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Execs make rules that control AI usage, then break them for their own work -- FOMO trumps corporate governance when it comes to AI

1 day ago

Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica -- Company behind THESPECTRUM brings the holiday season early for retro computing fans

2 days ago

Software dev reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don't save much time - Feature - 'Stay in control and think for yourself'

2 days ago

Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn't worth saving -- Maintenance to end next year after 'helpful options' became 'serious security flaws'

2 days ago

Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack -- INFOSEC IN BRIEF -- PLUS: CISA still sitting on telecoms security report; DoorDash phished again; Lumma stealer returns; and more -- Security

1 hour ago

Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab -- Exclusive -- Who needs 600 kilowatt racks when a single computer can span entire datacenters? -- SC25

6 hours ago

Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems - Interview - Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp weights impact of densification on the datacenter and the rise of the AI factory - Supercomputing Month - 15 Nov 2025 - | 9

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Apple's new 15% mini-app deal finally gets Tencent to cut Cupertino in -- When is an app not an app? When it's a mini app inside another app -- Personal Tech -- 15 Nov 2025

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Memory boom-bust cycle booms again as Samsung reportedly jacks memory prices 60% -- Leaving buyers to cry, AI AI AI -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee -- Who guards the guardrails? Often the same shoddy security as the rest of the AI stack -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Fortinet finally cops to critical make-me-admin bug under active exploitation -- More than a month after PoC made public -- Patches

2 days ago

Canonical pushes Ubuntu LTS support even further - if you pay -- Enterprise Linux vendors keep jostling to see who can prop up geriatric distros the longest -- OSes

2 days ago

Crims poison 150K+ npm packages with token-farming malware -- Amazon spilled the TEA -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Now you can share your AI delusions with Group ChatGPT -- Just when you thought virtual collaboration couldn't get worse, OpenAI stuffs a bot into your group conversations -- AI + ML

2 days ago

AMD grabs more x86 share as Intel stumbles in entry-level chips -- Mercury Research blames stockpiling and low-end shortages for unusually flat CPU market -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit -- Starlink challenger drops the codename, but full-blown service still years out -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI - Updated - Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar

2 days ago

FBI flags scam targeting Chinese speakers with bogus surgery bills -- Crooks spoof US insurers, threaten bogus extradition to pry loose personal data and cash -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast -- VDURA boss: Your x86 clusters are obsolete, metadata is eating 20% of I/O, and every idle GPU second burns cash -- Supercomputing Month

2 days ago

CISA flags imminent threat as Akira ransomware starts hitting Nutanix AHV - Advisory updated as leading cybercrime crew opens up its target pool - Cyber-crime - 14 Nov 2025 - |

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Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica -- Company behind THESPECTRUM brings the holiday season early for retro computing fans -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike -- Original spacecraft deemed unsafe after cracks spotted in window -- Science

2 days ago

The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta -- Linux-powered PC, Arm VR headset, and refreshed controller all land on pre-order for next year -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Google pitches EU on adtech fixes to dodge breakup after €2.95B slap - Brussels reviewing proposal as Mountain View insists it will appeal antitrust ruling - PaaS + IaaS - 14 Nov 2025 - |

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Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction -- Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands

9 days ago

Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers -- The DoE's planned funding runs through 2030

9 days ago

$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday -- Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot

9 days ago

AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI - Feature - How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff

9 days ago

AMD: Solid Roadmaps Beget Money, Which Beget Better Roadmaps And Even More Money

2 days ago

HPE Reveals Compute And Networking for GX5000 Supercomputers

3 days ago

IBM Lets Fly "Nighthawk" And "Loon" QPUs On The Way To Quantum Advantage

4 days ago

Riding The Choppy AI Datacenter Waves With Supermicro

6 days ago

Europe's IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold -- AI, cybersecurity, and geopolitical jitters forecast to push market to $1.4T next year -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Report blasts UK Ministry of Defence over Afghan data-handling failures -- Public Accounts Committee tears into department responsible for the most dangerous breach in British history -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout -- Opinion -- Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

BOFH - : You know something's up when the suits want to spend money - Episode 21 - Generosity has nothing to do with it – there's a bonus (of sorts) on the line - BOFH - 14 Nov 2025 - | 45

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Digital overhaul at UK's NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late - Updated - Watchdog says program buckled under procurement failures and technical complexity - Public Sector - 14 Nov 2025 - | 15

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Clop claims it hacked 'the NHS.' Which bit? Your guess is as good as theirs -- Cybercrime crew has ravaged multiple private organizations using Oracle EBS zero-day for months -- Security

2 days ago

Big Tech's control freak era is breaking itself apart - Opinion - AI slop, Trump tantrums, and zero humans answering phones

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Execs make rules that control AI usage, then break them for their own work -- FOMO trumps corporate governance when it comes to AI -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight - On Call - Org chart games were more important than speed and accuracy - Applications - 14 Nov 2025 - | 107

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Chinese web giant Tencent can't buy all the GPUs it wants -- Getting by with a meager $2 billion quarterly capex – vastly less than rivals, but still cashing in on AI -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

AI agents, real results: from assistants to orchestrators in the enterprise - A new generation of AI agents are licensed to upskill - Sponsored Post

2 days ago

Chinese spies told Claude to break into about 30 critical orgs. Some attacks succeeded -- Anthropic dubs this the first AI-orchestrated cyber snooping campaign -- Security

3 days ago

Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects -- Consumer advocacy researchers at PIRG tested four AI toys, and none of them passed muster -- Offbeat

3 days ago

FMC gets FERAM cash to kill Optane's ghost

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MinIO rolls out exabyte-class ExaPOD to keep AI GPUs busy

