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Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank
One of the world's largest sperm banks, California Cryobank, is in a sticky situation.…
EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list
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).…
IBM scores perfect 10 ... vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX
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.…
VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway
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.…
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament
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.…
Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful
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.…
Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry
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.…
Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware
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.…
Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense
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.…
Ex-US Cyber Command chief: Europe and 5 Eyes can't fully replicate US intel
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.…
Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects
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.…
'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost
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.…
Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech
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.…
Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust
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.…