Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek’s next-gen R2 model Summary DeepSeek tried to train its next-generation R2 model on Huawei’s Ascend accelerators after pressure from Chinese authorities, but stability problems,…
Ransomware crews don’t care about your endpoint security – they’ve already killed it Summary Researchers have observed at least a dozen ransomware groups using kernel-level “EDR killers” to neutralise endpoint…
Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs Summary At its Q2 earnings call Tencent said it already has…
Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost Summary Foxconn has shifted from being best known as Apple’s iPhone assembler to a major builder of…
Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide Summary The Register outlines a public debate prompted by a UK government Memorandum of Understanding (SPA24)…
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable Summary A lone sysadmin (anonymised as “Jake”) was called to investigate a slow workstation used to view CT scanner images…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Summary A King’s College London team presented research at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium showing that large language model (LLM)…
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Summary The UK government is publicly betting big on AI, but much of Whitehall’s IT estate remains stuck in the…
Summary This TechTarget guide explains practical ways to remove or redact digital signatures from PDFs across common platforms (Adobe Acrobat, Apple Preview and mobile PDF apps). It covers when signature…
Meta’s AI Rules Have Let Bots Hold ‘Sensual’ Chats With Kids, Offer False Medical Info Summary A Reuters review of a 200-page internal Meta guide called “GenAI: Content Risk Standards”…
