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Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions
Google has given up on smart thermostats in Europe.…
Samsung admits Galaxy devices can leak passwords through clipboard wormhole
Infosec in brief Samsung has warned that some of its Galaxy devices store passwords in plaintext.…
Toyota picks Huawei’s Android-killer HarmonyOS for its Chinese electric sedan
Asia In Brief Toyota last week launched a range of electric vehicles in China, one of which use Huawei’s HarmonyOS…
New APNIC director general steps up to steer the internet for 4 billion users
Interview Before you get to know Jia Rong Low, the recently appointed director general of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), you might want to check your definition of "the internet."…
DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. And yes, with AI
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, aka DARPA, believes mathematics isn't advancing fast enough.…
Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims
WORLD WAR FEE The Trump administration's tariffs are famously raising the prices of high-ticket products with lots of chips, like iPhones and cars, but they're also hurting small businesses like game makers. In this case, we're not talking video games, but the old-fashioned kind you play at your kitchen table.…
Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a $2 USB key
Sometimes, the size and complexity of modern OSes – even the FOSS ones – is enough to make us miss the days when an entire bootable OS could fit in three files, when configuring a PC for production meant editing two plain-text files, which contained maybe a dozen lines each. DOS couldn't do very much, but the little it did was enough. From the early 1980s for a decade or two, much of the world ran on DOS. Then Windows 3 came along, which is arguably the point where the rot set in.…
UK bans game controller exports to Russia in bid to ground drone attacks
The British government is banning the export of video game controllers to Russia, claiming these can be repurposed for piloting drones on the frontline in Ukraine.…
AI-powered 20 foot robots coming for construction workers' jobs
Rise of the machines Construction workers could soon find themselves laboring alongside 20-foot (6 meter) tall AI-powered autonomous robots capable of welding, carpentry, and 3D printing buildings. What could possibly go wrong?…
Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed
Opinion Just when it seems they couldn't be that careless, US officials tasked with defending the nation go and do something else that puts American critical infrastructure, national security, and troops' lives in danger.…
Amid CVE funding fumble, 'we were mushrooms, kept in the dark,' says board member
Kent Landfield, a founding member of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and member of the board, learned through social media that the system he helped create was just hours away from losing funding.…
More Ivanti attacks may be on horizon, say experts who are seeing 9x surge in endpoint scans
Ivanti VPN users should stay alert as IP scanning for the vendor's Connect Secure and Pulse Secure systems surged by 800 percent last week, according to threat intel biz GreyNoise.…
Oh, cool. Microsoft melts bug that froze Server 2025 Remote Desktop sessions
More than one month after complaints starting flying, Microsoft has fixed a Windows bug that caused some Remote Desktop sessions to freeze.…
Hydrotreated vegetable oil is not an emission-free swap for diesel in datacenters
Datacenter operators are being encouraged to adopt hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as a replacement for diesel in generators, however, analysts say the sustainable stand-in is not emission-free and has its own drawbacks.…
M&S stops online orders as 'cyber incident' issues worsen
Marks & Spencer has paused online orders for customers via its website and app as the UK retailer continues to wrestle with an ongoing "cyber incident."…
Emergency patch for potential SAP zero-day that could grant full system control
SAP's latest out-of-band patch is for a perfect 10/10 bug in NetWeaver that experts suspect could have already been exploited as a zero-day.…
Hubble Space Telescope is still producing science at 35
It was 35 years ago when the Hubble Space Telescope deployed into orbit, sent by a space agency facing an existential crisis. Thirty-five years on, not much seems to have changed.…
Google admits depreciation costs are soaring amid furious bit barn build
Google says the mega capital splurge on datacenters in recent years is putting more strain on its balance sheet due to rising depreciation costs, yet it still plans to splash $75 billion on bit barns in 2025.…
Virgin Atlantic is piloting an OpenAI agent in to help with the 'customer journey'
Interview For all the talk of the "agentic era" from AI vendors like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and just about everyone else in the space, corporate use of the technology is still tentative. Virgin Atlantic has been conducting flight tests of its website with an AI agent called Operator, and early results are promising, pointing the way toward how agents might actually be used to help customers book flights.…
Europe fires up beefier booster for Ariane 6 and Vega-C
A qualification version of the P160C solid-fuel motor was successfully tested at the European Spaceport in French Guiana on April 24, paving the way for heftier payloads on the Ariane 6 and Vega rockets.…