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AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

Wed, 2025-07-09 17:17
Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly

AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead to information disclosure.…

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Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO

Wed, 2025-07-09 17:01
Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn

US Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer has a blunt message for AI hype-chasers: Shiny-object syndrome too often drives teams to leap into AI without defining a clear use case or vetting their data, leaving them to wonder why it doesn't work.…

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Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

Wed, 2025-07-09 16:21
Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of 'AI' companies

Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying to feed their hungry LLM bots.…

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Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip

Wed, 2025-07-09 15:18
Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 silicon

Euro chip designer SiPearl has finally taped out its Rhea1 processor destined for Jupiter, the first European exascale supercomputer, just as its Series A financing round ends with an injection of cash from a new investor.…

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Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate

Wed, 2025-07-09 13:23
But Chocolate Factory love-in sorely lacks detail

The UK government has signed a pact with Google Cloud to "upskill" as many as 100,000 civil servants in the latest tech by 2030.…

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Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant

Wed, 2025-07-09 13:15
No word on who pressed the 'MechaHitler' button

xAI is scrambling to contain the fallout after its Grok chatbot went – and there is no other way of putting this – full Nazi in its X (formerly Twitter) posts.…

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Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions

Wed, 2025-07-09 12:15
Version 140 has built-in MS Exchange support – and a year's updates ahead

The latest version of the messaging client from Mozilla subsidiary MZLA has a bunch of useful new features, and will get updated until mid 2026.…

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Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their home address

Wed, 2025-07-09 11:26
Plus: Confirms less serious data points like meal preferences also leaked

Qantas says that when cybercrooks attacked a "third party platform" used by the airline's contact center systems, they accessed the personal information and frequent flyer numbers of the "majority" of the circa 5.7 million people affected.…

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ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded

Wed, 2025-07-09 10:39
Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuff

Comment The European Space Agency (ESA) is pressing ahead with its European Launcher Challenge (ELC), and the good news is that three of the five pre-selected candidates have yet to explode anything in public.…

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Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attack

Wed, 2025-07-09 09:22
Customers say things are still far from perfect as lengthy support queues hamper business dealings

Ingram Micro says it is gradually reactivating customer's ordering capabilities across the world, region by region, now its ransomware attack is thought to be "contained".…

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Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests

Wed, 2025-07-09 08:30
Activists argue the resources spent on tech aren't leading to worthwhile numbers

Privacy activists are unimpressed with London's Metropolitan Police and its use of live facial recognition (LFR) to catch criminals, saying it is not effective use of taxpayer money and an overreach by government.…

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C-suite sours on AI despite rising investment, survey finds

Wed, 2025-07-09 07:26
Akkodis report suggests people skills may be helpful to bring out the best in AI

Executives are losing faith in AI initiatives despite rising investment, according to a study conducted by consultancy Akkodis.…

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Iranian ransomware crew reemerges, promises big bucks for attacks on US or Israel

Wed, 2025-07-09 06:33
Tells would-be affiliates they don't need to worry because cyberattacks don't violate a cease fire

An Iranian ransomware-as-a-service operation with ties to a government-backed cyber crew has reemerged after a nearly five-year hiatus, and is offering would-be cybercriminals cash to infect organizations in the US and Israel.…

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Chipmaker GlobalFoundries acquires chip designer MIPS

Wed, 2025-07-09 04:59
A big bet that RISC-V can make a dent in the AI market

GlobalFoundries has acquired chip design firm MIPS, creating a company that both designs and creates semiconductors.…

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Samsung acquires Xealth to merge hospital records with data from wearables

Wed, 2025-07-09 02:28
Envisions info from your watch informing treatment. What could possibly go wrong?

Samsung has acquired US company Xealth to combine data drawn from its wearable devices and hospital records.…

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Tim Cook's Tim Cook stepping down from Apple

Tue, 2025-07-08 23:59
Operations king Jeff Williams abdicates – just don't give him a watch

Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is stepping down from his role next month and leaving the company later this year to spend more time with friends and family.…

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Microsoft enjoys first Patch Tuesday of 2025 with no active exploits

Tue, 2025-07-08 23:01
Sure, 130 fixes were sent out, but bask in the security goodness

For the first time this year, Microsoft has released a Patch Tuesday bundle with no exploited security problems, although one has been made public already, and there are ten critical flaws to fix.…

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IBM boasts new Power11 chips are stingy on power usage

Tue, 2025-07-08 22:17
More efficient cores plus an optional energy saver mode in Big Blue's latest CPUs

In case you'd forgotten, IBM is still blazing its own trail with regard to silicon. And in terms of speeds and feeds, Big Blue's latest crop of Power chips boasts up to 55 percent faster cores than its Power9 chips.…

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Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth

Tue, 2025-07-08 20:18
It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet

Serial entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and currently acts as CEO of payments company Block, has released the source code for a peer-to-peer messaging app called bitchat that relies on Bluetooth for network connectivity.…

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Army and Navy have both asked for right to repair, now Senators want to give it to them

Tue, 2025-07-08 19:35
You want that military contract? Then no more proprietary repairability clauses!

A bipartisan pair of Senators is so happy with the US Army's right to repair policy that they want to enshrine it in federal law as the standard across military branches. …

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