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Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters
Lenovo says that traditional datacenters are not fit for purpose, and must evolve to future-proof businesses across EMEA. This is based on research, but the PC and server biz has come up with some wacky possible designs, including one that is almost literally in the clouds.…
Vibe coding named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant
Vibe coding has broken free of tech circles to claim Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year 2025 — a choice that may prompt developers to ask: what could possibly go wrong?…
Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet
Ready to have your agent talk to my agent and arrange a sale? Microsoft has published a simulated marketplace to put AI agents through their paces and answer a question for the new age: Would you trust AI with your credit card?…
You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will
123456. admin. password. For years, the IT world has been reminding users not to rely on such predictable passwords. And yet here we are with another study finding that those sorts of quickly-guessable, universally-held-to-be-bad passwords are still the most popular ones.…
Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence
Microsoft has officially confirmed that Configuration Manager will transition to an annual release cadence, with Intune as the primary focus for innovation.…
SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach
SonicWall has blamed an unnamed, state-sponsored collective for the September break-in that saw cybercriminals rifle through a cache of firewall configuration backups.…
Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge
Colt Data Centre Services has secured approval to invest £2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) in three hyperscale data centers at its Hayes Digital Park campus in west London.…
Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei's Slack
Japanese media behemoth Nikkei has admitted to a data breach after miscreants slipped into its internal Slack workspace, exposing the personal details of more than 17,000 employees and business partners.…
Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us
Cloud vendors’ commercial models poorly serve scientists, forcing them to struggle for value amid tightening budgets, according to research.…
UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn
The UK's House of Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee has published a scathing report, "The Space Economy: Act Now or Lose Out," declaring that the 2021 National Space Strategy has "failed to turn its ambitions into reality."…
China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
China has matched the European Space Agency’s feat of taking a snapshot of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from a Mars orbiter.…
Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever
Qualcomm and Arm have offered differing predictions regarding the market for inferencing silicon.…
Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit
Microsoft Australia has apologized to users of its M365 suite after regulators accused it of steering them towards pricey bundles that include its Copilot AI service.…
Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks
AI search provider Perplexity's research wing has developed a new set of software optimizations that allows for trillion parameter or large models to run efficiently across older, cheaper hardware using a variety of existing network technologies, including Amazon's proprietary Elastic Fabric Adapter.…
Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'
Microsoft has warned of a “thermal event” impacting Azure users in its West Europe region, and perhaps elsewhere.…
Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees'
AI models are filled to the brim with bias, whether that's showing you a certain race of person when you ask for a pic of a criminal or assuming that a woman can't possibly be involved in a particular career when you ask for a firefighter. To deal with these issues, Sony AI has released a new dataset for testing the fairness of computer vision models, one that its makers claim was compiled in a fair and ethical way.…
Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer
hands on Normally, when you install an application in Windows, it comes either from a direct download or as a single choice from the Microsoft Store. But what if you could install several different apps at the same time by creating a custom group?…
Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M
Who needs a drone when you can fly a Black Hawk from a tablet? DARPA's $6 million award to Sikorsky paid off when a National Guard soldier, trained in under an hour, used a handheld tablet to command an optionally piloted Black Hawk through multiple autonomous missions. …
Google's $32B deal for Wiz gets the all-clear from Uncle Sam
Google's second attempt to acquire cloud security firm Wiz is going a lot better than the first, with the Department of Justice clearing the $32 billion deal, which ranks as Google's largest-ever acquisition.…
Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers
America's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive up to $125 million through 2030 to develop hybrid computing systems that link quantum and supercomputing technologies.…