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Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights -- Opinion -- CEO Alex Karp meets criticism with soaring revenues and a sermon6 hours ago
Azure outages ripple across multiple dependent Microsoft services -- Managed Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platform1 day ago
GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop -- updated -- Code community site begins to see that AI could drive people away6 hours ago
Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support -- updated -- Many vital open source resources rely on the devotion of a few individuals6 hours ago
DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire' -- Your own personal Jarvis. A bot to hear your prayers. A bot that cares. Just not about keeping you safe1 day ago
'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP -- Open Source Policy Summit 2026 -- Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech6 hours ago
Firefox makes AI optional, like it probably should have been all along -- Users can disable every generative feature in one click – not everyone wants a chatbot bolted to their tabs20 hours ago
Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings -- As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool 'comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk' and urges admins to snuff it out7 hours ago
Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files -- Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisors1 hour ago
Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home -- Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections7 hours ago
Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes -- Only cool dudes should wear a HAT backward11 hours ago
AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say - UPDATED - LLMs automated most phases of the attack44 minutes ago
Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows -- After years of bolting AI onto everything, Redmond remembers admins exist11 hours ago
Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files -- Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisors44 minutes ago
Britain courts private cash to fund 'golden age' of nuclear-powered AI -- Framework aims to lure investors into powering the compute boom -- On-Prem26 minutes ago
Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door -- It's a threat straight out of sci-fi, and fiendishly hard to detect -- Security44 minutes ago
Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar -- Picks chap who used to lead Redmond's security, lures replacement from Google -- Software4 hours ago
AI's lust for memory drags down the smartphone industry, and Qualcomm with it -- On the upside, House of the Snapdragon has started shipping its own AI silicon -- Personal Tech4 hours ago
It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year -- With revenue topping $400B for the first time, the Chocolate Factory is at no risk of putting itself in the poor house -- Off-Prem8 hours ago
Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing -- Proposed bills in New York and elsewhere threaten makers, Adafruit says -- Legal9 hours ago
Workday reveals around 400 staff soon won't have to work another day -- Job cuts to fall hardest on non-revenue generating roles on the Global Customer Operations team -- SaaS10 hours ago
Bots are taking over the internet and AI users are to blame -- RAG bots could overtake human visitors on publisher sites this year, trackers tell us -- AI + ML10 hours ago
Positron: we don't need no fancy HBM to compete with Nvidia's Rubin -- Pleb-tier LPDDR5x apparently good enough for Arm-backed AI startup's next-gen Asimov accelerators -- Systems12 hours ago
AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say - UPDATED - LLMs automated most phases of the attack - Cyber-crime - 04 Feb 2026 - | 644 minutes ago
Anthropic cements its position as the not-OpenAI with no-ads pledge -- As profit-starved AI companies scramble to monetize chat interactions, Claude bets on trust -- AI + ML13 hours ago
Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug under attack -- US agencies told to patch by Friday -- Patches15 hours ago
GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop - updated - Code community site begins to see that AI could drive people away11 hours ago
Rise of AI means companies could pass on SaaS -- The writing is on the wall as AI companies race to add vertical functionality -- SaaS16 hours ago
US Army looks for robots that can clean up chemical and bioweapons messes -- Just in time for the predicted rise of AI-assisted threats -- Science16 hours ago
Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices -- Silicon manufacturing issues to blame -- Systems17 hours ago
Estonia hedges its bets on US tech while going all-in on Microsoft -- Riigi IT preps European escape plan as it herds civil servants into Redmond's cloud -- Public Sector17 hours ago
Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes -- Only cool dudes should wear a HAT backward -- Personal Tech17 hours ago
DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants a whopping 19 minutes a day -- Tool speeds up searches and first draft emails, becomes 'comfort blanket' for Whitehall workers -- AI + ML18 hours ago
UK watchdog to rule on £246M Post Office subsidy over Horizon scandal and IR35 -- CMA's Subsidy Advice Unit reviewing state aid linked to redress and off-payroll tax costs -- Public Sector20 hours ago
Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows -- After years of bolting AI onto everything, Redmond remembers admins exist -- OSes20 hours ago
EU's fishy digital certificate system leaves exporters floundering -- Catch platform sinks under weight of bugs, missing species, and postal code gaffes while containers pile up at ports -- Software22 hours ago
Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach -- Affected police officers squeezed mental health services, relocated over safety fears -- Security22 hours ago
AMD Finally Makes More Money On GPUs Than CPUs In A Quarter12 hours ago
Dassault And Nvidia Bring Industrial World Models To Physical AI12 hours ago
TACC Explores Mixed Precision And FP64 Emulation For HPC With Horizon1 day ago
Robotics Will Break AI infrastructure: Here's What Comes Next1 day ago
BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough - Episode 2 - The Boss has been on a retreat, which means he needs a factory reset ASAP11 hours ago
SpaceX halts Falcon 9 flights after second stage anomaly - Failed deorbit burn grounds workhorse rocket - Science - 04 Feb 2026 - | 835 minutes ago
AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking -- Exclusive -- Service terms update removes infringement cover tied to audio and video encoding tech -- PaaS + IaaS20 hours ago
Lego shrinks NASA's biggest rocket – accuracy sold separately -- Bring your own sound effects to a Technic-enabled Space Launch System -- Offbeat1 day ago
UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law -- As Spain announces stern laws for social media, and Elon Musk's response shows regulators keep looking his way -- Legal1 day ago
For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters -- Single customer accounted for 63 percent of surging revenue -- Systems1 day ago
Adobe backtracks, reanimates Animate following user backlash1 day ago
Anthropic research: skilled devs make better use of AI, but using AI is bad for learning skills2 days ago
Kubernetes leadership warns of Ingress NGINX risks, but has also hastened its deprecation6 days ago
TypeScript inventor Anders Hejlsberg: AI is 'a big regurgitator of stuff someone has done'7 days ago
Why high-performance Java is becoming a business imperative - A new generation of JVM technologies is reshaping how businesses build, deploy, and scale mission-critical Java applications. Sponsored Feature18 hours ago
Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors - A diverse portfolio is usually a good thing, except when AI is the only thing - Systems - 04 Feb 2026 - |1 day ago
VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files -- Versions installed via Snap don't delete files when users empty system trash -- Devops1 day ago
AI agents can't yet pull off fully autonomous cyberattacks – but they are already very helpful to crims -- Don't relax: This is a 'when, not if' scenario -- Security23 hours ago
MariaDB discusses database scale and active:active and active:passive architectures15 hours ago
Intel and Softbank aim ZAM at HBM18 hours ago
Hitachi Vantara may be up for sale1 day ago
Samsung shipping fast and small PCIe Gen5 bus 4TB mini-gumstick drive1 day ago
Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years -- E-commerce giant has watts of bit barns to deploy but nowhere to plug them in -- PaaS + IaaS1 day ago
'Lethal' and 'magical' Palantir tech is in demand by Pentagon, China, Middle East, CEO says -- Less popular in Canada and Northern Europe -- Public Sector1 day ago
Robotics will break AI infrastructure: Here's what comes next - Robotics is forcing a fundamental rethink of AI compute, data, and systems design - Partner Content1 day ago
Critical React Native Metro dev server bug under attack as researchers scream into the void -- Too slow react-ion time -- Patches1 day ago
Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin -- DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactors -- Public Sector1 day ago
Snowflake plugs PostgreSQL into its AI Data Cloud -- Yes, it already had Unistore -- Databases1 day ago
CISA updated ransomware intel on 59 bugs last year without telling defenders -- GreyNoise's Glenn Thorpe counts the cost of missed opportunities -- CSO1 day ago
Europe shrugs off tariffs, plots to end tech reliance on US -- Governments and businesses respond to Trump pressures by upping spending in domestically controlled infrastructure -- On-Prem1 day ago
HP CEO prints final page after six years, moves to PayPal -- Multimillion-dollar tenure could have bought a couple of crates of toner -- Personal Tech1 day ago
X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops -- Algorithmic bias probe continues, CEO and former boss summoned to defend the platform's corner -- Security1 day ago
Polish cops bail 20-year-old bedroom botnet operator -- DDoSer of 'strategically important' websites admitted to most charges -- Cyber-crime1 day ago
UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything - AI-pocalypse - South Yorkshire becomes ground zero for nationwide experiment with £500K seed funding - AI + ML - 03 Feb 2026 - | 8421 hours ago
What exactly makes an AI PC fit for the enterprise? -- Do TOPS trump everything else?19 hours ago
The AI PC needs to deliver more than performance - it needs to deliver security -- Scanning the future19 days ago
Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing -- How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers19 days ago
NASA delays Artemis II to March after hydrogen leaks bedevil countdown test -- This is starting to sound oddly familiar -- Science1 day ago
British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases -- Armed Forces Bill would let troops take action against unmanned threats around defense sites -- Public Sector2 days ago
Microsoft kills standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans, because they're not suite enough -- Blames 'unintended or nonstandard usage' and the cost of keeping them alive -- Off-Prem2 days ago
South Korea enlists AI to spot pump and dump schemes on social media, or in Spam -- Main stock exchange targets shares, government agency looks for crypto crooks -- Public Sector2 days ago
Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun -- Burning Man woo woo values House of Grok at $250 billion -- Offbeat2 days ago
Why native cloud security falls short - Your cloud security must stand alone - Partner Content3 days ago
Notepad++ hijacking blamed on Chinese Lotus Blossom crew behind Chrysalis backdoor -- The group targets telecoms, critical infrastructure - all the usual high-value orgs -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60 -- Second price increase in just two months -- Personal Tech2 days ago
Intel welcomes memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation refresh -- Chipzilla touts 4 TB of DDR5 and 128 lanes of PCIe 5 for less than the House of Zen just in time for memory winter -- Systems2 days ago
There's nothing micro about this super-sized Arduino Uno -- It's 7x the size of the regular board -- Offbeat2 days ago
Want more ads on your web pages? Try the AdBoost extension -- 'If we don't feed the advertisers, then we'll be forced to pay artists for their creative work' -- Offbeat2 days ago
DRAM prices expected to double in Q1 as AI ambitions push memory fabs to their limit -- NAND flash now expected to surge 55–60% compared to Q4 -- Storage2 days ago
StopICE hacked to send alarming text messages, admins accuse border patrol agent of sabotage -- The ICE-tracking service says it doesn't store usernames or addresses -- Security2 days ago
Russia-linked APT28 attackers already abusing new Microsoft Office zero-day -- Ukraine's CERT says the bug went from disclosure to active exploitation in days -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Oracle's first general on-prem release of its .ai database iteration draws skeptics -- Users happy with 19c as experts question AI lock-in -- Databases2 days ago
McDonald's is not lovin' your bigmac, happymeal, and mcnuggets passwords -- Your favorite menu item might be easy to remember but it will not secure your account -- Security2 days ago
Snowflake bets $200M that OpenAI makes databases more chatty -- Cuts out the Azure middleman with multi-year deal for 'tighter alignment' -- AI + ML2 days ago
Patch Tuesday meets Groundhog Day as Windows hibernation bug returns -- Microsoft concedes January's out-of-band fix didn't stop some PCs from rebooting instead of sleeping -- OSes2 days ago
