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Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs
Japanese research institution RIKEN has decided it needs GPUs for its next generation “FugakuNEXT” supercomputer and has signed Nvidia to supply them and design the systems needed to get them working.…
Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back
Dwarf planet Ceres, the unpleasant lump of icy rock orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, once had an environment in which microbes might have thrived.…
Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank has decided not to fire 45 workers it planned to replace with an AI chatbot.…
DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon
Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an update to its flagship large language model that the company claims is already optimized for use with a new generation of homegrown silicon.…
Developer jailed for taking down employer's network with kill switch malware
A US court sentenced a former developer at power management biz Eaton to four years in prison after he installed malware on the company’s servers.…
Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason
Anthropic says it has scanned an undisclosed portion of conversations with its Claude AI model to catch concerning inquiries about nuclear weapons.…
Microsoft reportedly cuts China's early access to bug disclosures, PoC exploit code
Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month's SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be related to a leak in Redmond's early-bug-notification program.…
'Impersonation as a service' the next big thing in cybercrime
English speakers adept at social engineering are a hot commodity in the cybercrime job market.…
Honey, I shrunk the image and now I'm pwned
Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge for machine learning systems.…
Congressman proposes bringing back letters of marque for cyber privateers
It's been more than 200 years since the United States issued a letter of marque allowing privateers to attack the vessels of foreign nations, but those letters may return to empower cyber operators if a bill introduced in Congress actually manages to pass. …
Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal
It's now safe to say the gang's all here when it comes to big generative AI model makers signing dollar discount deals with Uncle Sam. Google has joined Anthropic and OpenAI, inking questionable short-term discount terms for government agencies. …
LibreOffice 25.8: Faster, leaner, and finally speaks PDF 2.0
LibreOffice 25.8 arrives with a tagline of "smarter, faster and more reliable." That all sounds good. So what's new?…
Transatlantic chip war fizzles as EU and US framework confirms 15% tariff cap
World War Fee The US and European Union have fleshed out details on their sweeping trade deal, promising billions in AI chip sales, a 15 percent tariff cap on key sectors including autos and semiconductors, and a framework for digital rule-making that could reshape the transatlantic tech industry.…
Google's $250 AI agent can only help you book restaurant reservations
The all-AI search mode Google introduced earlier this year has sprouted a one-trick AI agent – but only those willing to pay top dollar for the privilege.…
Microsoft continues Control Panel farewell tour
Microsoft has continued its efforts to nudge users toward the Windows Settings app from the venerable Control Panel, with language and time settings making the jump.…
Not again! Microsoft blames config tweak for 365 outage in parts of North America
Microsoft had a midweek meltdown on Wednesday as a chunk of its productivity suite fell out of the cloud.…
Orange Belgium mega-breach exposes 850K customers to serious fraud
A significant data theft at Orange Belgium has opened hundreds of thousands of its customers to serious cybersecurity risks.…
US cops wrap up RapperBot, one of world's biggest DDoS-for-hire rackets
RapperBot, a botnet-for-hire blamed for hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks, has been yanked offline by the Feds, who also hauled in its alleged Oregon-based mastermind.…
Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS
Apple has shipped emergency updates to fix an actively exploited zero-day in its ImageIO framework, warning that the flaw has already been abused in targeted attacks.…
Colt changes tune, admits data theft as Warlock gang begins auction
A week after its services were disrupted by a cyberattack, UK telco Colt Technology Services has gone back on its initial statement to confirm that data has indeed been stolen.…