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Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers - Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites
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Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev -- The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures4 hours ago
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software -- EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup withElement, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway4 hours ago
Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment -- Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders4 hours ago
Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage -- What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again4 hours ago
security - AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials - Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier1 day ago
Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters -- SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties.1 day ago
Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world -- Analysts welcome Fusion Claw's tighter controls but warn of early adoption and cloud lock-in1 day ago
personal tech - Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand - Buyers rushed to beat hikes earlier this year, but demand has since dried up as AI-fueled component shortages send costs soaring1 day ago
US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway -- Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year1 day ago
BOFH: Smells like team spirit -- EPISODE 19 -- In which BOFH and PFY meet 1990s heroes who know how to deal with Bosses1 day ago
Whose roadmap is your software estate running on? SPONSORED POST: Vendor roadmaps set the pace of change in most enterprise software estates. Origina argues the business should.1 day ago
So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes - Octocats claim 35x write improvement1 day ago
LEGAL -- India's tech giants shrug off changes to USA's skilled visa program -- As Microsoft denies alleged 'fraud and abuse' that sparked the tweaks10 hours ago
ai and ml - AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI - Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage1 day ago
Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance -- Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers1 day ago
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude19 hours ago
Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing2 days ago
Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill1 day ago
Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative2 days ago
Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise55 minutes ago
AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure -- What's wrong with being a great wholesaler? -- Corey Quinn2 days ago
Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage -- Denial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly. Wise up -- Rupert Goodwins2 days ago
Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols2 days ago
Your cloud survived everything except the real world -- Rupert Goodwins3 days ago
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols8 days ago
Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten -- Rupert Goodwins10 days ago
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten -- Rupert Goodwins15 days ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's -- Corey Quinn16 days ago
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols29 days ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Rupert Goodwins1 month ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice - Corey Quinn2 days ago
AI AND ML -- There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero -- The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work1 day ago
TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal -- Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters2 days ago
Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster -- If there's one thing AI can do well, it's failing more quickly than the average SRE2 days ago
Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive -- Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness2 days ago
Fighting GenAI with GenAI: The New Email Security Landscape -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Old attack, new protections2 days ago
software - Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90 - OBIT - Her team's code kept Apollo 11's landing on course when the guidance computer became overloaded1 day ago
Rust upstart reveals 'reimplementation' of Microsoft Office – with Claude on coding duty -- ArtCraft adds Word, Excel, and PowerPoint lookalikes to its open source lineup, but they're not ready for production1 day ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- IBM offloads 'hundreds' of its cloudy VMware customers -- Broadcom partner 11:11 picks 'em up ahead of channel death deadline1 day ago
AI AND ML -- AI giants promise to play nice with personal data after UK watchdog scrutiny -- Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and six others agree to changes, but the ICO isn't done asking questions1 day ago
Samsung eyes $80B quarterly profit as memory buyers pay the price -- AI demand fattens chipmakers' margins while cheaper PCs and phones become harder to produce profitably2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows Search learns to take orders -- Preview lets users change settings and carry out tasks directly from a tidier results list1 day ago
science - Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks' Understanding why our nearest star does what it does2 days ago
security - Cheapskates wouldn't pay for security help, got hit by ransomware, and went bust months later - PWNED - The owner knew a guy...2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Embedding the human factor into AI agent adoption -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Making the link between business strategy and how the workforce adopts technology will be crucial to business success in the agentic AI era2 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Ransomware fixer claimed he could decrypt files, allegedly defrauded clients instead -- Feds claim he charged clients more than ransoms, paid up, pocketed the difference4 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Singapore's central bank wants all FinTech AI use cases subject to independent review -- Failures of third-party services no excuse for island nation's financial sector2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system -- But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right?2 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties -- Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious2 days ago
SCIENCE -- Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to -- Talking to an X-ray nanoprobe beamline is far better than talking to a toaster, we assume2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra -- Poverty-spec model starts at $2,599 with 24 GB of RAM and 512GB of storage with 128 GB models topping $5,8992 days ago
SECURITY -- Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs -- Trusted brand impersonation without the usual browser certificate warnings spells trouble1 day ago
RESEARCH -- Browser-in-browser attacks use fake Meta Muse Ad lure to steal credentials -- Wiley fisherfolk spin up a new page just days after Meta's AI agent launch1 day ago
