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Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud - Sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale
18 hours ago
Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers -- 2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes23 hours ago
AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets -- AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk15 hours ago
PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries -- Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up23 hours ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up -- Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.15 hours ago
ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk -- Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters18 hours ago
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox -- No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices15 hours ago
science - BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury - Eight year after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches2 hours ago
Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you -- Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases2 hours ago
My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement -- Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month22 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS - Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels - The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next2 hours ago
Wayve and Uber steal a march on Waymo with paid self-driving London rides -- 15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver1 day ago
US law firm accuses UK AI software firm of unwanted contract renewal when it tried to leave -- Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment1 day ago
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo -- Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense1 day ago
Best eSIM for travel 2026: which one offers the best value for money? -- PARTNER CONTENT: Price isn't everything1 day ago
On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key -- Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work1 day ago
software - The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech - Why now? Well, the Linux desktop market share in the EU doubled between 2024 and 2025 (to 5.7%). That's why!1 day ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI throws Astra into the top-tier model ring -- OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot19 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands -- $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note22 hours ago
SECURITY -- Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access23 hours ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade1 day ago
OS PLATFORM -- Windows 11 update sends some desktops into an unwanted goth phase1 day ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter1 day ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement -- Rupert Goodwins2 days ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough -- Corey Quinn2 days ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols2 days ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- Rupert Goodwins2 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Mark Pesce9 days ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic -- Rupert Goodwins9 days ago
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges -- Bruce Davie9 days ago
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it -- Rupert Goodwins15 days ago
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney - Corey Quinn2 days ago
AI and ML -- True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once -- All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues23 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian -- Prompted by CentOS 8's premature demise, it's a very visible loss for the Red Hat ecosystem1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users -- When the moon is in the seventh house...1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s -- The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot1 day ago
SCIENCE -- NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 20281 day ago
Drowning in CVEs and thirsty for answers? Try CTEM - SPONSORED FEATURE: Boards want to know if they're less exposed than last quarter. Patching metrics aren't the solution1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance -- But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast -- A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promises not to squeeze too hard -- GPU giant pledges to keep the model hub open to the entire AI ecosystem1 day ago
OS PLATFORM -- Windows 11 update sends some desktops into an unwanted goth phase -- Hello darkness, my old friend... I've trusted Redmond once again1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Which came first, Windows 95's taskbar or NeXT's Dock? Neither -- Reg hack accidentally rattles Microsoft folks' cages... again1 day ago
Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now? SPONSORED POST: A free event with Nutanix on Oct 7 can win some of it back1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon' -- While you wait, Meta says it's taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often1 day ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade -- Found the time to focus and 'corrected' incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds1 day ago
DEVOPS -- Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November -- The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data1 day ago
AI AND ML -- With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race -- AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)2 days ago
SECURITY -- AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit -- Adding insult to injury19 hours ago
AI and ML -- Infosec pros say we're not ready to lose control of AI -- Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable2 days ago
SECURITY -- SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again -- Miscreants use chained zero days to pwn boxen as third-party SOCs say further attacks 'almost certain'22 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft will stop finishing your sentences in Word and Outlook -- Predictive text remains available, but users will have to invite it into their workflow2 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science -- Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill -- Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for1 day ago
Security -- Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers -- Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest' -- Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft update disarms Outlook and Teams on Arm PCs -- Installing an AI gaming package offers relief while custom cursors suffer a separate reset2 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter -- The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble1 day ago
AI AND ML -- UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme -- Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy2 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition -- Japanese supplier remains in place despite scrutiny over its Horizon role2 days ago
SECURITY -- UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it -- Ministers reject proposed red lines and emergency shutdown powers, pointing instead to voluntary safeguards1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on -- Spending watchdog says fragmented data and inconsistent standards would constrain any future attempt2 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss -- And RISC-V is absolutely nowhere2 days ago
Systems -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies1 month ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?3 months ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits - Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement2 months ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan30 days ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester1 month ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much1 month ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow1 month ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical1 month ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester1 month ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road1 month ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist1 month ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well2 months ago
