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OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance -- Even a wrong answer is right some of the time5 hours ago
AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025 -- And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy2 hours ago
Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do -- Jared Spataro, boss of modern work and biz apps division, says 'hard to make the ROI argument for it'2 hours ago
Microsoft thinks cloud PCs might be overkill, starts streaming just apps under Windows 365 -- As old-school virtual desktop player Omnissa distances itself further from VMware -- Virtualization44 minutes ago
Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns -- It's worst when going over older code, one user tells us -- Devops2 hours ago
Nvidia GeForced out of China as Beijing demands tech titans embrace homegrown silicon -- Huawei or another, we're gonna getcha off Nvidia -- AI + ML3 hours ago
Russian fake-news network, led by an ex-Florida sheriff's deputy, storms back into action with 200+ new sites -- As the Trump administration guts efforts to counter election disinfo -- Cyber-crime4 hours ago
US tech giants pledge $42 billion in UK investment as Trump tours Blighty -- Datacenters galore, plus some vague cooperation on AI, nuclear, quantum, and more -- Public Sector6 hours ago
Scale AI says 'tanks a lot' to Pentagon for data-classifying deal - First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong? Public Sector - 17 Sep 2025 - |6 hours ago
AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software -- House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software -- Systems7 hours ago
Scattered Spider gang feigns retirement, breaks into bank instead -- You didn't really trust the crims to keep their word, did you? -- Cyber-crime9 hours ago
Social Security admin denies DB data leak, DOGEs questions about a copy -- Carefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical database -- Public Sector9 hours ago
Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy -- Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food' -- Science10 hours ago
Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helping - World War Fee - American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform - Personal Tech - 17 Sep 2025 - | 101 hour ago
Imaging infrastructure needs to catch up with how healthcare operates - Overprovisioning and poor performance can be things of the past for healthcare providers who see the bigger picture - Partner Content12 hours ago
AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025 -- And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy -- AI + ML12 hours ago
Axiom Space aims for orbit with its Orbital Data Center Node - But will the International Space Station still be there to host its node? Security - 17 Sep 2025 - |11 hours ago
OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance -- Even a wrong answer is right some of the time -- AI + ML14 hours ago
Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do -- Jared Spataro, boss of modern work and biz apps division, says 'hard to make the ROI argument for it' -- AI + ML14 hours ago
Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25 -- But efforts to simplify popular programming language for beginners are unlikely to boost popularity -- Software15 hours ago
BreachForums kingpin goes from walk-free deal to 3-year stretch -- Prosecutors say Conor Fitzpatrick's crimes caused 'incalculable' damage -- Cyber-crime15 hours ago
UK telco Colt's recovery from August cyberattack pushes into November -- Pentesters confirm key system is safe but core products remain unavailable -- Cyber-crime15 hours ago
Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group - Exclusive - Insiders say AI trials involving 'critical network services' underway and some engineering roles being moved to India - Networks - 17 Sep 2025 - | 235 hours ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter' Who, Me? Student thought she had the hang of this 'Linux' thing and its kooky CLI2 hours ago
Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached -- Redmond woos Blighty with cloud and AI infrastructure splurge as Trump comes to town -- On-Prem16 hours ago
Why Microsoft has the name of an old mouse hidden in its Bluetooth drivers -- Screw-up or conspiracy? -- OSes18 hours ago
Whitehall lobs £40M at 'critical' phase of police DB reboot -- Officials say there's no time to switch suppliers if they want the PNC off life support before March 2026 -- Public Sector18 hours ago
Google Shows Off Its Inference Scale And Prowess7 hours ago
Nvidia Takes The Commanding Lead In Datacenter Ethernet Switching1 day ago
Field Of GPUs2 days ago
Condor Technology To Fly "Cuzco" RISC-V CPU Into The Datacenter2 days ago
