FreeBSD 15.0 released with pkgbase

The FreeBSD team has released FreeBSD 15.0, and with it come several major changes, one of which you will surely want to know more about if you’re a FreeBSD user. Since this change will eventually drastically change the way you use FreeBSD, we should get right into it. Up until now, a full, system-wide update for FreeBSD – as in, updating both the base operating system as well as any packages you have installed on top of it – would use two separate tools: freebsd-update and the pkg package manager. You used the former to update the base operating system, which was installed as file sets, and the latter to update everything you had installed on top of it in the form of packages. With FreeBSD 15.0, this is starting to change. Instead of using two separate tools, in 15.0 you can opt to deprecate freebsd-update and file sets, and rely entirely on pkg for updating both the base operating system as well as any packages you have installed, because with this new method, the base system moves from file sets to packages. When installing FreeBSD 15.0, the installer will ask you to choose between the old method, or the new pkg-only method. Packages (pkgbase / New Method): The base system is installed as a set of packages from the “FreeBSD-base” repository. Systems installed this way are managed entirely using the pkg(8) tool. This method is used by default for all VM images and images published in public clouds. In FreeBSD 15.0, pkgbase is offered as a technology preview, but it is expected to become the standard method for managing base system installations and upgrades in future releases. ↫ FreeBSD 15.0 release announcement As the release announcement notes, the net method is optional in FreeBSD 15 and will remain optional during the entire 15.x release cycle, but the plan is to deprecate freebsd-update and file sets entirely in FreeBSD 16.0. If you have an existing installation you wish to convert to using pkgbase, there’s a tool called pkgbasify to do just that. It’s sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation, so it’s not some random script. Of course, there’s way more in this release than just pkgbase. Of note is that the 32bit platforms i386, armv6, and 32-bit powerpc have been retired, but of course, 32bit code will continue to run on their 64bit counterparts. FreeBSD 15.0 also brings a native inotify implementation, a ton of improvements to the audio components, improved Intel Wi-Fi drivers, and so, so much more.

AWS Frontier Agents Handle Code, Security, Ops Without You

has launched three AI agents designed to work autonomously across the software development lifecycle. This move marks a shift from

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Archaeologists Digging Beneath Britain's Houses of Parliament Discover 6,000-Year-Old Flint Artifacts and a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Altar Fragment

During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest of which date to around 4300 B.C.E.

NASA’s Fly Foundational Robots Demo to Bolster In-Space Infrastructure

NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational Robots mission set to launch in late 2027. This mission aims to revolutionize in-space operations, a critical capability for sustainably living and working on other planets. By enabling this technology demonstration, NASA is fostering the […]

Monk Parakeets Are Highly Social Birds, but They Slowly ‘Test the Waters’ When Making New Friends

The bright green parrots start with low-cost social behaviors—like sitting near each other without touching—when first interacting with unfamiliar birds within their species, possibly to avoid aggressive encounters, new research suggests

One Year of MCP: Looking Back, and Forward

In November 2024, Anthropic published a seemingly innocuous blog post entitled Introducing the Model Context Protocol. In it, they promised

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Two Android 0-day bugs disclosed and fixed, plus 105 more to patch

Christmas comes early for attackers this year

Two high-severity Android bugs were exploited as zero-days before Google issued a fix, according to its December Android security bulletin. …

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece

Isaacman backs Texas relocation amid warnings that costs could top $150M

US President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, is "committed to move the Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston," according to the office of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX).…

All About Cedar, an Open Source Solution for Fine-Tuning Kubernetes Authorization

Since 2017, when the feature went into general availability, Kubernetes has employed role-based access control, or RBAC, to determine who

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University of Pennsylvania joins list of victims from Clop's Oracle EBS raid

Ivy League school warns more than 1,400 people after attackers siphon data via zero-day

The University of Pennsylvania has become the latest victim of Clop's smash-and-grab spree against Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) customers, with the Ivy League school now warning more than a thousand individuals that their personal data was siphoned from its systems.…

Microsoft mops up Mesh after another metaverse misfire

Dreams of a virtual world linger on in Teams

As of December 1, mixed reality collaboration platform Microsoft Mesh is no more, and Redmond has directed customers to immersive events in Teams.…

Waxing Gibbous Moon

The waxing gibbous moon rises above Earth’s blue atmosphere in this photograph taken from the International Space Station on Oct. 3, 2025, as it orbited 263 miles above a cloudy Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Quebec, Canada. In our entire solar system, the only object that shines with its own light is the Sun. […]

'Rage Bait,' Which Describes Online Content Created to Make Us Mad, Is Oxford's 2025 Word of the Year

The term "has become shorthand for content designed to elicit anger by being frustrating, offensive or deliberately divisive in nature," according to experts

AWS Updates Its Nova Models To Compete With Google, Anthropic and OpenAI

LAS VEGAS — At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today, AWS launched the latest generation of its family of

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HPE backs AMD's Helios AI rack with Juniper's scale-up switch

Hardware bundle ties next-gen accelerators to an Ethernet fabric arriving in 2026

HPE is throwing its weight behind AMD's Helios rack-scale architecture and will offer this as part of its AI portfolio next year, including a purpose-built Juniper Networks scale-up switch.…

AWS, Google Build a Multicloud Bridge

Addressing a long-standing perceived roadblock in enabling systems to span multiple cloud services, and have jointly developed a standard for

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NASA Tests Drones in Death Valley, Preps for Martian Sands and Skies

Next-generation drone flight software is just one of 25 technologies for the Red Planet that the space agency funded for development this year. When NASA engineers want to test a concept for exploring the Red Planet, they have to find ways to create Mars-like conditions here on Earth. Then they test, tinker, and repeat.  That’s […]

When Did Domestic Cats Take Over the World? New Research Suggests They Arrived in Europe and China Centuries Later Than We Thought

Two genetic analyses suggest that our feline friends reached China around 1,400 years ago via the Silk Road, and that they traveled from North Africa to Europe around 2,000 years ago

Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another

Amar Subramanya spent mere months at Microsoft before replacing John Giannandrea

Apple's failure to deliver advanced AI capabilities has triggered a changing of the guard. AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down in favor of a new leader to steady the Siri ship.…

MongoDB talks up its AI chops by talking down PostgreSQL

CEO touts win from 'super-high growth' customer that couldn't scale on rival system

At the risk of protesting too much in the shifting database landscape, NoSQL-based MongoDB has attempted to trash the competition by claiming PostgreSQL systems lack scalability to keep up with the demands of AI workloads.…

French AI shop Mistral rolls out full suite of Apache-licensed models

Lineup spans 3B to 14B parameters, from edge devices to multi-GPU rigs

Mistral AI has released a suite of open source models under the Mistral 3 banner, aiming to scale from a mobile device or drone up to multi-GPU datacenter beasts.…

Europol nukes Cryptomixer laundering hub, seizing €25M in Bitcoin

Operation Olympia pulls Swiss servers offline and scoops up 12TB of data in latest crime infrastructure crackdown

Law enforcement agencies in Germany and Switzerland have shut down cryptocurrency laundering platform Cryptomixer in Europe's latest pushback against cybercrime infrastructure.…

AWS joins Microsoft, Google in the security AI agent race

Preview tool promises quicker reviews and faster flaw-finding for cloud apps

Re:Invent  AI agents are key to launching applications more quickly – and making them more secure from the start, Amazon says.…

AWS’ New Policy Layer in Bedrock AgentCore Makes Sure AI Agents Can’t Give Away the Store

LAS VEGAS — At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, today announced a number of updates to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

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Amazon primed to fuse Nvidia's NVLink into 4th-gen Trainium accelerators

Meanwhile, Trainium3 makes its debut promising million-chip training clusters

Re:Invent  Amazon says that its next generation of homegrown silicon will deliver 6x higher performance thanks to a little help from its buddy Nvidia.…

Kensington and Chelsea confirms IT outage was a data breach after all

Borough says attackers copied 'historical' info as three-council cyber woes drag on

Kensington and Chelsea Council has admitted that data was quietly lifted from its systems during last week's cyber meltdown, confirming that the outage was not just an IT faceplant but a bona fide data breach.…

London grid crunch delays new housing amid datacenter boom

Assembly report urges clearer planning as soaring AI power demands strain capital's network

Access to electricity has become a major source of delay for housebuilding in London, and datacenters are inevitably tied up in this, leading to calls for greater oversight of energy and construction planning so that they keep pace with demand.…

State of the Thunder 14: The 2026 Mobile Roadmap

Welcome back to the latest State of the Thunder. In the last Community Office Hours, Heather and Monica sat down with members of the mobile team in a retrospective to celebrate the first year of the Thunderbird for Android app. In this recording, however, Alessandro is leading viewers through the upcoming mobile roadmap, both for […]

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Give Claude AI Full Access to Your Local Filesystem With MCP

We’ve done quite a bit of talking about Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard that streamlines how AI

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NASA’s Moon Rocket Celebrates 250 Years of American Innovation

NASA is marking America’s 250th year with a bold new symbol of the nation’s relentless drive to explore. The America 250 emblem is now on the twin solid rocket boosters of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for Artemis II — the powerhouse that will launch a crew of four around the Moon next year. […]

FTC schools edtech outfit after intruder walked off with 10M student records

Regulator says Illuminate ignored years of warnings, stored kids' data in plain text, and kept districts in the dark

US edtech provider Illuminate Education just got dinged by the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly failing to keep an attacker from pilfering data on 10 million students.…

Restack Gives Product Teams the Reins To Own AI Agent Behavior

Andrés Tapia, co-founder and CEO of Restack, says companies are going about AI all wrong. Tapia and his fellow co-founder

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Waymo chalks up another four-legged casualty on San Francisco streets

Passenger recounts chaotic scene after robotaxi runs over small dog

Self-driving car company Waymo has confirmed that one of its vehicles ran over a dog in San Francisco on Sunday.…

Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As part of the ongoing study of pristine samples delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft, three new papers published Tuesday by […]

The 7 Non-Negotiables of AI-Driven Operations

The pressure to deliver seamless, always-on digital experiences has never been higher, but digital operations teams and budgets often can’t

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Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever

2025 Xmas knitware nightmare could be yours if you make us smile: When was peak Microsoft?

Free Wear  It's that time of year again when Microsoft dispatches its latest Ugly Sweater to The Register, and we spoil a lucky reader that makes us smile by sending you the garment in time for Christmas.…

For Some Male Pheasants, Love Really Is Blind. Their Elaborate Feathers That Impress Females Also Obstruct Their Vision

The adornments on the heads of male Lady Amherst’s and golden pheasants partially block their sight, according to new research, marking the first known sex-based differences in field of vision within bird species

Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one

We're getting it baked into Windows whether we like it or not

Opinion  Making software would be the perfect job if it wasn't for those darn users. Windows head honcho Pavan Davuluri would be forgiven for feeling this of late as his happy online paean about Windows becoming an "agentic OS" was met by massive dissent in the comments. "Agentic schmentic, we want reliability, usability, and stability" was the gist.…

UK sinks to fifth in ESA funding league behind Spain

Brit astro Tim Peake's much-vaunted mission to the ISS a distant memory

Nearly ten years after Brit astronaut Tim Peake visited the International Space Station (ISS), the UK has slipped behind Spain in European Space Agency funding rankings.…

Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward

Whether you want a studio rig or a featherweight desktop, MX Linux spins have you covered

AV Linux and MX Moksha are a pair of distros tweaked for audio and music production, each using a different branch of the Enlightenment family of desktops.…

The International Space Station Marks 25 Years of Continuous Human Presence

On Nov. 2, 2025, NASA honored 25 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station. What began as a fragile framework of modules has evolved into a springboard for international cooperation, advanced scientific research and technology demonstrations, the development of a low Earth orbit economy, and NASA’s next great leaps in exploration, including […]

Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong – machines were already on Windows 11

Corrected document clears up rollout timeline and confirms switch well ahead of deadline

The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed its £312 million Windows 10 laptop refresh was, in fact, followed by a Windows 11 upgrade after an earlier letter to Parliament misstated the department's operating system timeline.…

Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling

Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcome

Opinion  There were lots of announcements about Kubernetes at KubeCon North America in Atlanta. I should know, I was there from beginning to end. But the biggest Kubernetes story of all didn't get much attention. Kubernetes is retiring its popular Ingress NGINX controller. Ingress NGINX goes to that big bit farm in the sky in March 2026. After that, " there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered."…

Why Experts Are Racing To Learn About This Interstellar Comet

The comet 3I/ATLAS is taking a long holiday journey this year. It’s visiting from another solar system altogether. Those interstellar origins have the Internet rumor mill questioning whether 3I/ATLAS came from aliens. Co-hosts Emily Kwong and Regina G. Barber dive into that, plus what it and other interstellar comets can tell us about planets beyond our solar system.

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Samsung reveals its first tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode

Buyers get a one-time discount on screen repairs, which hardly screams ‘we nailed this three-screen thing’

Samsung has revealed its first tri-fold phone, and it runs the Korean giant’s DeX desktop environment without the need for an external monitor.…

IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators

Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance

Early in the history of the internet, the powers that be granted amateur radio operators over 16 million IPv4 addresses. Now a proposal has emerged suggesting the same community be granted a substantial chunk of the IPv6 numberspace.…

India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset

'Sanchar Saathi' shares data to help fight fraud and protect carrier security

India’s government has issued a directive that requires all smartphone manufacturers to install a government app on every handset in the country and has given them 90 days to get the job done – and to ensure users can’t remove the code.…

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons

The Foundation that promotes the Zig programming language has quit GitHub due to what its leadership perceives as the code sharing site's decline.…

AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite

Drive around a virtual track in Las Vegas while watching Matt Garman speak on in-game billboards

RE:INVENT  Amazon Web Services has decided to stream all five keynotes from its re:Invent conference in the hit multiplayer game Fortnite, which is more than a little bit bonkers.…

Forgejo monthly report - November 2025

A security release was published for Forgejo v13 and v11 LTS. There is another way to report accessibility issues that lowers the barrier. User research is still seeking your help. A lot of work has been done regarding federation, and the Dutch government has expressed interest in Forgejo.

OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI

Thrive will use the AI-maker's tech in its managed services and accounting businesess

Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. OpenAI says that it has taken an undisclosed ownership stake in Thrive Holdings, the management-focused offshoot of private equity heavyweight Thrive Capital, which itself is a major investor in the ChatGPT maker.…

How Okta Scaled From 12 to 1,000 Kubernetes Clusters With Argo CD

ATLANTA — Let’s just say that Okta’s Auth0 platform customers for private cloud weren’t getting what they likely wanted. Okta’s

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Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence

Caveat coder

In what appears to be the latest example of a troubling trend of "vibe coding" software development tools behaving badly, a Reddit user is reporting that Google's Antigravity platform improperly wiped out the contents of an entire hard drive partition. …

UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server

Predictable URLs break security through obscurity and lack of server access controls don't help

WordPress is the world's most popular content management system, but not so much with the UK government. The country's Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has blamed an inadvertent budget disclosure last week on misconfiguration of its WordPress website.…

Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers

You could do that on a CPU, but who can say no to a 30x GPU speed boost?

As part of its effort to spread GPUs everywhere, Nvidia is investing $2 billion into simulation giant Synopsys. …

Scientists Say These Small Electrical Discharges May Be the First Direct Evidence of Lightning on Mars

Rather than big bolts of lightning as seen on Earth, NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded audio of small zaps similar to those from static electricity

Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z

On its own, the title of this post is just a true piece of trivia, verifiable with the built-in subst tool (among other methods). Here’s an example creating the drive +:\ as an alias for a directory at C:\foo: The +:\ drive then works as normal (at least in cmd.exe, this will be discussed more later): However, understanding why it’s true elucidates a lot about how Windows works under the hood, and turns up a few curious behaviors. ↫ Ryan Liptak Fascinating doesn’t even begin to describe this article, but at the same time, it also makes me wonder at what point maintaining this drive letter charade becomes too burdensome, clunky, and complex. Internally, Windows NT does not use drive letters at all, but for the sake of backwards compatibility and to give the user what they expect, a whole set of abstractions has been crafted to create the illusion that modern versions of Windows still use the same basic drive letter conventions as DOS did 40 years ago. I wonder if we’ll ever reach a point where Windows no longer uses drive letters, or if it’s possible today to somehow remove or disable these abstractions entirely, and run Windows NT without drive letters, as Cutler surely intended. Vast swaths of Windows programs would surely curl up in fetal position and die, including many core components of the operating system itself – as this article demonstrates, very few parts of Windows can handle even something as mundane as a drive letter outside of A-Z – but it’d make for a great experiment. Someone with just the right set of Windows NT skills must’ve tried something like this at some point, either publicly or inside of Microsoft.

What is AI? (Grades 5-8)

This article is for students grades 5-8. What is AI? Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a type of technology that helps machines and computers have “thinking” abilities similar to humans. Devices using AI can learn words and concepts, recognize objects, see patterns, or make predictions. They can also be taught how to work autonomously. AI […]

Experts Say This Small Drawing of a Foot May Be a Long-Lost Study for Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling

After an extensive investigation, the five-inch-tall sketch is heading to auction, where it's predicted to sell for up to $2 million

Migrating Dillo away from GitHub

What do you do if you develop a lightweight browser that doesn’t support JavaScript, but you once chose GitHub as the home for your code? You’re now in the unenviable position that your own browser can no longer access your own online source repository because it requires JavaScript, which is both annoying and, well, a little awkward. The solution is, of course, obvious: you move somewhere else. That’s exactly what the Dillo browser did. They set up a small VPS, opted for cgit as the git frontend for its performance and small size, and for the bug tracker, they created a brand new, very simple bug tracker. To avoid this problem, I created my own bug tracker software, buggy, which is a very simple C tool that parses plain Markdown files and creates a single HTML page for each bug. All bugs are stored in a git repository and a git hook regenerates the bug pages and the index on each new commit. As it is simply plain text, I can edit the bugs locally and only push them to the remote when I have Internet back, so it works nice offline. Also, as the output is just an static HTML site, I don’t need to worry about having any vulnerabilities in my code, as it will only run at build time. ↫ Rodrigo Arias Mallo There’s more considerations detailed in the article about Dillo’s migration, and it can serve as inspiration for anyone else running a small open source project who wishes to leave GitHub behind. With GitHub’s continuing to add more and more complexity and “AI” to separate open source code from its licensing terms, we may see more and more projects giving GitHub the finger.

Teaching a Billion People to Code: How JupyterLite Is Scaling the Impossible

Picture half a million French high school students learning math and programming in their individual browsers, all running simultaneously from

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Landlock-ing Linux

Landlock is a Linux API that lets applications explicitly declare which resources they are allowed to access. Its philosophy is similar to OpenBSD’s unveil() and (less so) pledge(): programs can make a contract with the kernel stating, “I only need these files or resources — deny me everything else if I’m compromised.” It provides a simple, developer-friendly way to add defense-in-depth to applications. Compared to traditional Linux security mechanisms, Landlock is vastly easier to understand and integrate. This post is meant to be an accessible introduction, and hopefully persuade you to give Landlock a try. ↫ prizrak.me blog I had no idea this existed, even though it seems to plug a hole in the security and sandboxing landscape on Linux by not requiring any privileges and by being relatively simple and straightforward to use. There’s even an additional “supervisor” proposal that would bring Android-like permissions not just to, say, desktop applications (see Flatpak), but to every process trying to access anything for the first time. I’m not knowledgeable enough to make any statements about Landlock compared to any other options we have for securing desktop Linux in a user-friendly, non-intrusive manner, but I definitely like its simplicity.

Sting's Musical 'The Last Ship' Docks at the Metropolitan Opera House More Than a Decade After Its Broadway Debut

The reimagined production follows the decline of the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend, England, where Sting grew up

Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware

And some are still active in the Microsoft Edge store

A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the extensions with more than 4 million installs are still live in the Edge marketplace.…

Ancient DNA Reveals That a Teenage Girl Chewed on This Wad of 'Gum' 10,500 Years Ago

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and brown eyes

Search the pre-ChatGPT internet with the Slop Evader browser extension

Surf Google SERPs like it's November 29, 2022, with this workaround for the age of AI slop

ChatGPT's public debut on November 30, 2022, is widely seen by critics as the start of the AI-slop era online. Those yearning for a more human-written web can get some relief from a browser extension that filters Google searches to pre-ChatGPT results.…

FlowAI Gives Agents a Greater Role in Infrastructure Automation

The future of infrastructure management will include using reasoning-based agents to take over a greater portion of the deterministic layer in

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Four arrested in South Korea over massive IP camera snooping spree

Plus: Aussie Wi-Fi phisher and Brit dark web dealer nailed

Cybercrime suspects and offenders across three continents have been rounded up this week, with cases spanning hacked IP cameras in South Korea, evil twin Wi-Fi traps in Australia, and a dark web drug empire in rural England.…

Sagittarius B2 Molecular Cloud

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured glowing cosmic dust heated by very young massive stars in unprecedented detail in this image of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud released on Sept. 24, 2025. Sgr B2 is the most massive, and active star-forming region in our galaxy, located only a […]

HSBC partners with Mistral AI as banking giants spend billions looking for LLM boost

Move follows Bank of America's $4B new tech war chest

Global bank HSBC and Mistral AI have announced a deal they say will spread the use of generative AI across the financial institution, saving employees time and improving processes.…

HPE pumps AI cloud lineup with extra Nvidia capabilities

Blackwell GPUs, Juniper integration, and a planned France lab aim to speed enterprise rollouts

HPE is upgrading its Private Cloud AI stack with Nvidia technology and preparing a France-based AI Factory Lab where customers will be able to test out workloads.…

Get Started With NLP Using Hugging Face and Python

Hugging Face is a powerful AI library that applies pre-trained models to solve real-world problems. It’s a Natural Language Processing

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Pigeons Rely on the Earth’s Magnetic Field to Navigate. Now, Researchers May Have Uncovered How They Do It

The vestibular system, a set of structures in the inner ears that helps with balance, may grant the birds their special ability

Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer

Stop AI bloat, fix the operating system, implores veteran software developer Dave Plummer

The Windows operating system is buckling under AI features that seem designed more for shareholders than users, and retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer says it's time to hit pause.…

‘Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard

Researchers have used metamathematical techniques to show that certain theorems that look superficially distinct are in fact logically equivalent.

The post ‘Reverse Mathematics’ Illuminates Why Hard Problems Are Hard first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Dutch study finds teen cybercrime is mostly just a phase

Only a select few continue into later life, mainly for the love of the game

Young threat actors may be rebels without a cause. These cybercriminals typically grow out of their offending ways by the time they turn 20, according to data published by the Dutch government.…

AWS and Google build a fix for multi-cloud barriers they said didn't exist

After reassuring regulators all was well, pair debut interconnect to smooth the bumps

Re:invent  AWS and Google Cloud are promoting a jointly developed multi-cloud connectivity service, despite recently assuring competition authorities that no technical barriers existed for customers wanting to operate across multiple clouds.…

A DNA Analysis of Almost 3,000 Canines Suggests That Most Dogs Have a Little Wolf in Them

The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian scientists thought

South Korea's answer to Amazon admits breach exposed 33.7M customers

Coupang confirms internationally routed intrusion compromised more than half of the country's population

South Korean retail behemoth Coupang has admitted to a data breach that exposed the personal details of 33.7 million customers, turning the company's famed "Rocket Delivery" logistics empire into an express shipment for personal information.…

Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival

Overbudget Project Future will continue to cause problems into Q2 next year, chairman admits

Asda's delayed tech divorce from Walmart, which involved a complete SAP ERP upgrade, has caused "severe disruption" hitting the UK retailer's quarterly revenue.…

Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof

Budget model slips in at $45 while other boards climb amid AI-driven component crunch

Raspberry Pi has raised prices across much of its latest lineup while launching a new \(45 Raspberry Pi 5 with 1GB of RAM, it's first sub-\)50 model in the series.…

Your Brain Goes Through Five Distinct Epochs of Neural Wiring During Your Lifetime, New Research Suggests

These eras of brain architecture are marked by four major turning points, which occur around the ages of 9, 32, 66 and 83, according to a new study

French Football Federation faces own-goal after club software data breach

Zut alors! Cybercrooks scored names, numbers, and license IDs

The French Football Federation (FFF) has conceded that attackers broke into its member management software using a compromised account, scoring a match sheet's worth of player data in the process.…

Mark Elder: Building the Future of Spacewalking for Artemis and Beyond

For more than 25 years, Mark Elder has helped make human spaceflight safe and possible. As the International Space Station EVA hardware manager in the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Office within the EVA and Human Surface Mobility Program, he leads the team responsible for the spacesuits, tools, and logistics that keep astronauts protected during spacewalks—and ensures […]

Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul

Authority follows Birmingham and West Sussex, which both suffered disastrous transitions

Updated  Southwest England's Dorset Council is preparing to swap its legacy SAP ERP for an Oracle-built replacement in a project set to cost £14.2 million over three years.…

Speccy clone storms back for Christmas without a shred of Sinclair code

Rubber-key revival leans on Linux, emulation, and third-party ROMs

The Spectrum is an inexpensive home entertainment gadget from Retro Games Ltd (RGL) that's hauntingly similar to a totally unrelated 1980s home entertainment device that was loved by millions.…

Landlord quirks leave thousands of flats stuck in the broadband slow lane

Openreach pushes for legal overhaul as apartments fall through fiber rollout gaps

Brits living in blocks of flats or apartments risk missing out on high-speed fiber broadband due to quirks in domestic regulations that can hinder access for telco engineers.…

Microsoft appears to move on from its most loyal ‘customers’ – Contoso and Fabrikam

Outfit called 'Zava' selling 'intelligent athletic apparel' is now in the spotlight as Redmond's fake brand for the AI age

Microsoft appears to have moved on from two of its most loyal and enthusiastic "customers".…

Who Should Track Their Blood Sugar?

Prediabetes is common in the U.S. — around 1 in 3 people have it. And many people may not know they have it. But last year, the FDA approved the first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor. Since then, more people without diabetes have started checking their blood glucose levels. Diabetologist and University of California, San Francisco professor of medicine Dr. Sarah Kim shares the science behind blood glucose with host Emily Kwong.

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Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books

Forgot one setting, for one subdomain, and caused an hour of severe errors

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Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

Corrupt data could have made A320 autopilot do things ‘exceeding the aircraft’s structural capability’

Airlines around the world have rushed to roll back software that powers Airbus A320 planes after the aviation giant discovered a recent update could put the aircraft in danger.…

A Glimpse of History in Benin City

The ancient walls, ramparts, and ditches that wind through this Nigerian city are the longest known earthworks of the pre-mechanical era.

Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs

PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more!

Asia in Brief  Singapore’s government last week told Google and Apple to prevent fake government messages.…

Swiss government says give M365, and all SaaS, a miss as it lacks end-to-end encryption

PLUS: Exercise app tells spies to stop mapping; GitLab scan reveals 17,000 secrets; Leak exposes Iran’s Charming Kitten; And more!

Infosec In Brief  Switzerland’s Conference of Data Protection Officers, Privatim, last week issued a resolution calling on Swiss public bodies to avoid using hyperscale clouds and SaaS services due to security concerns.…

Is Using Command Line AI an Option for Helping You Code?

Earlier today, I got curious and asked myself, “How well would using command line AI work for programming?” I’ve used

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When GenAI Breaks, Rigorous Orchestration Keeps It Running

Anything that succeeds in production runs exactly as expected: reliably, transparently and without breaking under high pressure. The same should

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Gaming on Linux? Bazzite Is a Great Place To Start

Gaming on Linux got a huge boost recently, thanks to the pending release of the upcoming Steam Machine, a compact

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2025’s ‘Advent of Code’ Event Chooses Tradition Over AI

Are you ready to code? Today, programmers around the world start counting the hours until Dec. 1, and 2025’s annual

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System 7 natively boots on the Mac Mini G4

Only a few weeks ago, the CHRP variants of Mac OS 7.6 and 8 were discovered and uploaded to the internet for posterity, but we’re already seeing the positive results of this event unfold: Mac OS 7.x can now run on the Mac Mini G4 – natively. The very short of it is as follows. First, the CHRP release of Mac OS 8 contains a ROM file that allows Mac OS 8 to boot on the G4 Mac Mini. Second, the CHRP release of 7.6 contains a System Enabler that allows 7.6 earlier versions to run by using the aforementioned ROM file. Third, the ROM has been modified to add compatibility with as many Mac models as possible. There’s a lot more to it, of course, but the end result is that quite a few more older, pre-9.x versions of Mac OS can now run on G4 and G3 Macs, which is quite cool. Of course, there are limitations. Note that, although I describe many of these as “stable”, I mean you can use much of it normally (sound/video/networking aside) without it crashing or misbehaving, at least not too hard, but that is not to say everything works, because that is just not the case. For example, when present, avoid opening the Apple System Profiler, unless you want a massive crash as it struggles trying to profile and gather all the information about your system. Some other apps or Control Panels might either not work, or work up to a certain point, after which they might freeze, requiring you to Force Quit the Finder to keep on going. And so on. ↫ Jubadub at Mac OS 9 Lives Issues or no, this is amazing news, and great work by all involved.

Broadcom ‘Doubles Down’ on Open Source, Donates Kubernetes Tool to CNCF

ATLANTA — Broadcom used KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA to allay fears that it was pulling back on its support for

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Python Is Quickly Evolving To Meet Modern Enterprise AI Needs

Python is ubiquitous. Millions of professionals, from scientists to software developers, rely on it. Organizations like and Meta have built

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Most Developers Call AI Data With APIs and A2A

A recent Theory Ventures survey found that 91% out of 413 senior technical builders surveyed are either directly building AI,

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Genode OS Framework 25.11 released

The release 25.11 wraps up our year of “rigidity, clarity, performance” with a bouquet of vast under-the-hood improvements. Genode’s custom kernel received special tuning of its new CPU scheduler for Sculpt-OS workloads, and became much more scalable with respect to virtual-memory management. Combined, those efforts visibly boost the performance of Sculpt OS on performance-starved hardware like the PinePhone or the i.MX8-based MNT Reform laptop. On account of improving clarity, our new configuration format – now named human-inclined data (HID) – proliferates throughout Genode’s tooling. We are also happy to report that almost all Genode components have become interoperable with both XML and HID by now. ↫ Genode OS Framework 25.11 release notes The Genode Framework 25.11 also brings a major change to how important shared components that aren’t strictly part of the framework are handled, such as ports like libSDL, sqlite, or gnutls. Before, these could only be built with the Genode build system, which was suboptimal because this isn’t designed for building individual components. Several changes have been made to now enable the use of multiple build systems and the Goa SDK, which should make it a lot easier to these crucial components to become the responsibility of wider parts of the community. There’s way more, of course, such as the usual driver improvements, including the addition of support for serial-to-USB adapters.

Dell: about 1 billion PCs will not or cannot be upgraded to Windows 11

During a Dell earnings call, the company mentioned some staggering numbers regarding the amount of PCs that will not or cannot be upgraded to Windows 11. “We have about 500 million of them capable of running Windows 11 that haven’t been upgraded,” said Dell COO Jeffrey Clarke on a Q3 earnings call earlier this week, referring to the overall PC market, not just Dell’s slice of machines. “And we have another 500 million that are four years old that can’t run Windows 11.” He sees this as an opportunity to guide customers towards the latest Windows 11 machines and AI PCs, but warns that the PC market is going to be relatively flat next year. ↫ Tom Warren at The Verge The monumental scale of the Windows 10 install base that simply won’t or cannot upgrade to Windows 11 is massive, and it’s absolutely bonkers to me that we’re mostly just letting them get away with leaving at least a billion users out in the cold when it comes to security updates and bug fixes. The US government (in better times) and the EU should’ve 100% forced Microsoft’s hand, as leaving this many people on outdated, unsupported operating system installations is several disasters waiting to happen. Aside from the dangerous position Microsoft is forcing its Windows 10 users into, there’s also the massive environmental and public health impact of huge swaths of machines, especially in enterprise environments, becoming obsolete overnight. Many of these will end up in landfills, often shipped to third-world countries so we in the west don’t have to deal with our e-waste and its dangerous consequences directly. I can get fined for littering – rightfully so – but when a company like Microsoft makes sweeping decisions which cause untold amounts of dangerous chemicals to be dumped in countless locations all over the globe, governments shrug it off and move on. At least we will get some cheap eBay hardware out of it, I guess.

CDE 2.5.3 released

So my love for the Common Desktop Environment isn’t exactly a secret, so let’s talk about the project’s latest release, CDE 2.5.3, released a few days ago. As the version number suggests, this first new version in two years is a rather minor release, containing only a few bug fixes. For instance, CDE’s window manager dtwm picked up support for more mouse buttons, its file manager dtfile now uses sh to find files instead of ksh, and a few more of these rather minor, but welcome, changes and bugfixes. Ever since CDE was released as open source over thirteen years ago, and while considerable work has been done to make it build, install, and run on modern platforms, that’s kind of where the steam ran out. CDE isn’t being actively developed to build upon its strengths and add new and welcome features and conveniences, but is instead kept in a sort of buildable stasis. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this – it keeps CDE accessible on modern platforms, and that’s a huge amount of work that deserves respect and gratitude – but it’d be nice if we lived in a world where there was enough interest (and time and money) to have people work on actually improving it. Of course, the reality is that there’d be very little interest in such an improved CDE, and that’s exactly why it isn’t happening. On top op the current work the CDE team is doing, you’d need to not only develop new features, but also improve the Motif toolkit to make such new features possible, and make sure such improvements don’t break anything else. With such an old codebase, that can’t possible be an easy task. Still, I will continue to daydream of a slightly more modernised CDE with some additional niceties we’ve come to expect over the past 30 years, even if I know full well it’s futile.

Moss: a Linux-compatible kernel written in Rust

Moss is a Unix-like, Linux-compatible kernel written in Rust and Aarch64 assembly. It features a modern, asynchronous core, a modular architecture abstraction layer, and binary compatibility with Linux userspace applications (currently capable of running most BusyBox commands). ↫ Moss’ GitHub page I mean, hobby operating systems and kernels written in Rust aren’t exactly the most unique right now, but that doesn’t make them any less interesting for the kinds of people that frequent a site called OSNews. Moss has quite a few things going for it, including support for enough Linux system calls to run most BusyBox commands, complex memory and process management, use of Rust’s async/await model in the kernel, and much more.

2026 Will Be the Year of Agentic Workloads in Production on Amazon EKS

When launched Elastic Kubernetes Service in 2018, the target audience was early adopters who wanted a managed control plane and

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From Cloud Native To AI Native: Where Are We Going?

Has the cloud native era now fully morphed into the AI-native era? If so, what does that mean for the

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Newly Found Organics in Enceladus’ Plumes

Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed tiger stripes near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in this image released on Feb. 23, 2010. A study published in October 2025 analyzed data from NASA’s Cassini mission and found evidence of previously undetected organic compounds in […]

Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient 'Parking Lot' With 16 Dugout Canoes—Including One That's 5,200 Years Old

The team has several theories about how Indigenous groups created and used the vessels, which were discovered during research over the past five years

Baikonur's only crew-capable pad busted after Soyuz flight

Roscosmos confirms 'damage' as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027

The pad used by Russia to send Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) sustained damage during yesterday's crew launch, according to Roscosmos.…

Platform Engineering: Where Software-Defined Storage Fits

Platform engineering has evolved significantly from its early focus on manual on-premises systems management into a complex ecosystem of cloud

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Mysterious Viking Age Woman Found Buried With Scallop Shells Covering Her Mouth

Archaeologists discovered the unusual ninth-century grave on a farm along the coast of central Norway

Will This Newly Approved Crash Test Dummy Make Car Accidents Less Deadly for Women?

