Bishopston Net consists of a number of Pentium IV 3Ghz PCs, all running the best and most stable operating system available today: FreeBSD ( Version 6.2. )

The name comes from the village of Bishopston, a village on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea, South Wales, UK.

Updated: 18:30 Wed, Mar 19 2025. (Last checked: 22 mins ago) VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:03:15 GMT) How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then? Elon Musk's DOGE promoted the decision to terminate a deal with service-disabled veterans supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs 10 days before the contract was set to expire anyway.… Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:02:11 GMT) Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue' Not content to wait for open letters to influence the European Commission, Dutch parliamentarians have taken matters into their own hands by passing eight motions urging the government to ditch US-made tech for homegrown alternatives.… Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:01:08 GMT) Qubit awkward, you might say GTC Nvidia is investing in a research center to advance quantum computing development, just weeks after its head honcho torpedoed the share price of quantum firms by declaring the tech is decades away from being useful.… Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:15:11 GMT) Tech channel increases stockpiling amid 'volatile trade policies.' CIOs to get fewer devices for same money Comment US President Donald Trump's "volatile trade policies" are creating uncertainty among suppliers of computers and among biz customers looking to use budgets wisely amid a game of on-and-off Oval Office tariffs.… Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:27:06 GMT) Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work The creators of the unique Chimera Linux distro are dropping support for RISC-V because kit built on the open instruction set architecture just isn't fast enough and this is holding up the development pipeline.… Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:47:12 GMT) Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line Comment The Crew-9 mission has safely returned to Earth, marking the end of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's extended time in space and possibly NASA's bipartisan leanings.… Ex-US Cyber Command chief: Europe and 5 Eyes can't fully replicate US intel - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:01:12 GMT) Cue deepening existential European dread as Rest of World contemplates Trump turning off the info tap If the United States stopped sharing cyber-threat intel with Ukraine, its European allies and the rest of the Five Eyes nations wouldn't be able to provide all the info Uncle Sam collects, according to former chief of US Cyber Command and the NSA General Paul Nakasone.… Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:16:07 GMT) Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL Analysis ​Despite ongoing construction efforts, the North American colocation datacenter market is grappling with record-high occupancy rates. This surge in demand, coupled with delays in new projects due to electricity shortages, has created a challenging environment for both developers and customers.… 'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:31:09 GMT) Services still down and out, but techies working for local government saved the day Nottingham City Council continues to deal with the fallout from its freak IT outage from last week as it confirms in-house IT specialists managed to prevent any data from going missing.… Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:07:11 GMT) Because guesswork won't keep the lights on GTC Schneider Electric has developed a digital twin system to simulate how an AI datacenter operates in order to accurately design for the appropriate power requirements.… Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:27:13 GMT) It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in the version after next of Ubuntu, 25.10 – which also means changing the software license.… Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:28:15 GMT) 'Three-year' tech support deal still running The UK's third-largest grocery retailer is set to finish its "three-year" tech divorce project from Walmart in the third quarter of 2025, while most project staff have been moved on.… Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:32:05 GMT) One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out, in training and inference Researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) tend to parrot buggy code when tasked with completing flawed snippets.… Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 07:35:09 GMT) If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout Bioengineers have pulled together to get artificial muscles pulling in multiple directions, an important step towards using them in medical treatments and robots.… Non-x86 servers boom even faster than the rest of the AI-infused and GPU-hungry market - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 06:36:40 GMT) Analyst finds 91 percent revenue growth with white box makers leading the way Here’s another thing AI can do: Increase revenue from selling servers by 91 percent year-over year, according to analyst firm IDC.… China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 03:59:07 GMT) Apparently boosts battery to 20 km range in 10 seconds, although as ever ... YMMV Chinese electric automaker BYD has announced 1,000-volt supercharging technology it claims can fill a compatible vehicle’s battery in the same amount of time needed to pump fuel into a conventional car.… Trump fires Democrat FTC commissioners, presaging big tech policy shifts - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 03:09:37 GMT) Remaining Republicans don't like the right to repair, non-compete clause ban, or some social media moderation Analysis In a surprise Tuesday move, US President Donald Trump fired the two remaining Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission, potentially accelerating a shift in the consumer and competition watchdog's stance towards tech and other businesses.… Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:13:13 GMT) Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute GTC Nvidia's rack-scale compute architecture is about to get really hot.… Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:56:59 GMT) Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a © The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling that content created by an AI model without human input cannot be copyrighted.… CISA fires, now rehires and immediately benches security crew on full pay - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:46:05 GMT) DOGE efficiency in action The upheaval at the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, took another twist on Tuesday, as it moved to reinstate staffers it had fired over the past few weeks - specifically those still in their probationary period - though they've been benched on paid leave for now.… Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:01:10 GMT) HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work GTC The age of the 20-petaFLOPS desktop is upon us as Dell announced a machine capable of achieving that massive processing power today at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley.… Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:03:20 GMT) Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server GTC After a Hopper hiatus, Nvidia's DGX Station returns, now armed with an all-new desktop-tuned Grace-Blackwell Ultra Superchip capable of churning out 20 petaFLOPS of AI performance.… Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:51:21 GMT) Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway GTC Nvidia is set to make available Ethernet and InfiniBand switches featuring silicon photonics with co-packaged optics to advance its vision of datacenters with "millions of GPUs," arguing that the equipment can keep power consumption down.… We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:35:14 GMT) There goes AMD's capacity advantage GTC Nvidia's Blackwell GPU architecture is barely out of the cradle – and the graphics chip giant is already looking to extend its lead over rival AMD with an Ultra-themed refresh of the technology.… Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:28:10 GMT) Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot Amazon has used tricks, algorithms, and surveillance to discourage warehouse employees from unionizing, according to a paper published in the journal Socius.… US tech jobs outlook clouded by DOGE cuts, Trump tariffs - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:01:10 GMT) Hiring remains relatively strong as analysts warn of slowdown A pair of reports on tech sector employment trends in the United States suggest out-of-work techies right now have relatively decent prospects, but economic uncertainty and rapid policy changes initiated by the Trump administration mean the future job market looks less rosy.… Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller now available to mere mortals - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:06:12 GMT) For when a Pico 2 is just too general purpose The Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller is generally available, meaning the chip can now be picked up from resellers rather than as a Pico 2 or on PCBs from manufacturers like JLC.… Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:24:10 GMT) Tall order for tiny market share techies but 'this is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,' says CEO A new, speedier browser has arrived in the form of Vivaldi 7.2, giving its CEO the opportunity to protest the power of tech giants.… Microsoft isn't fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:13:08 GMT) 'Only' a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture An exploitation avenue found by Trend Micro in Windows has been used in an eight-year-long spying campaign, but there's no sign of a fix from Microsoft, which apparently considers this a low priority.… Oracle JDK 24 appears in rare alignment of version and feature count - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:30:08 GMT) The 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals in Java 24 represent a stochastic sign Oracle JDK 24 debuted on Tuesday with 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals, or JEPs as they're known in the Java programming community.… Google acquisition target Wiz links fresh supply chain attack to 23K pwned GitHub repos - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:02:07 GMT) Ad giant just confirmed its cloudy arm will embrace security shop in $30B deal Infoseccers at Google acquisition target Wiz think they've found the root cause of the GitHub supply chain attack that unfolded over the weekend, and they say that a separate attack may have been to blame.… DoorDash sued for allegedly branding customer a fraudster after delivery photo query - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:36:11 GMT) Dispute over app privacy escalates into legal brawl Phyllis Jager, CEO of New York-based creative agency zuMedia, has perhaps, like some of you, privacy concerns about the pictures DoorDash drivers take to prove they've correctly made their deliveries.… Curious tale of two HR tech unicorns, alleged espionage, and claims of a spy hiding in a bathroom - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:37:09 GMT) There's nothing bog-standard about this bombshell loo-suit Updated Rival HR technology unicorns are at each other's throats in a courtroom brawl over alleged corporate espionage.… UK wants dirt on data brokers before criminals get there first - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:32:12 GMT) Govt yearns to learn mistakes of serially breached record holders so it can, er, liberalize data sharing regs The UK government is inviting experts to provide insights about the data brokerage industry and the potential risks it poses to national security as it moves to push new data-sharing legislation over the line.