AI AND ML -- AWS launches open-source AI agent sandbox to prevent YOLO mode disasters -- Strands Box is the latest open source AI control tool from the cloud giant; like its predecessors, it promises tighter reins on autonomous agents1 day ago
US states sue popular kitmaker TP-Link over China risks -- Router maker rejects allegations it misled buyers about protection and its reliance on Chinese suppliers1 day ago
Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing -- Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?3 days ago
Poetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ servers -- Quoth the LLM, 'More and more'1 day ago
AI AND ML -- When one datacenter is no longer enough -- SPONSORED POST: Why training AI across multiple sites is creating a new networking challenge2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Europe's mobile operators sell fewer phones but gain share as budget market shrivels -- Contract purchases hold up better than independent retail sales, with Apple overtaking Samsung in the carrier channel2 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Nine in 10 VMware customers eye the exit as licensing bills bite -- Rimini Street-sponsored survey finds 48% have no plans to move workloads to Broadcom's preferred subscription platform2 days ago
FortiBleed still a bleeding nuisance as FBI confirms ongoing attacks -- Tens of thousands more victims and more ransomware groups getting in on the act2 days ago
Rails originator roasted over Rust boosterism -- David Heinemeier Hansson's agent-coded bakeoff produced curious results2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- COSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in -- System76 demands human-written contributions, while a rival desktop developer argues bot-found flaws are too valuable to ignore2 days ago
ON-PREM -- From reactive to proactive: How endpoint monitoring is fixing broken meeting rooms -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Cloud-based telemetry is turning meeting rooms into managed endpoints, letting IT teams anticipate failures rather than scramble once users complain2 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- South Korean president calls for creation of tools that stop all cyber-attacks -- 'Complete security paradigm refresh' needed for the AI era2 days ago
systems - Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors - FEATURE - Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies18 days ago
cyber-crime - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?23 days ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits - Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement3 months ago
Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative3 days ago
Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop12 days ago
Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain12 days ago
Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public16 days ago
GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in18 days ago
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers1 month ago
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech1 month ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan2 months ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester2 months ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much2 months ago
Microsoft defines its Azure instance lifecycle, without any info about timing -- Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen3 days ago
Anthropic reconfigures its cool kids security program -- Company's Project Glasswing and Cyber Verification Program metamorphose into triple tier threat hunting club2 days ago
Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up -- Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic Claude subscription plan provides more value than OpenAI's, study says -- Research firm not exactly thrilled by House of Altman's subscription changes3 days ago
AI AND ML -- European AI flag bearer Mistral's new open weights model is 'Le Chonk' -- Oh lawd it is coming ... to Hugging Face later this month3 days ago
SECURITY -- Trump Mobile customers' data dumped - and some never even received their gold device -- All that glitters ...2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Wikimedia Foundation comes forward as latest OpenAI agent assault victim -- Millions of automated requests may have contributed to partial Wikidata outage in May3 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft extends the Outlook naughty step with two more file types -- You didn't really want to be sending around .msix and .msixbundle files, did you?2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Classic Outlook clings to stale search results as Microsoft works on a fix -- Moved messages linger and throw errors when clicked, leaving Windows Desktop Search as the workaround4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets -- Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances3 days ago
SECURITY -- Asos app delivers a data leak threat instead of fast fashion -- Rogue notification claims Snowflake instance compromised, but customer info theft remains unverified1 day ago
Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell -- Chap who took the job left a trail of wreckage – and invaluable case studies – in his incompetent wake1 day ago
Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies -- Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra4 days ago
Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators -- Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?5 days ago
Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent -- Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!7 days ago
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch -- Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price8 days ago
AI AND ML -- AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI -- AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD2 days ago
SECURITY -- Denmark's ID register spills more people's details than the country has residents -- Abuse of private firm's access exposed 8.8M records, including those of people who had died or moved abroad3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Atos lands £350M beat keeping Met Police applications running -- Six-year deal covers management and security, with options to add cloud and digital workplace services4 days ago
SECURITY -- Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom -- Intruders retrieved email addresses from superseded tech kept running for an internal system1 day ago
CHANNEL -- KPMG tells staff facing the axe: Here's £100, now zip it -- Staff in AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing told the consultation is over, with notices due Friday4 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text -- Compliance, we've heard of it4 days ago
Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system -- Death of a star may not be game over for the inner solar system after all4 days ago
Atlassian warns of critical file access flaw in its datacenter products -- Tells users 'action required' – but maybe don't make that action a Jira ticket, because it has this bug3 days ago
Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw -- Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem4 days ago
SECURITY -- Citrix NetScaler security snafus get even worse amid more 0-day reports -- The new vuln, CVE-2026-88779, is a memory overflow bug that leads to denial of service3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs -- Like OpenClaw but with access control5 days ago