STORAGE -- Tape still isn't dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025 -- LTO program is confident this is a glitch, not terminal unspooling2 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes -- 23-year-old botnet down1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked -- More compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable2 days ago
Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans -- Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit2 days ago
Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks -- The model provider gave METR the credits for free. An actual customer would not have been so lucky2 days ago
Firefox helps iPhone users bypass ads on web sites while making money showing its own ads -- Baked-in Firefox ad blocking on iOS begins rolling out slowly today, and is off by default2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in -- Security ... this time it will be different2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- ReactOS 0.4.16 serves '90s Windows nostalgia with fewer bugs -- 30 years on, it's still alpha, but 0.4.16 brings plenty of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements - just in time for Windows XP's 25th anniversary3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering -- Big Red talks up superhuman coders after shedding 21,000 staff2 days ago
Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed -- New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff4 days ago
ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango -- Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering4 days ago
The Gentlemen come calling as Nutex confirms sensitive data theft -- Ransomware crew threatens publication while healthcare biz assesses which records escaped2 days ago
Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15 -- Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas3 days ago
Nvidia is building an IP licensing empire on the back of NVLink -- Even when you think you're not buying Nvidia, you might still be buying Nvidia4 days ago
Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff -- Paused export controls on materials used in key IT components due for review in November8 days ago
Intel's 256-core Xeon 7 CPUs are a Diamond in the rough -- Delayed, flawed, yet still beautiful10 days ago
OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast -- 128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin11 days ago
SiFive pushes development server to take RISC-V into the datacenter -- Rack-mount system intended for software porting, workload optimization, to bring open standard to the bitbarn11 days ago
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently -- Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere11 days ago
Security -- 33-hour BGP hijack of Softaculous traffic prompts security scramble -- Hosting software vendor tells customers to reset credentials and hunt for malicious packages2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 misses the pointer while Defender cries wolf -- August 27 update reportedly scrambles cursor customizations as bogus antivirus alerts spread3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Insider: Red Hat is capping devs' bot budgets -- And no sharing your allowance! What do you think we are, communists?3 days ago
AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate -- Dutch in-process OLAP systems set to be the 'SDK for data' as developers scale systems, cloud giant claims after DuckLab acquisition4 days ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning4 days ago
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten -- Hacking education to thrive in the AI world is the first and best step in keeping control4 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- If hardware price squeezes make you sad, VMware says it will all end in tiers -- Virtzilla finding more ways to pull data out of DRAM to enable 'densification' and dodge the RAMpocalypse2 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI adoption at work is broad but shallow -- GenAI now reaches 80% of occupations, but in most of those fewer than half of workers use it3 days ago
Security -- Healthcare cyberattacks hit pacemakers and millions of patient records -- McKesson admits breach as ShinyHunters demands $55.2M2 days ago
Virtualization -- VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD -- Forget the confusing branding and focus on your shrinking token bill3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Orbify.eu pitches warped Inception-style 3D maps for navigation -- 'You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling'3 days ago
Operationalizing AI with visibility, control, and multitenancy -- In this webinar, explore how an AI factory approach can help organizations build a scalable, secure and repeatable foundation for AI.3 days ago
How Cloudflare's "customer zero" journey offers a blueprint for secure enterprise AI adoption -- As AI tools rapidly enter the enterprise, security teams face a hard balance.4 days ago
CISO 3.0: Governing AI Agents at Machine Speed -- Join Snyk and AWS on 14 September to see what it takes to govern an agentic AI landscape at machine speed.11 days ago
The AI Iceberg: What 3,000+ Codebases Reveal About the Risk Hiding Below Your Model Count -- Snyk analyzed 1.39 million repositories across 3,044 enterprise accounts.1 day ago
How to prepare for the coming wave of autonomous attacks -- AI has handed attackers a capability most security programmes were never built to face: finding architectural flaws, at machine speed.24 days ago
AI Agents in 2026: Navigating the deployment-confidence gap -- This webinar, drawing from a global survey of security leaders, will dissect the structural control gaps hindering safe AI adoption.21 days ago
The Leverage Economy: Inside the Economics of Cyber Extortion -- Learn why outcomes are harder to forecast, which organizations are most exposed, and how prepared companies can respond with clarity.1 month ago
Building a Unified AI Data Platform with Qumulo and Databricks -- As AI and analytics initiatives expand, organizations need governed access to distributed enterprise data — without the cost and complexity.1 day ago
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AI AND ML -- OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire -- Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness2 days ago
SECURITY -- Attack hides malware in PNGs and drops custom reverse tunnel on victims' machines -- Next-level ClickFix wave sets off multi-stage attack chain3 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries -- Promises 'secure artifacts' for Spring and RabbitMQ, and other projects that matter to its Tanzu suite3 days ago
SECURITY -- Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens -- Commodity malware steals authenticated sessions, letting thieves freeload on victims' paid usage3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI -- Company's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge4 days ago
The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit -- The real fight is who wins the most AI and K8s workloads5 days ago
AI AND ML - Debian votes to let contributors code with AI2 hours ago
Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private -- Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats3 days ago
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems -- Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot -- The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one... or does he?11 days ago
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another -- Word up1 month ago
GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions -- New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way1 month ago
A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32 -- New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.151 month ago
Nvidia Expands Its Open Source AI Presence With $12.9 Billion Hugging Face Buy1 day ago
Optics Still Driving Marvell's AI Business More Than Custom Chips2 days ago
VMware Intros Private AI Cloud, AI Factory As Workloads Shift To On-Prem4 days ago
In The Long Run, Nvidia NVSwitch Is The InfiniBand Of Scale Up AI Networks4 days ago
Storage news ticker - September 418 hours ago
