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Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold -- '16% of my monthly Pro+ allowance. Gone. For basically nothing'1 day ago
UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract -- Lock-in to a small number of suppliers holding up digital government plans, committee says4 hours ago
Don't repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators -- NGMN wants a clear migration path before next-gen network rollouts begin2 hours ago
'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club' -- You don't infect anyone in Russia or other CIS countries3 hours ago
Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search -- Action follows Chocolate Factory's changes to AI search results3 hours ago
Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node -- CFO Zinsner insists the troubled node was a one-off as 14A stays on track2 hours ago
personal tech - Ring gets buzzed by class action for collecting visitors' faces without consent - The latest in a series of raised eyebrows over Familiar Faces and other AI ventures46 minutes ago
No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel -- Always-on agent promises to keep work moving, provided you trust it with practically everything46 minutes ago
AI agents can now manipulate your organization. Are you ready? -- SPONSORED POST: Agents with hands require a hands-on policy4 hours ago
public sector - Listen up, England. The Health Secretary is going to be data controller for everyone's Single Patient Record - No, public bucket policy doesn't mean everyone gets a bucket for themselves. Please let Tech do it. Don't go into Settings... NOOOOOO!5 hours ago
SaaS - Automattic's CMS empire shows cracks as WordPress share falls - Web publishing giant remains dominant, but 6 straight months of decline suggest era of uninterrupted growth may be over9 hours ago
TypeScript devs no longer need to tangle with C# to use Aspire dev stack after Microsoft update -- Aspire is a powerful tool for developers but not well understood – and pure TypeScript AppHost may broaden its appeal10 hours ago
Contentful is a shot in the arm for Salesforce's 'headless' bet -- Lacking an enterprise content layer for Headless 360, CRM titan went shopping7 hours ago
Trump's AI E-(I)-O could let feds pick winners and losers -- Government gets a say in 'trusted partner' access, and that worries policy experts21 hours ago
CxO - Remote work – not AI – is killing job prospects for the youth - Young professionals may be perfectly productive while working from home, says the New York Fed, but the quality of their output isn't so great, so companies don't want to hire them1 day ago
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't -- Governments can't touch VPNs technically or commercially. The mess they'll make if they try will be off the scale -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem? -- If a setting fails in the forest and nobody hears it ... -- Corey Quinn13 days ago
AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies -- Mark Pesce13 days ago
Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that's coming off the tracks -- Rupert Goodwins13 days ago
Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols13 days ago
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof -- Rupert Goodwins14 days ago
AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard -- Corey Quinn15 days ago
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols20 days ago
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now - Rupert Goodwins13 days ago
Enhanced performance for server consolidation with Intel Xeon 6+ SPONSORED POST: How Intel's first 18A data center CPU delivers efficiency and TCO gains, with Intel's Kira Boyko4 hours ago
Storage -- Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite -- Chip costs may rise another 63% this quarter, as effects feed through to PC pricing4 hours ago
Personal Tech -- 'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices -- Your personal Jarvis or an end to privacy as we know it?2 hours ago
On-prem -- HPE declares Juniper deal a 'home run' as AI and networking fuel record quarter -- Networking orders surged, AI demand showed little sign of slowing, and HPE used the occasion to take a victory lap over its $14 billion Juniper bet6 hours ago
Public Sector -- Peter Mandelson invited UK PM to meet Palantir's Thiel -- Britain's former US ambassador founded lobbyist that represented spy-tech firm, saw it win big roles in UK defense, health tech9 hours ago
AI and ML -- Intel and pals cram 36,864 CPU cores into a 100kW rack while chasing the agentic AI dragon -- Meanwhile, Intel and SambaNova's disaggregated inference blueprint lands its first customer4 hours ago
AI and ML -- Anthropic, now atop the AI bubble, files for its IPO -- First it tops OpenAI's valuation, then it beats Altman to the IPO punch3 hours ago
Agentic AI arrives for Delphi and C++ Builder -- Kai is an extension for RAD Studio (Delphi and C++ Builder) that integrates with external AI providers2 days ago
Ohio hits pause on datacenter tax breaks draining its coffers -- Buckeye State found it had inadvertently joined the billion dollar losers' club2 days ago
Security -- GTA cheat service Atlas Menu hacked as attacker alleges screenshot spying -- A database containing 64,000 user records was published to GitHub after an attacker claimed to have compromised all Atlas systems4 hours ago
Personal tech -- California passes bill declaring death-by-algorithm to 3D-printed ghost guns -- Last-hour amendments aim to allay privacy concerns, but broad scepticism about feasibility remains8 hours ago
Agent-led devs need serverless OpenSearch, Amazon claims -- System relies on a proprietary storage layer as AWS moves to separate storage and compute to fit mega AI demands2 days ago
Palo Alto VPN bug graduates from advisory to active exploitation -- Rapid7: Attackers exploit authentication bypass flaw in the wild, meaning more emergency patching for PAN-OS users7 hours ago
