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Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI market

Wed, 2025-11-19 14:08
Analysts warn LPDDR4 supply is tightening fast with shift to higher-end components

Memory prices could soon be double what they were earlier this year as chipmakers switch to advanced products to target the AI market, leaving a shortfall of more mature chips such as those meeting the LPDDR4 standard.…

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Microsoft-SAP pact aims to keep Euro cloud running in a crisis

Wed, 2025-11-19 13:57
Vendors set up sovereign fallback so customers aren't stranded by foreign interference

SAP and Microsoft have struck a partnership designed to provide safeguards for users of the US vendor's cloud services in Europe during "times of crisis."…

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Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw

Wed, 2025-11-19 13:16
Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms

Researchers in Austria used a flaw in WhatsApp to gather the personal data of more than 3.5 billion users in what they believe amounts to the "largest data leak in history."…

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Ignite awash with agents as Microsoft triples down on AI

Wed, 2025-11-19 12:33
Event supposedly for IT pros doesn't have much to tell admins on the Windows front

The Copilot company kicked off its Ignite shindig this week with AI, AI, and more AI. Oh, and a lot of agents.…

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Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals

Wed, 2025-11-19 11:45
Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says

Microsoft has announced a distributed PostgreSQL database service designed to rival other hyperscaler systems and third-party RDBMSes such as CockroachDB and YugabyteDB.…

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CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out

Wed, 2025-11-19 11:00
Preliminary proposal is already provoking debate

The Python community is chewing over a new idea: allowing the C-based reference implementation, CPython, to incorporate Rust. It's only at the "pre-PEP" stage, but it's already sparked lively debate.…

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SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script

Wed, 2025-11-19 10:15
B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain

In 2020, SAP's CFO told investors that its plans for customer upgrades, cloud migration, and a move to SaaS would give the German software vendor a greater "share of wallet."

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Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation

Wed, 2025-11-19 09:30
Researchers say attacks are laying the groundwork for stealthy espionage activity

Around 50,000 ASUS routers have been compromised in a sophisticated attack that researchers believe may be linked to China, according to findings released today by SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team.…

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Whatever your job, mentoring is your job – and the one that matters most

Wed, 2025-11-19 07:33
Nobody succeeds alone, and no community thrives without generosity

Opinion When I started coding for a living 43 years ago, I didn't know shit from Shinola. I'd written a lot of BASIC, some Z80 assembler, and knew my way around floppy drives and a disk operating system. I knew nothing at all about how to operate as a junior engineer in a professional environment.…

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China recruiting spies in the UK with fake headhunters and ‘sites like LinkedIn’

Wed, 2025-11-19 05:37
MI5 sounds the alarm about attempts to source sensitive information

Chinese spies are using social media and fake recruitment agents to recruit sources with access to sensitive information in the UK.…

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Microsoft reveals new cloudy AI PC that’s not a Copilot+ PC

Wed, 2025-11-19 04:23
And a cloud PC that's for AI agents only

Microsoft has created a new type of AI PC – the “Windows 365 AI-enabled Cloud PC”.…

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Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

Wed, 2025-11-19 02:06
Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.…

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Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook

Wed, 2025-11-19 01:01
Vertical integration meets subscriptions

"We love moving packets," declared Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, on a stage overlooking San Francisco Bay at the networking startup's annual networking event. He continued, "This crowd probably knows this intimately, but everything in the world is packets. Regardless of what type of work you do, it is just packets all the way down."…

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Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new ‘Digital Signage mode’

Tue, 2025-11-18 23:28
BORK is borked

Microsoft has added a new Windows mode that blanks out the Blue Screen of Death on public displays after 15 seconds.…

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Anthropic is at the heart of the latest billion-dollar circular AI investment bonanza

Tue, 2025-11-18 21:58
What do you get when you combine Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia? A bubble that blows itself

It wouldn't be a week of tech news without more circular exchanges of billions of dollars between AI firms. This time around, it's a $45 billion back-scratching session involving Microsoft, Anthropic, and Nvidia, announced during Redmond's Ignite conference.…

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Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters

Tue, 2025-11-18 21:43
Using AI to attack AI

Malefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…

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FCC looks to torch Biden-era cyber rules sparked by Salt Typhoon mess

Tue, 2025-11-18 18:16
Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too ‘burdensome’

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in 2024, that required telecom carriers to adopt basic security controls.…

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China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew

Tue, 2025-11-18 18:07
Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company

China is preparing for an early launch of the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft to rescue the crew of Shenzou-21, who were left stranded aboard the Tiangong space station after their emergency rescue of the Shenzou-20 crew earlier this month.…

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Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss says

Tue, 2025-11-18 17:48
When? Sean Cairncross wouldn't say

America is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive – he just isn't saying when.…

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Google Chrome bug exploited as an 0-day - patch now or risk full system compromise

Tue, 2025-11-18 17:43
Seventh Chrome 0-day this year

Google pushed an emergency patch on Monday for a high-severity Chrome bug that attackers have already found and exploited in the wild.…

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