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macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel - Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot

1 day ago

Lego throws its own Hail Mary -- Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price

2 days ago

London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool -- Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London's West End

1 day ago

Iran war hits datacenter building supply chains, upping costs -- BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveries

1 day ago

Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device -- Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

1 day ago

ON CALL: Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client -- It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in

10 hours ago

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer -- You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?

2 days ago

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon -- Furores are fermenting in the forums

4 hours ago

HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin -- It's not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who's this for, exactly?

5 hours ago

AI and ML - GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash - It's not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

1 day ago

Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift -- Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes

1 day ago

Security - Worm rubs out competitor's malware, then takes control - All your compromised credentials are belong to us now instead of the other gang

2 days ago

Raspberry Pi wants Windows admins to Connect – or it might pull the plug -- Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it

2 days ago

Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy -- In a word, 'Huh?'

2 days ago

Security - Meta U-turns on encryption push for Instagram as DMs go plaintext - After years of insisting end-to-end encryption was the future of online comms, Zuckcorp has handed itself full visibility into user chats once again

2 days ago

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back -- Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

3 days ago

Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now -- AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that -- Rupert Goodwins

4 days ago

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in -- Rupert Goodwins

3 days ago

QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different -- Bruce Davie

4 days ago

The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out -- Mark Pesce

3 days ago

What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession -- Rupert Goodwins

4 days ago

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows -- Rupert Goodwins

4 days ago

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC -- Rupert Goodwins

4 days ago

Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for - Rupert Goodwins

3 days ago

Systems -- AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises -- MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card

4 hours ago

Cyber-Crime -- Hungarian cops cuff suspected swatter after two-year FBI probe -- 20-year-old fessed up after investigators found video of crime in progress

5 hours ago

AI + ML -- EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash -- Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat

2 days ago

Software -- NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash -- Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default

2 days ago

Security -- The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time -- Fortunately, it was a legit contractor who guessed it

1 day ago

Public Sector -- Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking -- Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services – yours for up to £105K

2 days ago

PaaS + IaaS -- Minister gives Palantir's NHS platform a clean bill of health -- £330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in

3 days ago

AI -- Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs -- For AI agents, seeing is expensive

3 days ago

AI + ML -- Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity -- Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits

3 days ago

AI + mL -- Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI -- Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff

2 days ago

Security -- 1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials -- 13% say they've sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests

2 days ago

Science -- Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool -- All driller, no filler

3 days ago

Site News -- We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to -- A new coat of paint

3 days ago

Systems -- DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year -- Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown

3 days ago

Iran cybersnoops still LARPing as ransomware crooks in espionage ops -- MOIS-linked cyber outfit puts on a ransomware show to disguise the wide-open backdoor behind the scenes

2 days ago

AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned -- Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for

4 days ago

Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help -- Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations

4 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? Nope

4 days ago

UK age-gating plans risk breaking the internet, privacy groups warn -- Activists say ministers are targeting access rather than Big Tech's data-hungry business models

2 days ago

AI + ML -- OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw -- A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform

4 days ago

Security - Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security - Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money

4 days ago

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows - Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course

4 days ago

Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds

4 days ago

SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question

4 days ago

UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk

4 days ago

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future

4 days ago

France's digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead

4 days ago

OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'

4 days ago

Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list

4 days ago

Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing'

4 days ago

Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet

4 days ago

Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely

4 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- It's game over for Copilot on Xbox -- Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan

4 days ago

Cyber-crime -- Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill -- Investigators spent weeks unravelling enthusiast's bedroom project

2 days ago

Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads -- It's in Waterfox too, and there it does what you'd expect

4 days ago

GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet -- Seven official flavors offer alternatives to the default Wayland-only desktop – and Xfce looks like the leanest

4 days ago

Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors -- MoD eyes Middle East exports after desert trials of Cambridge Aerospace system

4 days ago

SAAS -- Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration -- EXCLUSIVE: Searches go missing, house sales fall through, and a 5G mast erected by mistake

3 days ago

PaaS + IaaS -- AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly -- Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper

16 hours ago

Security -- India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree -- Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks

3 days ago

SaaS -- Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend -- Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks

4 days ago

AI + ML -- OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year -- If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math

4 days ago

Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse -- Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?