Nvidia's Grace Blackwell superchips are officially coming to the PC with RTX Spark notebooks -- Forget Wintel, we're living in a Winvidia world now2 days ago
Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks -- Engineers' weekends ruined as Dashlane's automatic protections kicked in21 hours ago
I designed Microsoft's $5B EA channel architecture in 2001. The 2026 transition is missing what made it work -- The man behind Redmond's direct billing model and its geo rollout explains why the new version forgets the channel to its cost2 days ago
Personal Tech -- Memory crunch sends PC prices into double-digit climb -- Notebooks up 11%, desktops 10% as chipmakers ditch consumer kit for AI server bling1 day ago
AI + ML -- LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way -- Papal's 40k-word encyclical drops and lawyers already asking if Catholics can refuse workplace AI on religious grounds1 day ago
Personal Tech -- Exploding rockets and exploding hardware prices make for a lousy new normal -- This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions2 days ago
AI and ML -- Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it -- Project Headroom could save you big money, too3 hours ago
Software -- Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs -- Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools1 day ago
SaaS -- AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand -- The energy drink of frontier models2 days ago
Security -- Lone attacker published 14 malicious npm packages mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch libraries -- And then Microsoft busted them all1 day ago
AI + ML -- Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents -- CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch2 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal -- And you thought a face recognition app was intrusive?1 day ago
Security -- No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs - exploit module is out -- Researcher reported the vuln in March. Maintainers haven't responded to his messages since1 day ago
AI and ML -- QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban -- Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits3 hours ago
Legal -- 23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach -- California AG claims genetics biz downplayed 2023 mega-leak while paying ransom to attacker1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle -- Discussion understood to concern delayed SaaS transformation project2 days ago
AI + ML -- Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button -- Look, says Redmond, usage up 27-43% based on one week of data - admits it 'may not be indicative of long-term usage trends'2 days ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?19 days ago
EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project8 days ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors18 days ago
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own19 days ago
Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads21 days ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits23 days ago
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds28 days ago
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question28 days ago
UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk28 days ago
Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future28 days ago
France's digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead28 days ago
Dutch cops wrest 17M devices from mystery botnet's clutches -- Hosting provider pulled the plug after police traced 200 servers to the Netherlands1 day ago
FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right -- TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations5 days ago
ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload -- You and me go ChatGPhish-ing in the dark1 day ago
Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload -- Researchers say 'GREYVIBE' crew used AI tools throughout a campaign targeting Ukrainian military and government2 days ago
Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans -- Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready4 days ago
ShinyHunters adds Charter to trophy shelf after 4.9M customer records leak -- Telco giant says no sensitive data was taken, though names, addresses, phones, and emails are now out there2 days ago
That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026 -- In a world of mass-produced bot-slopware, small is more beautiful than ever5 days ago
Security -- Troops' phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries -- Lawmakers push DoD to tighten smartphone controls after adversaries exploited commercial tracking data2 days ago
Security -- Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops -- Six 0-days, three under active exploitation, more to come on July 14?2 days ago
AI and ML -- Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents -- It is the database titan's sixth acquisition announcement since June 20253 hours ago
Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node -- CFO Zinsner insists the troubled node was a one-off as 14A stays on track2 hours ago
US firms still dominate chip subsidies -- China's support is greater relative to semiconductor industry revenue2 days ago
If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst -- Chipzilla's first 2nm-class Xeon is finally here bristling with 288 cores2 days ago
Intel Diamond Rapids to boost core counts to 192, but RIP Hyperthreading -- Threads on a half shell, Intel power!2 days ago
Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform -- Systems based on Snapdragon C to target students, families, and small businesses6 days ago
Samsung memory workers call off strike and may score six-figure bonuses -- PLUS: Huawei says it's replaced Moore's Law; Chinese mobile plans add token allowances; Singtel slinging Optus; And more!9 days ago
OSes -- Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience -- May security update trips over hostnames of a very specific length4 days ago
