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War Games: MoD asks soldiers with 1337 skillz to compete in esports

Troopers to swap radios for Turtle Beaches in preparation for ‘21st century challenges’ The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is doubling down on its endorsement of esports by tasking the British Esports Federation to establish a new tournament to upskill existing servicepeople in the digital skirmishes.…

UK buys time with £1.65B extension to G-Cloud framework

Replacement deal not ready, so old one gets 6 more months and budget bump The UK government is extending two major cloud purchasing agreements due to delayed replacement arrangements under frameworks that could be worth an additional £1.65 billion.…

Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth

It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet Serial entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and currently acts as CEO of payments company Block, has released the source code for a peer-to-peer messaging app called bitchat that relies on Bluetooth for network connectivity.…

Peep show: 40K IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser

Majority of exposures located in the US, including datacenters, healthcare facilities, factories, and more Security researchers managed to access the live feeds of 40,000 internet-connected cameras worldwide and they may have only scratched the surface of what's possible.…

UK's answer to Darpa invests £23.3M in touchy-feely robots

Latest project gets the green light although Brexit-era brainchild faces spending review The UK's version of Darpa — a US government blue-sky research body — has invested £23.3 million (c $32 million) into nine teams working to transform "robotic dexterity."…

HPC

Nvidia CEO says China wouldn't risk building military supers with American AI chips

With half the AI devs in the world, if China can't build on American hardware, they'll build on their own, Jensen warns If the US military wouldn't be caught dead building supercomputers using Chinese kit, there's no reason to think the People's Liberation Army would risk using American gear, argues Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.…

Swiss boffins just trained a 'fully open' LLM on the Alps supercomputer

Source code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on top Supercomputers are usually associated with scientific exploration, research, and development, and ensuring our nuclear stockpiles actually work. …

Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip

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.…

SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip

Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks Euro chip designer SiPearl has released a reference server design featuring its Rhea1 processor, the chip that powers Jupiter, Europe's most powerful supercomputer.…

Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers

Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside Lenovo has pulled a couple of European supercomputer wins out of the bag, one using Intel chips for Imperial College London and an AMD-based system for the European Institute of Oncology.…

Networks

Black Hat's network ops center brings rivals together for a common cause

The Reg goes behind the scenes of the conference NOC, where volunteers 'look for a needle in a needle stack' Black Hat Neil "Grifter" Wyler is spending the week "looking for a needle in a needle stack," a task he'll perform from the network operations center (NOC) that powers the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.…

The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward

'IOWN' backers think it can replace the PCI bus, reinvent servers, and rewire motherboards In December 2024, Japanese tech giant NTT revealed two impressive feats of high-speed networking.…

Mauritius investigates AFRINIC as African institutions show support ahead of new elections

But strife and criticism continue Regional internet registry the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is now the subject of an investigation ordered by the government of its home country, Mauritius.…

Arista pushes Ethernet for AI, downplays effect of tariffs

Thanks to LLMs, CEO expects to see networks 'back-end and front-end converge' Arista Networks is expecting the AI datacenter industry to be dominated by open standards such as Ethernet or UALink in the near future, and has upped financial forecasts on the back of those hopes.…

Mobile industry charts course to smartphone satellite broadband

First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations Satellite comms services to standard phones are officially here, but customers expecting a full voice and data experience may have to wait a while longer and make sure their current devices meet the right level of telecoms standard.…

Storage

Snowflake builds Spark clients for its own analytics engine

No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims Snowflake is launching a client connector to run Apache Spark code directly in its cloud warehouse - no cluster setup required.…

AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev

Cloud giant erased decade of work – denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool Updated An open source developer is claiming AWS deleted his ten-year-old account, wiping all the data. He believes this was due to a botched test of a script designed to prune dormant accounts.…

Brace yourselves, Backup Exec and InfoScale users, Cloud Software Group just acquired your tools

Expect the price hikes and channel changes that proved controversial at VMware, Citrix, and DOGE The Cloud Software Group has acquired data management tools vendor Arctera, the owner of Backup Exec and other data management tools.…

Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords

Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service.…

Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling

Birdsong stores 176 KB, but can it run Doom? Forget flash storage – flock storage is here after it was demonstrated that data can be saved to a bird.…

AI + ML

Meta training AI on social media posts? Only 7% in Europe think it's OK

Privacy campaigner Max Schrem's NOYB is back on Zuck's back Updated Meta's enthusiasm for training its AI on user data is not shared by the users themselves – at least for some Europeans – according a study commissioned by Facebook legal nemesis Max Schrems and his privacy advocacy group Noyb.…

GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI

Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has stated in a personal blog that the most advanced developers have "moved from writing code to architecting and verifying the implementation work that is carried out by AI agents."…

Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear

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Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark Feature "Deceptively spacious." "Prime location." "Up-and-coming area." "Some original features," which occasionally turn out to be asbestos. Estate agents are known for sometimes stretching the truth in pursuit of a sale, but the generative AI boom appears to have thrown things into overdrive – providing an easy way to present images of properties which simply don't reflect reality.…

How to run OpenAI's new gpt-oss-20b LLM on your computer

All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience Hands On Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because you can download them, you can run them locally.…

I see you’re riding an Uber to work. Would you like a cheap coffee on the way?

Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers Uber has revealed its ambition to offer hyper-personalized offers to its customers, but to do so it needs more of them to use more of its apps.…

Cyber Crime

KLM, Air France latest major organizations looted for customer data

Watch out, the phishermen are about, customers told European airline giants Air France and KLM say they are the latest in a string of major organizations to have their customers' data stolen by way of a break-in at a third party org.…

Google says the group behind last year's Snowflake attack slurped data from one of its Salesforce instances

ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions Google confirmed that criminals breached one of its Salesforce databases and stole info belonging to some of its small-and-medium-business customers.…

SonicWall investigates 'cyber incidents,' including ransomware targeting suspected 0-day

Bypassing MFA and deploying ransomware…sounds like something that rhymes with 'schmero-day' SonicWall on Monday confirmed that it's investigating a rash of ransomware activity targeting its firewall devices, following multiple reports of a zero-day bug under active exploit in its VPNs.…

Python-powered malware snags hundreds of credit cards, 200K passwords, and 4M cookies

PXA Stealer pilfers data from nearly 40 browsers, including Chrome More than 4,000 victims across 62 countries have been infected by stealthy infostealers pilfering people's passwords, credit card numbers, and browser cookies, which are then sold to other criminals on Telegram-based marketplaces.…

Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons

Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts Mozilla is warning of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting developers of Firefox add-ons.…

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