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AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 23:58:14 GMT)Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training clusterInterview After some teething pains, TensorWave CEO Darrick Horton is confident that AMD's Instinct accelerators are ready to take on large-scale AI training.… |
GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 23:15:47 GMT)More than $100M in costs could be cut by gutting duplicative IT alone, making DOGE itself look a bit redundantComment Cost-trimming in the US federal government is all the rage right now – and a new report finds more than $100 million in savings available to the Feds by doing nothing but eliminating redundant and unnecessary IT investments. … |
Metal maker meltdown: Nucor stops production after cyber-intrusion - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 20:40:54 GMT)Ransomware or critical infra hit? Top US manufacturer maintains steely silenceNucor, the largest steel manufacturer in the US, shut down production operations after discovering its servers had been penetrated.… |
Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 19:35:06 GMT)Touchdown with no topple? Company aims for third time luckyIntuitive Machines has blamed poor lighting, a problematic altimeter, and difficulties spotting craters for the company's second lunar lander tipping over.… |
RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 18:55:13 GMT)GA date slips out on Japanese site, vanishes from EnglishRed Hat appears to have quietly made RHEL 10 available to paying customers, days ahead of its expected debut at next week's Red Hat Summit.… |
The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 18:28:07 GMT)Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterpartsThe future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce.… |
Uncle Sam pulls $2.4B Leidos deal to support CISA after rival alleges foul play - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 17:40:14 GMT)Nightwing claims insider intel helped secure lucrative CISA work but US says decision is unrelatedThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) scrapped a highly lucrative cybersecurity contract originally awarded to Leidos following a legal challenge from rival bidder Nightwing, yet insists the pushback had nothing to do with it.… |
Intel needs external foundry customers to make 14A process node pay off - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 17:20:07 GMT)Ailing chip giant targets 2027 break-even as costly EUV tools raise stakesIntel is wooing external chip customers for its 14A process node to justify the high costs involved, and aims for the foundry division to break even by 2027 - as part of ongoing effort to shake off the struggles of recent years.… |
Ivanti patches two zero-days under active attack as intel agency warns customers - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 16:29:08 GMT)Vendor says vulns are linked with 2 mystery open source libraries integrated into EPMM productAustralia's intelligence agency is warning organizations about several new Ivanti zero-days chained for remote code execution (RCE) attacks. The vendor itself has said the vulns are linked to two mystery open source libraries which it declined to name.… |
Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 15:34:11 GMT)'Legitimate interest' won't wash, says privacy outfit, as Zuck's org claims activists want to 'delay AI innovation'There's a Max Schrems-shaped object standing in the way of Meta's plans to train its AI on the data of its European users, and he's come armed with several justifications for why Zuckercorp might be violating EU regulations with its stated plans. … |
VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 14:17:12 GMT)Admits due diligence fell short - furious users cry ‘gaslighting’Customers are blasting VPN Secure's new parent company after it abruptly axed thousands of "lifetime" accounts. The reason? The CEO admits in an interview with The Register that his team didn't dig deep enough before acquiring the virtual private network outfit, and simply can't afford to honor those legacy deals.… |
Saudi CubeSat gets golden ticket on doomed SLS rocket - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 13:26:08 GMT)Trump greenlights slot for Riyadh as NASA's pricey booster teeters on the brinkNASA will launch a Saudi satellite aboard what could be its penultimate SLS rocket on the Artemis II mission following a deal announced in Riyadh by US President Donald Trump and de facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.… |
Go ahead and ignore Patch Tuesday – it might improve your security - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 12:19:06 GMT)No rush, according to Gartner chap who says: 'Nobody has ever out-patched threat actors at scale'Patch Tuesday has rolled around again, but if you don't rush to implement the feast of fixes it delivered, your security won't be any worse off in the short term – and may improve in the future.… |
Europe plots escape hatch from the enshittification of search - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 11:29:06 GMT)Plus: How to make Google less unhelpfulAs search engines are intentionally made worse, and software grows ever bigger and more complex, a possibly unexpected ally emerges: the European Union.… |
C-suite at Alphabet make B-A-N-K from 2024 equity awards - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 10:33:06 GMT)CEO Pichai slumming it on a measly $10.725M compared to lieutenantsThe C-suite at Google's parent Alphabet collectively scooped up more than $215 million in compensation for 2024, and the CEO was the worst paid among them.… |
Everyone's deploying AI, but no one's securing it – what could go wrong? - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 09:26:13 GMT)Crickets as senior security folk asked about risks at NCSC conferenceCYBERUK Peter Garraghan – CEO of Mindgard and professor of distributed systems at Lancaster University – asked the CYBERUK audience for a show of hands: how many had banned generative AI in their organizations? Three hands went up.… |
Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 08:30:07 GMT)Troubled state biz tenders £410M software and DC-to-cloud migration plan, goodbye to Fujitsu on the HorizonThe UK Post Office has confirmed it is ending in-house efforts to replace the troubled Horizon accounting and point of sale system as it launches a £410 million (c $540 million) procurement for alternative suppliers.… |