On-Prem -- Europe told to cool its datacenter boom before water and power run short -- Get the balance right, Grundfos says, and the region will be a shining example of how to do it without sacrificing the environment5 days ago
Software -- Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.0 -- Andrew Kelley interview describes paying monthly for cloud-powered AI coding as an 'insane proposition'5 days ago
Personal Tech -- Three in ten HP customers still clinging to Windows 10 -- Refresh cycle sluggishness is a tailwind, insists PC giant's money people5 days ago
AI + ML -- AI agents get their own phone directory built atop DNS -- DNS-AID, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, promises easier agent discovery5 days ago
Personal Tech -- Steam Deck prices go through the roof as Valve blames component shortages -- Same handheld, same specs, just a much steeper bill5 days ago
Cyber-Crime -- Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach -- Travel and leisure giant was just one of many victims of the cybercrooks' crime spree this year4 days ago
OSes -- ReactOS brings its Windows NT tribute act to ARM64 -- Experimental build boots on Raspberry Pi 5, but for now the joy is mostly in getting there5 days ago
Legal -- Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday -- Feds say insider used confidential search trend data to score $1.2M in prediction market profits5 days ago
Public Sector -- London cops post £300M tech shopping list after Palantir contract blocked -- Mayor's office says force only engaged with one supplier before deputy refused to approve deal worth up to £50M5 days ago
From Prompt to Exploit: How LLMs Are Changing API Attacks -- Modern applications are API-driven, interconnected, and often over-permissioned, making them an ideal target for AI-assisted attacks.19 days ago
Architecting the Future: Unlocking Enterprise Data Services for Kubernetes -- Join us to discover how to eliminate infrastructure silos and establish a standardized, enterprise-grade cloud-native platform.13 days ago
Catch the Advanced Attacks Microsoft 365 Misses with Behavioral AI Security -- Microsoft 365 is the backbone of enterprise communication, and its native security filters out the known and the noisy.12 days ago
Virtual Cyber Recovery Sim -- Step into the chaos of a live ransomware breach, test your response skills, and team up with other IT and security pros to outsmart cybercriminals15 days ago
Virtual Cyber Recovery Simulation -- Ransomware attacks aren't slowing down, and neither are we. Druva's hit event, Escape Ransomware, is now fully virtual.13 days ago
Agentic AI at Scale: From Pilot to Production -- Join us to learn how to unlock real ROI by driving adoption of AI at scale.18 days ago
Explore all of our events28 days ago
On-Prem -- Kyndryl takes employees' pulse while cutting off circulation for some -- Redundancy notices and sentiment survey land in inboxes on same day in what tech services biz calls 'commitment to listen'5 days ago
Personal Tech -- EU moderation watchdog says social media giants hate taking down hate speech -- Also somehow censoring too much while refusing to hand over account ban evidence for review5 days ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack - SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure5 days ago
Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it -- Also, missing school iPad resurfaced after coach's kids uploaded video to YouTube5 days ago
Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO -- Hyperscalers can get hardware before enterprise vendors and buyers don't much care where they land6 days ago
Salesforce waves bye-bye to UI in 'headless' embrace -- Anthropic's use of Sales Cloud increased five-fold as its workers access Salesforce through Claude and Slack5 days ago
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators -- Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.6 days ago
FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship after another launch mishap -- IPO? More like IP-uh-oh6 days ago
cyber-crime - Malware dev tries to steal Claude users' secrets, writes npm slop, leaks own GitHub private token46 minutes ago
AI + ML -- Argonne flexes spare supercompute to build private AI inference service -- Think ChatDoE6 days ago
AI + ML -- AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates -- Stanford researchers argue need for transparency and independent testing6 days ago
OSes -- Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped -- Red Hat's free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend13 days ago
LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business -- Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in18 days ago
dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years -- Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline21 days ago
Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line -- Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers22 days ago
Cisco Preps For A World Of AI Agent Coworkers, Frontier Model Threats15 hours ago
Nvidia Extends Its Grip On The AI Datacenter Outwards21 hours ago
Dell Makes The Profits Up In Volume For Booming AI Servers1 day ago
Data And Storage At The Center Of The AI Stack5 days ago
FugakuNEXT, Scality, VAST Data and WEKA1 day ago
Scality getting into DNA archival storage wth Biomemory1 day ago
AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis1 day ago
HPE: AI drives compute and networking revenues higher while storage languishes1 day ago
Agentic AI arrives for Delphi and C++ Builder10 hours ago
Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.02 days ago
GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'6 days ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack2 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet -- Developer-targeted, supply-chain attacks all the rage these days5 days ago
AI + ML -- Bosses blinded by confidence about shadow AI use by workers -- More than half of orgs in Okta survey faced an AI-related security incident or near miss last year5 days ago