The government approved the specifications of THOR-05F, marking a first step toward the government and manufacturers potentially using the dummy in future car safety tests. But it still represents only the smallest women in the United States

How Amazon Prepares for Black Friday: Predictive Modeling

ATLANTA — When running a web-scale operation, reacting to increased demand means you are already behind the curve, advised a

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PostHog admits Shai-Hulud 2.0 was its biggest ever security bungle

Automation flaw in CI/CD workflow let a bad pull request unleash worm into npm

PostHog says the Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm compromise was "the largest and most impactful security incident" it's ever experienced after attackers slipped malicious releases into its JavaScript SDKs and tried to auto-loot developer credentials.…

A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests

CSS-in-JS: The Great Betrayal of Frontend Sanity

We were promised elegance. What we got was runtime CSS parsing, unreadable class names, and hydration bugs straight out of

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Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records

Crims claim to know which customers are marked 'vulnerable'

British telco Brsk is investigating claims that it was attacked by cybercriminals who made off with more than 230,000 files.…

GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance

Project cites fears of state access as cloud sovereignty row deepens

French cloud outfit OVHcloud took another hit this week after GrapheneOS, a mobile operating system, said it was ditching the company's servers over concerns about France's approach to digital privacy.…

KDE Plasma sets date to dump X11 as Wayland push accelerates

If that's a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE – and tmux

The oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up.…

Shipping Syslog Data to Elasticsearch With Fluent Bit

Fluent Bit is a widely used open source data collection agent, processor and forwarder that enables you to collect logs,

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SK hynix wants you to bond with HBM, so it coated corn in banana chocolate

Pushes semiconductor familiarity via chip-shaped edible squares

SK hynix has launched HBM-themed square corn snacks at 7-Eleven, because nothing explains bandwidth like carbs and chocolate.…

Migrating VMs to Containers: What To Know Before You Start

There are many reasons cloud native enterprises are moving their virtual machines to containers. Whether they’re seeking cost savings or

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TryHackMe races to add women to Christmas cyber challenge roster after backlash

Training outfit scrambles to fix all-male lineup before December kickoff

Cybersecurity training provider TryHackMe is scrambling to recruit women infosec pros to help with its Christmas challenge following backlash concerning a lack of gender diversity.…

Kamera Uses Simulation To Verify Kubernetes Controller Logic

Tim Goodwin, a graduate student at the University of California Santa Cruz has been thinking a lot about the future

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GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are

Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce

For as long as I have been a reporter and analyst in the IT sector, November has always been supercomputing month. Way before there was a TOP500 ranking of supercomputers in June 1993 but just as I was leaving university, the first Supercomputing Conference was held in Orlando in 1988. And that November SC show set the cadence for high-performance computing for the decades that followed.…

Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations

Another reason why the OS seems to swell with every update

Changing text in Microsoft Windows requires freezing string updates well before code changes stop, often leading to strange wording that persists for years.…

OBR drags in cyber bigwig after Budget leak blunder

Ex-NCSC chief Ciaran Martin asked to examine how forecast ended up online ahead of schedule

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has drafted in former National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) chief Ciaran Martin to sniff out how its Budget day forecast wandered onto the open internet before the Chancellor had even reached the dispatch box.…

UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings

The UK government has finally put a £1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans – days after the minister responsible refused to name a figure.…

UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants

Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain

The UK government collected just £800 million in Digital Services Tax (DST) from companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, and TikTok in the most recent tax year.…

Digital Realty, Equinix battle for €4.5B atNorth acquisition

Nordic datacenter operator's cool-climate facilities attract bids amid AI-driven market frenzy

Digital Realty and a consortium including Equinix are competing to acquire atNorth, a Scandinavian datacenter operator, according to reports.…

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down

A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a career

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and unjust admonitions.…

What’s In A Kiss? 21 Million Years Of Evolution

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists found that kissing was likely present in the ancestor of all apes – which lived 21 million years ago. Not only that: They were definitely kissing Neanderthals. The study was published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. In this news roundup, we also talk about new clues about the collision that created our moon and a moss surviving the hardships of space.

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Rings of Rock in the Sahara

In southeastern Libya, Jabal Arkanū’s concentric rock rings stand as relics of past geologic forces that churned beneath the desert.

VMware isn’t budging in its pursuit of Siemens for alleged unpaid licenses

Fresh court filings try to keep the case about copyright, and in US courts

VMware has come out swinging in its case against Siemens over alleged unlicensed use of its software.…

Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks

‘Our soup’s not toxic but this chap’s behavior was’ is the gist of the defense

Food company Campbell’s, best known for its soups and the iconic cans they come in, has parted ways with a vice president for IT after another member of the company’s tech team recorded him criticizing the company’s products.…

Korean web giant Naver acquired crypto exchange Upbit, which reported a $30m heist a day later

Talk about buyer’s remorse

South Korean web giant Naver has had an interesting week, after it acquired a cryptocurrency exchange that the next day revealed it had suffered a serious cyberattack.…

The New Role of Enterprise Architecture in the AI Era

Enterprise architecture (EA), which connects business strategy with technological execution, provides organizations a shared framework of how data, systems and

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Zendesk users targeted as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters spin up fake support sites

ReliaQuest finds fresh crop of phishing domains and toxic tickets

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be circling Zendesk users for its latest extortion campaign, with new phishing domains and weaponized helpdesk tickets uncovered by ReliaQuest.…

OpenAI cuts off Mixpanel after analytics leak exposes API users

ChatGPT maker places other vendors under review following breach

OpenAI says API users may be affected by a recent breach at its former data analytics provider, Mixpanel.…

Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole

$12K machine promises performance that can scale to 32 chip servers and beyond but immature stack makes harnessing compute challenging

hands on  Tenstorrent probably isn't the first name that springs to mind when it comes to AI infrastructure. But unlike the litany of AI chip startups vying for VC funding and a slice of Nvidia's pie, Tenstorrent's chips actually exist outside the lab.…

Rosalind Franklin rover catches a break as NASA reaffirms commitment

ExoMars project may actually get to the red planet one day

The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project.…

Platform Engineering’s True Value Is in Application Development

The ultimate goal of platform engineering is not straightforward and deserves nuanced consideration. Platform engineering is a discipline, within the

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FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover

Agency flags hijacks of insecure studio-to-transmitter gear after attackers pipe in fake alerts and vulgar audio

Malicious intruders have hijacked US radio gear to turn emergency broadcast tones into a profanity-laced alarm system.…

Asahi admits ransomware gang may have spilled almost 2M people's data

Brewer finally tallies fallout from September attack as it pushes earnings into 2026

Asahi has finally done the sums on September's ransomware attack in Japan, conceding the crooks may have helped themselves to personal data tied to almost 2 million people.…

Gnome Foundry Is a New ‘IDE in a Box’ for Linux

Gnome Builder has been around for a long, long time. If you’ve never experienced Builder, I will say that it’s

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NASA Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Arrive at Space Station

NASA astronaut Chris Williams, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, safely arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, expanding the orbiting laboratory’s crew to 10 for the next two weeks. The trio launched aboard the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft at 4:27 a.m. EST (2:27 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in […]

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty

OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access

A Canadian court has ordered French cloud provider OVHcloud to hand over customer data stored in Europe, potentially undermining the provider's claims about digital sovereignty protections.…

Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack

Audit sympathetic toward Comhairle nan Eilean Siar as staff stretched to capacity trying to recover

Auditors remain concerned about the cyber resilience of a Scottish council as some systems are yet to be fully rebuilt following a ransomware attack in November 2023.…

One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation takes off

IT in the firing line as 'legacy' roles under the microscope

AI-pocalypse  New research suggests AI deployment is creating significant workforce redundancies across major organizations.…

Tiny tweak for Pi OS, big makeover for the Imager

Debian 13.2 freshness, better HiDPI support, and 101 other things to run on your Pi

Raspberry Pi Ltd has shipped two updates for its single-board computers: a very small refresh to Pi OS 6, and a more substantial upgrade to the tool that writes your Pi's operating system to an SD card.…

HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show

Arm and RISC-V would like a word

Feature  Remember when high-performance computing always seemed to be about x86? Exactly a decade ago, almost nine in ten supercomputers in the TOP500 (a list of the beefiest machines maintained twice yearly by academics) were Intel-based. Today, it's down to 57 percent.…

TSMC lawsuit claims former exec is probably leaking secrets to Intel

Chipzilla can certainly use foundry smarts, but denies the allegation

Taiwanese foundry TSMC believes a former executive has leaked company secrets to Intel and is testing the matter in court.…

ICANN distances itself from radical proposal – which it funded – to give nations a role in internet governance

Africa is again at the center of strife

ICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the group’s proposal.…

Cranberry Country, Wisconsin

The tart berry and state fruit brings a red pop to holiday feasts—and to satellite images of Midwestern marshlands.

Apple’s lousy AI didn’t stop it beating Samsung’s smartphone sales for the first time since 2011

Analyst Counterpoint says second-hand phones are also helping Cupertino to the smartphone shipment summit

Apple is set to displace Samsung as the world’s top smartphone manufacturer, measured by shipment volume, according to analyst firm Counterpoint.…

AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles

60-minute RTO means big outages can still happen

The cause of major internet outages is often the domain name system (DNS) and/or problems at Amazon Web Services’ US East region. The cloud giant has now made a change that will make its own role in such outages less painful.…

I work for an evil company, but outside work, I’m actually a really good person

I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five days a week, from morning to night, outside work, I’m actually a really good person. ↫ Emily Bressler at McSweeney’s The tech industry is full of people like this.

KDE to drop X11 session in KDE Plasma 6.8

The KDE project has made the call. Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included. ↫ The Plasma Team They’re following in the footsteps of the GNOME project, who will also be leaving the legacy windowing system behind. What this means in practice is that official KDE X11 support will cease once KDE Plasma 6.7 is no longer supported, which should be somewhere early 2027. Do note that the KDE developers intend to release a few extra bugfix releases in the 6.7 release cycle to stabilise the X11 session as much as possible for those people who are going to stick with KDE Plasma 6.7 to keep X11 around. For people who wish to keep using X11 after that point, the KDE project advises them to switch to LTS distributions like Alma Linux, which intend to keep supporting Plasma X11 until 2032. Xwayland will handle virtually all X11 applications running inside the Wayland session, including X11 forwarding, with similar functionality implemented in Wayland through Waypipe. Also note that this only applies to Plasma as a whole; KDE applications will continue to support X11 when run in other desktop environments or on other platforms. As for platforms other than Linux – FreeBSD already has relatively robust Wayland support, so if you intend to run KDE on FreeBSD in the near future, you’ll have to move over to Wayland there, as well. The other BSD variants are also dabbling with Wayland support, so it won’t be long before they, too, will be able to run the KDE Plasma Wayland session without any issues. What this means is that the two desktop environments that probably make up like 95% of the desktop Linux user base will now be focusing exclusively on Wayland, which is great news. X11 is a legacy platform and aside from retrocomputing and artisanal, boutique setups, you simply shouldn’t be using it anymore. Less popular desktop environments like Xfce, Cinnamon, Budgie, and LXQt are also adding Wayland support, so it won’t be much longer before virtually no new desktop Linux installations will be using X11. One X down, one more to go.

Microsoft will start preloading Explorer because it’s so slow

With all the problems Windows is facing, I think one area where Microsoft can make some easy, quick gains is by drastically improving Explorer, Windows’ file manager. It seems that in the latest developer releases, they’re doing just that. The most impactful change – possibly – is that Microsoft is going to preload Explorer. We’re exploring preloading File Explorer in the background to help improve File Explorer launch performance. This shouldn’t be visible to you, outside of File Explorer hopefully launching faster when you need to use it. If you have the change, if needed there is an option you can uncheck to disable this called “Enable window preloading for faster launch times” in File Explorer’s Folder Options, under View. ↫ Windows Insider Program Team Microsoft is also reordering the context menu in Explorer, and while this may seem like a small set of changes, the new context menu does look much tidier and less busy. They achieve this by moving a few top-level items to a submenu, and reordering some other elements. Sadly, the context menu still retains its own context menu (“Show more options”), which is a traditional Win32 menu – which I still think is one of the most Windows of Windows things of all time. Regardless, I hope these small changes make Explorer more bearable to use for those of you still using Windows, because we all know you need it.

Cursor 2.0 IDE Is Now Supercharged With AI and I’m Impressed

The Cursor IDE has been recently updated to version 2.0, and it carries with it some powerful AI integration. This

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Ethiopian Volcano Erupts for the First Time in Nearly 12,000 Years of Scientific Records

The plume from the Hayli Gubbi volcano drifted east over the Arabian Sea and extended roughly 2,200 miles

Gainsight CEO downplays breach, says only a 'handful' of customers had data stolen

Maybe if your hand has 200+ fingers...

Gainsight CEO Chuck Ganapathi downplayed the victim count related to his company's recent breach, saying he's only aware of "a handful of customers" who had their data affected after Salesforce flagged unusual activity involving Gainsight's connected app.…

KServe Joins CNCF To Standardize AI Model Serving on Kubernetes

At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America last month, the accepted the open source KServe software as an incubating project. KServe’s prominence in

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This Toddler Was the First Person to Receive a Test Treatment for a Rare Genetic Disorder. Nine Months Later, His Progress Is Inspiring Hope

Oliver Chu is one of five kids participating in a clinical trial investigating a gene therapy for Hunter syndrome, a disorder with symptoms akin to childhood dementia that limits life expectancy

A.I. Reveals Signs of Early Life in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks. Next, It Could Continue the Search in Space

The new approach looks at the distribution of molecular fragments in material, allowing for broad surveys in degraded specimens

Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon

HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potential

This week the Norwegian scientific community celebrated the completion of the Olivia supercomputer, which combines AMD CPUs with Nvidia Superchips to deliver a 16-fold boost to the nation's computing capacity – and eventually put fresh fish on the table.…

See the 'Mona Lisa of Illuminated Manuscripts,' a 600-Year-Old Bible Covered in Intricate Illustrations

Created between 1455 and 1461, the Borso D'Este Bible is currently on view in the Italian Senate in Rome

Botnet takes advantage of AWS outage to smack 28 countries

Even worse, it might have been a 'test run' for future attacks

A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October's widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a "test run" for future attacks, according to Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.…

PLANETS Units Have Landed – Free NASA-Funded Out-of-School Time Resources

The NASA Science Activation program’s PLANETS (Planetary Learning that Advances the Nexus of Engineering, Technology, and Science) project, led by Northern Arizona University (NAU), is pleased to announce the official launch of three free out-of-school (OST) time units that give all learners in grades 3-5 and 6-8 the chance to do real planetary science and […]

Beyond Scripts: The Shift From Automation to Agentic AI

Industry engineering has transformed over the past decade. Nearly every function is now automated from integration and testing to deployment

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Artemis II Orion Spacecraft Stacked

In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut […]

Mobile industry warns patchwork cyber regs are driving up costs

GSMA says fragmented, poorly designed laws add burdens without making networks any safer

Mobile operators' core cybersecurity spending is projected to more than double by 2030 as threats evolve, while poorly designed and fragmented policy frameworks add extra compliance costs, according to industry group the GSMA.…

Deploy Agentic AI Workflows With Kubernetes and Terraform

AI agents are evolving from simple, prompt-based assistants into complex, multiagent systems capable of reasoning, memory retention and collaboration. However,

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Doom hits KiCad as PCB traces become demons and doors

Engineer bends layout tool into vector renderer, then pushes frames through a MacBook's headphone jack

There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope.…

SolidJS Creator on Fine-Grained Reactivity as Next Frontier

Solid plans to introduce a new primitive to its reactive architecture, according to a talk by SolidJS creator Ryan Carniato at

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Dogs Have Been Surprisingly Diverse for More Than 10,000 Years, New Research Suggests

Two studies provide scientists with a more comprehensive understanding of how early dogs were domesticated as they migrated around the world alongside humans

3 AI Plays To Survive During Holiday Change Freezes

The holiday season is upon us and so are change freezes. The engineering tradition to pause deployments during this wonderful,

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CodeRED emergency alert system CodeDEAD after INC ransomware attack

Regions across US affected, and one tore up its contract for the product

Towns and cities across the US are without access to their CodeRED emergency alert system following a cyberattack on vendor Crisis24.…

US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for tomorrow's threats

Service limits 20-ship line to two hulls after redesigns and delays torpedo schedule

The US Navy is scrapping an entire shipbuilding program in an effort to find alternatives that can be delivered faster to counter expected threats.…

Tech Veterans’ New Approach To Eliminate ‘Configuration Hell’

There’s gotta be a better way! As with so many startups, that was the idea behind ConfigHub, focused on delivering

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Workday confronts existential threat as customers freeze hiring

HR software vendor pushes cross-selling as modest workforce growth exposes vulnerability of per-seat pricing

Workday is confronting a troubling reality. Customers aren't hiring much and some are actively cutting staff. The solution? Cross-selling to squeeze more revenue per user out of its installed base.…

HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030

OpenAI needs to secure $207 billion in new financing by 2030 to fulfill its expansion plans, according to HSBC Global Investment Research – a challenge that could ripple across Big Tech.…

Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80

Time to test just how far fandom and taste will stretch

If Xbox console prices are going to leave Santa short this year, fear not as an alternative is at hand - Xbox Crocs are here for $80.…

The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC

From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower

Feature  A silent arms race is accelerating in the world's most advanced laboratories. While headlines focus on chatbots and consumer AI, the United States is orchestrating something far more consequential: a massive expansion of supercomputing power that may reshape the future of science, security, and technological supremacy.…

London councils probe cyber incident as shared IT systems knocked offline

Three boroughs confirm investigation amid service outages, disrupted phone lines, and limited online access

Two London councils are scrambling for answers after declaring a cybersecurity issue that began on Monday.…

Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain

Planned Snapdragon goes puff and disappears, but the code will survive

German Linux box vendor Tuxedo Computers has canned its long-planned Qualcomm device, citing numerous problems with the state of the Linux-on-Arm art.…

Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

Google Workspace switch drags on amid Excel dependencies, compliance requirements, and compatibility issues

Exclusive  Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch.…

How To Disagree Better

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Dell says Windows 11 transition is far slower than Win 10 shift as PC sales stall

Lessons from COVID and tariff shocks getting Mike D's tech shop through AI-induced memory maze

Dell has predicted PC sales will be flat next year, despite the potential of the AI PC and the slow replacement of Windows 10.…

India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions

Creating 37 supers in a decade is impressive. The homegrown tech in them, less so

Feature  In the decade since India launched its National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), the nation has commissioned 37 machines with a combined power of 39 petaFLOPS, with another 35-petaFLOPS hybrid due to come online later this year. But while plenty of those machines use locally developed technology, India is yet to deliver on its ambition to become a leader or major semiconductor player.…

HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting

Warns memory price explosion means PCs may have less RAM, or use low-cost parts

HP Inc will sack between 4,000 and 6,000 workers under a plan that calls for the PCs-and-printers prodigy to use AI to improve its operations.…

Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to satisfy demand for AI

Chinese giant adds to ‘No AI bubble’ babble by citing oversubscribed infrastructure and surging demand

China’s Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to keep up with demand for AI, so is rationing access to GPUs so that customers who use all of its services enjoy priority access.…

Listen to a Lion’s Second Type of Roar, Which Was Just Discovered by Scientists

Researchers uncovered the previously unknown vocalization while creating an algorithm that can identify and monitor lions based on audio recordings

Lifetime access to AI-for-evil WormGPT 4 costs just $220

'Ah, I see you're ready to escalate. Let's make digital destruction simple and effective.'

Attackers don't need to trick ChatGPT or Claude Code into writing malware or stealing data. There's a whole class of LLMs built especially for the job.…

Nvidia scoffs at threat from Google TPUs after rumored Meta tie-up

Embracing the Chocolate Factory's tensor processing units would be easier said than done for The Social Network

Growing demand for Google's homegrown AI accelerators appears to have gotten under Nvidia's skin amid reports that one of the GPU giant's most loyal customers may adopt the Chocolate Factory's tensor processing units (TPUs).…

Google’s Android for desktops and laptops is called “Aluminium

Google has made it very clear that it’s intending to bring Android to laptops and desktops, and replace Chrome OS with Android in the process. We now have a codename, and some more information about what this will look like in practice. Over the weekend, a tipster on Telegram named Frost Core shared a link to an intriguing Google job listing for a ‘Senior Product Manager, Android, Laptop and Tablets.’ While we already know Google is bringing Android to the PC, the listing explicitly states that the role involves ‘working on a new Aluminium, Android-based, operating system.’ This effectively confirms that Aluminium is the codename for the new unified platform. The name appears to be a nod to the project’s roots: like Chromium (the open-source version of ChromeOS), Aluminium is a metal ending in ‘-ium.’ The choice of the British spelling — emphasizing the ‘Al’ prefix — likely pays homage to Android serving as the project’s foundation.” ↫ Mishaal Rahman at Android Authority So we have the codename, and of course, what we also have is a strong focus on “AI”, which will be “at the core” of desktop Android. Further details uncovered in job openings include a focus not just on entry-level hardware, but also midrange and premium laptops and desktops, as well as Chrome OS being replaced by this new desktop Android variant. I somehow doubt existing Chrome OS devices will be updated to this new desktop Android variant, so Chrome OS will continue to exist as a product for at least quite a few years to come. I still have a considerable amount of doubt that Google would be able to pull this off in a successful way. It’s already hard enough to get anyone to buy any laptop that isn’t running Windows or macOS, and I doubt the Android operating system has the kind of pull with consumers to make them consider switching to it on their laptops or desktops. Enthusiasts will surely eat it up – if only to try – but without any clear, massive success, this desktop Android thing runs the real risk of ending up at Google’s graveyard. These Android laptops can be incredible products, but even if they are, I just won’t trust Google to remain interested in it.

Corporate predators get more than they bargain for when their prey runs SonicWall firewalls

Acquirers inherit more than staff and systems

Routine mergers and acquisitions are giving extortionists an easy way in, with Akira affiliates reaching parent networks through compromised SonicWall gear inherited in the deal, according to ReliaQuest.…

Nina Simone’s Childhood Home, Saved From Demolition Years Ago, Has Now Been Fully Restored

A group of contemporary artists purchased the house in 2017, and its long-awaited renovation began in June 2024

Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch that refuses to die, just went fully open source

Eric Migicovsky wants to ensure Pebble can’t be killed again, and DIYers benefit most

Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch with a tumultuous history, is making a move sure to please the DIY enthusiasts that make up the bulk of its fans: Its entire software stack is now fully open source, and key hardware design files are available too.…

LSAH Newsletter

The Lifetime Surveillance of Astronaut Health (LSAH) program collects, analyzes, and interprets medical, physiological, hazard exposure, and environmental data for the purpose of maintaining astronaut health and safety as well as preventing occupationally induced injuries or disease related to space flight or space flight training. It allows NASA to effectively understand and mitigate the long-term […]

NASA & GLOBE Connect People, Land, and Space

A group of elementary-aged students gather outside of Oldham County Public Library in La Grange, Kentucky, United States to look at clouds in the sky. “If anyone asks what you are doing, tell them, ‘I am a citizen scientist and I am helping NASA,’” Children’s Programming Librarian, Cheri Grinnell, tells the kids. Grinnell supports an […]

How Autonomous Agents Are Changing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure failures have never been more expensive. Recent research estimates the average cost of downtime at $12,900 per minute. This

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NASA’s Roman Observatory Passes Spate of Key Tests

NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has made another set of critical strides toward launch. This fall, the outer portion passed two tests — a shake test and an intense sound blast — to ensure its successful launch. The inner portion of the observatory underwent a major 65-day thermal vacuum test, showing that […]

Three Brothers Found a 1939 Copy of 'Superman No. 1' in Their Mother's Attic. It Just Became the Most Expensive Comic Book Ever Sold

When their mother was 9, she and her teenage brother had pooled their money to purchase the 10-cent comic book. By the time she died several years ago, she had forgotten where it was

HPE scores $931M contract to make DoD’s cloud migration a little less public

Works like a public cloud but keeps everything on-prem

The US Department of Defense on Tuesday awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) a 10-year, $931 million contract to bring cloud conveniences, like unified management and multi-tenancy, to the US military's most sensitive datacenters.…

Rent-a-GPU neoclouds need to adapt or die as the AI market evolves

McKinsey points out the quandary facing companies like CoreWeave

So-called neocloud companies are facing a dilemma: They need to move up the AI stack to avoid being commoditized, but they risk competing against their big hyperscale customers if they do.…

Red Spider Nebula

Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen details of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula, in this image released on Oct. 26, 2025. NIRCam is Webb’s primary near-infrared imager, providing high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy for a wide variety of investigations. Webb’s new view of the Red Spider Nebula reveals for the […]

AWS WAF vs. Google Cloud Armor: A Multicloud Security Showdown

In 2025, multicloud is standard, not a new trend. Teams now run workloads across AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and

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HashJack attack shows AI browsers can be fooled with a simple ‘#’

Hashtag-do-whatever-I-tell-you

Cato Networks says it has discovered a new attack, dubbed "HashJack," that hides malicious prompts after the "#" in legitimate URLs, tricking AI browser assistants into executing them while dodging traditional network and server-side defenses.…

NASA Crater Detection Challenge

Crater rims are vital landmarks for planetary science and navigation. Yet detecting them in real imagery is tough, with shadows, lighting shifts, and broken edges obscuring their shape. This project invites you to develop methods that can reliably fit ellipses to crater rims, helping advance future space exploration. In the pursuit of next generation, terrain-based […]

CHAPEA Crew Begins Stay Inside NASA’s Mars Habitat for Second Mission

A crew of four research volunteers stepped inside NASA’s CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) habitat on Oct. 19, marking the start of the agency’s second 378-day simulated Mars mission. Ross Elder, Ellen Ellis, Matthew Montgomery, and James Spicer are living and working inside the roughly 1,700-square-foot 3D-printed habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space […]

NASA Orbiter Shines New Light on Long-Running Martian Mystery

Results from an enhanced radar technique have demonstrated improvement to sub-surface observations of Mars.  NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revisited and raised new questions about a mysterious feature buried beneath thousands of feet of ice at the Red Planet’s south pole. In a recent study, researchers conclude from data obtained using an innovative radar […]

Get ready for 2026, the year of AI-aided ransomware

State-backed crews are already poking at autonomous tools, Trend Micro warns

Cybercriminals, including ransomware crews, will lean more heavily on agentic AI next year as attackers automate more of their operations, Trend Micro's researchers believe.…

These Ancient Log Boats Unearthed in England Were Each Carved From a Single Tree Trunk 3,000 Years Ago

First discovered in 2011, three vessels are the centerpiece of a new exhibition about craftsmanship and transportation methods in Bronze Age Britain

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels’ Predictions for 2026

AWS re:Invent is now an annual tradition that goes back to 2012. One key part of the event is Amazon

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Microsoft's fix for slow File Explorer: load it before you need it

Windows Insider build intros background loading for faster launches, sidestepping questions about app's sluggishness

Microsoft is tackling File Explorer's sluggish launch times - not by stripping out the bloat or optimizing code, but by preloading the application in the background.…

How Mozilla’s AI Strategy Disconnects From Its Browser Heritage

Last week Mark Surman, president of the Mozilla Foundation, published an article explaining why Mozilla is “doing for AI what

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Stunningly Well-Preserved Neanderthal Skull Suggests the Species' Large Noses Weren't Adapted for the Cold

A new study analyzes the nasal cavity of the "Altamura Man," a Neanderthal who died between 130,000 and 172,000 years ago

Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider

The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

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Employee trust in SAP board dips amid ongoing restructure

German mega vendor responds to latest in-house survey

An internal SAP employee survey reveals declining confidence in leadership as the software giant's restructuring program continues, with trust in the executive board waning in the past six months.…

Trump wants to turn it on again with 'Genesis Mission' for AI in science

DOE told to build a unified research platform linking federal compute, datasets, and national labs

US President Trump has ordered the launch of the "Genesis Mission," a national effort to use AI to drive scientific discoveries, with the aim of strengthening America's technological leadership and global competitiveness.…

Campbell's CISO canned after lawsuit alleges hour-long rant against staff and customers

Security chief placed on leave pending investigation

Campbell's has placed its US CISO and vice president on temporary leave while it investigates allegations that he disparaged customers, the company's products, and Indian staffers.…

NASA pares back Boeing's Starliner deal after 2024 calamity

Capsule might only manage three crewed missions to the ISS

NASA has modified its Commercial Crew contract with Boeing, dropping the order from six to four missions, of which one will be uncrewed.…

Clop's Oracle EBS rampage reaches Dartmouth College

Uni notifies 1,400-plus Maine residents as zero-day fallout continues

Dartmouth College has confirmed it's the latest victim of Clop's Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) smash-and-grab.…

Self-Service Analytics Failed. Can Agentic AI Finally Succeed?

For over a decade, the data industry chased the dream of self-service analytics. The promise was simple: Give everyone access

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Airbus: We were hours from pausing production in Spain

Power outage in Iberia forced datacenter contingency rethink

Exclusive  Airbus is overhauling its datacenter contingency plans after a ten-hour power outage across Spain and Portugal in April nearly forced a complete production shutdown.…

Ukraine first country in Europe to get Starlink satellite phone service

Kyivstar begins trials offering SMS connectivity when ground networks fail

Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has launched Starlink's Direct to Cell satellite service for its subscribers, making the war-torn nation the first in Europe to offer it.…

Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous

Uncrewed Shenzhou also delivered supplies and window fixing kit

China's uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft has successfully docked with the Tiangong space station, providing relief to the crew who were relying on a damaged capsule with a cracked window as their only ride home.…

CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts

Attackers sidestep encryption with spoofed apps and zero-click exploits to compromise 'high-value' mobile users

CISA has warned that state-backed snoops and cyber-mercenaries are actively abusing commercial spyware to break into Signal and WhatsApp accounts, hijack devices, and quietly rummage through the phones of what the agency calls "high-value" users.…

Russian spy ship theories sink after Orkney blackout traced to wind farm fault

Timing of Yantar's visit sparked gossip, but engineers point to a misbehaving protection system

Cock-up beats conspiracy most of the time, but that didn't stop Orkney residents wondering if a Russian warship caused their two-hour power cut.…

UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite

Plan would link commercial capacity with Britain's flagship supercomputers

The UK government is looking for cloud providers to support its ambition of increasing its AI compute capacity twentyfold by 2030 in a deal that could be worth £250 million.…

Calls grow for inquiry into UK data watchdog after MoD leak

ICO accused of backing off oversight as fallout from Afghan blunder widens

Civil society groups are urging MPs to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), accusing the UK data watchdog of abandoning its enforcement duties after it declined to investigate a Ministry of Defence data leak linked to dozens of deaths.…

Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges

Taskforce calls UK the priciest place on Earth to build nuclear projects and urges radical regulatory reset

The UK is following the US in seeking to fast-track new atomic development, spurred on by the need to provide enough energy for its AI ambitions plus the increasing electrification of industry and vehicles.…

Nature Quest: The Earthquake Prediction Problem

Their whole life, producer Hannah Chinn has known about the Big One: a massive earthquake forecasted to hit the West Coast. Scientists say it’ll destroy buildings, collapse bridges, flood coastal towns and permanently shift the landscape. But how exactly do scientists know this much about the scope of earthquakes if they can’t even predict when those earthquakes are going to happen? Together with host Emily Kwong, Hannah goes on a quest for answers. Plus, they get into what a Cascadia earthquake has in common with a Thanksgiving turkey.

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Atlassian ran a tabletop DR simulation that revealed it lived in dependency hell

Four-year effort replaced spaghetti tangle with more robust and recoverable cloudy layer cake

Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has revealed it’s spent four years trying to reduce dangerous internal dependencies, and while it has rebuilt its PaaS, it still has issues – but thinks they’re now manageable.…

AWS to build 1.3 gigawatts of government-grade supercomputing power for Uncle Sam

Aims to wash away Washington's vast tech woes with a dose of cloud magic

Amazon Web Services on Monday announced a plan to build 1.3 gigawatts of compute capacity in new datacenters dedicated to serving the US government, at a cost of up to $50 billion.…

Apple reportedly peels away some sales staff in small round of layoffs

Company has hitherto thought different about sackings

Apple, which unlike its Big Tech peers has not made substantial job cuts, is reportedly in the process of eliminating several dozen positions in its sales organization.…

Fresh ClickFix attacks use Windows Update trick-pics to steal credentials

Poisoned PNGs contain malicious code

A fresh wave of ClickFix attacks is using fake Windows update screens to trick victims into downloading infostealer malware.…

Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers

Multiple internal studies allegedly buried by the company

Is Meta acting like a tobacco company denying cigarettes cause cancer, or an oil giant downplaying climate science? Lawyers in a recent court filing claim the social media titan buried internal research for years suggesting its platforms can harm children's mental health.…

Inside Uber’s Multicloud AI Reality: The Gap Between Data and Compute

Uber, one of the original ride-hailing services, developed a distributed infrastructure before most anyone even considered it for their enterprise.

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Praise Amazon for raising this service from the dead

The hardest part is admitting you were wrong, which AWS did.

