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Isar's first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success' Comment - What counts as failure in New Space? Science - 01 Apr 2025 - | 34

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Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole -- Microsoft giveth with one hand but taketh away with the other

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Oracle Cloud security SNAFU: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed -- 1990s incident response in 2025

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AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday - Analysis - Silicon Valley's latest energy fixation won't stop the coming power panic

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Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it -- Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt

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Speech now streaming from brains in real-time -- Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak -- Science

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Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSes - Cupertino already squashed 'em in more recent releases - which this week get a fresh round of fixes - Patches - 02 Apr 2025 - |

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North Korea's fake tech workers now targeting European employers -- With help from UK operatives, because it's getting tougher to run the scam in the USA -- Cyber-crime

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Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work -- But his emails! Sharing them with Google! -- Public Sector

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Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival - Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more - Software - 02 Apr 2025 - | 12

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Lightmatter says it's ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer - AI accelerators to see the light, literally - Networks - 01 Apr 2025 - |

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Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block -- Vision -- Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder -- CxO

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To avoid disaster-recovery disasters, learn from Reg readers' experiences -- On Call Special -- Nobody's tested the tapes this decade, thinks to back up the Recycle Bin, or takes care when using rm -- Disaster Recovery Week

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Nvidia's AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen's GPU math mistake - Comment - Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table - AI + ML - 01 Apr 2025 - | 13

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FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion -- New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems -- Science

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Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition -- Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer -- Software

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Cloud security explained: What's left exposed? Think AWS has security covered? Think again. Discover real-world examples of what it doesn't secure and how to protect your environment - Advertorial

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Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes - ICYMI - Indiana Uni rm -rf online profiles while agents haul boxes of evidence

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Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it - Interview - 'There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework', Thomson Reuters CPO tells us - AI + ML - 01 Apr 2025 - | 9

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Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough -- Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending -- Systems

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Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users -- The UK government must be thrilled -- Security

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Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into open source cloud federation tech -- Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers -- PaaS + IaaS

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UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill -- Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time -- Cyber-crime

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RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory -- Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind -- OSes

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The Team That Will Implement Intel's New Vision

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Nvidia Says It Will Be An Accelerator Of Quantum Computing

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Pure Storage FlashBlade//EXA Boosts AI Performance, Scalability

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D-Wave Pushes Back At Critics, Shows Off Aggressive Quantum Roadmap

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Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount -- Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout -- On-Prem

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GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison -- Not exactly Snowden levels of skill -- Security

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Arm reckons it'll own 50% of the datacenter by year's end -- Optimistic much? -- On-Prem

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Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it -- Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt -- Science

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One year ago Redis changed its license – and lost most of its external contributors

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Microsoft releases experimental Hyperlight Wasm: Micro-vms that run Wasm apps

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The paradox of vibe coding: It works best for those who do not need it

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The future of Scala: Pioneering features are now commonplace so what comes next?

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Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work 'as fast as possible' -- How about making sure OS crashes less, stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too -- OSes

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Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better' Vision - AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ... On-Prem - 01 Apr 2025 - | 18

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Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket -- Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find? -- AI + ML

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CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw -- Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug -- Cyber-crime

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XenData Z20 slings media files from SMB to cloud and back

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Arcitecta rolls out Mediaflux Real-Time to streamline global media workflows

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Storage news ticker – March 31

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Prophecy 4.0 brings self-service data prep to Databricks analysts

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Maximizing ROI with integrated SDN - Why SDN should be front of mind for IT teams evaluating VMware alternatives - Partner Content

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Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed -- 1990s incident response in 2025 -- PaaS + IaaS

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Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO -- Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE's G42 planned stake -- AI + ML

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Check Point confirms breach, but says it was 'old' data and crook made 'false' claims -- Explanation leaves a 'lot of questions unanswered,' says infosec researcher -- Cyber-crime

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Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore's Law is dead and buried - Comment - More silicon, more power, more pain for datacenter operators

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AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday - Analysis - Silicon Valley's latest energy fixation won't stop the coming power panic - On-Prem - 31 Mar 2025 - | 39

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LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite -- Only the strong will survive, but analyst says cull will not be as rapid as during dotcom era -- AI + ML

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Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole -- Microsoft giveth with one hand but taketh away with the other -- OSes

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Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare -- Analysis -- But will they really upend the enterprise PC market? How about software? Networking, anyone? -- On-Prem

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Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal -- Comment -- Social media platform magically worth a billion more than what he bought it for -- AI + ML

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European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill - I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that - Science - 31 Mar 2025 - | 24

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Interview: Praveen Vaidyanathan, VP and GM of Data Center Business, Micron - A discussion on scaling the datacenter with the company's AI memory and storage portfolio - Sponsored Interview

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Ransomware crews add 'EDR killers' to their arsenal – and some aren't even malware - interview - Crims are disabling security tools early in attacks, Talos says - Disaster Recovery Week - 31 Mar 2025 - |

