Broadcom Takes Down VMware’s VDDK Download Links, Leaving Customers Without a Path Off the Platform
Broadcom hath taken down VMware's VDDK downloads, a change that renders the path away from VMware harder for all.
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Category: AI & Technology
European CDN Users Put Cloudflare in Front of Nearly Nine in Ten Websites
A study finds nearly nine in ten European companies behind a content delivery network put one service in front, sharing a single point of failure.
Cheap AI Can Now Find Security Weak Points — and Everyone Has About a Year to Patch Them
A discourse warns the world holds but a year to mend its weak points, ere cheap models turn discovery into ruin.
Mistral raises €3B
Mistral, the French maker of open AI models, has raised €3 in new money, making it worth more than €21, with Samsung leading the round.
This $70 Credit-Card-Size E-Reader Is Winning Over Readers — Flaws and All
A tiny $70 device, no bigger than a card, has become the strange subject of much discourse among readers who prize its odd, plain charm.
Programmer Breaks 512-Bit RSA Keys Of E-Certify, A Certificate Authority From The 90s
A curious solver factored 512-bit RSA keys once trusted by Netscape 4.51, an old certificate authority named E-Certify.
Caltech’s Mathathon Brings the Hackathon Format to Research-Level Mathematics
A gathering at a hall of science bids teams solve deep conjectures in mathematics with new engines of thought, forty hours given, prizes two.
Smartphone Makers Are Quietly Ignoring the EU’s Repairability Requirements
A tale told: makers pass over EU repair rules for phones, whilst deals and breaches vex the wide realm of technology.
Switzerland’s Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers
Switzerland moves 3,000 federal computers off Microsoft toward open source tools, a plan born of dread over foreign eyes upon its secrets.
When Bill Gates Couldn’t Download MovieMaker, He Sent Microsoft a Furious Play-by-Play of Everything Wrong with Its Website
A note telling how the master of a great house labored an hour, in vain, to bring Moviemaker into being upon his own machine.
Year of Work Goes Into WebAssembly Support for Anubis Checkpoint
A guarded gate now stands before websites, demanding proof from each stranger, that the scraping demon be kept afar.
A Software Engineer Spent Two Weeks Off the Internet Relearning Calculus and Physics to Undo Brainrot
A toiler in software tells how a fortnight of books, calculus, and family calm cleared away the fog upon his mind.