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The global semiconductor market is recovering, albeit at a slower pace than in previous cycles due to macroeconomic dynamics and ongoing uncertainty caused by US trade policy and tariffs, according to Texas Instruments.…

AlmaLinux is to support the Btrfs file system in version 10.1 of its eponymous RHELative operating system.…

Microsoft will kill Office Online Server next year, creating a headache for anyone using on-premises Office web applications and the beleaguered holdouts sticking with Skype for Business Server.…

AI-driven datacenter energy needs are causing a shortage of gas turbines to power generators, with some operators reportedly turning to old aircraft engines instead.…

Gene editing startup Metagenomi has tapped AWS's Inferentia 2 accelerators to speed the discovery of potentially life-saving therapies, and said its efforts cost 56 percent less than it would have incurred using Nvidia GPUs.…

The UK's competition watchdog has officially slapped Apple and Google with "strategic market status," a new legal label that gives the regulator far-reaching powers to rein in how the tech giants run their empires.…

A vulnerability in the popular Rust crate async-tar has affected the fast uv Python package manager, which uses a forked version that's now patched – but the most widely downloaded version remains unfixed.…

A new Linux kernel patch lets you cancel the process of your machine going into hibernation, but the bigger context of the work may be more important.…

Months after saying job cuts at Microsoft weighed on him, bossman Satya Nadella has another problem: how to expend his swelling bank balance following another bumper pay rise.…

The Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) cyberattack could end up being the costliest such incident in UK history, billed at an estimated £1.9 billion and affecting over 5,000 organizations.…

China's CR450 train hit 453 km/h during pre-service trials, surpassing its CR400 predecessor's 420 km/h and outpacing Deutsche Bahn's 405 km/h test record.…

Royal Navy helicopters will soon carry drone-busting lightweight Martlet missiles, now declared fully operational following the anti-ship Sea Venom gaining initial operating capability (IOC) earlier this month.…

Automated database systems based on vector embedding algorithms could improve the performance of default settings on common PostgreSQL database services by a factor of two to ten, according to a database researcher.…

The UK's data protection regulator declined to launch an investigation into a leak at the Ministry of Defence that risked the lives of thousands of Afghans connected with the British Armed Forces.…

Google has revealed it’s ported around 30,000 of its production packages to the Arm architecture and plans to convert them all so it can run workloads on both its own Axion silicon and x86 processors.…

In a bid to grab even more eyeballs, OpenAI has finally released Atlas, its long-teased, ChatGPT-powered web browser. Surfing the web may never be the same now that a bot is doing it for you – while training itself at the same time.…

A Maryland woman who allegedly used AI to fake a home invasion was arrested and charged with making false statements after telling police that the ersatz intruder was part of a prank gone wrong.…

AI services like OpenAI's ChatGPT have been pitched for potential productivity gains, but their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.…

A security flaw in the Oat++ implementation of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows attackers to predict or capture session IDs from active AI conversations, hijack MCP sessions, and inject malicious responses via the oatpp-mcp server.…

When Amazon's cloud face-planted on Monday, it didn't just take down some of the world's most popular apps – it took down dignity, comfort, and the occasional cat toilet.…