Cohesity takes HCLTech to its Clean Room18 hours ago
Tape capacity shipments fell in 2025 but 2026 could be a boom year for tape1 day ago
ZettaLane runs Lustre parallel filesystem off object storage1 day ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up53 minutes ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v18 days ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings12 days ago
Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords14 days ago
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads7 days ago
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website -- More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi3 days ago
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters -- How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?7 days ago
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense7 days ago
LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI -- It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer7 days ago
Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted -- Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met7 days ago
Security -- US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies -- The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA's Insider Threat Division3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming -- GRUB's up for furry new update4 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it -- Microsoft veteran recalls how a CPU errata, a mythical ICE, and a single sneaky NOP saved Clippy's big debut4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have -- Judge finds national-security rationale was assembled after Hegseth had already decided AI maker was a threat4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft preps this year's Windows 11 feature tweaks: 26H2 hits Release Preview -- Same servicing branch as 24H2 and 25H2... and the same buggy updates5 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports1 month ago
SECURITY -- CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago -- Organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption blamed for sorry state of affairs3 days ago
SECURITY -- Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution -- 100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting -- Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you5 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- And as for getting US government to help – uncontrolled AI is not as dangerous as AI under the control of the technically clueless5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Big Tech market power will cause UK to lose AI race, think tank warns -- Britain's market watchdog criticized for not creating the conditions for competition to thrive6 days ago
BOFH -- BOFH: Schrödinger's petty cash puts us in a very awkward superposition -- Why oh why are the accountants stricter than the IRS and HMRC put together?7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- On Call: Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call -- One retro numeric keypad looks much like any other to some users7 days ago
Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it3 days ago
Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support10 days ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees16 days ago
SOFTWARE - Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered - The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects3 days ago
Software - Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it1 month ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem1 month ago
OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign1 month ago
ON-PREM -- Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year1 month ago
ai and ml - AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC - Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature14 days ago
OpenAI chases Anthropic's biz customers with zero data retention pledge -- With Private Safety Processing, AI biz promises discreet, automated prompt surveillance15 days ago
Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS -- Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore?16 days ago
Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN -- A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages1 month ago
'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes -- Human did 10% of the job,AI did 90%1 month ago
Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words -- 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it19 days ago
Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you -- Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated22 days ago
SECURITY -- Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it's drawing customers' blood -- The fix is either an unvalidated and unofficial emergency patch or taking the server offline4 days ago
Security -- Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds -- Alleged crew behind the Shai-Hulud worm and other supply chain attacks nabbed with help from the FBI4 days ago
ai and ML -- Anthropic proposes plumbing spec to link AI agents to lab kit and robots -- Say you're trying to enrich Uranium and your centrifuges broke - soon it will be easy to connect an AI to figure out why7 days ago
Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will (probably) never see -- Touting batch 1 token generation is a bit like boasting about the top speed of your car8 days ago
CRPx0 hacking service for dummies claims victim count more than quintupled -- It's 'built to be operated by a human with no technical background'4 days ago
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims -- Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their backs8 days ago
AI girlfriend review site's secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks -- Even testing and staging sites need protection from prying eyes4 days ago
Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages -- No one can afford RAM anymore, so we're requiring devs to mind memory usage8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Omarchy distro gains serious backing -- Polarizing opinions while tech heavyweights put up $10M4 days ago
AL AND ML -- Hugging Face offers $399 robot duck to help you quack the AI code -- Microduck from Pollen Robotics runs on open source software, is just 25cm tall, and is ready to play out of the box8 days ago
SECURITY -- ATF responds to 'major' cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang's claims -- US Justice Department investigating the breach6 days ago
CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw -- Disclosed in January and honeypots buzzed soon after, CISA says it's finally time for the USG to plug the gap8 days ago
Crooks push Mac malware through fake OpenAI Codex ads -- Sponsored search results lead developers straight into a ClickFix malware trap8 days ago
You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine -- Its own command language, 23 instructions - signs point to 'well-resourced operation rather than an opportunistic one'5 days ago
security - Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks - Glassbox dev admits he had some help from Claude to build locally running tool11 days ago
Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant - No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg22 hours ago
ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach -- Attackers took a look at an employee's identity dashboard, but security firm says that's as far as they got9 days ago
AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones -- Sawtooth waves you can't hear still mess with your Bluetooth. Firefox and Brave say they've got you covered9 days ago
$1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack -- Hackers spent four days inside the org's cloud platforms after apparently talking their way in9 days ago
ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk18 hours ago
Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident19 hours ago
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release1 day ago
OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders1 day ago
Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC1 day ago
Cybercrooks trawl Fishbrain to net password hashes2 days ago
UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say2 days ago
Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access2 days ago
To keep the AI hacking genie bottled up, try one-way networks2 days ago
