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NHS disability equipment provider on brink of collapse a year after cyberattack

Thu, 2025-07-31 12:29
Government officials say they are monitoring the situation

A major supplier of healthcare equipment to the UK's National Health Service and local councils is on the verge of collapse 16 months after falling victim to cyber criminals.…

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SpaceX Crew Dragon lofting next batch of 'nauts to ISS today

Thu, 2025-07-31 11:26
Crew-11 prepares for liftoff on Musk rocket while Boeing's Calamity Capsule remains grounded

The next International Space Station (ISS) crew is set to launch today, commanded by an astronaut who gave up her Crew-9 seat to make way for the Boeing Starliner test team.…

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AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill

Thu, 2025-07-31 10:29
Startup’s workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs

Vercel claims it's slashed AWS Lambda costs by up to 95 percent by reusing idle instances that would otherwise rack up charges while waiting on slow external services like LLMs or databases.…

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Capgemini wins £107M HMRC extension – no competition needed

Thu, 2025-07-31 09:15
Deal for legacy applications support reaches £322M as they continue to be decommissioned

UK tax collector His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has awarded Capgemini a £107 million support and services deal, without competition, under a relationship that started more than twenty years ago.…

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Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

Thu, 2025-07-31 08:29
UK's Online Safety Act kicks off about as well as everyone expected

Analysis With the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) now in effect, it was only a matter of time before tech-savvy under-18s figured out how to bypass the rules and regain access to adult content.…

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Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved

Thu, 2025-07-31 07:31
Ground control to Majorana

Deep dive The journal Science is preparing to remove an editorial expression of concern that cast doubt on a five-year-old Microsoft quantum computing research paper.…

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Internet exchange points are ignored, vulnerable, and absent from infrastructure protection plans

Thu, 2025-07-31 06:31
Italian operator calls for lawmakers to wake up to the critical role played by peering

Internet Exchange Points are an underappreciated resource that all internet users rely on, but governments have unfortunately ignored them, despite their status as critical infrastructure.…

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Qualcomm working on datacenter CPU and in ‘advanced discussions’ with hyperscaler

Thu, 2025-07-31 04:59
But may face competition in its core smartphone segment as Samsung says it’s found a premium handset-maker who wants its Exynos SoCs

Chip design firm Qualcomm says it’s in “advanced discussions” with a hyperscale customer who wants its silicon to use in datacenters but may lose a major mobile customer to Samsung.…

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Lethal Cambodia-Thailand border clash linked to cyber-scam slave camps

Thu, 2025-07-31 02:30
Infosec issues spill into the real world and regional politics

Analysis Thai and Cambodian tensions relating to issues including cybersecurity concerns boiled over into a kinetic skirmish at the border last week.…

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Trump officials float plan for Americans to share their medical data more freely

Thu, 2025-07-31 00:37
Apple, Google, AI biggies, and for-profit insurance all eagerly rubbing their hands

The Trump administration and the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced plans to begin building a new digital health information system, in collaboration with a growing list of private-sector companies. Dubbed the CMS Digital Health Ecosystem, the new program aims to make it easier for patients to access their own medical records and health data.…

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The TSA likes facial recognition at airports. Passengers and politicians, not so much

Thu, 2025-07-31 00:10
Few passengers are told they can opt out, and when they do, airport staff may push back

US lawmakers are trying to extend the use of facial recognition at airports, despite many airline passengers objecting to the practice.…

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Alibaba admits Qwen3's hybrid-thinking mode was dumb

Thu, 2025-07-31 00:08
Chinese e-commerce giant is going back to dedicated instruct and thinking-tuned models as they prioritize quality over convenience

One of the headline features of Alibaba's Qwen 3 family of models when they launched back in April was the ability to toggle between "thinking" and "non-thinking" modes on the fly.…

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Microsoft hails cloud and AI revenue for boffo earnings

Wed, 2025-07-30 23:40
Azure numbers shared for the first time. No details about AI, however.

Microsoft on Wednesday reported better than expected revenue for the fourth quarter of its 2025 fiscal year, thanks to the company's booming cloud business and, allegedly, to AI.…

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Radar problem caused mayhem in UK skies on Wednesday

Wed, 2025-07-30 21:49
The latest kerfuffle to stall flights in and out of Heathrow

Airlines canceled more than 100 flights across the UK on Wednesday after a "technical issue" with radar systems left air traffic controllers flummoxed.…

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India gets its turn on the Trump tariff train: 25% levy to start Friday

Wed, 2025-07-30 20:01
The US president also hints at an extra penalty for New Delhi over trade with Russia

world war fee Just as signs pointed to a slight easing in global trade tensions, US President Donald Trump opened a new front in his trade offensive, this time with a 25 percent tariff on goods from India.…

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Zuck tries to justify AI splurge with talk of 'superintelligence' for all

Wed, 2025-07-30 19:16
You get a superintelligence and you get a superintelligence. Everybody gets a superintelligence

Meta is plowing tens of billions of dollars into GPU bit barns the size of Manhattan Island, and yet The Social Network has struggled to upstage rivals like OpenAI or Anthropic.…

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Enterprises neglect AI security – and attackers have noticed

Wed, 2025-07-30 18:15
IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance...

Organizations rushing to implement AI are neglecting security and governance, IBM claims, with attackers already taking advantage of lax protocols to target models and applications.…

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US Navy won't torpedo hurricane forecast satellite feed after all

Wed, 2025-07-30 17:43
Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround

The US Navy has announced plans to continue distributing satellite data needed for hurricane forecasting, months after authorities said the data stream was to be turned off.…

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Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords

Wed, 2025-07-30 17:02
Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months

Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service.…

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Minnesota governor calls in the troops after St Paul cyberattack

Wed, 2025-07-30 17:00
'This was a deliberate, coordinated, digital attack'

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the state's National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the city of Saint Paul.…

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