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UK meat processing firms’ fridges heat up after cyber-attacks
Cybersecurity experts say incidents had minimal effect but may represent the ‘foothills’ of a wider threat Meat processing firms in the UK have been hit by cyber-attacks after hackers raised the temperatures of supermarket freezers across Europe. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it was working with the affected companies but that the national impact was minimal. Continue…
Drax wants to feed Britain's AI habit with £20B datacenter at biomass power station
But first it needs planning permission, government approval and, rather importantly, a customer
Virgin Media O2 outlines plans to lay off thousands as revenue falls
Telco expects to deliver cost savings of £800M by 2029, with £300M coming from staff cuts
Britain on notice: AI-powered ransomware attacks to arrive by 2028
Cyber agency warns critical infrastructure is a likely target as chief urges bosses to stop doing 'tech on the cheap'
Apple's Mac business is booming, but the memory market has other plans
New CEO John Ternus toasts record sales as soaring RAM costs threaten supplies and squeeze margins
Broadcom denied names of cloud providers backing VMware merger challenge
EU court's confidentiality ruling clears a procedural hurdle, not the merits of CISPE's case against Commission approval
UK.gov lacks understanding of climate impact, says watchdog
Risks of changing climate and cost of transition to low-carbon energy poorly measured by government departments
UK also affected by supermarket fridge hacks, cyber chief says
Supermarkets in countries including Ireland, Sweden and Belgium reported fridges being hiked in temperature on Monday.
Raspberry Pi hikes prices again, barely a month after the last round
Memory crunch pushes 16GB Pi 5 to $385, more than triple its launch price, just a month after the last round of hikes
Final_FINAL_v7.docx is not a version control strategy
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Everyone has the file. Nobody has the right version
Distributed teams need to collaborate, but duplicated files, delays, and competing versions keep getting in the way
Forget retraining - AI can now tweak another AI's weights
'Weight-Space Programming' fiddles with nerd knobs to boost benchmark scores
Open models can do 90 percent of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner
Models are commodities, harnesses are the valuable part
Cyber attacks affect UK meat processing industry, top security official says
Cyber attacks have affected the UK meat processing industry, a top cyber security official has said in the wake of hacks that hit supermarkets across Europe.
‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to high court after AI search
Exclusive: Nonexistent precedent cited in alleged child rape case adds to dozens of AI-related errors plaguing court proceedings A senior crown prosecutor acting in a high court case cited an imaginary legal precedent in an error that has sparked fresh concerns about AI hallucinations infecting the justice system. Ravinder Dhillon, representing the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), referenced an…
Architect creates open-source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hidden
OpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale
Toyota shows off SoC that stores model weights and its OS on integrated memory
Accessing external memory puts the brakes on physical AI, so carmaker has found an economical and speedy shortcut
AI 'highly likely' to be used in attack on Britain's infrastructure
Artificial intelligence is "helping to industrialise cyber attacks" and is "highly likely" to be used in attacks on Britain's critical national infrastructure by 2028, the National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) has warned.
North Korea denies being behind record $6.3bn Binance hack
US government agencies and cyber analysts have blamed Pyongyang for the record-breaking heist.
Apple unsure when more foldable iPhones will be available after selling out
Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo was a hit with people willing to spend $2,000 on a new mobile.
AI-powered malware ‘highly likely’ to be used to hack UK infrastructure by 2028
National Cyber Security Centre expects attacks on critical facilities such as power stations, airports and hospitals AI-powered malicious software is “highly likely” to be used in hacking attacks against the UK’s power stations, airports and hospitals by 2028, according to the state cybersecurity body. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said AI will probably enable a ransomware attack…
Anthropic's compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17B
Revised IPO filing warns 12x revenue growth is unlikely to continue
Apple posts stronger-than-expected revenue in first earnings report for new CEO John Ternus
Result for the company, which earned $30.71bn and exceeded analysts’ expectations, bucked downward trend for tech firms Apple Inc posted stronger-than-expected revenue in the fiscal third quarter, giving John Ternus, the new CEO, an upbeat start to his tenure, which began in September. The solid results bucked a downward trend for tech giants this quarter, as companies including Alphabet, Amazon…
Max-severity bug in widely used OT programming tool exploited to deliver Linux malware
Your industrial IoT gateway isn't exposed to the internet, right? RIGHT?!