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Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank

Wed, 2025-03-19 20:56
Cyber-crime is officially getting out of hand

One of the world's largest sperm banks, California Cryobank, is in a sticky situation.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list

Wed, 2025-03-19 20:11
Chrome colossus accused of tilting search results, blocking cheaper purchases, while iTitan told to open iOS

A year after kicking off its probe into three American tech giants, the European Union has fired off two sets of preliminary findings accusing Google parent Alphabet of failing to comply with Europe's monopoly-busting Digital Markets Act (DMA).…

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IBM scores perfect 10 ... vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX

Wed, 2025-03-19 18:58
Big Blue's workstation workhorse patches hole in network installation manager that could let the bad guys in

IBM "strongly recommends" customers running its Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) operating system apply patches after disclosing two critical vulnerabilities, one of which has a perfect 10 severity score.…

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VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway

Wed, 2025-03-19 18:03
How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then?

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.…

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Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament

Wed, 2025-03-19 17:02
Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue'

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.…

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Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful

Wed, 2025-03-19 16:01
Qubit awkward, you might say

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.…

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Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry

Wed, 2025-03-19 15:15
Tech channel increases stockpiling amid 'volatile trade policies.' CIOs to get fewer devices for same money

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.…

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Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware

Wed, 2025-03-19 14:27
Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work

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.…

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Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense

Wed, 2025-03-19 13:47
Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line

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.…

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Ex-US Cyber Command chief: Europe and 5 Eyes can't fully replicate US intel

Wed, 2025-03-19 13:01
Cue deepening existential European dread as Rest of World contemplates Trump turning off the info tap

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.…

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Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects

Wed, 2025-03-19 12:16
Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL

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.…

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'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost

Wed, 2025-03-19 11:31
Services still down and out, but techies working for local government saved the day

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.…

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Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech

Wed, 2025-03-19 11:07
Because guesswork won't keep the lights on

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.…

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Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust

Wed, 2025-03-19 10:27
It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel

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.…

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