2025

First Foxconn, now Microsoft: Wisconsin town dissed by big tech 2025-01-03 at 23:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo Redmond’s pause to redesign planned datacenters won’t scuttle this project, say Mount Pleasant officials Count the residents of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin opposed to their town becoming a tech hub lucky: First, Foxconn abandoned its original $10 billion LCD factory […]

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We’re paying for what we don’t get: East D.C. neighbors frustrated with Amazon’s Prime delivery exclusions 2025-01-03 at 21:51 By Brandon Vigliarolo Locals demand transparency – and a refund wouldn’t hurt Feature  When data scientist Andrew Breza learned that the Washington, D.C. attorney general was suing Amazon for excluding his zip code from its fastest

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With datacenter power crisis looming, US government looks to Constellation 2025-01-03 at 20:13 By Dan Robinson Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too Constellation Energy has won contracts worth more than $1 billion from the US government to supply nuclear power to

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US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail 2025-01-03 at 18:34 By Tobias Mann With Intel’s foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push Comment  The US once led the world in the development and manufacturing of semiconductors and integrated circuits. And the $280 billion US CHIPS

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How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC 2025-01-03 at 17:34 By Liam Proven A somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language Feature  A generation of gray-haired IT folks learned computing using BASIC on 1980s home computers. Every pro since then holds it in disdain. What happened?… This

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IBM and GlobalFoundries settle multibillion-dollar trade secret and contract lawsuits 2025-01-03 at 17:09 By Jude Karabus Clears way for ‘new opportunities’ for collab, say pair IBM and semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries have settled all of their litigation against each other, including breach of contract, patent, and trade secret suits, the pair say.… This article is an

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Tech titans hide in shadows awaiting Trump tariff threats 2025-01-03 at 16:27 By Paul Kunert Being more diplomatic than the politicians makes sense amid fear of upsetting the next US President A eerie quiet has descended upon elements in the tech exec community, and even the typically more vocal souls in the highest seats in

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CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode 2025-01-03 at 15:31 By Richard Currie As if the bot defense measure wasn’t obnoxious enough Though the same couldn’t be said for most of us mere mortals, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch had a productive festive period, resulting in a CAPTCHA that requires the user to kill three

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Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust 2025-01-03 at 14:47 By Thomas Claburn Mini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss Computer scientists affiliated with France’s Inria and Microsoft have devised a way to automatically turn a subset of C code into safe

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Nick Clegg steps down as Meta’s top flack in favor of more Trump-friendly candidate 2025-01-03 at 13:53 By Iain Thomson Runny Clegg scrambles for door The Right Honourable Sir Nick Clegg (to give him his full title) has stepped down from his job as Meta’s president of global affairs.… This article is an excerpt from

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New AI Jailbreak Method ‘Bad Likert Judge’ Boosts Attack Success Rates by Over 60% 2025-01-03 at 13:19 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model’s (LLM) safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful or malicious responses. The multi-turn (aka many-shot) attack strategy

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Accenture wins £35M more UK tax work without competition despite promise to ‘disaggregate’ 2025-01-03 at 13:05 By Lindsay Clark System which went live in 2009 cannot be supported by another supplier, tax collector says The UK tax collector has handed Accenture an additional £35.2 million without competition on a £70.4 million contract which was never

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ERP fail causes shows sales loss greater than project budget 2025-01-03 at 12:20 By Lindsay Clark South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements Readers will be familiar with the concept of return on investment (ROI) — when a tech project saves more than it costs — but less well-known is

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HMD Fusion: A budget repairable smartphone with modular flair 2025-01-03 at 11:35 By Liam Proven Expansion port on the back lets you add Outfits with added functions Review  HMD’s Fusion smartphone has a pogo-pin port on the back, allowing some nifty peripherals, including gaming controls, and its specs are open.… This article is an excerpt

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Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks 2025-01-03 at 10:43 By Thomas Claburn Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking Apple last year deployed a mechanism for identifying landmarks and places of interest in images stored in the Photos application on its customers iOS

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LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit Crashes LSASS and Reboots Windows Domain Controllers 2025-01-03 at 10:43 By A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for a now-patched security flaw impacting Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) that could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The out-of-bounds reads vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-49113 (CVSS score: 7.5). It was addressed by

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Critical Deadline: Update Old .NET Domains Before January 7, 2025 to Avoid Service Disruption 2025-01-03 at 09:33 By Microsoft has announced that it’s making an “unexpected change” to the way .NET installers and archives are distributed, requiring developers to update their production and DevOps infrastructure. “We expect that most users will not be directly affected,

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