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Jaguar Land Rover cyber-meltdown tipped to cost the UK almost £2B
The Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) cyberattack could end up being the costliest such incident in UK history, billed at an estimated £1.9 billion and affecting over 5,000 organizations.…
China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests
China's CR450 train hit 453 km/h during pre-service trials, surpassing its CR400 predecessor's 420 km/h and outpacing Deutsche Bahn's 405 km/h test record.…
Royal Navy sharpens claws on Wildcat choppers with anti-drone Martlet missiles
Royal Navy helicopters will soon carry drone-busting lightweight Martlet missiles, now declared fully operational following the anti-ship Sea Venom gaining initial operating capability (IOC) earlier this month.…
Carnegie Mellon team claims vector-based system can turbocharge PostgreSQL
Automated database systems based on vector embedding algorithms could improve the performance of default settings on common PostgreSQL database services by a factor of two to ten, according to a database researcher.…
UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach
The UK's data protection regulator declined to launch an investigation into a leak at the Ministry of Defence that risked the lives of thousands of Afghans connected with the British Armed Forces.…
Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI
Google has revealed it’s ported around 30,000 of its production packages to the Arm architecture and plans to convert them all so it can run workloads on both its own Axion silicon and x86 processors.…
OpenAI releases bot-tom feeding browser with ChatGPT built in
In a bid to grab even more eyeballs, OpenAI has finally released Atlas, its long-teased, ChatGPT-powered web browser. Surfing the web may never be the same now that a bot is doing it for you – while training itself at the same time.…