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Submission + - Hewlett Packard Enterprise retroactively cuts Aruba lifetime warranty to 5 years (hpe.com)

Submitted by UnknowingFool
UnknowingFool writes: Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that starting on January 15, 2027, lifetime warranties on all Aruba networking equipment will change from to "limited lifetime" (End of Sales + 5 years). This was done to “simplify and standardize our warranty experience" and seemingly will affect products already sold to customers. The networking equipment in question is not consumer grade but enterprise level that could cost tens of thousands of dollars a piece. There are questions about the legality of retroactively changing warranty terms after sale and there has not been a reaction by enterprises yet.

Submission + - Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children (reuters.com)

Submitted by 2phar
2phar writes: Meta agreed to pay a maximum $16.68 billion as part of a settlement to resolve claims brought by states across the country that the company designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about their safety, and improperly collected personal data of children who used its platforms, court papers show.

Meta also agreed to make changes for teenage users of Facebook and Instagram nationwide, including daily usage limits and nighttime blocks, court papers show.

The company denied wrongdoing in agreeing to settle. Shares of Meta rose 4.4% in pre-market trading.

Submission + - Ukraine's wartime AI innovation

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: New partnership set to see the UK and Ukraine develop battle winning technology as Britain secures access to Ukraine's Avengers AI Labs

A landmark AI deal between the UK and Ukraine has been signed today as the two countries join forces to develop new military capabilities and the technology of the future.

* UK set to become the first international partner to access Ukraine’s Avengers AI Labs, allowing the two countries to accelerate the development of AI tools to shape the battlefield

* Signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Andy Burnham in Kyiv, the AI Partnership will see the UK back Ukraine with world-leading universities, researchers, technology companies and third largest AI eco-system in the world

* Forms key part of the UK and Ukraine’s 100 Year Partnership and comes after Prime Minister Andy Burnham announces that defence firm MBDA can release classified information on UK components for the long-range missile, SCALP

Submission + - sleepwalker waits for the "magic packet" (theregister.com)

Submitted by fred133
fred133 writes: The Register has a story about a windows backdoor that waits in memory for a "magic packet" to do its deeds. No outgoing, just waiting...
Israeli's??? NSA??? Sophisticated code ...

Submission + - Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 becoming available on August 24, 1996.

It was not without flaws. To improve the responsiveness of the new desktop, Microsoft chose to move NT’s 2D graphics rendering subsystem, the Graphics Device Interface or GDI, directly into the Windows kernel for improved performance. This eliminated an elegant aspect of the NT 3.x design, and meant that a bug in a display driver could crash the OS, introducing issues that would persist for over a decade, until the release of Windows Vista in 2007.

It was the beginning of the end for Novell NetWare. It also compounded Apple’s technological difficulties, leading to the company acquiring Steve Jobs’ NeXT Computer four months later. ®

Submission + - BMW Blames Young People for Loss of Real Buttons in New Cars (caranddriver.com)

Submitted by sinij
sinij writes:

In an interview with CarExpert, Vikram Pawah, the CEO of BMW Group Australia, said that young buyers prefer the newer controls. “We can see that voice and touch are becoming more and more common,” Pawah told the outlet. “Maybe it’s a generational thing as well. You would see that a lot of the younger generation, maybe 45 or below, they’re tapped into these technologies at a faster pace, using voice, using touch.”

This would be somewhat believable if this design only affected cars targeted at young buyers. It does not. Many of BMW are targeted at affluent boomers and Gen X due to high price.

Submission + - Nvidia Senior Manager Linked to Supermicro Scheme Smuggling AI Servers to China (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Taiwan has indicted nine people—reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees based in the country—who allegedly helped forge documents to cover up illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China in violation of US export controls. On Monday, Reuters reported that prosecutors in Keelung did not release any names but confirmed that the suspects were “charged with breach of trust and document forgery.” One suspect linked to a related case remains at large, accused of the “siphoning of funds from a distributor company involved” in helping China get access to restricted Nvidia chips.

Since 2022, the US has required a license to export semiconductors to China, with the intent of protecting national security by staying ahead of China in the AI race. But after the US arrested Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw in March for allegedly funneling $2.5 billion in restricted AI servers to China since 2024, Taiwan launched a separate probe to learn more about the scheme. Taiwan’s investigation found that co-conspirators attempted to falsify documents to make it appear that 130 B300 servers were installed and in use at a Taiwan facility. But 74 of those servers “were ultimately exported and delivered to Chinese customers,” Reuters reported, while the rest, 56, were intended to go to China but were blocked once Taiwanese customs officials “detected irregularities.”

Submission + - How Big Tech Captured American Schools

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: In How Big Tech Captured American Schools (alt source), an adapted excerpt of the forthcoming book Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools, the New York Times' Natasha Singer begins: "Many parents would likely object if, say, Exxon Mobil wrote their children’s environmental science curriculum. Or if Purdue Pharma trained their children’s biology teachers. Yet, over the last decade, schools have often embraced the technology industry in similar ways with few questions asked. Industry-sponsored teacher training is just one technique that Big Tech companies use to shape schools and promote their worldviews to students. In interviewing more than 100 education and tech industry figures for my book, and reviewing hundreds of school, government and corporate documents, it became clear that a handful of giants have used their money, their might and their mammoth platforms to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain."