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say2 days ago
Schrödinger's backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT - SPONSORED FEATURE: Verify and survive: your backup isn't real 'til you test it8 days ago
Personal Tech -- Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of) -- Twitter.now aims to fill the bird-shaped hole left by X. For a fee8 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more' -- As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized8 days ago
SECURITY -- Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data -- UK's largest airport operator believes 8.7 million customers affected7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC -- Rising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs – which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins8 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap -- AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities8 days ago
Security -- Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller -- Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls7 days ago
AI and ML -- Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential -- Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi -- Plus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming8 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- AI use among UK teachers doubles, but working hours still don't come down -- F- for AI in test of reducing burden of teacher workload8 days ago
SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year -- And fly 'significant scale' in 2028 – a claim that isn't entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt11 days ago
Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins -- Cloudy AI is Chinese giant's 'most certain' path to growth as e-commerce slows15 days ago
US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations -- Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland15 days ago
Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown - And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal15 days ago
Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads - Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term22 days ago
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous -- And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there23 days ago
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B -- Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending23 days ago
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox -- No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices1 day ago
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud -- This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale1 day ago
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan -- Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat23 days ago
Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year -- Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse9 days ago
FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks -- Beijing's botnets busted8 days ago
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face -- Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'8 days ago
Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads -- Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet9 days ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1 -- K8s 1.37 also unsticks a Metrics API that has been lodged in beta status for nine years9 days ago
Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount -- Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon9 days ago
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks -- 'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack'8 days ago
GitHub Actions was down yet again -- Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test9 days ago
MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case -- Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job9 days ago
Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too -- Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along9 days ago
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND -- Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills9 days ago
Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack -- No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing8 days ago
Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up5 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory12 days ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard19 days ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn26 days ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day1 month ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data1 month ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'1 month ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap1 month ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code1 month ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess2 months ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!2 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet2 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug2 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident3 months ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in3 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything3 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch3 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving3 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch3 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild3 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it3 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe3 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference3 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo3 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble3 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract3 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction3 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell3 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead3 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office3 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server3 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam3 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key3 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause5 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble3 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good3 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming3 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work2 months ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books3 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people3 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere3 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver3 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'3 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware3 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice3 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company3 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it3 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe3 months ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery3 months ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'3 months ago
EE invites mobile users to live life in the 5G Fast Lane – for a price15 days ago
Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.15 days ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job16 days ago
Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit23 days ago
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving2 days ago
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return2 days ago
London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above3 days ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's4 days ago
Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election8 days ago
You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way9 days ago
Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch15 days ago
SECURITY -- Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed -- One AI and two trained eyes delved into the heavily padded leaks8 days ago
CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027 - SPONSORED FEATURE: How do you plan for AI and virtualization when the clock is ticking this loudly?9 days ago
PERSONAL TECH - Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension - Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive9 days ago
