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Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:48:59 GMT)The force-feeding will continue until morale improvesSome software developers complain that they're being required to use AI tools to the detriment of code quality and their own skills.… |
Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:06:19 GMT)The latest attack on Section 230 is likely to face the same fate as many previous effortsA pair of bipartisan senators wants to hold social media giants accountable for pushing content that radicalizes Americans.… |
Pegasus XL rocket dusted off to rescue NASA’s Swift observatory from fiery demise - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:55:37 GMT)Air-launched antique picked for tricky low-inclination orbit jobNASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, facing the risk of an uncontrolled dive back to Earth, is set for a rescue ride on a Pegasus XL, the air-dropped rocket that hasn't flown since 2021.… |
Amazon security boss: Hostile countries use cyber targeting for physical military strikes - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:26:04 GMT)And companies are getting caught in the crossfireinterview Warfare has become a joint cyber-kinetic endeavor, with nations using cyber operations to scope out targets before launching missiles. And private companies, including shipping, transportation, and electronics manufacturers, are getting caught in the crossfire, according to Amazon.… |
DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:16:23 GMT)Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbitDARPA is on the verge of reaching a new low - an orbital one - as the Defense Department's research arm moves its Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) Otter satellite program into the production phase. … |
Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376M - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:25:13 GMT)Massive jump in spending shows the Great White North isn’t betting everything on NASACanada will boost its investment in European Space Agency (ESA) programs by CA$528.5 million ($376 million USD), a tenfold increase, according to the Canadian Space Agency.… |
Ford rolls into the Xen Project as hypervisor gears up for autos - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:01:05 GMT)Version 4.21 also brings advances in the datacenter, on ARM, and RISC-VThe Xen Project today delivered a major release of its hypervisor and associated tools, including contributions from automaker Ford, which quietly joined the project in June.… |
US pumps $1B into Three Mile Island nuclear plant reboot to keep AI datacenters fed - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:41:12 GMT)A reactor at the site suffered a partial meltdown in 1979The Trump administration is so eager to get extra power into the grid that it is offering a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy to help it restart the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear facility.… |
San Jose's 'warrantless' license plate queries land cops in court - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:30:59 GMT)Digital rights groups argue cameras used to unconstitutionally surveil localsThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) are suing the City of San Jose and its police department over alleged abuses of automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) technology.… |
Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:18:15 GMT)Burnout and slowing growth push Eugen Rochko into an advisory role after nearly a decade in chargeEugen Rochko, CEO and founder of decentralized social network Mastodon, is stepping down after nearly a decade at the helm and walking away with a sizable exit payment.… |
Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI market - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:08:26 GMT)Analysts warn LPDDR4 supply is tightening fast with shift to higher-end componentsMemory prices could soon be double what they were earlier this year as chipmakers switch to advanced products to target the AI market, leaving a shortfall of more mature chips such as those meeting the LPDDR4 standard.… |
Microsoft-SAP pact aims to keep Euro cloud running in a crisis - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:57:07 GMT)Vendors set up sovereign fallback so customers aren't stranded by foreign interferenceSAP and Microsoft have struck a partnership designed to provide safeguards for users of the US vendor's cloud services in Europe during "times of crisis."… |
Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:16:07 GMT)Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harmsResearchers in Austria used a flaw in WhatsApp to gather the personal data of more than 3.5 billion users in what they believe amounts to the "largest data leak in history."… |
Ignite awash with agents as Microsoft triples down on AI - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:33:12 GMT)Event supposedly for IT pros doesn't have much to tell admins on the Windows frontThe Copilot company kicked off its Ignite shindig this week with AI, AI, and more AI. Oh, and a lot of agents.… |
Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:45:13 GMT)Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst saysMicrosoft has announced a distributed PostgreSQL database service designed to rival other hyperscaler systems and third-party RDBMSes such as CockroachDB and YugabyteDB.… |
CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:00:07 GMT)Preliminary proposal is already provoking debateThe Python community is chewing over a new idea: allowing the C-based reference implementation, CPython, to incorporate Rust. It's only at the "pre-PEP" stage, but it's already sparked lively debate.… |
SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:15:09 GMT)B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remainIn 2020, SAP's CFO told investors that its plans for customer upgrades, cloud migration, and a move to SaaS would give the German software vendor a greater "share of wallet."… |
Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:30:08 GMT)Researchers say attacks are laying the groundwork for stealthy espionage activityAround 50,000 ASUS routers have been compromised in a sophisticated attack that researchers believe may be linked to China, according to findings released today by SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team.… |
Whatever your job, mentoring is your job – and the one that matters most - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:33:07 GMT)Nobody succeeds alone, and no community thrives without generosityOpinion When I started coding for a living 43 years ago, I didn't know shit from Shinola. I'd written a lot of BASIC, some Z80 assembler, and knew my way around floppy drives and a disk operating system. I knew nothing at all about how to operate as a junior engineer in a professional environment.… |
China recruiting spies in the UK with fake headhunters and ‘sites like LinkedIn’ - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:37:24 GMT)MI5 sounds the alarm about attempts to source sensitive informationChinese spies are using social media and fake recruitment agents to recruit sources with access to sensitive information in the UK.… |
Microsoft reveals new cloudy AI PC that’s not a Copilot+ PC - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:23:05 GMT)And a cloud PC that's for AI agents onlyMicrosoft has created a new type of AI PC – the “Windows 365 AI-enabled Cloud PC”.… |
Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:06:49 GMT)Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fixCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.… |
Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook - (pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:01:47 GMT)Vertical integration meets subscriptions"We love moving packets," declared Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, on a stage overlooking San Francisco Bay at the networking startup's annual networking event. He continued, "This crowd probably knows this intimately, but everything in the world is packets. Regardless of what type of work you do, it is just packets all the way down."… |
Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new ‘Digital Signage mode’ - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:28:27 GMT)BORK is borkedMicrosoft has added a new Windows mode that blanks out the Blue Screen of Death on public displays after 15 seconds.… |
Anthropic is at the heart of the latest billion-dollar circular AI investment bonanza - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:58:00 GMT)What do you get when you combine Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia? A bubble that blows itselfIt wouldn't be a week of tech news without more circular exchanges of billions of dollars between AI firms. This time around, it's a $45 billion back-scratching session involving Microsoft, Anthropic, and Nvidia, announced during Redmond's Ignite conference.… |
Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:43:20 GMT)Using AI to attack AIMalefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.… |
FCC looks to torch Biden-era cyber rules sparked by Salt Typhoon mess - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:16:35 GMT)Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too ‘burdensome’The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in 2024, that required telecom carriers to adopt basic security controls.… |
China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:07:39 GMT)Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for companyChina is preparing for an early launch of the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft to rescue the crew of Shenzou-21, who were left stranded aboard the Tiangong space station after their emergency rescue of the Shenzou-20 crew earlier this month.… |
Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss says - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:48:52 GMT)When? Sean Cairncross wouldn't sayAmerica is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive – he just isn't saying when.… |
Google Chrome bug exploited as an 0-day - patch now or risk full system compromise - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:43:13 GMT)Seventh Chrome 0-day this yearGoogle pushed an emergency patch on Monday for a high-severity Chrome bug that attackers have already found and exploited in the wild.… |
Datacenter fossil fuel habit 'not sustainable' as AI workloads soar - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:16:39 GMT)Rising AI power demand is straining grids and pushing operators toward hydrogen, batteries, geothermal, and nuclearGartner warns that fossil fuel dominance in on-site power generation is not sustainable, given the rapid rise in datacenter energy consumption due to AI servers.… |
Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:29:01 GMT)Carrier insists network wasn't at fault when smartphone couldn't reach 000A Sydney resident died after their Samsung handset failed to connect to 000, Australia's primary emergency number, triggering a stark warning from telco TPG that outdated mobile software could be a matter of life or death.… |