AI + ML -- AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims -- LLMs prefer secular, rational reasoning, and while they'll still get religious on occasion, they have a negative view of Jehovah's Witnesses6 days ago
Security -- Extortion crews are visiting law firms pretending to be tech support, FBI warns -- Cybercriminals still allowed to walk into office blocks and convince staff to let them plug in their own thumb drives5 days ago
AI + ML -- Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests -- Given a chance, AI will be breaking the law, breaking the law6 days ago
Science -- Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry -- Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted6 days ago
AI + ML -- 4 in 10 AI agents headed for demotion or the rubbish bin -- Gartner predicts governance struggles to plague rollout of this year's much-hyped technology6 days ago
Security -- India's cyber agency sets clock at 12 hours to tackle exploited bugs as AI turns up the heat -- CERT-In says internet-facing or critical systems should be patched, mitigated, or cut off within half a day where feasible5 days ago
Personal Tech -- Windows 11 update preview promises faster launches, puts Task Manager on NPU patrol -- Just mind the known issue that can still send installs rolling back6 days ago
AI+ML -- Broadcom's custom ASIC biz adds South Korea's FuriosaAI to its empire -- Third-gen chips to use Broadzilla's advanced packaging, networking tech6 days ago
Public Sector -- Tony Blair and the Reform party both want AI in government, though they can't agree on what for -- Former UK PM demands modernization, and right wing party channels inner Musk to call for mass job cuts in public sector6 days ago
ZTE and partners nurture global ICT talent through 2026 engineering capacity building program6 hours ago
AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis5 days ago
Explainer: Edge AI7 days ago
Ucell and ZTE complete large-scale deployment of AI‑Powered green network solution in Uzbekistan8 days ago
ZTE Day Indonesia 2026 strengthens AI innovation and digital infrastructure collaboration to accelerate Indonesia's digital transformation12 days ago
ZTE unveils localized roadmap for Eurasia's digital future at GSMA M360 Eurasia 202612 days ago
ZTE releases Sustainability Report 2025: driving a new chapter in sustainable development through AI14 days ago
ZTE Showcases AI Interactive Flat Panel at the Broadband User Congress in Brazil15 days ago
Fusion for the future: XLSMART and ZTE partnering for a boundless digital Indonesia19 days ago
ZTE and Telkom Indonesia sign strategic MoU to accelerate digital solutions and infrastructure development20 days ago
DON'T MISS -- Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation -- Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court'28 days ago
How to guarantee a speaker gig: Hack the system. Literally -- Make your mark on the call-for-proposal platform7 days ago
GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended' -- Another day, another GitHub wobble - but the service keeps growing7 days ago
Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula -- Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals7 days ago
6G: The next gen of wireless tech nobody's ready to pay for -- Standards body on track for 2028 specs drop. Telcos on track for 2028 existential crisis about 5G ROI2 hours ago
AWS whips out Graviton-powered Redshift instances, claims 7x speed for data warehouse -- AI agents asking questions in natural language apparently issue a lot more queries than your average SQL jockey7 days ago
InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows -- Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder7 days ago
On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off13 days ago
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client15 days ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave21 days ago
Networks - To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane - Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials?13 days ago
Networks - Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching13 days ago
Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job26 days ago
Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled15 days ago
Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work21 days ago
Security - Even Claude agrees: hole in its sandbox was real and dangerous - Another day, another AI bug silently fixed with no CVE and no public disclosure13 days ago
Anthropic's Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling -- Claude maker nabs SDK and MCP tooling biz, plans to sunset platform14 days ago
SAP's AI strategy: Come for the openness, stay because you have to -- Joule Studio 2.0 waves the flag of interoperability, API policy tells enterprises who's really in charge15 days ago
Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy -- Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers14 days ago
Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that' -- Right-clicking could go the way of the 3.5-inch floppy at the Chocolate Factory20 days ago
The big AI companies are going to see their margins disappear -- AI will indeed eat the world – if your world involves software-size margins13 days ago
Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028 -- Claude maker warns authoritarian regimes could set the rules unless Washington tightens chip and model controls19 days ago
Iran slowly reconnects to the global internet -- Traffic floods back, without much of an explanation7 days ago
Cisco making SONiC available to all customers – not just hyperscalers -- Hardened version of open-source NOS coming to Nexus 9000s2 hours ago
Alibaba gets Android 16 running on RISC-V -- Beijing's sovereign stack ambitions strengthen7 days ago
AI and ML -- Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine -- The nature of AI is unnatural. It's not intelligent. It's not human1 day ago
SCIENCE -- NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon -- Astronauts will get to self-assemble lunar base7 days ago
