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Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme
A UK government-endorsed ID card scheme is set to appoint Fujitsu as a business outsourcing supplier despite the Japanese company's earlier promise to refrain from participating in UK public procurement.…
FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for safer software
The inaugural Beacon Awards has handed three prizes to projects working on safer software for CHERI-enabled hardware running on the CheriBSD operating system.…
UK elections are unaffected by China's cyber-interference, says deputy PM
The UK's deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, says China has been unsuccessful in its attempts to undermine UK elections.…
Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws
Two DNSSEC vulnerabilities were disclosed last month with similar descriptions and the same severity score, but they are not the same issue.…
Cloudflare reveals it's automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often
Cloudflare has revealed a little about how it maintains the millions of boxes it operates around the world – including the concept of an "error budget" that enacts "empathy embedded in automation."…
SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success
One of the many sanctions imposed on Russia after its illegal invasion of Ukraine was exclusion from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) – the messaging network that most of the world's banks use to move money across borders.…
RISC-V PCIe 5 SSD controller for the rest of us hits 14GB/s
A demo of Yingren Technology's YRS820 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller – built entirely on the RISC-V architecture – showed it reading at 14GB/sec and writing at 12GB/sec, without any active cooling required.…
New Zealand to world: China attacked us, too!
The government of South Pacific island nation New Zealand has revealed that it, too, has been attacked by China.…
After threatening to block Binance for months, Philippines does the deed
The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered the nation's National Telecommunications Commission to block access to cryptocurrency exchange Binance, for the simple reason that platform doesn't have a licence.…
Coherent lights the way to massive AI clusters with optical circuit switches
Networking biz Coherent unveiled an optical circuit switch designed to support high-density AI clusters at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference on Monday.…
US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing
The United States on Monday accused seven Chinese men of breaking into computer networks, email accounts, and cloud storage belonging to numerous critical infrastructure organizations, companies, and individuals, including US businesses, politicians, and their political parties.…
Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate-speech crusaders gets SLAPPed out of court
Elon Musk's attempt to use the courts to silence a nonprofit documenting hate speech on X has been dismissed by a California judge, who said it was clear the billionaire's legal action was all about putting a lid on criticism.…
As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate
The land surrounding a nuclear power plant might not sound like prime real estate, but as more bit barns seek to trim costs, it's poised to become a rather hot commodity.…
First release candidate of Linux kernel 6.9 looks 'fairly normal,' says Torvalds
Linus Torvalds just announced the first RC of 6.9 on the Linux Kernel mailing list, saying it "looks to be fairly normal", although it's a recordbreaker in size.…
Tiny Corp launching Nvidia-powered AI computer because 'it just works'
After a weeks-long struggle to get its AMD RX 7900XTX-based TinyBox working on open source firmware, Tiny Corp says it will be launching an Nvidia RTX 4090 version for users who want something that "just works."…
Over 170K users hit by poisoned Python package ruse
More than 170,000 users have been affected by an attack using fake Python infrastructure with "successful exploitation of multiple victims."…
Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage
Google's new AI-generated search results feature is suffering from the same problem that its regular results have had of late: Spammy, if not outright malicious links are rising to the top of the SERP stack.…
AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future
Comment For many, apps like ChatGPT, Copilot, Midjourney, or Gemini are generative AI.…
Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: 'I don’t like the hypocrisy`
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has criticized the US government's targeting of TikTok, saying it is hypocritical to single out one social media platform for tracking users and not apply the same rule to all.…
ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems
ZenHammer would be the perfect name for a heavy metal band, but alas, it's an AMD-focused variant of the decade-old Rowhammer attack that compromises computers by flipping bits of memory.…