From Connectivity Infrastructure to Intelligence Infrastructure -- AI is moving from an application layer directly into the digital infrastructure itself.3 days ago
Data sovereignty by design -- If data location is only part of the answer, this event will help you think more clearly about what genuine control requires and where to focus next.1 day ago
Data sovereignty without compromise -- Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.1 month ago
Escaping the Postgres Optimization Treadmill -- Learn why high-volume, time-series workloads can push PostgreSQL beyond the limits of routine optimization.9 days ago
Lessons from deploying high-performance & resilient AI fabrics at hyperscalers, frontier model builders and neo-clouds -- This session covers key AI data center trends, MRC/UEC architectures, customer requirements and how HPE Juniper Networking addresses those needs.8 days ago
A Flexible Path from VMware to Nutanix on Azure -- Nutanix experts discuss VMware customer challenges and key considerations for planning a migration to the public cloud.12 days ago
The Enterprise Platform for the AI Era: Unifying VMs, Kubernetes, and Agentic AI -- Join Nutanix experts to explore how NCI and NKP simplify operations, optimize GPU investments, and power AI across datacenter, cloud, and edge.1 day ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.22 days ago
Business of the Year: Organized Cybercrime. -- If there were an award for the industry making the biggest moves this year, organized cybercrime would be a top contender.15 days ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.22 days ago
Data Sovereignty in the AI Era -- As an AI practitioner you may be wrestling with how to maximize the value of AI at scale without exposing your organization's most sensitive data .22 days ago
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AI AND ML -- Get rid of Apple's AI bloatware and reclaim 12 GB of storage with this open source tool -- Meet RemoveMacAI4 days ago
SECURITY -- FBI confirms 'multiple' arrests related to ShinyHunters hack -- Another few bite the dust3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 26H2 blighted by new audio issue -- AC-3 decoder drama also hits Windows 11 25H2 and 24H25 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads -- Want to generate an image with ChatGPT? Then prepare for ads if you're in the US5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Debian's latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch -- AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers' workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally5 days ago
AI AND ML -- The question you would ask HPE and NVIDIA if nobody was recording -- The Register's data sovereignty dinner in Washington puts HPE's and NVIDIA's AI infrastructure leads at one table, off the record, on 29 October.2 days ago
software - Games Workshop seeks IT leader to summon the legions in epic saga battling the forces of ERP10 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it -- Pay no attention to those more practical risks behind the curtain, which is exactly what we're doing on this week's Kettle2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text -- GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double -- How badly do you want that Win10 device to keep getting security updates?5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal -- Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user11 days ago
Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line -- Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'1 month ago
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 -- Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push1 month ago
Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux -- Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin1 month ago
Upscale AI Partners With Nvidia While Competing With It22 hours ago
Memory Is The Lynchpin Of The IT Industry, And Doubly So For AI2 days ago
Growing Pains: How Distributed AI Training Changes The Network Between Datacenters2 days ago
HPE Unveils The First Of The Next Generation of ProLiants for the AI Era2 days ago
UnicornIQ's Vera data fact checker for sales and sales chatbots22 hours ago
HYCU's aiR Graph maps AI agents1 day ago
Scality's AI Inferencing Factory accelerates inferencing1 day ago
Kioxia doubles super-fast flash drive speed2 days ago
Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster1 day ago
TCP is failing AI, but Stanford's Homa is here to help8 days ago
Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust14 days ago
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K20 days ago
AI AND ML -- Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what -- Meta isn't helping — or perhaps it is4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Fulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it -- I am just a copy of a copy of a copy, everything I say has come before4 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care -- All this, and angry NeoVim users5 days ago
Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows -- Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says4 days ago
Clever database, but can it run Doom? -- Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'7 days ago
Palantir's fondness for French food cooked up tech's latest fad – forward-deployed engineers -- Embedded consultants who get you up to speed on new tech in a hurry aren't new, but they meet the AI moment7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Google hearts Apple's Swift so much it's pumping out server-side support -- After a decade of false starts, Swift is showing backend appeal5 days ago
AI AND ML -- arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide -- Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change4 days ago
Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands -- $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note1 month ago
OpenAI alerts 100+ orgs that its 'misaligned models' attempted to break in - or worse -- Mostly 'routine research tasks,' and 'some involved government websites, which our models often use,' AI giant tells The Reg4 days ago
SECURITY -- Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam's approval -- Prosecutors claim Greg Lui helped China procure advanced hardware to develop, ahem, 'super intelligence'3 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- The VMware exit is a protection upgrade -- PARTNER CONTENT: VergeIO says an exit is also an opportunity5 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena -- Plus: Attorneys-general say investigators should have direct access to AI companies' records when things go wrong4 days ago
ON-PREM -- Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter -- Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk5 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI shows three staff the door over alleged information misuse -- Two safety researchers and a program manager dismissed, company denies retaliation for raising concerns5 days ago
NETWORKS -- Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix15 days ago
personal tech - User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key - Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work4 days ago
personal tech - Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call4 days ago
Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it1 month ago
Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support1 month ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees1 month ago
ai and ml - Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning - Just wait until you hear the bad news1 day ago
Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real -- With Cloud Sandboxes, devs can keep agents at arm's length16 days ago
Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down -- Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna17 days ago
Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core -- Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website10 days ago
Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter -- Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here15 days ago
Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug -- Of 225 flaws found by Glasswing and tracked by VulnCheck researcher, just one has confirmed exploitation in the wild17 days ago
Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts -- 'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face12 days ago
Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report -- Copilot builds charts and metrics from spreadsheet data, with automatic refreshes when the numbers change8 days ago
Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers, arrest three -- Operation KillSwitch takes over leak site holding at least 110 TB of stolen data4 days ago
Once a $35 computer, the 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs $67.50 - Pi 5 also gets a $12.50 bump as customers urged to consider older models or less RAM4 days ago
SECURITY -- Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day -- No login required, exploitation underway, and some admins are still waiting for patches4 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK spending watchdog opens investigation into Capita's pension fiasco -- Outsourcer admits service remains below expectations after missed recovery deadline8 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Met Police suspends use of phone-hacking software over Russian links -- Scotland Yard hits pause after US prosecutors trace supposedly American tech back to Moscow8 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Techie was stung by a wasp, held overnight by Chinese police, then trapped in a 13-hour meeting -- Sales calls can be even nastier than support calls3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Pi coding agent pulls a 180 and adds MCP support -- To maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component8 days ago
AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs -- Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions8 days ago
Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work -- If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems...8 days ago
AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org -- Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds5 days ago
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections -- It's a worm attack, AI-style3 days ago
FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you' -- Federal cops have 'a very particular set of skills'3 days ago
SECURITY -- Custom malware used in Citrix 0-day attacks targeting govt, banks, professional services -- Two questions remain: who is abusing the CVEs? And why did Citrix take so long to disclose?9 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies -- Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work9 days ago
SECURITY -- Apple patches CoreGraphics zero-day already exploited in targeted attacks -- Meta-spotted flaw could hand attackers arbitrary code execution via a maliciously crafted file9 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI benches GPT-6.1 Astra for overstepping the mark -- Turns out teaching an AI to keep going can make it rather bad at knowing when to stop10 days ago
SECURITY -- Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush -- RemoteThreat launches with $7M, 1,000 attack tools, and ambitions to equip enterprises and Uncle Sam for AI-speed operations10 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Dutch police arrest 'security pro' in ShinyHunters probe -- Flashbangs reportedly deployed during operation as crime group denies any connection to suspect8 days ago
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers4 hours ago
Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch1 day ago
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide1 day ago
High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers2 days ago
Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise2 days ago
Money trail backs leaked chats from extortion crew that walks into US law firms2 days ago
CrowdStrike finds possible bank hacker's CV among exposed AI logs2 days ago
UK and Germany team up against Russian cyberattacks as Brexit rethink looms2 days ago
Cloudflare tries to outplay Jev with open-weight Clef models - Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally5 days ago
Cloudflare launches Data Platform with bland 'Basin' branding, promise of fewer fees -- Serverless data management without egress fees, sort of9 days ago
SECURITY -- EU's hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank -- RUSI wants procurement rethink that could put US suppliers under scrutiny too5 days ago
SECURITY -- Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing -- Your invite to a fake AI policy advisory committee has strings attached5 days ago
AI AND ML -- AWS offers local, open source leash for agent harnesses -- Dogwood Local Engine checks AI tool calls against user-defined temporal rules before they run8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft makes Windows settings backup the default in 26H2 -- Annual update installed. You're up to date, so nothing seems to have changed. Wait a minute...7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Build the right AI factory for your needs: partner for success -- SPONSORED FEATURE: HPE and NVIDIA help organizations apply accelerated computing, software, enterprise infrastructure, networking, control plane, and services to the workloads and business outcomes that matter most.8 days ago
SECURITY -- Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure -- Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name7 days ago
MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies -- Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law8 days ago
CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch -- Replacing letters with symbols still doesn't make it good.4 days ago
Exchange Web Services enters the final stretch before Microsoft pulls access10 hours ago
Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI -- First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition18 days ago
Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them -- USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam18 days ago
AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth -- Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap21 days ago
AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users -- Improved signup experience for 'AI builders' hides complexity and includes spending cap22 days ago
AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good -- Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible24 days ago
Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips -- Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute1 month ago
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals -- PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more1 month ago
