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IRS has lost one-quarter of its IT staff since Trump took office

Wed, 2025-07-23 16:45
The 2026 tax year ought to be fun

A quarter of the Internal Revenue Service's IT staff has departed since President Trump's workforce reduction efforts began earlier this year, and that has officials worried the 2026 tax season could be a mess.…

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VMware prevents some perpetual license holders from downloading patches

Wed, 2025-07-23 16:01
Despite pledging help for those who don’t sign for subs, Broadcom says validating their entitlements will delay support

Exclusive Some customers of Broadcom’s VMware business currently cannot access security patches, putting them at greater risk of attack.…

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Leading 3D printing site bans firearm files, but home gun makers have better options

Wed, 2025-07-23 15:14
Thingiverse ditches downloadable designs at the urging of Manhattan District Attorney, who wants more companies to do likewise

A leading 3D printing site has agreed to purge its library of downloadable gun designs at the urging of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. However, it's unlikely to slow the proliferation of 3D printed weapons, as many other sites offer downloadable gun designs and parts.…

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SAP warns of 'extended approvals' for spending in manufacturing, US public sector

Wed, 2025-07-23 14:29
Vendor sees 'slight deceleration' in cloud backlog as it offers mixed results

SAP is warning of uncertainty in global markets after reporting revenue of €9 billion ($10.55 billion) for caledar Q2, up 9 percent year-on-year.…

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$380M lawsuit claims intruder got Clorox's passwords from Cognizant simply by asking

Wed, 2025-07-23 13:45
Hand us the mind bleach, we want to flush our memories of attack

Clorox is suing its service desk provider, Cognizant, for $380 million in a California state court, alleging the IT support crew "enabled a cybercriminal to gain a foothold in Clorox's network" by handing over staffers' passwords to attackers after they simply requested them.…

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Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers

Wed, 2025-07-23 13:01
Total Recall: Capturing everything you do on your PC screen to become a 'true companion'

Microsoft is again throwing AI at Windows 11 to see what sticks, releasing features including the even more eyebrow-raising successor to its controversial Recall, a screen-streaming remotely processed backseat driver dubbed Copilot Vision.…

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US tariff terrors prompt Nokia profit drop, TI inventory binge

Wed, 2025-07-23 12:16
Uncertainty continues to knock tech industry confidence

More tariff turmoil emerged this week as Nokia slashed its profit guidance for the year due to looming US levies on imported goods, while Texas Instruments' shares took a beating over fears that growth seen in Q2 will fall away following customer stockpiling to avoid import duties.…

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Firefox 141 relieves chronic Linux pain in the neck

Wed, 2025-07-23 11:31
But there are tweaks for everyone – even if some are less welcome than others

Mozilla has delivered the latest version of its web browser, alleviating a long-standing irritation for Linux users… but making its "AI" integration even more pervasive.…

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NatWest banks on AWS and Accenture for AI-driven customer overhaul

Wed, 2025-07-23 10:55
Deal adds to a string of relationships based on improving data and analytics

NatWest Group has announced a five-year contract with AWS and Accenture intended to improve its analytics performance for customer data.…

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Building the Apollo Soyuz Test Project out of LEGO® bricks

Wed, 2025-07-23 10:00
In space, no one can hear you step on a plastic brick

The Lego bricks are being dusted off for a final time – at least for the Apollo program – to recreate the Apollo Soyuz Test Project via the medium of the plaything.…

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Musk is messing with the Cosmic Dawn. Will alien hunters save the day for all mankind?

Wed, 2025-07-23 09:14
Science friction at the far end of time for SpaceX and astronomy

Opinion Elon Musk's Starlink flying circus is many things. It's a multi-thousand satellite global internet provider, growing by hundreds of new orbiting relays a month. It's part of intricate geopolitical power games between the Pentagon, the US government, Ukraine, and Musk himself.…

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Sh!t happens, so Microsoft is paying biz to flush its carbon sins underground

Wed, 2025-07-23 08:30
Organic waste to be pumped out of sight as part of 4.9M-tonne CO2 removal deal

Microsoft has signed a contract with a company that will pump shit underground for it in exchange for carbon credits.…

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COVID-19 pandemic accelerated brain aging – even if you didn’t catch the virus

Wed, 2025-07-23 07:25
Boffins think worry and stress during the plague years changed our wetware, and that the damage can be reversed

A longitudinal study of nearly 996 healthy adults found that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated ageing of their brains.…

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Stop flooding us with AI-based grant applications, begs Health Institute

Wed, 2025-07-23 06:32
Already reeling from staff cuts, the health agency is choking on slop

ai-pocalypse Amid expectations that the Trump administration will introduce an AI Action Plan on Wednesday to boost the use of AI in government, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are pleading for less of it.…

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And now for our annual ‘Tape is <i>still</i> not dead’ update

Wed, 2025-07-23 04:58
176.5 Exabytes of the stuff shipped in 2024, another double-digit jump

Shipments of tape storage media increased again in 2024, according to HPE, IBM, and Quantum – the three companies that back the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Format.…

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China warns citizens to beware backdoored devices, on land and under the sea

Wed, 2025-07-23 03:08
Suggests buying local tech to avoid infosec worries

China’s Ministry of State Security has spent the week warning of backdoored devices on land and at sea.…

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OpenAI sweet-talks Oracle into another 4.5GW worth of Stargate datacenters, assuming the check clears

Tue, 2025-07-22 23:36
Who's picking up the tab again?

AI hype man and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has convinced his buddies at Oracle to bring an additional 4.5 gigawatts of datacenter capacity online in the US as part of the startup's Stargate initiative.…

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One in six US workers pretends to use AI to please the bosses

Tue, 2025-07-22 22:49
AI-nxiety is real, and it's causing some bizarre behavior

ai-pocalypse If you're one of those people who pretend to use AI at work, then worry not: there are likely another 15 of you per hundred employees in your company. That's the finding of a survey from nearshoring tech recruitment company Howdy.com.…

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Biden broadband benchmarks are BS, says Trump FCC

Tue, 2025-07-22 21:35
No more consideration of affordability or 1 Gbps speed goal if Chairman Carr gets his way

The next edition of the Federal Communications Commission's broadband expansion progress report is going to paint a rosier reality than usual, if a proposal being put to a vote at next month's meeting gets a pass. …

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Funding for program to stop next Stuxnet from hitting US expired Sunday

Tue, 2025-07-22 21:06
CyberSentry work grinds to a halt

Government funding for a program that hunts for threats on America's critical infrastructure networks expired on Sunday, preventing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from analyzing activity that could indicate a cyberattack, the program director told Congress on Tuesday.…

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