Microsoft issues patch to tackle Windows 10 Extended Security Updates failures - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:20:35 GMT)Users who thought they were safely in the program hit errors on day oneMicrosoft has shipped a fix for commercial customers who believed they were enrolled in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program but received error messages on the first Patch Tuesday after support ended.… |
Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:23:57 GMT)European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets ActThe European Commission has launched investigations into Amazon and Microsoft's cloud services, and plans to review if legislation introduced in 2022 is being applied effectively to the cloud market.… |
NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:15:08 GMT)Lawsuit alleges he poached staff, lifted trade secrets, and set up Red Stapler before quittingNetApp has accused its former senior vice president and CTO of secretly building a rival cloud control platform while still on its payroll, triggering an urgent legal scramble.… |
Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:38:51 GMT)Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlersLinux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.… |
Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:19:45 GMT)Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls alongUpdated Internet services provider Cloudflare is suffering a major outage that has knocked chunks of the web offline – including The Register.… |
Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:50:07 GMT)They can probably set up a printer faster, but look elsewhere for cryptography adviceGen Z can get off their digital high horses because their passwords are no more secure than their grandparents'.… |
Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:34:58 GMT)Techie wired cryptominers into Nordex's network while company reeled from cyberattackA Dutch wind farm operator learned the hard way that its turbines weren't just spinning to generate electricity – they were also powering someone else's crypto wallet.… |
Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:15:05 GMT)Chang'e 6's soil sample turns up iron oxides where none were supposed to existA Chinese-led team of boffins has uncovered tiny grains of hematite and maghemite in materials scooped from the Moon's far-side South Pole-Aitken Basin by the Chang'e 6 probe – iron oxides more at home on rusty tools on Earth than on our bone-dry satellite.… |
Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:04:02 GMT)€544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepowerSC25 France will get its first exascale supercomputer — Europe's second — when Atos subsidiary Eviden builds Alice Recoque using AMD chips.… |
Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:15:08 GMT)As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engineServo is an all-new and all-Rust browser rendering engine. As Mozilla falters, it's the world's best option for avoiding a Google monopoly.… |
Brits to help foot power bill for datacenters under government AI plans - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:43:06 GMT)Cheaper electricity to lure bit barns north as planning fast-track kicks inWhile UK households face some of the world's highest energy prices, datacenter operators are set to receive electricity discounts under government plans to accelerate AI infrastructure development.… |
Vodafone, EE, O2, Three hit with £3B overcharging lawsuit - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:15:12 GMT)Case alleges loyal customers continued to pay bundled rates after minimum contract terms endedBritain's biggest mobile phone companies face legal action over claims they overcharged customers through a "loyalty penalty" after a tribunal permitted the cases to proceed.… |
Brits believe the bots even though study finds they're often talking nonsense - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:30:07 GMT)Consumer group Which? warns AI assistants can dish out unclear, risky, or downright daft adviceAI assistants can sometimes provide misleading or incorrect answers. However, almost half of British consumers using the services put more faith in them than they maybe should.… |
Starlink’s method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:30:45 GMT)Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regimeResearchers have found Starlink’s efforts to mitigate the effects of solar storms can create degraded performance that persists for a day or more after geomagnetic conditions ease.… |
Alibaba releases chatbot that produces error when asked about Tiananmen Square - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 04:08:09 GMT)Yet Chinese giant wants users to ‘ask any question, big or small, anytime, anywhere!’Chinese tech giant Alibaba yesterday launched a new chatbot that reported errors soon after launch and is very touchy about some subjects Beijing doesn’t like to discuss.… |
Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:36:16 GMT)VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little reliefVMware has admitted that its guidance about the hardware needed to run its vSAN virtual storage arrays has been wrong for years.… |
Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI - (pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:08:17 GMT)Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencingInterview Scientific computing is about to undergo a period of rapid change as workloads inject AI.… |
'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second - (pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:54:00 GMT)Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badderAzure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.… |