Opinion  For years, Google has seemingly indulged a corporate fetish of taking products that are beloved, then killing them. AWS has been on a different kick lately: Killing services that frankly shouldn't have seen the light of day.…

Anthropic reduces model misbehavior by endorsing cheating

By removing the stigma of reward hacking, AI models are less likely to generalize toward evil

Sometimes bots, like kids, just wanna break the rules. Researchers at Anthropic have found they can make AI models less likely to behave badly by giving them permission to do so.…

Ex-CISA officials, CISOs dispel 'hacklore,' spread cybersecurity truths

Don't believe everything you read

Afraid of connecting to public Wi-Fi? Terrified to turn your Bluetooth on? You may be falling for "hacklore," tall tales about cybersecurity that distract you from real dangers. Dozens of chief security officers and ex-CISA officials have launched an effort and website to dispel these myths and show you how not to get hacked for real.…

NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidates: Shaping Artemis Exploration

When NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidates arrived at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston this fall, they stepped into history, sharing a common mission to master the skills and teamwork that define NASA’s next era of exploration.  Selected from a pool of more than 8,000 applicants, the new class represents a range of backgrounds — […]

This ‘Feisty’ Asian Elephant at the National Zoo Is Pregnant. She May Birth the First Calf Born There in Nearly 25 Years

With fewer than 50,000 Asian elephants estimated to be remaining in the wild, the Smithsonian’s announcement gives hope to those working to preserve the endangered species

Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream

Start-up claims to have booked orders for 144 miniaturized reactors totaling 11GW across US and UK

Amazon-backed nuclear energy startup X-energy says it has booked orders for 144 small modular reactors (SMRs) which will eventually deliver over 11 gigawatts of power, assuming that they actually get built. And investors continue to support this vision.…

Birds Are Beeping and Booping like R2-D2. Their Mimicked Sounds Are Helping Unlock the Secrets of Avian Communication

European starlings were better than parrots at imitating R2-D2’s high-pitched chattering, possibly because of their special control over a vocal organ

Anthropic’s New Claude Opus 4.5 Reclaims the Coding Crown

Anthropic today launched the latest version of its flagship Opus model: Opus 4.5. The company calls it its most intelligent

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Archaeologists Find Evidence of a Bronze Age City in Kazakhstan

Surveyed for the first time since its discovery two decades ago, the settlement "breaks from all the things that we thought we knew about Central Asia up to this point," a study author says

New NASA HEAT and My NASA Data Resources Bring Space Weather Science into Classrooms

As the Sun enters a period of heightened activity, students now have a new way to explore its powerful effects on Earth and space. NASA’s Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), in collaboration with My NASA Data, has released a new set of classroom resources that invite students and educators to engage with real NASA […]

Moss Spores Survived Nine Months Outside the International Space Station. Then, They Grew Normally on Earth

While lunar gardens are still out of reach, the study sheds more light on terrestrial biology that may not be limited to our planet's surface

Old-school rotary phone dials into online meetings, hangs up when you slam it down

Stavros Korokithakis really wanted to slam the receiver on meetings, so he built his own device to do just that

We've all been there: A meeting goes sideways and you really wish you could physically slam the phone down and walk away. Maker Stavros Korokithakis knows that feeling well, so he took an old rotary phone and turned it into a device that can dial into - and hang up on - video calls in a decidedly retro fashion. …

Deepnote CEO: Why Notebooks Are the ‘Perfect User Interface’ for AI Agents

When Jakob Jurových and his team started building Deepnote in 2019, they saw a gap between two computational worlds that

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Kubernetes at the Edge: Lessons From GE HealthCare’s Edge Strategy

For highly regulated companies with distributed architectures, such as health care, financial services, telecom and manufacturing, operating at the edge

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NASA, NOAA Rank 2025 Ozone Hole as 5th Smallest Since 1992

The ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century. The hole this year was the fifth smallest since 1992, the year a landmark international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals began to take effect.

X's location tags remind users of the internet's oldest rule: Trust nothing

Accuracy errors or inadvertent unmasking of rage-bait trolls? Probably somewhere in between

Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) has inadvertently taught a large number of web users an important lesson. Not everyone online is necessarily who you think they are, and you shouldn't believe everything you read.…

NASA Citizen Science Toolkit for Librarians

NASA’s Toolkit for Librarians can help you share NASA citizen science opportunities with your patrons and community members. Rural and urban libraries, informal educators, youth group leaders, and retirement community coordinators can all benefit from this resource. Together, we can open the door for more people to join the fun, learning, and thrill of doing NASA science.

LisaGUI recreates Apple's innovative computer OS, without emulating it

Somewhere between a cover version and a loving homage of the interface that helped shape the modern desktop

LisaGUI is a faithful reconstruction of the desktop and user interface of Apple's Lisa, the workstation that fed ideas into the early Macintosh, and it shows that there are still things to learn from that system.…

One of the World’s Oldest Calculators Was Up for Auction. Then, Scientists Rallied and Temporarily Blocked Its Sale

French scholars argued that the 17th-century Pascaline should go to a public collection and stay within the country. But a Paris court may take months to make a final decision on the device’s fate

City Lights and Atmospheric Glow

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui captured this photo of southern Europe and the northwestern Mediterranean coast from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above Earth on Aug. 30, 2025. At left, the Po Valley urban corridor in Italy shines with the metropolitan areas of Milan and Turin and their […]

Defining the Ideal Database for the AI Era

Legacy technology slows AI development by creating integration bottlenecks, security risks and rigid data models that can’t support modern, dynamic

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How high-end supercomputer filesystem DAOS can break out of its niche

DAOS needs user education, Nvidia GPU access, and better manageability to grow

DAOS has been a great success in the traditional HPC/supercomputing world, but is nowhere in the new, AI-focused, GPU supercomputing arena. What will it take for DAOS to find customers outside its high-end, legacy supercomputing niche?…

This Shrub Thrives in Death Valley’s Scorching Temperatures. Where Do Its Heat-Tolerant Superpowers Come From?

Tidestromia oblongifolia thrives in high heat—and scientists think it may hold the key to making food crops more resilient amid global warming

Will AI Replace Human Project Managers? Not So Fast

We live in an era where project data flows abundantly. Companies track time spent on code reviews, measure process delays

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Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum

Japanese team finds 80% of the tiny plant cells remained viable after 283 days in orbit

Moss has been shown to survive one of the harshest environments imaginable: the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS).…

Years-old bugs in open source tool left every major cloud open to disruption

Fluent Bit has 15B+ deployments … and 5 newly assigned CVEs

A series of "trivial-to-exploit" vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open source log collection tool that runs in every major cloud and AI lab, was left open for years, giving attackers an exploit chain to completely disrupt cloud services and alter data.…

How To Perform Basic NLP in JavaScript With the Natural Library

Natural is a JavaScript library for Natural Language Processing (NLP), one of a number of JavaScript libraries for machine learning

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A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.

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Intrusion at real estate finance biz sparks concern for big banks

SitusAMC rules out ransomware, but accounting records for major institutions potentially affected

Real estate finance business SitusAMC says thieves sneaked into its systems earlier this month and made off with confidential client data.…

Shai-Hulud worm returns, belches secrets to 25K GitHub repos

Trojanized npm packages spread new variant that executes in pre-install phase, hitting thousands within days

A self-propagating malware targeting node package managers (npm) is back for a second round, according to Wiz researchers who say that more than 25,000 developers had their secrets compromised within three days.…

Microsoft wedges tables into Notepad for some reason

WordPad died for this?

Microsoft is shoveling yet more features into the venerable Windows Notepad. This time it's support for tables, with some AI enhancements lathered on top.…

NATO taps Google for air-gapped sovereign cloud

Chocolate Factory wins contract to build fully disconnected systems for training and operational support

NATO has hired Google to provide "air-gapped" sovereign cloud services and AI in "completely disconnected, highly secure environments."…

FCC guts post-Salt Typhoon telco rules despite ongoing espionage risk

Months after China-linked spies burrowed into US networks, regulator tears up its own response

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has scrapped a set of telecom cybersecurity rules introduced after the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, reversing course on measures designed to stop state-backed snoops from slipping back into America's networks.…

6G isn't even here yet but mobile industry wants triple the spectrum

Report warns of 2030s capacity crunch without expanding mid-band airwaves

The GSMA says 6G networks will need up to three times the spectrum currently allocated to mobile operators to meet anticipated demands for data.…

CISA orders feds to patch Oracle Identity Manager zero-day after signs of abuse

Agencies have until December 12 to mitigate flaw that was likely exploited before Big Red released fix

CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch against an actively exploited Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) flaw within three weeks – a scramble made more urgent by evidence that attackers may have been abusing the bug months before a fix was released.…

Microsoft admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken

You may have noticed a sharp increase in problems and issues in Windows recently – following the rise of the “AI” hype cycle, entirely coincidentally, I’m sure – and it seems Microsoft is finally starting to acknowledge just how bad Windows has become. On the positive side though, following all that backlash, Microsoft acknowledged Windows has issues, and as if on cue, the company in a new support article has admitted that there are problems on almost every major Windows 11 core feature. The issues are related to XAML and this impacts all the Shell components like the Start Menu, Taskbar, Explorer, and Windows Settings. ↫ Sayan Sen at Neowin It’s wild how many core components like this have apparently been broken due to these problems since July of this year. This means countless Windows users have been experiencing weird issues on a daily basis in multiple components for four months now, which is absolutely wild. On top of all the more structural problems in Windows, I wonder how people can get anything done at all – only a few days ago, I had to manually clean out the Installer folder in the Windows folder on my wife’s gaming PC, because for some inexplicable reason, Windows decided to permanently store 18GB’s worth (!) of past Adobe Acrobat updates and installers in there. It’s impossible to reliably say that Microsoft’s incessant focus on crypto NFTs “AI” lies at the root of all of these problems, but if 30% of “new” code in Microsoft is indeed regurgitated by “AI”, it’s hard not to conclude as such.

DragonFire laser to be fitted to Royal Navy ships after acing drone-zapping trials

Costs a tenner a shot instead of £1M per anti-aircraft missile

Britain's Royal Navy ships will be fitted with the DragonFire laser weapon by 2027 – five years earlier than planned – following recent successful trials involving fast-moving drones.…

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting

I suspect that many people who take an interest in Internet privacy don’t appreciate how hard it is to resist browser fingerprinting. Taking steps to reduce it leads to inconvenience and, with the present state of technology, even the most intrusive approaches are only partially effective. The data collected by fingerprinting is invisible to the user, and stored somewhere beyond the user’s reach. On the other hand, browser fingerprinting produces only statistical results, and usually can’t be used to track or identify a user with certainty. The data it collects has a relatively short lifespan – days to weeks, not months or years. While it probably can be used for sinister purposes, my main concern is that it supports the intrusive, out-of-control online advertising industry, which has made a wasteland of the Internet. ↫ Kevin Boone My view on this matter is probably a bit more extreme than some: I believe it should be illegal to track users for advertising purposes, because the data collected and the targeting it enables not only violate basic privacy rights enshrined in most constitutions, they also pose a massive danger in other ways. This very same targeting data is already being abused by totalitarian states to influence our politics, which has had disastrous results. Of course, our own democratic governments’ hands aren’t exactly clean either in this regard, as they increasingly want to use this data to stop “terrorists” and otherwise infringe on basic rights. Finally, any time such data ends up on the black market after data breaches, criminals, organised or otherwise, also get their hands on it. I have no idea what such a ban should look like, or if it’s possible to do this even remotely effectively. In the current political climate in many western countries, which are dominated by the wealthy few and corporate interests, it’s highly unlikely that even if such a ban was passed as lip service to concerned constituents, any fines or other deterrents would probably be far too low to make a difference anyway. As such, my desire to have targeted online advertising banned is mostly theory, not practice – further illustrated by the European Union caving like cowards on privacy to even the slightest bit of pressure. Best I can do for now is not partake in this advertising hellhole. I disabled and removed all advertising from OSNews recently, and have always strongly advised everyone to use as many adblocking options as possible. We not only have a Pi-Hole to keep all of our devices at home safe, but also use a second layer of on-device adblockers, and I advise everyone to do the same.

This Thanksgiving, top your turkey with Cranberry sOSS to fund open source

Unusual holiday drive raises cash for the people keeping critical code alive

The Open Source Pledge organization is working to combat the problems of FOSS maintainers not getting paid, and the closely related issue of developer burnout, with a Thanksgiving-themed campaign.…

“Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy”

We need to consume. The average American now holds onto their smartphone for 29 months, according to a recent survey by Reviews.org, and that cycle is getting longer. The average was around 22 months in 2016. While squeezing as much life out of your device as possible may save money in the short run, especially amid widespread fears about the strength of the consumer and job market, it might cost the economy in the long run, especially when device hoarding occurs at the level of corporations. ↫ Kevin Williams at CNBC Line must go up. Ļ̷̩̺̾i̶̼̳͍͂̒ͅn̵͕̉̾e̴̞͛̓̀̍ ̴͙̙̥͋͐m̸͚̉̆u̴̖̰̪̽̔ͅs̶̨̛̾ţ̷̢̂͛̆͝ ̵̱̐̓̾̔͜ğ̷͕̮̮͆o̷̟͈̐̏̄͝ ̷̢̨̞̉u̴̢̪̭̱̿͑͛̌p̴͈̜̫̖̌.

Tuxedo cancels Snapdragon X Elite Linux laptop project

For the past 18 months, the Linux OEM Tuxedo Computers has been working on bringing a Snapdragon X Elite ARM laptop to market, but now they cancelled the project due to complications. Development turned out to be challenging due to the different architecture, and in the end, the first-generation X1E proved to be less suitable for Linux than expected. In particular, the long battery runtimes—usually one of the strong arguments for ARM devices—were not achieved under Linux. A viable approach for BIOS updates under Linux is also missing at this stage, as is fan control. Virtualization with KVM is not foreseeable on our model, nor are the high USB4 transfer rates. Video hardware decoding is technically possible, but most applications lack the necessary support. Given these conditions, investing several more months of development time does not seem sensible, as it is not foreseeable that all the features you can rightfully expect would be available in the end. In addition, we would be offering you a device with what would then be a more than two-year-old Snapdragon X Elite (X1E), whose successor, the Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E), was officially introduced in September 2025 and is expected to become available in the first half of 2026. ↫ Tuxedo’s announcement Back when Qualcomm was hyping up these processors, the company made big claims about supporting Linux equally to Windows, but those promises have turned out to be absolutely worthless. Tuxedo already highlighted the problems it was dealing with half a year ago, and now it seems these problems have become impossible to overcome – at least for now. This is a shame, bu also not entirely unexpected, since there’s no way a small Linux OEM can do the work that Qualcomm promised it would do for its own chip. All this sadly means we still don’t really have proper Linux support for modern ARM laptops, which is a crying shame. The problem isn’t so much Linux itself, but the non-standardised world of ARM hardware. Large OEMs are willing to do the work to make Windows work, but despite recent successes, desktop Linux is nowhere near as popular as Windows, so there’s little incentive for OEMs (or Qualcomm) to step up their game. It is what it is.

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Coding purists once considered BASIC harmful. AI can't even manage that

Opinion  It is a truth universally acknowledged that a singular project possessed of prospects is in want of a team. That team has to be built from good developers with experience, judgement, analytic and logic skills, and strong interpersonal communication. Where AI coding fits in remains strongly contentious. Opinion on vibe coding in corporate IT is more clearly stated: you're either selling the stuff or steering well clear.…

The Commodore CHESSmate

The CHESSmate was demonstrated at the January 1978 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as a prototype in order to assess customer interest in the product. It was available for order at the June 1978 CES in Chicago and the first units, manufactured in Hong Kong, shipped later that year. It was a big seller in Germany from the beginning. ↫ Peter R. Jennings There’s no way I can summarise this story.

Microsoft removes WINS from future Windows Server releases

Blasts from the pasts are often fun, and in the case of feature removals from Windows, it’s often accompanied by surprise that the feature in question still existed. Case in point: This article provides essential information about the deprecation and planned removal of Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) from future Windows Server releases. Microsoft has announced that WINS will be removed from all Windows Server releases after Windows Server 2025 and will remain under the standard support lifecycle through November 2034. Organizations using WINS are strongly encouraged to migrate to modern DNS-based name resolution solutions. ↫ Microsoft knowledge base article WINS was introduced with Windows NT 3.5 back in 1994, and maps NetBIOS to IP addresses in much the same way DNS maps domains names to IP addresses. Nobody should be using WINS anymore, and Microsoft has been discouraging its use for a long time now. With the ubiquity of DNS, WINS serves very little purpose, so it makes sense Microsoft is removing it from Windows.

UK Covid-19 Inquiry finds early pandemic surveillance was weeks out of date

Lack of effective data flows and reduced scientific investment hampered response

During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, it took up to three weeks for confirmed cases to be recorded on the health database used at the time.…

SNAP Delays: The Science Of Hunger And Food Insecurity

One in every eight households in the U.S. isn’t always sure where the next meal will come from. Limited food access can spell hunger – and that can affect the body and mind. So can cheaper, less nutritious foods. Hunger has a huge impact on individuals – and whole societies. It can mean shorter term issues like trouble focusing, as well as longer term mental health and physical struggles like chronic disease and social isolation. Host Regina G Barber speaks with experts looking at the impacts of food insecurity – from the known tolls and misconceptions to ways to bridge the gap.

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Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people

Customer signed off and a remaining staffer triggered the mess

Who, Me?  Welcome to Monday morning and therefore to a new instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's weekly column that shares your tales of workplace errors and absolution.…

Cryptology boffins’ association to re-run election after losing encryption key needed to count votes

The shoemaker’s children have new friends

The International Association for Cryptologic Research will run a second election for new board members and other officers, after it was unable to complete its first poll due to a lost encryption key.…

OVH CEO predicts some cloud prices to rise 5-10 percent by mid-2026

Or maybe even sooner, warns Octave Klaba, as AI sends storage costs soaring

The price of some cloud services will have to rise by five to ten percent by mid-2026, maybe sooner, according to Octave Klaba, CEO of French cloud OVH.…

70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture

PLUS: Manga publishers win Cloudflare copyright case; India, EU to link payment systems; Storm over Australia’s weather website; And more!

Asia In Brief  Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has suggested Indian citizens should work 72-hour weeks, up from his previous target of 70 hours.…

The Overview Effect: Astronaut Perspectives from 25 Years in Low Earth Orbit

To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our home planet from above, countless NASA astronauts have described feeling awed by the astonishing sight and a profound shift in perspective that followed. This unique experience is known as the […]

Weaponized file name flaw makes updating glob an urgent job

PLUS: CISA issues drone warning; China-linked DNS-hijacking malware; Prison for BTC Samourai; And more

Infosec In Brief  Researchers have urged users of the glob file pattern matching library to update their installations, after discovery of a years-old remote code execution flaw in the tool's CLI.…

Goodbye Dashboards: Agents Deliver Answers, Not Just Reports

When you wake up in the morning, do you say, “Let me go open my ERP?” Of course not. You

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Tuxedo OS: Ubuntu Base, KDE Plasma, Awesome Performance

Tuxedo Computers is on a mission to make Linux accessible to the general public. Its primary means of pulling this

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Is AI Creating a New Code Review Bottleneck for Senior Engineers?

Irish software engineer Addy Osmani is not opposed to vibe coding. And yet this Google Gemini developer (who is also

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Bossware booms as bots determine whether you're doing a good job

A lot of companies are turning to employee monitoring tools to make sure workers aren't slacking off

The COVID-19 lockdown meant a surge in remote work, and the trend toward remote and hybrid workplaces has persisted long after the pandemic receded. That has changed the nature of workplace management as well. Bosses can't check for butts in seats or look over their employees' shoulders in the office to make sure they're working instead of having a LAN party. So they've turned to software tools to fill the gap.…

From Chaotic Vibes to Real Velocity With AI-First Engineering

In 2025, vibe coding became more than a meme; it became a full-blown movement. Suddenly, non-developers were spinning up apps

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WebAssembly Still Expanding Frontend Uses 10 Years Later

It’s been 10 years since Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and announced WebAssembly (Wasm) as a collaborative effort. Back then, the goal seemed

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Angular v21 Adds Signal Forms, New MCP Server

Angular v21 released this week, with a slew of new and experimental offerings, including the launch of Signal Forms and

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Hands-On With Antigravity: Google’s Newest AI Coding Experiment

When Google launched a new agentic development platform called Antgravity this week, the first question I had was: “What about Jules

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It's TEE time for Brave's AI assistant Leo

Browser maker wraps cloud AI data processing in confidential computing

Brave Software has joined the rush to make using cloud-based AI services more private.…

Copackaged optics have officially found their killer app - of course it's AI

With power in such short supply, every watt counts

SC25  Power is becoming a major headache for datacenter operators as they grapple with how to support ever larger deployments of GPU servers - so much so that the AI boom is now driving the adoption of a technology once thought too immature and failure-prone to merit the risk.…

Letter from Codeberg: Onwards and upwards!

(This is a stripped-down version of the newsletter sent out to Codeberg e. V. members as an email. The version emailed to our members contains some additional details concerning the association's Annual Assembly. If you are interested in helping us shape Codeberg, consider contributing or participating in our non-profit association …

LionsOS: an adaptable OS based on the seL4 microkernel

LionsOS is an operating system based on the seL4 microkernel with the goal of making the achievements of seL4 accessible. That is, to provide performance, security, and reliability. It is not a conventional operating system, but contains composable components for creating custom operating systems that are specific to a particular task. Components are joined together using the Microkit tool. ↫ LionsOS website The project is under active research and development, led by the Trustworthy Systems research group at UNSW Sydney in Australia. The source code is available on GitHub.

HP, Dell quietly disable HEVC on certain laptops over minute license fee increase

Inter-corporation bullshit screwing over consumers – a tale as old as time. Major laptop vendors have quietly removed hardware decode support for the H.265/HEVC codec in several business and entry-level models, a decision apparently driven by rising licensing fees. Users working with H.265 content may face reduced performance unless they verify codec support or rely on software workarounds. ↫ Hilbert Hagedoornn at The Guru of 3D You may want to know how much these licensing fees are, and by how much they’re increasing next year, making these laptop OEMs remove features to avoid the costs. The HEVC licensing fee is \(0.20 per device, and in 2026 it’s increasing to \)0.24. Yes, a $0.04 increase per device is “forcing” these giant companies to screw over their consumers. Nobody’s coming out a winner here, and everyone loses. We took a wrong turn, but nobody seems to know when and where.

Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away

Catch: you have to plug it into a computer first

If you’ve ever watched Mission Impossible, where Jim Phelps gets instructions from an audio tape that catches fire after five seconds, TeamGroup has an external SSD with your name on it. The T-Create Expert P35S is a portable USB-powered SSD that comes with a self-destruct button, which wipes all your data and physically renders the device useless.…

Percona Brings Transparent Data Encryption to Postgres

At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America last week, premium database service provider demonstrated its new technology for encrypting data at rest on

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The why of LisaGUI

LisaGUI is an amazing project that recreates the entire user interface of the Apple Lisa in the browser, using nothing but CSS, a bit of HTML, and SVG files, and it’s an absolute joy to use and experience. Its creator, Andrew Yaros, has published a blog post diving into the why and how of LisaGUI. I had been trying to think of a good project to add to my programming portfolio, which was lacking. Finding an idea I was willing and able to execute on proved harder than expected. Good ideas are born from necessity and enthusiasm; trying to create a project for its own sake tends to be an uphill battle. I was also hoping to think of a specific project idea that hasn’t really been tried before. As you may have guessed by the title of this post, LisaGUI ended up being that project, although I didn’t really set out to make it as much as I stumbled into it while trying to accomplish something else. ↫ Andrew Yaros I’m someone who prefers to run the real thing on real hardware, but in a lot of cases, that’s just not realistic anymore. Hardware like the Apple Lisa are not only hard to find and expensive, they also require considerable knowledge and skill to maintain and possibly repair, which not everyone can do. For these types of machines, virtualisation, emulation, and recreation are much better, more accessible options, especially if it involves hardware and software you’re not interested enough in to spend time and money on them.

The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Seen Was So Rare, It Seemed Impossible. Now, Astrophysicists May Finally Have an Explanation

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering those factors could explain the origins of two unusual objects that collided

NASA Awards Liquid Hydrogen Supply Contracts

NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to approximately 36,952,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at facilities across the agency. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid Hydrogen awards are firm-fixed-price requirements contracts that include multiple firm-fixed-price delivery orders critical […]

Researchers get inside the mind of bots, find out what texts they trained on

RECAP agent overcomes model alignment efforts to hide memorized proprietary content

If you've ever wondered whether that chatbot you're using knows the entire text of a particular book, answers are on the way. Computer scientists have developed a more effective way to coax memorized content from large language models, a development that may address regulatory concerns while helping to clarify copyright infringement claims arising from AI model training and inference.…

How Did Humans End Up Smooching on the Lips? It May Have Started Out With a 21-Million-Year-Old Kiss

Our ancient primate relatives—including Neanderthals—may have enjoyed a nice peck on the lips. But researchers still don’t know why we do it

Thoughts on the GigaOm Radar for Vector Databases v3

GigaOm has just released its latest Radar for Vector Databases, now in its third edition. The report evaluates 17 leading

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What To Know Before Building Fluent Bit Plugins With Go

Editor’s note: The following article is an excerpt from the Manning book: “Fluent Bit with Kubernetes,” a practical guide on

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A Frida Kahlo Painting Just Became the Most Expensive Work by a Female Artist Ever Auctioned

"The Dream (The Bed)," a self-portrait created in 1940, sold for \(54.7 million. The previous record holder, Georgia O'Keeffe's "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1," went for \)44.4 million in 2014

ShinyHunters 'does not like Salesforce at all,' claims the crew accessed Gainsight 3 months ago

Shiny talks to The Reg

EXCLUSIVE  ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the Gainsight breach that allowed the data thieves to snarf data from hundreds more Salesforce customers.…

Makers slam Qualcomm for tightening the clamps on Arduino

But the Wiring folks were disenchanted even before Qualcomm swallowed Arduino

Updated  Qualcomm quietly rewrote the terms of service for its newest acquisition, programmable microcontroller and SBC maker Arduino, drawing intense fire from the maker community for grabbing additional rights to user-generated content on its platform and prohibiting reverse-engineering of what was once very open software.…

Urban Raccoons Are Showing Signs of Early Domestication, With Shorter Snouts Than Their Rural Cousins

The shorter faces of these city-dwelling trash bandits offer a telltale sign of domestication and line up with a leading hypothesis about animals that adapt to human-dominated environments, according to a new study

Is Spec-Driven Development Key for Infrastructure Automation?

Since GitHub Universe and the announcement of GitHub Spec Kit, spec-driven development (SDD) has taken the dev world by storm.

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10 Years of Students Helping NASA Grow Space Food with Growing Beyond Earth

Nearly 1,250 middle and high school students from 71 schools around the world joined Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden for the Growing Beyond Earth (GBE) Student Launch Chat with the Scientists, marking an inspiring milestone in the program’s 10th anniversary year. The live session, held in collaboration with NASA, connected classrooms directly with Dr. Gioia Massa […]

More Than a Dozen NASA Spacecraft Have Glimpsed Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. Now, You Can View New Images That They Captured

The space agency got a close look at the interstellar visitor over the past few months as it zipped by Mars and the sun

These Bach Compositions Were Lost to History. They Were Just Performed for the First Time in 300 Years—and You Can Listen to Them

After discovering the two pieces in the 1990s, researchers have finally concluded that they were created by the famous German composer. An organist performed them for audiences on November 17

When AI Starts Seeing and Hearing, IT Must Start Rethinking

In 2026, enterprises will find themselves navigating a seismic shift in AI. Gone are the days when text-only models ruled

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Pentagon pumps $29.9M into bid to turn waste into critical minerals

It's unclear how much scandium and gallium ElementUSA will contribute to the supply chain, or when

The US Department of Defense is asserting its desire to be an integral part of the American rare earths and critical minerals supply chain with a deal to establish a domestic pipeline of gallium and scandium production.…

Hubble Captures Puzzling Galaxy

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that’s hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab). NGC 2775 sports a smooth, featureless center that is devoid of gas, resembling an elliptical galaxy. It also has a dusty ring with patchy star […]

More Than 1,200 Marine Animal Species Eat Plastic. Ingesting Even a Tiny Amount Can Kill Them, a New Study Suggests

Researchers examined more than 10,000 animal autopsies to figure out how much plastic is too much for ocean wildlife

Big Red borrows a lot of green, hopes AI will put it in the black

Cost of insuring against Oracle debt default spikes as September seems a long time ago

opinion  The weather's cooling, and so is Wall Street's patience with Oracle's AI makeover. Big Red is spending big, and the risk metrics aren't looking cozy.…

Rhyme is the key to set AIs free when verse outsmarts security

Poetry proves potent jailbreak tool for today's top models

Are you a wizard with words? Do you like money without caring how you get it? You could be in luck now that a new role in cybercrime appears to have opened up – poetic LLM jailbreaking.…

Why Load Tests Lie: Harsh Truth About AI Agent Performance

Picture this: Your team just ran load tests with 10,000 concurrent users hammering your shiny new AI-powered customer service platform.

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A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.

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Google's AI is eating your email by default. Here's how to shut its mouth

Want out of those new 'smart features'? We’ve got you covered

Google's "don't be evil" ethos is so 2015. These days, the Chocolate Factory is all about integrating users with bots, whether they like it or not. Now, it's rolling out Workspace "smart features" that process personal content with AI, and many users are finding the settings enabled by default.…

What is BioSentinel?

Editor’s Note: This article was updated Nov. 21, 2025 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked three years of operation in deep space. Astronauts live in a pretty extreme environment aboard the International Space Station. Orbiting about 250 miles above the Earth in the weightlessness of microgravity, they rely on commercial cargo missions about every two months to deliver new […]

Taking Your Observability Strategy to the Next Level

Observability strategy is a tricky concept. Everyone wants to talk about it, but nobody can agree on how they’re talking

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25 Years of Scientific Discovery Aboard the International Space Station

November marks 25 years of human presence aboard the International Space Station, a testament to international collaboration and human ingenuity. Since the first crew arrived on Nov. 2, 2000, NASA and its partners have conducted thousands of research investigations and technology demonstrations to advance exploration of the Moon and Mars and benefit life on Earth. […]

SpaceX loses debut V3 Super Heavy in ground test mishap

Redesigned booster ruptures during early checks, delaying latest Starship iteration

SpaceX has responded to Blue Origin's announcement of a heftier version of its New Glenn rocket in the only way it knows how – by accidentally destroying a Starship booster.…

Tutorial: Implement a Nginx Gateway Fabric as an Alternative to Ingress

The Kubernetes ecosystem is undergoing a fundamental shift in how it manages external traffic. On Nov. 12, 2025, Kubernetes announced

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CNCF Retires the Ingress Nginx Controller for Kubernetes

Running the Ingress Nginx controller for your Kubernetes clusters? You have until March to migrate to the Gateway API, or

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Four charged over alleged plot to smuggle Nvidia AI chips into China

Prosecutors say front companies, falsified paperwork, and overseas drop points used to dodge US export rules

Four people have been charged in the US with plotting to funnel restricted Nvidia AI chips into China, allegedly relying on shell firms, fake invoices, and covert routing to slip cutting-edge GPUs past American export controls.…

You are likely to be eaten by the MIT license: Microsoft frees Zork source

Redmond dusts off Infocom's classic text adventures and puts the originals into public hands

Microsoft developer boss Scott Hanselman saved the company's Ignite shindig this week by unveiling the source code for Zork I-III, all available under the MIT license.…

Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant

Storing credentials safely and securely is the real trick

It's important to have your login in hand, literally. Zi Teng Wang, a magician who implanted an RFID chip in his appendage, has admitted losing access to it because he forgot the password.…

Russia-linked crooks bought a bank for Christmas to launder cyber loot

UK cops trace street-level crime to sanctions-busting networks tied to Moscow's war economy

On Christmas Day 2024, a Russian-linked laundering network bought itself a very special present: a controlling stake in a Kyrgyzstan bank, later used to wash cybercrime profits and funnel money into Moscow's war machine, according to the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).…

This Painting Hung at a Church in Mexico for 200 Years Before It Was Stolen in 2001. Now, It's Finally Returning Home

Titled "St. Francis of Assisi," the 1747 standing portrait of the church's namesake was stolen in 2001, along with several other items

Lawsuit seeks to probe Uncle Sam's role in ICE-tracking app takedowns

EFF wants to know if citizens had their First Amendment rights violated

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing two government departments to understand how they compelled tech companies to remove ICE-tracking apps and websites from their platforms.…

Hubble Seeks Clusters in ‘Lost Galaxy’

Today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). Through a small telescope, this galaxy appears extremely faint, giving it the nickname ‘Lost Galaxy’. With a mirror spanning nearly eight feet (2.4 meters) across and its location above […]

Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes efficiency title

Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt

SC25  There's a new efficiency champ at the top of the Green500 ranking of the world's most sustainable supercomputers.…

AI nudification site fined £55K for skipping age checks

Decision marks second penalty issued under the UK's Online Safety Act

The UK's online regulator has lobbed a £50,000 fine at an AI nudification website for failing to implement mandatory age checks, potentially allowing under-18s to waltz past the virtual velvet rope.…

UK minister ducks cost questions on nationwide digital ID scheme

Committee hears departments may have to stump up cash before savings materialize

A UK tech minister has declined to put a figure on the cost of the government's digital ID plans as MPs question the contributions expected from central departments.…

Microsoft exec finds AI cynicism 'mindblowing'

The tech is impressive. Shoehorning it into absolutely everything is not

Opinion  In a tweet lamenting all the "cynics" unmoved by AI, Microsoft AI boss Mustafa Suleyman demonstrated that Redmond's Reality Distortion Field is running at full power.…

What's Up With Nightmares?

Dreams of flying? Nightmares of teeth falling out? Falling off a cliff? As a sleep scientist at the University of Montreal, Michelle Carr has pretty much heard it all. In Michelle’s new book Nightmare Obscura, she explores the science of dreams, nightmares – and even something called dream engineering, where people influence their own dreams while they sleep. Today on Short Wave, co-host Regina G. Barber dives into the science of our sleeping life with Michelle Carr.

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Boffins build 'AI Kill Switch' to thwart unwanted agents

AutoGuard uses injection text for good

Computer scientists based in South Korea have devised what they describe as an "AI Kill Switch" to prevent AI agents from carrying out malicious data scraping.…

Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move

Somewhat daft scheme worked until it didn’t

On Call  The working week can be burdensome, so each Friday morning The Register tries to lighten the load by bringing you a new instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which you let go of tech support stories that weigh on your memory.…

Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters

It’s an ethereal and weighty problem, not a powerful conundrum

The Open Compute Project (OCP) has commenced a workstream to learn how to deploy quantum computers alongside classical high performance computers in the same datacenter.…

Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without Cupertino’s help

Relies on very loose permissions, but don’t worry – Google wrote it in Rust

Google has linked Android’s wireless peer-to-peer file sharing tool Quick Share to Apple’s equivalent AirDrop.…

Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor

Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too

Backup software vendor Veeam has thrown its weight behind more alternatives to VMware.…

GitHub and Microsoft Use AI To Fix Security Debt Crisis

Microsoft and its subsidiary GitHub have launched a native integration between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security that

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Microsoft’s Azure HorizonDB Takes on Aurora, AlloyDB

Microsoft announced its Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL in preview at the company’s Ignite conference this week. With this new offering,

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SEC drops SolarWinds lawsuit that painted a target on CISOs everywhere

Company 'clearly delighted' with the outcome

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has abandoned the lawsuit it pursued against SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer for misleading investors about security practices that led to the 2020 SUNBURST attack.…

Europa Clipper Captures Uranus With Star Tracker Camera

Description NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield — and the planet Uranus — on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its two stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used for maintaining spacecraft orientation. Within the camera’s field of view — representing 0.1% of the full sky around the spacecraft […]

Beavers are Dam Good for Biodiversity, Bringing Bats, Butterflies and Other Critters to Their Neighborhoods

Two new studies suggest that the semi-aquatic rodents provide food and habitat for bats and pollinator insects within their engineered ecosystems

NASA’s Quesst Mission Marks X-59’s Historic First Flight

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28, 2025, at 11:14 a.m. EDT from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The one-of-a-kind aircraft flew for 67 minutes before landing and taxiing to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA test pilot Nils Larson flew […]

Google’s Web AI Playbook: The Paved Road vs. the Open Field

At this month’s Web AI summit, the primary focus was client-side AI in the browser — but we also heard

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“Fixing” the broken Solaris Management Console Oracle won’t fix

In my detailed article about the Sun Microsystems ecosystem of the late 2000s, I mentioned an issue I ran into with the latest (leaked) patchset for Solaris 10, the one from 2020, available on Archive.org. Sun does not make Solaris 10 patches and patchsets from 2014 and later freely available online, restricting them to big enterprise customers with expensive support contracts. The same restrictions apply to mere support documents for Solaris 10, so that issues documented by Oracle, including causes and possible solutions, are only accessible to those with support contracts. The specific issue I ran into is that after installing the 2020 patchset, the Solaris Management Console, a GUI application written in Java with which you can manage certain aspects of your system, would no longer work. It would start up, but any settings panel you tried to load would throw up an RMI_ERR: error unmarshalling return, rendering the SMC effectively non-functional. This problem is documented in Oracle Doc ID 1559490.1, but of course, the Cause and Solution sections are hidden. I like weird commercial UNIX configuration GUIs, so even though you can do all of the SMC’s tasks with command-line tools, I still want it to work. Judging by the error and the countless references to Java updates, it’s easy to figure out that the root cause is an updated version of Java installed by the patchset that the SMC doesn’t like. You’d think uninstalling any relevant patches would solve the problem, but I tried that and it didn’t make a difference, so I was hoping Oracle perhaps had a later patch to fix the issue, or perhaps a proper workaround to get the SMC working again. Well, a screenshot of the remainder of that Oracle Doc ID mysteriously materialised on my Ultra 45 this morning, and it turns out that Oracle just… Doesn’t care. Honestly, I can’t blame them. Solaris 10 is old, outdated, pure legacy, and the very small number of organisations still using it are probably using it in Solaris Zones on servers anyway, and definitely not as a workstation/desktop operating system. There is zero incentive for Oracle to waste any time trying to fix this issue that, let’s be honest, really only affects one person in the entire world: me. Still, I wanted it fixed, and so I brute-forced a solution. It’s pretty straightforward: just change your default Java version back to one that the Solaris Management Console can work with. While I have Java 1.6.0 and 1.8.0 installed on the Ultra 45, with 1.6.0 being the default, the SMC will only work when 1.5.0 is set as your default Java version. There’s a wide variety of ways to do this, ranging from hatchets to scalpels, but considering nothing else on Solaris 10/SPARC on the Ultra 45 relies on 1.6.0 or later (as far as I can tell, at least), I took a hatchet approach and just changed the /usr/java symlink so that it pointed to 1.5.0 again. It’s that simple. Like I said, there are far more elegant ways of doing this, down to various scripts and other things to force only the SMC to use this specific Java version, but it’s not worth the effort to figure that out, and this works just as well. So, just in case there’s ever going to be a second person looking to fix this problem, here you are. You weird, weird person.

SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions

Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference

SC25  Hydrogen-fueled gas turbines, backup generators, and air handlers probably aren't the kinds of equipment you'd expect on the show floor of a supercomputing conference. But your expectations would be wrong.…

Gemini tries to sniff out AI slop images while also making them easier to create

Featuring an image of a man creating an image of a man creating an image...

hands on  Google Gemini users can now use the AI's app and website to figure out whether an image is AI-generated, though with some considerable limitations.…

NASA’s Scott Tingle to Serve as Agency’s Chief Astronaut

NASA named astronaut Scott Tingle as chief of the Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, effective Nov. 10. A decorated spaceflight veteran and former captain in the United States Navy, Tingle has logged more than 4,500 flight hours in 51 different aircraft and served as a flight engineer aboard the International […]

PHP 8.5 lays down long-awaited pipe operator, adds new URI tools

Unfashionable web workhorse refreshed for its ongoing run

PHP 8.5 landed on Thursday with a long-awaited pipe operator and a new standards-compliant URI parser, marking one of the scripting language's more substantial updates.…

Salesforce-linked data breach claims 200+ victims, has ShinyHunters’ fingerprints all over it

They keep coming back for more

Salesforce has disclosed another third-party breach in which criminals - likely ShinyHunters (again) - may have accessed hundreds of its customers' data.…

A Hiker Discovered a Trove of Artifacts in Norway's Melting Ice. The Site Turned Out to Be a 1,500-Year-Old Reindeer Trap

Located in the mountains of western Norway, the facility was likely used by Iron Age hunters to trap and kill wild reindeer. Experts say it's the only site of its kind ever found in the country

NASA Celebrates Five Years of Artemis Accords, Welcomes 3 New Nations

October marked the fifth anniversary of NASA and the original founders signing the Artemis Accords, as well as the recognition of Hungary, Malaysia and the Philippines joining the expanding coalition dedicated to the peaceful exploration of space. The number of countries involved now totals 59. “NASA welcomes the newest signatories, whose participation strengthens the global […]

Ai2’s Olmo 3 Pushes the Envelope for Open Source LLM Performance

The Allen Institute of AI (Ai2) today launched Olmo 3, the latest in its family of state-of-the-art, open source large

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NASA Sets Coverage for Crew Launch to Join Station Expedition

NASA astronaut Chris Williams will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday, Nov. 27, accompanied by cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, where they will join the Expedition 73 crew advancing scientific research. Williams, Kud-Sverchkov, and Mikaev will lift off at 4:27 a.m. EST (2:27 p.m. Baikonur time) […]

What’s Up: November 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Mars and Mercury will cozy up together in the night sky just after sunset on November 12th. The planets will experience what is known as a conjunction, meaning they appear close together in the sky from our view (even though in real life, Mars and Mercury are well over 100 million miles apart).

LLM-generated malware is improving, but don't expect autonomous attacks tomorrow

Researchers tried to get ChatGPT to do evil, but it didn't do a good job

LLMs are getting better at writing malware - but they're still not ready for prime time.…

Adam Jacob on Why Scaling Is ‘The Funnest Game’

“There’s no funner game than the at-scale technology game. But if you play it, some people will hate you for

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Watch the Record-Breaking Auction of This Gustav Klimt Portrait, Which Just Became the Second Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold

"Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer," which played a role in protecting the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust, sold at Sotheby's for a historic $236.4 million. It's also the most expensive modern artwork ever auctioned

Don't spill your guts to your chatbot friend - it'll hoover up that info for training

LLM makers may be training on user chat with few privacy safeguards, lawmakers hear

The US House of Representatives has heard that LLM builders can exploit users’ conversations for further training and commercial benefit with little oversight or concern for privacy risks.…

Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI

If at first you don’t succeed, swing again - Big Tech certainly isn’t complaining

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are trying again to eliminate state-level AI regulations in favor of a federal standard. The plan faces opposition from many state governments and civil-society organizations, while AI vendors have welcomed it.…

Building a Cloud-to-Edge Architecture Across 40K Global Locations

Edge at any kind of distributed scale requires new management approaches that account for edge idiosyncrasies, like poor connectivity, limited

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NASA Fuels Discovery from Earth to Sky: One Crayon at a Time

A collaboration between the NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC) and Earth to Sky (ETS) – an exciting, growing partnership between NASA, the National Park Service, and other federal, state, and local organizations – is facilitating the implementation of a simple, yet incredibly effective activity that will help millions of national park visitors connect with […]

NASA Progresses Toward Artemis II Moon Mission

As 2026 nears, NASA continues moving forward to launching and flying Artemis II, the first crewed mission under the Artemis campaign, no later than April next year. NASA’s Orion spacecraft, complete with its launch abort system escape tower, is now integrated with the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at […]

NASA’s Quesst Mission Marks X-59’s Historic First Flight

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28 at 11:14 a.m. EDT from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The one-of-a-kind aircraft flew for 67 minutes before landing and taxiing to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA test pilot Nils Larson flew the […]

NASA, Aerospace Corporation Study Sharpens Focus on Ammonia Emissions

The pungent gas contributes to fine airborne particulate pollution, which endangers human health when inhaled and absorbed in the bloodstream.  A recent study led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the nonprofit Aerospace Corporation shows how high-resolution maps of ground-level ammonia plumes can be generated with airborne sensors, highlighting a […]

Thunderbird 145 finally adds ‘native’ Exchange support

EWS-powered email only for now, with calendars and contacts still on the to-do list

It's easy to forget in the FOSS world, but Exchange still runs most corporate email – and the new version of Thunderbird can talk to it directly.…

How Can We Solve Observability’s Data Capture and Spending Problem?

The so-called “DevOps practitioner” can be a developer, an operations team member, a site reliability engineer or a business stakeholder.

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Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage

PowerShell script locked thousands of workers out of their accounts

An Ohio IT contractor has pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's systems and causing nearly $1 million worth of damage after being fired.…

X-59 First Flight Media Resources

​Media Contact Quesst Media Lead: Kristen Hatfield, 757-817-5522 First Flight Videos First Flight Highlight Reel (1:43) First Flight Extended B-Roll (7:39) Articles NASA’s X-59 Completes First Flight, Prepares for More Flight Testing First Flight Images More X-59 imagery is available in NASA’s Quesst Image Gallery Historical Resources Taxi Test B-Roll X-59 reveal Biographies Peter Coen Cathy Bahm […]

Nvidia pushes out hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming performance

Quick and dirty driver aims to undo slowdown introduced in OS patch

The Windows 11 October 2025 Update is still causing headaches for users of Microsoft's flagship operating system.…

AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market

Google and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base

The big three cloud companies are all growing thanks to an expanding market, but Amazon is under increasing pressure from Microsoft and Google, while newcomers are on the rise.…

I Am Artemis: Ethan Jacobs

Listen to this audio excerpt from Ethan Jacobs, a helicopter pilot and member of the Colorado Army National Guard developing a foundational flight training course for Artemis astronauts: High above the Rocky Mountains, Ethan Jacobs is helping NASA preparing to land people on the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. NASA […]

TP-Link accuses rival Netgear of 'smear campaign' over alleged China ties

Networking vendor claims rival helped portray it as a national-security risk in the US

TP-Link is suing rival networking vendor Netgear, alleging that the rival and its CEO carried out a smear campaign by falsely suggesting, it says, that the biz had been infiltrated by the Chinese government.…

Composable Platforms: Why You Need One

The current IT landscape is plagued by stagnation, stemming from both technical and business challenges, making organizations extremely risk-averse. This

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New Citizen Science Proposals Funded in 2025

NASA has selected 10 new citizen science proposals for funding in 2025. These selections provide a preview of what’s coming next for NASA citizen science. Note that these investigations are research grants: some of them will result in new opportunities for the public, while others will analyze or build on results from earlier citizen science projects.

Hundreds of Australian Bagpipers Attempt to Set World Record While Playing AC/DC

The performance of "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)" took place a few days before the band played its first show in Australia in a decade

NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Triples Size of Pleiades Star Cluster

Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used data from NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and other observatories as NASA explores the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all, from the Moon to Mars and beyond. By examining the rotation, chemistry, […]

3-Hour Cloudflare Outage Knocks Out AI Chatbots, Shopify

On Nov. 18, 2025, Cloudflare experienced a major outage lasting several hours that disrupted access to numerous popular websites and

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NASA’s Roman Could Bring New Waves of Information on Galaxy’s Stars

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aqui. A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a “key” that will harmonize well with the science goals and capabilities of NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Stars’ turbulent natures produce waves that cause fluctuations in their overall brightness. By studying these […]

Education boards left gates wide open for PowerSchool mega-breach, say watchdogs

Privacy cops say attack wasn't just bad luck but a result of sloppy homework

Canadian privacy watchdogs say that school boards must shoulder part of the blame for the PowerSchool mega-breach, not just the ed-tech giant that lost control of millions of student and staff records.…

Google and Westinghouse lean on AI to speed US nuclear plant builds

Pair say digital twin-powered scheduling will cut costs, shrink timelines for 10 planned reactors

Google and atomic power biz Westinghouse Electric claim that AI will speed construction and cut the cost of building the new US power plants it is planning in response to rising demands for energy to fuel AI.…

The React Component Pyramid Scheme: An Over-Engineering Crisis

At some point, we stopped writing React components and started worshiping them. The mantra of “reusability” turned from a best

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5 Engineering Skills to Prioritize in the AI-Driven Era

The field of software engineering is at a major turning point, the most pivotal point of change since the invention

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These Parasitic Ant Queens Found a Sneaky Way to Stage a Coup: Trick a Colony Into Killing its Mother

While ant queen violence is well-known, scientists recently documented the first evidence of parasite-induced matricide

Thunderbird Pro November 2025 Update

Welcome back to the latest update on our progress with Thunderbird Pro, a set of additional subscription services designed to enhance the email client you know, while providing a powerful open-source alternative to many of the big tech offerings available today. These services include Appointment, an easy to use scheduling tool; Send, which offers end-to-end […]

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Palo Alto kit sees massive surge in malicious activity amid mystery traffic flood

GlobalProtect login endpoints targeted, sparking concern that something bigger may be brewing

Malicious traffic targeting Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect portals surged almost 40-fold in the space of 24 hours, hitting a 90-day high and putting defenders on alert for whatever comes next.…

Systemd 259 release candidate flexes musl support – with long list of caveats

PostmarketOS pushed for the change, but devs warn it may not last

Along with new functionality, systemd is broadening its distro support even further, which will surely delight members of the wider Linux community.…

Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform

Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) has again put off its adoption of an NHS data platform prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir until there is more evidence that it will be in the "best interests" of the city's population.…

Eleven years after Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 server biz, profits are still elusive

PC sales are pushing upwards nicely, but AI PCs only account for a third of the new fleet

Lenovo has again said its enterprise hardware business is on the cusp of becoming consistently profitable, despite the division again posting a loss after massive revenue growth.…

Palo Alto CEO tips nation-states to weaponize quantum computing by 2029

Company thinks you’ll contemplate replacing most security kit in the next few years to stay safe

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has suggested hostile nation-states will possess quantum computers in 2029, or even a little earlier, at which point most security appliances will need to be replaced.…

US, UK, Australia sanction Lockbit gang’s hosting provider

‘Bulletproof’ hosts partly dodged the last attack of this sort

Cybercrime fighters in the US, UK, and Australia have imposed sanctions on several Russia-linked entities they claim provide hosting services to ransomware gangs Lockbit, BlackSuit, and Play.…

It's a good time to be the arms dealer for the AI boom

Bubble? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doesn't see one

Nvidia kicked the can labeled "AI bubble" down the road on Wednesday.…

Fortinet 'fesses up to second 0-day within a week

Attackers may be joining the dots to enable unauthenticated RCE

Fortinet has confirmed that another flaw in its FortiWeb web application firewall has been exploited as a zero-day and issued a patch, just days after disclosing a critical bug in the same product that attackers had found and abused a month earlier.…

Celebrating 25 Years of Humanity in Space

In 2025, NASA and its international partners celebrate 25 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station. Since November 2, 2000, more than 290 people from 26 countries have lived and worked aboard the orbiting laboratory, conducting thousands of experiments that have advanced science and technology on Earth and paved the way for […]

Neuroscientists Studied More Than 80,000 People and Found That Speaking Multiple Languages Might Slow Down Brain Aging

An enormous analysis of data from a broad array of participants found an association between multilingualism and cognitive aging

NASA’s X-59 Completes First Flight, Prepares for More Flight Testing

After years of design, development, and testing, NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took to the skies for the first time Oct. 28, marking a historic moment for the field of aeronautics research and the agency’s Quesst mission. The X-59, designed to fly at supersonic speeds and reduce the sound of loud sonic booms to […]

Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats

The force-feeding will continue until morale improves

Some software developers complain that they're being required to use AI tools to the detriment of code quality and their own skills.…

George Lucas' Sprawling Museum Dedicated to the 'Universal Language' of Illustrated Storytelling Finally Gets an Opening Date

Located in Los Angeles, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will feature a permanent collection of more than 40,000 illustrations, movie posters, murals, film artifacts and other artworks

SARP 2025 Closeout

In August 2025, 47 students from NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) culminated a summer of science by presenting their research to an audience of mentors, professors, family, friends, and NASA personnel. SARP is a summer internship for undergraduate students, hosted in two cohorts: this year SARP West operated out of Guardian Jet Center and University of California, […]

SARP East 2025 Atmospheric Chemistry Group

Faculty Advisor: Stacey Hughes, University of New Hampshire Graduate Mentor: Katherine Paredero, Georgia Institute of Technology Atmospheric Chemistry Group Introduction Faculty Advisor Stacey Hughes and Graduate Mentor Katherine Paredero Kaylena Pham Spooky Swamps: How Methane Emission Rates and Their Spatial Variability Differ Between the Great Dismal Swamp and the Alligator River  Kaylena Pham, University of […]

SARP East 2025 Terrestrial Fluxes Group

Faculty Advisors: Lisa Haber, Virginia Commonwealth University Brandon Alveshere, Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate Mentor: Kayla Preisler, University of Arizona Terrestrial Fluxes Group Introduction Rice Rivers Center Director Chris Gough and Graduate Mentor Kayla Preisler Quinn Koch Monitoring Postfire Ecosystem Recovery With Spectral Indices and Eddy-Covariance Flux Towers  Quinn Koch, University of California, Los Angeles  Fire […]

SARP East 2025 Oceans Group

Faculty Advisors: Tom Bell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Graduate Mentor: Sarah Lang, University of Rhode Island Oceans Group Introduction Faculty Advisor Tom Bell and Graduate Mentor Sarah Lang Isabella Showman  Detecting Coastal Sea Ice Extent and Freshet Event Timing in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska Using Sentinel-1 C-SAR  Isabella Showman, University of Washington  The detachment of coastal […]

SARP West 2025 Aerosols Group

Faculty Advisors: Andreas Beyersdorf, California State University, San Bernardino  Graduate Mentor: Bradley Ries, University of California, Riverside  Aerosols Group Introduction Faculty Advisor Andreas Beyersdorf Martha Santiago Aerosol Pollution in Two Coastal Agricultural Regions in the United States  Martha Santiago, Northwestern University  Although air quality has improved across the United States since the passage of the […]

SARP West 2025 Land Group

Faculty Advisors: Daniel Sousa, San Diego State University  Graduate Mentor: Megan Ward-Baranyay, San Diego State University  Land Group Introduction Faculty Advisor Daniel Sousa Robert Purvis Fractional cover estimates of the epiphytic macrolichen Ramalina menziesii in oak canopies from simulated mixed spectra and airborne imaging spectroscopy  Robert Purvis, Western Kentucky University  Lichens, a symbiotic relationship between […]

SARP West 2025 Oceans Group

Faculty Advisor: Henry Houskeper, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute  Graduate Mentor: Camille Pawlak, University of California, Los Angeles  Oceans Group Introduction Faculty Advisor Henry Housekeeper Molly McKellar Spatiotemporal dynamics of canopy-forming kelp forests in the Russian province of Kamchatka  Maria (Molly) McKellar, University of Wisconsin, Madison  Interannual variability in canopy-forming kelps and the environmental conditions in […]

SARP West 2025 Whole Air Sampling Group

Faculty Advisor: Donald Blake, University of California, Irvine Graduate Mentor: Oluwaseun Moses Akinola, University of Connecticut Whole Air Sampling Group Introduction Faculty Advisor Donald Blake Sarah Kinlaw Impact of Dairies on Ozone Production in Ontario, CA  Sarah Kinlaw, College of William & Mary  In the center of Ontario, California’s urban sprawl sits 5 square miles […]

Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos

The latest attack on Section 230 is likely to face the same fate as many previous efforts

A pair of bipartisan senators wants to hold social media giants accountable for pushing content that radicalizes Americans.…

Hummingbird: Red Hat’s Answer to Alpine, Ubuntu Chiseled, Wolfi

Linux powerhouse  has unveiled Project Hummingbird, a new initiative designed to accelerate cloud native development by delivering micro-sized container images

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Why Rushing AI Adoption Leads to Low-Quality ‘Workslop’

New AI solutions continue to emerge, and models are steadily improving. Yet, despite the rapid pace of AI innovation, the

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It’s Time To Kill Staging: The Case for Testing in Production

Staging has always been a necessary evil. New approaches to isolation and on-demand sandboxes have finally made it just plain

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Pegasus XL rocket dusted off to rescue NASA’s Swift observatory from fiery demise

Air-launched antique picked for tricky low-inclination orbit job

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, facing the risk of an uncontrolled dive back to Earth, is set for a rescue ride on a Pegasus XL, the air-dropped rocket that hasn't flown since 2021.…

Forensic Analysis Identifies Skeleton as a Medieval Hungarian Duke Who Was Brutally Murdered 750 Years Ago

Based on DNA evidence and numerous cut marks on the bones, scientists think that multiple assailants attacked Béla, Duke of Macsó, in 1272. The victim was likely unarmed and unprotected by armor

A 3-Question Framework for Making Ethical Tech Decisions

What happens when 15,000 researchers using Jupyter Notebooks for genomic research hit a wall between open science principles and federal

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Amazon security boss: Hostile countries use cyber targeting for physical military strikes

And companies are getting caught in the crossfire

interview  Warfare has become a joint cyber-kinetic endeavor, with nations using cyber operations to scope out targets before launching missiles. And private companies, including shipping, transportation, and electronics manufacturers, are getting caught in the crossfire, according to Amazon.…

DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move

Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit

DARPA is on the verge of reaching a new low - an orbital one - as the Defense Department's research arm moves its Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) Otter satellite program into the production phase. …

OpenAI Says Its New Codex-Max Model Is Better, Faster and Cheaper

OpenAI today launched GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a new variant of its GPT-5.1-Codex foundation model that was specifically trained to excel at coding

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Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376M

Massive jump in spending shows the Great White North isn’t betting everything on NASA

Canada will boost its investment in European Space Agency (ESA) programs by CA\(528.5 million (\)376 million USD), a tenfold increase, according to the Canadian Space Agency.…

Ford rolls into the Xen Project as hypervisor gears up for autos

Version 4.21 also brings advances in the datacenter, on ARM, and RISC-V

The Xen Project today delivered a major release of its hypervisor and associated tools, including contributions from automaker Ford, which quietly joined the project in June.…

The Paintings of Camille Pissarro, the 'First Impressionist,' Are Finally Getting the Attention They Deserve

"The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism," the first major U.S. exhibition of the artist in 40 years, is now open at the Denver Art Museum

Watch a Wolf Cleverly Raid a Crab Trap for a Snack. It Might Be the First Evidence of a Wild Canid Using a Tool

Footage from British Columbia shows just how intelligent wild wolves can be, but scientists are divided as to whether the behavior constitutes tool use

US pumps $1B into Three Mile Island nuclear plant reboot to keep AI datacenters fed

A reactor at the site suffered a partial meltdown in 1979

The Trump administration is so eager to get extra power into the grid that it is offering a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy to help it restart the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear facility.…

San Jose's 'warrantless' license plate queries land cops in court

Digital rights groups argue cameras used to unconstitutionally surveil locals

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) are suing the City of San Jose and its police department over alleged abuses of automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) technology.…

NASA Cassini Study Finds Organics ‘Fresh’ From Ocean of Enceladus

Researchers dove deep into information gathered from the ice grains that were collected during a close and super-fast flyby through a plume of Saturn’s icy moon. A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission found evidence of previously undetected organic compounds in a plume of ice particles ejected from the ocean that lies under […]

Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells ‘Spiraling’ Apep, Limits Long Orbit

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding beyond the next in precisely the same pattern. (The fourth is almost transparent, at the edges of Webb’s image.) Observations taken prior to Webb only detected one shell, […]

There’s No SKU for AI: A 3-Box Framework to Avoid AI Failures

The numbers are sobering. A highly publicized report from MIT shows that 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are

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Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe

Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole universes. What they’re finding has them questioning fundamental assumptions about how physics ought to be done.

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Why Launch-Time Reliability Is Especially Critical

Ensuring the reliability of a new product or feature at launch is crucial. Wherever it sits in an organization’s offering,

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Presencia el lanzamiento de Artemis II

Los creadores digitales y usuarios de redes sociales están invitados a inscribirse para asistir al lanzamiento de la misión Artemis II de la NASA. El cohete Sistema de Lanzamiento Espacial (SLS, por sus siglas en inglés) de la agencia lanzará al espacio la nave espacial Orion desde el complejo de lanzamientos 39B en el Centro Espacial Kennedy […]

Experience the Launch of Artemis II

Lee esta nota en español aquí Digital creators and social media users are invited to register to attend the launch of the NASA’s Artemis II mission. The agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket will launch the Orion spacecraft from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Four astronauts aboard will fly around […]

Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh

Burnout and slowing growth push Eugen Rochko into an advisory role after nearly a decade in charge

Eugen Rochko, CEO and founder of decentralized social network Mastodon, is stepping down after nearly a decade at the helm and walking away with a sizable exit payment.…

Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI market

Analysts warn LPDDR4 supply is tightening fast with shift to higher-end components

Updated  Memory prices could soon be double what they were earlier this year as chipmakers switch to advanced products to target the AI market, leaving a shortfall of more mature chips such as those meeting the LPDDR4 standard.…

6 Pillars for a Best in Class API Strategy

An AI Gateway won’t solve all of a developer’s API problems, Jason Ehmke told audiences at the Kong API Summit

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Microsoft-SAP pact aims to keep Euro cloud running in a crisis

Vendors set up sovereign fallback so customers aren't stranded by foreign interference

SAP and Microsoft have struck a partnership designed to provide safeguards for users of the US vendor's cloud services in Europe during "times of crisis."…

Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw

Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms

Researchers in Austria used a flaw in WhatsApp to gather the personal data of more than 3.5 billion users in what they believe amounts to the "largest data leak in history."…

Ignite awash with agents as Microsoft triples down on AI

Event supposedly for IT pros doesn't have much to tell admins on the Windows front

The Copilot company kicked off its Ignite shindig this week with AI, AI, and more AI. Oh, and a lot of agents.…

Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals

Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says

Microsoft has announced a distributed PostgreSQL database service designed to rival other hyperscaler systems and third-party RDBMSes such as CockroachDB and YugabyteDB.…

CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out

Preliminary proposal is already provoking debate

The Python community is chewing over a new idea: allowing the C-based reference implementation, CPython, to incorporate Rust. It's only at the "pre-PEP" stage, but it's already sparked lively debate.…

Station Nation: Meet Alyssa Yockey, Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Flight Lead

Alyssa Yockey supports the International Space Station from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston as a flight lead at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory is one of the world’s largest indoor pools where astronauts and support teams conduct trainings and other large-scale operations, both in the water and on the pool deck.  […]

SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script

B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain

In 2020, SAP's CFO told investors that its plans for customer upgrades, cloud migration, and a move to SaaS would give the German software vendor a greater "share of wallet."…

Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation

Researchers say attacks are laying the groundwork for stealthy espionage activity

Around 50,000 ASUS routers have been compromised in a sophisticated attack that researchers believe may be linked to China, according to findings released today by SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team.…

The Mystery Of Inner Monologues

Emily Kwong is pretty sure she lacks an inner monologue, while the inner monologue of producer Rachel Carlson won’t stop chatting. But how well can a person know their inner self? And what does science have to say about it?

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Whatever your job, mentoring is your job – and the one that matters most

Nobody succeeds alone, and no community thrives without generosity

Opinion  When I started coding for a living 43 years ago, I didn't know shit from Shinola. I'd written a lot of BASIC, some Z80 assembler, and knew my way around floppy drives and a disk operating system. I knew nothing at all about how to operate as a junior engineer in a professional environment.…

China recruiting spies in the UK with fake headhunters and ‘sites like LinkedIn’

MI5 sounds the alarm about attempts to source sensitive information

Chinese spies are using social media and fake recruitment agents to recruit sources with access to sensitive information in the UK.…

Microsoft reveals new cloudy AI PC that’s not a Copilot+ PC

And a cloud PC that's for AI agents only

Microsoft has created a new type of AI PC – the “Windows 365 AI-enabled Cloud PC”.…

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.…

Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook

Vertical integration meets subscriptions

"We love moving packets," declared Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, on a stage overlooking San Francisco Bay at the networking startup's annual networking event. He continued, "This crowd probably knows this intimately, but everything in the world is packets. Regardless of what type of work you do, it is just packets all the way down."…

AWS’ Kiro to Bring Automated Reasoning to Agentic Development

Now generally available, Kiro is an agentic IDE that enables organizations to move beyond “vibe coding” to structured development that

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Microsoft warns its new “AI” agents in Windows can install malware

Microsoft has just announced a whole slew of new “AI” features for Windows, and this time, they’ll be living in your taskbar. Microsoft is trying to transform Windows into a “canvas for AI,” with new AI agents integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar. These new taskbar capabilities are designed to make AI agents feel like an assistant in Windows that can go off and control your PC and do tasks for you at the click of a button. It’s part of a broader overhaul of Windows to turn the operating system into an “agentic OS.” Microsoft is integrating a variety of AI agents directly into the Windows 11 taskbar, including its own Microsoft 365 Copilot and third-party options. “This integration isn’t just about adding agents; it’s about making them part of the OS experience,” says Windows chief Pavan Davuluri. ↫ Tom Warren at The Verge These “AI” agents will control your computer, applications, and files for you, which may make some of you a little apprehensive, and for good reason. “AI” tools don’t have a great track record when it comes to privacy – Windows Recall comes to mind – and as such, Microsoft claims this time, it’ll be different. These new “AI” agents will run in what are essentially dedicated Windows accounts acting as sandboxes, to ensure they can only access certain resources. While I find the addition of these “AI” tools to Windows insufferable and dumb, I’m at least glad Microsoft is taking privacy and security seriously this time, and I doubt Microsoft would repeat the same mistakes they made with the entirely botched rollout of Windows Recall. in addition, after the Cloudstrike fiasco, Microsoft made clear commitments to improve its security practices, which further adds to the confidence we should all have these new “AI” tools are safe, secure, and private. But wait, what’s this? Additionally, agentic AI applications introduce novel security risks, such as cross-prompt injection (XPIA), where malicious content embedded in UI elements or documents can override agent instructions, leading to unintended actions like data exfiltration or malware installation. ↫ Microsoft support document about the new “AI” features Microsoft’s new “AI” features can go out and install malware without your consent, because these features possess the access and privileges to do so. The mere idea that some application – which is essentially what these “AI” features really are – can go out onto the web and download and install whatever it wants, including malware, “on your behalf”, in the background, is so utterly dystopian to me I just can’t imagine any serious developer looking at this and thinking “yeah, ship it”. I’m living in an insane asylum.

Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new ‘Digital Signage mode’

BORK is borked

Microsoft has added a new Windows mode that blanks out the Blue Screen of Death on public displays after 15 seconds.…

Bird Flu Wiped Out Nearly Half of the Females in the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Drone Images Suggest

Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird flu hit. Scaled to the whole island, that’s a potential loss of more than 50,000 of the animals

Google Launches Gemini 3 Pro

today launched Gemini 3 Pro, the latest iteration of its family of foundation models, with other Gemini 3 variants to

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Anthropic is at the heart of the latest billion-dollar circular AI investment bonanza

What do you get when you combine Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia? A bubble that blows itself

It wouldn't be a week of tech news without more circular exchanges of billions of dollars between AI firms. This time around, it's a $45 billion back-scratching session involving Microsoft, Anthropic, and Nvidia, announced during Redmond's Ignite conference.…

Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters

Using AI to attack AI

updated  Malefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…

Feel a Connection to a Celebrity You’ve Never Met? Your Bond May Be 'Parasocial,' Which Is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2025

The term is used to describe "a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know," according to the dictionary

How to Stress-Test Your ML Data Pipelines

This is the second of two articles. Read also:  Why You Should Break Your ML Pipelines on Purpose In Part

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Run old versions of UNIX for PDP-11 and x86 on modern hardware

The contents of this repository allow older versions of UNIX (ancient UNIX) to run easily on modern Unix-like systems (Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, among others). ↫ Run ancient UNIX GitHub page With the guides in this repository, you can easily run Versions 1/5/7 UNIX and 2.11BSD UNIX for the PDP-11 and Version 7 UNIX for x86 (ported to x86 by Robert Nordier in 1999, with patches in 2006-2007). That’s it.