4 hours ago

Datacenter to become Arm's biggest business 'soon' -- Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips

3 days ago

Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway -- Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters

4 days ago

Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm -- They were doing it in Texas...

4 days ago

Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores -- After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse

4 days ago

AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers -- Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear

4 days ago

Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet -- EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon

4 days ago

AI + ML -- ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower -- ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows

3 days ago

Cyber-crime -- Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw -- Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn't sit idle for long

3 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 time

4 days ago

Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked -- Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future

4 days ago

Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking -- Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats

3 days ago

Databases -- SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition -- ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration

4 days ago

PaaS + IaaS -- VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination -- Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock

4 days ago

Cyber-crime -- ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild -- Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched

2 days ago

Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack -- When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision.

4 days ago

The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence Is Forcing a New IT Playbook -- Infrastructure teams are facing a perfect storm: extended hardware lead times, rising costs driven by AI demand, and accelerated platform timelines.

4 days ago

Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival -- Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape.

4 days ago

Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival -- Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape.

4 days ago

Unfriendly Followers: The Black Market For Your Identity -- They'll reveal how attackers use your profile as intel and show you how to make yourself harder to target

4 days ago

AI Found the Problem. Now What? -- AI is transforming the software development lifecycle, helping teams identify and remediate vulnerabilities before they reach production.

2 days ago

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4 days ago

AI + ML -- Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more -- Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech

3 days ago

Security -- Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday -- Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories

3 days ago

Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area -- Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags

4 days ago

NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns -- Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

4 days ago

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof -- If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

4 days ago

Personal Tech -- Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release -- New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard

4 days ago

Security - Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation

2 days ago

Personal Tech -- Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple's Mac Mini now starts at $799 -- The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer

4 days ago

AI + ML -- Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work -- Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default

4 days ago

Research -- Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache -- 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

4 days ago

OSes -- Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver -- Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software

4 days ago

Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager -- Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished

4 days ago

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash -- Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'

4 days ago

SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support -- And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis

4 days ago

Sometimes, Air Is The Only Way For AI Systems To Keep Their Cool

2 days ago

Arista Rides AI Scale Out Networks, Moves Into Scale Across, And Awaits Scale Up

2 days ago

If You Can Make A Compute Engine, You Can Sell A Compute Engine

3 days ago

DDN storage being used in French Pangea supercomputer

2 days ago

N-able not quite able yet but re-enabling nicely

2 days ago

Storage News Ticker - 8 May

2 days ago

Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool - Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor

3 days ago

AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story

4 days ago

IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability

4 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 space

4 days ago

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port -- It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho

4 days ago

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs -- 'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'

4 days ago

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner -- Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges

3 days ago

If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked -- Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows

3 days ago

Personal Tech -- Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back -- Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades

4 days ago

Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky -- Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

4 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 surge

4 days ago

Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better -- Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what's wrong at Redmond?

4 days ago

AI inference just plays by different rules

3 days ago

How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot

3 days ago

It's time to make agentic automation scalable

3 days ago

ZTE and China Telecom win GSMA GLOMO "Best Private Network Solution" for EasyOn 5G-A-RobotNet

4 days ago

China Unicom and ZTE release 5GAxI UniMAX ubiquitous deterministic connectivity solution to empower 5G-A+AI convergence

4 days ago

ZTE launches GigaMIMO: AI-native wireless empowers human-agent synergy

4 days ago

ZTE honored with three GSMA GLOMO Awards, pioneering an intelligent future

4 days ago

U Mobile to leverage ZTE's AIR Core solution to pilot AI capabilities in their 5G network to improve efficiency, stability and capabilities in latest MoU

4 days ago

ZTE debuts next-gen FWA line-up powered by AI, Wi-Fi 8 and 5G-A at MWC Barcelona 2026

4 days ago

ZTE and SURGE mark milestone partnership to deliver world's first commercial 5G FWA 1.4GHz service

4 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'

4 days ago

AI + ML -- Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark -- In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy

4 days ago

AI + ML -- Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents -- Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM

4 days ago

Security -- Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt -- Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once

4 days ago

SaaS -- ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs -- CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'

4 days ago

Personal Tech -- Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone -- Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives

4 days ago

To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane

4 days ago

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching

2 days ago

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job

2 days ago

Columnists - Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled - Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine

2 days ago

On-Prem - Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

2 days ago

While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?

