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Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it - Project Headroom could save you big money, too
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LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way -- Papal's 40k-word encyclical drops and lawyers already asking if Catholics can refuse workplace AI on religious grounds3 hours ago
Intel Diamond Rapids to boost core counts to 192, but RIP Hyperthreading -- Threads on a half shell, Intel power!14 hours ago
Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks -- Engineers' weekends ruined as Dashlane's automatic protections kicked in3 hours ago
Palo Alto VPN bug graduates from advisory to active exploitation -- Rapid7: Attackers exploit authentication bypass flaw in the wild, meaning more emergency patching for PAN-OS users57 minutes ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident -- He knew this was amazingly dumb but couldn't stop laughing as the fruit went splat57 minutes ago
California passes bill declaring death-by-algorithm to 3D-printed ghost guns -- Last-hour amendments aim to allay privacy concerns, but broad scepticism about feasibility remains57 minutes ago
Agentic AI arrives for Delphi and C++ Builder -- Kai is an extension for RAD Studio (Delphi and C++ Builder) that integrates with external AI providers1 hour ago
Ohio hits pause on datacenter tax breaks draining its coffers -- Buckeye State found it had inadvertently joined the billion dollar losers' club2 hours ago
Databases - Agent-led devs need serverless OpenSearch, Amazon claims - System relies on a proprietary storage layer as AWS moves to separate storage and compute to fit mega AI demands5 hours ago
Nvidia's Grace Blackwell superchips are officially coming to the PC with RTX Spark notebooks -- Forget Wintel, we're living in a Winvidia world now6 hours ago
Networks - Putin sends submarines to survey Britain's subsea cables. UK deploys Royal Navy, mobilizes parliamentary draftsmen - Proposed legislation threatens fines and prison for reckless damage. Russian Prez must be shaking in his boots6 hours ago
I designed Microsoft's $5B EA channel architecture in 2001. The 2026 transition is missing what made it work -- The man behind Redmond's direct billing model and its geo rollout explains why the new version forgets the channel to its cost6 hours ago
Memory crunch sends PC prices into double-digit climb -- Notebooks up 11%, desktops 10% as chipmakers ditch consumer kit for AI server bling7 hours ago
If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst -- Chipzilla's first 2nm-class Xeon is finally here bristling with 288 cores11 hours ago
Exploding rockets and exploding hardware prices make for a lousy new normal -- This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions3 hours ago
Software - Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs - Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools2 days ago
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't -- Governments can't touch VPNs technically or commercially. The mess they'll make if they try will be off the scale -- Rupert Goodwins3 days ago
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem? -- If a setting fails in the forest and nobody hears it ... -- Corey Quinn11 days ago
AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies -- Mark Pesce11 days ago
Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that's coming off the tracks -- Rupert Goodwins11 days ago
Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols11 days ago
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof -- Rupert Goodwins12 days ago
AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard -- Corey Quinn13 days ago
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols18 days ago
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now - Rupert Goodwins11 days ago
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression -- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft2 days ago
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand -- The energy drink of frontier models9 hours ago
AI + ML -- Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents -- CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch3 hours ago
AI + ML -- QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban -- Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits5 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle -- Discussion understood to concern delayed SaaS transformation project6 hours ago
AI + ML -- Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button -- Look, says Redmond, usage up 27-43% based on one week of data - admits it 'may not be indicative of long-term usage trends'6 hours ago
Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload -- Researchers say 'GREYVIBE' crew used AI tools throughout a campaign targeting Ukrainian military and government3 hours ago
Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans -- Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready2 days ago
ShinyHunters adds Charter to trophy shelf after 4.9M customer records leak -- Telco giant says no sensitive data was taken, though names, addresses, phones, and emails are now out there5 hours ago
That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026 -- In a world of mass-produced bot-slopware, small is more beautiful than ever3 days ago
Troops' phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries -- Lawmakers push DoD to tighten smartphone controls after adversaries exploited commercial tracking data6 hours ago
Security -- Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops -- Six 0-days, three under active exploitation, more to come on July 14?6 hours ago
AI + ML -- Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents -- It is the database titan's sixth acquisition announcement since June 20252 days ago
Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience -- May security update trips over hostnames of a very specific length2 days ago
Europe told to cool its datacenter boom before water and power run short -- Get the balance right, Grundfos says, and the region will be a shining example of how to do it without sacrificing the environment4 days ago
Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.0 -- Andrew Kelley interview describes paying monthly for cloud-powered AI coding as an 'insane proposition'4 days ago