RHEL 10.1 Soft Reboot Slashes Downtime for Updates

ATLANTA — Red Hat officially released Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.1 at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America. This is the first

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How Kubernetes Became the New Linux

Once upon a time, major banks built their own Linux kernels because there were no distros yet. They were pioneers

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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4716-4722: Drilling Success at Nevado Sajama

Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator at Framework Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 14, 2025 From Curiosity’s ridge-top perch among the boxwork unit, the highlight of the week was the successful drilling of the “Nevado Sajama” target. The data collected by APXS, ChemCam, and MAHLI from the rover workspace and its immediate vicinity […]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4709-4715: Drilling High and Low in the Boxwork Unit

Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 We are in the most intensive phase of the boxwork structures investigation — the drill campaign. The boxwork campaign group requested a pair of drilled targets — one in a hollow (the […]

Thousands of Mysterious Holes Dot the Landscape in Peru. Archaeologists Say They May Finally Know Why

New research suggests the Band of Holes functioned as a barter marketplace before becoming an accounting system for the Inca

FCC looks to torch Biden-era cyber rules sparked by Salt Typhoon mess

Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too ‘burdensome’

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in 2024, that required telecom carriers to adopt basic security controls.…

China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew

Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company

China is preparing for an early launch of the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft to rescue the crew of Shenzou-21, who were left stranded aboard the Tiangong space station after their emergency rescue of the Shenzou-20 crew earlier this month.…

Data Telemetry Is the Lifeline of Modern Analytics and AI

Imagine opening your preferred shopping app to purchase a new pair of sneakers. In a matter of seconds, you search,

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Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss says

When? Sean Cairncross wouldn't say

America is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive – he just isn't saying when.…

NASA Telescopes View Spiral Galaxy

NGC 1068, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, appears in this image released on July 23, 2025. The galaxy contains a black hole at its center that is twice as massive as the Milky Way’s. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory data shows a million-mile-per-hour wind is being driven from NGC 1068’s black hole and lighting up the […]

Google Chrome bug exploited as an 0-day - patch now or risk full system compromise

Seventh Chrome 0-day this year

Google pushed an emergency patch on Monday for a high-severity Chrome bug that attackers have already found and exploited in the wild.…

Datacenter fossil fuel habit 'not sustainable' as AI workloads soar

Rising AI power demand is straining grids and pushing operators toward hydrogen, batteries, geothermal, and nuclear

Gartner warns that fossil fuel dominance in on-site power generation is not sustainable, given the rapid rise in datacenter energy consumption due to AI servers.…

Scientists Reverse Human Rejection of Pig Organ Transplant for First Time

A new study reversed transplant rejection twice, uncovering the reasons for transplant rejection on a cellular level

Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia

Carrier insists network wasn't at fault when smartphone couldn't reach 000

A Sydney resident died after their Samsung handset failed to connect to 000, Australia's primary emergency number, triggering a stark warning from telco TPG that outdated mobile software could be a matter of life or death.…

Microsoft issues patch to tackle Windows 10 Extended Security Updates failures

Users who thought they were safely in the program hit errors on day one

Microsoft has shipped a fix for commercial customers who believed they were enrolled in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program but received error messages on the first Patch Tuesday after support ended.…

Antigravity Is Google’s New Agentic Development Platform

today launched Antigravity, its latest experiment in building an agentic development platform. Powered by the new Gemini 3 model, Antigravity

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How Azure Copilot’s New Agents Automate DevOps and SecOps

There are over 200 different services available on Azure, with thousands of resource types. At the Ignite conference this week,

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Miami Beach's Newest Art Installation Is Underwater—and It Doubles as a Habitat for Fish and Coral

Crews lowered 22 concrete cars to the ocean floor to create "Concrete Coral," an installation by artist Leandro Erlich. The piece is the first phase of a project called REEFLINE

Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support

If your organization uses Microsoft Exchange-based email, you’ll be happy to hear that Thunderbird’s latest monthly Release version 145, now officially supports native access via the Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol. With EWS now built directly into Thunderbird, a third-party add-on is no longer required for email functionality. Calendar and address book support for Exchange […]

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Scientists Extract the Oldest RNA Ever Found, Revealing How a Woolly Mammoth’s Genes May Have Functioned 40,000 Years Ago

The frozen remains of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka preserved details about the animal’s last moments alive

The Future of Secure Development: Faster and Safer Code

Software has always been built on a tension between speed and safety. Development teams push for faster release cycles, while

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Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown

European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act

The European Commission has launched investigations into Amazon and Microsoft's cloud services, and plans to review if legislation introduced in 2022 is being applied effectively to the cloud market.…

NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data

Lawsuit alleges he poached staff, lifted trade secrets, and set up Red Stapler before quitting

NetApp has accused its former senior vice president and CTO of secretly building a rival cloud control platform while still on its payroll, triggering an urgent legal scramble.…

Confidence: Spotify Gives Developers a Platform for Experiments

If you are experimenting with AI — and if you aren’t, you’ll soon be left irrevocably behind — you need

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Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters

Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers

Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.…

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along

Updated  Internet services provider Cloudflare is suffering a major outage that has knocked chunks of the web offline – including The Register.…

Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds

They can probably set up a printer faster, but look elsewhere for cryptography advice

Gen Z can get off their digital high horses because their passwords are no more secure than their grandparents'.…

Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service

Techie wired cryptominers into Nordex's network while company reeled from cyberattack

A Dutch wind farm operator learned the hard way that its turbines weren't just spinning to generate electricity – they were also powering someone else's crypto wallet.…

Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually

Chang'e 6's soil sample turns up iron oxides where none were supposed to exist

A Chinese-led team of boffins has uncovered tiny grains of hematite and maghemite in materials scooped from the Moon's far-side South Pole-Aitken Basin by the Chang'e 6 probe – iron oxides more at home on rusty tools on Earth than on our bone-dry satellite.…

Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel

€544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower

SC25  France will get its first exascale supercomputer — Europe's second — when Atos subsidiary Eviden builds Alice Recoque using AMD chips.…

Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium

As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engine

Servo is an all-new and all-Rust browser rendering engine. As Mozilla falters, it's the world's best option for avoiding a Google monopoly.…

Brits to help foot power bill for datacenters under government AI plans

Cheaper electricity to lure bit barns north as planning fast-track kicks in

While UK households face some of the world's highest energy prices, datacenter operators are set to receive electricity discounts under government plans to accelerate AI infrastructure development.…

Vodafone, EE, O2, Three hit with £3B overcharging lawsuit

Case alleges loyal customers continued to pay bundled rates after minimum contract terms ended

Britain's biggest mobile phone companies face legal action over claims they overcharged customers through a "loyalty penalty" after a tribunal permitted the cases to proceed.…

Guiding Artemis: Brian Alpert Turns Lessons Learned Into Lunar Progress

Brian Alpert’s path was always destined for the aerospace industry, but his journey turned toward NASA’s Johnson Space Center during his sophomore year in college. That was when Tricia Mack, who works in NASA’s Transportation Integration Office within the International Space Station Program, spoke to his aerospace seminar about planning spacewalks, training crews, and supporting […]

Brits believe the bots even though study finds they're often talking nonsense

Consumer group Which? warns AI assistants can dish out unclear, risky, or downright daft advice

AI assistants can sometimes provide misleading or incorrect answers. However, almost half of British consumers using the services put more faith in them than they maybe should.…

An Apple Is An Ovary: The Science of Apple Breeding

What's your favorite apple? Maybe it's the crowd-pleasing Honeycrisp, the tart Granny Smith or the infamous Red Delicious. Either way, before that apple made it to your local grocery store or orchard it had to be invented — by a scientist. So today, we're going straight to the source: Talking to an apple breeder. Producer Hannah Chinn reports how apples are selected, bred, grown ... and the discoveries that could change that process. Plus, what's a "spitter"?

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Starlink’s method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer

Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regime

Researchers have found Starlink’s efforts to mitigate the effects of solar storms can create degraded performance that persists for a day or more after geomagnetic conditions ease.…

Alibaba releases chatbot that produces error when asked about Tiananmen Square

Yet Chinese giant wants users to ‘ask any question, big or small, anytime, anywhere!’

Chinese tech giant Alibaba yesterday launched a new chatbot that reported errors soon after launch and is very touchy about some subjects Beijing doesn’t like to discuss.…

Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years

VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief

VMware has admitted that its guidance about the hardware needed to run its vSAN virtual storage arrays has been wrong for years.…

Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI

Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing

Interview  Scientific computing is about to undergo a period of rapid change as workloads inject AI.…

Unblock DevEx by Getting Observability Tools Out of The Way

This was originally published on Oct. 23, 2025, and has been updated with new information. Software developers’ relationship with their

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Scaling AI Interactions: How to Load Balance Streamable MCP

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is evolving. With the recent adoption of Streamable HTTP in early 2025, the protocol is

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You Can Buy the Wicked Witch's Hat That Actress Margaret Hamilton Wore in 'The Wizard of Oz'

Heritage Auctions is selling several pieces of memorabilia connected to the land of Oz, including the witch’s hat from the 1939 film and a 1903 edition of the book signed by Judy Garland

Watch Four Furry and Adorable Cheetah Cubs on the Smithsonian National Zoo’s Online Feed

The “strong, active” and “vocal” babies were born during the government shutdown, and they and their 5-year-old, first-time mother, Amabala, are thriving

'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second

Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder

Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.…

In a First, Astronomers Saw a Distant Star Shoot Some of Its Plasma Into Space

The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby

Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says

Ready, aim, mire

Loose lips sink ships, the classic line goes. Information proliferation in the internet age has government auditors reiterating that loose tweets can sink fleets, and they're concerned that the Defense Department isn't doing enough to stop sensitive info from getting out there. …

La NASA invita a los medios al despegue de la misión lunar Artemis II

Read this press release in English here. Ya está abierto el plazo de acreditación de medios de comunicación para el lanzamiento de la primera misión lunar tripulada de la campaña Artemis de la NASA. Con un lanzamiento previsto para principios de 2026, el vuelo de prueba Artemis II enviará a los astronautas de la NASA Reid […]

NASA Invites Media to Attend Crewed Artemis II Moon Mission Launch

Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. Media accreditation is open for the launch of the first crewed Moon mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign. Targeted to launch in early 2026, the Artemis II test flight will send NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on an […]

AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows

ORCA benchmark trips up ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek V3.2

In the world of George Orwell's 1984, two and two make five. And large language models are not much better at math.…

Automation Complacency Can Compound Vibe Coding Risks

Let’s face it, vibe coding or using AI to assist with writing code, has already become a reality for many

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Suited Up for Science: NASA ER-2 Pilot Prepares for GEMx Flight

NASA ER-2 pilot Kirt Stallings waits inside the transport vehicle moments before boarding the airborne science aircraft at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. Outside the window, the aircraft is being readied for a high-altitude mission supporting the Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx), a multi-year NASA–U.S. Geological Survey […]

La NASA compartirá imágenes del cometa 3I/ATLAS tomadas desde naves espaciales y telescopios

Read this press release in English here. La NASA ofrecerá un evento en vivo (en inglés) a las 3 p.m. EST del miércoles 19 de noviembre para compartir imágenes del cometa interestelar 3I/ATLAS captadas por varias misiones de la agencia. El evento tendrá lugar en el Centro de Vuelo Espacial Goddard de la NASA, en Greenbelt, […]

NASA to Share Comet 3I/ATLAS Images From Spacecraft, Telescopes

Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 19, to share imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS collected by a number of the agency’s missions. The event will take place at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered by the […]

Ancient Pompeii's Elite May Have Built Lavish Towers on Top of Their Villas. Here's What They May Have Looked Like

Digital reconstructions are bringing structures to life that may have collapsed during Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. Researchers think these towers symbolized their owners' wealth and influence

Data Locality vs. Independence: Which Should Your Database Prioritize?

When your application needs several pieces of data at once, the fastest approach is to read them from a single

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Security researcher calls BS on Coinbase breach disclosure timeline

Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him

A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months before it disclosed the data theft.…

The ROI of AI-Driven Security Automation: Metrics That Matter

AI isn’t just improving security operations; it’s fundamentally rewriting the rules of what’s possible. And that means the metrics we’ve

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Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run

EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year

SC25  Europe has officially entered exascale orbit. On Monday, EuroHPC's Jupiter supercomputer became the fourth such machine on the Top500 list of publicly known systems to exceed a million-trillion floating point operations a second in the time-honored High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark.…

NASA, Industry Weave Data Fabric with Artificial Intelligence

Air taxis and drones navigate different flight zones with NASA-inspired system

Google previews Code Wiki: Can you trust AI to document your repository?

Documenting code can be dull, but explaining the source code of a complex project is hard for AI to get right

Google has previewed Code Wiki, an AI project that aims to document code in a repository and keep it up to date by regenerating the content after every code change.…

Kroah-Hartman: Linux Kernel Maintainer on CRA Open Source Impact

ATLANTA — Technology companies and developers are finally realizing that they’ll need to deal with the European Union’s (EU) Cyber

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Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints

Vendor leans on Nvidia tie-up so hard you can hear the GPUs squeak

SC25  Dell continues to push itself as a one-stop shop for enterprise AI infrastructure with a wave of products and services, including updates to servers, storage, and software to expand its offerings.…

Selling your identity to North Korean IT scammers isn't a sustainable side hustle

Four US citizens tried it, and the DoJ just secured guilty pleas from all of 'em

It sounds like easy money. North Koreans pay you to use your identity so they can get jobs working for American companies in IT. However, if you go this route, the US Department of Justice promises to catch up with you eventually.…

Keeping GPUs Ticking Like Clockwork

For this week’s episode of The New Stack Agents, I sat down with Suresh Vasudevan, the CEO of Clockwork. I’ve

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Agentic AI in Observability: Building Resilient, Accountable IT Systems

As enterprise IT systems grow more complex, maintaining visibility, performance and resilience across distributed architectures has never been more critical.

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Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep

Law enforcement agency’s referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs

Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 links to jihadist content, 1,070 pushing violent right-wing extremist or terrorist propaganda, and 105 tied to racist or xenophobic groups.…

Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback

Has the secret to understanding gravity been hiding in plain sight for nearly 50 years?

The post Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability

Microsoft claims it listens to feedback while complaints mount over everyday usability

Rather than enjoying some downtime at the weekend, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri made the classic mistake of reading the replies to his post about the operating system's "agentic" future.…

Jeff Bezos gives CEO another go at $6.2B AI startup Prometheus

Named after titan who stole fire from the gods and was punished for eternity... Amazon warehouse staff know the feeling

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is returning to the CEO seat – though not at his best-known creation.…

Paleontologists Unearthed Australia's Oldest Known Crocodile Eggshells. The Reptiles' Relatives May Have Hunted From the Trees

The eggshells belonged to an extinct group of crocs, some members of which were "drop crocs" that plunged onto prey

Artist Sneaks Framed A.I. Portrait and Accompanying Label Onto a Museum's Gallery Wall

The artificial-intelligence-generated image hung in Wales' National Museum in Cardiff for a few hours before staffers and museumgoers noticed its presence

Overconfidence is the new zero-day as teams stumble through cyber simulations

Readiness metrics have flatlined since 2023, with most sectors slipping backward as teams fumble crisis drills

Teams that think they're ready for a major cyber incident are scoring barely 22 percent accuracy and taking more than a day to contain simulated attacks, according to new data out Monday.…

SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness

Disruption left customers unable to track support cases, upgrades, or patching work

SAP has apologized for the recent outage of its SAP for Me portal, a cloud-based tool that gives users a view of their SAP functions, metrics, and service. But the downtime has opened up some reliability questions.…

Microsoft EVP: Embrace AI Agents to Rewire Business Processes Now

In September, Rajesh Jha the executive VP overseeing Microsoft’s AI-powered assistant Copilot appeared on Microsoft’s “Worklab” podcast, to discuss the

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Eurofiber admits crooks swiped data from French unit after cyberattack

Regulator reports suggest telco was extorted, but company remains coy as to whether it paid

French telco Eurofiber says cybercriminals swiped company data during an attack last week that also affected some internal systems.…

Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform

Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage

Palantir is working with "AI upskilling platform" Multiverse to provide an apprenticeship program specific to its Federated Data Platform (FDP), the NHS analytics system being run under a controversial contract.…

UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit

Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe's illicit gains while he serves US sentence

British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth £4.11 million ($5.39 million) from Twitter hacker Joseph James O'Connor, clawing back the proceeds of a scam that used hijacked celebrity accounts to solicit digital currency and threaten high-profile individuals.…

Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some

Expect Sloppy Updates?

On the eve of its Ignite conference, Microsoft has managed to break the first Extended Security Update (ESU) for many commercial Windows 10 customers.…

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

Top of the slops signposts the undiscovered country for an industry

Opinion  Remember when the hottest news in the schoolyard was which band was the hottest this week? Those days are back, baby. An AI-generated band called Breaking Rust has just hit the top of the Billboard Country chart in the US with a song called Walk My Walk. Some questions will never be answered – could it ever release a sea shanty, and will all the albums be compilations? What this means for the future of the music industry, the AI industry, and music itself, is less funny.…

Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age. The results of this 10-week study back earlier animal research showing that environments that stimulate the brain can increase levels of certain neurotransmitters. And other studies of people have suggested that cognitive training can improve thinking and memory. So how does it all work? And by how much does it all work? Here to break everything down and help you understand how to keep your brain sharp is NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton.

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NASA, SpaceX Launch US-European Satellite to Monitor Earth’s Oceans

About the size of a full-size pickup truck, a newly launched satellite by NASA and its partners will provide ocean and atmospheric information to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure, and benefit commercial activities, such as shipping. The Sentinel-6B satellite lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg […]

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

Yes, he knows the 40x increase could have been avoided with some pretty simple automation

Who, Me?  Welcome to another week of work, a moment The Register celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you 'fess up to follies, false moves, and faux pas – and explain how you escaped.…

Server virtualization market heats up as VMware rivals try to create alluring alternatives

It’s time to think about a replacement, says Gartner

The market for server virtualization tools is about to fragment, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting

PLUS: Active noise cancellation for entire rooms; More trouble for Korea Telecom; The Wiggles apologize for bad batteries; and more

Asia In Brief  India’s Tata Motors, owner of Jaguar Land Rover, has revealed the cyberattack that shut down production in the UK has so far cost it around £1.8 billion ($2.35 billion).…

Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack

PLUS: CISA still sitting on telecoms security report; DoorDash phished again; Lumma stealer returns; and more

INFOSEC IN BRIEF  The US Senate passed a resolution in July to force the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to publish a 2022 report into poor security in the telecommunications industry but the agency has not delivered the document.…

Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab

Who needs 600 kilowatt racks when a single computer can span entire datacenters?

Exclusive  Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs announced a new collaboration with Global Unichip Corp (GUC) on Sunday to integrate its optical I/O chiplets into the Taiwanese semiconductor design services provider's XPU reference designs.…

Portmaster, an Open Source Firewall for the Desktop

Security should never be taken for granted, no matter what operating system you use. You might have a Linux desktop

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Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025

In my lifetime, there’s been one ecosystem I deeply regret having missed out on: the Sun Microsystems ecosystem of the late 2000s. At that time, the company offered a variety of products that, when used together, formed a comprehensive ecosystem that was a fascinating, albeit expensive alternative to Microsoft and Apple. While not really intended for home use, I’ve always believed that Sun’s approach to computing would’ve made for an excellent computing environment in the home. Since I was but a wee university student in the late 2000s living in a small apartment, I did not have the financial means nor the space to really test this hypothesis. Now, though, Sun’s products from that era are decidedly retro, and a lot more approachable – especially if you have incredibly generous readers. So sit down and buckle up, because we’ve got a long one today. If you wish to support OSNews and longform content like this, consider becoming a Patreon or donating to our Ko-Fi. Note that absolutely zero generative “AI” was used in the writing of this article. No “AI” writing aids, no “AI” summaries, no ChatGPT, no Gemini search nonsense, nothing. I take pride in doing research and writing properly, without the “aid” of digital parrots with brain damage, and if there’s any errors, they’re mine and mine alone. Take pride in your work and reject “AI”. The Ultra 45: the central hub In the early 2000s, it had already become obvious that the future of workstations lied not with custom architectures, bespoke processors, and commercial UNIX variants, but with standard x86, off-the-shelf Intel and AMD processors, and Windows and Linux. The writing was on the wall, everyone knew it, and the ensuing consolidation on x86 turned into a veritable bloodbath. In the ’80s and ’90s, many of these ISAs were touted as vastly superior x86 killers, but fast-forward a decade or two, and x86 had bested them all in both price and performance, leaving behind a trail of dead ISAs. Never bet against x86. Virtually none of the commercial UNIX variants survived the one-two punch of losing the ISA they were married to and the rising popularity of Linux in the workstation space. HP-UX was tied to HP’s PA-RISC, and both died. SGI’s IRIX was tied to MIPS, and both died. Tru64 was tied to Alpha, and both died. The two exceptions are IBM’s AIX and Sun’s Solaris. AIX workstations were phased out, but AIX is still nominally in development for POWER servers, but wholly inaccessible to anyone who doesn’t wear a suit and has a massive corporate spending budget. Solaris, meanwhile, which had long been available on x86, saw its “own” ISA SPARC live on in the server space until roughly 2017 or so, and was even briefly available as open source until Oracle did its thing. As a result, Solaris and its derivative Illumos are still nominally in active development, but in the grand scheme of things they’re barely even a blip on the radar in 2025. Never bet against Linux. During these tumultuous times, the various commercial UNIX vendors all pushed out systems that would become the final hurrahs of their respective UNIX workstation lines. DEC, then owned by HP, released its AlphaStation ES47 in 2003, marking the end of the road for Alpha and Tru64 UNIX. HP’s own PA-RISC architecture and HP-UX met their end with the HP c8000 (which I own), an all-out PA-RISC monster with two dual-core processors running at 1.1GHz. SGI gave its MIPS line of machines running IRIX a massive send-off with the enigmatic and rare Tezro in 2003. In 2005, IBM tried one last time with the IntelliStation POWER 285, followed a few months later by the heavily cut-down 185, the final AIX workstation. And Sun unveiled the Ultra 45, its final SPARC workstation, in 2006. Sun was already in the middle of its transition to x86 with machines like the Sun Java Desktop System and its successors, the Ultra 20 and 40, and then surprised everyone by reviving their UltraSPARC workstation line with the Ultra 25 and 45, which shared most – all? – of their enclosures with their x86 brethren. They were beautiful, all-aluminium machines with gorgeous interior layouts, and a striking full-grill front, somewhat inspired by the PowerMac G5 of that era. And ever since the Ultra 45 was rumoured in late 2005 and then became available in early 2006, I’ve been utterly obsessed with it. It’s taken almost two decades, but thanks to an unfathomably generous donation from KDE e.V. board member and FreeBSD contributor Adriaan de Groot, a very unique and storied Sun Ultra 45 and a whole slew of accessories showed up at my doorstep only a few weeks ago. Let’s look back upon this piece of history that is but a footnote to most, but a whole book to me – and experience Sun’s ecosystem from around 2006, today. First and foremost, I want to express my deep gratitude to Adriaan de Groot. Without him, none of this would have been possible, and I can’t put into words how grateful I am. He donated this Ultra 45 to me at no cost – not even the cost of shipping – and he also shipped another box to me containing a few Sun Ray thin clients, completing the late 2000s Sun ecosystem I now own. Since the Ultra 45 was technically owned by KDE e.V. – more on that below – I’d also like to thank the KDE e.V. Board for giving Adriaan permission for the donation. I’d also like to thank Volker A. Brandt, who sent me a Sun Ray 3, a few Ultra 45 hard drive brackets, and some other Sun goodies. The Sun Ultra 45 De Groot sent me was a base model with an upgraded GPU. It had a single UltraSPARC IIIi 1.6Ghz processor, 1GB of RAM, and the most powerful GPU Sun ever released for its SPARC workstation line, the Sun XVR-2500, a rebadged 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm with

NASA, European Partners Set to Launch Sentinel-6B Earth Satellite

Set to track sea levels across more than 90% of Earth’s ocean, the mission must first get into orbit. Here’s what to expect.   Sentinel-6B, an ocean-tracking satellite jointly developed by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), is ready to roll out to the launch pad, packed into the payload fairing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 […]

AI Code Doesn’t Survive in Production: Here’s Why

I see a new demo every day that looks something like this: A single prompt generates a complete application. A

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Snapchat Open Sources Cross-Platform UI Framework

For eight years, Snapchat has used Valdi, a cross-platform UI framework, in-house. Now, it has open sourced the framework. Valdi

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Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems

Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp weights impact of densification on the datacenter and the rise of the AI factory

Interview  In the datacenter biz, power is the product. You either have it or you don't, Chris Sharp tells El Reg.…

Visual Studio 2026 First Look: Evolution, Not Revolution

I’ve never entirely understood the Microsoft roadmap. I certainly enjoyed using Visual Studio 2022 (VS 2022) for C# and .NET

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Inmo Air 3: Smartglasses versprechen vollwertigen Android-Computer zum Aufsetzen

Mit der auf Kickstarter erhältlichen Inmo Air 3 erhalten Unterstützer einen Android-Computer auf der Nase, der keine Verbindung zu einem Smartphone benötigt.

heise-Angebot: Minds Mastering Machines 2026: Jetzt noch Vortrag für die Konferenz einreichen

Die Konferenz zeigt im April 2026 in Karlsruhe ML in der Praxis und KI-Trends. Der Call for Proposals läuft noch bis zum 23. November.

diVine: Twitter-Gründer bringt Kurzvideo-App Vine zurück und verbietet KI-Videos

Das 2016 eingestellte Videoportal Vine etablierte lange vor Tiktok das Kurzvideo-Format. Mit diVine soll es eine Rückkehr erleben, und zwar ohne KI-Videos.

Bahnchefin stellt Fahrgäste auf zahlreiche ungeplante Baustellen ein

Bahnchefin Palla erwartet 2026 mehr als 28.000 Baustellen im Gleisnetz. Was das für die Fahrgäste bedeutet.

Microsoft 365 in Hessen: Grünes Licht ohne technische Untersuchung

Microsoft 365 kann laut hessischem Datenschutzbeauftragten datenschutzkonform eingesetzt werden – unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen.

Wie der BGH mit einem 70er-Jahre-Gesetz die digitale Weiterbildung lahmlegt

Urteile des BGH unterwerfen Online-Kurse strengen Regeln eines Gesetzes aus den 1970er Jahren. Für die Branche ist das ein Desaster, analysiert Joerg Heidrich.

Apple’s new 15% mini-app deal finally gets Tencent to cut Cupertino in

When is an app not an app? When it’s a mini app inside another app

Apple has cut its take to 15 percent on purchases inside mini apps running within other iOS apps, and reached a parallel agreement with Tencent that brings WeChat's vast mini-program ecosystem into its revenue net.…

heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Deep Dive in die OpenAI API – KI in eigene Anwendungen integrieren

Erfahren Sie, wie Sie die OpenAI API nutzen können, um KI-Funktionen in Ihre Projekte zu integrieren und innovative Lösungen zu entwickeln.

heise-Angebot: Embedded Testing Conference: Jetzt Vorträge einreichen

Entwickler und Tester im Embedded-Umfeld können ihre Vortragsideen bis zum 23.11. einreichen. Die Konferenz findet am 24. und 25. Februar 2026 in München statt.

Passwort-Manager Bitwarden: Update stellt Biometrie-Log-in wieder her

Bitwarden ist in der Version 2025.11 erschienen. Unter Windows stellt sie das biometrische Log-in mit Windows Hello wieder her.

Softwarearchitekt: "Ein gutes Framework sollte einfach zu verwenden sein"

Im Interview spricht der Softwarearchitekt Peter Hruschka über Framework-Architektur, Wiederverwendung und Wissensaustausch.

Gesundheitswesen: Dienstleister-Chaos, Frist für Heilberufsausweise verlängert

Aufgrund von Engpässen bei der Produktion müssen Ärzte und Apotheker doch erst Mitte 2026 über einen ECC-fähigen elektronischen Heilberufsausweis verfügen.

Developer Snapshots: Kleinere News der Woche

Die Übersicht enthält kleine, aber interessante Meldungen zu Google, Unreal, Rust, Databricks, Docker, BoxLang, Keycloak und W3C.

Are we cooked? How social media shapes your language w/ Adam Aleksic (from TED Tech)

This week, we’re sharing a special episode from TED Tech exploring Gen Z slang words like "unalive," "skibidi" and "rizz." Where do these words come from — and how do they get popular so fast? Linguist Adam Aleksic explores how the forces of social media algorithms are reshaping the way people talk and view their very own identities.

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Natürliche Schönheit und künstlerischer Blickwinkel – die Bilder der Woche 46

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt der Natur und Kunst. Eindrucksvolle Motive, die ihre Betrachter in Staunen versetzen.

Post Quantum Cryptography | c’t uplink

In dieser Folge des c’t uplink sprechen wir über die Folgen leistungsstarker Quantencomputer für gängige Verschlüsselungsalgorithmen.

6 Things to Know From NASA About New US, European Sea Satellite

Data from Sentinel-6B will continue a decades-long record of sea surface height, helping to improve coastal planning, protect critical infrastructure, and advance weather forecasts. With launch set for no earlier than 12:21 a.m. EST Monday, Nov. 17, Sentinel-6B is the latest satellite in a series of spacecraft NASA and its partners have used to measure […]

Using Rust in Android speeds up development considerably

Google has been using Rust in Android more and more for its memory safety characteristics, and the results on that front were quite positive. It turns out, however, that not only does using Rust reduce the number memory safety issues, it’s also apparently a lot faster to code in Rust than C or C++. We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust’s impact on software delivery. With Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one. ↫ Jeff Vander Stoep at the Google Security Blog When you think about it, it actually makes sense. If you have fewer errors of a certain type, you’ll spend less time fixing those issues, time which you can then spend developing new code. Of course, it’s not that simple and there’s a ton more factors to consider, but on a base level, it definitely makes sense. Spellcheck in word processors means you have to spend less time detecting and fixing spelling errors, so you have more time to spend on actually writing. I’m sure we’ll all be very civil about this, and nobody will be weird about Rust at all.

Haiku gets new guarded heap for the kernel

Another month, another Haiku activity report, and this time we’ve got a major change under the hood: a brand new guarded heap. The old guarded heap was suboptimal and had started to lag behind, so the new one attempts to rectify some of these shortcomings. So, to rectify these limitations, I rewrote the kernel guarded heap more or less from scratch, taking the old code into account where it made sense but otherwise creating entirely new bookkeeping structures, interacting directly with the page table and virtual memory systems, and more. This new guarded heap implementation frees physical pages when not in use, meaning that the “virtual memory reuse disabled” mode now runs for quite long periods of time (indeed, I could successfully boot to the desktop and run compile jobs.) It also prints more diagnostics when kernel panics due to memory faults inside the heap happen, which the old kernel guarded heap didn’t (but the userland one has always done). ↫ Haiku’s activity report for October The new guarded heap is optional for now, but Haiku is planning on releasing some pre-built test builds so users can start testing it out. Of course, this isn’t the only change or improvement from this past month – the list of changes is long, but there’s no real tentpole features here. Haiku’s development pace is still very much on track.

Memory boom-bust cycle booms again as Samsung reportedly jacks memory prices 60%

Leaving buyers to cry, AI AI AI

If you haven't noticed, DRAM memory has gotten a lot more expensive in recent weeks. …

Developers Test Visual Studio 2026’s AI-Native Claims

Microsoft this week made Visual Studio 2026 — the latest version of its flagship dev platform — generally available, calling

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Six Ancient Roman Statues Have Been Stolen From Syria's National Museum

The theft is a serious loss for the country's cultural heritage, which had already sustained extensive damage during a long civil war

Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee

Who guards the guardrails? Often the same shoddy security as the rest of the AI stack

Large language models frequently ship with "guardrails" designed to catch malicious input and harmful output. But if you use the right word or phrase in your prompt, you can defeat these restrictions.…

Watch Suckerfish Hitch a Wild Ride on Humpback Whales in Rare Video Footage

Suckerfish—also known as remoras—are harmless, but the whales didn't seem to be fans of their hitchhiking

Canonical Extends Ubuntu Linux Support for up to 15 Years

So, you say you want really, really long-term support for your Linux? Boy, does Canonical have a deal for you!

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Fortinet finally cops to critical make-me-admin bug under active exploitation

More than a month after PoC made public

Fortinet finally published a security advisory on Friday for a critical FortiWeb path traversal vulnerability under active exploitation – but it appears digital intruders got a month's head start.…

The Florentine Diamond Was Thought to Be Lost to History. It's Actually Been Safely Tucked Away in a Canadian Bank Vault All Along

Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma wanted the jewel's location to be kept secret for 100 years after the death of her husband, Charles I, in 1922. Their descendants now plan to display it at a museum

Canonical pushes Ubuntu LTS support even further - if you pay

Enterprise Linux vendors keep jostling to see who can prop up geriatric distros the longest

Last year, Canonical increased its paid extended support lifespan to 12 years. Now, it's increasing it again, to 15 years ... for a price.…

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for International Ocean Tracking Mission

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Sentinel-6B, an international mission delivering critical sea level and ocean data to protect coastal infrastructure, improve weather forecasting, and support commercial activities at sea. Launch is targeted at 12:21 a.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 17 (9:21 p.m. PST, Sunday, Nov. 16) aboard a SpaceX Falcon […]

Jupyter Deploy: The New Middle Ground Between Laptops and Enterprise

What do educators teaching deep learning workshops, startup teams spinning up collaborative data science environments and researchers needing GPU access

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Top 10: Das beste Handy-Ladegerät bis 65 Watt im Test

Um Handys zu laden, benötigt man kein teures Ladegerät. Wir zeigen die besten USB-Netzteile unter 65 Watt.

PureOS Crimson Development Report: October 2025

In September, we prioritized fixes for the out-of-box experience on PureOS Crimson. For the rest of the beta milestone, we are prioritizing work that benefits the most from user feedback. That includes functionality that must account for device-to-device variations and that is strongly influenced by users' individual preferences.

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Crims poison 150K+ npm packages with token-farming malware

Amazon spilled the TEA

Yet another supply chain attack has hit the npm registry in what Amazon describes as "one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history" - but with a twist. Instead of injecting credential-stealing code or ransomware into the packages, this one is a token farming campaign.…

AI Agents in Legacy Systems — The Problem No One Talks About

When we first began integrating AI agents into enterprise environments, I expected the challenges to come from the AI models

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VIDEO: An Android Retrospective

If you can believe it, Thunderbird for Android has been out for just over a year! In this episode of our Community Office Hours, Heather and Monica check back in with the mobile team after our chat with them back in January. Sr. Software Engineer Wolf Montwé and our new Manager of Mobile Apps, Jon […]

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E-Mobilität: Bundestag macht Weg frei für bidirektionales Laden

Mit dem neuen Energiewirtschaftsgesetz wird rückgespeister Strom nicht mehr doppelt mit Netzentgelten belegt. Das soll das E-Auto-Speicherpotenzial erschließen.

Mapping Dark Matter

This image released on June 30, 2025, combines data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to visualize dark matter. Researchers used Webb’s observations to carefully measure the mass of the galaxy clusters shown here as well as the collective light emitted by stars that are no longer bound to individual […]

NASA Glenn Teams Win 2025 R&D 100 Awards

NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has earned 2025 R&D 100 Awards for developing a system that delivers high-speed internet for space and co-inventing technology for a new class of soft magnetic nanocrystalline materials designed to operate at extreme temperatures. This brings NASA Glenn’s total to 130 R&D 100 Awards.  High-Rate Delay Tolerant Networking   NASA […]

Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 Boosts AI, Security, Hybrid Cloud

ATLANTA — Would it surprise you to know that ‘s latest OpenShift release, 4.20, comes with more AI features than

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Now you can share your AI delusions with Group ChatGPT

Just when you thought virtual collaboration couldn’t get worse, OpenAI stuffs a bot into your group conversations

Feel like your team's group chat is a bit lifeless? Remote coworkers not really collaborating as well as they should be? There's a new way to stir the pot now that OpenAI has piloted ChatGPT group chats: cram a chatbot into the conversation and let it chime in whenever it thinks it should.…

Galaxy XR im Einsatz, Muse-Pencil für die Vision Pro | TNBT-Podcast

Themen: Erste persönliche Erfahrungen mit Samsungs Galaxy XR und Vergleich zur Vision Pro; Logitechs Muse mit tiefer visionOS-Integration.

AMD grabs more x86 share as Intel stumbles in entry-level chips

Mercury Research blames stockpiling and low-end shortages for unusually flat CPU market

AMD continues to claw market share away from Intel in CPU shipments, growing faster than its rival in most segments. Meanwhile business in the x86 processor arena is unusually flat overall, likely due to stockpiling over tariff fears.…

Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit

Starlink challenger drops the codename, but full-blown service still years out

Amazon has rebranded its satellite broadband plan from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo. And no, Leo doesn't stand for "Late Entrants Only," even though the project is years behind Starlink and still not ready for anyone to use.…

Mozilla kündigt "KI-Fenster" für Firefox an 

Mozilla will Firefox in die Ära der KI-Browser führen, aber einiges anders als diese machen – manche Nutzer fordern etwas ganz anderes.

PC-Speichermodul mit 128 GByte für Dual-Slot-Mainboards

Adata kündigt ungepufferte DDR5-Speichermodule mit 128 Gigabyte Kapazität an, die sich aber nur für bestimmte Desktop-PC-Mainboards eignen.

FBI flags scam targeting Chinese speakers with bogus surgery bills

Crooks spoof US insurers, threaten bogus extradition to pry loose personal data and cash

Chinese speakers in the US are being targeted as part of an aggressive health insurance scam campaign, the FBI warns.…

GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast

VDURA boss: Your x86 clusters are obsolete, metadata is eating 20% of I/O, and every idle GPU second burns cash

The supercomputing landscape is fracturing. What once was a relatively unified world of massive multi-processor x86 systems has splintered into competing architectures, each racing to serve radically different masters: traditional academic workloads, extreme-scale physics simulations, and the voracious appetite of AI training runs.…

AMD nimmt Intel weitere x86-Marktanteile ab

Mehr als 30 Prozent der von Juli bis September verkauften x86-Prozessoren lieferte AMD. Im Vorjahr waren es erst 25 Prozent.

Zubehör für Apple-User: Juice Packs für neue iPhones, dünne "Wo ist?"-Karte

Mophie hat seine beliebten Juice-Pack-Akkuhüllen nun für die 2025er iPhones angepasst. Nomad liefert unterdessen eine neuartige "Wo ist?"-Karte.

Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It’s Slowing Down.

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem.

The post Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It’s Slowing Down. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

A Fire Ravaged a Historic 200-Year-Old Tavern in Ohio. These Are the Artifacts Archaeologists Found in the Wreckage

Excavations at the Overfield Tavern Museum revealed a treasure trove of objects, including jewelry, dishware, a bottle cork, a smoking pipe and early American currency

KubeCon: Fortschritte, aber auch mehr Arbeit bei Cloud-Native und Cybersecurity

Angesichts wachsender Angriffsflächen bei OSS sollten Entwickler Schwachstellen beheben, Software auditieren und sichere Container-Images nutzen.