DATABASES -- AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database -- Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist -- AI and robots are advancing faster than you think, and we're not prepared for a world where the majority may be out of work9 days ago
Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project -- Cease and desist letters from firm headed by free speech absolutist9 days ago
Public sector -- Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR -- Reform UK's leader proposes 'light-touch' alternative, although rival politicians say plans are sparsely detailed and inconsistent with reality9 days ago
OFFBEAT - UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers3 days ago
AI and ML -- Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose -- Eight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces9 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown -- French SI still crying foul over shared services contract, alleges bid was 42% under DWP's own cost model9 days ago
India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets -- A space station by 2035 is ISRO's new mission10 days ago
Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over -- Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through10 days ago
The path to VPN replacement -- The path to VPN replacement whitepaper offers concrete guidance for security and connectivity teams1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action -- Amid talk of an Nvidia deal, the AI search biz is looking beyond the cloud9 days ago
AI and ml -- Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis -- The cost of memory makes this an expensive ML meal9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you -- Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now9 days ago
AI AND ML -- McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI' -- Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat9 days ago
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates1 day ago
'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda -- No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets2 days ago
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%2 days ago
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip -- Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend2 days ago
From watches to passwords on paper, everything that's old is new again -- This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper5 days ago
Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?9 days ago
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast -- Plans to break ground in 2027, produce its own propellant, and power a 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 to orbit9 days ago
Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago -- So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it11 days ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck11 days ago
Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles -- At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 202711 days ago
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf -- Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust13 days ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost14 days ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches14 days ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster16 days ago
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon -- As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations17 days ago
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers -- After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers18 days ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change20 days ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices21 days ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons21 days ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology21 days ago
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard19 days ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books22 days ago
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop -- Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work23 days ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad23 days ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?24 days ago
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers -- Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either26 days ago
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound30 days ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start1 month ago
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut -- The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range1 month ago
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online -- Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web1 month ago
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key1 month ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police1 month ago
30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage -- Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold1 month ago
Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up -- Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun1 month ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba1 month ago
AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness -- Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places1 month ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year1 month ago
Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory -- Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?1 month ago
British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes -- Tekever AR5 drone regarded as more up-to-date answer to provide battlefield surveillance for soldiers1 month ago
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?1 month ago
Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs -- Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network1 month ago
Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs -- Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local1 month ago
Science -- China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight -- Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified 'launch requirements'7 days ago
SCIENCE - No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue10 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures -- Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak18 days ago
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget -- Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 197723 days ago
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury2 hours ago
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area1 day ago
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science2 days ago
ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango4 days ago
Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation -- H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year25 days ago
South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact -- Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri28 days ago
Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power -- MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing28 days ago
Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs -- IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships29 days ago
Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft? -- Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward29 days ago
Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve -- Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year29 days ago
EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters -- State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits10 days ago
You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack -- Attackers now ready to exploit how things work, rather than just break them, says Oracle support expert8 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing -- Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade9 days ago
ai and ML -- Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop -- OpenAI wants you to thank it for keeping a permanent record of all your discussions with its bots9 days ago
Legal -- US convicts ex-Philips engineer for exposing X-ray secrets to competitor -- Dutch electronics giant saw right through ex-engineer's plot, albeit over a year after it all unravelled9 days ago