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Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled
Unexplained GSM-R failure at Deutsche Bahn caused confusion and delay
You have got to be KDDI-ng – Japanese telco exposes 14.2 million managed email credentials
Five ISPs and plenty of users await their fate
Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list
Use of Arm cores and Linux mean Beijing hasn’t broken away from the world
OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions
Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost
Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker
The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack
Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era
Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP
Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch
Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite
O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date
It's not just old phones – many smart meters and telecare alarms still use the ancient technology
Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze
Alternatively, you can install SteamOS 3.8 on your own AMD-powered hardware
21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI
Annual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion
Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028
Ahem. National effort required to kick-start the era of quantum-enabled scientific discovery and keep America ahead of the game
Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit
CRT-era restriction dragged into the widescreen age after 34 years
AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime
Suitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task
Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form
Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK
Brits still reckon Big Tech isn't paying enough tax
Poll finds two-thirds support squeeze on Silicon Valley despite US pressure
Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges
Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage
Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen
Five Eyes spooks warn AI means infosec incidents can become ‘major operational and financial crises’
Bosses told to step up and get cybersecurity right
India and China are home to 2.9 billion people – and together they bought just 13 million PCs in Q1
PLUS: Indian telco ponders broadband satellites; Samsung goes all-in on OpenAI; Vietnam centrally plans ten tech giants; and more!