Software -- California may let Linux bypass age check -- Exemption in amendment offers relief to open source software makers6 days ago
MyPillow must decide whether to be firm or soft as ransomware crims demand pay -- Guess they could deny the alleged intrusion ... like the 2020 election results5 days ago
MySQL faithful launch OurSQL Foundation to keep Oracle honest -- Community group wants transparency, collaboration, and a clearer roadmap for the open source database8 days ago
Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust -- Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit8 days ago
Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust -- Unsafe bits get a warning label in planned low-level coding shake-up8 days ago
Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks -- What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?8 days ago
Huawei's chip law looks less like Moore and more like marketing -- Chinese tech biz shows off clever workaround for its process node gap, but it isn't catching up with Intel and TSMC8 days ago
Minecraft-streaming gran swatted while raising cash for grandson's cancer care -- Sue Jacquot said she had a great time, despite the rude awakening6 days ago
Attackers spill plaintext passwords of 46k Myspace93 users after 2021 breach -- Leakage blamed on treacherous friends exposed unencrypted credentials, email addresses6 days ago
Cisco serves up yet another perfect 10 bug with Secure Workload admin flaw -- Switchzilla says attackers could access sensitive data and make configuration changes across tenant boundaries through vulnerable internal APIs1 day ago
Security - Microsoft storms RAMPART, adds Clarity to agentic AI safety - Redmond open sources two tools for building and maintaining safer agents13 days ago
Zombie user account let hackers control the city's water - Failing to disable a former employee's account was a huge mistake5 hours ago
GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack -- Initial assessment says customer data spared while users wonder what else may have slipped out12 days ago
London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year -- A Freedom of Information Act request shows the extent of the surveillance12 days ago
Microsoft shuts down illegal code-signing operation used by ransomware crims to mask their malware -- 'Thousands' of US victims, including 12+ machines owned and operated by Redmond8 days ago
Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company's handling of vulnerability disclosures4 hours ago
UK banks offered access to OpenAI's GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic's Glasswing expansion6 hours ago
'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club'10 hours ago
Cisco sings Mythos' praises - but doesn't say how many bugs the model uncovered23 hours ago
Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into surveillance devices1 day ago
Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher1 day ago
Claude celebrates Anthropic's stock market float with blockbuster ... outage1 day ago
Northern Ireland cops issue PSA after official phone number spoofed by scammers1 day ago
Shai-Hulud malware worms Red Hat npm package versions downloaded 80K times a week1 day ago
Election interlopers register 5K+ domains, hope to catch some voting phish1 day ago
AI + ML -- Rogue states are putting AI agents to work on sanctions evasion -- RUSI warns fake IDs, shell companies, and crypto laundering could soon operate at industrial scale7 hours ago
Security -- Experts pour cold borscht on Farage's Russian hack claim -- Reform UK leader alleges Moscow broke into his phone and leaked £5M gift story, but security specialists await evidence6 days ago
Personal Tech -- Logitech unveils a cushioned mouse for all-day use -- Ideal for aching palms – though only if you're right-handed7 days ago
SaaS -- The SaaS-pocalypse can wait, Salesforce still has customers where it wants them -- AI coding agents may make software cheaper to build, but switching off major platforms remains expensive and risky7 days ago
Personal Tech -- HP customer claims firmware update shoved printer off support cliff -- Internal notes point to cloud connectivity woes for older OfficeJets, though company denies systemic issue7 days ago
SaaS -- SaaS outfit ClickUp promises seven-figure salaries for survivors of 22 percent staff purge -- CEO jumps on the 'We must be fit for the AI future' bandwagon7 days ago
Science -- Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission -- Due on November 21, eleven months late - but on time to do science!7 days ago
AI + ML -- Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power -- Worries change may be 'governed only by technocratic thinking and presented as necessary and inevitable'7 days ago
AI + ML - Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI2 days ago
Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat -- Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot13 days ago
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage -- This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit14 days ago
Broadcom finds a VMware customer willing to stick around: London Stock Exchange -- LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it'll cost15 days ago
Baidu says the quiet part out loud – you can't build AI infrastructure, so clouds can cash in -- CFO says GPU rentals are 'structurally higher margin than CPU cloud'15 days ago
AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can't currently buy -- Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them19 days ago
Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads -- Chinese web giant says accelerator shortage is over as local hardware arrives in volume20 days ago
Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter -- Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images22 days ago
Sovereign cloud is only possible if you're Chinese or American: Gartner -- Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent23 days ago
