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Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom -- Shuttered reactor's operator says it's needed - once giant seawall is finished

19 hours ago

Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous -- Column -- CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value

8 hours ago

AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews - Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots - AI + ML - 21 Nov 2024 - |

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D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify -- Vendor offers 20% discount on new model, but not patches -- CSO

17 hours ago

America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem -- More than 100M rely on gear rife with vulnerabilities, says EPA OIG

10 hours ago

Palo Alto Networks tackles firewall-busting zero-days with critical patches - Amazing that these two bugs got into a production appliance, say researchers

2 hours ago

Crook breaks into AI biz, points $250K wire payment at their own account -- Fastidious attacker then tidied up email trail behind them

10 hours ago

Europe glances Russia's way after Baltic Sea data cables severed - Updated - Probe continues into disruption affecting Germany, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania - Networks - 19 Nov 2024 - | 56

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Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink at any price - Opinion - You think employee-generated content is bad now? AI + ML - 18 Nov 2024 - | 123

5 hours ago

NIST trains AI to hear the 'oh crap' moment before batteries explode - Machine learning used to separate opening a can of soda from something catastrophic - Science - 18 Nov 2024 - | 26

1 day ago

Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf -- Who, Me? -- Uni sysadmin who ran the lab he erased was a big part of the problem -- Storage

3 days ago

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 -- Obit -- Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week

8 hours ago

Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business -- Special report -- IT giant aims to end revenue slide by March, former employees have doubts

8 hours ago

Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him -- Zomato boss Deepinder Goyal leaves a sour taste in the mouth -- Offbeat

1 hour ago

Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government -- Digital end of life planning saves your loved ones from a little extra anguish -- Software

2 hours ago

Brazil hooks up with Chinese satellite broadband service that doesn't operate yet -- After beefing with Elon Musk, comms minister wants to diversify product choice -- Networks

3 hours ago

Pakistan's tech lobby warns that slow internet is strangling IT industry -- Low-priced freelancers and call centers are at risk -- Channel

5 hours ago

Five Scattered Spider suspects indicted for phishing spree and crypto heists - DoJ also shutters allleged crimeware and credit card mart PopeyeTools - Cyber-crime - 21 Nov 2024 - |

7 hours ago

Chinese cyberspies, Musk's Beijing ties, labelled 'real risk' to US security by senator -- Meet Liminal Panda, which prowls telecom networks in South Asia and Africa -- CSO

8 hours ago

Dell settles with Uncle Sam over Army bid-rigging claims -- DoJ alleges merely overpriced offers from reseller followed inflated deals from IT giant -- Public Sector

9 hours ago

We'll answer any questions DoJ has, HPE CEO tells us as Feds probe $14B Juniper buy -- Takeover still expected to close late 2024 or early next year -- Networks

12 hours ago

Job seekers call BS on the workplace AI revolution -- Survey respondents doubt it boosts performance or even lightens the load -- AI + ML

13 hours ago

Mega US healthcare payments network restores system 9 months after ransomware attack -- Change Healthcare's $2 billion recovery is still a work in progress -- Cyber-crime

14 hours ago

Google's AI bug hunters sniff out two dozen-plus code gremlins that humans missed -- OSS-Fuzz is making a strong argument for LLMs in security research -- AI + ML

14 hours ago

SpaceX claims another Starship success, but fumbles the catch -- In-space engine reignition paves way for orbital missions -- Science

17 hours ago

Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business - Special report - IT giant aims to end revenue slide by March, former employees have doubts - On-Prem - 20 Nov 2024 - | 13

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Where CPUs play in GPU-accelerated AI systems - Find out how the Intel Xeon 6 with P-Cores makes the case for the host CPU - Partner Content

17 hours ago

Microsoft unveils beefy custom AMD chip to crunch HPC workloads on Azure -- In-house DPU and HSM silicon also shown off

8 hours ago

Microsoft bolsters Azure infra with Fungible-derived DPU -- Not a deposit processing unit, but close

