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Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three There was a disturbance in the force on July 14 after Cloudflare borked a configuration change that resulted in an outage, impacting internet services across the planet.…
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A sushi promotion in Taiwan led hundreds of people to legally change their names to 'Salmon,' only to discover some people couldn't change them back. In March 2021, Japanese sushi chain Sushiro offered free meals to anyone whose name contained the Chinese characters for...
Westinghouse taps Big G's cloud smarts to speed up atomic plant builds and keep the grid humming While AI systems are known to spew wrong information and make up facts, Google and Westinghouse Electric are now pressing generative AI models into service to transform how...
Digital tokens designed to track popular stocks have suffered extreme price deviations since launching two weeks ago, with an Amazon-tracking token briefly spiking to more than 100 times the underlying stock's closing price. The token AMZNX hit $23,781.22 on crypto trading...
These WIRED-tested indoor and outdoor air-quality monitors have been teaching us things about our air quality we can never unsee.
Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped provide a snapshot of the formation of a planetary system around a young star for the first time, according to astroboffins.…
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Engineers in China are maintaining US Department of Defense computer systems under a contract with Microsoft, a news report said Tuesday. The arrangement relies on US staff known as “digital escorts” to supervise the Chinese workers, but the escorts often lack the skills ...
AWS is previewing a specialized storage offering, Amazon S3 Vectors, that it claims can cut the cost of uploading, storing, and querying vectors by up to 90% compared to using a vector database, a move likely to be of interest to those running generative AI or agentic AI...
Seagate has released its first heat-assisted magnetic recording hard drives for individual buyers, marking the commercial debut of technology the company has developed for more than two decades. The 30TB IronWolf Pro and Exos M drives cost $600, while 28TB models are priced...
Someone's OVERSTEPing the mark Updated Unknown miscreants are exploiting fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall VPNs to deploy a previously unknown backdoor and rootkit, likely for data theft and extortion, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…
Airbus's Silicon Valley innovation center Acubed and Google spinout SandboxAQ have successfully tested a quantum-sensing navigation device as an alternative to GPS during 150 hours of flights across the continental United States. The toaster-sized MagNav device uses quantum...
Razer’s haptic gaming cushion can make your favorite virtual worlds feel real, if you don’t mind the uncomfy seat.
The number of people using Linux on their home computers reached 5% for the first time this year, according to numbers tracked by StatCounter. And that's not including ChromeOS and other tailored cuts. The threshold, marking a certain level of success for free software...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. RELIANOID is a Debian-based Linux distribution for load balancing. The project's latest release, version 7.7, introduces integration with more cloud services and introduces VPN support. 'RELIANOID 7.7 marks a...
The second quarter of this year has seen a 63 percent increase in publicly disclosed ransomware attack volumes, with a total of 276 incidents compared to Q2 2024, according to the latest report from BlackFog. This represents the highest number of attacks for this timeframe...
Fedora's NeuroFedora special-interest group (SIG) is considering a change of strategy when it comes to packaging Python modules. The SIG, which consists of three active members, is struggling to keep up with maintaining the hundreds of packages that it has taken on. What's...
Security updates have been issued by Oracle (cloud-init, emacs, firefox, glib2, go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, lz4, python-setuptools, python3.11-setuptools, python3.12-setuptools, and socat), Red Hat (fence-agents, glib2, glibc, java-17-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt,...
Gentoo derivative is the most popular Linux distro, but its days are apparently numbered Google's Android president has confirmed the platform is set to replace ChromeOS – but not when.…
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