Thursday July 10, 2025
22:58
Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating appOh my sweet secret informant lover, what happened in that NATO meeting today? A lovestruck US Air Force employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit confidential national defense information after sharing military secrets information about the Russia-Ukraine war with a woman he met on a dating app.…
20:49
Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about timeNot even in the top 10, CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly tells employees Comment Pat Gelsinger's tenure as Intel's chief executive was epitomized by his unwavering optimism and ambitious plan to return the ailing chipmaker to its former glory. His successor has no such delusions of grandeur.…
19:00
IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research CenterCompany mum on whether the site will be shuttered IBM, which employees say stands for 'I've Been Moved' due to frequent relocation directives, is moving research scientists from its Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, to its Silicon Valley Lab a few miles east.…
18:25
EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the lawA new code aims to make it easy to figure out The EU has a new set of AI regulations poised to take effect soon. While debate over them continues, Brussels has put out a handy guidebook to help companies make sense of what they can and cannot do. …
17:39
Slow down on building power plants for all those new AI datacenters,...Projections are likely exaggerated, a new analysis from an environmental group says Datacenters are slurping ever more energy to meet the growing demands of AI, but some estimates of future demand imply an increase in hardware that would be beyond the capacity of global chipmakers to supply, according to an environmental nonprofit.…
15:28
Firebase Studio's new Agent Mode wants to code so you don't have toGemini CLI integration is nice, but there's little polish in building apps from prompts Google today unveiled updates to Firebase Studio at its Cloud Summit event in London, adding Gemini command-line interface (CLI) integration, initial Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, and 'Agent Mode.'…
13:28
Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC taxShipments in America flat, surge across ROTW ahead of Win 10 support cutoff Tariff uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump still hangs over the PC industry despite manufacturers navigating a 'complex regulatory maze' to avoid being in the firing line over import taxes when the shooting begins.…
12:17
Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its...'I don't think there's a spare megawatt sitting anywhere idle in all of Europe, or the US, as a matter of fact' Microsoft intends to more than double its European datacenter capacity by 2027, but suspects this won't be easy because of all the red tape and environmental safeguards it faces.…
10:33
NCA arrests four in connection with UK retail ransomware attacksCrimefighting agency cagey on details, probes into intrusions at M&S, Harrods, and Co-op continue The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four individuals suspected of being involved in the big three cyberattacks on UK retail businesses in recent weeks.…
09:02
Outlook takes another sick dayMillions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamed updated Microsoft Outlook was down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the more than 11 hours.…
07:29
Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of...Controversial system requires local NHS investment to maximize productivity The benefits of the UK health sector's Palantir-powered data and analytics system are being suppressed by the limits of writing back to NHS software, MPs heard this week.…
03:32
Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s...Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ways China’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according to a professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education.…
Wednesday July 9, 2025
22:30
Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing President Trump's budget slashes funding for science and led to the cancellation or reduction of thousands of research programs, so scientists have staged a series of presentations to show legislators innovations that America will miss out on in the future.…
18:47
Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicalityWelcome back to the age of dark patterns The US was supposed to celebrate the enforcement date for an FTC rule requiring companies to offer simple, clear, one-click subscription cancellations next Monday, but a panel of appeals court judges has decided otherwise.…
17:06
US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leaderTurns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle Sam The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang.…
16:17
AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUsLow-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead to information disclosure.…
16:01
Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIOChasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn US Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer has a blunt message for AI hype-chasers: Shiny-object syndrome too often drives teams to leap into AI without defining a clear use case or vetting their data, leaving them to wonder why it doesn't work.…
15:21
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlersUsing proof of work to block the web-crawlers of 'AI' companies Updated Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying to feed their hungry LLM bots.…
14:18
Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out...Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 silicon Euro chip designer SiPearl has finally taped out its Rhea1 processor destined for Jupiter, the first European exascale supercomputer, just as its Series A financing round ends with an injection of cash from a new investor.…
10:26
Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their ...Plus: Confirms less serious data points like meal preferences also leaked Qantas says that when cybercrooks attacked a 'third party platform' used by the airline's contact center systems, they accessed the personal information and frequent flyer numbers of the 'majority' of the circa 5.7 million people affected.…
08:22
Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attackCustomers say things are still far from perfect as lengthy support queues hamper business dealings Ingram Micro says it is gradually reactivating customer's ordering capabilities across the world, region by region, now its ransomware attack is thought to be 'contained'.…