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Think tank warns China's polysilicon subsidies are frying Western fabs
China is moving to dominate the global market for polysilicon, a key material used in chips, by flooding the industry with cheap, subsidised product to drive producers in other countries out of business.…
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen
The US House Appropriations Committee has approved a bill that would maintain NASA's budget at the same level as last year. However, lawmakers missed an opportunity to strike out the proposed $85 million relocation of a space vehicle to Houston.…
I'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel version
The next kernel will have no new bcachefs code – and the openSUSE versions that use that kernel are going further still.…
Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services
The UK's Ministry of Defence has signed a £400 million ($540 million) contract with Google sovereign cloud to support security and analytics workloads.…
EU regulators let Microsoft off the hook after Teams unbundling pledge
The EU has signed off on Microsoft's concessions over Teams bundling, letting Redmond dodge a monster antitrust fine in a deal that will barely rock the boat for anyone.…
Privacy activists warn digital ID won’t stop small boats – but will enable mass surveillance
A national digital ID could hand the government the tools for population-wide surveillance – and if history is anything to go by, ministers probably couldn't run it without cocking it up.…
Hack to school: Parents told to keep their little script kiddies in line
The UK's data protection watchdog says more than half of cyberattacks in schools are caused by students, and that parents should act early to prevent their offspring from falling into the wrong crowds.…
Terminators: AI-driven robot war machines on the march
Opinion I've read military science fiction since I was a kid. Besides the likes of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, and David Drake's Hammer's Slammers books, where people held the lead roles, I read novels such as Keith Laumer's Bolo series and Fred Saberhagen's Berserker space opera sf series, where machines are the protagonists and enemies. Even if you've never read war science fiction, you certainly at least know about Terminators. But what was once science fiction is now reality on the Ukrainian battlefields. It won't stop there.…