2 days ago

Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds

2 days ago

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

2 days ago

Public Sector - Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred - Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it

4 days ago

Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now -- Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos

4 days ago

It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well -- OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs

4 days ago

Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts -- The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AI

4 days ago

Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town -- Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed

4 days ago

Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter -- System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline

4 days ago

Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger -- Hackpocalypse deferred

4 days ago

AI + ML -- CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos -- If software writes software the risk is "systematic failure at scale". Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester

4 days ago

Personal Tech -- That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry -- Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock

4 days ago

Cyber-crime -- First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed -- Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand

4 days ago

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' -- Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow

4 days ago

OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that -- Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked

4 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 dev

4 days ago

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down -- 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming

4 days ago

Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? -- Things that go bork in the night

4 days ago

Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed -- Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year

4 days ago

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave -- For once, Oracle ERP wasn't the problem

4 days ago

Qualcomm teases 'dedicated CPU for agentic experiences' and 'agentic smartphones' -- Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler

4 days ago

Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over -- In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can 'contribute to global stability'

4 days ago

Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out -- 'Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker'

4 days ago

Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak -- Names, phone numbers, physical addresses also included in Shiny Hunters alleged data dump

4 days ago

Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools -- Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump

2 days ago

AI + ML - Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database - Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding

2 days ago

Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins - Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings

2 days ago

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet -- Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew

4 days ago

Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt -- Security giant says attackers grabbed 'limited set' of data. Crooks claim 10 million records

4 days ago

AI's not going to kill open source code security -- Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way

4 days ago

Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction

2 days ago

'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit

2 days ago

Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack

2 days ago

Meta fights Ofcom over how many billions count as billions

2 days ago

Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull

2 days ago

Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time

2 days ago

Anthropic response to 1-click pwn: Shouldn't have clicked 'ok'

2 days ago

60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour

3 days ago

Security -- The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools -- Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware

4 days ago

AI + ML -- Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue -- Stop the sprawl!

4 days ago

AI + ML -- Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser -- Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open

4 days ago

Security -- Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled -- KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start

4 days ago

Security -- FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control' -- One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend

4 days ago

Personal Tech -- Phone users know when to hold 'em, delay upgrades amid inflation -- Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average

4 days ago

Patches -- Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines -- This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows

2 days ago

French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state's secure document agency -- Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online

4 days ago

Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool -- Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor

4 days ago

Off-Prem - AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud

2 days ago

UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe -- CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms

4 days ago

Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city -- Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shift

4 days ago

Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews -- One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdog

4 days ago

Tencent says small clouds can't get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices -- Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise party

4 days ago

AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left -- Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart

4 days ago

BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops -- MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead

4 days ago

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes' -- Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint

4 days ago

Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies -- Remember: Truth is the first casualty of war

4 days ago

Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren't AI enough -- Around 20 percent of staff get an 'In one hour, you might not work here anymore' email

2 days ago

AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region -- Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere

2 days ago

IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power -- Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues

3 days ago

Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis -- Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS

3 days ago

Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 -- Haswell's had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away

4 days ago

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs -- Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it

4 days ago

ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 -- $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts

4 days ago

Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs -- AI is driving more searches and ads

4 days ago

SaaS -- Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI -- Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party

4 days ago

AI + ML -- SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy -- Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations – including AI – that connect to SAP systems

4 days ago

OSes -- Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' -- But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya?

