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Java 25 puts 32-bit x86 out to pasture, adds 17 shiny new features

Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next month

Software43 mins | 

Arm juices mobile GPUs with neural tech for better graphics

Designs scheduled for launch in 2026, developer kit for programmers out today

Systems1 hr | 

Debian 13 'Trixie' arrives: x86-32 and MIPS out, RISC-V in

Aside from glam, includes cool features like standalone GNOME Flashback session with no GNOME shell

OSes1 hr | 5

Trump does a 180 on Intel chief following White House meeting

Chip giant praises 'president's strong leadership,' promises to 'restore this great American company'

Systems2 hrs | 10

Oh, great.Three notorious cybercrime gangs appear to be collaborating

Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ spent the weekend bragging to each other on a Telegram channel

Cyber-crime3 hrs | 

Hyundai: Want cyber-secure car locks? That'll be £49, please

Automaker's answer to spate of car thefts is to charge customers for extra

Security3 hrs | 26

Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc

Exclusive updated UK online reseller bought out of administration in -pre-pack agreement, say sources

Channel4 hrs | 13

VS Code previews chat checkpoints for unpicking careless talk

Microsoft’s AI-centric code editor and IDE adds the ability to rollback misguided AI prompts

Software4 hrs | 2

Colo operators flock to emerging markets to build DCs

Joburg and Warsaw among the hotspots for sprawling server farm construction

On-Prem5 hrs | 1

Defra doubles contract value for cloud and DC services

Legacy tech for nation's farmers must migrate ... contract swells to £245M

Cloud Infrastructure Month6 hrs | 3

The White House could end UK's decade-long fight to bust encryption

Analysis Home Office officials reportedly concede Brit government on back foot as Trump moves to protect US Big Tech players

Security6 hrs | 35

How your software startup can avoid the hyperscaler trap

The cloud's Hotel California isn't such a lovely place

Sponsored post

UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly'

Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generation

Science8 hrs | 45

Poisoned telemetry can turn AIOps into AI Oops, researchers show

Sysadmins, your job is safe

Networks8 hrs | 3

News from a possible future: ‘Rampant jellyfish cause AI outage by taking datacenter offline'

Don’t laugh, a French nuclear power plant just shut down for a while after invertebrates overwhelmed its intakes

Cloud Infrastructure Month9 hrs | 40

IBM Cloud hit by Severity One incident with the same symptoms as other recent SNAFUs

Outages, degraded service, and login troubles hit 10 regions and 27 services

Off-Prem12 hrs | 5

Nvidia gives its tiniest workstation GPUs a Blackwell boost

70W TDP means the new RTX Pro 4000 SFF and RTX Pro 2000 won't blow power budgets

Systems16 hrs | 4

Fed cloud contracts up 2x this year after red tape slashing

Biden-era program has reduced FedRAMP processing times to just five weeks from previous year or more

Public Sector18 hrs | 1

Trump seeing green as he weighs deal to allow Nvidia Blackwell GPU sales to China

And shave 15% of the top no doubt.

AI + ML19 hrs | 17

The biggest challenges in software supply chains in 2025

Open source, supply chains, AI, and more are keeping IT pros up at night

Partner content

Russia's RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks

A few weeks earlier 'zeroplayer' advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploit

Cyber-crime20 hrs | 4

GitHub head ankles as Microsoft takes biz by the hand

Code hosting biz takes a back seat within Microsoft's CoreAI division

Devops21 hrs | 15

US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs

The alleged perpetrators remain at large

Cyber-crime22 hrs | 2

Californian man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he's suing Microsoft

He wants Microsoft to keep supporting Windows 10 until its market share drops below 10%

Legal22 hrs | 86

Red teams are safe from robots for now, as AI makes better shield than spear

Black Hat/DEF CON The bad news? The machines, and their operators, are coming on fast

CSO23 hrs | 1

Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation

But it can contest if it lands up in 'Category 1,' and the move hurts operations, says judge

Security23 hrs | 44

Viennese virtualization veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4

Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update

Virtualization24 hrs | 1

Hanging up: AOL to pull the plug on its dial-up service after 36 years

A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms!

Networks1 day | 55

'Suddenly deprecating old models' users depended on a 'mistake,' admits OpenAI's Altman

Tech biz tweaks GPT-5, brings back 4 and others as options after customer backlash

AI + ML1 day | 24

Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down

Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors

Systems1 day | 33

Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need

DEF CON By video, picture, and voice – the fakers are coming for your money

AI + ML1 day | 5

Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit

Obit Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97

Science1 day | 17

UK retail giant M&S restores Click & Collect months after cyber attack, some services still down

Many core offerings now back in action, says retailer

Cyber-crime1 day | 13

Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse'

Well, at least he didn't drop the F-bomb

OSes1 day | 47

Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study

Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins

Science1 day | 16

The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business

Feature AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance Survey

Personal Tech1 day | 14

Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch

And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers

AI + ML1 day | 97

AI coding tools crash on launch, could reboot better in future

Opinion Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters

AI + ML1 day | 20

Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off

Who, Me? Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes

On-Prem1 day | 66

China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests

Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030

Science1 day | 10

Google fixing Gemini so it doesn't channel paranoid androids quite so often

Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots

AI + ML1 day | 12

Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington’s coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales

Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU

Public Sector1 day | 21

How fixed wireless access can bridge the digital divide wherever you are

Wireless reaches the parts fiber can’t

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India’s services giant TCS lays off over 10,000 for reasons including AI, hikes wages for survivors

Asia In Brief PLUS: Huawei open sources its CUDA equivalent; China boosts brain-computer interfaces; Scientists to visit penguins Trump taxed; And more!

On-Prem2 days | 13

Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more!

Security2 days | 7

DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats

def con Five pilot deployments are just a drop in the bucket, so it's time to turbo scale

Security2 days | 34

How OpenAI used a new data type to cut inference costs by 75%

Analysis Decision to use MXFP4 makes models smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper for everyone involved

AI + ML2 days | 28

NASA won't name the Shuttle picked to move to Texas

Acting Administrator has selected a lucky orbiter, but won't say which one

Science2 days | 79

The inside story of the Telemessage saga, and how you can view the data

DEF CON It turns out no one was clean on OPSEC

Security3 days | 22

The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're gone

AI + ML3 days | 52

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest is back for 2024

Yes, 2024 – the prizes in the 40th anniversary edition prizes were just awarded

Software3 days | 28

UK unveils plans to 'transform' the consumer smart meter experience

Does 40 quid from the supplier sound all right for waiting over 6 weeks for a fix?

Bootnotes3 days | 117

Humans make better content cops than AI, but cost 40x more

To keep toxic content from damaging brands, both people and machines have a place

AI + ML4 days | 29

Chinese biz using AI to hit US politicians, influencers with propaganda

DEF CON In misinformation, Russia might be the top dog but the Chinese are coming warns former NSA boss

Research4 days | 17

Meet President Willian H. Brusen from the great state of Onegon

hands on LLMs still struggle with accurate text within graphics

AI + ML4 days | 48

Ubuntu 24.04.3: Noble Numbat point release slips out quietly

Bugs in the current LTS are getting squished

OSes4 days