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs -- Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream5 days ago
Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows -- Britain's 'free' internet economy is powered by invisible data extraction that feeds advertisers, AI firms, and digital platforms8 days ago
Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer's bizarre crusade against hyperscalers -- A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign9 days ago
OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge -- Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak9 days ago
Security -- Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public -- AI flaw-finder still under lock and key for now while company figures out guardrails, but extends access to more users including governments6 days ago
Operating Systems -- Linus Torvalds to 'start being more hardnosed' about 'pointless pull requests' – some of which come from AIs -- Warns large release candidates 'are *not* conducive to long-term stability'8 days ago
AI + ML -- Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately -- Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?7 days ago
Personal Tech -- HP investigating BIOS updates that leave premium laptop users in boot loop limbo -- Slowdowns, crashes, BSODs reported on pricey mobile workstations8 days ago
Security -- AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend -- Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragesia show the new reality6 days ago
Public Sector -- UK MPs slam digital ID rollout as a 'fiasco' after botched launch -- Government's 'rushed' plans damaged public confidence before ministers had even explained how the system would work8 days ago
OSes -- The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors -- A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them8 days ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident2 days ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in9 days ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything16 days ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch18 days ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving28 days ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch26 days ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild26 days ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it26 days ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe26 days ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference26 days ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo26 days ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble26 days ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract26 days ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction26 days ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell26 days ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead26 days ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office26 days ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server26 days ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam26 days ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key26 days ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause26 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble26 days ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good26 days ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming26 days ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work26 days ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books26 days ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people26 days ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere26 days ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver26 days ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'26 days ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware26 days ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice26 days ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company26 days ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it26 days ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe26 days ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery26 days ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'26 days ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league26 days ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA26 days ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it26 days ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results26 days ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off26 days ago
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady26 days ago
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server26 days ago
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo26 days ago
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production26 days ago
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time26 days ago
Junior sysadmin's first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company26 days ago
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown26 days ago
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules26 days ago
Networks -- Iran hints it could interfere with submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz -- Threatens unspecified 'fees' and warns of economic consequences – yet only major kinetic action could stop data flows entirely2 days ago
Europe tests laser links as satellite comms outgrow radio16 days ago
Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco20 days ago
FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security22 days ago
Lawsuit brought by former store operators missing from Vodafone results22 days ago
Don't repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators2 hours ago
The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company2 hours ago
Marvell enters the AI network fray with 102.4 Tbps switch silicon1 day ago
Satellite phone dreams orbit reality as direct-to-cell usage set to underwhelm1 day ago
Putin sends submarines to survey Britain's subsea cables. UK deploys Royal Navy, mobilizes parliamentary draftsmen2 days ago
