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'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost
Nottingham City Council continues to deal with the fallout from its freak IT outage from last week as it confirms in-house IT specialists managed to prevent any data from going missing.…
Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech
GTC Schneider Electric has developed a digital twin system to simulate how an AI datacenter operates in order to accurately design for the appropriate power requirements.…
Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust
Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in the version after next of Ubuntu, 25.10 – which also means changing the software license.…
Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year
The UK's third-largest grocery retailer is set to finish its "three-year" tech divorce project from Walmart in the third quarter of 2025, while most project staff have been moved on.…
Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them
Researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) tend to parrot buggy code when tasked with completing flawed snippets.…
Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways
Bioengineers have pulled together to get artificial muscles pulling in multiple directions, an important step towards using them in medical treatments and robots.…
Non-x86 servers boom even faster than the rest of the AI-infused and GPU-hungry market
Here’s another thing AI can do: Increase revenue from selling servers by 91 percent year-over year, according to analyst firm IDC.…
China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust
Chinese electric automaker BYD has announced 1,000-volt supercharging technology it claims can fill a compatible vehicle’s battery in the same amount of time needed to pump fuel into a conventional car.…
Trump fires Democratic FTC commissioners, presaging big tech policy shifts
Analysis In a surprise Tuesday move, US President Donald Trump fired the two remaining Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission, potentially accelerating a shift in the consumer and competition watchdog's stance towards tech and other businesses.…
Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks
GTC Nvidia's rack-scale compute architecture is about to get really hot.…
Yup, AI robo-authors don't qualify for copyright, says appeals court
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling that content created by an AI model without human input cannot be copyrighted.…
CISA fires, now rehires and immediately benches security crew on full pay
The upheaval at the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, took another twist on Tuesday, as it moved to reinstate staffers it had fired over the past few weeks - specifically those still in their probationary period - though they've been benched on paid leave for now.…
Dell delivers monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip
GTC The age of the 20-petaFLOPS desktop is upon us as Dell announced a machine capable of achieving that massive processing power today at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley.…
Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs
GTC After a Hopper hiatus, Nvidia's DGX Station returns, now armed with an all-new desktop-tuned Grace-Blackwell Ultra Superchip capable of churning out 20 petaFLOPS of AI performance.…
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data
GTC Nvidia is set to make available Ethernet and InfiniBand switches featuring silicon photonics with co-packaged optics to advance its vision of datacenters with "millions of GPUs," arguing that the equipment can keep power consumption down.…
We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs have 288 GB of it
GTC Nvidia's Blackwell GPU architecture is barely out of the cradle – and the graphics chip giant is already looking to extend its lead over rival AMD with an Ultra-themed refresh of the technology.…
Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point
Amazon has used tricks, algorithms, and surveillance to discourage warehouse employees from unionizing, according to a paper published in the journal Socius.…
US tech jobs outlook clouded by DOGE cuts, Trump tariffs
A pair of reports on tech sector employment trends in the United States suggest out-of-work techies right now have relatively decent prospects, but economic uncertainty and rapid policy changes initiated by the Trump administration mean the future job market looks less rosy.…
Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller now available to mere mortals
The Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller is generally available, meaning the chip can now be picked up from resellers rather than as a Pico 2 or on PCBs from manufacturers like JLC.…
Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords
A new, speedier browser has arrived in the form of Vivaldi 7.2, giving its CEO the opportunity to protest the power of tech giants.…