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1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines
More than a thousand university students in the Netherlands must continue to travel to wash their clothes after their building management company failed to bring its borked smart laundry machines back online.…
Think tank warns China's polysilicon subsidies are frying Western fabs
China is moving to dominate the global market for polysilicon, a key material used in chips, by flooding the industry with cheap, subsidised product to drive producers in other countries out of business.…
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen
The US House Appropriations Committee has approved a bill that would maintain NASA's budget at the same level as last year. However, lawmakers missed an opportunity to strike out the proposed $85 million relocation of a space vehicle to Houston.…
I'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel version
The next kernel will have no new bcachefs code – and the openSUSE versions that use that kernel are going further still.…
Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services
The UK's Ministry of Defence has signed a £400 million ($540 million) contract with Google sovereign cloud to support security and analytics workloads.…
EU regulators let Microsoft off the hook after Teams unbundling pledge
The EU has signed off on Microsoft's concessions over Teams bundling, letting Redmond dodge a monster antitrust fine in a deal that will barely rock the boat for anyone.…
Privacy activists warn digital ID won’t stop small boats – but will enable mass surveillance
A national digital ID could hand the government the tools for population-wide surveillance – and if history is anything to go by, ministers probably couldn't run it without cocking it up.…