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Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack
Auditors remain concerned about the cyber resilience of a Scottish council as some systems are yet to be fully rebuilt following a ransomware attack in November 2023.…
One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation takes off
AI-pocalypse New research suggests AI deployment is creating significant workforce redundancies across major organizations.…
Tiny tweak for Pi OS, big makeover for the Imager
Raspberry Pi Ltd has shipped two updates for its single-board computers: a very small refresh to Pi OS 6, and a more substantial upgrade to the tool that writes your Pi's operating system to an SD card.…
HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show
Feature Remember when high-performance computing always seemed to be about x86? Exactly a decade ago, almost nine in ten supercomputers in the TOP500 (a list of the beefiest machines maintained twice yearly by academics) were Intel-based. Today, it's down to 57 percent.…
TSMC lawsuit claims former exec is probably leaking secrets to Intel
Taiwanese foundry TSMC believes a former executive has leaked company secrets to Intel and is testing the matter in court.…
ICANN distances itself from radical proposal – which it funded – to give nations a role in internet governance
ICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the group’s proposal.…
Apple’s lousy AI didn’t stop it beating Samsung’s smartphone sales for the first time since 2011
Apple is set to displace Samsung as the world’s top smartphone manufacturer, measured by shipment volume, according to analyst firm Counterpoint.…
AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles
The cause of major internet outages is often the domain name system (DNS) and/or problems at Amazon Web Services’ US East region. The cloud giant has now made a change that will make its own role in such outages less painful.…