EuroHPC lines up AI upgrade for Leonardo supercomputer - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 07:34:10 GMT)And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remainUpdated Italy's Leonardo supercomputer is to get an AI upgrade to beef up support for the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) and multi-modal generative AI, in addition to the 13 AI factories now being procured around the EU.… |
Ransomware scum have put a target on the no man's land between IT and operations - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 06:33:11 GMT)Defenses are weaker, and victims are more likely to pay, SANS warnsCriminals who attempt to damage critical infrastructure are increasingly targeting the systems that sit between IT and operational tech.… |
US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 01:36:57 GMT)Prince Mohammed bin Bone Saw will take a few hundred thousand GPUs with his missiles and fighter jetsThe Saudi government on Tuesday announced a massive $600 billion investment in US defense, transportation, energy, and IT infrastructure.… |
Apple patched one first, but Microsoft’s blasted five exploited flaws this Pa-Tu - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 00:44:11 GMT)Plus: All the fun and frolic of fixes from Adobe, SAP, IvantiPatch Tuesday It's that time of the month again, and Microsoft has made it extra spicy by revealing five flaws it says are under active exploitation – but rates as important rather than critical fixes.… |
NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 00:07:40 GMT)Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will lastEmployees at Uncle Sam's National Science Foundation (NSF) are relieved that the Trump administration's plan to downsize the federal government collided with the US court system on Friday – but they're worried that the relief is only temporary.… |
Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 23:13:57 GMT)Ding dong, diffusion is deadBiden's controversial AI Diffusion rules, which were set to restrict the sale of American GPUs and AI accelerators beginning this week, are officially dead.… |
Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 21:15:48 GMT)ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hitResearchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have found a way around Intel's defenses against Spectre, a family of data-leaking flaws in the x86 giant's processor designs that simply won't die.… |
Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 20:37:40 GMT)Air Force DumbThe Trump administration is set to accept a $400 million luxury 747-8 from the royal family of Qatar – a lavish "palace in the sky" meant as a temporary Air Force One. But getting it up to presidential security standards could take years and cost hundreds of millions more.… |
Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull, middle managers first in line - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 18:41:03 GMT)Redmond talks up new technologies, capabilities for productivity ... just don’t call it AIMicrosoft is axing 3 percent of its global workforce - its biggest purge since chopping 10,000 jobs in early 2023 - this time to flatten its management structure.… |
Commvault fixes critical Command Center issue after flaw finder alert - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 17:31:13 GMT)Pay-to-play security on CVSS 10 issue is now fixedAn update that fixed a critical flaw in data protection biz Commvault's Command Center was initially not available to a significant user subset – those testing out a free trial version of the product. That is, until a security researcher pointed out the problem.… |
Judge puts two-week pause on Trump's mass government layoffs - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 17:03:13 GMT)But the government may be ignoring it anywayThe Trump administration's ongoing mass firing of government employees has been put on hold, with a federal judge calling the move "likely illegal" and ordering the government to hand over evidence to prove it didn't violate the law.… |
Microsoft facing multibillion legal claim over how it sells software - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 15:31:05 GMT)Stop us if you've heard this one beforeUpdated A legal claim has been brought against Microsoft over alleged licensing practices that could result in a multibillion-pound payout for UK customers.… |
'We still have embeds in CISA': CTO of Brit cyber agency talks post-Trump relationship with US counterpart - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 14:00:12 GMT)Both agencies seem unbothered despite tech world's clear concerns for US infoseccersCYBERUK The top brass from the UK's cyber agency say everything is business as usual when it comes to the GCHQ arm's relationship with CISA, amid growing unease about the current administration's treatment of its US equivalent.… |
AMD is Ryzen to the SMB occasion with a bundle of baby Epycs - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 13:00:07 GMT)The House of Zen’s low-end enterprise strategy is badge engineering at its bestAMD on Tuesday revealed its latest chips to get a Zen 5 refresh with the launch of its itty bitty Epyc 4005-series CPUs.… |
Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 12:31:12 GMT)Research flags rise in one-dimensional health research fueled by large language modelsA report from a British university warns that scientific knowledge itself is under threat from a flood of low-quality AI-generated research papers.… |
After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 11:32:14 GMT)The Soviet Union aimed for Venus, but hit the Indian Ocean insteadThe odyssey of the Soviet Union's failed attempt to reach Venus came to an end over the weekend with the probe either disintegrating during reentry or what remained of it splashing harmlessly into the ocean.… |
Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 10:45:17 GMT)Market cap down by more than £1B since April 22Marks & Spencer has confirmed that customer data was stolen as part of its cyberattack, fueling conjecture that ransomware was involved.… |
