-trimming DOGE unit, temporarily blocking the US Treasury, Dept of Education, and Office of Personnel Management from sharing union members' personal data with the billionaire's minions.…

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Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee dies of heart attack at 63

Tue, 2025-03-25 19:46
The man who helped make Sammy the biggest name in modern tellies

Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee died this week in the Samsung Medical Center in southern Seoul after a cardiac arrest. He was 63.…

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ReactOS emits release 0.4.15 – its first since 2021

Tue, 2025-03-25 18:09
An impressive recreation of the Windows golden age

The ReactOS project is putting out a point-release for the first time in a few years, and this insanely optimistic effort is making progress.…

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There are perhaps 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial

Tue, 2025-03-25 17:35
Customers come forward claiming info was swiped from prod

Oracle Cloud's denial of a digital break-in is now in clear dispute. A infosec researcher working on validating claims that the cloud provider's login servers were compromised earlier this year says some customers have confirmed data allegedly stolen and leaked from the database giant is genuine.…

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US Army’s laser obsession continues with yet another drone-zapper deal

Tue, 2025-03-25 15:55
We have one, yes – but what about a second death ray?

Still shopping for the perfect death ray, the US Army has tapped Huntington Ingalls to build and test a prototype laser weapon designed to fry drones in flight.…

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Interest in SAP cloud migration triples in its biz heartland

Tue, 2025-03-25 14:45
User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org

Europe's German-speaking SAP user group is reporting a sharp uptick in organizations signing up or planning to sign up for the application vendor's preferred cloud migration route.…

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Alibaba exec warns of overheating AI infrastructure market

Tue, 2025-03-25 14:00
Joe Tsai says speculative datacenter builds could exceed actual demand

Alibaba is warning of a datacenter spending "bubble" amid the rush to build infrastructure in anticipation of an AI feeding frenzy.…

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Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

Tue, 2025-03-25 13:15
Redmond veteran proposes Zero Sugar and Caffeine Free variants

Baffled by the plethora of Outlook options out there? You aren't alone. Microsoft veteran Scott Hanselman posted a list of some more variants that could be used to do the same thing.…

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Infosec pro Troy Hunt HasBeenPwned in Mailchimp phish

Tue, 2025-03-25 12:28
16,000 stolen records pertain to former and active mail subscribers

Infosec veteran Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned fame is notifying thousands of people after phishers scooped up his Mailchimp mailing list.…

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