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Neo4j cozies up to Microsoft as 'property sharding' promises to overcome scalability struggle
Neo4j has introduced "property sharding" which, according to one analyst, will help overcome its earlier struggles with scalability, while also allowing transactional workloads on the same system.…
Microsoft folds Sales, Service, Finance Copilots into 365
Microsoft is re-badging its Sales, Service, and Finance Copilots and slashing what it charges for them.…
Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors
Europe, long seen as a bastion of privacy and digital rights, will debate this week whether to enforce surveillance on citizens' devices.…
Attacker steals customer data from Brit rail operator LNER during break-in at supplier
One of the UK's largest rail operators, LNER, is the latest organization to spill user data via a third-party data breach.…
Experts scrutinized Ofcom's Online Safety Act governance. They're concerned
Industry experts expressed both concern and sympathy for Ofcom, the Brit regulator that is overseeing the Online Safety Act, as questions mount over the effectiveness of the controversial legislation.…
BAE Systems surfaces autonomous submarine for military use
Following a series of trials, defense biz BAE Systems says it is readying an autonomous military submarine for the end of next year.…
Microsoft puts last remnants of original Edge browser on life support
Microsoft has added a raft of web components to its list of deprecated features, including legacy Edge developer tools and hosted web apps.…
Dashboard anxiety plagues IT pros' nights, weekends, vacations
A new survey confirms what many IT pros already know: downtime doesn't exist, with dashboards and alerts intruding on their free time.…
'Questing Quokka' enters UI freeze as Ubuntu 25.10 nears release
The Quokka is a small, furry, and perpetually smiling marsupial from Australia. It's very cute – and now it's freezing.…
Just because you can render a Doom-like in SQL doesn't mean you should
The world has moved on from making Doom run on increasingly ridiculous devices. Now it's all about porting it to the most inappropriate of languages. Cue DOOMQL, a version of the shooter written in pure SQL.…
NASA bars Chinese citizens from its facilities, networks, even Zoom calls
NASA has barred Chinese nationals from accessing its premises and assets, even those who hold visas that permit them to reside in the USA.…
Beijing went to 'EggStreme' lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say
‘EggStreme’ framework looks like the sort of thing Beijing would find handy in its ongoing territorial beefs Infosec outfit Bitdefender says it’s spotted a strain of in-memory malware that looks like the work of Chinese advanced persistent threat groups that wanted to achieve persistent access at a “military company” in the Philippines.…
VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years – some to its friends at ‘proper clouds’
More than a third of workloads currently running under VMware will run on another platform by 2028, with its own trusted hosting partners pushing some customers to make the move.…
OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill
OpenAI will pay Oracle $300 billion over the course of five years to fuel Sam Altman's AI ambitions by providing five gigawatts of compute capacity.…
Akira ransomware crims abusing trifecta of SonicWall security holes for extortion attacks
Affiliates of the Akira ransomware gang are again exploiting a critical SonicWall vulnerability abused last summer, after a suspected zero-day flaw actually turned out to be related to a year-old bug.…
AI can't be woke and regulators should be asleep, Senator Cruz says
Video The Trump administration is pushing to loosen federal rules on AI, with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introducing legislation to give developers a two-year waiver from certain regulations, renewable for up to a decade.…
Cadence invites you to play with Nvidia’s biggest iron in its datacenter tycoon sim
With the rush to capitalize on the gen AI boom, datacenters have never been hotter. But before signing that multi-billion dollar purchase order on GPUs, Cadence Systems suggests using a few of them to simulate whether that fancy new bit barn of yours can actually handle the heat.…
Apple slips up on ChillyHell macOS malware, lets it past security . . . for 4 years
ChillyHell, a modular macOS backdoor believed to be long dormant, has likely been infecting computers for years while flying under the radar, according to security researchers who spotted a malware sample uploaded to VirusTotal in May.…
NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far
If you were ever wondering where you'd be when NASA announced peer-reviewed evidence hinting at extraterrestrial life - long dead, if it existed at all - look around, because this is it.…
How many federal agencies does it take to regulate AI? Enough to hold back implementation
The US government wants AI in every corner of government, but the unstoppable force of new tech is running into the immovable object of bureaucracy - a growing mass of AI rules.…