8 hours ago

Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview -- They can learn, adapt, and make decisions – but don't worry, they're not coming for your job

8 hours ago

Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service -- Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet

8 hours ago

Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI -- Better locking, improved query optimization, and... Copilot

8 hours ago

Modernizing Windows desktop development: WPF and Windows Forms to share code in .NET 10

17 hours ago

Uno Hot Design aims to meet demand for a visual designer for modern .NET

2 days ago

JetBrains releases IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3 and other IDEs, still struggles to convince devs of benefits of new UI

2 days ago

.NET 9 released with updated frameworks and tooling, but Microsoft factor both helps and hurts the platform

7 days ago

HPE lets loose VM Essentials to run on third-party platforms - GreenLake update dangles juicy carrot for VMware refugees - Systems - 20 Nov 2024 - |

19 hours ago

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off -- If only the company in the title knew how to scale servers in the cloud -- Personal Tech

20 hours ago

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 - Obit - Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week - Bootnotes - 20 Nov 2024 - | 75

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Steam cuts the cord for legacy Windows and macOS -- Don't say you weren't warned -- Personal Tech

21 hours ago

Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season -- Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13 -- Personal Tech

21 hours ago

Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous -- Column -- CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value -- CSO

21 hours ago

European Cloud Competition Observatory created to keep an eye on software licensing -- Exclusive -- Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

China wants mobile devices to limit usage time for minors, ensure they only see nice content -- Seeks grand alliance between manufacturers, developers and content providers – all in the name of socialism -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Nvidia continues its quest to shoehorn AI into everything, including HPC -- GPU giant contends that a little fuzzy math can speed up fluid dynamics, drug discovery

1 day ago

Nvidia's latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW -- You can now glue four H200 PCIe cards together too

1 day ago

The server recession ends, and both Intel and AMD won -- The heck is going on with X86 CPUs in the datacenter? Let us explain...

1 day ago

LLNL looks to make HPC a little cloudier with Oxide's rackscale compute platform -- System to serve as a proof of concept for applying API-driven automation to scientific computing

1 day ago

LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance -- Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view

23 hours ago

Nvidia Datacenter Revenues Still Booming, "Blackwell" Platforms On Track

5 hours ago

HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster

1 day ago

"El Capitan" Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute

2 days ago

AMD Now Has More Compute On The Top500 Than Nvidia

2 days ago

Navigating third-party risks - Strategies for mitigating external access vulnerabilities and safeguarding sensitive data - Webinar

1 day ago

Google changes Android release cycle so new versions arrive in Q2 -- Version 16 developer preview starts the new cycle, with warnings for devs to test sooner rather than later -- OSes

1 day ago

Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom -- Shuttered reactor's operator says it's needed - once giant seawall is finished -- Off-Prem

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Healthcare org Equinox notifies 21K patients and staff of data theft -- Ransomware scum LockBit claims it did the dirty deed -- Cyber-crime

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Microsoft bolsters Azure infra with Fungible-derived DPU

11 hours ago

HPE announces object storage software for Alletra MP

19 hours ago

Qumulo lays claim to 'fastest' enterprise cloud data platform title after hitting 1 TBps

19 hours ago

Dell brings APEX file and protection services to Azure

23 hours ago

China-linked group abuses Fortinet 0-day with post-exploit VPN-credential stealer -- No word on when or if the issue will be fixed -- Security

1 day ago

Russian suspected Phobos ransomware admin extradited to US over $16M extortion -- This malware is FREE for EVERY crook ($300 decryption keys sold separately) -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Microsoft 365 Copilot trips over angle brackets, frustrating coders -- Chatbot seems to choke when fed tricky less-than character -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Join in the festive cybersecurity fun - Get hands-on cybersecurity training this seasonal challenge - Sponsored Post

1 day ago

Microsoft breaks timezones in Settings and calls on an unlikely ally for help -- Control Panel hobbles to the rescue!

