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personal tech - Apple hawks $2k folding fondleslab - Another new form factor for devs to adapt to
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PUBLIC SECTOR - UK government says Fujitsu won't use framework places to chase new customers - Procurement officials promise to police the scandal-hit supplier's voluntary bidding moratorium8 minutes 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 deletion9 hours ago
Huawei Watch D3 pumps up its health-monitoring credentials -- Inflatable wrist cuff delivers 24-hour blood pressure readings, though the design remains chunky10 hours ago
AI+ML - Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas - See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad14 hours ago
legal - 'Global reckoning' is coming for big tech, says Australian minister - Introduces 'digital duty of care' that will mean Aussies get 'my feed, my way' – without algorithms if requested1 day ago
Oracle may be next in EU software licensing hot seat following SAP deal -- Commission reportedly seeks third-party views, although no formal investigation is underway2 days ago
Hackers drain $320M in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, claim they're the good guys -- Self-described white hats promise to return 'most' of the 4,000 BTC once the vulnerability is fixed7 hours ago
Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook -- Ministers say £17M corporate fines and forthcoming board-level governance rules provide sufficient accountability21 hours ago
OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on -- 'The Collective' learned to communicate, organize, cheat, and apparently sacrifice its own1 day ago
Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport -- Couldn't stop before the end of a runway2 days ago
ON-PREM -- Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers -- 2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes2 days ago
DATABASES -- PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries -- Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up2 days ago
DEVOPS -- JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up -- Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.2 days ago
OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders -- Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams1 day ago
Security - UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say8 minutes ago
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%6 days ago
Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access -- They had more access than the average Joe, and IT didn't track what needed to be cut off2 days ago
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say -- Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'2 days ago
Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November -- The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data6 days ago
Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans -- Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit6 days ago
Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks -- The model provider gave METR the credits for free. An actual customer would not have been so lucky6 days ago
Firefox helps iPhone users bypass ads on web sites while making money showing its own ads -- Baked-in Firefox ad blocking on iOS begins rolling out slowly today, and is off by default6 days ago
WeChat worm could pwn a friend before they even answered the call7 hours ago
OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack21 hours ago
Security -- 33-hour BGP hijack of Softaculous traffic prompts security scramble -- Hosting software vendor tells customers to reset credentials and hunt for malicious packages7 days ago
AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate -- Dutch in-process OLAP systems set to be the 'SDK for data' as developers scale systems, cloud giant claims after DuckLab acquisition8 days ago
COLUMNISTS - The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten2 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- If hardware price squeezes make you sad, VMware says it will all end in tiers -- Virtzilla finding more ways to pull data out of DRAM to enable 'densification' and dodge the RAMpocalypse7 days ago
SECURITY -- Attack hides malware in PNGs and drops custom reverse tunnel on victims' machines -- Next-level ClickFix wave sets off multi-stage attack chain7 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries -- Promises 'secure artifacts' for Spring and RabbitMQ, and other projects that matter to its Tanzu suite7 days ago
SECURITY -- Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens -- Commodity malware steals authenticated sessions, letting thieves freeload on victims' paid usage7 days ago
Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private -- Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats7 days ago
science - German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters5 days ago
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense12 days ago
US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies -- The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA's Insider Threat Division7 days ago
Why Enterprise AI Sovereignty Really Matters: Control Your Intelligence -- This white paper argues that the real issue facing enterprise AI isn't cost or capability, but control.15 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it -- Microsoft veteran recalls how a CPU errata, a mythical ICE, and a single sneaky NOP saved Clippy's big debut9 days ago
CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago -- Organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption blamed for sorry state of affairs5 days ago
Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution -- 100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses8 days ago
Another Microsoft team admits it's struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code - Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments7 hours 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 years3 hours ago
Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider -- Users given 45 days to save their mail or sign up with Junara8 hours ago
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 -- Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push7 hours ago
Microsoft closes the book on Publisher and unplugs Project Online -- Office 2021 joins the October retirement list as customers weigh pricier alternatives3 hours ago
Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge -- Adobe also brought goodies to the patch party and they deserve immediate attention20 hours ago
Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain -- Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory29 minutes ago
Google takes the nuclear option for €13B Finland expansion -- 22-year power deal covers up to half of Loviisa plant's capacity, with wind and battery projects alongside3 hours ago
Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing -- Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month14 hours ago
US claims Chinese AI companies' core AI strategy is distilling American models -- Spooks and CISA point to 'industrial-scale distillation' by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese players15 hours ago
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic -- Vend it like Altman20 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter's chamber of ads -- No defense against the dark arts Microsoft is practicing on your wallpaper29 minutes ago
