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Microsoft is opening Windows Update to third-party apps
Microsoft is previewing a Windows Update orchestration platform for app developers and management tool vendors, aiming to centralize update scheduling across Windows 11 devices.…
Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China
Over the past few years, Uncle Sam has made it progressively harder for US chip designers to flog their AI wares in China. But not impossible.…
Ex-CISA employee: 'This culture of fear started permeating the agency'
Interview It's hard to pinpoint exactly when the "culture of fear" began to permeate America's top cyber-defense agency.…
MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2
MIT boffins have built a prototype fuel cell using liquid sodium and air that could one day power aircraft, and may help capture carbon through its byproducts.…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results
Google co-founder Sergey Brin claims that threatening generative AI models produces better results.…
Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k +
LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) is the latest big-name organization to disclose a serious cyberattack leading to data theft, with the number of affected individuals pegged at 364,333.…
Arrival of Linux 6.15 hails end of 486-class CPUs
Over the holiday weekend, Linus Torvalds released the latest Linux kernel – signalling the end of the line for 486-class chips.…
DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS
With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers' analytics and machine learning tools to their data, which is often spread across different systems.…
Firefox 139 arrives for non-Chromium browser fans
Another month, another new version of Firefox, with several handy changes. The future is less certain, though.…
Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds
Amid the economic uncertainty of Trump 2.0, dependence on American tech has become a growing concern for many businesses, and a survey of 1,000 IT leaders claims that data sovereignty is now one of the most pressing issues.…
Russian IT pro sentenced to 14 years forced labor for sharing medical data with Ukraine
A Russian programmer will face the next 14 years in a "strict-regime" (high-security) penal colony after a regional court ruled he leaked sensitive data to Ukraine.…
AI models still not up to using radiology to diagnose what ails you
AI is not ready to make clinical diagnoses based on radiological scans, according to a new study.…
Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box
hands on If you're thinking about switching to Linux but there are a few Windows apps you just can't do without, you do have options… and some of them are free.…
Eviden unveils satellite monitoring tool, as Starlink asks UK for E band access
Satellites have evolved, thanks to SpaceX's Starlink and incomer AST SpaceMobile pumping out high-speed broadband and cellular services for everyday phones delivered from low Earth orbit (LEO) hardware.…
Unhappy with the cloud costs? You're not alone
There is growing dissatisfaction over cloud computing, according to Gartner, and much of this can be put down to unrealistic expectations or customers simply not implementing the tech properly.…
German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal
Germany’s Braunschweig Regional Court has reportedly sentenced four Volkswagen executives to jail over “Dieselgate” – the 2015 scandal in which the automaker was found to have fudged software used to test its vehicles’ pollution emissions.…
DragonForce double-whammy: First hit an MSP, then use RMM software to push ransomware
DragonForce ransomware infected a managed service provider, and its customers, after attackers exploited security flaws in remote monitoring and management tool SimpleHelp.…
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Last Starship Explosion’ counter to zero, again
SpaceX’s Starship has failed, again.…
ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it
Computex Analysts rate Taiwan’s ASUS the world’s fifth most prolific PC-maker, but the company wants to climb the charts by targeting business buyers, according to Shawn Chang, Head of Go-To-Market for the outfit’s Commercial Business Unit.…
Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool
A group of miscreants tracked as UNC6032 is exploiting interest in AI video generators by planting malicious ads on social media platforms to steal credentials, credit card details, and other sensitive info, according to Mandiant.…