Heizkörperthermostat Meross MTS150 im Test

Dank Matter-Support des neuen Hubs MSH450 findet das Meross-Heizkörperthermostat Anschluss an vielen Smart-Home-Lösungen. Wie gut das gelingt, zeigt der Test.

CISA flags imminent threat as Akira ransomware starts hitting Nutanix AHV

Advisory updated as leading cybercrime crew opens up its target pool

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued new guidance to organizations on the Akira ransomware operation, which poses an imminent threat to critical sectors.…

Nvidia DGX Spark: Ist das wirklich der KI-"Supercomputer"?

Was kann der "KI-Supercomputer" von Nvidia? Wir haben den DGX Spark mit einem AMD AI Max+ 395 und einem Gaming-PC verglichen. Die Ergebnisse sind erstaunlich.

OpenTelemetry Experts Share the Future of Browser Support

There’s a lot of momentum behind bringing better observability practices to the frontend, and a great example is the launch

The post OpenTelemetry Experts Share the Future of Browser Support appeared first on The New Stack.

Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica

Company behind THESPECTRUM brings the holiday season early for retro computing fans

Retro Games Ltd (RGL), the company behind THESPECTRUM and THEA500 Mini, has started accepting pre-orders for its full-size Amiga 1200 replica, THEA1200.…

Neue PC-Spiele im Dezember 2025: "Terminator 2D: No Fate"

Im Dezember wird das JRPG "Octopath Traveler 0" veröffentlicht. Zudem gehen "Yakuza 0 Director's Cut" und "Terminator 2D: No Fate" an den Start.

Shenzhou-20 crew rides Shenzhou-21 home after debris strike

Original spacecraft deemed unsafe after cracks spotted in window

The Shenzhou-20 astronauts have returned to Earth on the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft after engineers deemed the Shenzhou-20 vehicle unsafe following a debris strike while it was docked to the Tiangong space station.…

The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta

Linux-powered PC, Arm VR headset, and refreshed controller all land on pre-order for next year

The holiday season is almost upon us, but the new gear on gamers' wish lists won't arrive until next year.…

Google pitches EU on adtech fixes to dodge breakup after €2.95B slap

Brussels reviewing proposal as Mountain View insists it will appeal antitrust ruling

Google has proposed a plan to the European Commission aimed at addressing antitrust concerns following a €2.95 billion fine imposed on the company for its online advertising practices.…

Has Grafana Taken Lead in AI for Observability?

Grafana Labs has integrated AI support into its observability platform and panel, offering practical improvements to the observability experience. Whether

The post Has Grafana Taken Lead in AI for Observability? appeared first on The New Stack.

heise+ | US-Strompreise steigen: KI ist einer der Treiber

In den USA steigen die Strompreise für Verbraucher. Ein Grund ist die erhöhte Stromnachfrage durch neue KI-Rechenzentren. In Virginia waren sie Wahlkampfthema.

KI-Update: GPT-5.1, Maschinen menschlich machen, Definierte KI, Anthropic-Invest

Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.

Europe's IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold

AI, cybersecurity, and geopolitical jitters forecast to push market to $1.4T next year

IT spending in Europe will grow 11 percent next year to hit $1.4 trillion amid a desire for cloud sovereignty, according to Gartner.…

Nokia plant Schließung des Standorts München bis 2030

Der Netzwerkausrüster Nokia will seinen Standort München bis 2030 schließen. Die IG Metall spricht von einem Fehler.

Cybergang cl0p will Daten von Carglass, Fluke und NHS erbeutet haben

Auf der Darknet-Seite der kriminellen Bande cl0p sind neue Einträge zu Carglass, Fluke und NHS aufgetaucht. Dort will sie Daten geklaut haben.

Kein Zusatzabo mehr: Major League Soccer bald Teil von Apple TV

Bislang müssen Menschen, die sich US-Fußball interessieren, extra zahlen. Nach ersten Gratispartien für Apple-TV-Kunden folgt nun das gesamte Programm.

Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don't save much time

'Stay in control and think for yourself'

Feature  Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way software gets built, tested, and maintained — but not in the simplistic, headline-grabbing sense of "AI replacing developers."…

How AI Search Is Supporting Artistic Freedom

I grew up in a punk band in the 1970s (yes, The Neurons. You might have heard of us). Back

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heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: AWS-Sicherheit - Angriffe erkennen und abwehren

Erfahren Sie, wie Angreifer Fehlkonfigurationen und mangelnde Härtung der Amazon Cloud ausnutzen und wie Sie AWS-Dienste und Cloud-Identitäten dagegen schützen.

Hubble Studies Star Ages in Colorful Galaxy

Stars of all ages are on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the sparkling spiral galaxy called NGC 6000, located 102 million light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. NGC 6000 has a glowing yellow center and glittering blue outskirts. These colors reflect differences in the average ages, masses, and temperatures of the […]

Für Vision Pro: Set mit PSVR2 Sense Controller und Ladestation im US-Handel

Apple hat wie angekündigt mit dem Vertrieb von Sonys PSVR2-Controller begonnen. Das Set ist nicht preiswert und vorerst nicht überall zu haben.

Ozlo Sleepbuds im Test: Top-Schlafkopfhörer für Seitenschläfer

Die Ozlo Sleepbuds sind winzig, kommen mit smartem Case und App – haben aber auch ihren Preis. Lohnt das?

Report blasts UK Ministry of Defence over Afghan data-handling failures

Public Accounts Committee tears into department responsible for the most dangerous breach in British history

The UK Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has failed to appropriately improve its data protection mechanisms, three years after the infamous 2022 Afghan data breach.…

WhatsApp: Chats mit ersten anderen Messengern möglich

Wer in der EU lebt, kann erstmals über WhatsApp mit Nutzern anderer Messenger chatten. Was dabei funktioniert – und was nicht.

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares

Opinion  At Tesla's annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas, more than 75 percent of voting shares backed a compensation deal for CEO Elon Musk that would make him history's first trillionaire.…

heise+ | Audioplayer für Kinder im Vergleich: Vom Smart Speaker bis zur Offline-Box

Amazon Echo Dot Kids, Galakto Player, Toniebox 2 und Wobie Box buhlen um einen Platz im Kinderzimmer. Die Konzepte könnten kaum unterschiedlicher ausfallen.

#TGIQF: Das Quiz rund um Supercomputer

Insbesondere in der KI-Revolution kommt Supercomputer eine zentrale Bedeutung zu. Wir blicken mit einem Nerd-Quiz auf die Dickschiffe der IT. Machen Sie mit!

UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK

Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal

Microsoft's attempt to claim that its software can't be resold has hit a wall at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, which decided that Office having clipart does not mean customers can't sell their licenses on.…

heise+ | heise+ Update vom 14. November 2025: Lesetipps zum Wochenende

Der Newsletter von heise+: Polarlichter, Beamer-Kaufberatung und Vergleichstest, Fritzbox als Medienserver und lokale KI auf Mac.

Samsungs SmartThings bekommen mehr Siri

Die iOS-App für Samsungs Home-Steuerung kann nun besser mit Apples Siri kooperieren. Das geht aber über Umwege.

Konflikt zum Standardmodell der Kosmologie: Das Sonnensystem ist viel zu schnell

Präzise Messungen mehrerer Radioteleskope legen überzeugend nahe, dass unser Sonnensystem viel zu schnell für unsere Modelle ist. Eine Erklärung gibt es nicht.

Schuko-Stecker offiziell solartauglich: DIN für Balkonkraftwerke ist fertig

Die Produktnorm für Balkonkraftwerke ist veröffentlicht – der Schuko-Stecker hat es in die Norm geschafft. Gute Argumente in Diskussionen mit Hausverwaltungen.

Autodesk 3ds Max: Präparierte JPG-Datei kann Schadcode auf Systeme schieben

Die 3D-Modellierungssoftware 3ds Max von Autodesk ist attackierbar. Ein Sicherheitsupdate schließt Schwachstellen.

heise+ | ChatGPT Atlas ausprobiert: Browser mit ganz viel KI und einigen Schwachstellen

Nun hat auch das größte KI-Unternehmen einen Browser herausgebracht: ChatGPT Atlas bietet einen klugen Assistenten und agentische KI. Wie gut ist er wirklich?

Elektroautos von Mercedes: Plan für den Weg an die Spitze

Mercedes krempelt seine Palette komplett um. Bis 2027 bekommen viele wichtige Modelle ein 800-Volt-Batteriesystem und ein konventionelles Design.

heise-Angebot: Jetzt schon buchen und sparen: Die heise security Tour 2026 – Wissen schützt!

Die Termine der heise security Tour 2026 stehen bereits fest – wer jetzt schon ein Präsenz-Ticket bucht, spart 150 Euro.

Ausprobiert: Apples neues Dual-Band aus Strickgewebe an alter Vision Pro

Die Vision Pro M5 kommt mit neuem Chip und neuem Dual-Band – sonst ändert sich nichts. Das Band gibt es auch einzeln. Wir haben es ausprobiert.

Anonymisierendes Linux: Tails 7.2 mit dezenter Versionspflege

Die für das anonyme Surfen im Netz konzipierte Linux-Distribution Tails 7.2 bringt einige Softwareupdates und bessert Probleme aus.

Digital overhaul at UK's NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late

Watchdog says program buckled under procurement failures and technical complexity

Updated  The UK's state-owned savings bank has blown past its budget by £1.3 billion on a digital transformation program beset by delays, according to the National Audit Office.…

Bastler installiert Minecraft-Server auf Smarthome-Lampe

Ein Bastler hat einen Minecraft-Server auf einer Smarthome-Lampe realisiert. Große Minecraft-Spiele sind damit aber nicht möglich.

Spring Framework 7 bringt neues Konzept für Null Safety und setzt auf Java 25

Das neue Spring Framework verwendet JSpecify für Null Safety. Außerdem führt es API-Versionierung ein und bietet ein neues Retry-Konzept für die Resilienz an.

Apple einigt sich mit WeChat, erlaubt Mini-Apps gegen Provision

Apple hat sich nach langen Gesprächen mit der WeChat-Mutter Tencent auf eine Provision auf Transaktionen in Mini-Apps geeinigt. Sie gilt auch für andere Devs.

Idealo vs. Google: Suchmaschine zu 465 Millionen Euro Schadenersatz verurteilt

Der Preisvergleichsanbieter Idealo hat vor Gericht gegen Google gesiegt. Der Schadenersatz ist beträchtlich, aber auch beträchtlich kleiner als gefordert.

Aus Softwarefehlern lernen – Teil 8: Rundungs- und Gleitkommafehler

Ein minimaler Rundungsfehler führte zum scheinbaren Markteinbruch an der Börse in Vancouver. Mit der richtigen Dezimalarithmetik lässt sich das vermeiden.

Clop claims it hacked 'the NHS.' Which bit? Your guess is as good as theirs

Cybercrime crew has ravaged multiple private organizations using Oracle EBS zero-day for months

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is investigating claims of a cyberattack by extortion crew Clop.…

heise+ | Beamer-Kaufberatung: Auf was Sie beim Kauf eines Heimprojektors achten müssen

Projektoren werden kompakter, heller und langlebiger, auch Akkubetrieb ist möglich. Was Sie vor dem Beamerkauf wissen müssen.

KI-Quellen sicher einbinden – JFrog kündigt MCP Registry an

JFrog stellt eine MCP Registry vor, die lokale und externe KI-Quellen auf Sicherheit prüft. Für den AI Catalog gibt es ferner eine Suche nach Schatten-KI.

Nexperia-Krise: Neue Warnung vor Produktionsstopps, ungewöhnliche Gegenmaßnahmen

Die Krise um den Chiphersteller Nexperia ist wohl noch nicht beendet und in der Industrie gibt es ungewöhnliche Versuche, Engpässe beim Nachschub zu verhindern.

heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: RAG-Systeme effizient evaluieren und optimieren

Lernen Sie, RAG-Systeme professionell zu analysieren und gezielt zu optimieren – mit praxiserprobten Techniken und echten Anwendungsfällen.

Belkin ruft Produkte wegen Brandgefahr zurück

Belkin ruft zwei in Deutschland erhältliche Produkte wegen Brandgefahr zurück: Besitzer sollten sie nicht mehr verwenden.

Sicherheitslücken gefährden IBM AIX und QRadar SIEM

Sicherheitsupdates schließen teils kritische Schwachstellen in IBM AIX und QRadar SIEM.

Execs make rules that control AI usage, then break them for their own work

FOMO trumps corporate governance when it comes to AI

More than two-thirds of corporate executives say they've violated their own AI usage policies in the past three months, and over half of the leaders also ranked security and compliance as the greatest AI implementation challenge.…

Google: KI-Agent Sima 2 spielt "Minecraft" und "Satisfactory"

Google hat eine neue Version seines spielenden KI-Agenten Sima vorgestellt, die komplexere Aktionen beherrscht. Sima trainiert in Spielen für die echte Welt.

Bundestag ermöglicht Online-Verfahren an Gerichten

Immer mehr Dienstleistungen der deutschen Verwaltung sind auch im Internet verfügbar. Auch Gerichte machen mit – obwohl die Modernisierung teilweise stockt.

Data Centers, Icy Moons And Chameleons

It’s another news roundup! This time, we cover how, using data analytics – and ironically, some AI – a team at Cornell University has mapped the environmental impact of AI by state. They determined that, by 2030, the rate of AI growth in the U.S. would put an additional 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The team further calculated that by 2030, AI could use as much water as 6 to 10 millions Americans do every year. All of this, they conclude, would put the tech industry’s climate goals out of reach. This episode, we also get into the potential for life on one of Saturn’s moons and a new discovery about why chameleons’ eyes are so special.

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Kommentar zum AWS-Fail: Hinter dem Sündenbock DNS steht Hyperscaler-Inkompetenz

Nach den massiven Cloudausfällen bei AWS und Azure war schnell DNS als Sündenbock ausgemacht. Das greift zu kurz, findet Carsten Strotmann.

Fortinet: Neuer Exploit missbraucht Zero-Day-Lücke in Firewalls

IT-Forscher haben neuen Exploit-Code in ihrem Honeypot gefunden. Der attackiert eine bislang unbekannte Fortinet-Sicherheitslücke.

Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight

Org chart games were more important than speed and accuracy

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column in which we tell your tales of tech support troubles and other workplace woes.…

Keine Maut für Elektro-Lkw: Befreiung verlängert

Bis 2031 bleiben Lkw mit batterieelektrischem Antrieb von der Maut auf deutschen Autobahnen befreit.

China holt gestrandete Raumfahrer aus dem All zurück

Drei chinesische Astronauten sitzen nach einem Vorfall mit vermutlich Weltraumschrott im All fest. Die Bodenkontrolle will sie am Freitag zurückholen.

heise-Angebot: c't-Workshop: IT-Sicherheitsstrategien für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen

Von der Bedrohungslage bis zu Best Practices: Der c't-Workshop zeigt, wie sich KMU mit überschaubarem Aufwand wirksam gegen Cyberangriffe absichern können.

heise+ | Wie man einen Raspi als OpenWrt-Router für mehrere Netze konfiguriert

Sie haben noch einen Raspi über? Nutzen Sie ihn doch als Router, um Ihr Netz aufzutrennen: Gäste, Kinder, IoT-Geräte und Büro erhalten so jeder ein Séparée.

Für Kontakt zu Weltraumsonden: NASA-Riesenantenne seit Monaten ausgefallen

Über das Deep Space Network kommuniziert die NASA mit Weltraumsonden und Rovern. Schon seit September ist eine der drei größten Antennen aber außer Betrieb.

Sprengstoff im Nacken: "Lohn der Angst" und "Sorcerer" im Heimkinotest

Existentialismus statt Superheldenkino: Clouzot und Friedkin zeigen in ihren Klassikern den nackten Kampf ums Überleben – restauriert in 4K.

Wikipedia-Gründer widerspricht Musk: Keine linke Übernahme

Elon Musk wirft Wikipedia eine linke Ausrichtung vor. Wikipedia-Gründer Jimmy Wales hält bei seiner Buchvorstellung in Berlin dagegen.

Ubisoft: Geschäftszahlen verzögert, Aktienhandel ausgesetzt

Ubisoft hat seine aktuellen Geschäftszahlen nicht wie geplant am Donnerstag veröffentlicht – man brauche mehr Zeit. Der Börsenhandel wurde vorerst eingestellt.

Freitag: Blue Origin mit aufrechter Landung, Leo ist Amazons Satelliten-Internet

Rücklandung der New Glenn + Amazons Name für Satelliten-Internet + Mobilfunker-Kundendaten für Schufa + Open Source in Schleswig-Holstein + Datenschutz-Podcast

Netflix bringt "Red Dead Redemption" aufs Handy

Das Wild-West-Actionspiel "Red Dead Redemption" kommt auf moderne Konsolen – und Smartphones. Netflix-Nutzer können ohne Aufpreis spielen.

Auslegungssache 147: Ein Bus durch den Regel-Dschungel

Die EU-Kommission will mit einer "Omnibus-Verordnung" ihre Digitalgesetze vereinfachen. Im c't-Datenschutz-Podcast wird der geleakte Entwurf analysiert.

Chinese web giant Tencent can't buy all the GPUs it wants

Getting by with a meager $2 billion quarterly capex – vastly less than rivals, but still cashing in on AI

Chinese web giant Tencent’s capital expenditure is slowing and the company expects it will decelerate further due to its inability to buy all the GPUs it wants.…

Amazon benennt sein Satelliten-Internet Project Kuiper um in Amazon Leo

Amazon verabschiedet sich vom Codenamen und hat einen Markennamen für sein Satelliten-Internet gefunden. Statt Project Kuiper heißt der Dienst jetzt Amazon Leo.

NASA, Blue Origin Launch Two Spacecraft to Study Mars, Solar Wind

A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launched at 3:55 p.m. EST, Thursday, aboard a Blue Origin New […]

EvilAI Malware Exploits AI Targets Organizations Worldwide

A sophisticated malware campaign, dubbed “EvilAI” by cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, is leveraging AI-enhanced software to infiltrate organizations across the globe. By posing as legitimate productivity tools, this malware evades traditional security measures and exploits user trust.

The post EvilAI Malware Exploits AI Targets Organizations Worldwide appeared first on Purism.

Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn’t worth saving

Maintenance to end next year after ‘helpful options’ became ‘serious security flaws’

Kubernetes maintainers have decided it’s not worth trying to save Ingress NGINX and will instead stop work on the project and retire it in March 2026.…

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4702-4708: It’s Only Spooky Here on Earth Today!

By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, U.K. Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 31, 2025 I am writing this blog and it’s still daytime — and I am looking forward to accompanying one of my favorite kids to trick-and-treating afterwards. That’s a new feeling for me because I am usually […]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4695-4701: Searching for Answers at Monte Grande

Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 24, 2025 Curiosity has successfully drilled its 44th hole on Mars, which is a major milestone in our investigation of the enigmatic “boxwork unit,” a region of resistant ridges surrounding pits or “hollows” of less-resistant rock. The drilling took place […]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4689-4694: Drill in the Boxwork Unit is GO!

Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 17, 2025 Curiosity has been investigating the “boxwork unit” for several months now. Readers might remember we drilled at the edge of the boxwork at “Altadena,” back in June. Since then, we have driven just under a kilometer […]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4682-4688: Seven Mars Years

Written by Diana Hayes, Graduate Student at York University, Toronto Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 10, 2025 This week was one of seasonal changes and milestones for the mission. As was mentioned several weeks ago, Mars has now moved out of its “cloudy season” and is transitioning into the “dusty season” as the planet moves […]

Chinese spies told Claude to break into about 30 critical orgs. Some attacks succeeded

Anthropic dubs this the first AI-orchestrated cyber snooping campaign

Chinese cyber spies used Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool to attempt digital break-ins at about 30 high-profile companies and government organizations – and the government-backed snoops "succeeded in a small number of cases," according to a Thursday report from the AI company.…

Schwerlast-Booster: Blue Origin schafft Rücklandung

Blue Origin hat die erste Antriebsstufe einer großen Orbitalrakete nach erfolgreichem Start aufrecht gelandet. Damit bricht es das Monopol des Marktführers.

Is Server-Side Rendering React’s Holy Grail?

With React and React Native now under a new foundation, perhaps React will make progress on server-side rendering (SSR). SSR

The post Is Server-Side Rendering React’s Holy Grail? appeared first on The New Stack.

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4675-4681: Deciding Where to Dig Into the Boxworks

Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator at Framework Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 3, 2025 Before Curiosity landed 13 years ago, the science team eyed all the geologic wonders scattered across the flanks of Mount Sharp and looked forward to the day when we could put the rover to work on them. We […]

Happy holidays: AI-enabled toys teach kids how to play with fire, sharp objects

Consumer advocacy researchers at PIRG tested four AI toys, and none of them passed muster

Picture the scene: It's Christmas morning and your child is happily chatting with the AI-enabled teddy bear you got them when you hear it telling them about sexual kinks, where to find the knives, and how to light matches. This is not a hypothetical scenario. …

Researchers Have Identified the Names of Five Million Victims Murdered in the Holocaust

Led by Israel's Yad Vashem, the initiative has been underway since the 1950s. But it recently got a boost from artificial intelligence, which is helping humans search through the records

A Robotic Helping Hand

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, which extends from a data grapple fixture on the International Space Station’s Harmony module. Attached to its latching […]

Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out

Browser maker scolds AI objectors, "The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone"

Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community. The org has decided that AI deserves its own new environment in the browser, a move its fans met with withering criticism.…

How to Wrangle Cloud Bursting Costs

Cloud bills are easy to measure. The operational costs that come with keeping cloud environments running are harder to account

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BGH: Mobilfunker darf Kundendaten der Schufa geben

Betrugsrisiko bei Mobilfunkverträgen mit teuren Handys rechtfertigt Datenweitergabe an die Schufa. Die Verbraucherzentrale scheitert beim BGH.

Ransomed CTO falls on sword, refuses to pay extortion demand

Checkout.com will instead donate the amount to fund cybercrime research

Digitial extortion is a huge business, because affected orgs keep forking over money to get their data back. However, instead of paying a ransom demand after getting hit by extortionists last week, payment services provider Checkout.com donated the demanded amount to fund cybercrime research.…

Solo.io Open Sources Agentregistry, With Support for Agent Skills

ATLANTA — , the cloud native application networking company, has added another open source tool to the rapidly expanding agentic

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This Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovered a 151-Million-Year-Old Insect—and It's a New Species

Retired teacher Robert Beattie, now 82, has been digging up remnants of the past ever since he was a child

Archaeologists Say They've Found a 3,000-Year-Old Map of the Cosmos at an Ancient Maya Site in Mexico

New research sheds light on a cross-shaped pit found at Aguada Fénix, a monumental complex discovered several years ago

Baidu answers China's call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators

Chinese search giant plans to bring custom silicon to the rack scale in 2026 with 256- and 512-chip systems

Chinese search giant Baidu unveiled two new AI accelerators this week amid a national push to end reliance on Western chips.…

For Devs, a Fix for AI Complexity is Hiding in Plain Sight

The agents are here. So is the secret to managing them. I went to GitHub Universe 2025 to learn about

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Top 10: Das beste Tablet im Test – Apple vor Samsung und Lenovo

Auf der Couch surfen, spielen oder Netflix schauen – wir zeigen die zehn besten Tablets für Unterhaltung und Arbeit.

Dark Moon, Shooting Stars: How to Catch the Stunning Leonid Meteor Shower This Weekend

A waning crescent moon will offer stargazers an optimal viewing experience this year, with 10 to 15 meteors visible each hour from Sunday into Monday

States that aren't nice to ICE still sharing key database full of personal info

Lawmakers warn of ‘information gap’ lets immigration agents sidestep states’ data safeguards

Democratic lawmakers say some states that don't want to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be unintentionally allowing the agency access to residents' driver and criminal records through a law-enforcement data network.…

Viele EU-Staaten wollen USA Zugriff auf biometrische Polizeidaten erlauben

Die EU-Länder haben kein grundsätzliches Problem damit, dass US-Strafverfolgungsbehörden auf ihre nationalen Datenbanken zugreifen, um nach Gefahren zu suchen.

Temu, Shein und Co: Zollfreigrenze soll schon 2026 fallen

Beim Treffen der Finanzminister haben die EU-Mitgliedstaaten das Ende der 150-Euro-Zollfreigrenze beschlossen – zwei Jahre früher als geplant.

Terahertz-Scanner für autonome Autos blickt durch Nebel

Der bildgebende Teradar-Sensor soll Nebel, Regen, Schnee, Dunkelheit und Gegenlicht trotzen – besser als Radar, Lidar und Kameras.

Kritische Infrastruktur: Bundestag verabschiedet NIS2-Gesetz

Deutschland hängt mit der NIS2-Umsetzung hinterher. Der Bundestag hat den Vorschlag der Regierung nun abgesegnet. Jetzt ist der Bundesrat am Zug.

Knappe Mehrheit: EU-Parlament stimmt für aufgeweichtes Lieferkettengesetz

Das EU-Parlament einigt sich auf eine Lockerung der Nachhaltigkeitsauflagen für Unternehmen. Erst ab 1750 Mitarbeitern sollen die strengeren Auflagen gelten.

We’re Repeating Cybersecurity’s Big Mistake, This Time With AI

Fifteen years ago, most enterprises treated cybersecurity as an afterthought — a box to check rather than a foundational strategy.

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Tesla knickt wohl ein: iPhone-Integration mit CarPlay angeblich in Arbeit

Tesla ist der bekannteste CarPlay-Abstinenzler. Das könnte sich einem Bericht zufolge ändern – nicht zuletzt als Versuch, die Verkäufe wieder anzukurbeln.

VR Games Showcase Herbst 2025: Alle neuen VR-Spiele und Ankündigungen

Ein Kultspiel kommt in die Virtual Reality und eine Half-Life: Alyx-Mod wird ein eigenständiges Spiel – die Höhepunkte des VR Games Showcase.

Selbstfahrende Maschinen in der Landwirtschaft: Autonom durch die Grauzone

Autonomes Fahren ist auf dem Acker einfacher als auf der Straße, aber auch dort sind technische und nicht zuletzt rechtliche Herausforderungen zu lösen.

See Masterpieces by Monet, Matisse, Degas and Picasso in the First-Ever Exhibition of This German Family's Private Art Collection

The Scharf Collection features French artworks from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as contemporary pieces from around the world

Idealo-Verfahren: Richter sehen Schaden durch Google

Im Verfahren des Preisvergleichsdienstes Idealo gegen den US-Suchmaschinenriesen scheint eine Verurteilung Googles zu Schadenersatz wahrscheinlich.

US-Großbank startet Krypto-Coin: So will J.P. Morgan Überweisungen beschleunigen

Die US-Großbank launcht einen eigenen Token. Die Einführung verspricht rund um die Uhr schnelle Zahlungen über die Blockchain. So funktioniert das Ganze.

Nach Wirecard-Pleite: Aktionäre müssen sich hinten anstellen

Im Wirecard-Skandal haben Aktionäre und Gläubiger des früheren Börsen-Stars Milliarden verloren. Wer kriegt noch Geld aus der Insolvenzmasse?

Telegram-Gründer Pawel Durow muss sich nicht mehr bei Frankreichs Polizei melden

Seit mehr als einem Jahr wird in Frankreich gegen Pawel Durow ermittelt, für Auslandsreisen brauchte er eine Genehmigung. Zumindest damit ist es nun vorbei.

How IDPs Balance Productivity and Control in the AI Era

The rapid adoption of agentic AI has accelerated software engineering practices, promising unprecedented productivity, faster iteration cycles and a dramatic

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Scholars Thought This Ancient Silver Goblet Told One Myth for 50 Years. Is It Actually Telling Another Story?

A new study asserts that the Bronze Age goblet may be one of the earliest known depictions of cosmology, featuring gods creating celestial order from chaos

AI pilots keep crashing, mostly because firms skip the prep, survey finds

Under a third of PoCs make it past testing, but those that do often boost productivity

It is the best of AI times; it is the worst of AI times, depending on whom you ask. Nearly a third of firms are seeing almost total failure of their AI proof-of-concept (PoC) projects, while 46 percent are successfully moving more than 10 percent of theirs into operational use.…

OpenAI Recovers 30,000 CPU Cores With Fluent Bit Tweak

ATLANTA — When systems grow large enough, even very small optimizations can lead to very large savings. This was the

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heise+ | GPS-Tracker für Hunde: Tractive Dog 6 im Test

Mit GPS-Trackern am Halsband sollen sich entlaufende Hunde jederzeit orten lassen. Wir haben getestet, ob das wirklich funktioniert.

Niedersachsen und Hamburg: Kein pauschales Handyverbot an Schulen

"Pauschales Handyverbot ist nicht zielführend". Niedersachsen und Hamburg machen Vorstoß für einen "klaren Rahmen und Unterstützung im Umgang mit Smartphones".

A Stranger in Our Midst?

Perseverance Encounters a Possible Meteorite Written by Candice Bedford, Research Scientist at Purdue University Oct. 1, 2025 During the rover’s recent investigation of the bedrock at “Vernodden,” Perseverance encountered an unusually shaped rock about 80 centimeters across (about 31 inches) called “Phippsaksla.” This rock was identified as a target of interest based on its sculpted, […]

From Physics to the Future: Brian Granger on Project Jupyter in the Age of AI

What if you could rewrite a beloved open source, battle-tested server from scratch, complete with a new test suite, in

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Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut

The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump

Two vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 25.10's new "sudo-rs" command have been found, disclosed, and fixed in short order.…

Matthew McConaughey und Michael Caine lizenzieren ihre Stimme für KI-Unternehmen

Matthew McConaughey und Michael Caine stellen ihre Stimmen dem KI-Unternehmen ElevenLabs zur Verfügung. Die Stimmen sollen für KI-Anwendungen genutzt werden.

Google cancels plans to require Android application certification outside of the Play Store

Only a few months ago, Google announced it was going to require that all Android applications – even those installed outside of the Play Store – had to be verified. This led to a massive backlash, and it seems our protests and complaints have had effect: the company announced a change in plans today, and will, in fact, not require certification for installing applications outside of the Play Store. Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified. We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer. It will also include clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved, but ultimately, it puts the choice in their hands. We are gathering early feedback on the design of this feature now and will share more details in the coming months. ↫ Matthew Forsythe Director at the Android Developers Blog While this is great news, I’m still concerned this is only temporary. Companies like Google have a tendency to announce some draconian measure to test the waters, walk it back in response to backlash, only to then reintroduce it through some sneaky backdoor a year later when nobody’s looking. Installing whatever we want on the devices we own should be a protected right, not something graciously afforded to us by our corporate overlords. If you think this is the end of this story, you’re a fool.

Big news for small OpenBSD /usr partitions

Ever ran into issues using sysupgrade on OpenBSD because /usr ran out of space? OpenBSD developers are trying to address this issue. Firstly, Stuart Henderson (sthen@) modified the installer to increase free space prior to installing. Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) modified sysupgrade(8) so that, if space is too tight, it will fail gracefully rather than risk leaving the administrator with a broken system. ↫ OpenBSD Journal These are very welcome additions.

Valve brings x86 gaming to ARM Linux with FEX

Valve announced a few new devices yesterday. There’s a new Steam console, which is essentially just a tiny PC with SteamOS installed – think of it as a Steam Deck without a display. Second, Valve finally released a new Steam Controller to go with the Steam console, which has taken them long enough. Lastly, there’s a brand new Steam VR headset, the Steam Frame. Other websites with actual access to these new devices will do a better job of covering them than I ever could, but I do want to highlight something crucially important about the Steam Frame: it contains a Snapdragon ARM processor, but can still run Steam and all of its games. How does this work? Well, after developing Proton to allow Windows games to run on Linux, Valve “introduced” FEX, which will allow you to run x86 Windows games on ARM Linux. I put the quotation marks there because FEX was an existing project Valve invested heavily into in recent times, and it’s now at the point where Valve seems confident enough it will be capable of running enough x86 games on ARM Linux. As such, the Steam Frame runs full SteamOS with KDE Plasma, you can run x86 Steam games, and as an additional bonus, you can install Android APKs as well. I’ve yet to even try VR, because I’m not particularly interested in buying into any locked-down platform. The Steam Frame may be the first VR device I’ll buy – depending on price, of course – and the Steam console definitely looks like a great addition to the living room, too. My wife and I have little to no interesting in buying an Xbox or PS5, but having easy, no-hassle access to our massive Steam libraries on our TV will be awesome.

Avalonia brings Linux, browser support to Microsoft's MAUI cross-platform app solution

Third-party framework builds alternative backend using its own renderer and WebAssembly

Microsoft's MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), the official .NET solution for cross-platform desktop and mobile apps, will get Linux and browser support via Avalonia, a third-party framework.…

ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared

Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure

In Barcelona this week, consultancy Gartner once again tried to answer one of the perennial questions in IT: what is it about ERP projects that makes them so likely to fail?…

Your Top 2026 Priority? Prepare Your Data for AI

Your AI success relies on your data. The more unified your data is across your organization, the more your AI

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Soundbar JBL Bar 500MK2 mit riesigem Subwoofer im Test

Ohne Rear-Lautsprecher, dafür aber mit einem wuchtigen Subwoofer will die JBL Bar 500MK2 für Kino-Atmosphäre sorgen. Wie gut das funktioniert, zeigt unser Test.

OnePlus 15: Neues Topmodell mit riesigem Akku und neuem Design

Das OnePlus 15 für den globalen Markt ist da. Das neue Topmodell unterscheidet sich nicht nur optisch vom Vorgänger, auch der Akku ist massiv gewachsen.

10 Jahre CNCF: Neuigkeiten von Kubernetes – Cloud-Native und KI wachsen zusammen

Kubernetes wird flexibler beim Versionsmanagement. Die CNCF treibt KI-Integration voran und stellt neue Projekte für Cloud-Native-Entwickler vor.

Blue Origin hopes third time's the charm for New Glenn after two scrubbed launches

Bezos booster blasted by solar emissions

A blast from the Sun kept Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on the pad as the Northern Lights forced NASA to halt the launch.…

Bundeswehr sucht IT-Spezialisten: Hohe Abbrecherquote als Problem

Die Truppenstärke der Bundeswehr soll stark steigen – durch den neuen Wehrdienst sowie Berufs- und Zeitsoldaten mit speziellem Fachwissen, etwa in der IT.

Astronomie: Eruption auf Stern hätte Atmosphäre eines Planeten hinweggefegt

Sonneneruptionen können auf der Erde für beeindruckende Polarlichter sorgen. Nun wurde erstmals eine auf einem Stern bestätigt – die war viel weniger harmlos.

Mosbach: Telemedizin in erster Kaufland-Filiale

Im Kaufland Mosbach kann man jetzt nicht nur Pfandflaschen abgeben, sondern gleich daneben auch sein Wohlbefinden prüfen lassen – dank Telemedizin.