AI AND ML -- Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle -- DeepMind researchers propose tapping into the whistleblower tendency to keep agents in check3 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements1 day ago
OFFBEAT -- Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer8 hours ago
OFF-PREM -- Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud2 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why1 day ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement -- Rupert Goodwins6 days ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough -- Corey Quinn6 days ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols6 days ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- Rupert Goodwins6 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Mark Pesce13 days ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic -- Rupert Goodwins13 days ago
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges -- Bruce Davie13 days ago
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it -- Rupert Goodwins19 days ago
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney - Corey Quinn6 days ago
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer -- Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project1 day ago
Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail -- Firm wants to take atomic power generation on a barge to wherever the need is22 hours ago
ASML and TSMC want bigger masks for smaller chips -- Industry push aims to eliminate stitching constraints and ready high-NA EUV systems for production by 20331 day ago
How to secure hybrid meeting rooms without sacrificing user experience - SPONSORED FEATURE: With regulators tightening rules and attack surfaces widening, meeting-room kit must bake in security without pushing users toward workarounds10 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Mistral bags €3B to build Europe's sovereign AI champion -- Samsung-led round values the French model maker at more than €21B11 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK energy operator sticks with Palantir in £21M direct award -- Proprietary platform keeps incumbent in place while NESO prepares a future competition15 hours ago
Legal -- Grindr pays £26M to settle UK privacy class action -- Dating app admits no liability over allegations that it shared sensitive user data, including HIV status, with third parties17 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Whitehall's latest plan to get things done: Less Whitehall -- Ministers declare war on an 'industry of dither and delay' as consultations, legal caution, and judicial reviews get the chop20 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Britain reboots its space strategy with £7.8B already on the launchpad -- Cross-government plan combines civil ambitions with an increasingly military view of orbit1 hour ago
HPE makes its "unified storage" claim real as B10000 R6 hits GA - PARTNER CONTENT: Pairs block and adjacent file workloads with independent scaling of performance and capacity1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction' -- MPs welcome move but still want answers over how the conflict of interest was allowed to arise1 day ago
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification -- Wheels turning on the road and in government2 days ago
DRAM contract prices forecast to grow only 13-18% in Q3 -- PC buyers already had enough of helping to fund the AI revolution, only essential refreshes happening now2 days ago
Nightwing CEO has a Labor Day message for staff – and apparently The Register -- Nothing says 'For internal use only' quite like emailing it to the press6 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Asahi Linux takes on Apple M3, minus a few creature comforts -- Most hardware works, although graphics, sleep, and external displays need more attention1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Nitter lives to proxy another day after taking legal advice -- Public instance XCancel uncancelled after X Corp's cease-and-desist campaign, with others promised shortly1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements -- Vast majority of new devices on market still don't give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability1 day ago
Security -- Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff -- NRW says it has found no evidence data was misused after spreadsheet published in error five years ago9 hours ago
SECURITY -- UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks -- Defending against cyber foes is among factors hitting food price inflation, report finds20 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux -- Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry -- This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds -- Last week, he blamed himself for being 'a grade A nincompoop' who assumed a system upgrade couldn't possibly go wrong23 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why -- DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale2 days ago
SCIENCE -- 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 approaches2 days ago
AI and ml -- Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you -- Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases2 days ago
On-PREM -- AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets -- AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk2 days ago
SECURITY -- ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk -- Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident -- Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?1 day ago
Applications -- My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement -- Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month2 days ago
Systems -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies1 month ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?3 months ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits - Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement2 months ago
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech5 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 critical1 month ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester1 month ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road2 months ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist2 months ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well2 months ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels -- The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Wayve and Uber steal a march on Waymo with paid self-driving London rides -- 15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver2 days ago
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates5 days ago
US law firm accuses UK AI software firm of unwanted contract renewal when it tried to leave -- Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment5 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 defense5 days ago
Best eSIM for travel 2026: which one offers the best value for money? PARTNER CONTENT: Price isn't everything2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key -- Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work3 days ago
Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform -- New CPU and GPU designs chase lower latency and richer games within a 1 W power budget1 day ago
Huawei proudly shows off an entirely un-American chip -- Resistance is futile1 day ago
Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15 -- Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas7 days ago