4 days ago

AI + ML -- Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes -- AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them

4 days ago

Cyber-crime -- Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005 -- Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support'

4 days ago

Cyber-crime -- What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia -- Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit

4 days ago

Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day -- Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected

4 days ago

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs -- Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops

4 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 themselves

4 days ago

Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet -- Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection

4 days ago

ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine -- ZTE and NCRCIM leverage "CardioMind" AI and full-stack computing to drive global healthcare equity

4 days ago

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

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PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

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'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild

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IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it

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The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe

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Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference

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Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo

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Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble

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Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

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Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

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Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

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Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

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Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office

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Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server

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Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam

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ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

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Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause

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Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble

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New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

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Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

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Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work

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Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books

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Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people

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Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

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Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

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'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'

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Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware

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Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice

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Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company

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Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it

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Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe

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Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery

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After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'

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Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league

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I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA

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CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it

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Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results

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Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off

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Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady

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Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server

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Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo

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Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

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Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time

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Junior sysadmin's first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company

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Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown

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Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules

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Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe

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Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter

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Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away

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Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload

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Networks -- Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts -- Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow

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US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit

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ZTE reports first-quarter revenue of RMB 35.0 billion, up 6% YoY, with computing revenue mix rising to 27%

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TUIT and ZTE unveil new initiatives for student internships and tech employment

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Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months

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Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims

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HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi

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It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet

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Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal

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Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear

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Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet

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Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1

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Wind Telecom Dominican Republic and ZTE join forces to accelerate smart home innovation

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ZTE and XLSMART officially launch Innovation Center in Jakarta, accelerating 5G-advanced and AI readiness for Indonesia

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Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises -- Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand

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Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root -- Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation

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AI + ML -- Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz -- The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'

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Research -- Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm -- ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength

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Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack -- Second try's a charm?

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Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 -- Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security

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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 info

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OSes - Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it

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AI + ML -- Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models -- There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was

4 days ago

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest

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CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool -- GrassMarlin leaks sensitive information, provided your targeting phishing skills are sharp enough

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Securing the Untrusted Agentic Development Layer -- Join us to learn how to architect a development environment where your builders and their agents can move fast and securely.

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AI + ML -- AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard -- Eleven up, ten down

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Security -- GitHub: Zounds, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop! Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash -- Claude ploughs through months of work in rapid time, helps Wiz researchers nab lucrative award

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AI + ML -- AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story -- No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers

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Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00 -- Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes

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EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online -- 'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses'

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GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain -- After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slide

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AI + ML -- ZTE ensures 2026 Jiangsu Football City League opening ceremony with 5G-A, powering robot traffic police debut -- Pioneering the future of smart sports with the world's first practical deployment of 5G-A "EasyOn·Robot" private networks for humanoid traffic police

4 days ago

OFF-PREM -- IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power

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Cyber-crime -- Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill

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AI + ML -- Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more

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Software -- Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads

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London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool -- Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London's West End

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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 alive

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Lego throws its own Hail Mary -- Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price

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Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere -- Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen

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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?

3 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 airports

4 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 them

4 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 not

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Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely

4 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 role

4 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 home

4 days ago

China blocks Zuck's acquisition of AI outfit Manus -- Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions

4 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 friend

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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 day

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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?

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Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes -- Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn

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NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer -- Tests scheduled for May can't come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown

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NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission -- Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms

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Would you like fries with that terminal? -- Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't

4 days ago

Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars -- Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam

4 days ago

Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall -- Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start

4 days ago

Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment -- Services giant's staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices

4 days ago

Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many -- We've all been there

4 days ago

Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031 -- Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?

4 days ago

Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges -- Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decade

4 days ago

Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London -- Google sibling takes on the Big Smoke – with a human hand on the wheel

4 days ago

Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt -- Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputtering

4 days ago

California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says -- Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print files

4 days ago

Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math -- Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting

4 days ago

Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects -- DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects

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Science - Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet'

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SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months -- Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team

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Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why -- Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate

4 days ago

Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool

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More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook

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Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration

4 days ago

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

4 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 experiences

4 days ago

NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ -- Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision

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FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' -- One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume

4 days ago

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess

4 days ago

You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house -- It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'

4 days ago

Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit -- Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place

4 days ago

GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks -- 32 phone calls, 17 email chains, a 5-day ordeal, and no help during the daddy of all stuffups, claim those affected

1 day ago

AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in -- Expert says it could push customers and partners to work with undocumented APIs

4 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 show

4 days ago

30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm -- Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw

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Networks -- When robots join the race: 5G-A powers a new kind of marathon -- Human and humanoid runners share the track as next-gen connectivity underpins real-time AI performance

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