1 hour ago

Supermicro hot-swaps auditor in hope of dodging Nasdaq delisting -- Server maker tries accounting reboot amid reports of customers bailing

2 hours ago

Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC - Ignite - Just as good as Apple at making squat boxes, but this one doesn't do very much

3 hours ago

Why AI builds best on private clouds -- AI projects under pressure to show real value in the tightest of timeframes might be worth keeping on-premises

12 days ago

An easy route to AI-enhanced productivity -- How the integration of Google Gemini across Google Workspace turbo charges existing apps with AI power

1 month ago

AI-assisted malware resistance, response and recovery -- How visibility into the life of an IO all the way from the storage controller to the flash media aids cyber protection

1 month ago

Quantum computing is coming – are you ready? -- Are you prepared for the day that quantum computing breaks today's encryption?

2 months ago

Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals -- MS-DOS, a minimal Windows 3.1, and finally the teal delight of Windows 95 awaited installers -- OSes

1 day ago

iOS 18 added secret and smart security feature that reboots iThings after three days -- Security researcher's reverse engineering effort reveals undocumented reboot timer that will make life harder for attackers -- Security

1 day ago

Citrix gives its Platform a polish with enhanced management tools -- Admins promised they can get stuff done with fewer clicks this year ... or maybe next -- Software

2 days ago

Robot runs marathon in South Korea, apparently the first time this has happened -- Finishing in 4:19:52 makes it a SlowBot - although it did finish without a battery top-up -- Science

2 days ago

Hardware barn denies that .004 seconds of facial recognition violated privacy -- Claims it was just spotting shoppers who threatened staff at Bluey's favorite big box store -- AI + ML

2 days ago

India slaps Meta with five-year ban on sharing info from WhatsApp for ads -- Shouldn't have abused messaging dominance, Zuck -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Trump's pick to run the FCC has told us what he plans: TikTok ban, space broadband, and Section 230 reform -- Loathes Big Tech and is not at all keen on net neutrality -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Ford 'actively investigating' after employee data allegedly parked on leak site - Updated - Plus: Maxar Space Systems confirms employee info stolen in digital intrusion - Security - 18 Nov 2024 - | 3

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Critical 9.8-rated VMware vCenter RCE bug exploited after patch fumble -- If you didn't fix this a month ago, your to-do list probably needs a reshuffle -- Virtualization

2 days ago

Judges not impressed by Amazon, SpaceX's attempt to have NLRB declared unconstitutional -- Big Tech's big war on American labor watchdog stumbles... bigly -- Legal

2 days ago

Deepen your knowledge of Linux security - Event

2 days ago

T-Mobile US 'monitoring' China's 'industry-wide attack' amid fresh security breach fears - updated - Un-carrier said to be among those hit by Salt Typhoon, including AT&T, Verizon - Networks - 18 Nov 2024 - | 2

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Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize -- This was pretty inevitable after its lawyers admitted in court that the giveaway wasn't random -- Offbeat

2 days ago

NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers -- $45K says you can do it without a lunar rover -- Science

2 days ago

Sweden's 'Doomsday Prep for Dummies' guide hits mailboxes today -- First in six years is nearly three times the size of the older, pre-NATO version -- Security

2 days ago

Trump appoints Musk associate Brendan Carr as FCC chair -- Likely to look more favorably on Elon's adventures in space-based comms -- Networks

2 days ago

Pirate programmer walks the plank for role in massive TV streaming operation -- US considers the cases concerning Jetflicks to be the largest of their kind -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

UK test-fires Spear mini cruise missile that will equip F-35 fighters -- 2-way datalink allows in-flight info updates including retargeting and abort -- Public Sector

2 days ago

When the going gets tough, the tough get rugged - Devices and support to keep employees safely connected in the harshest environments - Sponsored Post

2 days ago

Framework laptops get modular makeover with RISC-V main board -- Ubuntu Summit -- One of the braver lightning talks we've seen: Swapping motherboards, live on stage -- Personal Tech

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