… ATMs in the Amazon: Edge is crossing its tipping point, says SUSE CTO - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:37:13 GMT) Sending Kubernetes and AI into orbit as devices move from 'glorified sensors' to 'decision-making' SUSECON 2025 Edge technology is finally past the tipping point thanks to inferencing and AI, according to SUSE CTO Brent Schroeder.… AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:36:10 GMT) SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots SourceHut, an open-source-friendly git-hosting service, says web crawlers for AI companies are slowing down services through their excessive demands for data.… Extortion crew threatened to inform Edward Snowden (?!) if victim didn't pay up - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:26:14 GMT) Don't laugh. This kind of warning shows crims are getting desperate Dark web analysts at infosec software vendor Fortra have discovered an extortion crew named Ox Thief that threatened to contact Edward Snowden if a victim didn’t pay to protect its data – a warning that may be an indicator of tough times in the ransomware world for some, at least.… Google’s broadband balloon laser comms tech floated out as independent company - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:02:08 GMT) Another success for the 'Moonshot factory' and an extra rival for Starlink et al Google’s attempt to provide remote area connectivity with balloons has been floated out as an independent company, a rare success for the company’s attempt to develop breakthrough technologies.… 'Dead simple' hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat 'now actively exploited in the wild' - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:44:39 GMT) One PUT request, one poisoned session file, and the server’s yours Updated A trivial flaw in Apache Tomcat that allows remote code execution and access to sensitive files is said to be under attack in the wild within a week of its disclosure.… Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:35:44 GMT) More light shed on what went down with Marko Elez, thanks to NY AG and co's lawsuit A now-former DOGE aide violated US Treasury policy by emailing an unencrypted database containing people's private information to two Trump administration officials, according to a court document filed Friday.… Don't want Copilot app on your Windows 11 machine? Install this official update - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 22:49:35 GMT) Microsoft says disappearance of Clippy 2.0 is an error it will shortly fix A buggy Windows 11 update from Microsoft has a silver lining for those who aren't keen on the operating system's Copilot assistant. When installed, the software patch will remove the AI app on at least "some" PCs.… Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:12:42 GMT) Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway Come March 28, those who opted to have their voice commands for Amazon's AI assistant Alexa processed locally on their Echo devices will lose that option, with all spoken requests pushed to the cloud for analysis.… M4 MacBook Air keeps ports modular, locks tight – still a headache to repair - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:34:14 GMT) Cupertino’s latest skips iPhone repair gains, iFixit says Anyone hoping Apple's latest MacBook Air might inherit the iPhone's recent repair-friendly tweaks is in for disappointment, iFixit's teardown crew has found.… Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:08:09 GMT) First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next? Scientists at America's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico say they have developed a Spacecraft Speedometer that satellites can use in orbit to ideally avoid orbital collisions.… Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:33:13 GMT) Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions A group of technology companies and lobbyists want the European Commission (EC) to take action to reduce the region's reliance on foreign-owned digital services and infrastructure.… Celonis slaps SAP with lawsuit claiming it's gatekeeping customer data - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:38:07 GMT) Process mining specialist accuses the ERP giant of rigging game with fees, restrictions, and a closed ecosystem German software company Celonis is suing SAP, alleging anti-competitive conduct and claiming its systems lack openness.… GitHub supply chain attack spills secrets from 23,000 projects - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:34:09 GMT) Large organizations among those cleaning up the mess It's not such a happy Monday for defenders wiping the sleep from their eyes only to deal with the latest supply chain attack.… Flang-tastic! LLVM's Fortran compiler finally drops the training wheels - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:49:09 GMT) Another all-FOSS option – just don't confuse it with all the other Flangs The latest version of the LLVM compiler suite has promoted its Fortran front end. "Flang" is now official.… UK government to open £16B IT services competition after 6-month delay - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:27:07 GMT) Technology Services 4 framework expands by £4B, with procurement to begin this week UK government is set to crack open the pork barrel for up to £16 billion in contracts for a range of IT services. The buying framework was delayed by six months and the total pot of spending is now potentially 25 percent bigger than the previous proposal.… Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:30:06 GMT) Maddening techno bass loop, Zoolander reference, and 14 minutes of time wasted A vulnerability analyst and prominent member of the infosec industry has blasted Microsoft for refusing to look at a bug report unless he submitted a video alongside a written explanation.… Search the internet Search bishopston.com Search bishopston.net