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Microsoft is opening Windows Update to third-party apps
Microsoft is previewing a Windows Update orchestration platform for app developers and management tool vendors, aiming to centralize update scheduling across Windows 11 devices.…
Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China
Over the past few years, Uncle Sam has made it progressively harder for US chip designers to flog their AI wares in China. But not impossible.…
Ex-CISA employee: 'This culture of fear started permeating the agency'
Interview It's hard to pinpoint exactly when the "culture of fear" began to permeate America's top cyber-defense agency.…
MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2
MIT boffins have built a prototype fuel cell using liquid sodium and air that could one day power aircraft, and may help capture carbon through its byproducts.…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results
Google co-founder Sergey Brin claims that threatening generative AI models produces better results.…
Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k +
LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) is the latest big-name organization to disclose a serious cyberattack leading to data theft, with the number of affected individuals pegged at 364,333.…
Arrival of Linux 6.15 hails end of 486-class CPUs
Over the holiday weekend, Linus Torvalds released the latest Linux kernel – signalling the end of the line for 486-class chips.…
DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS
With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers' analytics and machine learning tools to their data, which is often spread across different systems.…
Firefox 139 arrives for non-Chromium browser fans
Another month, another new version of Firefox, with several handy changes. The future is less certain, though.…