How To Build an AI-First Organization, One Engineer at a Time

Unless your business was born out of a university machine learning (ML) department or conceived in the last three years,

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HPE details Vera Rubin blades for next-gen Cray supercomputers

Promised for 2027 racks, mixing Nvidia and AMD silicon in one liquid-cooled box

HPE's next-gen Cray supercomputing platform will offer a choice of compute nodes with Nvidia's Vera Rubin or AMD's upcoming Venice Epyc CPUs – or a mix of both.…

heise+ | Digitales Papier mit Huawei PaperMatte-OLED-Panel im Test

Huawei will mit seinem Tandem-OLED-Panel PaperMatte ein papierähnliches Display entwickelt haben, das die Schwächen üblicher Displays hinter sich lässt.

Dragonwing IQ-X: Qualcomm bringt Embedded-Varianten des Snapdragon X

Qualcomms Mobilprozessor Snapdragon X findet man als Dragonwing IQ-X künftig auch in Industrie-PCs und anderen Embedded-Anwendungen.

Extra, extra, read all about it: Washington Post clobbered in Clop caper

Nearly 10,000 staff and contractors warned after attackers raided newspaper's Oracle EBS setup

The Washington Post has confirmed that nearly 10,000 employees and contractors had sensitive personal data stolen in the Clop-linked Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attacks.…

SAPs KI: Unternehmen kämpfen mit S/4-Umstellung und lassen Joule liegen

SAPs KI-Assistent Joule soll eigentlich die Automatisierung vorantreiben. Laut einer aktuellen Studie kommt das derzeit noch nicht Schwung.

NASA Patent Remix Challenge

NASA’s Technology Transfer Office invites entrepreneurs, innovators, and creative thinkers to apply NASA’s patented technologies to practical applications. Participants will select an existing NASA patent and develop a business or product concept that will be evaluated based on value proposition, business model viability, development feasibility, and quality of presentation. Entries should clearly demonstrate creativity, feasibility, […]

Telekom verdient nicht genug Geld mit Glasfaser-Internet

Glasfaser-Internet ist inzwischen an zig Millionen Haushalten verfügbar. Das war teuer für die Firmen. Doch die Sache hat einen Haken.

To solve compatibility issues, Microsoft would quietly patch other people's code

Long before automatic updates, the Windows 95 team tweaked third-party software to keep it running

How to get that all-important piece of software working on Windows has vexed Microsoft since the beginning of the operating system. Compatibility was king.…

DMA: EU-Kommission prüft mögliche Mediendiskriminierung durch Google

Die EU-Kommission geht dem Verdacht nach, dass Google beim Ranking von Webseiten legitime Inhalte abwertet. Das soll unter anderem Medienangebote betreffen.

Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales

Government picks Wylfa on Anglesey for initial trio of units, but power unlikely before mid-2030s

The UK will build its first small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear plant at Wylfa on Anglesey, an island off northwest Wales - but it won't generate power until the mid-2030s.…

Beta 2 von iOS 26.2 und macOS 26.2: Ringlicht, Animationen und mehr

Apple hat die zweite Entwicklerbeta von iOS 26.2, macOS 26.2 und Co. publiziert. Darin enthalten sind einige neue Funktionen.

Schleswig-Holstein: Fast 80 Prozent der Microsoft-Lizenzen gekündigt

Im Interview zieht Minister Dirk Schrödter eine Zwischenbilanz des Umstiegs auf Open Source und gibt einen Ausblick auf den Wechsel zu Linux und "Digital Only".

Citrix Netscaler ADC und Gateway: Update schließt Cross-Site-Scripting-Lücke

In den Netscaler ADCs und Gateways von Citrix können Angreifer eine Cross-Site-Scripting-Lücke ausnutzen. Updates schließen sie.

heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop MS Intune: Mobile Endgeräte und Apps sicher in der Cloud verwalten

Mobile Endgeräte sicher und effektiv verwalten, Sicherheitsrichtlinien festlegen und Unternehmensanwendungen verteilen.

heise+ | Wie quantensichere Kryptografie Computer langfristig absichert

Große und mächtige Quantencomputer bedrohen in der Zukunft die klassischen kryptografischen Verfahren. Doch es gibt eine Lösung: Post-Quanten-Kryptografie.

Ivanti Endpoint Manager: Angreifer können Daten auf Festplatte schreiben

Die Gerätemanagementsoftware Ivanti Endpoint Manager ist verwundbar. In einer aktuellen Version haben die Entwickler eine Lücke geschlossen.

Operation Endgame 3: 1025 Server von Netz genommen

Internationalen Strafverfolgern ist ein neuerlicher Schlag gegen Malware und dahinterliegende Infrastruktur gelungen.

Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud

Majority of customers plan to favor domestic providers as sovereignty fears rise

A survey of CIOs and tech leaders in Western Europe has found 61 percent want to increase their use of local cloud providers amid global geopolitical uncertainty.…

"Syberia Remastered": Schrödingers Kate Walker

Ein wunderschönes Grafikadventure wird renoviert. Doch "Syberia Remastered" hat leider auch Schwächen. Kate Walker kämpft mit Mäusen und einer Doppelgängerin.

Rhadamanthys malware admin rattled as cops seize a thousand-plus servers

Operation Endgame also takes down Elysium and VenomRAT infrastructure

International cops have pulled apart the Rhadamanthys infostealer operation, seizing 1,025 servers tied to the malware in coordinated raids between November 10-13.…

London left buffering as Hyperoptic backup link refuses to boot

Broadband provider says damaged fiber and dormant failover path knocked customers offline for nearly 24 hours

Updated  UK broadband provider Hyperoptic learned the importance of testing backup systems this week after the service went dark for customers in London.…

Digitale Souveränität Fehlanzeige: Abhängigkeit von USA und China steigt

Über digitale Souveränität wird viel geredet, doch einer Umfrage nach kommt sie in Deutschland nicht in die Gänge. Firmen berichten von mehr Abhängigkeit.

Docker Desktop 4.50: KI-Integration und kostenlose Debug-Tools für Entwickler

Docker Desktop 4.50 bietet kostenlose Debug-Tools, erweiterte KI-Features und verbesserte Sicherheitsoptionen für Entwickler von Container-Anwendungen.

Analyse: Weltweiter CO₂-Ausstoß steigt trotz aller Fortschritte auch 2025

Dass es der Menschheit noch gelingt, die Klimaerwärmung auf weniger als 1,5 Grad Celsius über dem vorindustriellen Niveau zu halten, "ist nicht mehr plausibel".

Vorstellung Ducati Panigale V4 R: Edelheiß

Die straßenzugelassene Panigale V4 R ist das Homologationsmodell für die Superbike-WM und mit 330 km/h schneller als alles, was die Italiener je gebaut haben.

Librem PQC Encryptor: Future‑Proofing Against Both SS7 and Quantum

Signaling System 7 (SS7) was designed in the 1970s to let telecom carriers route calls, deliver SMS, and enable roaming. It was never built with authentication or encryption in mind. Security wasn’t part of the plan.  The assumption was simple:  All carriers are trusted.

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"Besuchte Orte"-Tracking in Apple Karten: Wo es geht – und wie

Nutzer von Google Maps können schon lange Ortsdaten automatisch speichern – manchmal gar unfreiwillig. Ein neues Feature für iOS 26 funktioniert nicht überall.

NHS supplier ends probe into ransomware attack that contributed to patient death

Synnovis's 18-month forensic review of Qilin intrusion completed, now affected patients to be notified

Synnovis has finally wrapped up its investigation into the 2024 ransomware attack that crippled pathology services across London, ending an 18-month effort to untangle what the NHS supplier describes as one of the most complex data reconstruction jobs it has ever faced.…

BMW M5 Touring mit Plug-in-Hybrid im Fahrbericht: Der seltsame Spagat

BMW kombiniert einen 2,5 Tonnen schweren Kombi, der viele Sportwagen hinter sich lassen kann, mit einem Plug-in-Hybridantrieb. Erfolgreich?

software-architektur.tv: Subjektives Schätzen, beliebige Deadlines?

In dieser Folge beleuchtet Eberhard Wolff das Thema Aufwandsschätzung in Projekten, und wie Teams mit Deadlines umgehen sollten.

heise+ | Neue Betrugsmaschen im Kryptohandel: Wie Sie sie erkennen und sich wehren

Im Kryptohandel tummeln sich Betrüger mit allerhand undurchsichtigen Tricks. Wir erklären zwei neuere Varianten und wie Sie sich dagegen schützen.

heise-Angebot: secIT 2026: Nach einer Cyberattacke die richtigen Entscheidungen treffen

Im März 2026 findet die IT-Security-Kongressmesse secIT in Hannover statt. Im Fokus stehen Vorträge und Workshops für Unternehmen und Kommunen.

Valve bestätigt: Kein neues Half-Life: Alyx und Ende der VR-Brille Valve Index

Valve stellt die Produktion seines PC-VR-Headsets Index ein und bestätigt gleichzeitig, dass keine eigenen VR-Spiele in Arbeit sind – auch kein neues Alyx.

GPT-5.1 am Start: "intelligenter und unterhaltsamer"

OpenAI macht GPT-5.1 für ChatGPT verfügbar. Wie man mit Menschen umgeht, die KI-Beziehungen führen, weiß OpenAI bisher nicht.

M1 weg: Aufregung um Apple-Intelligence-Kompatibilitätstabelle bei Apple

Apple hatte am Mittwoch offenbar fehlerhafte Editierungen an seiner KI-Homepage vorgenommen. Mittlerweile ist alles wieder normal.

Waymos Robotaxis dürfen auf die Autobahn

Die Alphabet-Tochter Waymo weitet ihr Angebot aus: Die Robotaxis dürfen nicht mehr nur auf Innenstadtstraßen, sondern auch auf Autobahnen fahren.

Ruhe, bitte! Wärmepumpen müssen ab 2026 deutlich leiser werden

Ab 1. Januar 2026 gelten strengere Fördervorschriften für Wärmepumpen. Die Geräte müssen dann 10 dB leiser sein als nach EU-Vorgabe, 5 dB leiser als bisher.

Even Realities G2: Neue Smart Glasses mit größerem Display und Smart Ring

Die Even G2 verbessert Display und Software-Funktionen. Mit dem optionalen Smart Ring Even R1 kommt eine neue Bedienmöglichkeit hinzu.

Neue Kamera-Features bei iPhone 18 und Fold: Analysten und Leaker äußern sich

Analysten mit Einblick in Apples Lieferkette sowie ein chinesischer Leaker haben sich zur Kameraausstattung bei den 2026er iPhones geäußert.

Android: Google lenkt ein wenig beim Sideloading von Apps ein

Google weicht die strikte Registrierungspflicht für App-Entwickler ein wenig auf. Erfahrene Nutzer sollen künftig unverifizierte Apps sideloaden können.

To 'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 has arrived

Systemd-free option still available if you choose that download

MX Linux 25 "Infinity" is now available, and the new version has some significant differences from the 2023 release, with things that used to be boot-time choices having become pre-install decisions.…

heise+ | Smartwatch Huawei Watch Ultimate 2 für Sportler im Test

Mit der Watch Ultimate 2 von Huawei kann man abtauchen und in der Tiefe noch Nachrichten senden und empfangen.

Steam Machine: Und wie viel soll das kosten?

Valve verbindet mit der Steam Machine PC-Funktionen mit Konsolen-Komfort. Der Preis wird nicht verraten – es gibt aber zumindest ein paar Andeutungen.

Sicherheitslücken: Nvidia rüstet KI-Werkzeuge gegen mögliche Attacken

Updates schließen Schwachstellen in Nvidia AIStore Framework, NeMo Framework und Triton Interference Server.

Meta verdient Milliarden mit betrügerischer Werbung

Wir sehen dubiose Anzeigen, Zuckerberg wird reich: So lautet offenbar ein Teil des Geschäfts. Scam bringt Meta Milliarden ein.

Zohocorp ManageEngine: Mehrere Sicherheitslücken in unterschiedlichen Produkten

Mehrere Schwachstellenberichte zu Lücken in mehreren Zohocorp-ManageEngine-Produkten sind erschienen. Updates stehen bereit.

Temperaturunterschied zwischen Erde und Weltraum treibt Stirlingmotor an

Ingenieure nutzen den Temperaturunterschied zwischen Erde und Weltraum, um einen Niedertemperatur-Stirlingmotor anzutreiben, der einen Lüfter bewegt.

heise+ | Mac als lokales KI-System: So geht's

Wer Aufgaben an Chatbots wie ChatGPT & Co. delegiert, muss den Betreibern oft sensible Daten anvertrauen. Mit dem Open-Source-Projekt Ollama geht das lokal.

Neuer Steam Controller kommt mit Lade-Puck

Der neue Steam Controller ist handlicher und hat einen Stick mehr als der Vorgänger. Geladen wird er über einen Puck, der auch die Verbindung übernimmt.

Angriffe auf Watchguard Firebox und Gladinet Triofox beobachtet

Die US-IT-Sicherheitsbehörde CISA warnt vor laufenden Angriffen auf Schwachstellen in Watchguards Firebox und Gladinets Triofox.

Databricks: Wie KI-Agenten den Sprung in den Produktivbetrieb schaffen sollen

Databricks hat auf der Data+AI World Tour neue Funktionen seiner Data-Intelligence-Plattform vorgestellt. Im Mittelpunkt stand die Plattform Agent Bricks.

Falsche Datenschützer am Telefon: LKA warnt vor neuer Betrugsmasche

Die Betrüger versuchen es immer wieder per Telefon und Mail – aktuell auch als angebliche Datenschützer. Wie die Täter vorgehen.

Abgasbetrug von Volkswagen: Ein weiterer Prozess beginnt

In Braunschweig startet abermals ein Prozess gegen frühere Führungskräfte bei Volkswagen. Ihnen droht eine Gefängnisstrafe.

Künftig auch Zölle auf in EU importierte Billigwaren?

Bei Temu, Shein und auch Amazon und Co. sind oftmals sehr günstige Produkte zu bestellen. Sie kommen oft zollfrei in die EU. Das könnte sich ändern.

heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Exchange Migration – von Exchange OnPrem zu Exchange Online

So migrieren Sie Ihren Exchange Server 2016 oder 2019 zu Exchange Online – eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung.

Networking students need an explanation of the internet that can fit in their heads

Networks have changed profoundly, except for the parts that haven’t

Systems Approach  When my colleague and co-author Bruce Davie delivered his keynote at the SIGCOMM conference, he was asked a thought-provoking question: How should we think about educating the next generation of students about networking, given how different and more complex the internet is today?…

Autonomes Shuttle Holon urban erhält Zulassung zum Testbetrieb in Deutschland

Das autonome Shuttle Holon urban hat die Zulassung vom KBA erhalten, um deutschlandweit erprobt zu werden. In Hamburg sollen insgesamt 20 eingesetzt werden.

Ebling: Cyberangriffe sind alltäglich

Noch ist unklar, wer hinter dem IT-Angriff auf Ludwigshafener Verwaltung steckt. Der Innenminister appelliert an Kommunen und Unternehmen, sich zu schützen.

Mehr als 48.000 Anzeigen wegen Cybercrime in Bayern

Schnell ist es passiert: Hacker und andere Kriminelle kapern Computer und Datenbanken. Die Bedrohungslage ist auch hierzulande hoch.

Donnerstag: Google gegen Phishing-Kartell, Prüfung auf DSA-Verstöße bei X

Online-Betrug als Geschäftsmodell + Widerspruchsrecht bei Löschanträgen + EU-Parlamentarier gegen KI-Kündigungen + Steam Frame VR-Headset ohne PC + #heiseshow

#heiseshow: GEMA vs. ChatGPT, offenes WLAN, Vodafone & die Internetknoten

In der #heiseshow: GEMA siegt gegen ChatGPT, Vorratsdatenspeicherung bedroht offenes WLAN und Vodafone verlässt öffentliche Internetknoten.

Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut

Go home, comrade clanker, you look drunk – and worryingly angry

A semi-autonomous humanoid robot said to be Russia’s first such machine has fallen over within seconds of facing the public for the first time.…

Irische Medienaufsicht untersucht X auf DSA-Verstöße bei der Content-Moderation

Können X-Nutzer gegen von Elon Musks Plattform abgelehnte Löschanträge vorgehen und werden sie dazu informiert? Denn das schreibt die EU mit dem DSA vor.

Google to allow Android users with high pain tolerance to sideload unverified apps

Promises some easing of rules that knobble indie devs, eventually

Google has decided to loosen some of its recently introduced rules regarding registration of Android developers and their apps, but isn’t rushing to deliver the modest changes it plans.…

Atlassian twice shunned AWS Graviton CPUs, but now runs Jira and Confluence on them

Bills fell 10 percent after granular tests suggested JVM tweaks that improved performance

Atlassian twice marked Amazon Web Services’ Graviton CPUs off-limits for production purposes, but recently relented and now uses the processors to power thousands of server instances that run its Jira and Confluence products. So what changed?…

Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents

The 100 trillion-parameter models of the near future can't be built in one place

Microsoft believes the next generation of AI models will use hundreds of trillions of parameters. To train them, it's not just building bigger, more efficient datacenters – it's started connecting distant facilities using high-speed networks spanning hundreds or thousands of miles.…

OpenAI GPT-5.1 adds more personalities, loses inhibitions

Updated model may deliver a bit more unwanted content, but will be polite about it

OpenAI on Wednesday introduced GPT-5.1, an AI model update that's "warmer," more conversational, and slightly more willing to blurt out unwelcome observations about sex, violence, and mental health in a way that invites emotional dependence.…

Knative Has Finally Graduated From the CNCF

ATLANTA — Knative, the open source Kubernetes-native platform for building, deploying and running serverless and event-driven applications, has officially graduated

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Google verklagt Phishing-Kartell

Google erhebt Klage gegen die Lighthouse-Gang. Die Klageschrift dokumentiert den Ablauf des Phishing-Betrugs. Bringen wird sie wohl wenig.

How To Deploy an Open Source Version of NotebookLM

NotebookLM is an AI research and note-taking tool created by that uses large language models (LLMs) that make it possible

The post How To Deploy an Open Source Version of NotebookLM appeared first on The New Stack.

Downy Woodpeckers 'Grunt' as They Turn Their Bodies Into Hammers to Drill Into Trees

Researchers studied the combination of muscles and breaths that the tiny birds use as they strike trees with their beaks

This Newly Discovered ‘Lucifer’ Bee From Australia Was Named After Its Devil-Like Horns

Researchers hope the discovery shines a light on bee conservation Down Under

You can now put your US passport into Apple Wallet for domestic travel

But only a few states plus Puerto Rico will accept it

Need to fly domestically, but want to leave your passport or driver's license at home? Apple has you covered, as long as you're using an iOS device and traveling between or within one of the dozen or so states that support digital IDs and Apple Wallet. Unfortunately, it's not clear which states those are, and the TSA's web site is not up to date thanks to the ongoing government shutdown.…

Neue Steam-Brille kommt ohne Kabel und Computer aus

Steam Frame ist für kabelloses Streaming von klassischen Bildschirm- und VR-Spielen vom PC ausgelegt, läuft dank ARM-Chip aber auch ohne PC-Anbindung.

Google sues 25 China-based scammers behind Lighthouse 'phishing for dummies' kit

600+ phishing websites and 116 of these use a Google logo

Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed China-based scammers, which it claims have stolen more than 115 million credit card numbers in the US as part of the Lighthouse phishing operation.…

A Sweeping Yoko Ono Retrospective Aims to Make Music in Museumgoers' Minds

The exhibition spotlights more than 200 works by the 92-year-old artist, from provocative early works to more recent creations

OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft

Microsoft internal financials also suggest AI flag bearer is nowhere close to $13 billion in revenues

OpenAI may be burning far more capital serving its GPT-family of models than previously thought. Leaked documents show the company paying more than $12 billion to Microsoft for compute power since 2024 and suggest much weaker revenue than it needs to pay for all those expenses.…

The Sun Erupted With the Year's Largest Solar Flare This Week, and Space Weather-Fueled Aurora Activity Could Continue

The last in a series of three coronal mass ejections hit Earth on Wednesday, so experts are keeping an eye on geomagnetic storm potential

Jupyter AI v3: Could It Generate an ‘Ecosystem of AI Personas?’

What if your AI assistant could watch you code, spot bugs as they happen and fix them before you even

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Google apes Apple, swears cloud-based AI will keep your info private

We take your privacy, seriously

Google, perhaps not the first name you'd associate with privacy, has taken a page from Apple's playbook and now claims that its cloud AI services will safeguard sensitive personal data handled by its Gemini model family.…

Choosing Your AI Orchestration Stack for 2026

AI has advanced at an incredible pace. Just a few months ago, we were still talking about agentic AI’s budding

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Arbeitsrecht: EU-Abgeordnete sind gegen Kündigung durch KI

Arbeitnehmer sollen laut einem Beschluss von EU-Parlamentariern vor automatisierten Entscheidungen geschützt, die menschliche Aufsicht soll garantiert werden.

Why You Should Break Your ML Pipelines on Purpose

This is the first of two articles. What happens when your machine learning system quietly breaks, and no one notices?

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Top 10: Die besten PC-Lautsprecher ohne Subwoofer im Test

PC-Lautsprecher ohne Subwoofer gibt es von günstig bis teuer. Wir zeigen die zehn besten aus mehreren Preiskategorien.

Astronomie: Erstmals initiale Geometrie einer Supernova ergründet

Wenn ein Stern explodiert, expandiert er mit großer Geschwindigkeit. Wie eine Supernova direkt nach ihrem Beginn aussieht, war deshalb unbekannt – bis jetzt.

Linux-Konsole: Valve kündigt neue Steam Machine an

Ein Jahrzehnt nach dem Scheitern der Steam Machines wagt Valve einen neuen Versuch: Die neue Steam-Machine ist ein Würfel mit SteamOS.

Why the Frontend Should Run AI Models Locally With ONNX

Frontend developers need to make a paradigm shift about how they build applications using AI models, according to Angular consultant

The post Why the Frontend Should Run AI Models Locally With ONNX appeared first on The New Stack.

EU plant "Demokratieschild" für die "Integrität des Informationsraums"

Die EU soll ein Netz von Faktenprüfern einrichten und den Kampf gegen Desinformation stärken. Just bedrohliche Social-Media-Algorithmen bleiben unangetastet.

Open Reception: Open-Source-Terminbuchungstool für Arzttermine steht bald bereit

Open Reception entwickelt ein Terminportal, das Praxis und Patient datenschutzfreundlich verbinden soll.

First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun

Red dwarf hurls plasma at speeds rarely seen from Sun, potentially stripping atmospheres from orbiting planets

Astronomers have made the first definitive observation of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on a nearby star.…

Indien testet Fallschirme der Raumkapsel Gaganyaan

In wenigen Jahren will Indien erstmals Menschen ins All schießen. Dafür wurde erfolgreich die Landung der Raumkapsel Gaganyaan getestet.

Neuer IBM-Quantenchip soll 2026 Quantenüberlegenheit beweisen

Mit einer neu vorgestellten Quantenchip-Architektur kündigt IBM an, in den kommenden vier Jahren die Basis für wertvolle Quantencomputeranwendungen zu legen.

Attackers turned Citrix, Cisco 0-day exploits into custom-malware hellscape

Vendors (still) keep mum

An "advanced" attacker exploited CitrixBleed 2 and a max-severity Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) bug as zero-days to deploy custom malware, according to Amazon Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses.…

Gerade beim Sport? Dann packt Google den Geschäftsvertrag in einen Podcast

Google Drive erhält eine neue KI-Funktion, die wichtige PDF-Dokumente automatisch in Audio-Zusammenfassungen im Podcast-Stil umwandelt.

Uno Platform Studio 2.0 und Uno Platform 6.4: KI-Assistent und .NET-10.0-Support

Mit .NET 10.0 und Visual Studio 2026 kompatibel, ist die neue Uno-Platform-Version erschienen. Für die kommerzielle Variante gibt es neue KI-Features.

Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas

Fashion house behind Jobs' turtleneck helps with pricey new accessory line

Apple, the reassuringly expensive US technology brand, is selling a sock in which iPhone owners can house their gadget.…

5 Ways To Transform ITOps With a Human and AI Agent Model

A new era of AI operations is here. Research reveals that over half (51%) of global companies have already deployed

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VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong

Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware

If you don't know what app will open a random media file (or URL), VLC is the answer. It runs on everything, plays anything, and it's free – thanks to Jean-Baptiste Kempf.…

heise+ | Apps zur Planung von Fotos im Praxistest

Von Studiolicht bis Wetterplanung: Diese Apps helfen bei der Vorbereitung Ihrer nächsten Fotoaktion.

50.000 US-Dollar für ein geklontes Haustier? Wo die Technologie nützlicher wäre

Einige Prominente können sich nicht von ihren Haustieren lösen und lassen sie in Klonen weiterleben. Wissenschaftler sehen hier Chancen für andere Arten.

Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide's Oldest Victims?

A new exhibition at London's Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over the age of 55 during World War II

Studie: DMA bringt Nutzern keine günstigeren App-Preise

Die Vorschriften des Digital Markets Act (DMA) sollten für mehr Wettbewerb in App Stores sorgen, doch eine neue Studie zeigt: Nutzer sehen kaum Preissenkungen.

heise+ | Framework Laptop 16: Aufrüstbares Gaming-Notebook im Test

Das Verspechen, ein Gaming-Notebook später mit einer besseren GPU aufzurüsten, haben schon mehrere Hersteller gebrochen. Framework hält seines.

Archaeologists Excavating a Roman Fort in Britain Discovered a Rare Red Gemstone Engraved With a Surprising Design

The intaglio was likely set in a signet ring and used to stamp correspondence at Bremenium, a military outpost located roughly 25 miles north of Hadrian’s Wall

Miniatur Wunderland Ziel von IT-Angriff: Kreditkartendaten abgeflossen

Das Online-Buchungssystem des Miniatur Wunderlands wurde Ziel eines IT-Angriffs. Untersuchungen laufen derzeit noch.

Laptop für 339 Euro überrascht: Chuwi Core Book X im Test

Das Chuwi Core Book X bietet für 339 Euro eine überraschend hochwertige Verarbeitung und ein scharfes 2K-Display.

New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important role in both math and physics.

The post New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities first appeared on Quanta Magazine

How Google Is Shifting AI From the Cloud to Your Browser

The Google Web AI summit was held earlier this month as an invite-only event in Sunnyvale, Calif. After the event,

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Smarter Tischtennisschläger mit Arduino

Ein 3D-gedruckter Tischtennisschläger nutzt einen Arduino, Bewegungssensoren und KI, um Schläge zu zählen und zu bewerten.

Webmin 2.600 mit komplett überarbeitetem Interface erschienen

Die Server-Management-Software Webmin ist jetzt in Version 2.600 verfügbar. Das Update bringt das größte UI-Redesign der Projektgeschichte.

Warum objektive Schätzungen in der Softwareentwicklung nicht funktionieren

Der geschätzte Aufwand eines Softwareprojekts bezieht sich meist auf das jeweilige Team. Aber Aufwand ist nicht objektiv und unabhängig vom Team schätzbar.

Entgelt-Verhandlungen zur Kostendämpfung bei Volkswagen vorgezogen

Volkswagen will künftig Milliarden sparen, auch bei Löhnen und Gehältern. Die Verhandlungen über das Entgeltsystem beginnen nun früher als geplant.

Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch

End of support? Not quite

Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update on November 11 to fix a malfunctioning enrollment wizard that prevented eligible Windows 10 users from accessing Extended Security Updates (ESU).…

Mit 2 Monaten Verzögerung: Android 16 QPR1 landet im AOSP

Das Update auf Android 16 QPR1 ist endlich im AOSP angekommen. Custom-ROM-Entwickler und Bastler warteten seit zwei Monaten darauf.

heise+ | Mobilfunkverträge ab 50 Gigabyte: Tarifvergleich und Auswahltipps

Smartphonetarife mit großem Volumen gelten als teuer. Doch das stimmt längst nicht mehr. Viele Tarifschnäppchen gibt es sogar mit kurzen Vertragslaufzeiten.

KI-Update: Gema vs. OpenAI, KI als Machtinstrument, räumliche KI, Country-KI

Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.

heise+ | Ryzen 5 7500X3D: Bezahlbare Gaming-CPU mit besonders viel Cache im Test

AMD schickt einen neuen X3D-Prozessor mit sechs Kernen für unter 280 Euro ins Rennen. Doch lohnt er sich für Gamer im Vergleich zu noch günstigeren AM5-CPUs?

Avast und AVG: Kritische Sicherheitslücke stillschweigend behoben

In den Virenscannern von Avast und AVG konnten Angreifer ihre Rechte im System ausweiten. Updates hat der Hersteller stillschweigend verteilt.

Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere

Faster and easier to use but adopting the dev stack not without risks

Microsoft has released C# 14 and .NET 10, a long-term support version, along with a bunch of related products including Visual Studio 2026 and Aspire 13. Copilot Free is included but devs will soon hit its limits.…

Küstenautobahn A20 kann weitergebaut werden

BUND und das Land Schleswig-Holstein haben sich nach einem Jahrzehnt geeinigt: Die A20 kann weitergebaut werden.

Trotz Überrumpelung: Baden-Württemberg stimmt für Palantir

In Baden-Württemberg hat der Landtag Änderungen am Polizeigesetz beschlossen, um die Nutzung von Palantir rechtlich abzusichern.

"Netflix House": Netflix eröffnet erstes Erlebniszentrum

Disney hat Disneyland, Netflix hat jetzt das Netflix House. Die erste Erlebniswelt des Streaming-Riesen geht in den USA an den Start. Weitere sollen folgen.

KubeCon: A Terraform Killer Built on Apple’s Pkl

ATLANTA — Terraform has you tripping? YAML got you cross-eyed? A startup, Platform Engineering Labs, has tackled the ongoing headache that

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Brussels weighs banning China from major EU research scheme

Draft Horizon Europe plan cites lack of IP protections and Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy

The European Commission is preparing to block Chinese institutions from significant portions of its €95.5 billion ($110 billion) Horizon Europe research program, citing intellectual property risks and links between Chinese universities and Beijing's military.…

heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Hochverfügbares Proxmox VE-Cluster mit Ceph Storage

Lernen Sie, wie Sie ein hochverfügbares Proxmox VE-Clusters mit Ceph-Speicher einrichten und verwalten.

Weiter billig Tanken und Heizen: Koalition will CO₂-Preis für 2027 nicht erhöhen

Die Koalition will Preise für fossile Energien stabil halten. Der CO₂-Preiskorridor von 55 bis 65 Euro pro Tonne soll dazu von 2026 auf 2027 ausgedehnt werden.

Tech-Regulierung: Was die EU von Kalifornien lernen kann

Kalifornien als vielleicht wichtigster Tech-Standort der Welt hält sich mit Regulierung nicht zurück. Kann die EU vom "Golden State" in der Hinsicht lernen?

MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows

Dave Plummer's 85 KB troubleshooting tool shipped with his home number on the code

As Microsoft's Task Manager celebrates three decades - and grapples with its modern tendency to leave orphaned processes behind - its creator has shared the story of how the much loved troubleshooting tool came to be.…

heise+ | KI-Browser Opera Neon im Test: Agenten im Abo

Opera Neon soll dem Nutzer beim Surfen mit reichlich KI unter die Arme greifen. Doch wie gut funktioniert der agentische Browser?

Patchday: Intel dichtet zig Sicherheitslücken ab

Intel hat auch einen Patchday veranstaltet und 30 Sicherheitsmitteilungen mit Updates veröffentlicht. Davon sind sieben hochriskant.

Crossbody-Band: Apples iPhone-Leine auch für Kameras geeignet

Apple verkauft seit September erstmals eigene iPhone-Lanyards. Die sind nicht nur zu Smartphones kompatibel.

Bitcoin & Co.: Sachsen fahndet mit KI-Hilfe nach steuerpflichtigen Transaktionen

Eine in dem Bundesland entwickelte Software soll Sachsens Steuerfahndung dabei helfen, in der Steuererklärung verschwiegene Kryptotransaktionen aufzudecken.

Broadcom creates a new Seal Of Approval for servers that run AI under VMware

This apparently makes VCF more extensible and open to partners

Broadcom will let its hardware allies self-certify their boxes as compliant with a new spec it developed that describes rigs ready to run AI workloads under its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud platform.…

Electrostatic Defrosting: Forscher entfernen Eis ohne Hitze und Chemie

Um Oberflächen zu enteisen, werden meist Hitze oder Chemikalien verwendet. Ein neues Verfahren setzt dagegen auf Elektrostatik.

Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI

Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar

Updated  Firefox 145 is out, with more privacy, better profile handling, better image search for Google users… and, almost inevitably, more LLM bot integration.…

AMD bestätigt Zen-6-Prozessoren für 2026 und nennt erste Zen-7-Details

Die AMD-Führungsriege präsentierte auf dem Financial Analyst Day viele Pläne für die kommenden Jahre. Vieles blieb unkonkret, aber es gab spannende Details.

Microsoft veröffentlicht Datenschutz-Hilfen für M365 und Copilot

Mit einem neuen M365-Kit, aktualisiertem Cloud Compendium und DSFA-Vorlagen will Microsoft Unternehmen die DSGVO-Dokumentation erleichtern.

Falschparkerfotograf als Datensünder: Ein Grundsatzurteil, das keines ist

Das Oberlandesgericht Dresden hat den Nutzer einer Falschparker-App wegen Datenschutzverstößen verurteilt. Ist die Nutzung jetzt illegal?

Icons in macOS 26: Kampf gegen das "Squircle"-Gefängnis

Apple hat die Form seiner App-Icons in macOS 26 alias Tahoe überarbeitet. Halten sich Apps nicht daran, gibt es einen optischen Eingriff. Das hilft dagegen.

Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase

Metropolitan Police lands lengthy sentence following 'complex' investigation

The Metropolitan Police's seven-year investigation into a record-setting fraudster has ended after she was sentenced to 11 years and eight months in prison on Tuesday.…

Kein Beben auf dem XR-Markt: Auch Samsung Galaxy XR wird es schwer haben

Mit der Galaxy XR kehrt Samsung eindrucksvoll auf den XR-Markt zurück – flankiert von Google und Qualcomm. Ein echtes Ausrufezeichen dürfte dennoch ausbleiben.

heise-Angebot: enterJS 2026 in Mannheim: Jetzt noch Vortragsideen einreichen

Der Call for Proposals für die enterJS 2026 in Mannheim läuft noch bis zum 19. November. Die Veranstalter suchen nach Ideen für Vorträge und Workshops.

UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill makes Parliamentary debut

Various touch-ups added as MPs seek greater resilience to attacks on critical sectors

UK government introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill to Parliament today, marking a significant overhaul of local cybersecurity legislation to sharpen the security posture of the most critical sectors.…

Microsoft ermöglicht externe Passkey-Verwaltung in Windows 11

Microsoft hat die Passkey-Verwaltung in Windows 11 aufgebohrt. Nun können das externe Programme übernehmen – etwa 1Password und Bitwarden.

Check Point kooperiert mit Nvidia für KI-Sicherheitsplattform

Cybersecurity-Anbieter Check Point kündigt eine Kooperation mit Nvidia an. Zusammen wollen sie eine integrierte Sicherheitsumgebung für KI-Fabriken schaffen.