Microsoft Surface 7 laptop: Nice hardware, shame about the OS - hands on - Arm, AI, and Copilot, oh my! Personal Tech - 17 Sep 2025 - | 455 hours ago
UEFI Secure Boot for Linux Arm64 – where do we stand? -- Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot -- OSes20 hours ago
UK Cabinet Office hands stalled Microsoft migration to another department -- Project to get off Google remains a red risk, according to government assessment -- SaaS21 hours ago
Ruh-roh. DDR5 memory vulnerable to new Rowhammer attack -- Google and ETH Zurich found problems with AMD/SK Hynix combo, will probe other hardware -- Research21 hours ago
Australia to let Big Tech choose its own adventure to enact kids social media ban -- Suggests using multiple overlapping approaches and being kind to kids who get kicked off -- Public Sector1 day ago
Microsoft blocks bait for 'fastest-growing' 365 phish kit, seizes 338 domains -- Redmond names alleged ringleader, claims 5K+ creds stolen and $100k pocketed -- Cyber-crime1 day ago
Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say -- Batteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing - a bit like people, really -- Science1 day ago
Criminals broke into the system Google uses to share info with cops -- Talk about an inside job -- Cyber-crime1 day ago
Inventor who encouraged Elon Musk to make Optimus says most humanoid robots today are 'terrifying' interview - Scott LaValley, CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, says robot makers should prioritize social acceptance over capabilities2 hours ago
Fiverr cuts 30% of staff in pivot to being 'an AI-first company' ai-pocalypse - 250 people now have the chance to sell their freelance services on the site - AI + ML - 16 Sep 2025 - | 1319 hours ago
Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf -- Mastercard, American Express, Coinbase, and PayPal sign up at launch -- AI + ML1 day ago
Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists -- That's optimistic based on progress so far -- Science1 day ago
Security begins with visibility: How IGA brings hidden access risks to light - Who has access to what? Without centralized governance, orgs struggle to answer this simple question. Partner Content2 days ago
Apple 0-day likely used in spy attacks affected devices as old as iPhone 8 -- May have been used in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks against 'specific targeted individuals' -- Patches1 day ago
Key KDE developer Jonathan Riddell quits -- Former head of Kubuntu and neon says adiós after 25 years -- OSes1 day ago
Self-propagating worm fuels latest npm supply chain compromise -- Intrusions bear the same hallmarks as recent Nx mess -- Cyber-crime1 day ago
SingleStore sidesteps into private equity ownership13 hours ago
Identity protection from Rubrik and CrowdStrike1 day ago
HyperBUNKER touts diode-based offline vault for ransomware recovery1 day ago
VergeIO taps Cirrus Data to woo VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V users1 day ago
Users in SAP's heartland call for greater license transparency - DSAG players grappling with cloud migration want more consistency with commercial models - PaaS + IaaS - 16 Sep 2025 - |1 day ago
Office 2016 and 2019 face October 14 execution date -- The Microsoft Axman Cometh -- OSes1 day ago
Rust-style safety model for C++ 'rejected' as profiles take priority -- Safe C++ proposal author claims that 'will not ever work' -- Applications1 day ago
AI on a laptop? It's more realistic than you think - Inside the Snapdragon X Series quest to reinvent AI - Sponsored Feature8 days ago
FileFix attacks use fake Facebook security alerts to trick victims into running infostealers -- Tech evolved from PoC to global campaign in under two months -- Security1 day ago
Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates -- Nothing says 'circular economy' like Microsoft stranding 400 million PCs on International E-waste Day -- OSes1 day ago
JLR stuck in neutral as losses skyrocket amid cyberattack cleanup -- Latest extension to factory closures takes incident response into fourth week -- Cyber-crime1 day ago
The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it -- Beware the meeting room zombies -- Personal Tech1 day ago
Google unmasks itself as mystery hyperscaler behind yet another UK datacenter -- Tech giant confirms facility next to the M25 is its latest AI-fueled server farm -- On-Prem1 day ago
Overmind bags $6M to predict deployment blast radius before the explosion - Exclusive - Startup slots into CI/CD pipelines to warn engineers when a change could wreck production - Devops - 16 Sep 2025 - | 101 day ago
Linux Mint picks up the pace with LMDE 7 and Wayland-ready Cinnamon -- Devs sketch plans for two more releases this year, blending Debian foundations with modern display tech -- OSes1 day ago
China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents -- Cyberspace watchdog tightens reporting regime, leaving little time to hide incidents -- Security1 day ago