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FCA still splashing on customizing, integrating HR and finance system way after 2021 go-live - SaaS - 31 Mar 2025 - | 8

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When even Microsoft can't understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making -- Opinion -- Make things that work for the billions, not the billionaires -- Applications

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Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own -- Who, Me? -- 'I'm glad you asked that question. We'll get to that tomorrow' (After I research the answer) -- Networks

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Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses -- NHS boffins think there's a connection, but 'snot all good news: Swallowing batteries is even more dangerous -- Science

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Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company in Taiwan -- 11 companies, including SMIC, accused of disguising outposts so they can illicitly serve Beijing -- Legal

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China cracks down on personal information collection. No, seriously -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Indonesia crimps social media, allows iPhones; India claims rocket boost; In-flight GenAI for Japan Airlines

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Oracle Health reportedly warns of info leak from legacy server -- Infosec in brief -- PLUS: OpenAI bumps bug bounties bigtime; INTERPOL arrests 300 alleged cyber-scammers; And more!

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The smart way to tackle data storage challenges -- Why high-performance object storage is needed for modern data-intensive workloads

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Building a better digital future for SMEs -- How smaller businesses can grab the opportunities that AI and advanced collaboration and connectivity tools give them

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AI puts value in data. So how do we get it out? -- How HPE is helping to manage storage complexity

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Data deluge pushes financial services deeper into AI -- Harnessing AI to optimize applications and services is crucial but building the infrastructure is equally important

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Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship -- There's also a new release of the Zorin OS distro -- Software

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Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel -- Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection -- Research

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Mobile ad world drama: AppLovin not lovin' short seller assault claiming fraud -- A peek behind the curtain in one corner of online advertising -- Personal Tech

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Congress takes another swing at Uncle Sam's software licensing mess -- SAMOSA digested by House last year, but choked on in Senate. Second time's a charm? -- Public Sector

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CoreWeave cools its jets, downsizing IPO as investor heat fades -- That stands for I Probably Overestimated? -- AI + ML

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Boeing's Starliner may fly again, pending fixes to literally everything - Updated - More than 70 percent of anomalies closed out, but those pesky thrusters are still a problem - Science - 28 Mar 2025 - | 32

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Both Haiku and Linux get new FOSS Nvidia drivers -- Thanks to Collabora's work on Zink and NVK... and indirectly to GPU-maker's FOSS release, too -- Software

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Meanwhile, in Japan, train stations are being 3D-printed in an afternoon -- How's that for Platform-as-a-Service? -- Offbeat

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Windows 11 roadmap great for knowing what's coming next week. Not so good for next year -- Microsoft promises clarity, gets partway there -- OSes

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From concept to cosmos: Webb engineers on the telescope that changed everything - Interview - JWST trio awarded IEEE Simon Ramo medal: 'I'm proud of the whole damn team' Science - 28 Mar 2025 - | 12

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Cardiff's children's chief confirms data leak 2 months after cyber risk was 'escalated' -- Department director admits Welsh capital's council still trying to get heads around threat of dark web leaks -- Security

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The need for speed: ADC for efficient AI data management - Partner Content

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Windows Server 2025 locking up after February patch, no word of when a fix will land -- Similar issue in Windows 11 resolved as of Wednesday -- OSes

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UK govt data people not 'technical,' says ex-Downing St data science head -- Despite pockets of excellence, many wouldn't make the grade in business, AI advisor implies -- Public Sector

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Nuclear center must replace roof on 70-year-old lab so it can process radioactive waste -- Project sees 7-year delay and budget swell to £1.5B, but nuclear leadership 'confident' it has an alternative -- Science

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Tech support session saved files, but probably ended a marriage - On Call - Self-described 'visionary' made life hell for our hero, then some oily vids returned the favor - Personal Tech - 28 Mar 2025 - | 115

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VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 cores -- Claims Broadcom will levy 20 percent penalty for customers who don't pay before renewal deadlines -- Virtualization

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After Chrome patches zero-day used to target Russians, Firefox splats similar bug -- Single click on a phishing link in Google browser blew up sandbox on Windows -- Patches

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SK hynix has probably already sold most of the HBM DRAM it will make next year -- As this year's buyers rush to beat Trump's tariffs -- On-Prem

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TSMC's US builds won't make America great at chips again, says ex-Intel boss Gelsinger -- Argues making stuff using foreign-designed tech isn't leadership, as x86 giant shakes up board -- On-Prem

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How prevention is better than cure - Stop cyberattacks before they happen with preventative endpoint security - Sponsored Post

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Cyber-crew claims it cracked American cableco, releases terrible music video to prove it -- WOW! DID! SOMEONE! REALLY! STEAL! DATA! ON! 400K! USERS?! -- Cyber-crime

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Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms -- DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software -- Software

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China's FamousSparrow flies back into action, breaches US org after years off the radar -- Crew also cooked up two fresh SparrowDoor backdoor variants, says ESET -- Networks

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