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Quantum gives ActiveScale partial-object restores to speed tape retrievals

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Storage news ticker – 13 November

3 days ago

Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out -- Browser maker scolds AI objectors, "The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn't help anyone" -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Baidu answers China's call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators -- Chinese search giant plans to bring custom silicon to the rack scale in 2026 with 256- and 512-chip systems -- AI + ML

3 days ago

InfiniBox G4 Family enhancements change the game in high-end enterprise storage - The new InfiniBox SSA G4 F24 offers a lower footprint and more storage. Who wouldn't want that? Sponsored Post

3 days ago

States that aren't nice to ICE still sharing key database full of personal info -- Lawmakers warn of 'information gap' lets immigration agents sidestep states' data safeguards -- Public Sector

3 days ago

AI pilots keep crashing, mostly because firms skip the prep, survey finds -- Under a third of PoCs make it past testing, but those that do often boost productivity -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut -- The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump -- Security

3 days ago

Avalonia brings Linux, browser support to Microsoft's MAUI cross-platform app solution -- Third-party framework builds alternative backend using its own renderer and WebAssembly -- Applications

3 days ago

ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared -- Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure -- Databases

3 days ago

Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches -- Bezos booster blasted by solar emissions -- Science

3 days ago

HPE details Vera Rubin blades for next-gen Cray supercomputers -- Promised for 2027 racks, mixing Nvidia and AMD silicon in one liquid-cooled box -- Supercomputing Month

3 days ago

Extra, extra, read all about it: Washington Post clobbered in Clop caper -- Nearly 10,000 staff and contractors warned after attackers raided newspaper's Oracle EBS setup -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

To solve compatibility issues, Microsoft would quietly patch other people's code -- Long before automatic updates, the Windows 95 team tweaked third-party software to keep it running -- OSes

3 days ago

Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales -- Government picks Wylfa on Anglesey for initial trio of units, but power unlikely before mid-2030s -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud -- Majority of customers plan to favor domestic providers as sovereignty fears rise -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

Rhadamanthys malware admin rattled as cops seize a thousand-plus servers -- Operation Endgame also takes down Elysium and VenomRAT infrastructure -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation

5 days ago

How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption

9 days ago

Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

10 days ago

AI's biggest threat isn't skynet, it's thermodynamics -- xFusion champions a holistic hardware strategy that tackles the fundamental physics of the modern datacenter

10 days ago

London left buffering as Hyperoptic backup link refuses to boot -- Updated -- Broadband provider says damaged fiber and dormant failover path knocked customers offline for nearly 24 hours

2 days ago

NHS supplier ends probe into ransomware attack that contributed to patient death -- Synnovis's 18-month forensic review of Qilin intrusion completed, now affected patients to be notified -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

To 'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 has arrived -- Systemd-free option still available if you choose that download -- OSes

3 days ago

Networking students need an explanation of the internet that can fit in their heads -- Systems Approach -- Networks have changed profoundly, except for the parts that haven't

2 days ago

SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew -- Technical and political obstacles block collaboration following suspected space debris strike on craft

6 days ago

Ransomed CTO falls on sword, refuses to pay extortion demand -- Checkout.com will instead donate the amount to fund cybercrime research

2 days ago

De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now -- opinion -- Here come old FlatPak, it comes grooving up slowly...

6 days ago

Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan -- 'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO

4 days ago

Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don't save much time -- Feature -- 'Stay in control and think for yourself'

1 day ago

Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn't worth saving -- Maintenance to end next year after 'helpful options' became 'serious security flaws'

2 days ago

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart -- It sounds a lot like everything else

4 days ago

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver -- Who, Me? -- In the dialup age, small mistakes could cost big money

6 days ago

Russia's first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut -- Go home, comrade clanker, you look drunk – and worryingly angry

3 days ago

UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK -- Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal

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Google to allow Android users with high pain tolerance to sideload unverified apps -- Promises some easing of rules that knobble indie devs, eventually -- Software

3 days ago

Atlassian twice shunned AWS Graviton CPUs, but now runs Jira and Confluence on them -- Bills fell 10 percent after granular tests suggested JVM tweaks that improved performance -- SaaS

3 days ago

The great virtualization reset: Why HPE has the only real plan B - How to stay stable when the market shifts around you - Partner Content

3 days ago

Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents -- The 100 trillion-parameter models of the near future can't be built in one place -- Systems

3 days ago

OpenAI GPT-5.1 adds more personalities, loses inhibitions -- Updated model may deliver a bit more unwanted content, but will be polite about it -- AI + ML

3 days ago

You can now put your US passport into Apple Wallet for domestic travel -- But only a few states plus Puerto Rico will accept it -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Google sues 25 China-based scammers behind Lighthouse 'phishing for dummies' kit -- 600+ phishing websites and 116 of these use a Google logo -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

OpenAI's viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft -- Microsoft internal financials also suggest AI flag bearer is nowhere close to $13 billion in revenues -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Google apes Apple, swears cloud-based AI will keep your info private -- We take your privacy, seriously -- AI + ML

4 days ago

First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun -- Red dwarf hurls plasma at speeds rarely seen from Sun, potentially stripping atmospheres from orbiting planets -- Science

4 days ago

Attackers turned Citrix, Cisco 0-day exploits into custom-malware hellscape -- Vendors (still) keep mum -- Security

4 days ago

Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas -- Fashion house behind Jobs' turtleneck helps with pricey new accessory line -- Offbeat

4 days ago

VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware -- Software

4 days ago

Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch -- End of support? Not quite -- OSes

4 days ago

Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere -- Faster and easier to use but adopting the dev stack not without risks -- Software

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