BOFH: Saving the planet, one falsified metric at a time - Episode 20 - The quickest route to carbon neutrality is creative accounting

2 days ago

Ex-Uber CSO is gellin' like a felon with teen cyber crims, explains why they do it - interview - Meanwhile Sullivan's legal battle continues

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AI on a laptop? It's more realistic than you think -- Inside the Snapdragon X Series quest to reinvent AI

25 days ago

With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator -- We could really have used this a couple of days ago, guys

2 days ago

How do you solve a problem like Discovery? -- Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US?

2 days ago

Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia -- The 0-days have left the building

2 days ago

UN Cybercrime Treaty wins dozens of signatories, to go with its many critics - Allows surveillance and cross-border evidence sharing, which worries human rights groups - Cyber-crime - 27 Oct 2025 - |

1 hour ago

Australia sues Microsoft for misleading M365 users about Copilot subscription options -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more! -- Legal

27 minutes ago

Shaq's new ride gets jaq'ed in haq attaq -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: Judge spanks NSO; Mozilla requires data use disclosures; TARmageddon meets Rust; And more! -- Security

6 hours ago

MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech - Committee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act - Personal Tech - 25 Oct 2025 - | 143

1 hour ago

Berkeley boffins build better load balancing algo with AI -- One way AI can improve on human work -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Everybody's warning about critical Windows Server WSUS bug exploits ... but Microsoft's mum -- Critical 9.8-rated vulnerability affects Windows Server 2012 - 2025 -- Cybersecurity Month

2 days ago

High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses -- 31 alleged poker schemers nabbed alongside arrest of separate sports betting ring -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Sneaky Mermaid attack in Microsoft 365 Copilot steals data - updated - Redmond says it's fixed this particular indirect prompt injection vuln - Cyber-crime - 24 Oct 2025 - | 13

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Norks droning on about your dream job while pwning your PC -- Social engineering? Check. Trojanized open source? Check. Lazarus' pet RAT? Also check

2 days ago

Salt Typhoon hit governments on three continents with SharePoint attacks -- Plus spy helping spy: Typhoons teaming up

2 days ago

A simple AI prompt saved a developer from this job interview scam - INFOSEC IN BRIEF - Plus: Ransomware posing as Teams installer, Cisco 0-day exploit to drop rootkit, and European cops bust SIM-box service

5 days ago

Sora makes slurfect deepfakes of celebs spewing racial epithets -- If you listen closely, you'll realize Sam Altman and the others are only saying sound-alike words -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Uncle Sam's new power plan will plug AI farms into the grid faster -- Proposal would fast-track hookups for the megawatt-hungry datacenters driving US electricity demand -- AI + ML

2 days ago

OpenAI goes after Microsoft 365 Copilot's lunch with 'company knowledge' feature -- ChatGPT can now rummage through corporate files via connectors, though Redmond still has the deeper hooks -- SaaS

2 days ago

Apple faces £1.5B payout after losing UK App Store case -- iPhone maker overcharged devs and users, says competition court -- Applications

2 days ago

AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession -- Datacenter infrastructure and model development spending offset high borrowing costs -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Microsoft drops surprise Windows Server patch before weekend downtime -- You didn't have plans, did you? -- Patches

2 days ago

Alaska Airlines grounded by mystery IT meltdown - Updated - Failure at primary datacenter leaves planes parked and passengers angry, second incident since July - On-Prem - 24 Oct 2025 - | 24

3 hours ago

Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers -- Starmer rebrands unpopular scheme as convenience tool after backlash -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout - column - When your best engineers log off for good, don't be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

2 days ago

Windows Insiders get special anniversary desktop wallpaper -- 11 years of filing feedback and all we got was a bloody... not even a T-shirt? -- SaaS

2 days ago

BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries -- Google Gemini worst offender with 76% error rate -- AI + ML

2 days ago

How do you solve a problem like Discovery? -- Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US? -- Offbeat

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Fixing Intel Foundry Is Like Stopping Tripping Down The Stairs

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Engineering CPO Is Easy – Scaling It For AI Will Take An Ecosystem

