Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement -- GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their heads

1 day ago

Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths -- Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn't escalate their concerns

12 hours ago

Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide -- Customers in 10 of the company's 23 regions had "operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete."

12 hours ago

GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners - updated - Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.

1 day ago

Infinite Machine e-scooter is like the offspring of a Vespa and a Cybertruck -- hands on -- Offbeat

5 hours ago

ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US -- Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members -- Cyber-crime

6 hours ago

DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission -- But not Phil Collins, sadly -- AI + ML

7 hours ago

WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack -- Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls -- Networks

7 hours ago

Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo -- Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K people -- Cyber-crime

8 hours ago

NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits -- UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos -- Public Sector

10 hours ago

pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree -- Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen -- OSes

11 hours ago

BOFH - : All through the house, not a creature was stirring except the homicidal vacuum cleaner - Episode 24 - Minor firmware issues coincide with workplace absence among leadership - BOFH - 19 Dec 2025 - | 21

2 hours ago

HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10 -- Maximum-severity vuln lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on trusted infra management platform -- Patches

11 hours ago

UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires -- Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgrade -- Networks

13 hours ago

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud - Exclusive - Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution - PaaS + IaaS - 19 Dec 2025 - | 24

4 hours ago

Ministers confirm breach at UK Foreign Office but details remain murky -- Officials admit 'there certainly has been a hack,' but refuse to confirm China link or data theft -- Cyber-crime

14 hours ago

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming - Who, Me? One keypress turned a tricky Windows NT balancing act into a life of leisure

2 days ago

Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits -- Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health -- Off-Prem

15 hours ago

GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens -- Coming with added 'filters and rules' after prototype spat out inaccurate or outright wrong responses -- Public Sector

16 hours ago

Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau -- Are pasties a proxy for weight? Or a cypher for circumference? -- Offbeat

16 hours ago

User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis - On Call - Hey, teacher, leave that cabling alone - Networks - 19 Dec 2025 - | 89

29 minutes ago

Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs -- Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTail -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins -- 'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational' -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can't Meet Demand

8 hours ago

Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition

1 day ago

Building The AI Factory Datacenter

1 day ago

Nvidia Is The Only AI Model Maker That Can Afford To Give It Away

2 days ago

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't - On Call - Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up

2 days ago

Mobile industry says energy targets are meaningless without common metrics -- NGMN warns fragmented standards leave operators guessing about power use -- Networks

1 day ago

Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon -- Ambitious timelines don't bend the laws of physics -- Science

1 day ago

Kim's crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025 -- ByBit attack doing some seriously heavy lifting -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit -- Flaw in remote-access appliance lets attackers chain bugs for root-level takeover -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation -- Justice Department claims unlicensed exchange funneled ransomware profits -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt -- Billionaire space tourist inherits troubled agency facing budget chaos, workforce cuts, and a Moon race against China -- Science

1 day ago

Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

1 day ago

GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

2 days ago

Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers

3 days ago

Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

4 days ago

Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing - How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers - Sponsored Feature

10 hours ago

Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration

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The storage integration problem that breaks infrastructure automation

1 day ago

Storage news ticker – December 18

1 day ago

Lightbits scales virtual SANs past 100 PB

1 day ago

UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns -- Investigatory Powers Commissioner says reforms have failed to close oversight gaps -- Security

1 day ago

Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions -- MPs press minister for answers – and get few -- Networks

1 day ago

United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance -- World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'Net -- Public Sector

1 day ago

AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin - Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence - Sponsored Post

17 hours ago

ServiceNow unworried by Salesforce firing shots across its bow -- Believes it can translate workflow smarts into AI ROI -- SaaS

2 days ago

Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement -- GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their heads -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Attacks pummeling Cisco AsyncOS 0-day since late November -- No timeline for a patch -- Security

2 days ago

CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns - interview - Plus: automated SBOMs, $250,000 bounties ahead - Security - 17 Dec 2025 - | 6

1 day ago

Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists -- Amazon bets that by making AI its own group, it can outpace Microsoft and Google -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause -- Vermont lawmaker proposes DC moratorium to give Congress time to rein in the AI boom -- Public Sector

2 days ago

All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup -- Startup expects its first Kaleidos reactor to power on at Idaho National Lab next year -- The Future of the Datacenter

2 days ago

GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners - updated - Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min. Devops - 17 Dec 2025 - | 46

1 hour ago

NASA tries savin' MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth -- Spacecraft was 'rotating in an unexpected manner' and might have shifted orbit -- Science

2 days ago

Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack -- Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings -- Security

2 days ago

AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans -- CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era -- When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it's time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.

28 days ago

Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation

1 month ago

How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption

1 month ago

Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

1 month ago

NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential -- Build a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information war -- Security

2 days ago

California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims -- Full Self-Driving Capability marketing deemed a 'violation of state law' -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Microsoft security update breaks MSMQ on older Win systems -- Folder permission changes cause queue failures and misleading error messages, no real fix yet -- OSes

2 days ago

X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill -- Lawsuit concedes the bird is still the word for many -- Legal

2 days ago

React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines -- Security boffins warn flaw is now being used for ransomware attacks against live networks

1 day ago

Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful -- Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.

12 hours ago

China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET -- Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace'

16 hours ago

Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide -- Customers in 10 of the company's 23 regions had "operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete."

7 hours ago

Your car's web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin -- Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date

4 hours ago

DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in -- 18-year-old platform crumbles under 94M daily requests while resellers flog £62 tests for £500

11 hours ago

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI -- Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giants

10 hours ago

NHS tech supplier probes cyberattack on internal systems - Updated - Around 2,000 GP practices use its products

3 hours ago

Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths -- Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn't escalate their concerns

16 hours ago

Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future -- Even with its new fabs coming online, demand will exceed supply

2 hours ago

Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI -- Follows Nick Clegg at Meta and Rishi Sunak at Anthropic in snuggling up to US tech -- AI + ML

2 days ago

UK.gov accused of Grinching Christmas by ignoring phone theft scourge -- Six months after expert testimony, no one has yet dialed into promised summit on technical solutions -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion -- Regulator proposes strict limits on screen-based testing, cites infrastructure concerns and lack of evidence for benefits -- Public Sector

2 days ago

The 5X AI reality check: why enterprises are leaving transformative value on the table - Your content structure is holding you back - Sponsored Post

17 hours ago

UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband -- Changes to Electronic Communications Code would bypass landlord objections to fiber installations -- Networks

2 days ago

Cisco decides its homegrown AI model is ready to power its products -- Apparently you're about to get better advice on any identity issues lurking in your infrastructure -- AI + ML

2 days ago

India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64 -- No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic pride -- Systems

3 days ago

China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks -- Misconfigured servers are in, 0-days out -- Research

3 days ago

Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs -- The company has reportedly consulted itself and decided it needs fewer people -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Analytics provider: We didn't expose smut site data to crims -- An employee of the adult site could be responsible. -- Security

3 days ago

Meta's SAM bot keeps 'em separated as it isolates voices and instruments from audio clips -- No mention of protections to stop it being used to snoop on people -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats -- More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators -- Amazon, meanwhile, claims its datacenters are helping ratepayers despite tons of evidence to the contrary -- The Future of the Datacenter

2 days ago

Nvidia fills the void of American open-weights models with some of its own -- Nemotron 3 is a grab bag of 2025's top machine learning advancements -- AI + ML

3 days ago

SantaStealer stuffs credentials, crypto wallets into a brand new bag -- All I want for Christmas ... is all of your data -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm -- And parades its latest trio of Nemotron models -- Software

3 days ago