Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box (2025/07/04) A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool
US budget bill passes without controversial block on states regulating AI (2025/07/04) And with some increases to rural broadband funds, fresh spectrum auctions, and wholesale dismantling of clean energy subsidies
AI models just don't understand what they're talking about (2025/07/03) Researchers find models' success at tests hides illusion of understanding
US Air Force holds hypersonic resupply site review amid seabird concerns (2025/07/03) Red-tailed tropicbirds stymie Johnston Atoll maneuvers
Musk's antics and distractions are backfiring as Tesla's car business stalls (2025/07/03) Comment Robotaxis, humanoid robots, and fights with Trump can't hide declining EV sales
Microsoft Windows Firewall complains about Microsoft code (2025/07/03) Just ignore the warnings. Nothing to see here. Move along
Young Consulting finds even more folks affected in breach mess – now over 1 million (2025/07/03) The insurance SaaS slinger may trade under a different name, but past continues to haunt it
Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters (2025/07/03) World War Fee Biz needs AI infra for training ever larger models, but something's gotta give
Gone in 40 days: US drops ban on export of chip design tools to China (2025/07/03) World War Fee Vendors have reason to celebrate as geopolitics recalibrate
Meta calls €200M EU fine over pay-or-consent ad model 'unlawful' (2025/07/03) 'Deserves fair compensation for the valuable and innovative services'? Which ones are those then?
Ransomware crew Hunters International shuts down, hands out keys to victims (2025/07/03) Don't let their kind words sway you – leaders are still up to no good
Canonical adds extra shots to Ubuntu Java (2025/07/03) Juices the tooling and support for developers and enterprise customers
UK charity bank CAF branded a 'disaster' after platform migration goes wrong (2025/07/03) Customers booted from system and technical integration missing from upgrade
Wayback gives X11 desktops a fighting chance in a Wayland world (2025/07/03) Minimalist glue code offers surprising lifeline for stubborn display setups
Let's Encrypt rolls out free security certs for IP addresses (2025/07/03) You probably don't need one, but it's nice to have the option
ChatGPT creates phisher’s paradise by recommending the wrong URLs for major companies (2025/07/03) Crims have cottoned on to a new way to lead you astray
'Quad' nations launch plan to stop China making critical minerals into Unobtanium (2025/07/03) India, Japan, USA and Australia see risks and opportunities in rare earths
Alibaba Cloud reveals DB cluster manager it says can beat rival hyperscalers (2025/07/03) ‘Eigen+’ finds instances likely to cause out of memory errors and makes sure they can’t do damage
Cisco scores a perfect 10 - sadly for a critical flaw in its comms platform (2025/07/03) The second max score this week for Netzilla - not a good look
CISA warns the Signal clone used by natsec staffers is being attacked, so patch now (2025/07/02) Two flaws in TeleMessage are 'frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors'