Russian fake-news network, led by an ex-Florida sheriff's deputy, storms back into action with 200+ new sites As the Trump administration guts efforts to counter election disinfo The Russian troll farm that in the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election posted a bizarro video claiming Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was a rhino poacher, is back with hundreds of new fake news websit… #theregister #IT
Russian fake-news network back in action with 200+ new sites
: As the Trump administration guts efforts to counter election disinfo
US tech giants pledge $42 billion in UK investment as Trump tours Blighty Datacenters galore, plus some vague cooperation on AI, nuclear, quantum, and more America and the UK have announced a $42 billion (£31 billion) trade pact, funded by Microsoft, Google, and others, that predicts bit barns will spring up over Britain's green and pleasant Land. But there's a lot more than money involved.… #theregister #IT
US tech giants pledge $42B in UK investment as Trump visits
: Datacenters galore, plus some vague cooperation on AI, nuclear, quantum, and more
Scale AI says 'tanks a lot' to Pentagon for data-classifying deal First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong? Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.… #theregister #IT
DoD taps Scale AI for Top Secret nets in $100M-cap deal.
: First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong?
AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software AMD closed the performance gap with Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators with the launch of the MI355X this spring. Now the company just needs to overcome Nvidia's CUDA software advantage and make that perf more accessib… #theregister #IT
AMD GPU
: House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software
Scattered Spider gang feigns retirement, breaks into bank instead You didn't really trust the crims to keep their word, did you? Spiders don't change their stripes. Despite gang members' recent retirement claims, Scattered Spider hasn't exited the cybercrime business and instead has shifted focus to the financial sector, with a recent digital intrusion at a US bank.… #theregister #IT
Scattered Spider gang feigns retirement, breaks into bank
: You didn't really trust the crims to keep their word, did you?
Social Security admin denies DB data leak, DOGEs questions about a copy Carefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical database The Social Security Administration (SSA) has disputed a whistleblower's allegations that claimed DOGE made an unauthorized, unsecured copy of a critical database - but it's what the denial doesn't say that spea… #theregister #IT
SSA rejects major DOGE whistleblower claims, silent on copy
: Carefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical database
Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food' NASA has delayed a supply delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) after the engines of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft did not perform as expected during an orbit-raising burn.… #theregister #IT
Northrop Grumman space freighter pauses ISS resupply mission
: Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food'
Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helping American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform Wolrd War Fee  The US PC industry is suffering from inventory indigestion caused by resellers over-ordering hardware to avoid Donald Trump's expected import taxes on China-made kit.… #theregister #IT
Trump tariff turmoil toys with PC sales, economy not helping
World War Fee: American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform
AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025 And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy Tech analysts expect worldwide spending on AI to hit nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025, including $268 billion on optimized servers. These investments will also soon appear in even more consumer products.… #theregister #IT
AI in your toaster: Gartner tips $1.5T global spend in 2025
: And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy
Axiom Space aims for the International Space Station with its Orbital Data Center Node But will the ISS still be there to host it? Axiom Space and Spacebilt have announced plans to add optically interconnected Orbital Data Center (ODC) infrastructure to the International Space Station (ISS).… #theregister #IT
Axiom Space aims for orbit with its Orbital Data Center Node
: But will the International Space Station still be there to host its node?