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Huawei founder says USA overestimates its semiconductor prowess

Tue, 2025-06-10 07:31
Ren Zhengfei says his company is a generation behind, but he knows Huawei to catch up

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has said the USA overestimates his company’s semiconductor design prowess, which is at least a generation behind rival chipmakers.…

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Apple tries to contain itself with lightweight Linux VMs for macOS

Tue, 2025-06-10 06:36
Swift-based containerization framework aims to improve performance and security

Apple on Monday unveiled an open source containerization framework for creating and running Linux container images on the Mac.…

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China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support

Tue, 2025-06-10 03:15
Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has ordered extensive trials of intelligent aged care robots.…

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Apple goes glass whole as it pours new UI everywhere

Mon, 2025-06-09 21:55
Annual infomercial spruiks visual change, modest functional enhancements, and a movie

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday opened the company's annual developer conference by talking up a forthcoming racing film called “F1”.…

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ICANN waves hands in protest at AFRINIC election arrangement

Mon, 2025-06-09 21:27
Worries lawyers overseeing poll may have disqualifying entanglements

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has called for changes to the roster of officials appointed to oversee the forthcoming election at the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC), the latest twist in a conflict that stretches back years and has left the African regional internet registry in limbo.…

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As AI gallops through the federal workforce, lawmakers once again call for expanded training

Mon, 2025-06-09 21:06
The last effort never went anywhere

AI is here to stay, so representatives Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Shontel Brown (D-OH) have introduced a bill to ensure more US federal government employees are properly trained to use it.…

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Omni-Path is back on the AI and HPC menu in a new challenge to Nvidia's InfiniBand

Mon, 2025-06-09 20:27
After a five-year hiatus, Cornelis' interconnect returns at 400Gbps, with Ethernet support next

Five years after Intel spun off its Omni-Path interconnect tech into Cornelis Networks, its 400Gbps CN5000 line of switches and NICs is finally ready to do battle with its long-time rival, Nvidia's InfiniBand.…

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Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame

Mon, 2025-06-09 20:02
Services locked down in America's second-largest city

Video Five Waymo robotaxis were torched on Sunday during protests against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's efforts to detain and deport suspected undocumented immigrants.…

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1.5 TB of James Webb Space Telescope data just hit the internet

Mon, 2025-06-09 19:29
Online catalog gives open science access to data from early universe

A NASA-backed project using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released more than 1.5 TB of data for open science, offering the largest view deep into the universe available to date.…

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Apple AI boffins puncture AGI hype as reasoning models flail on complex planning

Mon, 2025-06-09 17:47
AI 'thinking' may just be an illusion

If you are betting on AGI – artificial general intelligence, the point at which AI models rival human cognition – showing up next year, you may want to adjust your timeline.…

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Let them eat junk food: Major organic supplier to Whole Foods, Walmart, hit by cyberattack

Mon, 2025-06-09 17:19
United Natural Foods shut down some of its systems on June 5 after spotting network intruders

North American grocery wholesaler United Natural Foods told regulators that a cyber incident temporarily disrupted operations, including its ability to fulfill customer orders.…

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Unemployment is spiking for US IT pros - unless you want to babysit bots

Mon, 2025-06-09 16:40
Economic uncertainty and the race to AI are pillaging the IT job market

The IT job market in the US is being hit from two sides at once: Companies are grappling with fears of a recession stemming from the Trump administration's erratic tariff policy, while AI is increasingly mopping up entry-level jobs.…

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UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy

Mon, 2025-06-09 16:15
Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI'

Britain's beefiest supercomputer, Isambard-AI, is set to become fully operational this summer, as the government steps up its strategy to push AI everywhere as a driver for economic recovery.…

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US lawmakers fire back a response to Trump's NASA cuts

Mon, 2025-06-09 15:32
Big expensive Moon rockets = good. Science = yeah, whatever

While US President Donald Trump and his former best pal, Elon Musk, were having a very public spat, the US Senate fired back with its response to NASA's proposed budget cuts. Big rockets = good. Science = still bad.…

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Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO

Mon, 2025-06-09 14:28
Christian Klein sees little benefit from trying to compete with the dominant hyperscalers

The leader of Europe's most valuable company says there is no point in the continent building datacenters to try to compete with US cloud hyperscalers which have already invested in the region.…

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Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds

Mon, 2025-06-09 13:26
If gamers can have a slimline version of the OS, why not IT admins?

Microsoft just demonstrated it can put Windows 11 on a diet if it really wants to, with the announcement of PC gaming handhelds running a slimmed-down version of the operating system under the hood.…

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Floppy disks and paper strips lurk behind US air traffic control

Mon, 2025-06-09 12:43
Not to worry nervous flyers, FAA vows to banish archaic systems... in a few years

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed that the US air traffic control system still runs on somewhat antiquated bits of technology, including floppy disks and paper strips.…

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Alphawave Semi swallowed in Qualcomm's $2.4B connectivity conquest

Mon, 2025-06-09 11:45
Another tech biz to be Yanked from London Stock Exchange

Qualcomm has bid $2.4 billion to buy connectivity specialist Alphawave Semi. If approved it will see yet another London Stock Exchange-listed tech biz put under the control of an overseas owner.…

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Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done

Mon, 2025-06-09 10:34
Big tech can't be bothered to fight crime. It can barely be bothered even to say so

Opinion A lot of our tech world is nightmarish, but sometimes this is literally true.…

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Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs

Mon, 2025-06-09 10:01
SentinelOne discovered the campaign when they tried to hit the security vendor's own servers

An IT services company, a European media group, and a South Asian government entity are among the more than 75 companies where China-linked groups have planted malware to access strategic networks should a conflict break out.…

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