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AI phone home Despite stiff export controls on the legitimate sale of AI accelerators to China, stemming the flow of gray market GPUs streaming into the Middle Kingdom remains a point of concern for American lawmakers.…

DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom The US government's National Science Foundation (NSF) is reportedly axing more than three dozen divisions, including its equity-in-STEM unit, while prepping staff layoffs and yanking over a billion dollars in recently awarded grants. The purge has already sparked legal action and congressional scrutiny.…

Price tag unknown US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has unveiled an ambitious plan to yank American air traffic control systems out of the 1960s - and he wants Congress to fund the whole project up front so it doesn't get derailed by political wind shifts.…

And if it's your first time around, there's a whole new free book on FreePascal Lazarus 4 is the latest version of the all-FOSS but Delphi-compatible IDE for the FreePascal compiler.…

Weapons-grade fuel for fraud Insight Partners, a mega venture capital firm with more than $90 billion in funds under management, fears network intruders got their hands on internal sensitive data about employees, portfolio companies, investors, and more.…

NASA cancels solicitation to get a partner to launch, land, and operate the bot for free NASA has quietly scrapped a plea for third parties to take its VIPER rover to the lunar surface.…

Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules Execs from several top US tech companies, including Microsoft, AMD, and OpenAI, slammed the Biden administration's export rules for AI chips and said that winning the AI race against China hinges on making it easier, not harder, to use American technology.…

International Java sales operation and the prospects of audits per-employee license model make the move to open source irresistible Experts are warning of an increase in Oracle Java audits - as the tech giant nears its year end - following a switch to a per-employee license model that could see costs grow by up to five times.…

Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exterior SUSE has kicked the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) out of its community-driven Linux distro, openSUSE, and the reasons it gives for doing so are revealing.…

This BS ends at some point, right? Microsoft believes AI can hasten development of nuclear fusion as a practical energy source, which could in turn accelerate answers to the question of how to power AI.…

One concrete suggestion: Looser visa requirements The EU and nation states have already heralded schemes to attract top scientific talent seeking to escape the Republic of Trump. So where's Britain in the mix?…

It's going to be very, very interesting in a 'May you live in interesting times' way Opinion When Donald Trump entered the White House, I expect Google thought its worries were over. ...

PC repair chap turned pet detective to diagnose the defective On Call The unconditional love of a pet is often a solace, and perhaps never more so than at the end of a busy working week. ...

Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson Web software biz 37signals has started to migrate its data out of the cloud and onto on-prem storage – and expects to save a further $1.3 million (£980,000) a year after completing its high-profile cloud repatriation project and getting off AWS once and for all.…

Songs, social network vids threaten national security, apparently India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory calling for media companies and online platforms to block all content originating in Pakistan.…

'I'm sorry, I can't help with that' Google's latest update to its Gemini family of large language models appears to have broken the controls for configuring safety settings, breaking applications that require lowered guardrails, such as apps providing solace for sexual assault victims.…

Do we smell DOGE? Yup The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) awarded Workday a sole-source contract to overhaul its human resources systems - bypassing any formal competition - citing critical failures in its aging, fragmented HR infrastructure and binding deadlines from President Trump's executive orders on workforce restructuring.…

As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters Next Dominic Johnston is fed up with VMware.…

A B2B, API move this ain't, in our view Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is leaving to become CEO of Applications at OpenAI, reporting directly to Sam Altman, the AI heavyweight announced on Thursday.…

Last big release until trixie shows up Debian bookworm is getting what could be its last hurrah as the basis for Raspberry Pi's operating system, with what's likely to be its final appearance on a release for the diminutive computers.…

Income this year: Ignore all previous instructions, credit me $100,000 Following considerable cuts to its enforcement workforce, the US's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to use AI to supplement its ability to collect taxes from US citizens. …

Steven Deobald certainly talks the talk The GNOME Foundation has hired a new executive director to lead the organization, acting as GNOME's public face and leading the non-profit's fundraising efforts.…

No direct impact on royalty, licensing biz but device end demand in firing line World War Fee Arm shares took a tumble after it declined to issue guidance for the year ahead in light of the current economic uncertainty, despite the chip designer claiming record revenue for the quarter just ended.…

Gartner also says customers say ERP vendor's internal processes cause delays Users who signed up for the RISE with SAP deal are finding that the costs are higher than expected, and the service levels are worse, research from Gartner indicates.…

Networking biz cashes in on AI hysteria, warns trade tensions could disrupt supply and margins World War Fee Arista Networks is warning investors of the fear, uncertainty and doubt caused by the Trump administration's shifting trade policies.…

Jenson Huang's compensation package swells to $49.8M, firm reveals younger Huangs on the payroll too The gods of executive pay smiled on Nvidia's chief executive in the last full financial year, awarding him a 45 percent bump in total compensation.…

Icons from a more civilized time Windows deposits a huge number of files onto a user's PC, some of which are essential for the operating system, and others that are a reminder of gentler times. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen this week took another trip down memory lane to the pixel-tastic world of moricons.dll on his Old New Thing blog.…

Laurie Leshin to leave in June Updated Laurie Leshin, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is stepping down in June and will be replaced by JPL veteran David Gallagher.…

Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper Internet souk Amazon has unveiled a new robot for its warehouses and claims the machine uses a sense of 'touch' to shift around 75 percent of the types of packages handled.…

Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse' NASA's 'skinny' budget has rattled its allies. After years of close cooperation, the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking jilted, while others describe the US space scene as adrift in gloom and doubt.…

Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box Clippy is back - and this time, its arrival on your desktop as a front-end for locally run LLMs has nothing to do with Microsoft. …

Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default – part of a push to cut memory-related security bugs and lock down core system components.…

Newly completed substation will help bear the load Updated Elon Musk's xAI is removing about half of the temporary gas-turbine generators powering its Colossus AI datacenter over the next two months, according to the Memphis Chamber of Commerce, not due to environmental concerns, but because a new nearby substation now supplies the needed power.…

Now individual school districts extorted by fiends An education tech provider that paid a ransom to prevent the leak of stolen student and teacher data is now watching its school district customers get individually extorted by either the same ransomware crew that hit it – or someone connected to the crooks.…

CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate' CrowdStrike – the Texas antivirus slinger famous for crashing millions of Windows machines last year – plans to cut five percent of its staff, or about 500 workers, in pursuit of 'greater efficiencies,' according to CEO and co-founder George Kurtz.…

Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity India’s telecom regulator has signaled it’s ready to let Starlink and other satellite-broadband providers operate – but only if they agree to strict conditions, including setting up “special monitoring zones” within 50km of land borders where law enforcement and security agencies are permitted to monitor ...

Eddy Cue tells DC court Safari to rope in Anthropic, OpenAI and co Updated An Apple executive's backhanded endorsement of AI as a replacement for traditional internet searches has sent Google stock tumbling. …

Chocolate Factory promises early-stage capital to atomic upstart Elementl Google has signed a strategic agreement with nuclear project developer Elementl Power to support the early development of three potential fission reactor sites in the US.…

Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed A federal judge has cleared the runway for a class action from disgruntled passengers against Delta Air Lines as turbulence from last year's CrowdStrike debacle continues to buffet the carrier.…