Aviation watchdog says organized drone attacks will shut UK airports ‘sooner or later’

Skies are open for mischief as hard-to-trace drones and fast-moving cyber raids promise new wave of disruption

Britain's aviation watchdog has warned it's only a matter of time before organized drone attacks bring UK airports to a standstill.…

Pixel Drop bringt KI-Zusammenfassungen, Themenpakete und mehr

Google hat neue Funktionen für seine Pixel-Geräte veröffentlicht. Unter anderem sind im "Pixel Drop" KI-Zusammenfassungen für Nachrichten und mehr an Bord.

OHB gründet Tochterfirma für den Bau mobiler Raketenstartrampen

Deutschland will Raketen von der Nordsee aus starten. Die mobilen Startrampen soll die neue OHB-Tochter European Spaceport Company bauen.

Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan

'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO

SAP insists customers wanting "innovation" such as AI must upgrade to its latest platform for ERP, using prescribed cloud migration plans. Kingfisher - which operates 2,000 European retail stores including UK brands Screwfix and B&Q - rejected that approach.…

heise+ | Bastel-Projekt: ZigBee-Gateway mit Raspberry Pi bauen

Für die Trådfri-Reihe von Ikea und andere ZigBee-Geräte lohnt sich ein selbstgebautes Gateway auf Raspi-Basis, um sie flexibel mit Home Assistant zu nutzen.

Google: Private AI Compute soll Cloud-KI mit Datenschutz vereinen

Mit Private AI Compute macht Google das große Datenschutzversprechen: Leistungsfähige Cloud-KI soll sich ohne Datenabfluss nutzen lassen.

Kräftiger Sonnensturm sorgt für Polarlichter bis nach Bayern

Polarlichter gab es in den vergangenen Monaten schon häufiger mal zu sehen – am frühen Mittwoch erneut und so weit südlich wie selten. Es gibt weiter Chancen.

Australien: Geheimdienstchef warnt vor chinesischen Hackern

Australiens Geheimdienst ASIO schlägt Alarm: Chinesische Hackergruppen attackieren Telekommunikations- und Kritische Infrastruktur des Landes.

heise-Angebot: Proaktive IT-Security mit Pentesting: Ethical Hacking für Admins

In fünf Terminen lernen Admins und Security-Verantwortliche ab dem 3. Februar 2026, wie sie mit Ethical Hacking Systeme absichern und Schwachstellen aufdecken.

Großbritannien: Chinesin muss für illegalen Besitz von 61.000 Bitcoin in Haft

In einer riesigen Operation hat eine Chinesin in ihrer Heimat Menschen jahrelang Geld aus der Tasche gezogen, dann ist sie geflohen. Jetzt muss sie in Haft.

FH Dortmund gestaltet Alu-Felgen ökologischer und energieeffizienter

Alu-Räder sind nicht besonders ökologisch. Um die CO₂-Bilanz der Felgen zu verbessern, arbeiten Forscher an neuen Legierungen und Designs.

Nur in Japan nutzbar: Sony verkauft vergünstigte Playstation 5

Sony verkauft eine vergünstigte Playstation 5 nur auf dem japanischen Markt – und trifft Vorkehrungen, dass man sie nirgendwo anders benutzen kann.

Meta Chefwissenschaftler LeCun plant wohl eigenes Startup

Yann LeCun soll Berichten zufolge Meta verlassen wollen und sich selbstständig machen. Mit einem Startup für Weltenmodelle.

Patchday Adobe: Schadcode-Lücken bedrohen InDesign & Co.

Es sind wichtige Sicherheitsupdates für unter anderem Adobe Illustrator, InCopy und Photoshop erschienen.

.NET 10.0 ist fertig

Microsoft hat die produktionsreifen Versionen von .NET 10.0 und Visual Studio 2026 veröffentlicht. Spannende Neuerungen gibt es vor allem für C# und Blazor.

heise+ | Ikea-TV-Bank mit Rundumblick selbst bauen

Die umgebaute Ikea-TV-Bank bietet eine Lösung für den Rundumblick auf den Fernseher und ist durch variable Staumöglichkeiten ein echtes Raumwunder.

The Future Of Immune Health Might Be Here

David Ewing Duncan has spent the last 25 years being poked and prodded in the name of science. He’s signed up for hundreds of tests because, as a journalist, he writes about emerging health breakthroughs. He says one recent test contains more useful data than anything he’s seen to date. He talks to host Emily Kwong about his score on the Immune Health Metric, which was developed by immunologist John Tsang. Together, David and John explain why immune health is so central to overall health and how a simple blood test could one day predict disease before it starts.

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Forschungsprogramme zwischen der EU und der Schweiz reaktiviert

Seit Anfang des Jahres können Forschende in der Schweiz wieder an Horizon Europe, Euratom sowie Digital Europe teilnehmen.

"Kingdom Come Deliverance 2": Letzter DLC führt zurück ins Kloster

Warhorse hat den vermutlich letzten DLC für "Kingdom Come Deliverance 2" veröffentlicht. Dazu kommt ein neuer Patch, der die Lippensynchronisation verbessert.

Patchday Microsoft: Attacken auf Windows-Kernel beobachtet

Microsofts Entwickler haben Sicherheitslücken in unter anderem Azure, Office und Windows geschlossen. Es gibt bereits Attacken.

Christian Lindner wechselt in die Autobranche

Gut ein Jahr nach dem Ende der Ampel-Koalition wechselt der ehemalige Bundesfinanzminister Christian Lindner in den Autohandel.

programmier.bar: Embedded Development mit Jakob Czekansky

Jakob Czekansky erläutert, wieso Embedded Systems wichtiger Teil unseres Alltags sind, wie sie entwickelt werden und wie sie die technologische Zukunft prägen.

Linux: KI-Richtlinien für Kernel-Entwickler in der Diskussion

Der Linux-Erfinder will KI-Tools genauso behandeln wie andere Werkzeuge – und sieht auch beim Copyright von KI-Beiträgen keine Gründe für Sonderbehandlungen.

heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Angriffe auf Entra ID abwehren

Lernen Sie, wie Sie Entra ID einschließlich Azure-Diensten härten und effektiv vor Angriffen schützen.

Softwarefehler: Deutsche Bahn muss Kölner Hauptbahnhof zweimal sperren

Dass die Bahn ab Freitag den Kölner Hauptbahnhof sperrt, sorgt schon jetzt für Unmut. Es wird nicht die einzige Sperrung bleiben – wegen eines Softwarefehlers.

Windows 10 22H2: Update außer der Reihe – korrigiert ESU-Probleme

Einige Windows-10-Nutzer erhalten ein Update-Angebot nach dem Support-Ende. Es korrigiert Probleme mit der Supportverlängerung.

Tablet market stalls because there’s not much new worth buying

Pre-tariff purchasing panic also helped to end 18-month growth run

Shipments of tablet computers from minor vendors are on the slide, according to analyst firm IDC.…

heise+ | 16 Fritzbox-Tipps: So setzen Sie den Router richtig an Mac, iPhone & Co. ein

Die Fritzbox ist der populärste Router in Deutschland. Sie kann viel mehr, als Internet in die Wohnung zu holen. Was können Apple-Nutzer mit dem Gerät anfangen?

Über 127.000 Bitcoin entwendet: China wirft US-Regierung Milliardendiebstahl vor

Vor fünf Jahren wurden einer Kryptofirma über 127.000 Bitcoin gestohlen, jetzt werden Details bekannt. Nun wirft China der US-Regierung vor, dahinterzustecken.

Mittwoch: Microsoft-Milliarden für Portugal-Server, Softbanks KI-Investitionen

KI-Server in Portugal + Softbanks Refinanzierung + Wiki-Gebühren für KI-Firmen + Kanzleramt-IT streng geheim + Brandenburgs Mega-Akku + Googles KI-Milliarden

China hates crypto and scams, but is now outraged USA acquired bitcoin from a scammer

A new theory from the agency that brought us ‘America hacked itself to blame Beijing’

China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has alleged a nation-state entity, probably the USA, was behind a 2020 attack on a bitcoin mining operation and by doing so has gone into bat for entities that Beijing usually blasts.…

Softbank verkauft Millionen Nvidia- und Telekom-Aktien für neue KI-Investitionen

Aktienverkäufe in Milliardenhöhe befeuern Befürchtungen um ein Platzen der KI-Blase. Doch Softbank braucht wohl nur neue Finanzmittel für OpenAI und Ampere.

Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’

‘Elite teams’ are pondering cyber-attacks to turn off energy supply or telecoms networks

The head of Australia’s Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has warned that authoritarian regimes “are growing more willing to disrupt or destroy critical infrastructure”, using cyber-sabotage.…

Microsoft investiert Milliarden in portugiesisches KI-Rechenzentrum

90 Kilometer südlich Lissabons entsteht ein Campus für KI-Rechenanlagen. Microsoft steigt groß ein.

Wikimedia bittet KI-Firmen zur Kasse

Die Wikimedia-Stiftung möchte das Überleben der Wikipedia im KI-Zeitalter sichern. Die Profiteure sollen für Aufwand zahlen, den sie verursachen.

Bundesregierung: IT-Sicherheit im Kanzleramt ist über-geheim

Informationen über die IT-Infrastruktur im Kanzleramt würden laut der Exekutive das Staatswohl gefährden. Etwaige Angreifer könnten konkrete Hinweise erhalten.

Debian Mandates Rust for APT, Reshaping Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros

One of the world’s oldest and most influential Linux distributions, Debian, has officially announced plans to restructure its development strategy

The post Debian Mandates Rust for APT, Reshaping Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros appeared first on The New Stack.

Gigawattstunden-Netzspeicher wird in Brandenburg gebaut

Die Energiewende braucht Speicher. Der Energieversorger LEAG baut einen großen Akku in Brandenburg, der in etwa zwei Jahren in Betrieb gehen soll.

5,5 Milliarden Euro: Googles "BIP-Booster" für KI in Deutschland

Google kündigt 5,5 Mrd. Euro Privatinvestitionen bis 2029 an für Cloud-Infrastruktur, Rechenzentren und grüne Energielösungen in Deutschland.

How AI Is Pushing Kubernetes Storage Beyond Its Limits

As enterprises rush to deploy AI and data-intensive applications in Kubernetes environments, standard Container Storage Interfaces (CSIs) aren’t enough to

The post How AI Is Pushing Kubernetes Storage Beyond Its Limits appeared first on The New Stack.

Top 10: Der beste Mini-Beamer mit Akku im Test

Wer einen Projektor unterwegs nutzen will, der benötigt einen Mini-Beamer mit Akku. Wir zeigen die zehn besten Akku-Beamer aus unseren Tests.

The 4 Ways AI Code Is Breaking Your Repo (And How To Fix It)

With nearly two decades of industry experience as a data scientist, software developer, and R&D manager, and almost a decade

The post The 4 Ways AI Code Is Breaking Your Repo (And How To Fix It) appeared first on The New Stack.

Ein erster Ausblick auf den Mercedes GLB EQ

Mercedes erneuert nun zügig sein E-Auto-Angebot. Der GLB EQ stellt den noch aktuellen EQB in mindestens einer Hinsicht in den Schatten.

FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

You may never have heard of FFmpeg, but you’ve used it. This open source program’s robust multimedia framework is used

The post FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs appeared first on The New Stack.

heise+ | Digital Detox: Apple Watch statt iPhone nutzen

Keine zeitfressenden Social-Media-Apps, aber alle wichtigen Features für unterwegs: So gelingt Digital Detox mit der Apple Watch.

North Korean spies turn Google's Find Hub into remote-wipe weapon

KONNI espionage crew covertly abused Google’s Find My Device feature to remotely factory-reset Android phones

North Korean state-backed spies have found a new way to torch evidence of their own cyber-spying – by hijacking Google's Find Hub service to remotely wipe Android phones belonging to their South Korean targets.…

CNCF standardisiert KI-Infrastruktur mit neuem Kubernetes-Programm

Mit dem Kubernetes-AI-Conformance-Programm legt die CNCF einen technischen Standard für KI-Plattformen vor, der Portabilität und Souveränität garantieren soll.

Rocket Lab's Neutron slips to 2026: 'Our aim is to make it to orbit on the first try'

Hungry Hippo won't move to the launchpad until next year

Aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider Rocket Lab has confirmed what many have long suspected: its "Hungry Hippo" Neutron rocket won't be hitting the launchpad until 2026 at the earliest.…

GEMA-ChatGPT-Urteil: Das kann kein Zufall sein!

Ein Gerichtsurteil in München könnte weitreichende Folgen für die KI-Branche haben. Das eigentliche Dilemma erscheint kaum auflösbar, analysiert Malte Kirchner.

VMS/XDE: an OpenVMS x86 development environment for Linux and Windows/WSL

VMS/XDE is an OpenVMS x86 development environment for Linux and WIndows (via WSL). It provides a familiar user experience for OpenVMS developers working in Linux and Windows yet offers 100% binary and file system compatilibilty with OpenVMS. VMS/XDE includes OpenVMS V9.2-3 user, supervisor and executive mode operating system environments and a set of x86 native compilers and layered products geared towards OpenVMS software development and testing. ↫ VMS/XDE website VMS/XDE is a beta version, and comes with the usual annoying OpenVMS x86 time bombs, this time exploding on 3 January 2026. If you intend to use the finalised commercial version after the beta period ends, you’ll have to employ the same licenses as regular OpenVMS. It’s a bit of a mess, but that’s the OpenVMS way, sadly – and I don’t blame them, either, as I’m sure they’re hamstrung by a ton of agreements and restrictions imposed upon them by HP. Regardless, VMS/XDE brings a zero setup OpenVMS environment to the operating system you’re already using, making it easier to develop and cross-compile for the platform. I still have absolutely no clue just how many people OpenVMS is still relevant for, but I absolutely adore the fact VMS Software Inc. is working on this. In a world where so many of its former competitors are being held hostage by corporate indifference, it’s refreshing to see VMS still moving forward.

heise+ | Banking-Software Hibiscus 2.12 mit Empfängerüberprüfung ausprobiert

Hibiscus unterstützt nun die Anfang Oktober eingeführte Empfängerüberprüfung bei Überweisungen. Zu der Verzögerung kam es, weil es an Entwicklern mangelt.

Plasma Mobile 6.5 keeps improving

As part of the KDE Plasma 6.5 release, we also got a new release of Plasma Mobile. As there’s a lot of changes, improvements, and new features in Plasma Mobile 6.5, the Plasma Mobile Team published a blog post to highlight them all. The biggest improvement is probably the further integration of Waydroid, a necessary evil to run Android applications until the Plasma Mobile ecosystem manages to become a bit more well-rounded. Waydroid can now be managed straight from the settings application and the quick settings dropdown. Furthermore, the lockscreen has been improved considerably, there’s been a ton of polish for the home screen and the user interface in general, the quick settings panel can now be customised to make it fit better on different form factors, the first early test version of the new Plasma mobile keyboard is included, and so much more. This is definitely a release I would want to try out, but since I don’t have any of the supported devices, I’m a bit stuck. This is, of course, one of the two major problems facing proper mobile Linux: the lack of device support. It’s improving due to the tireless work of countless volunteers, but they’re always going to be swimming upstream. The other major problem is, of course, application availability, but at least Waydroid can bridge the gap for the adventurous among us.

React’s UseEffect Is a Crime Scene Covered in Fingerprints

Let’s be honest: Half the React codebases out there are held together by duct tape and useEffect spaghetti. Every “quick

The post React’s UseEffect Is a Crime Scene Covered in Fingerprints appeared first on The New Stack.

Roboup Raccoon 2 SE für kleine Gärten im Test

Zum Kampfpreis von nur 360 Euro bringt Roboup seinen neuen Mähroboter Raccoon 2 SE auf den Markt. Wie gut er in der Praxis funktioniert, zeigt unser Test.

Kieler Forscher entwickeln 3D-Druckverfahren für Glas

Kieler Forscher haben ein laserbasiertes 3D-Druckverfahren für Glas entwickelt. Es vereinfacht den 3D-Druck mit Glas deutlich.

EU's reforms of GDPR, AI slated by privacy activists for 'playing into Big Tech’s hands'

Lobbying efforts gain ground as proposals carve myriad holes into regulations

Privacy advocates are condemning the European Commission's leaked plans to overhaul digital privacy legislation, accusing officials of bypassing proper legislative processes to favor Big Tech interests.…

Aus für offenes WLAN? Vorratsdatenspeicherung gefährdet digitale Teilhabe

Freifunker warnen: Der Regierungsplan zum anlasslosen Protokollieren von Nutzerspuren bedroht offene WLANs. Eine Zuordnung von IP-Adressen sei kaum möglich.

BSI zur Cybersicherheit: Stabil unsicher

Das aktuelle BSI-Lagebild zeigt eklatante Probleme auf – während der zuständige Minister auf die Wirksamkeit neuer Maßnahmen hofft.

US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies

Disclosure? We've heard of it

The US datacenter industry is reaping huge benefits from state-level subsidies, but transparency around these incentives is limited and states that do calculate their returns find they are losing money on the deals.…

heise+ | Nvidias Workstation-Grafikkarte RTX 2000 Ada mit 16 GByte im Test

16 GByte Speicher, Tensor-Kerne und CUDA-Support erfüllen viele KI-Träumchen: So schlägt sich Nvidias knapp 2 Jahre alte Workstation-Grafikkarte RTX 2000 Ada.

Apple belebt alte iPod-Socken wieder – als iPhone-Umhängsel von Designermarke

Zusammen mit Issey Miyake hat Apple zwei neue Taschen fürs iPhone ins Programm genommen. Ihr Look erinnert an die gute, alte iPod-Socke.

Trotz Cloud und KI: Altsysteme bringen oft noch immer mehr Leistung

Eine Umfrage von MongoDB zeigt: Vier von fünf Unternehmen modernisieren ihre IT. Doch die vollständige Ablösung alter Systeme scheitert oft.

Still Bright: US-Start-up will die Kupferindustrie grün machen

Still Bright hat ein chemisches Verfahren entwickelt, das umweltschädigende Kupferschmelzanlagen ersetzen könnte.

OWASP Top 10: Broken access control still tops app security list

Risk list highlights misconfigs, supply chain failures, and singles out prompt injection in AI apps

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) just published its top 10 categories of application risks for 2025, its first list since 2021. It found that while broken access control remains the top issue, security misconfiguration is a strong second, and software supply chain issues are still prominent.…

Gesichtserkennung: Wie KI darüber entscheiden könnte, wer eingestellt wird

Eine neue Studie legt nahe, dass KI-Systeme Persönlichkeitsmerkmale vom Aussehen ableiten können. Die Ergebnisse werfen weitreichende ethische Fragen auf.

KubeCon: Akuity Reduces Kubernetes Guesswork With AI

ATLANTA — Cloud Native GitOps service provider Akuity has added generative AI aids into its Kubernetes deployment platform, in order

The post KubeCon: Akuity Reduces Kubernetes Guesswork With AI appeared first on The New Stack.

UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing

Years of development still needed but AI, 3D printing, and other alternative options on the horizon

The UK Government has unveiled a roadmap to replace animal testing with AI-driven options and other alternatives, targeting the elimination of certain regulatory tests by the end of 2026.…

Android: Google-System-Update für November mit Neuerungen

Apps geräteübergreifend verwalten, Videos bei Notrufen teilen: Google liefert mit dem November-Update neue Android-Funktionen über Play-Store und -Dienste.

Interview: "Digitalzwang ist nicht Fortschritt, sondern kurzsichtig"

Die Diplom-Informatikerin Karin Schuler und der Jurist Thilo Weichert vom Netzwerk Datenschutzexpertise warnen davor, dass Digitalzwang zu Ausgrenzung führt.

Fahrbericht Hyundai Nexo: Schafft das H2-Auto die Trendwende?

Der neue Hyundai Nexo macht alles besser als sein Vorgänger. Die Idee eines Brennstoffzellenautos ist trotz Aussichtslosigkeit offenbar nicht totzukriegen.

heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Netzwerkanalyse und Fehlersuche mit Wireshark

Praktische Übungen, Experten-Tipps und fundiertes Wissen: Lernen Sie, wie Sie mit Wireshark Netzwerkprobleme erkennen und beheben.

Zahlen, bitte! Jupitermond Europa: Spannender Kandidat auf der Suche nach Leben

Durch einen riesigen Ozean ist Jupitermond Europa ein spannendes Ziel der Forschung auf der Suche nach Leben. Mehr Erkenntnisse sollen zwei Raumsonden bringen.

SAP-Patchday bringt 18 neue Sicherheitsmitteilungen

SAP korrigiert Schwachstellen in mehrere Produkten und dokumentiert dies in 18 Sicherheitsmitteilungen zum November-Patchday.

Megaprojekt The Line ist wohl gescheitert

Der Bau an der 170 Kilometer langen Stadt The Line ist gestoppt. Von offizieller Seite wird aber an dem Megaprojekt festgehalten.

Hitachi-owned GlobalLogic admits data stolen on 10k current and former staff

Clop's Oracle EBS exploit spree shows no sign of slowing, claims nearly 30 more casualties in media, finance, and tech.

Digital engineering outfit GlobalLogic says personal data from more than 10,000 current and former employees was exposed in the wave of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attacks attributed to the Clop ransomware gang. The Hitachi-owned biz joins a growing roster of high-profile victims that also now includes The Washington Post and Allianz UK.…

Apple TV soll werbefrei bleiben – zumindest vorerst

Während Konkurrenten wie Netflix oder Prime mehr und mehr auf TV-Spots setzen, will Apple das nicht tun. Das sagt Diensteboss Eddy Cue.

Astronomie: Virtuelles Teleskop dank Lasertechnik deutlich leistungsfähiger

Für bessere Aufnahmen kann die Europäische Südsternwarte vier optische Teleskope zusammenschalten. Nun steht dank Lasertechnik ein großer Qualitätssprung an.

Google Debuts GKE Agent Sandbox, Inference Gateway at KubeCon

ATLANTA — Those pesky AI agents. You’ll never know what trouble they’ll cause. Sneaky and malicious ones will elevate their

The post Google Debuts GKE Agent Sandbox, Inference Gateway at KubeCon appeared first on The New Stack.

UK asks cyberspies to probe whether Chinese buses can be switched off remotely

Norwegian testers claim maker has remote access, while UK importer says supplier complies with the law

UK governmental is working with the National Cyber Security Centre to understand and "mitigate" any risk that China-made imported electric buses could be remotely accessed and potentially disabled.…

fish 4.2.0: Mehrzeilige Befehle und UTF-8 als Standard

Die Shell fish 4.2.0 bietet mehrzeilige Befehle in der Autovervollständigung und setzt UTF-8 als Standard voraus.

Unsichtbarer Wurm in Visual Studio Extensions: GlassWorm lebt

Weitere Instanzen der Schadsoftware, die Credentials und Kryptowährung abgreift, sind auf Open VSX aufgetaucht und wollen sich auf GitHub einnisten.

Battery trade war hits booming datacenter industry

Tariffs can't stop cheaper, better Chinese tech, says Jefferies. Tesla is America's great hope

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) could become standard at datacenters as AI infrastructure expand, with analysts forecasting 20 GW of capacity deployed over the next decade.…

Cyber insurers paid out over twice as much for UK ransomware attacks last year

Massive increase in policy claims… and data doesn’t even cover the major attacks of 2025

The number of successful cyber insurance claims made by UK organizations shot up last year, according to the latest figures from the industry's trade association.…

heise+ | Himmelblau: Linux-Entra-ID-Authentifizierung integrieren

Mit Linux als Client und Azure Entra ID treffen zwei Welten aufeinander, die sich nur mit Aufwand verbinden lassen. Himmelblau kann hier einiges vereinfachen.

heise-Angebot: heise security Webinar: NIS-2 rechtssicher im Unternehmen umsetzen

Unser Webinar erklärt, ob Ihr Unternehmen von NIS-2 betroffen ist, welche Pflichten da auf Sie zukommen und wie Sie das praktisch hinbekommen.

Drohnen zur Haifischbeobachtung an Stränden sind effektiver als Netze

Um Badegäste an australischen Stränden zu schützen, wurden Drohnen zur Ortung von Haien eingesetzt. Die Studie sei ein Erfolg, das Programm wird ausgeweitet.

Muse-Stift von Logitech wird in visionOS 26.2 zur Luftmaus

Fingereingaben beherrscht die Vision Pro präzise. Wenn das nicht ausreicht, gibt es nun ein neues Eingabegerät von Logitech. Mit visionOS 26.2 wird es besser.

MX Linux 25: Umstieg auf Debian-Trixie-Basis

MX Linux 25 aktualisiert den Unterbau auf Debian Trixie. Beim Download müssen Interessierte entscheiden, ob sie systemd oder sysVinit wollen.

Bericht: EU-Kommission drängt auf Ausschluss chinesischer Netzwerkausrüster

Die EU-Kommission plant laut einem Bericht, eine Empfehlung zum Verzicht auf chinesische Netzwerktechnik in eine rechtlich bindende Verpflichtung umzuwandeln.

heise+ | heise+ Expertentalk: Wann kommt das Verbrenner-Aus?

Das Verbrenner-Aus der EU ist für 2035 geplant. Ist das realistisch und zielführend? Im Live-Expertentalk beantworten wir Ihre Fragen dazu.

Speicherkrise: Flash-Speicher für 2026 ist schon fast ausverkauft

Flash-Speicher wird knapp und teuer, während die DRAM-Preise massiv steigen und Festplatten lange Lieferzeiten haben.

Root-Sicherheitslücke bedroht IBMs Datenbanksystem Db2

Sicherheitsupdates schließen mehrere Lücken in IBM Db2 und Business Automation Workflow.

Mit Vodafone geht es wieder etwas aufwärts

Nach Verlust von 4 Millionen Fernsehkunden und sechs Quartalen Umsatzrückgang hat Vodafone Deutschland erstmals wieder ein Umsatzplus erzielt.

UK's Ajax fighting vehicle arrives – years late and still sending crew to hospital

Continuous track of long awaited AFV hits the ground ... and the terrain is pretty bumpy

The British Army just received its first new armored fighting vehicle (AFV) for nearly three decades, but it is years late, hit by rising costs, is still reportedly injuring its crew, and there are questions about whether it remains relevant in the age of drone warfare. …

"Darknet Diaries Deutsch": Grifter – von der Straße zur Security

Neil Wyler alias Grifter erzählt seine unglaubliche Reise: vom jugendlichen Cyberkriminellen zum Sicherheitsexperten, der Großkonzerne und Regierungen berät.

iPhone Air 2: Schlechte Verkäufe sorgen angeblich für Verschiebung

Das dünnste iPhone aller Zeiten kommt Analysten zufolge schlechter an als von Apple erhofft. Das ändert nun offenbar den Release-Plan für ein neues Modell.

Firefox 145 bringt PDF-Kommentare und verbesserten Fingerprinting-Schutz

Der neue Firefox 145 bietet PDF-Kommentarfunktionen, Text-Highlighting-Links und einen verbesserten Fingerprinting-Schutz. Für 32-Bit-Linux endet der Support.

GEMA vs. OpenAI: Niederlage für ChatGPT vor Münchner Gericht

Das Landgericht München hat gegen OpenAI entschieden. Geklagt hatte die GEMA – es geht um Liedtexte von Helene Fischer und mehr.

PDF-Standard soll JPEG XL als bevorzugtes Bildformat erhalten

Die PDF Association will JPEG XL in die PDF-Spezifikation aufnehmen. Das könnte dem von Google 2022 für obsolet erklärten Bildformat neuen Schwung geben.

AI isn't throttling HPC. It is HPC

Your real problem: 40kW racks, melting datacenters and rising power bills

Opinion  In recent discussions with industry vendor sales/marketing types, I've been hearing that HPC demand is falling off while AI system demand is continuing to increase. I've also seen articles implying that AI is somehow displacing HPC. Huh?…

heise+ | Elektroauto MG S5 EV im Test: Es bleibt noch viel zu tun

MG hat mit dem S5 EV ein E-SUV im Sortiment, das in viele Profile passen könnte. Doch bei der Software müssen die Chinesen nachlegen – dringend.

Play Store: Google geht gegen Apps mit hohem Akkuverbrauch vor

Google will übermäßig energiehungrigen Apps an den Kragen. Eine neue Metrik soll unter anderem Nutzer vor stromfressenden Anwendungen im Play Store warnen.

Dank Digitaleinnahmen: KI-generierter Song an Spitze einer US-Bestenliste

Nachdem KI-Musik in den vergangenen Monaten immer wieder für Aufsehen gesorgt hat, hat jetzt erstmals ein KI-Song die Spitze einer US-Hitliste erreicht.

Software Testing: Mensch vs. Maschine – wer urteilt fairer?

In dieser Episode des Podcasts sprechen Richard Seidl und Sam Goetjes über Vertrauen in KI-Ergebnisse.

heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Der schnelle Weg zum zertifizierten Softwarearchitekten (CPSA-F)

Werden Sie zum Certified Professional for Software Architecture (CPSA). Online Intensiv-Schulung mit anschließender iSAQB-Zertifizierung.

Sicherheitslücke in Dell Display and Peripheral Manager gefährdet PCs

Ein Sicherheitspatch beugt mögliche Attacken auf Windows-PCs mit Dell Display and Peripheral Manager vor.

Kieler Forscher entwickeln Rotorblätter für Kleinwindkraftanlagen aus Naturfaser

Kieler Forscher untersuchen in einem Forschungsprojekt, wie Naturfasern teure und umweltbelastende Verbundstoffe in Rotorblättern ersetzen können.

Keine Dates für Schwule: Apple folgt chinesischem Zensurbefehl

Herzlos geht Peking neuerlich gegen Schwule vor. Diesmal werden Dating-Apps verboten.

"Surviving Mars": Paradox-Ausbaustrategie in neuer Version erschienen

Paradox hat ein Remaster seines Terraforming-Aufbaustrategiespiels "Surviving Mars" veröffentlicht. Weitere neue Inhalte sollen im kommenden Jahr erscheinen.

Batteriezertifikate für Elektroautos: Manchmal nun Pflicht bei mobile.de

Bei mobile.de muss für Inserate von E-Autos, die "mit Batterie-Zertifikat" eingetragen werden, nun auch tatsächlich das Zertifikat hochgeladen werden.

heise+ | Ikea-Hack: Ivar-Regal mit einer Arbeitsecke ausstatten

Mit ein paar Leimholzplatten und Kanthölzern wird aus dem Ikea-Ivar-Regal eine praktische und platzsparende Arbeitsecke, die preiswert und individuell ist.

What Space Dust Reveals About Earth's Ice Age

Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from asteroids and comets colliding in space and this dust constantly rains down on our planet. Researcher Frankie Pavia from the University of Washington recently used a brand new method for estimating climate conditions 30,000 years ago, by looking at the cosmic dust amounts in ancient arctic ocean soil. He and a team found new clues to what melted arctic ice at the end of the ice age. These results may be able to better inform ice melt in the future.

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Synology schließt kritische Pwn2Own-Sicherheitslücke

In den BeeStation-NAS-Systemen von Synology haben IT-Forscher auf der Pwn2Own eine Sicherheitslücke gefunden. Updates stopfen sie.

1&1 hat seine Handykunden im eigenen Netz – überwiegend mit Vodafone-Roaming

Vor gut zehn Jahren verschwand E-Plus, es gab nur noch drei Handynetze. Inzwischen ist mit 1&1 wieder eine Nummer vier aufgetaucht.

Held oder Märtyrer – Willkommen im Projektchaos

Oft scheitern IT-Projekte an unklaren Anforderungen und unrealistischen Deadlines. Strategien zur Rettung können entscheidende Verbesserungen bringen.

heise-Angebot: betterCode() .NET 10.0: Jetzt noch Tickets sichern

Die neue Long-Term-Support-Version .NET 10.0 bringt einige neue Features. Am 18. November zeigen erfahrene .NET-Entwickler die Änderungen im Detail.

Tribblix m38 released

Tribblix, the Illumos distribution focused on giving you a classic UNIX-style experience, has released a new version. Milestone 38 isn’t the most consequential release of all time, but it does bring a few small changes accompanied by the usual long list of updated open source packages. The zap install command now installs dependencies by default, while zap create-user will now restrict new home directories to mode 0700 by default. Meanwhile, int16h at Cryogenix published an article about using a Bhyve VM running FreeBSD to act as a Wi-Fi bridge for laptops with 802.11xx chips that Tribblix doesn’t support. This is a great, albeit somewhat convoluted option if your hardware uses any Wi-Fi chips Tribblix doesn’t support. There’s honestly a solution for everything, isn’t there?

Ab 12. November: Ryanair zwingt Passagiere auf den digitalen Weg

Ryanair hat der ausgedruckten Bordkarte den Kampf angesagt. Passagiere sollen ihre Smartphones nutzen und auf die hauseigene App gezwungen werden.

heise+ | Supermodel: Die schönsten Spielautomaten-Klassiker der 90er im Emulator spielen

Traumhafte Grafik, sofortiger Spaß: So emulieren Sie Model-3-Klassiker wie Daytona USA 2 oder Virtua Fighter 3 heute noch ansehnlich.

Nach 15 Jahren: Facebook nimmt externe Like- und Kommentar-Buttons offline

15 Jahre lang gehörte der Like-Button von Facebook zu einem festen Bestandteil des Internets. Nun steht das Ende an, am 10. Februar soll er verschwinden.

Wenn jede Minute zählt: Predictive Maintenance in der modernen Landwirtschaft

Maschinenausfälle in der Landwirtschaft können die Ernte und die Existenz bedrohen. Smarte Sensoren und KI-gestützte Wartung sollen vorbeugen.

GEMA vs. OpenAI: Entscheidung im Gerichtsverfahren angekündigt

In der Klage der Gema gegen OpenAI geht es um neun Lieder, von "Atemlos" über "Männer" bis "Über den Wolken" – und um Umgang von KI mit Urheberrechten.

Russland blockiert SIM-Karten für 24 Stunden nach Einreise

In Russland geht das mobile Internet der SIM-Karte Einreisender nicht mehr. Die Regierung erklärt nun, warum die Funktion beim Mobilfunk blockiert wird.

Intel CTO and AI boss quits to join OpenAI after just six months in the job

Sachin Katti was one of new Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan's first appointments

Sachin Katti, the exec Intel promoted to chief technology and AI officer in April, will leave the x86 giant to join OpenAI after just six months in the job.…

Dienstag: Rumble übernimmt Northern Data, Debatte um Social Media ab 16 Jahren

Rumble steigt ins Cloudgeschäft ein + Mindestalter für Social Media + Allianz von Europol und US-Tech + Fernzugriff auf Elektro-Busse + Google-Deal in Brasilien

Richterin erkennt keine Reue: 5 Jahre Haft für Krypto-Mixer

Milliardenprofite aus Verbrechen wurden über das Samourai Wallet verschleiert. Einer der beiden Gründer kennt nun sein Urteil.

Superintelligence probably not happening, but AI will still reshape society, expert panel says

Ask 339 people, get 339 answers

Experts may be skeptical about corporate AI hype to varying degrees, but they share the view that machine learning models will have a significant effect on society.…

LLM side-channel attack could allow snoops to guess what you're talking about

Encryption protects content, not context

Updated  Mischief-makers can guess the subjects being discussed with LLMs using a side-channel attack, according to Microsoft researchers. They told The Register that models from some providers, including Anthropic, AWS, DeepSeek, and Google, haven't been fixed, putting both personal users and enterprise communications at risk.…