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Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround - Updated - Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again

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Anthropic brings mad Skills to Claude -- Teaching an old bot new tricks

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'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident - On Call - The 1990s called with a reminder that in the time before ransomware, infosec panics could be quite quaint

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SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA -- A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade

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Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' -- Taps Ruby core to oversee RubyGems, Bundler -- Devops

21 hours ago

American Airlines subsidiary Envoy caught in Clop's Oracle EBS raid -- Not a good week for Big Red -- Cybersecurity Month

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Thou shalt not let AI run amok: Vatican wants global rules -- 'AI is a tool', Pope tells attendees -- AI + ML

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Hyperscalers try to beat the heat with larger racks, more air flow -- Most datacenters to ditch 19-inch standard for 21-inch OCP kit by 2030 -- On-Prem

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Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall -- US biz lobby claims president overstepped his authority with proclamation demanding hefty visa fee -- Legal

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Microsoft kills 9.9-rated ASP.NET Core bug – 'our highest ever' score -- Flaw in Kestrel web server allowed request smuggling, impact depends on hosting setup and application code

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Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload -- Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix

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'Highly sophisticated' government goons hacked F5, stole source code and undisclosed bug details -- And they swiped a limited amount of customers' config data

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Chinese gang used ArcGIS as a backdoor for a year – and no one noticed -- Crims turned trusted mapping software into a hideout - no traditional malware required

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Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit -- NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype -- PaaS + IaaS

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MIT boffins double precision of atomic clocks by taming quantum noise -- 'Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise -- Science

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We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills - Opinion - Even if you never use it, you'll be paying for it thanks to datacenters' never-ending hunger for electricity

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AI boffins teach office supplies to predict your next move -- What the world's been waiting for: a stapler with wheels to help humans afflicted by RSI -- Offbeat

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'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident - On Call - The 1990s called with a reminder that in the time before ransomware, infosec panics could be quite quaint - Networks - 17 Oct 2025 - | 121

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The Third Time Will Be The Charm For Broadcom Switch Co-Packaged Optics

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How HPC Is Igniting Discoveries In Dinosaur Locomotion – And Beyond

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TSMC Is Running Ahead Of Forecasts On AI Growth

2 days ago

Ellison: Oracle Is Leveraging All Of Its Advantages To Build A Different Cloud

3 days ago

Anthropic brings mad Skills to Claude -- Teaching an old bot new tricks -- AI + ML

2 days ago

TSMC hurrying to bring advanced chip tech to Arizona fab -- CEO C.C. Wei cites strong demand for AI products. Intel may also be a factor -- Systems

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AI makes phishing 4.5x more effective, Microsoft says -- And potentially 50 times more profitable -- Cybersecurity Month

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Decomposed dinosaurs make Texas a top destination for AI bit barns -- Datacenter hopefuls looking to cash in on AI craze are setting up shop in Lone Star State in search of cheap power -- AI + ML

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Vulnerability scores, huh, what are they good for? Almost nothing -- CVE and CVSS systems suffer from misaligned incentives and inconsistency -- Security

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Nork scammers work the blockchain to steal crypto from job hunters -- If someone sends you a coding test, be wary of downloading it -- Cybersecurity Month

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Feeling lonely? Microsoft Copilot can now listen to your every word, watch your screen -- We've seen this before and it was called Cortana or Clippy -- AI + ML

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Salesforce's Benioff warns of AI 'false prophets' while promising true profits by 2030 -- CRM messiah preaches data discipline while rivals chase LLM miracles -- SaaS

2 days ago

Inside the belly of the beast: A technical walk through Intel's 18A production facility at Fab52 - deep dive - Now if Lip Bu Tan can just find a willing customer

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Chinese cyberspies snoop on Russian IT biz in rare east-on-east attack -- Who needs enemies when you have friends like Xi? -- Cyber-crime

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Oracle goes all-in on AI, customers still figuring out how they'll use it -- It's all agents and LLMs in Vegas, and even legacy users can partake -- AI + ML

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NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3 -- Joins its command-line client from a couple of years ago -- Networks

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Replaying ancient steps - How HPC is igniting discoveries in dinosaur locomotion (and beyond) Partner Content

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Locked out of your Gmail account? Google says phone a friend -- Recovery feature lets trusted contacts help you get back in when other methods fail -- Personal Tech

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US hyperscalers to guzzle 22% more grid juice by end of 2025 -- AI hype fuels bit barn boom – and utilities are sweating the surge -- On-Prem

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Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround - Updated - Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again - OSes - 16 Oct 2025 - | 158

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Quantum & Meyrath: Products and processes

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Storage news roundup – 17 October

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Seagate working on Composable Memory Appliance with CXL memory

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Rubrik's immutable backups can provide malware threat intelligence

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Senator presses Cisco over firewall flaws that burned US agency -- Bill Cassidy letter asks if Switchzilla sat on critical flaws before feds were forced into emergency patching -- Public Sector

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Axiom Space ejects CEO after six months, installs NASA veteran as replacement - Updated - Jonathan Cirtain at the helm as revolving door swings for private corp - Science - 16 Oct 2025 - | 8

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Auction house Sotheby's finds its data on the block after cyberattack -- Alert says financial account information lifted from systems -- Cyber-crime

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Machine learning meets malware: how AI-powered ransomware could destroy your business - How to avoid your business being felled by an AI-powered ransomware attack that costs less than a laptop. Partner Content

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Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work -- ai-pocalypse -- GenAI meets Gen Z – only one gets the job -- AI + ML

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Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards - Mozilla hardens its browser and toys with AI search while closing the door on legacy systems - Software - 16 Oct 2025 - | 31