Jammin' on UK defence secretary's jet as Russia blamed for GPS interference5 days ago
Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner5 days ago
ICANN again intervenes to defend AFRINIC6 days ago
Broadcom gets early start on WiFi 8 with next-gen wireless routing kit7 days ago
UK armed forces aims for secure comms via optical satellite links7 days ago
SCIENCE -- Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation -- Release of spectrogram of cockpit recorder audio allows conversation recovery with 'emerging' decades-old tech8 days ago
AI + ML -- Minor edits to AI skills can make agents go rogue -- Text is the new attack8 days ago
Security -- A Russian speaker and jailbroken Gemini went on a hacking spree and emptied at least one MAGA victim's crypto wallets -- Hey, Gemini, how much can we earn from one pump-and-dump cycle?6 days ago
AI + ML -- Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio -- Limping Llama model needs a crutch made of surveillance tools9 days ago
Security -- Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings -- Will Jason Statham save us?7 days ago
Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right -- Wood Mackenzie analysts say bit barn operators are in a tough spot12 days ago
Personal Tech -- As memory prices squeeze enterprise buyers, Lenovo laughs all the way to the bank -- Switch to premium devices pays off as PC giant post record record, just don't ask about cheap laptops9 days ago
Legal -- Media giant settles for $930k with FTC over allegations it lied about eavesdropping on conversations through smart devices -- Cox Media Group allegedly sold a bogus AI-powered snoopfest service9 days ago
AI + ML - Microsoft lets users exile floating Copilot button after interface rage5 days ago
AT&T sues to ditch Cali copper phone lines to save billions -- Telecoms giant files suit in Golden State so it doesn't have to maintain network it claims is hardly used1 day ago
Workday wants AI to punch in instead of having to hire new recruits -- CEO eyes margin gains by keeping headcount flat – bold for a company selling HR software to employers12 days ago
FBI warns Kali365 phishing kit is stealing Microsoft OAuth tokens at scale -- MFA? No problem, says crimeware that tricks users into handing attackers the keys to M3657 days ago
SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go -- Not all bad news: Crypto billionaire signs up for a mission to Mars12 days ago
Overcoming the trade-offs in data sovereignty -- What does data sovereignty actually mean for your network, which trade-offs are unavoidable? Learn more.15 days ago
Outlook has an image problem -- Microsoft says classic client may lose embedded pictures thanks to wrapping bug12 days ago
Techie claims Trump Mobile website was leaking thousands of people's data -- Customers' info potentially handed to anyone who could send an HTTP request7 days ago
Public Sector -- Irish Rail writes down €50M after train IT project goes off the rails -- State-owned operator loses confidence in delayed traffic management system as politicians compare Ireland's latest public-sector IT fiasco to 'Groundhog Day'11 days ago
BOFH -- BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has -- The Boss gives common sense an AI wrapper11 days ago
Public Sector -- Burnham backlash: UK Digital ID plans in peril if Manchester mayor succeeds Starmer -- He'll have to beat Nigel Farage in a Brexit-backing constituency first, though11 days ago
UK nuclear investors get 'high' returns for lower risk than consumers, who also foot the bill -- Sizewell C could add £19 to yearly bills, spending watchdog says, but private investor may fail to keep costs down12 days ago
Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working -- Techie regrets not taking credit for getting it done with amazing speed12 days ago
Cisco used AI to write security incident reports, with mixed results -- You'll need a lot of detailed prompts to get solid output - and even then it may have errors and typos7 days ago
Alibaba just admitted it's struggling to keep up with rival chipmakers and AI shops -- Reveals decent new homegrown accelerator and tiny production volumes12 days ago
AI and ML -- Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it3 hours ago
Security -- Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops3 days ago
Security -- Troops' phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries2 days ago
Personal tech -- California passes bill declaring death-by-algorithm to 3D-printed ghost guns8 hours ago
OSes -- Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience4 days ago
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression -- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft4 days ago
Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one -- Autonomous shuttle's second passenger trip ends with rear-end collision and a tow truck8 days ago
No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship -- Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors10 days ago
Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice -- AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh13 days ago
UK Typhoon jets fitted with bargain-bin drone busters for Middle East sorties -- Low-cost laser-guided rockets offer cheaper way to swat Shahed-style threats than firing pricey air-to-air missiles15 days ago
Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller -- Well, page is more accurate, but the source code is available if you want to try doing something even crazier16 days ago
UK reloads artillery plans with £1B remote-control howitzer order -- 72 Boxer-mounted RCH 155s due from 2028 as Britain fills the gap left by AS-90s sent to Ukraine19 days ago
Grad-to-be turns graduation cap into Rust-powered light show -- Eric Park tells us he doesn't plan to wear his modified cap to commencement, but his code's available for anyone with no such qualms and an upcoming ceremony20 days ago
Dude... where's my password? Claude reunites forgetful stoner with $400k Bitcoin stash -- AI to the rescue as 11-year search for password turns up in old PC files20 days ago
