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VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway
Elon Musk's DOGE promoted the decision to terminate a deal with service-disabled veterans supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs 10 days before the contract was set to expire anyway.…
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament
Not content to wait for open letters to influence the European Commission, Dutch parliamentarians have taken matters into their own hands by passing eight motions urging the government to ditch US-made tech for homegrown alternatives.…
Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful
GTC Nvidia is investing in a research center to advance quantum computing development, just weeks after its head honcho torpedoed the share price of quantum firms by declaring the tech is decades away from being useful.…
Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry
Comment US President Donald Trump's "volatile trade policies" are creating uncertainty among suppliers of computers and among biz customers looking to use budgets wisely amid a game of on-and-off Oval Office tariffs.…
Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware
The creators of the unique Chimera Linux distro are dropping support for RISC-V because kit built on the open instruction set architecture just isn't fast enough and this is holding up the development pipeline.…
Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense
Comment The Crew-9 mission has safely returned to Earth, marking the end of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's extended time in space and possibly NASA's bipartisan leanings.…
Ex-US Cyber Command chief: Europe and 5 Eyes can't fully replicate US intel
If the United States stopped sharing cyber-threat intel with Ukraine, its European allies and the rest of the Five Eyes nations wouldn't be able to provide all the info Uncle Sam collects, according to former chief of US Cyber Command and the NSA General Paul Nakasone.…
Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects
Analysis Despite ongoing construction efforts, the North American colocation datacenter market is grappling with record-high occupancy rates. This surge in demand, coupled with delays in new projects due to electricity shortages, has created a challenging environment for both developers and customers.…
'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost
Nottingham City Council continues to deal with the fallout from its freak IT outage from last week as it confirms in-house IT specialists managed to prevent any data from going missing.…
Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech
GTC Schneider Electric has developed a digital twin system to simulate how an AI datacenter operates in order to accurately design for the appropriate power requirements.…
Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust
Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in the version after next of Ubuntu, 25.10 – which also means changing the software license.…
Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year
The UK's third-largest grocery retailer is set to finish its "three-year" tech divorce project from Walmart in the third quarter of 2025, while most project staff have been moved on.…
Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them
Researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) tend to parrot buggy code when tasked with completing flawed snippets.…
Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways
Bioengineers have pulled together to get artificial muscles pulling in multiple directions, an important step towards using them in medical treatments and robots.…
Non-x86 servers boom even faster than the rest of the AI-infused and GPU-hungry market
Here’s another thing AI can do: Increase revenue from selling servers by 91 percent year-over year, according to analyst firm IDC.…
China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust
Chinese electric automaker BYD has announced 1,000-volt supercharging technology it claims can fill a compatible vehicle’s battery in the same amount of time needed to pump fuel into a conventional car.…
Trump fires Democratic FTC commissioners, presaging big tech policy shifts
Analysis In a surprise Tuesday move, US President Donald Trump fired the two remaining Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission, potentially accelerating a shift in the consumer and competition watchdog's stance towards tech and other businesses.…
Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks
GTC Nvidia's rack-scale compute architecture is about to get really hot.…
Yup, AI robo-authors don't qualify for copyright, says appeals court
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling that content created by an AI model without human input cannot be copyrighted.…
CISA fires, now rehires and immediately benches security crew on full pay
The upheaval at the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, took another twist on Tuesday, as it moved to reinstate staffers it had fired over the past few weeks - specifically those still in their probationary period - though they've been benched on paid leave for now.…