Military-tech upstart Anduril pushes further into NATO with German arms maker deal Move fast and blow things up Silicon Valley-backed weapons maker Anduril and German armaments biz Rheinmetall have signed a deal to see US-designed drones and missiles integrated into European military platforms.… #theregister #IT

Anduril pushes further into NATO with Rheinmetall deal

: Move fast and blow things up

Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much Using AI chatbots actually reduces activity in the brain versus accomplishing the same tasks unaided, and may lead to poorer fact retention, according to a new preprint study out of MIT.… #theregister #IT

Brain activity lower when using AI chatbots: MIT research

: EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much

Minecraft cheaters never win ... but they may get malware Infostealers posing as popular cheat tools are cropping up on GitHub Trojanized Minecraft cheat tools hosted on GitHub have secretly installed stealers that siphon credentials, crypto wallets, and other sensitive data when executed by players.… #theregister #IT

Minecraft cheat tools may actually contain malware

: Infostealers posing as popular cheat tools are cropping up on GitHub

Asana's cutting-edge AI feature ran into a little data leakage problem New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks Asana has fixed a bug in its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that could have allowed users to view other organizations' data, and the experimental feature is back up and running after nearly two weeks of downtime to fix the issue.… #theregister #IT

Asana MCP server back online after plugging a data-leak hole

: New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks

Voltron Data throws its weight behind AMD for GPU-accelerated SQL In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for Exclusive  Support for AMD's Instinct GPUs is coming to Voltron Data's accelerated SQL engine Theseus in the latest sign Nvidia's CUDA moat is getting shallower.… #theregister #IT

Voltron Data embraces AMD for GPU accelerated SQL

Exclusive: In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for

Judge smacks down Pentagon plan to slash university research funding awards Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it's not like the military needs new tech, right? A federal judge has temporarily blocked an attempt by the Department of Defense to cut funding for university research programs, perhaps inadvertently saving the DoD from an own-goal.… #theregister #IT

DoD university overhead cap paused by judge

: Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it's not like the military needs new tech, right?

KDE Plasma 6.4 ships with major usability and Wayland improvements The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix The second of three KDE point releases planned for 2025 is here, with more tiling options, accessibility improvements, and much more.… #theregister #IT

KDE Plasma 6.4 ships with major usability improvements

: The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix

European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips Less than a third of European consumers trade in or sell their old phones, limiting the supply of secondhand devices that might otherwise stimulate a more environmentally friendly alternative to buying brand new.… #theregister #IT

Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones

: Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips

Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea's extinct after terms updated Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though Mastodon is the latest platform to push back against AI training, updating its terms and conditions to ban the use of user content for large language models (LLMs).… #theregister #IT

Training AI on Mastodon posts? That idea

: Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though

Veeam patches third critical RCE bug in Backup Replication in space of a year Version 13 can’t come soon enough Veeam Backup & Replication users are urged to apply the latest patches that fix another critical bug leading to remote code execution (RCE) on backup servers.… #theregister #IT

Veeam fixes another critical RCE bug in Backup & Replication

: Version 13 can’t come soon enough