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IBM Is Playing A Very Long AI Game With Its Customers

3 days ago

NextSilicon Takes Aim At CPUs And GPUs With "Maverick-2" Dataflow Engine

4 days ago

Shield AI shows off not-at-all-terrifying autonomous VTOL combat drone -- Runways? Where we're going, we don't need runways -- Offbeat

2 days ago

BOFH - : Saving the planet, one falsified metric at a time - Episode 20 - The quickest route to carbon neutrality is creative accounting - BOFH - 24 Oct 2025 - | 58

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Britain's Ministry of Justice just signed up to ChatGPT Enterprise -- OpenAI sweetens the deal with data residency -- AI + ML

2 days ago

New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails - On Call - Techie summoned at 02:00 AM to sort things out sent another 2 billion trying to fix it - Columnists - 24 Oct 2025 - | 79

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Iran's MuddyWater wades into 100+ government networks in latest spying spree - Group-IB says Tehran-linked crew used hijacked mailbox and VPN to sling phishing emails across Middle East - Security - 24 Oct 2025 - |

2 days ago

Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more -- Mystery customer wants an upgrade that will take some time -- Systems

2 days ago

Intel says server CPUs will be hot again – in a good way, to power AI workloads – any year now -- Chipzilla returns to profit and suggests customers are primed to sign for foundry services once it nails 18A process -- Systems

2 days ago

Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia -- The 0-days have left the building -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice - Who, Me? Oh ... you mean we shouldn't press that button?

4 days ago

Clippy rises from the dead in major update to Copilot and its voice interface - Hands On - The new Microsoft assistant is a blob named Mico, but you can turn it into everyone's favorite paper clip. AI + ML - 24 Oct 2025 - | 19

1 day ago

Google and Anthropic wave hands about mega TPU deal worth 'tens of billions' -- But AWS is still the AI upstart's primary partner -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Don't take AI to Thanksgiving: Bots have hidden biases -- It's not a bug, it's a feature -- AI + ML

3 days ago

How to build sustainable AI? Start with the network - Baking in sustainability begins with smart network design - Sponsored Feature

3 hours ago

Playtime's over: Crooks swipe Toys R Us Canada customer data and dump it online -- What?! No complimentary credit monitoring? -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything -- iPhone and iPad users vexed by denial of spreadsheets -- Applications

3 days ago

Give Europe some space! 3 companies join forces to reach for the stars -- Airbus, Leonardo and Thales seek to 'strengthen Europe's strategic autonomy in space' -- Science

3 days ago

Storage News Ticker – Oct 24

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IBM rides mainframe and AI wave to strongest growth in years

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Cirrus Data adds AI agent interface to its block data moving tech

2 days ago

Nasuni eyes agentic data access, vector services in AI push

2 days ago

Blinded by the light: Tesla fixes glaringly bright Cybertruck headlights -- Plus: Model 3/Y recall over battery-pack contactors that can cut drive power -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Trump's workforce cuts blamed as America's cyber edge dulls -- The Cyberspace Solarium Commission says years of progress are being undone amid current administration's cuts -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Microsoft suggests temporary registry hack for stricken smart card users -- When is an issue not an issue? When it's intentional -- SaaS

3 days ago

Engineering CPO is easy — scaling it for AI will take an ecosystem - Co-packaged optics promise a big boost for AI - Sponsored Post

2 days ago

Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease -- Weak demand for iPhone Air and delays to a costly foldable tablet suggest Cupertino's hardware experiments are struggling -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Fedora council approves policy allowing AI-assisted contributions -- Intense discussion approves AI – but subject to full responsibility and disclosure -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software -- Check Point helps exorcise vast 'Ghost Network' that used fake tutorials to push infostealers -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees -- Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs -- Share price dips as cloud sales outlook disappoints amid slow US public sector bookings -- Databases

3 days ago

Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles -- Cornyn & co ask DoJ to probe respected research institution for trying to 'influence' public -- Science

3 days ago

Amazon's AI specs aim to stop delivery drivers getting lost between van and porch -- Why monitor staff through phones or cameras when Bezos' boxshifter can strap surveillance to their heads? -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem -- Survey probes interest in AI assistance for locally hosted email setups -- AI + ML

