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Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant

The Russian military's notorious Sandworm crew was likely behind cyberattacks on US and European water plants that, in at least one case, caused a tank to overflow.…

If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished

Video  Atlas, the humanoid robot that's been a centerpiece of Boston Dynamics' robot lineup for nearly a decade, has been retired. In its place is, well, Atlas - an all-electric version designed for commercial use. …

Won't somebody please think of the shareholders

Kettle  The price of everything is going up because corporations gotta corp and produce record profits year after year. That means you and I are expected to cough up more.…

Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert

Updated  Will Roku TVs of the future throw up targeted ads on the screen whenever you pause a video? We hope not but...…

Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034

NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn's Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize its design and get to work building the spacecraft.…

Given the electric car maker's annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it?

A Delaware court may have voided Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package in February, but now the board is asking shareholders to reinstate it.…

Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI

Intel Labs revealed its largest neuromorphic computer on Wednesday, a 1.15 billion neuron system, which it reckons is roughly analogous to an owl's brain.…

Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I

Samsung has revealed its upgraded LPDDR5X memory modules, which features improved performance, capacity, and efficiency.…

There's something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water

And the Lord looked down upon the crypto bros and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, "I will send down upon thee a flood to wash out thy crypto conference."…

CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux

The bigger RHELatives continue to diverge slightly from Red Hat, with additional drivers and newer kernel versions.…

Company rejects claims as 'inaccurate'

A Boeing whistleblower has called for the embattled aircraft manufacturer's fleet of 787s to be grounded for gap checks.…

Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug

Various infosec researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the maximum-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS used in GlobalProtect gateways.…

Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line

Chipmaking kit maestro ASML generated almost half of its sales from China in calendar Q1, amid a wider downturn in orders and plunging profits.…

Anticompetitive remedies? We've heard of them

Apple is turning on Web Distribution for iOS apps, allowing EU users to download applications directly from developer websites.…

Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial'

Birmingham City Council has failed to enter the new financial year with auditable accounting software after a disastrous implementation of Oracle Fusion, which has seen its expected project costs mushroom from around £20 million ($26 million) to around £131 million ($163 million).…

For when the AI service cannot grok what it's being asked

Logitech has launched a free software tool to help existing users of its kit with ChatGPT prompts, but those that splash out on the upcoming Signature AI Edition Mouse, get a... dedicated AI prompt button.…

While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck

AI agents, which combine large language models with automation software, can successfully exploit real world security vulnerabilities by reading security advisories, academics have claimed.…

Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types

FOSDEM 2024  NetBSD 10 marks a new level of maturity for this venerable open source Unix system, which somehow manages to be both modern and retro at the same time.…

The answer is not to hide from ML, but to be honest about it

Column  It's taken less than eighteen months for human- and AI-generated media to become impossibly intermixed. Some find this utterly unconscionable, and refuse to have anything to do with any media that has any generative content within it. That ideological stance betrays a false hope: that this is a passing trend, an obsession with the latest new thing, and will pass.…

Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks'

Gartner expects global IT spending to grow 8 percent in 2024 to $5.06 trillion in a revised forecast from the 6.8 percent uptick which the analyst predicted in January.…