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FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the nod to the Loss of Pulse Detection feature of the Pixel Watch 3.…
Trump tariffs forcing rethink of PC purchases stateside
President Trump's tariffs on goods imported from China, in addition to faltering consumer purchases, are forecast to result in slower-than-expected global shipments of personal computers, according to IDC.…
Nope. You probably can't cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter
APRICOT 2025 Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but if you own real estate and think you can cash in by using it to host an AI datacenter, you're probably wrong.…
30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months
A state-owned company that handles £4.5 billion ($5.7 billion) annual spending on behalf of the NHS has suffered 35 high-priority computer system alerts in 2024, leading to delays in shipping thousands of products to UK hospitals.…
Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl
APRICOT 2025 The networking industry should address its perennial staff shortage by giving early-career techies the kind of hands-on training delivered during apprenticeships for trainee carpenters or electricians.…
How mega city council's failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed its financial controls
"Huge. There could be major problems transacting leading to late payment or collection of debt. The accounts could be wrong."…
FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license
At some point in the months ahead, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will consider an effort to reverse a California federal district court's decision in Neo4j v. PureThink.…
Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI's GPT-4o
Computer scientists have found that fine-tuning notionally safe large language models to do one thing badly can negatively impact the AI’s output across a range of topics.…
Cash torrent pouring into Nvidia slows – despite booming Blackwell adoption
Nvidia's astounding recent growth leveled off in the fourth quarter of its 2025 fiscal year, the 12 months to January 26, but the GPU titan is still producing enviable numbers.…
FAA confirms it's testing Starlink, maybe for tasks Elon says Verizon is doing badly
The FAA has confirmed it's trying out three SpaceX Starlink broadband terminals in the United States.…
Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China's Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time
Smart folks investigating a memory-dumping vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China (GFW) finally released their findings after probing it for years.…
With millions upon millions of victims, scale of unstoppable info-stealer malware laid bare
A tip-off from a government agency has resulted in 284 million unique email addresses and plenty of passwords snarfed by credential-stealing malware being added to privacy-breach-notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).…
Bybit declares war on North Korea's Lazarus crime-ring to regain $1.5B stolen from wallet
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, just days after suspected North Korean operatives stole $1.5 billion in Ethereum from it, has launched a bounty program to help recover its funds.…
100-plus spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talk
More than 100 US spies have been fired, and their security clearance revoked, after an internal NSA messaging system was used by staff to chat about their sex lives instead of intelligence and security.…
Like a kid handing in homework at the last minute, Supermicro finally files its missing financial figures
It only took five or so months, but Supermicro has managed to untangle its long-delayed 2024 annual report, which was in a shoddy enough state to set its previous accountants running for the hills and put the server maker at risk of being delisted from the NASDAQ again.…
Yes, Slack isn't working properly right now – enjoy your internet snow day
It's not just you. Slack is indeed having a wobbly day, leaving people unable to message each other as usual.…
Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kit using its chips (YMMV)
It seems manufacturers are finally getting the message that people want to use their kit for longer without security issues, as Qualcomm has said it'll provide Android software updates, including vulnerability fixes, for its latest chipsets for eight years instead of four.…
Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you...
Arm predicts AI inferencing will soon be ubiquitous. In order to give devices the oomph they need for all that neural-network processing, it is beefing up its embedded platform with the first 64-bit Armv9 CPU core aimed at edge workloads.…
Windows 11 24H2 goes back to the drawing board over AutoCAD 2022 glitch
Microsoft has thrown up another safeguard hold for Windows 11 24H2. This time, it's problems with AutoCAD 2022 that are to blame.…
Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts
Workday has confirmed that AI did indeed cost the job of colleagues that are leaving the organization following a restructuring plan cooked up by executive head chef Carl Eschenbach. How so? The money the org expects to save will be ploughed into its Agent System of Record platform.…