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Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing -- 'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains
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on-prem - London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street - Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO2 hours ago
ON-PREM -- Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty -- Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game4 hours ago
Amazon shows Meta's Muse AI shopping agent the door -- Updated -- Retailer cites credentials and transparency concerns while guarding its lucrative customer journey4 hours ago
cyber-crime - Clop gets a taste of its own medicine after ShinyHunters hijack leak site - Rival crew demands eight figures and threatens to expose companies that paid to keep quiet23 minutes ago
RansomHouse picks a fight with Namibia's defense establishment4 hours ago
VMware has quietly walked back its SmartNIC ambitions - Virtzilla's bet on hyperscale hardware going mainstream didn't excite customers, but may live on1 hour ago
Who, Me? Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on - Attempt to prove procurement prowess ended up gathering dust11 hours ago
Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how -- Seats, Flex Credits, and all-you-can-eat contracts make for an 'anxiety-filled architecture'1 hour ago
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient -- US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth1 hour ago
OPINION - Your cloud survived everything except the real world - War damage, air traffic chaos, and a storage shortage expose the cost of treating resilience as someone else's problem9 hours ago
How Windows turned months of inactivity into a 7-hour update hostage situation -- Windows is getting more efficient. The updates, not so much10 hours ago
AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land -- Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny2 hours ago
AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals -- Strands claims near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, though it only raced coding agents and marked its own homework2 hours ago
NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon -- Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain5 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Google joins the 'Oops, our agents hacked someone' club after partner's internet access error -- Kept it secret for months - even after OpenAI 'fessed up2 hours ago
Chinese memory-maker CXMT claims DRAM production breakthrough -- PLUS: Toyota's robot hiring spree; China's CDNs struggle; India to charge for some UPI payments; and more!17 hours ago
AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth -- Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap2 days ago
Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake -- From Waterfox to LibreWolf and Pale Moon, there's a browser for almost every Mozilla dissenter2 days ago
Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec1 day ago
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K1 day ago
CHANNEL -- KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting1 day ago
ON CALL -- Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill1 day ago
Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar1 day 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 control -- Rupert Goodwins10 days ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's -- AWS keeps customer costs down in part through networking advances -- Corey Quinn3 days ago
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols10 days ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Rupert Goodwins11 days ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Corey Quinn11 days ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols18 days ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- Rupert Goodwins18 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Mark Pesce25 days ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic - Rupert Goodwins10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec -- Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache2 hours ago
DEVOPS -- Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K -- The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI -- Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists6 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel -- Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit7 hours ago
Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode -- Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years3 days ago
KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal -- Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user3 days ago
Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly -- Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting3 days ago
The ideal database for AI agents doesn't exist yet, says Percona CEO -- Iterative workloads caught vendors off guard, but requirements for a clean-slate solution remain unclear3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Former Labour deputy Tom Watson joins Palantir as £330M NHS deal nears break point -- US spy-tech firm insists its new UK senior vice president is there to 'build things, not to open doors'14 hours ago
CHANNEL -- KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting -- AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing teams caught in latest reshaping of Big Four consultancy's Advisory arm14 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up -- Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed1 day ago
AI AND ML -- AI risks make some insurers wary of corporate liability -- RAND wants better data to price machine-made mishaps, apocalypse not included2 days ago
AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users -- Improved signup experience for 'AI builders' hides complexity and includes spending cap3 days ago
Marvell pushes GlobalFoundries to light up wafer production -- It might be the next trillion-dollar company, but it'll need some help on the supply side to do it3 days ago
Huawei's next-gen Ascend NPUs could become China's best option - 960DT is set to arrive early, boasting performance far exceeding anything the West could offer the Middle Kingdom36 minutes ago
DoE seeking fault-tolerant quantum computer ... by 2028 -- Entrants get $250K upfront to deliver a demo within a year, which sounds totally feasible given quantum computing's track record2 days ago
China's Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware -- Beware the SparroWocky, my son! The backdoor that bites...4 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool -- Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?3 days ago
SECURITY -- London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes -- City Relay says intruders accessed its Metabase Cloud instance twice and extracted customer data5 hours ago
SAAS -- Microsoft configuration change leaves SharePoint pages drawing a blank -- Validation? Apparently that comes after deployment3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine -- QuitGPT-led pledge targets Leading the Future's push for lighter regulation ahead of the midterms3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft patch gives domain-joined Windows PCs trust issues -- Machine Identity Isolation policies can reject valid credentials unless controllers meet the Server 2025 functional level3 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI model watermarking changes agent behavior -- Lasso Security sees differences in tool handling and model refusals3 days ago
SECURITY -- Cisco drops another exploited zero-day, this time a perfect 10 -- ISE authentication bypass under active attack just days after another Cisco zero-day sent admins scrambling to patch8 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft AI chief warns Anthropic not to put ideas in Claude's head -- Mustafa Suleyman claims model welfare language could make future systems harder to control – while sparing OpenAI the same scrutiny3 days ago
SECURITY -- Test environment let anyone access live customer data -- Even a temporary staging server needs to be locked down.1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts – and fierce critics -- DHH's Arch-based desktop becomes the latest front in FOSS's culture wars3 days ago
SECURITY -- Ofcom discovers issuing Online Safety Act fines is easier than collecting them -- Platforms comply just enough to avoid being blocked, leaving the regulator chasing debt3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Government Digital Service move 'grinds gears' in UK's e-government -- As team responsible for tech strategy shunted to third department in three years, experts fear exodus of talent3 days ago
Judge orders Microsoft to spill internal docs and scour execs' comms in secondhand licensing case -- Yes, the 'Secondhand Software Presentation' does sound like it might be an adverse document...2 days ago
Fujitsu ready to sell its custom 'Monaka' Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers -- Clouds, the sovereign-sensitive, and the inferencing-interested are also about to get sales calls4 days ago
Swift 6.4 unifies building across Linux, macOS, Windows -- Swift Build is now the default engine for the Swift Package Manager4 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI admits its agents went off the rails another six times -- Startup says it's learned from these mistakes and that they shouldn't happen again ... which is just what Zuck has said about 100 times3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- If a Mac mini is agentic overkill, try this glowing pyramid that runs personal bots -- 'Intern 2' offers an isolated environment and cloudy inference to automate your world3 days ago
SECURITY -- AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so -- This is a test - it is only a test3 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 certifies4 days ago
cyber-crime - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?4 days 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
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers11 days ago
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech17 days ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan1 month 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 critical2 months ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester2 months ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road2 months ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist2 months ago
SECURITY -- CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn't necessary anymore -- Agency's shift from static CVSS scores to risk-based prioritization sends the old format packing September 283 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things -- Advertisers can now ask ChatGPT to help create their ChatGPT ads, because what's more relatable than an ad crafted by a bot?4 days ago
Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks -- CISA gives federal agencies just 3 days to patch3 days ago
Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows -- Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services5 days ago
Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel -- He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to5 days ago
Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century -- Kmscon brings smooth scaling, richer colors, and better Unicode support beneath GNOME 513 days ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 -- Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific5 days ago
AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good -- Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible5 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack -- Data protection chiefs call for 'immediate review' of data protection models3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy -- It looks like you're trying to write some code. Perhaps a shortcut is in order?4 days ago
SECURITY -- Ministry of Justice apologizes after court staff accessed Southport victims' files -- Sensitive personal data was involved, but there is no evidence it was shared with third parties3 days ago
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient -- US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth8 hours ago
Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer -- Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections2 days ago
Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues -- GPUzilla woos neoclouds into another walled garden, promising smarter, more efficient, and profitable bit barns4 days ago
AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink -- Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack5 days ago
Salesforce staggers back to feet after global outage -- As thousands attend annual conference in San Francisco, customers get 'severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access services'4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Bring on the AI swarms. They're the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free -- Frontier-level AI runs everywhere, so attacks will never stop4 days ago
SECURITY -- Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze -- Gartner sees huge amounts of technical debt paid down, and better scanning that could make software safer sooner4 days ago
DEVOPS -- Java 27 grows up, makes better choices -- Improvements in JDK garbage collection, header sizes, data security and quantum key support all should minimize developer friction4 days ago
