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Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse
Nearly all images from some space telescopes in low Earth orbit could be affected by light from man-made satellites as the number of communication spacecraft surges, new research led by NASA has found.…
Microsoft sharpens the blocking axe for Exchange Web Services
Microsoft is getting serious about the end of Exchange Web Services (EWS) and has announced that, starting in March 2026, it will begin blocking EWS access to mailboxes without license rights.…
HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware
HPE is laying out its enterprise stall with enhancements to its GreenLake hybrid cloud portfolio, while converging its Aruba and Juniper networking to offer customers AIOps across both, plus high-speed connectivity for AI processing.…
ISS hits rare full house as all eight docking ports ocupado
NASA confirmed this week that for the first time, all eight of the International Space Station's docking ports are currently occupied – four by Russian vehicles.…
Windows 11 still barely pulling ahead of 10 despite end-of-support push
Windows 11 has not significantly widened its market share lead over Windows 10, despite support for many versions of the latter ending almost two months ago.…
Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report
Pension scheme members are facing a string of errors and malfunctions as they try to log into and retrieve account details from the UK's civil service portal the government is paying Capita £239 million ($318 million) to build and run.…
Pat Gelsinger's EUV lithography gig gets $150M wink from Uncle Sam
The US Department of Commerce has signed a preliminary letter of intent to provide up to $150 million to xLight, a Palo Alto-based startup led by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, that is working on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.…
Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS
The last new kernel release of 2025 is here, and it's looking likely this will be the new LTS kernel release.…
Here’s your worst nightmare: E-tailer can only resume partial sales 45 days after ransomware attack
Japanese e-tailer Askul has resumed online sales, 45 days after a ransomware attack.…
China using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroad
China has embraced AI to help it censor and surveil its citizens and is exporting its techniques to the world, according to a new report by think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).…
Indian government reveals GPS spoofing at eight major airports
India’s Civil Aviation Minister has revealed that local authorities have detected GPS spoofing and jamming at eight major airports.…
Amazon is forging a walled garden for enterprise AI
Re:Invent Amazon wants to make AI meaningful to enterprises, and it’s building yet another walled garden disguised as an easy button to do it.…
AWS offers AI-in-a-box for enterprise datacenters
re:invent Many businesses and government agencies require that all sensitive data stay on-premises for legal or security reasons. If those orgs want to work with AI, they can't rely on regular public clouds, but now they can let AWS build and manage AI hardware and software in their datacenters.…
AWS admits AI coding tools cause problems, reckons its three new agents fix 'em
Re:Invent Amazon is all-in on agentic AI when it comes to software development, and it sincerely hopes you are too, based on Tuesday's AWS re:Invent keynote. …
Two Android 0-day bugs disclosed and fixed, plus 105 more to patch
Two high-severity Android bugs were exploited as zero-days before Google issued a fix, according to its December Android security bulletin. …
NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece
US President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, is "committed to move the Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston," according to the office of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX).…
University of Pennsylvania joins list of victims from Clop's Oracle EBS raid
The University of Pennsylvania has become the latest victim of Clop's smash-and-grab spree against Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) customers, with the Ivy League school now warning more than a thousand individuals that their personal data was siphoned from its systems.…
Microsoft mops up Mesh after another metaverse misfire
As of December 1, mixed reality collaboration platform Microsoft Mesh is no more, and Redmond has directed customers to immersive events in Teams.…
HPE backs AMD's Helios AI rack with Juniper's scale-up switch
HPE is throwing its weight behind AMD's Helios rack-scale architecture and will offer this as part of its AI portfolio next year, including a purpose-built Juniper Networks scale-up switch.…
Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another
Apple's failure to deliver advanced AI capabilities has triggered a changing of the guard. AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down in favor of a new leader to steady the Siri ship.…