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Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed
NASA senior staff are being offered the opportunity to leave voluntarily before the axes start swinging, and it seems likely that thousands will take the escape hatch.…
Ex-ASML engineer who stole chip tech for Russia gets three years in Dutch prison
A former ASML and NXP semiconductor engineer will spend three years in a Dutch prison after stealing secret chip technology from his employers and sharing it with Russia.…
IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center
IBM, which employees say stands for "I've Been Moved" due to frequent relocation directives, is moving research scientists from its Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, to its Silicon Valley Lab a few miles east.…
EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law
The EU has a new set of AI regulations poised to take effect soon. While debate over them continues, Brussels has put out a handy guidebook to help companies make sense of what they can and cannot do. …
Slow down on building power plants for all those new AI datacenters, report warns
Datacenters are slurping ever more energy to meet the growing demands of AI, but some estimates of future demand imply an increase in hardware that would be beyond the capacity of global chipmakers to supply, according to an environmental nonprofit.…
Please don't cut funds for space traffic control, industry begs Congress
Space industry bigwigs have sent letters to Congressional leaders urging them not to eliminate funding for preventing space collisions, as requested in a budget proposal for FY 2026. …
Red Hat sweetens the RHEL deal for biz devs – just don't put it in prod
IBM's Linux subsidiary is offering a new way to get RHEL without paying, now with up to 25 instances.…
Firebase Studio's new Agent Mode wants to code so you don't have to
Google today unveiled updates to Firebase Studio at its Cloud Summit event in London, adding Gemini command-line interface (CLI) integration, initial Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, and "Agent Mode."…
Russia, hotbed of cybercrime, says nyet to ethical hacking bill
Russia, home to some of the world's most lucrative and damaging cybercrime operations, has rejected a bill to legalize ethical hacking.…
Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax
Tariff uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump still hangs over the PC industry despite manufacturers navigating a "complex regulatory maze" to avoid being in the firing line over import taxes when the shooting begins.…
Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion
Microsoft intends to more than double its European datacenter capacity by 2027, but suspects this won't be easy because of all the red tape and environmental safeguards it faces.…
Former reality TV star appointed NASA Interim Administrator
NASA has a new interim Administrator. US President Donald Trump has announced that former reality TV star and current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be taking on the role.…
NCA arrests four in connection with UK retail ransomware attacks
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four individuals suspected of being involved with the big three cyberattacks on UK retail businesses in recent weeks.…
Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud keeps AI data in UK, but not the support
Google Cloud is attempting to ease concerns about where AI data is stored by offering organizations the option to keep Gemini 2.5 Flash machine learning processing entirely within the UK.…
Outlook takes another sick day – Microsoft says it'll get better soon, promise
Microsoft Outlook is down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the past 11 hours.…
Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform
The benefits of the UK health sector's Palantir-powered data and analytics system are being suppressed by the limits of writing back to NHS software, MPs heard this week.…
At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto
Using AI models to generate exploits for cryptocurrency contract flaws appears to be a promising business model, though not necessarily a legal one.…
Swiss boffins just trained a 'fully open' LLM on the Alps supercomputer
Supercomputers are usually associated with scientific exploration, research, and development, and ensuring our nuclear stockpiles actually work. …
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds
Researchers from New Zealand will try to revive extinct birds, with help from Colossal Biosciences and film-maker Sir Peter Jackson.…
Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well
China’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according to a professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education.…