3 days ago

SpaceX pulls plug on 2,500 Starlink terminals tied to Myanmar fraud farms -- Criminal outfits had been using Musk's broadband beacons to run cyber-slavery scams across Southeast Asia -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Microsoft finance slang defines the eternal optimist: The 'hockey stick on wheels' -- The wheels on Copilot's hockey stick must be giving off smoke by now -- Bootnotes

3 days ago

OpenBSD 7.8 out now, and you're not seeing double, 9front releases 'Release' -- New version includes multithreaded TCP/IP and Raspberry Pi 5 support -- OSes

3 days ago

UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI -- Meanwhile, civil services claims 75,000 days could be saved by the tech each year -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Rethinking application delivery for the hybrid world -- Why bake apps into your OS when you can deliver them as a side dish?

1 month ago

VMware customers say bye-bye Broadcom and vote for Nutanix -- Many seeking a replacement for VMware are turning to Nutanix as a strategic choice

1 month ago

How fixed wireless access can bridge the digital divide wherever you are -- Wireless reaches the parts fiber can't

2 months ago

Apple's AirDrop makes weird latency spikes for Wi-Fi wonks, researcher finds -- Cupertino wants you on certain channels, and pushes back if you have your own preferences -- Networks

3 days ago

With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator -- We could really have used this a couple of days ago, guys -- Off-Prem

4 days ago

IBM is just not into the 'spend megabucks on cloudy GPUs' thing, rents them instead -- Infra revenue soars and AI helps everything ... except the share price -- Off-Prem

3 days ago

OpenAI's Atlas shrugs off inevitability of prompt injection, releases AI browser anyway -- 'Trust no AI' says one researcher -- Cybersecurity Month

3 days ago

NextSilicon Maverick-2 promises to blow away the HPC market Nvidia left behind -- The one chip startup building accelerators for something other than AI boasts performance up 10x that of modern GPUs using a fraction the power -- HPC

4 days ago

Reddit to Perplexity: Get your filthy hands off our forums - Updated - Social media site continues legal campaign against those who take its content without a license - Legal - 22 Oct 2025 - | 24

3 days ago

TI CEO says some customers still wary of Trump's import tax roulette -- Company shares lost value on slow-than-expected sales -- Systems

4 days ago

AI is driving networking and compute together - ZTE CEO Xu Ziyang talks power, performance and sustainability - Sponsored Feature

3 days ago

AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out -- Not the default file system, but in the installer if you want it -- OSes

4 days ago

Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block -- The end is nigh, now get thee to 365 -- SaaS

4 days ago

Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators -- AI power demands drive operators to repurpose aircraft parts amid gas turbine shortages -- Systems

4 days ago

Dropping Nvidia for Amazon's custom chips helped gene therapy startup Metagenomi cut AI bill 56% -- It's not the size of your accelerator, it's how you use it -- AI + ML

4 days ago

UK competition cops brand Apple, Google with 'strategic market status' for mobile -- Designation hands CMA broad oversight of their app stores and platforms -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Forking confusing: Vulnerable Rust crate exposes uv Python packager -- Forks of forks of forks, but which ones are patched? -- Patches

4 days ago

New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process -- RFC proposes power-button interrupt – and highlights wider problems with sleep states -- OSes

4 days ago

AI bubble inflates Microsoft CEO pay to $96.5M -- 480:1 ratio compared to average employee? Must be all that 'leadership' juice -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Jaguar Land Rover cyber-meltdown tipped to cost the UK almost £2B -- That's a lot of extended warranties -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests -- Wheeled wonder leaves European rail in the dust -- Offbeat

4 days ago

Royal Navy sharpens claws on Wildcat choppers with anti-drone Martlet missiles -- Laser-guided weapon reaches full service after successful sea trials -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Carnegie Mellon team claims vector-based system can turbocharge PostgreSQL -- Researchers say 'Proto-X' fine-tunes databases automatically, delivering multifold performance boosts -- Databases

4 days ago