This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY -- Chromium extension swaps promos for John Carpenter-style subliminal slogans21 days ago
Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine -- Class A drugs loaded instead of A421 days ago
Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue -- Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope22 days ago
The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains -- Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.23 days ago
London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool -- Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London's West End25 days ago
Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard -- A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive26 days ago
Lego throws its own Hail Mary -- Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price26 days ago
Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere -- Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen26 days ago
Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets -- Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?27 days ago
IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested -- Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope22 days ago
UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones -- Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports28 days ago
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb -- GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them28 days ago
DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to -- A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not28 days ago
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area -- Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags28 days ago
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop -- Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space28 days 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 surge28 days ago
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely28 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 dev28 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 themselves28 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 info28 days ago
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest28 days ago
Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute -- Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the show28 days ago
Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges -- PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role28 days ago
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects -- DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects28 days ago
Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' -- That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed28 days ago
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don't pay publishers -- Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home28 days ago
China blocks Zuck's acquisition of AI outfit Manus -- Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions28 days ago
Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again -- No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend28 days ago
SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months -- Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team28 days ago
In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis -- Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day28 days ago
BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges -- Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet?28 days ago
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why -- Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate28 days ago
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule -- Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences28 days ago
ESA boss tires of being dragged around by NASA mood swings -- Are we pilots or are we passengers? Aschbacher asks14 days ago
Science - Space factories edge closer after experimental capsule survives hypersonic landing13 days ago
NASA's Psyche mission set for a brief encounter with Mars -- There sure are some clever people on Earth19 days ago
NASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon -- SpaceX and Blue Origin may yet get a role in low Earth orbit rehearsal, readiness permitting20 days ago
Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans5 days ago
Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry7 days ago
NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon7 days ago
Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust8 days ago
SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade? -- May 19 launch will put redesigned rocket, pad, and engines through their paces21 days ago
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins -- Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu22 days ago
SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch -- Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May22 days ago
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration23 days ago
Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool -- All driller, no filler28 days ago
More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook -- Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time28 days ago
Security -- Dems slam Trump for making cybersecurity hold out the tin cup while splurging on ballroom and Jan. 6 'slush fund' -- 'Budgets are moral documents,' Rep. Delia Ramirez said7 days ago
AI + ML -- Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers -- Just like in The Truman Show12 days ago
DevOps -- Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion -- Plenty of time for cyber crims to grab data or hit you with a giant bill8 days ago
AI + ML -- Npm registry sets stage for more secure package publishing -- All the world's a stage, and all the packages are merely players12 days ago
Security -- HackerOne takes an axe to its bug bounty rewards -- Critical flaw payouts slashed by more than 75%8 days ago