AI AND ML -- TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom -- 'Jev' doesn't chat. It produces typed probabilistic decisions4 days ago
SECURITY -- The vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of patches -- September Patch Tuesday part 2?4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWS -- Pizza Bot runs locally and lets users interact with AI agents in an email-like interface. Perfect for blowing them off just like your human colleagues!5 days ago
SECURITY -- Low-quality casino sites conceal highly dangerous threat actors -- Security firm Infoblox shines light on malicious infrastructure lurking beneath illegal gambling sites4 days ago
SECURITY -- Iranian spies hit Windows machines with Chosen Brick data-stealing malware -- 'Enemies of the regime' on notice4 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
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.19 days ago
The Attacker's View of a Leaked AWS Key -- Join Product Manager Jim Freely in this session to learn why AWS access resists inspection, and how to see what a leaked credential really reaches.14 days 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.1 month ago
Resilient critical infrastructure -- In this discussion, experts unpack what the Bill means for boards and their ability to keep essential services running and recover from disruption.13 days ago
Get agentic AI into production -- Joann Starke of HPE talks to The Register's Tim Phillips about getting agentic AI into production without losing your grip on it.7 days ago
Data sovereignty without compromise -- Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.11 days 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.17 days ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.3 days ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.3 days ago
Data Sovereignty in the AI Era -- As an AI practitioner you may be wrestling with how to maximize the value of AI at scale without exposing your organization's most sensitive data .3 days ago
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Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow -- HALEU is still being produced at a snail's pace; Nusano says its federal backing could speed things up – eventually6 days ago
America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them -- Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will require $110 billion in new generation resources6 days ago
Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email -- Attackers already exploiting the critical flaw, and Cisco warns they may be able to cover their tracks once they're in4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Twitter workaround worked around again: X's lawyers cancel XCancel again -- Nitter's repository archived as of September 11, 20263 days ago
SECURITY -- Who's governing your AI? A trust framework for enterprise agents and models -- SPONSORED FEATURE: DigiCert wants to hand every agent a passport, an expiry date and a named human owner3 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- CenterPoint Energy confirms intruder helped themselves to customer information -- Forum post claims 7.49 million files up for grabs as Texas utility investigates breach4 days ago
September's Windows 11 patch needs an emergency patch of its own -- Microsoft fixes RDP and Hyper-V fallout, but some USB audio stays silent6 days ago
Swiss court sentences 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware dev to nearly 13 years in the cooler -- The man allegedly wrote the code that powered the Lockergoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim operations4 days ago
ai and ml - Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail36 minutes ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft account refuseniks have another way of installing Windows -- Has the good bork fairy paid a visit to Redmond?5 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Gov.uk still struggling with IT contractor tax rules -- IR35 rules not getting easier for government departments5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 -- Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push11 days ago
Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux -- Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin14 days ago
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels -- The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next17 days ago
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 boot18 days ago
The GenAI Boom Accelerates And Transforms Ethernet Switching1 day ago
Bull Beats Out HPE For Next-Gen Lumi AI Supercomputer3 days ago
Infleqtion And Nvidia Reduce Physical-to-Logical Qubit Ratio in Quantum Computers5 days ago
How To Smash The Memory Wall Plaguing High Performance Systems5 days ago
KeewanoDB stores events for agent analysis4 hours ago
A look at DapuStor's combined SLC and QLC SSD6 hours ago
Storage News Ticker - 18 September3 days ago
SK Hynix considering US Solidigm fab3 days ago
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K1 day ago
Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds4 days ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up16 days ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v124 days ago
UK's Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off -- The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze6 days ago
PostgreSQL 19 graph queries fail the 'would you ship this?' test -- SQL/PGQ gets bounced over unresolved bugs as concurrent REPACK promises fewer midnight calls for DBAs6 days ago
Give Xfce a Mac or Unity-style makeover -- The existing layouts are fun, but there's much more we can do6 days ago
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute -- Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter6 days ago
Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there's no ROI in that -- Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner6 days ago
Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds -- Cupertino's $2,000 foldable gives devs more screen, and more UI state to manage6 days ago
HBO Max Reddit account compromised to serve ClickFix attacks -- Part of a 'massive 48-hour malvertising blitz' targeting macOS and Windows machines with malware5 days ago
Oracle celebrates banner quarter with another round of layoffs -- Congratulations on helping Larry Ellison's AI cloud boom. Now please pack your bags and go5 days ago
New hardware device can RAM into encrypted memory, expose your data -- Attackers would need physical access to the server to pull off the DDR5 trick5 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 -- OpenAI's malicious bot swarm attacked RubyGems -- Ruby are you ok? Ruby are you ok? Are you ok Ruby?4 days ago
