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Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Things that go bork in the night2 days ago
Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled - KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start2 days ago
Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better - kettle - Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what's wrong at Redmond? OSes - 03 May 2026 - | 2214 minutes ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave - On Call - For once, Oracle ERP wasn't the problem - Applications - 01 May 2026 - | 26914 minutes ago
NeuBird AI plans a bright future for incident response -- Imagine an army of AI minions handling investigations behind the scenes5 days ago
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down -- 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming2 days ago
If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked -- Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows -- Security1 hour ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving - Who, Me? That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble - Networks - 04 May 2026 - | 2323 minutes ago
Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back -- Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades -- Personal Tech53 minutes ago
Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky -- Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada -- Security53 minutes ago
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs -- PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge -- Legal8 hours ago
Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark -- In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy -- AI + ML18 hours ago
Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in 'Hybrid Navy' -- Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet -- Public Sector1 day ago
Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise -- PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this? -- Public Sector1 day ago
Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents -- Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM -- AI + ML1 day ago
UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs -- Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it -- Off-Prem2 days ago
Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt -- Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once -- Security2 days ago
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database - Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding4 days ago
ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs -- CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements' -- SaaS2 days ago
Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred -- Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it -- Public Sector2 days ago
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely -- Science2 days ago
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone -- Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives -- Personal Tech2 days ago
CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos -- If software writes software the risk is "systematic failure at scale". Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester -- AI + ML2 days ago
That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry -- Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock -- Personal Tech2 days ago
First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed -- Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' -- Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow -- OSes2 days ago
OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that -- Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked -- Security2 days ago
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway -- But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev -- Science2 days ago
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down -- 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Google Is A Full Stack AI Player, And Is Playing Well1 day ago
AWS Will Be An OEM, Just Like Google And Maybe Microsoft3 days ago
New Google Networks Tuned Up For GenAI Inference And Training5 days ago
Microsoft And OpenAI Remain Friends, Are Looking To Hook Up With Others6 days ago
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger - Hackpocalypse deferred9 days ago
UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender -- Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters -- Public Sector2 days ago
Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? Bork!Bork!Bork! Things that go bork in the night - OSes - 01 May 2026 - | 251 hour ago
Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed -- Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year -- Security2 days ago
DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it -- Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right' -- Public Sector3 days ago
Qualcomm teases 'dedicated CPU for agentic experiences' and 'agentic smartphones' -- Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler -- Systems3 days ago
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over -- In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can 'contribute to global stability' -- Systems3 days ago
AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story3 days ago
IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability4 days ago
OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party4 days ago
Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad10 days ago
How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot - Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again?" Agentic AI support systems now seek and destroy tech issues before they're a problem. Sponsored Feature2 hours ago
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 -- $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts -- Off-Prem -- 01 May 20263 days ago
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools - Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware - Security - 30 Apr 2026 - |3 days ago
Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue -- Stop the sprawl! -- AI + ML -- 30 Apr 20263 days ago
Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser - Updated - Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open - AI + ML - 30 Apr 2026 - | 322 days ago
Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled -- KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start3 days ago
FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control' -- One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend3 days ago
When robots join the race: 5G-A powers a new kind of marathon - Human and humanoid runners share the track as next-gen connectivity underpins real-time AI performance - Sponsored Post5 days ago
Panzura Nexus gives Copilot LLMs access to Panzura data4 hours ago
Spectacular cash generator Sandisk generates spectacular pile of dollars2 days ago
AI demand drives WD revenue's sky high with more to come2 days ago
Prelim Samsung Memory results exceeded by even bigger actuals3 days ago
Phone users know when to hold 'em, delay upgrades amid inflation -- Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average -- Personal Tech3 days ago
Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet -- Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs -- Networks3 days ago
Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines -- This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows -- Patches3 days ago
French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state's secure document agency -- Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool -- Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor -- Devops3 days ago
AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud -- When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job -- Off-Prem3 days ago
Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI -- Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party -- SaaS3 days ago
SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy -- Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations – including AI – that connect to SAP systems -- AI + ML3 days ago
Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' -- But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya? -- OSes3 days ago
Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes -- AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them -- AI + ML3 days ago
Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005 -- Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support' -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia - Exclusive - Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit - Cyber-crime - 30 Apr 2026 - | 33 days ago
Here's why most AI initiatives crash at pilot stage -- Those that don't have one thing in common5 days ago
Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands -- Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises16 days ago
How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI -- Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI1 month ago
Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day -- Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected -- Patches3 days ago
Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs -- Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops -- Software4 days ago
Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops -- Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves -- Offbeat4 days ago
Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet - PWNED - Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection - Security - 30 Apr 2026 - | 272 days ago
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds -- Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management -- On-Prem4 days ago
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs -- AI is driving more searches and ads -- Off-Prem4 days ago
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises -- Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand -- Off-Prem4 days ago
It's time to make agentic automation scalable - Enough experimentation, already. WorkHQ promises real-world agentic benefits - Sponsored Post7 days ago
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root -- Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation -- OSes4 days ago
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz -- The Trainium train keeps a-rollin' -- AI + ML4 days ago
Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm -- ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength -- Research4 days ago
Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack -- Second try's a charm? -- Patches4 days ago
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 -- Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security -- Security4 days ago
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages -- Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info -- Legal4 days ago
Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it -- New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too -- OSes4 days ago
Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 -- Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about -- Networks4 days ago
Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models -- There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was -- AI + ML4 days ago
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest -- Science3 days ago
CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool -- GrassMarlin leaks sensitive information, provided your targeting phishing skills are sharp enough -- Security4 days ago
AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard -- Eleven up, ten down -- AI + ML4 days ago
