Palantir jumps aboard tech-nuclear bandwagon with software deal The AI boom needs power, and startup The Nuclear Company aims to help build Palantir has become the latest tech company to jump on the nuclear power bandwagon - not by making a datacenter deal like Microsoft or Amazon, mind you, but by providing its data analytics software to a startup aiming to help build nuclear… #theregister #IT
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’ Now play dead, like a lot of NASA science programs if the White House gets its way The team behind NASA's 19-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been busy teaching an old spacecraft new tricks, persuading the vehicle to perform a 120-degree roll to peer more clearly into the red planet… #theregister #IT
Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI Getting it in might mean re-racking the entire datacenter and rebuilding the network, though Cisco is talking up the integration of security into network infrastructure such as its latest Catalyst switches, claiming this is vital to AI applications, and in particular the current vogue for "agentic AI."… #theregister #IT
Aloha, you might’ve been pwned: Hawaiian Airlines discloses ‘cybersecurity event’ 'No impact on safety,' FAA tells The Reg Hawaiian Airlines said a "cybersecurity incident" affected some of its IT systems, but noted that flights are operating as scheduled.… #theregister #IT
US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent' Satellite data used for hurricane forecasting is to be abruptly cut off from the end of June due to "recent service changes."… #theregister #IT
So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller Pen Test Partners hijack data from Renault Clio to steer, brake, and accelerate in SuperTuxKart Cybersecurity nerds figured out a way to make those at-home racing simulators even more realistic by turning an actual car into a game controller.… #theregister #IT
Before the megabit: A trip through vintage datacenter networking When it was all about the baud rate The world of datacenter networking is crammed with exotic technology and capabilities beyond the imaginings of administrators charged with running big iron decades ago. However, while it might have been a slower and more proprietary time, it was also perhaps a little simpler.… #theregister #IT
Data spill in aisle 5: Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize says 2.2M affected after cyberattack Finance, health, and national identification details compromised Multinational grocery and retail megacorp Ahold Delhaize says upwards of 2.2 million people had their data compromised during its November cyberattack with personal, financial and health details among the trove.… #theregister #IT
There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth Or so hear members of Parliament in the UK UK lawmakers have learned there is no international protocol for making decisions over how to respond to a prospective life-threatening asteroid strike on Earth.… #theregister #IT
The network is indeed trying to become the computer Masked networking costs are coming to AI systems Analysis  Moore's Law has run out of gas and AI workloads need massive amounts of parallel compute and high bandwidth memory right next to it – both of which have become terribly expensive. If it weren't for this situation, the beancounters of the world might be complaining about the cost… #theregister #IT