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Microsoft kicks off new fiscal year with more layoffs

Wed, 2025-07-02 15:59
Reports of 9,000 staff cut

Microsoft's recent trend of wide-scale workforce reduction continues, with reports that Redmond is preparing to slash an additional 4 percent of its employees – or around 9,000 people.…

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'Elevated' moisture reading ignored before Heathrow-closing conflagration, says NESO

Wed, 2025-07-02 15:21
Datacenters kept humming along, but there's plenty of blame to be passed around elsewhere

The cause of a power outage that cut the juice to London Heathrow airport in March has been identified - along with a chain of failures that allowed it to happen.…

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Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle

Wed, 2025-07-02 14:26
NASA science might be cut, but cash can be found to move a 'space vehicle' from museum to museum

Lurking in the text contained within the One Big Beautiful Bill, which was passed by the US Senate yesterday, is an $85 million allocation for shifting a "space vehicle" to a new location, widely interpreted as a move of the retired Space Shuttle Discovery orbiter from Virginia to Houston.…

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Impact of Microsoft taking over Enterprise Account renewals starts to 'bite'

Wed, 2025-07-02 13:31
Cutting out middle man dents coffers of larger service providers, helps Redmond offset AI investments

The sweeping changes Microsoft is making to its licensing incentives for large service providers is taking hold.…

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US drops sanctions on second Russian bulletproof hosting vehicle this year

Wed, 2025-07-02 12:35
Aeza Group accused of assisting data bandits and BianLian ransomware crooks

The US Treasury has sanctioned Aeza Group, a Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) provider, and four of its cronies for enabling ransomware and other cybercriminal activity.…

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Microsoft's on-prem Exchange and Skype for Business Server go subscription-only

Wed, 2025-07-02 11:27
Are you sure you wouldn't rather run in our cloud?

Microsoft has made Subscription Editions (SE) of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server generally available, marking an end to year-numbered versions.…

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Coming to PostgreSQL: On-disk database encryption

Wed, 2025-07-02 10:32
Open source initiative aims to offer enterprise security feature without vendor lock-in

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a popular approach to encrypting data at the storage layer, beefing up database security. While PostgreSQL has steadily climbed in popularity – especially among professional developers – it has so far lacked this enterprise feature, at least in open source.…

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Cl0p cybercrime gang's data exfiltration tool found vulnerable to RCE attacks

Wed, 2025-07-02 09:38
Experts say they don't expect the MOVEit menace to do much about it

Security experts have uncovered a hole in Cl0p's data exfiltration tool that could potentially leave the cybercrime group vulnerable to attack.…

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UK eyes new laws as cable sabotage blurs line between war and peace

Wed, 2025-07-02 08:30
It might be time to update the Submarine Telegraph Act of 1885

Cyberattacks and undersea cable sabotage are blurring the line between war and peace and exposing holes in UK law, a government minister has warned lawmakers.…

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NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets

Wed, 2025-07-02 07:33
Mysterious ‘Alloy 30’ gets smaller when heated, which could help stabilize super-sensitive space telescopes

NASA is exploring the properties of a metal alloy that shrinks as it is heated, as boffins in its Astrophysics Division think it may be needed if the planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HBO) is to succeed.…

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Amazon's latest Graviton 4 EC2 instances pack dual 300Gbps NICs

Wed, 2025-07-02 06:28
And no, that's not a typo

Amazon Web Services has cooked up a new Graviton 4-powered instance tuned for network-intensive applications like cloud firewalls and load balancers.…

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Arista acquires VMware’s VeloCloud SD-WAN outfit from Broadcom

Wed, 2025-07-02 04:33
It's 2025 so even this networking deal is about AI, which is apparently about to change wide area networks

Broadcom has sold VeloCloud, the software-defined WAN business VMware acquired in 2017, to Arista.…

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Australian airline Qantas reveals data theft impacting six million customers

Wed, 2025-07-02 01:34
Frequent flyers’ info takes flight

Australian airline Qantas on Wednesday revealed it fell victim to a cyberattack that saw information describing six million customers stolen.…

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Figma files for an (A)IPO with prospectus that mentions AI 150+ times

Tue, 2025-07-01 23:44
Warns investors its codebase is harder to maintain as it bakes in brainboxes

Web design tools developer Figma on Tuesday filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to propose an initial public offering of company shares.…

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With OpenAI, there are no allegiances - just compute at all costs

Tue, 2025-07-01 22:32
Google's TPUs might not be on Altman's menu just yet, but he's never been all that picky about hardware

Analysis No longer bound to Microsoft's infrastructure, OpenAI is looking to expand its network of compute providers to the likes of Oracle, CoreWeave, and apparently even rival model builder Google.…

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Microsoft pulls plug on generous Azure credit program for startups

Tue, 2025-07-01 21:57
Up to $150K tier shelved, perks folded into two-track system

Microsoft has retired its program that granted incorporated AI startups with a validated business plan up to $150,000 in Azure credits and replaced it with a two-track system.…

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Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers

Tue, 2025-07-01 20:08
The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken down

ai-pocalypse Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers by default in a bid to become the internet's gatekeeper.…

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Microsoft admits to Intune forgetfulness

Tue, 2025-07-01 19:02
Customizations not saved with security baseline policy update

Microsoft Intune administrators may face a few days of stress after Redmond acknowledged a problem with security baseline customizations.…

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Senate decides free rein for AI companies isn't such a good thing

Tue, 2025-07-01 18:22
Trump's budget bill moves back to the House with some mods

It took a tie-breaking vote from the Vice President JD Vance to pass Trump's budget reconciliation bill through the Senate on Tuesday, but a controversial section that would have barred states from regulating AI was struck down in a much clearer fashion. …

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Chip design is a RISC-y business: Codasip puts itself up for sale

Tue, 2025-07-01 17:35
R&D teams are 'separable' says biz, which is open to offers for parts or the whole

European RISC-V biz Codasip has put itself up for sale, citing an expression of interest during a recent funding round, and is now openly touting for buyers.…

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