As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 10:00:09 GMT)EUVD comes into play not a moment too soonThe European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) is now fully operational, offering a streamlined platform to monitor critical and actively exploited security flaws amid the US struggles with budget cuts, delayed disclosures, and confusion around the future of its own tracking systems.… |
Tech suppliers asked to support single electronic health record across England - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 09:28:06 GMT)Labour health secretary’s vision for one record to rule 'em all, for each patient, set to come to marketThe state health service for England has asked tech suppliers to submit ideas to help it build an online service for a single health record, as promised by the country's Health Minister last year.… |
Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 08:30:16 GMT)Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competitionExclusive European software vendor Nextcloud has accused Google of deliberately crippling its Android Files application, which it says has more than 800,000 users.… |
Türkiye-linked spy crew exploited a messaging app zero-day to snoop on Kurdish army in Iraq - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 07:29:05 GMT)'MarbledDust' gang has honed the skills it uses to assist AnkaraTurkish spies exploited a zero-day bug in a messaging app to collect info on the Kurdish army in Iraq, according to Microsoft, which says the attacks began more than a year ago.… |
OpenAI wants to build a subscription for something like an AI OS, with SDKs and APIs and 'surfaces' - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 06:32:12 GMT)CEO Sam Altman has no master plan but imagines custom models built on everything you’ve ever said or readOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company doesn’t have a master plan but does hope to develop a product that’s akin to a subscription operating system, but for AI, and models that ingest every experience you have in your life… |
Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 05:02:12 GMT)Linux 6.15 is coming along nicely too, unless autocorrect messes things upLinux kernel project boss Linus Torvalds has re-joined the ranks of full-size mechanical keyboard aficionados.… |
Mars may have vast underground oceans and enough H<sub>2</sub>O to make it a water world - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 03:33:00 GMT)Chinese and Australian boffins ask what else could be slowing down seismic waves as they pass through the Red Planet?Mars may still be home to oceanic quantities of liquid water, according to a recent paper published by the National Science Review.… |
Amazon tested warehouse robots and found they're not ready to replace humans - (pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 01:32:05 GMT)Rise of the machines postponed ... for nowRobots in Amazon's fulfillment warehouse can pick and stow products well enough that the e-tail giant is happy to begin beta testing, but not well enough to leave human workers behind.… |
Fusion eggheads claim modeling fix for particle escape - at least in stellarators - (pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 23:03:07 GMT)One problem down, x - 1 problems goThere are plenty of reasons why fusion energy has yet to become reality, but according to a group of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and their collaborators, we may be one modeling breakthrough closer.… |
M365 apps on Windows 10 to get security fixes into 2028 - (pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 22:03:45 GMT)Support for the underlying OS is another storyMicrosoft has pledged to support and issue security fixes for M365 apps on Windows 10 into late 2028. That's well past a cut-off point of October 14 this year, when Redmond's support for Windows 10 officially ends unless you buy an extended support package.… |
Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz - (pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 21:08:17 GMT)All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense nowCompanies with higher levels of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic saw more of their employees launch startups, economists have found. They argue this entrepreneurial spillover is a factor policymakers and firms should weigh when shaping remote work policies.… |
CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email - (pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 19:04:26 GMT)Cripes, we were only joking when we called Elon's social network the new state mediaUpdated The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced Monday that going forward, only urgent alerts tied to emerging threats or major cyber activity will appear on its website. Routine updates, guidance, and other notifications will instead be shared via email, RSS, and X.… |
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart - (pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 18:06:09 GMT)Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left offTrueNAS is alive and well, but iXsystems has shifted its focus to the Linux-based SCALE edition. For the FreeBSD faithful left clinging to CORE, a new contender is limbering up: zVault.… |
Attackers pwn charter airline helping Trump's deportation campaign - (pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 17:03:14 GMT)Intruders claim they stole GlobalX's flight records and manifestsGlobalX, a charter airline used for deportations by the US government, has admitted someone broke into its network infrastructure.… |
CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost - (pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 16:03:13 GMT)So alchemists had the right idea – they just lacked a 27 km particle acceleratorThe dream of every medieval alchemist – turning lead into gold – has finally come true thanks to some impractical physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.… |
US, China agree to roll back tariffs – but only for 90 days - (pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 14:01:15 GMT)IT projects may remain in limbo due to deal being far from final, but markets are up, so Trump'll declare a winworld war fee The impending disaster of trade-freezing tariffs on Chinese imports to the US has been averted, but like a Chinese cargo ship anchored off the coast of California, it's not gone entirely.… |