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The $100B memory war: Inside the battle for AI's future -- Feature -- The AI gold rush is so large that even third place is lucrative -- Storage

2 days ago

SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb -- Comment -- Musk's moonshot still missing orbit, refueling, landing -- Science

3 days ago

Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers - Comment - Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet - AI + ML - 16 Oct 2025 - | 34

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End of support for older Office and Windows Server versions pile on the pain for admins -- Windows 10 is the least of some people's problems -- Applications

3 days ago

Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030 -- Minister pins hopes on low Earth orbit satellites to plug crap rail connectivity -- Networks

3 days ago

Meta sends Arm a friend request asking for help with Nvidia's Grace CPUs - No custom Arm CPUs to speak of yet - Systems - 16 Oct 2025 - |

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Librephone battles the proprietary binary blob -- Free Software Foundation project aims to reverse-engineer non-freedom respecting firmware -- OSes

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CISA exec blames nation-state hackers and Democrats for putting America's critical systems at risk -- Federal agencies have seven days to patch F5 products -- Cybersecurity Month

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X to combat bot problem by showing more info about users -- Meet [user] from [location] -- Applications

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OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it -- If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free -- AI + ML

3 days ago

AI on a laptop? It's more realistic than you think -- Inside the Snapdragon X Series quest to reinvent AI

17 days ago

Rethinking application delivery for the hybrid world -- Why bake apps into your OS when you can deliver them as a side dish?

1 month ago

VMware customers say bye-bye Broadcom and vote for Nutanix -- Many seeking a replacement for VMware are turning to Nutanix as a strategic choice

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How fixed wireless access can bridge the digital divide wherever you are -- Wireless reaches the parts fiber can't

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Apple goes all in on AI acceleration with M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros -- Oh and the CPU is up to 15% faster for those that could care less about articifically intelligent Apple products and more about getting work done -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Japan tells OpenAI to stop spiriting away its copyrighted anime -- Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law -- AI + ML

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Microsoft, Nvidia, and others inject $40B into AI bubble with massive datacenter deal -- Big Tech and big money unite to back world's biggest bit-barn buyout -- AI + ML

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Cisco: Most companies don't know what they're doing with AI -- Only 13% are AI-ready; the rest are bolting it on and hoping for ROI -- AI + ML

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SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA -- A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade

19 hours ago

Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster -- Cleverly concocked deal keeps debt off Social Media empire's books

16 hours ago

Have I Been Pwned logs 17.6M victims in Prosper breach -- P2P lending platform says it could not verify the claims at present

17 hours ago

Literal crossed wires sent cops after innocent neighbors in child abuse case -- Eight-year telco blunder had a profound impact on three wrongly accused in Wales

17 hours ago

Britain's AI gold rush hits a wall – not enough electricity -- Energy secretary Miliband promises renewable utopia for green and pleasant land... filled with datacenters

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Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance - Updated - Sharing views POTUS doesn't like? Say goodbye to that visa, First Amendment be damned

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Carmakers fear chip crunch as Dutch sanctions hit Nexperia -- Beijing blocks exports after Netherlands imposes special measures on Chinese-owned chipmaker

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Turns out the end of Windows 10 is good for something: The PC refresh cycle -- Operating system's D-day resucitates flatlining computer sector

13 hours ago

Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington...with X-Energy mini-reactors -- Now they just need to get regulatory approval

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Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT -- As OpenAI allows chatbot to spout erotic content, former British prime minister makes true feelings known

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Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint -- Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback – with curious side effects -- Offbeat

3 days ago

ASML shrugs off China slump with faith in AI-fueled chip demand -- Beijing's self-reliance push and US export limits hit orders -- Systems

3 days ago

Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, Peppermint OS join the Debian 13 club -- Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release -- OSes

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Credential stuffing: £2.31 million fine shows passwords are still the weakest link - How recycled passwords and poor security habits are fueling a cybercrime gold rush - Partner Content

12 days ago

AI startup Augment scraps 'unsustainable' pricing, users say new model is 10x worse -- Second huge increase in six months sees some devs heading for the exit -- AI + ML

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£2B UK cloud licensing claim against Microsoft seeks more business backers - Updated - Action alleges Redmond unfairly hikes costs for businesses running Windows Server outside Azure - Software - 15 Oct 2025 - | 5

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Everyone wants a fancy phone – even the folk buying them second-hand -- IDC and Counterpoint say premium kit is driving sales in both new and used markets -- Personal Tech

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Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records -- ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response -- Cybersecurity Month

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Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack -- Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses -- Applications

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Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone -- canalys emea forum 2025 -- ESG kicked like a 'toxic political football' amid greenwashing -- CxO

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UK government's £45B AI savings pitch built on broad-brush guesswork, MPs told -- Think tank cautions that without job cuts or capital savings, the math doesn't add up -- Public Sector

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AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage -- Column -- And which will crash, repeatedly, until users learn how to handle it safely -- AI + ML

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Salesforce pumps the dream of AI agents as helpers, not replacements -- In the Agentic Enterprise, 'AI doesn't replace people, it elevates them' -- SaaS

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Frightful Patch Tuesday gives admins a scare with 175+ Microsoft CVEs, 3 under attack -- Plus: Adobe, SAP, Ivanti offer treats, not tricks -- Cybersecurity Month

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CISA cuts more staff and reassigns others as government stays shut down -- America's main cybersecurity agency has lost almost 1,000 people this year -- Public Sector

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Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects -- Laptop maker's apolitical endorsement of politically contentious projects meets resistance -- OSes

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