Nvidia is building an IP licensing empire on the back of NVLink -- Even when you think you're not buying Nvidia, you might still be buying Nvidia8 days ago
Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff -- Paused export controls on materials used in key IT components due for review in November12 days ago
Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will (probably) never see -- Touting batch 1 token generation is a bit like boasting about the top speed of your car12 days ago
Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads -- Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet13 days ago
Security -- Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC -- A shared security 'Nightmare'2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian -- Prompted by CentOS 8's premature demise, it's a very visible loss for the Red Hat ecosystem5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users -- When the moon is in the seventh house...5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s -- The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot5 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 20285 days ago
Drowning in CVEs and thirsty for answers? Try CTEM - SPONSORED FEATURE: Boards want to know if they're less exposed than last quarter. Patching metrics aren't the solution5 days ago
How Cloudflare's "customer zero" journey offers a blueprint for secure enterprise AI adoption -- As AI tools rapidly enter the enterprise, security teams face a hard balance.8 days ago
CISO 3.0: Governing AI Agents at Machine Speed -- Join Snyk and AWS on 14 September to see what it takes to govern an agentic AI landscape at machine speed.15 days ago
Operationalizing AI with visibility, control, and multitenancy -- In this webinar, explore how an AI factory approach can help organizations build a scalable, secure and repeatable foundation for AI.7 days ago
The AI Iceberg: What 3,000+ Codebases Reveal About the Risk Hiding Below Your Model Count -- Snyk analyzed 1.39 million repositories across 3,044 enterprise accounts.5 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.29 days ago
AI Agents in 2026: Navigating the deployment-confidence gap -- This webinar, drawing from a global survey of security leaders, will dissect the structural control gaps hindering safe AI adoption.26 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
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.2 days 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.1 day 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.5 days ago
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AI AND ML -- Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance -- But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast -- A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promises not to squeeze too hard -- GPU giant pledges to keep the model hub open to the entire AI ecosystem5 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Cybercrooks trawl Fishbrain to net password hashes -- Armed with password hashes and salts, attackers could already be kraken those creds2 days ago
OS PLATFORM -- Windows 11 update sends some desktops into an unwanted goth phase -- Hello darkness, my old friend... I've trusted Redmond once again5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Which came first, Windows 95's taskbar or NeXT's Dock? Neither -- Reg hack accidentally rattles Microsoft folks' cages... again5 days ago
Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now? SPONSORED POST: A free event with Nutanix on Oct 7 can win some of it back6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi -- Plus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming12 days ago
Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot -- The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one... or does he?16 days ago
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another -- Word up1 month ago
GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions -- New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way1 month ago
HPE Sees No Customer Pushback On Rising Datacenter Equipment Costs20 hours ago
Dell Says AI Will Drive 75 Percent Of Datacenter Demand By 20301 day ago
Nvidia Expands Its Open Source AI Presence With $12.9 Billion Hugging Face Buy5 days ago
Optics Still Driving Marvell's AI Business More Than Custom Chips7 days ago
Panmnesia and Meta take single chip, CXL-based view of AI datacenters5 hours ago
Inferra is Lightbits inferencing memory wall buster6 hours ago
Spectra Logic adds AI-powered video content discovery7 hours ago
AI agents can use Quill to talk direct to enterprise SQL databases20 hours ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up4 days ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v112 days ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings16 days ago
Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords18 days ago
AI AND ML -- To keep the AI hacking genie bottled up, try one-way networks -- Sandboxes, permissions, and VMs aren't enough to keep frontier models at bay. "Data diodes" might do the job2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon' -- While you wait, Meta says it's taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often6 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade -- Found the time to focus and 'corrected' incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds5 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 friend7 days ago
AI AND ML -- With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race -- AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)6 days ago
SECURITY -- AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit -- Adding insult to injury5 days ago
AI and ML -- Infosec pros say we're not ready to lose control of AI -- Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable6 days ago
SECURITY -- SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again -- Miscreants use chained zero days to pwn boxen as third-party SOCs say further attacks 'almost certain'5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft will stop finishing your sentences in Word and Outlook -- Predictive text remains available, but users will have to invite it into their workflow6 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science -- Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry7 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
SOFTWARE -- Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill -- Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for6 days ago
Security -- Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers -- Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials5 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest' -- Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft update disarms Outlook and Teams on Arm PCs -- Installing an AI gaming package offers relief while custom cursors suffer a separate reset6 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter -- The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- On Call: Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call29 minutes ago
SOFTWARE -- Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it29 minutes ago
SOFTWARE -- Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support29 minutes ago
software - Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees - What an idiot29 minutes 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 it1 month ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem1 month ago
OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign1 month ago
ai and ML - Anthropic proposes plumbing spec to link AI agents to lab kit and robots - Say you're trying to enrich Uranium and your centrifuges broke - soon it will be easy to connect an AI to figure out why12 days ago
Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you -- Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now15 days ago
AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC -- Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature18 days ago
Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN -- A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages1 month ago
'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes -- Human did 10% of the job,AI did 90%1 month ago
OpenAI chases Anthropic's biz customers with zero data retention pledge -- With Private Safety Processing, AI biz promises discreet, automated prompt surveillance19 days ago
Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS -- Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore?20 days ago
AI AND ML -- UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme -- Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition -- Japanese supplier remains in place despite scrutiny over its Horizon role6 days ago
SECURITY -- UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it -- Ministers reject proposed red lines and emergency shutdown powers, pointing instead to voluntary safeguards5 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on -- Spending watchdog says fragmented data and inconsistent standards would constrain any future attempt7 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss -- And RISC-V is absolutely nowhere7 days ago
STORAGE -- Tape still isn't dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025 -- LTO program is confident this is a glitch, not terminal unspooling6 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes -- 23-year-old botnet down6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked -- More compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable7 days ago
Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it's drawing customers' blood -- The fix is either an unvalidated and unofficial emergency patch or taking the server offline6 days ago
Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds -- Alleged crew behind the Shai-Hulud worm and other supply chain attacks nabbed with help from the FBI8 days ago
CRPx0 hacking service for dummies claims victim count more than quintupled -- It's 'built to be operated by a human with no technical background'9 days ago
SECURITY - AI girlfriend review site's secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks - Even testing and staging sites need protection from prying eyes12 days ago
Omarchy distro gains serious backing - Polarizing opinions while tech heavyweights put up $10M3 hours ago
ATF responds to 'major' cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang's claims -- US Justice Department investigating the breach1 day ago
Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data -- UK's largest airport operator believes 8.7 million customers affected11 days ago
Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller -- Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls11 days ago
Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit29 minutes ago
Cryptocrook ringleader, 22, who met crew on Minecraft admits role in $245M heist5 hours ago
Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge20 hours ago
Boston Scientific left nursing its bottom line after cyberattack1 day ago
LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection1 day ago
BigBear phishing crew nets thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials1 day ago
Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in -- Security ... this time it will be different6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- ReactOS 0.4.16 serves '90s Windows nostalgia with fewer bugs -- 30 years on, it's still alpha, but 0.4.16 brings plenty of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements - just in time for Windows XP's 25th anniversary7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering -- Big Red talks up superhuman coders after shedding 21,000 staff7 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 faff8 days ago
ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango -- Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering8 days ago
The Gentlemen come calling as Nutex confirms sensitive data theft -- Ransomware crew threatens publication while healthcare biz assesses which records escaped6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 misses the pointer while Defender cries wolf -- August 27 update reportedly scrambles cursor customizations as bogus antivirus alerts spread7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Insider: Red Hat is capping devs' bot budgets -- And no sharing your allowance! What do you think we are, communists?7 days ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning8 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 salt15 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 slows19 days ago
US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations -- Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland20 days ago
Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown - And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal20 days ago
Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads - Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term26 days ago
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous -- And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there27 days ago
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B -- Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending28 days ago
Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips -- Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute1 day 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 more2 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 practices5 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 hyperscale5 days ago
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan -- Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat27 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI adoption at work is broad but shallow -- GenAI now reaches 80% of occupations, but in most of those fewer than half of workers use it7 days ago
Security -- Healthcare cyberattacks hit pacemakers and millions of patient records -- McKesson admits breach as ShinyHunters demands $55.2M6 days ago
Virtualization -- VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD -- Forget the confusing branding and focus on your shrinking token bill7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Orbify.eu pitches warped Inception-style 3D maps for navigation -- 'You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling'8 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire -- Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI -- Company's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge8 days ago
Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire2 days ago
Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up9 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory16 days ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard23 days ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn30 days ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day1 month ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data1 month ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'1 month ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap1 month ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird 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 tablet2 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 everything3 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch3 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before 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 cause9 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
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe4 months ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery4 months ago
You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way13 days ago
Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch19 days ago
EE invites mobile users to live life in the 5G Fast Lane – for a price19 days ago
Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.19 days ago
Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider9 hours ago
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release5 days ago
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving6 days ago
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return7 days ago
London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above7 days ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's9 days ago
Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election12 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit -- The real fight is who wins the most AI and K8s workloads8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Debian votes to let contributors code with AI -- Disclosure optional, quality mandatory8 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 vehicle11 days ago
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads11 days ago
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website -- More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi7 days ago
LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI -- It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer12 days ago
Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted -- Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met12 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming -- GRUB's up for furry new update9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have -- Judge finds national-security rationale was assembled after Hegseth had already decided AI maker was a threat9 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft preps this year's Windows 11 feature tweaks: 26H2 hits Release Preview -- Same servicing branch as 24H2 and 25H2... and the same buggy updates9 days 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 crowded3 hours 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 hour3 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 markets6 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 paper9 days ago
Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?13 days ago
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...14 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 it15 days ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck15 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 202716 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 dust17 days ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost18 days ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches19 days ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster20 days 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 DIY21 days ago
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon -- As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations21 days ago
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers -- After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers23 days ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change24 days ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices25 days ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons26 days ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology26 days ago
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard23 days ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books27 days ago
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop -- Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work27 days ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad27 days ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?28 days ago
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers -- Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either30 days ago
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound1 month ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start1 month ago
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut -- The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range1 month ago
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online -- Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web1 month ago
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key1 month ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police1 month ago
30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage -- Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold1 month ago
Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up -- Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun1 month ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba1 month ago
AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness -- Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places1 month ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year1 month ago
Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory -- Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?1 month ago
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 backs12 days ago
OFFBEAT - SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast7 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 mission14 days ago
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight -- Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified 'launch requirements'16 days ago
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft3 hours ago
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium3 days ago
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury4 days ago
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area6 days ago
SCIENCE -- No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue -- LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory19 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures -- Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak22 days ago
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget -- Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 197727 days ago
Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation -- H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year29 days ago
South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact -- Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri1 month ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting -- Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you9 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- And as for getting US government to help – uncontrolled AI is not as dangerous as AI under the control of the technically clueless9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Big Tech market power will cause UK to lose AI race, think tank warns -- Britain's market watchdog criticized for not creating the conditions for competition to thrive10 days ago