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox -- No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices1 month ago
Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter -- Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data -- Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures8 days ago
England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents - Two-thirds report immediate recovery, although teachers remain divided over whose job security is5 days ago
SECURITY -- UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ -- The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control8 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal -- Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP8 days ago
SECURITY -- Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry -- Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they'll get pregnant, says survey8 days ago
AI AND ML -- The tech industry is hot for shopping bots, but they're years away -- What's good for human shoppers does not work with probabilistic AI agents9 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Singapore's government creates a dating app -- Team that gave the world Bluetooth COVID tracking swipes right on algorithmic matchmaking9 days ago
SYSTEMS -- RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates 'much higher' prices -- Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come1 day ago
Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services -- Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn't sure how9 days ago
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else -- US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'8 days ago
Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners - Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.8 days ago
Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed5 days ago
Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data12 days ago
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on19 days ago
Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button22 days ago
Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire22 days ago
Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up22 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory1 month ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard1 month ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn2 months ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day2 months ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data2 months ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'2 months ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap2 months ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code3 months ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess3 months ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!3 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet3 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug4 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident4 months ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in4 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything4 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch4 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving5 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch5 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild5 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it5 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe5 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference5 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo5 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble5 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract5 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction5 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell5 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead5 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office5 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server5 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam5 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key5 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause1 month ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble5 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good5 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming5 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work3 months ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books5 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people5 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere5 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver5 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'5 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware5 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice5 months ago
Europe's internet registry wants governance 'correction' because its 'Executive Board' is not the executive16 days ago
Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes17 days ago
Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal19 days ago
BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs24 days ago
SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier1 day ago
ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains2 days ago
BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected5 days ago
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP9 days ago
Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount12 days ago
Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it15 days ago
In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols17 days ago
SYSTEMS -- Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China -- The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding -- Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents9 days ago
SECURITY -- 16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows -- It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon -- Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us -- Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call -- MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails10 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit -- That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment2 days ago
cyber-crime - Ex-NCA officer ordered to surrender £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Where does your AI data actually live? -- The Register takes HPE and NVIDIA to dinner in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries, off the record.5 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian10 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?* -- Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin9 days ago
AI AND ML -- 7 in 10 enterprises expected to abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028 -- Build it, bill it, bin it as forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise9 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- Keeping Our Secrets Secret -- Credential scanning looks like a solved problem. It isn't.1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple makes the AirPods 5 slightly less hostile to repair -- Replaceable earbud batteries lift iFixit score from zero to a dizzying two out of ten10 days ago
ON-PREM -- America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill -- Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts9 days ago