"Consumer tech giants provide the essential scaffolding that schools run on. That means laptops and tablets; operating systems and device-tracking software; the apps students use to write essays and analyze data; the messaging platforms that connect students and teachers; and more. Some of these companies, including Google, Microsoft and Apple, have also used their status as classroom tech providers as a springboard to influence how and what schoolchildren learn."

"This story matters whether you want schools to center tech skills or are agnostic, because the recent learn-to-code craze and the growing push for A.I. in schools are not just about learning. Those trends are part of a larger exercise of Silicon Valley power. The public education system, hungry for resources to improve opportunities for students, has become an avenue for multitrillion-dollar companies to enact their agendas."

"This development taps into fundamental questions about education that Americans have been arguing over for more than a century. What is the purpose of public schooling? Is it to raise critical, independent thinkers? Train students in the latest career skills? Help young people discover their passions? Serve the needs of the prevailing industry or emerging ones? Create knowledgeable and active participants in a democracy? Or all of the above?"

In an accompanying LinkedIn post, Singer adds: "Every few years, Silicon Valley has urged American public schools to quickly adopt the latest technology or teach the latest tech subject: Big Data analytics; laptops for every child; algorithm-driven math and reading apps; computer programming; virtual reality. And each time the urgent arguments sounded remarkably similar: if schools just adopted the latest tech tool, or taught the latest tech subject, it would democratize learning for every child and equip students with valuable career skills. The campaign to expand student access to computer science and other efforts had good intentions. But today we know some of those classroom tech drives did not exactly pan out as advertised. Now some of the same companies that urged schools to provide laptops and coding lessons are employing similar arguments to urge schools to quickly adopt A.I. tools. I've spent years covering Chromebooks and student chatbot use. And I'm troubled by our collective amnesia around school tech."

Submission + - Iran-linked hackers behind cyber attack that shut down UK power plant (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Alain Williams
Alain Williams writes: The government said that at no point was there a risk to the UK's energy system, but the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has contacted power companies to advise them about the risk of cyber attacks.

The Telegraph reported, external that the attack, which took place last month, was carried out by hackers affiliated to the Iranian regime.

For security reasons, neither the government nor the National Cyber Security Centre, which deals with attacks on critical infrastructure, would give further details of the site affected. However this was not an attack on an essential service such as a large power station.

Submission + - US Moves Medical Marijuana Off Schedule I (justice.gov)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: US cannabis law has moved more in the past year than in the previous fifty. In April 2026, following a Trump executive order, the DOJ rescheduled FDA-approved and state-licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, the first federal acknowledgment of accepted medical use in over 50 years. Recreational cannabis stays Schedule I, but a DEA administrative hearing on extending Schedule III to all cannabis ran through July, with a decision pending. Schedule III also frees medical operators from the 280E tax ban and eases research rules. Separately, a November 2025 law redefines legal hemp by total THC starting November 12, 2026. This 2026 cannabis law update breaks down each change.

Submission + - Evidence of the Covid origin cover-up emerging in court (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: 'A British zoologist involved in risky bat coronavirus experiments in Wuhan is accused of plotting with a senior US health official to shut down the theory that Covid-19 leaked from a lab.

'Dr Peter Daszak, the former president of EcoHealth Alliance, sent bottles of wine to David Morens, thanking him for his “behind the scenes shenanigans” and promising further gifts, such as dinners at Michelin-starred restaurants, US court documents state.

'Morens, 78, a former employee at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and adviser to Dr Anthony Fauci, this week pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding and the Covid-19 pandemic.

'He is facing five years in jail. No charges have been brought against Dr Daszak.'

Submission + - NeXT desperately needed the sales and the CIA needed the high-end workstations (wsj.com)

Submitted by regoli
regoli writes: In the mid-1980s Steve Jobs was getting NeXT off the ground. Then the CIA called asking to use the company’s fledgling yet high-end workstations for its top secret projects. The Wall Street Journal has the excerpt from “Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War”, a new book by Sharon Weinberger and published by Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.

Comment The Salesforce version (Score 1) 30

Thereâ(TM)s something similar for Salesforce as well.

Renameforce.com

I honestly do refer to it from time to time because between the name changes and the acronyms it is very hard to keep their products straight. Plus if offers for your amusement a name generator as well.

Canâ(TM)t wait for âoetrailhead optimization vault max editionâ!

Submission + - X open sources its ranking algorithm, lets users see if they're 'shadowbanned' (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: X has open-sourced the core algorithm for its For You feed, including ranking weights and filters like a Brazil 2026 election rule that limits certain accounts unless followed directly. The system predicts user actions—such as replies (+5 to +20 points), likes (+0.5), or reports (-234)—multiplies them by fixed scores, and ranks posts accordingly, with boosts for small accounts and penalties for spam or repeats. A new 'Under the Hood' tool lets eligible users check visibility labels on their posts, while VP Keith Coleman says it helps everyone verify fairness without guessing about hidden limits.

This has infuriated foreign governments by making PUBLIC any and all censorship required by governments in the open source.

"Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible."

The censors hate this.

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