It's the final countdown: Windows 10 hits end of support in less than 30 days -- Microsoft reminds holdouts they've got less than a month before the update tap runs dry -- OSes1 day ago
ChatGPT: Why do most of your users ask for help writing - prose, not code? -- Study that used actual input to OpenAI's chatbot finds personal use surging -- AI + ML1 day ago
Indian court stops streaming hearings on social media to protect lawyers from mean memes -- Did you hear the one about the thin-skinned barrister? -- Legal2 days ago
Trump backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea - Analysis - Nice plans for US manufacturing you had there, shame if something was to happen to them - On-Prem - 16 Sep 2025 - | 17644 minutes ago
Rethinking application delivery for the hybrid world -- Why bake apps into your OS when you can deliver them as a side dish?8 days ago
VMware customers say bye-bye Broadcom and vote for Nutanix -- Many seeking a replacement for VMware are turning to Nutanix as a strategic choice8 days ago
How fixed wireless access can bridge the digital divide wherever you are -- Wireless reaches the parts fiber can't29 days ago
Could agentic AI save us from the cybercrisis? -- Many hands make light work in the SOC29 days ago
After years of strife, AFRINIC has elected a board. Now the hard work begins - Regional internet registry faces numerous critics and isn't out of the legal woods - Networks - 15 Sep 2025 - |2 days ago
Dems wave hands, stomp feet about ICE using mobile face recognition app -- Secretive app + unreliable tech + Trump administration policies = ANGRY LETTER -- Public Sector2 days ago
Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned -- Cautionary tale from the recent SonicWall attacks -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Engineer turned a vape into a web server -- Breathe deep on internet fumes -- Offbeat2 days ago
Half of tech firms plotting restructures as AI hype bites -- Study also finds M&A and changes to operating model on the way for sector -- AI + ML2 days ago
Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA -- We remind the world yet again that science fiction is usually a warning, not an aspiration -- Science2 days ago
'Powerful but dangerous' full MCP support beta for ChatGPT arrives -- 'Wow this is dangerous' says Django co-creator, while others call feature a 'game-changer' -- AI + ML2 days ago
The AI-powered future of work arrives at Zoomtopia 2025 - This year's Zoomfest promises some exciting innovations - Sponsored Posts9 days ago
Dirac audio glitch finally silenced in Windows 11 24H2 -- Microsoft removes safeguard hold thanks to updated drivers -- OSes2 days ago
Even fantasy money can buy a lot of power – just ask Larry Ellison - Opinion - As doubts grow over who will pay to stuff Oracle's cloud pipeline, the octogenarian spreads his wings - AI + ML - 15 Sep 2025 - | 3220 hours ago
Former FinWise employee may have accessed nearly 700K customer records -- Bank says incident went undetected for over a year before discovery in June -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Nork snoops whip up fake South Korean military ID with help from ChatGPT -- Kimsuky gang proves that with the right wording, you can turn generative AI into a counterfeit factory -- AI + ML2 days ago
China turns the screws on Nvidia with antitrust probe -- Chip giant accused of breaching conditions of $6.9B Mellanox takeover -- Systems2 days ago
Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide -- Downdetector logged 40,000 reports before service flickered back -- Networks2 days ago
Jaguar Land Rover supply chain workers must get Covid-style support, says union -- As post-cyberattack layoffs begin, labor org argues UK goverment should step in -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Bharti big shots storm BT boardroom after £3.6B raid -- Sign 'relationship agreement' as Bharti Mittal and Vittal take non-exec directorships -- Networks2 days ago
Build cloud infrastructure – secure and sovereign for the future - The future of Europe's digital economy is being decided now. Companies that continue to rely on cloud structures from overseas risk losing competitiveness and strategic control - Partner Content15 days ago
UK.gov decides tech projects worth billions are major but not 'mega' -- Ministers concerned Treasury governance team may be distracted about supervising vital efforts -- Public Sector2 days ago
UK Lords take aim at Ofcom's 'child-protection' upgrades to Online Safety Act -- Peers will quiz campaigners on whether Ofcom's new measures will actually work, or just add more compliance pain -- Security2 days ago
Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Opinion - There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors - Science - 15 Sep 2025 - | 501 day ago