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UK datacenter developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds

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Hang on, what happened to gov.UK's bitbarn-favoring Industrial Strategy?



How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away

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Opinion The once mighty Wintel supercontinent is cracking in more ways than you might think



Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible

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Feature Maybe someday we'll just call it 'data processing' again



Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

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On Call Network Time Protocol sometimes needs help from a temporal cops



China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build

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700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles



China’s KylinOS Linux takes a great leap forward to v11 and kernel 6.6

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Supports several Chinese chips and GPUs – and of course it has AI inside



FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

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Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries



Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

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They use AI more but also check it more



Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations

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Microsoft AI honcho insists partnership with Sam Altman's brainbox behemoth is alive and well



Five years – that's how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out

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My brain hurts a lot



DOGE delayed deals, says Nutanix

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But private cloud contender sees upside in its modernization mission



vSphere upgrades are not near the top of VMware's to-do list

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Nor is its Arm port



DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America

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Our drones are OK, but those other drones?



Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban

(2025/08/28)

Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots



FBI, Dutch cops seize fake ID marketplace that sold identity docs for $9

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$6.4M VerifTools marketplace offline



How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out

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'The homeland is no longer secure,' says Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency leader



Dialing Earth: Skylo set to leapfrog T-Mobile and offer voice calls via satellite

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Only a few Android phones will be able to support the service



Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly

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Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats



AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas

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Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200



'It isn't designed to solve privacy concerns,' Grafana CTO says of Bring Your Own Cloud

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INTERVIEW Think BYOC will solve all your sovereignty and privacy worries? You might be missing the point



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In California, Bill Honig, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, said he
thought the general public should have a voice in defining what an excellent
teacher should know. "I would not leave the definition of math," Dr. Honig
said, "up to the mathematicians."
-- The New York Times, October 22, 1985