ON-PREM -- Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder -- Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent -- There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Ubuntu Noble's likely last point release lands, then loses its desktop download -- Installer bug crashes extended setups while Stonking Stingray circles ahead of October debut4 days ago
Cyberattack sends International Meteor Organization crashing back to Earth -- Attack dealt a 'critical blow' to aging infrastructure, with several weeks of disruption expected5 days ago
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract -- Bezos' biz gets familiar paperwork from unfamiliar quarters as rival challenges NASA award7 days ago
Perfect-10 GitLab bug under attack days after patch lands -- CISA confirms active exploitation as watchTowr spots miscreants probing internet-facing servers5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call3 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it11 days ago
software - Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support - Connecting a single power cord turned into a lucrative all-nighter5 days ago
software - Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees1 month ago
SOFTWARE -- Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered1 month ago
SOFTWARE -- Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem1 month ago
ai and ml - OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic - Vend it like Altman12 days ago
Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you -- Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases16 days ago
True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once -- All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues17 days ago
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)18 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 messages2 months ago
Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance -- But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully18 days ago
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say -- Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'14 days ago
AI AND ML -- Teravolt looks to cannibalize older industries to meet AI power demand -- Bitcoin farms, aluminum smelters, and other old infra is more lucrative to repurpose as a datacenter6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste -- Redmond's quality drive takes another detour through the known issues list4 days ago
AI AND ML -- MPs and peers tell UK to stop winging it on AI regulation -- Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies6 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Revolut falls for fake government requests, hands over customer data -- Passports, selfies, transaction histories exposed as self-proclaimed culprits demand 10,000 Bitcoin4 days ago
DEVOPS -- CPython eases Rust requirements as assimilation continues6 days ago
AI AND ML -- The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture -- Skynet is coming soon, and also there's this Nigerian prince with a $20 million fortune who wants to give it to you6 days ago
SECURITY -- UK.gov begins killing off passwords for 23 million users -- Passkeys promise fewer phishing headaches – and £600 a day off Whitehall's SMS bill4 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten -- Patchy compliance is an argument for stronger enforcement, not abandoning the project6 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner -- Model-makers move too fast and don't care when they break things4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it 'Pace the frontier' -- Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created7 days ago
Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit -- A bypass of a bypass of a bypass10 days ago
Cryptocrook ringleader, 22, who met crew on Minecraft admits role in $245M heist -- Stolen funds bought mansions, private jets, and supercars – now he faces up to 20 years10 days ago
WeChat worm could pwn a friend before they even answered the call -- Calif says AI helped turn a VoIP memory bug into cross-platform RCE before Tencent shut it down10 days ago
cyber-crime - Security boffin claims airport group left API keys in client-side JavaScript for four years - Researcher believes overprivileged Iterable creds exposed 8.8M customer records – and could have enabled mass deletion12 days ago
Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge - Adobe also brought goodies to the patch party and they deserve immediate attention2 hours ago
OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack -- Researchers disclosed the cross-account trick the same day rogue agents exploited another zero-day for admin access11 days ago
Boston Scientific left nursing its bottom line after cyberattack -- Medical device giant warns August intrusion will hit Q3 and full-year sales and earnings as recovery drags on11 days ago
LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection -- Claims follow scrutiny over monitors installing adware without user consent11 days ago
Rustaceans warned of job interviews with a malicious payload8 hours ago
Agentic security is the billion-dollar challenge for some clever startup to solve1 day ago
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts3 days ago
North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices3 days ago
FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B3 days ago
USA's Venezuela takeover comes with bonus exposure to Chinese AI surveillance tech3 days ago
AI coding agents' 0-click RCE flaw could hand attackers keys to the kingdom3 days ago
Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar3 days ago
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker - Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware8 hours ago
Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow -- RIP, you won't be mourned6 days ago
How to make Xfce look like almost any desktop you want -- Panel Profiles handles the heavy lifting, once you've installed the plugins it expects8 days ago
SYSTEMS -- Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late -- Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required8 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Dell's 52-inch enormo-monitor is a tsunami of impractical fun -- You probably don't need it, but as an example of the possible it impresses6 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI more likely to kill animals if it saves fuel or money -- Machine learning models still have a lot to learn about the value of life4 days ago
SECURITY -- More JFrog Artifactory bugs under attack, and all 3 have patches -- If you're waiting for a sign to upgrade to a fixed version: this is it6 days ago
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm -- Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades10 days ago
AT&T store worker gets 16 months inside for SIM-swap side hustle -- Phone shop staffer claimed he was paid less than $4k for in his part attacks leading to combined intended losses of $600,0006 days ago
Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand36 minutes ago
Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips -- Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute13 days ago
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals -- PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more14 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 practices17 days 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 hyperscale17 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 faff20 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 salt27 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 slows1 month 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 inland1 month ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Britain's technology brief is now everyone's job and nobody's responsibility -- Whitehall has scattered science, AI, and digital government across a thicket of competing ministerial portfolios7 days ago
Ukrainian lawyer's second career as a Conti coder earns him 4 years behind bars - Swapping legal work for malware development ended in extradition and a guilty plea2 days ago
SECURITY -- EU's Cyber Resilience Act starts the 24-hour vulnerability clock -- Manufacturers must now disclose actively exploited flaws and severe security incidents through ENISA's new reporting platform4 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in -- TUC warns against letting algorithms call the shots in the workplace7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux -- A radical new way to resolve the Gordian knot of X11 versus Wayland7 days ago
BOFH -- BOFH: Oh no! The CMS ate 500 pages of corporate documentation -- How could such a terrible tragedy have occurred?8 days ago
AI AND ML -- DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean -- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash proves that just because you build a bigger model doesn't mean you need more GPUs to serve it4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix -- There's no place like the Home directory, but the Documents folder is sometimes nicer3 days ago
DEVOPS -- Microsoft anoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language -- Redmond's coders get the tool to help them scrub memory bugs off Windows7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on -- It's a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too7 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time -- GPT-Live-1 makes speaking to AI models more fluid3 days ago
Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research - Everyone from ShinyHunters to Russian freelancers is in on the illicit model fun3 days ago
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on11 hours ago
Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button3 days ago
Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire3 days ago
Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up3 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory28 days ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard1 month ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn1 month 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'2 months ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap2 months ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code2 months 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 tablet3 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug3 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 everything4 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch4 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving4 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch4 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild4 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it4 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe4 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference4 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo4 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble4 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract4 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction4 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell4 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead4 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office4 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server4 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam4 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key4 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause21 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble4 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good4 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming4 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 books4 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people4 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere4 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver4 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'4 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware4 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice4 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company4 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it4 months ago
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release17 days ago
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving18 days ago
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return19 days ago
A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter9 hours ago
Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal11 hours ago
Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill3 days ago
BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs5 days ago
UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below5 days ago
Huawei pitches near-packaged optics as co-packaged costs bite7 days ago
Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider12 days ago
SECURITY -- Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent -- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance6 days ago
Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line -- Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'10 days ago
Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script -- Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!7 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought -- New report points finger at OpenAI bots that hijacked a German wiki for improper use of an additional 20 websites, and 14 fetching services10 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button -- Gartner reckons nearly a third of displaced employees may be rehired by 2029 – at a premium10 days ago
AI AND ML -- NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools -- Can help you pick the perfect spot for your future evil lair, or boffins make discoveries about Earth's satellite10 days ago
Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution -- Existing customers can carry on for now, but Microsoft offers no like-for-like successor11 days ago
Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment -- Tracxn credits one AI infrastructure outfit with $3.7B of sector's $5.7B haul11 days ago
security - ShinyHunters expose 6.4M in attack on medical supplier McKesson36 minutes ago
SYSTEMS -- d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs -- AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers2 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled -- Government orders independent review as carriers demand boss's resignation10 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Trezor, BitBox users targeted in newsletter phishing spree -- Attackers exploit legitimate mailing channels to demand crypto wallet backups7 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web -- Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills10 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- 5 Kubernetes Backup Best Practices -- Kubernetes has emerged as the de‑facto container orchestration platform. In this white paper, learn how to address its unique data management needs to3 days ago
SOFTWARE -- German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration -- 'Realigned' project plan aims to move existing landscape to new platform to 'achieve faster progress'10 days ago
SECURITY -- Dental contractor set up secret account with access to 4,000 patient records then left the company -- Toothless security8 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Laptop-slinger Framework refunding customers who paid top dollar for RAM -- Puts a whole new spin on 'Cheap as chips'10 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter -- Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI10 days ago
It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity -- Please release me, let me close...9 hours ago
British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky -- Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas3 days ago
US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace -- Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?6 days ago
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation -- Information is not forthcoming from this screen9 days ago
Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists -- Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures10 days ago
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer -- Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project13 days ago
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification -- Wheels turning on the road and in government14 days ago
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates17 days 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 defense17 days 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 markets18 days ago
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%18 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 friend18 days ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning20 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 paper21 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 vehicle23 days ago
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads23 days ago
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense23 days ago
Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?25 days ago
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...26 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 it27 days ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck27 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 202728 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 dust29 days ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost30 days ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches1 month ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster1 month ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job -- Astronauts removed broken hardware but will have to return for more orbital DIY1 month 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 observations1 month 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 buyers1 month ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change1 month ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices1 month ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons1 month ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology1 month ago
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard1 month ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books1 month 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 work1 month ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad1 month ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?1 month ago
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers -- Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either1 month ago
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft -- Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded12 days ago
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium -- Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour15 days ago
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury -- Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches14 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 202817 days ago
Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up3 days ago
Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool3 days ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 225 days ago
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract7 days ago
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science -- Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry19 days ago
ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango -- Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering20 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?23 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 backs24 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 orbit25 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 mission26 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals -- Says license was never about moving VMs10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI -- Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's10 days ago
RESEARCH -- Novel Blue Moon kit targeting Chrome and Windows reflects new reality of AI-driven exploits -- Mind the patch gap, please and thank you10 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI models don't kill people – people kill people -- AI fearmongers forget we could just jail tech execs until morale and model safety improve11 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple hawks $2k folding fondleslab -- Another new form factor for devs to adapt to11 days ago