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Walmart's bet on AI depends on getting employees to use it
At Walmart, "everybody's using AI every day across the enterprise," according to David Glick, senior vice president of the retail behemoth's enterprise business services.…
Anti-DDoS outfit walloped by record packet flood
A DDoS mitigation provider was given a taste of the poison it tries to prevent, after being smacked by one of the largest packet-rate attacks ever recorded – a 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps) flood that briefly threatened to knock it off the internet.…
Nano11 cuts Windows 11 down to size, grabbing just 2.8 GB of disk space
How low can Windows 11 go? Storage-wise, it can take up less than 3 GB, as demonstrated by some impressive engineering from the same individual behind the Nano11 "diet" build.…
Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets
If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and Intel Coffee Lake processors by breaking virtualization boundaries.…
US tosses $134M pocket change at fusion pipe dream
America's Department of Energy (DOE) has earmarked $134 million in funding for two programs aimed at securing US leadership in emerging fusion technologies. The move comes amid renewed interest in nuclear power sparked by surging datacenter energy demands.…
Senator blasts Microsoft for 'dangerous, insecure software' that helped pwn US hospitals
Microsoft is back in the firing line after US Senator Ron Wyden accused Redmond of shipping "dangerous, insecure software" that helped cybercrooks cripple one of America's largest hospital networks.…
Neo4j cozies up to Microsoft as 'property sharding' promises to overcome scalability struggle
Neo4j has introduced "property sharding" which, according to one analyst, will help overcome its earlier struggles with scalability, while also allowing transactional workloads on the same system.…
Microsoft folds Sales, Service, Finance Copilots into 365
Microsoft is re-badging its Sales, Service, and Finance Copilots and slashing what it charges for them.…
Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors
Europe, long seen as a bastion of privacy and digital rights, will debate this week whether to enforce surveillance on citizens' devices.…
Attacker steals customer data from Brit rail operator LNER during break-in at supplier
One of the UK's largest rail operators, LNER, is the latest organization to spill user data via a third-party data breach.…