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Thursday April 3, 2025. 11:44 AM
A new survey of 350 UK and US utility operators reveals that 62 percent of water, water treatment and electricity companies have been affected by cyberattacks in the last 12 months. The study from Semperis finds that nearly 60 percent of attacks were carried out by...
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Recovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure Comment Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it's not floods or fires causing most outages anymore -...
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We always strive to write source code that is clean, maintainable, and devoid of any errors. However, we may often find that our application’s code is cluttered because we’ve used too many nested constructs or branches to validate our business rules. Enter guard clauses. ...
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Former official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and products drives up the cost of investment, MPs have...
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An art studio hopes its concept for a phone case that can flip around to cover most of your screen will help cure your screen addiction.
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Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind Opinion Former UK prime minister Tony Blair became famous for standing shoulder to shoulder with allies, even though the fallout from the Iraq war forever sullied his...
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AI drug design and development company Isomorphic Labs announced on Monday that it raised $600 million in its first external funding round. Thrive Capital led the financing round with participation from Google’s GV, and follow-on capital from Alphabet, its parent company...
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Amazon and United Launch Alliance will launch 27 full-scale satellites on April 9 as part of Amazon's Project Kuiper, marking the company's first major step toward building a global satellite internet network to rival SpaceX's Starlink. GeekWire reports: ULA said the...
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Stamp it out: Infostealer malware at German outfit may be culprit Updated Britain's Royal Mail is investigating after a crew calling itself GHNA claimed it was selling 144GB of the delivery giant’s customer data, perhaps after acquiring it with the same stolen credentials...
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The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions The Open InfraFoundation has delivered a new version of OpenStack named “Epoxy” and thinks it’s an even better option for those seeking a VMware alternative.…
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A 'vibe coded' AI app developed by entrepreneur and Y Combinator group partner Tom Blomfield has generated recipes that gave users instruction on how to make 'Cyanide Ice Cream,' 'Thick White Cum Soup,' and 'Uranium Bomb,'...
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GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.…
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Apple, Amazon, and other tech companies reliant on global supply chains stand to lose the most from President Trump’s trade policies, but some software firms expect more demand for their services.
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Robotics and machine learning engineer Naveen Kul developed WattWise, a lightweight open-source CLI tool that monitors power usage via smart plugs and throttles system performance based on electricity pricing and peak hours. Tom's Hardware reports: The simple program, called ...
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Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.…
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NaNoWriMo, the nonprofit behind the annual novel-writing challenge, is shutting down after 20 years but will keep its websites online temporarily so users can retrieve their content. The Guardian reports: A 27-minute YouTube video posted the same day by the organization's...
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Hooters, the restaurant chain named for the prominently-posed busts of its servers, is going tits up. The company filed for bankruptcy today and announced plans to sell its remaining locations to franchisees, thereby guaranteeing continuity of service for those still dining...
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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Calibre 8.0; Fedora reproducibility; OpenWrt One; 6.15 Merge Window; LSFMM+BPF coverage including BPF in GCC, Rust merging process, and more. Briefs: Ubuntu namespaces; New FPL; PorteuX 2.0; Firefox 137.0; GCC Rust;...
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A joint investigation found that at least five popular VPN apps on the App Store and Google Play have ties to Qihoo 360, a Chinese company with military links. Apple has since removed two of the apps but has not confirmed the status of the remaining three, which 9to5Mac...
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President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.
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