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills -- Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness9 days ago
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited -- Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 610 days ago
NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors -- Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up2 days ago
Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra -- What the f?2 days ago
It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat -- The ALBATROSS has landed2 days ago
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb -- Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity4 days ago
Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station -- No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety4 days ago
Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand -- Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply5 days ago
Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40 -- The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today6 days ago
Flight delayed? So are these codec updates -- A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport8 days ago
Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes -- So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda9 days ago
YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator -- If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have10 days ago
Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates -- A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption10 days ago
Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time -- The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers10 days ago
Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business -- Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well11 days ago
Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short -- SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three11 days ago
What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens? -- A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger11 days ago
Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites -- Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats14 days ago
Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective! -- Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation15 days ago
iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink -- 3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance16 days ago
Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology -- Discord users asked to prove they're adults get less intrusive options17 days ago
Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper -- Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance17 days ago
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch -- Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?17 days ago
BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth -- MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored17 days ago
UK's uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes -- XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests17 days ago
Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water -- Meet 'superintelligence' and the 'globalist scheme' – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it17 days ago
NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon -- Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain19 days ago
It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity -- Please release me, let me close...19 days ago
British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky -- Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas22 days ago
Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel -- He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to24 days ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 -- Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific24 days ago
Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow -- HALEU is still being produced at a snail's pace; Nusano says its federal backing could speed things up – eventually25 days ago
US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace -- Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?25 days ago
UK's Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off -- The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze25 days ago
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker -- Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware27 days ago
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation -- Information is not forthcoming from this screen28 days ago
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm -- Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades29 days ago
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer -- Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project1 month ago
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification -- Wheels turning on the road and in government1 month ago
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates1 month ago
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo -- Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense1 month ago
'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda -- No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets1 month ago
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%1 month ago
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip -- Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend1 month ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning1 month ago
SCIENCE -- Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer' -- The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent15 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up -- Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed20 days ago
AI AND ML -- Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool -- Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?22 days ago
Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks'2 days ago
Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to3 days ago
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb3 days ago
Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system4 days ago
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract -- Bezos' biz gets familiar paperwork from unfamiliar quarters as rival challenges NASA award26 days ago
Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists -- Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures29 days ago
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft -- Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded1 month ago
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium -- Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour1 month ago
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury -- Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches1 month ago
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 20281 month ago
UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches -- British Transport Police's six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive9 days ago
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines -- Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries9 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenClaw slips on a suit to evade widespread business bans -- Red Hat, Nvidia, OpenAI and friends are working on an enterprise edition they say is 'Kubernetes for agents'10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations -- Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'10 days ago