Personal Tech -- Three in ten HP customers still clinging to Windows 10 -- Refresh cycle sluggishness is a tailwind, insists PC giant's money people3 days ago
AI + ML -- AI agents get their own phone directory built atop DNS -- DNS-AID, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, promises easier agent discovery3 days ago
Personal Tech -- Steam Deck prices go through the roof as Valve blames component shortages -- Same handheld, same specs, just a much steeper bill3 days ago
Cyber-Crime -- Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach -- Travel and leisure giant was just one of many victims of the cybercrooks' crime spree this year2 days ago
OSes -- ReactOS brings its Windows NT tribute act to ARM64 -- Experimental build boots on Raspberry Pi 5, but for now the joy is mostly in getting there3 days ago
Legal -- Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday -- Feds say insider used confidential search trend data to score $1.2M in prediction market profits3 days ago
Public Sector -- London cops post £300M tech shopping list after Palantir contract blocked -- Mayor's office says force only engaged with one supplier before deputy refused to approve deal worth up to £50M3 days ago
On-Prem -- Kyndryl takes employees' pulse while cutting off circulation for some -- Redundancy notices and sentiment survey land in inboxes on same day in what tech services biz calls 'commitment to listen'3 days ago
Personal Tech -- EU moderation watchdog says social media giants hate taking down hate speech -- Also somehow censoring too much while refusing to hand over account ban evidence for review3 days ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack - SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure3 days ago
Security -- Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it -- Also, missing school iPad resurfaced after coach's kids uploaded video to YouTube3 days ago
Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO -- Hyperscalers can get hardware before enterprise vendors and buyers don't much care where they land4 days ago
Salesforce waves bye-bye to UI in 'headless' embrace -- Anthropic's use of Sales Cloud increased five-fold as its workers access Salesforce through Claude and Slack3 days ago
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators -- Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.4 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Malware dev tries to steal Claude users' secrets, writes npm slop, leaks own GitHub private token -- Script kiddies these days3 days ago
AI + ML -- Argonne flexes spare supercompute to build private AI inference service -- Think ChatDoE4 days ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?17 days ago
EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project6 days ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors16 days ago
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own17 days ago
Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads19 days ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits21 days ago
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds26 days ago
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question26 days ago
UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk26 days ago
Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future26 days ago
France's digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead26 days ago
AI + ML -- AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates -- Stanford researchers argue need for transparency and independent testing4 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet -- Developer-targeted, supply-chain attacks all the rage these days3 days ago
AI + ML -- Bosses blinded by confidence about shadow AI use by workers -- More than half of orgs in Okta survey faced an AI-related security incident or near miss last year3 days ago
AI + ML -- AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims -- LLMs prefer secular, rational reasoning, and while they'll still get religious on occasion, they have a negative view of Jehovah's Witnesses4 days ago
Security -- Extortion crews are visiting law firms pretending to be tech support, FBI warns -- Cybercriminals still allowed to walk into office blocks and convince staff to let them plug in their own thumb drives3 days ago
AI + ML -- Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests -- Given a chance, AI will be breaking the law, breaking the law4 days ago
Science -- Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry -- Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted4 days ago
AI + ML -- 4 in 10 AI agents headed for demotion or the rubbish bin -- Gartner predicts governance struggles to plague rollout of this year's much-hyped technology4 days ago
Security -- India's cyber agency sets clock at 12 hours to tackle exploited bugs as AI turns up the heat -- CERT-In says internet-facing or critical systems should be patched, mitigated, or cut off within half a day where feasible3 days ago
Personal Tech -- Windows 11 update preview promises faster launches, puts Task Manager on NPU patrol -- Just mind the known issue that can still send installs rolling back4 days ago
US firms still dominate chip subsidies -- China's support is greater relative to semiconductor industry revenue1 hour ago
Intel Diamond Rapids to boost core counts to 192, but RIP Hyperthreading -- Threads on a half shell, Intel power!14 hours ago
Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform -- Systems based on Snapdragon C to target students, families, and small businesses4 days ago
Samsung memory workers call off strike and may score six-figure bonuses -- PLUS: Huawei says it's replaced Moore's Law; Chinese mobile plans add token allowances; Singtel slinging Optus; And more!7 days ago
Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right -- Wood Mackenzie analysts say bit barn operators are in a tough spot10 days ago
AI+ML -- Broadcom's custom ASIC biz adds South Korea's FuriosaAI to its empire -- Third-gen chips to use Broadzilla's advanced packaging, networking tech4 days ago
Public Sector -- Tony Blair and the Reform party both want AI in government, though they can't agree on what for -- Former UK PM demands modernization, and right wing party channels inner Musk to call for mass job cuts in public sector4 days ago
How to guarantee a speaker gig: Hack the system. Literally -- Make your mark on the call-for-proposal platform5 days ago
GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended' -- Another day, another GitHub wobble - but the service keeps growing5 days ago
Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula -- Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals5 days ago
AWS whips out Graviton-powered Redshift instances, claims 7x speed for data warehouse -- AI agents asking questions in natural language apparently issue a lot more queries than your average SQL jockey5 days ago
InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows -- Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder5 days ago
Iran slowly reconnects to the global internet -- Traffic floods back, without much of an explanation5 days ago
Alibaba gets Android 16 running on RISC-V -- Beijing's sovereign stack ambitions strengthen5 days ago
From Prompt to Exploit: How LLMs Are Changing API Attacks -- Modern applications are API-driven, interconnected, and often over-permissioned, making them an ideal target for AI-assisted attacks.17 days ago
Architecting the Future: Unlocking Enterprise Data Services for Kubernetes -- Join us to discover how to eliminate infrastructure silos and establish a standardized, enterprise-grade cloud-native platform.11 days ago
Catch the Advanced Attacks Microsoft 365 Misses with Behavioral AI Security -- Microsoft 365 is the backbone of enterprise communication, and its native security filters out the known and the noisy.10 days ago
Virtual Cyber Recovery Sim -- Step into the chaos of a live ransomware breach, test your response skills, and team up with other IT and security pros to outsmart cybercriminals13 days ago
Virtual Cyber Recovery Simulation -- Ransomware attacks aren't slowing down, and neither are we. Druva's hit event, Escape Ransomware, is now fully virtual.11 days ago
Agentic AI at Scale: From Pilot to Production -- Join us to learn how to unlock real ROI by driving adoption of AI at scale.16 days ago
Explore all of our events26 days ago
AI + ML -- Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine -- The nature of AI is unnatural. It's not intelligent. It's not human4 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon -- Astronauts will get to self-assemble lunar base5 days ago
Software -- California may let Linux bypass age check -- Exemption in amendment offers relief to open source software makers4 days ago
MyPillow must decide whether to be firm or soft as ransomware crims demand pay -- Guess they could deny the alleged intrusion ... like the 2020 election results3 days ago
MySQL faithful launch OurSQL Foundation to keep Oracle honest -- Community group wants transparency, collaboration, and a clearer roadmap for the open source database5 days ago
Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust -- Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit6 days ago
Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust -- Unsafe bits get a warning label in planned low-level coding shake-up6 days ago
Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks -- What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?6 days ago
Systems - Huawei's chip law looks less like Moore and more like marketing1 hour ago
AI + ML -- Rogue states are putting AI agents to work on sanctions evasion -- RUSI warns fake IDs, shell companies, and crypto laundering could soon operate at industrial scale5 days ago
Security -- Experts pour cold borscht on Farage's Russian hack claim -- Reform UK leader alleges Moscow broke into his phone and leaked £5M gift story, but security specialists await evidence4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business -- Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in14 days ago
dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years -- Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline19 days ago
Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line -- Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers20 days ago
Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages -- Dull but important ... so, a bit like Debian itself, really20 days ago
Data And Storage At The Center Of The AI Stack3 days ago
GPUs And RAM Are In Short Supply, But The Real Bottleneck For AI Is Electricians4 days ago
Uncle Sam Awards $2 Billion-Plus To Quantum Companies, But Wants A Cut5 days ago
Not So Fast On That Charge For 800 Volt Datacenter Power5 days ago
Nvidia supercharges BlueField 4 with AI agent security SW running on its silicon6 hours ago
Mistral AI chooses VAST Data for its AI data foundation3 days ago
Dell's extraordinary AI server revenue acceleration3 days ago
AI and all-flash demand send NetApp revenues to record heights3 days ago
Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.06 hours ago
GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'4 days ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack7 hours ago
Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too9 days ago
Personal Tech -- Logitech unveils a cushioned mouse for all-day use -- Ideal for aching palms – though only if you're right-handed5 days ago
SaaS -- The SaaS-pocalypse can wait, Salesforce still has customers where it wants them -- AI coding agents may make software cheaper to build, but switching off major platforms remains expensive and risky5 days ago
Personal Tech -- HP customer claims firmware update shoved printer off support cliff -- Internal notes point to cloud connectivity woes for older OfficeJets, though company denies systemic issue5 days ago
SaaS -- SaaS outfit ClickUp promises seven-figure salaries for survivors of 22 percent staff purge -- CEO jumps on the 'We must be fit for the AI future' bandwagon5 days ago
Science -- Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission -- Due on November 21, eleven months late - but on time to do science!5 days ago
AI + ML -- Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power -- Worries change may be 'governed only by technocratic thinking and presented as necessary and inevitable'5 days ago
AI + ML -- Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI -- Google Search used to direct users to websites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden5 days ago
Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer's bizarre crusade against hyperscalers -- A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign7 days ago
OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge -- Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak7 days ago
AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis3 days ago
Explainer: Edge AI5 days ago
Ucell and ZTE complete large-scale deployment of AI‑Powered green network solution in Uzbekistan6 days ago
ZTE Day Indonesia 2026 strengthens AI innovation and digital infrastructure collaboration to accelerate Indonesia's digital transformation10 days ago
ZTE unveils localized roadmap for Eurasia's digital future at GSMA M360 Eurasia 202610 days ago
ZTE releases Sustainability Report 2025: driving a new chapter in sustainable development through AI12 days ago
ZTE Showcases AI Interactive Flat Panel at the Broadband User Congress in Brazil13 days ago
Fusion for the future: XLSMART and ZTE partnering for a boundless digital Indonesia17 days ago
ZTE and Telkom Indonesia sign strategic MoU to accelerate digital solutions and infrastructure development18 days ago
ZTE advances intelligent network monetization strategy at AGC2026, empowering ISPs for sustainable growth19 days ago
DON'T MISS -- Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation -- Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court'26 days ago
Security -- Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public -- AI flaw-finder still under lock and key for now while company figures out guardrails, but extends access to more users including governments4 days ago
Operating Systems -- Linus Torvalds to 'start being more hardnosed' about 'pointless pull requests' – some of which come from AIs -- Warns large release candidates 'are *not* conducive to long-term stability'6 days ago
AI + ML -- Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately -- Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?5 days ago
Personal Tech -- HP investigating BIOS updates that leave premium laptop users in boot loop limbo -- Slowdowns, crashes, BSODs reported on pricey mobile workstations6 days ago
Security -- AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend -- Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragesia show the new reality4 days ago
On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off11 days ago
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client13 days ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave19 days ago
Networks - To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane - Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials?11 days ago
Networks - Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching11 days ago
Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job24 days ago
Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled13 days ago
Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work19 days ago
AI + ML - Anthropic's Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling - Claude maker nabs SDK and MCP tooling biz, plans to sunset platform12 days ago
SAP's AI strategy: Come for the openness, stay because you have to -- Joule Studio 2.0 waves the flag of interoperability, API policy tells enterprises who's really in charge13 days ago
The big AI companies are going to see their margins disappear -- AI will indeed eat the world – if your world involves software-size margins11 days ago
Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy -- Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers12 days ago
Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that' -- Right-clicking could go the way of the 3.5-inch floppy at the Chocolate Factory18 days ago
Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028 -- Claude maker warns authoritarian regimes could set the rules unless Washington tightens chip and model controls17 days ago
Anthropic tosses agents into the API billing pool -- Limits Claude subscriptions to interactive use17 days ago
Public Sector -- UK MPs slam digital ID rollout as a 'fiasco' after botched launch -- Government's 'rushed' plans damaged public confidence before ministers had even explained how the system would work6 days ago
OSes -- The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors -- A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them6 days ago
SCIENCE -- Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation -- Release of spectrogram of cockpit recorder audio allows conversation recovery with 'emerging' decades-old tech6 days ago
AI + ML -- Minor edits to AI skills can make agents go rogue -- Text is the new attack6 days ago
Security -- A Russian speaker and jailbroken Gemini went on a hacking spree and emptied at least one MAGA victim's crypto wallets -- Hey, Gemini, how much can we earn from one pump-and-dump cycle?4 days ago
AI + ML -- Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio -- Limping Llama model needs a crutch made of surveillance tools7 days ago
Security -- Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings -- Will Jason Statham save us?4 days ago
Personal Tech -- As memory prices squeeze enterprise buyers, Lenovo laughs all the way to the bank -- Switch to premium devices pays off as PC giant post record record, just don't ask about cheap laptops7 days ago
Legal -- Media giant settles for $930k with FTC over allegations it lied about eavesdropping on conversations through smart devices -- Cox Media Group allegedly sold a bogus AI-powered snoopfest service7 days ago
AI + ML -- Microsoft lets users exile floating Copilot button after interface rage -- Listening to your customers? Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft?6 days ago
GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack -- Initial assessment says customer data spared while users wonder what else may have slipped out10 days ago
London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year -- A Freedom of Information Act request shows the extent of the surveillance10 days ago
Microsoft shuts down illegal code-signing operation used by ransomware crims to mask their malware -- 'Thousands' of US victims, including 12+ machines owned and operated by Redmond6 days ago
Security - America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames - I wonder what's in 'external-secret-repo-creds.yaml' and 'AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv'?11 days ago
Clear your calendar, Drupal user: You have a critically urgent patch to install - The org's staying mum on the details, but Wednesday's fixes reach back to unsupported 8.9 branches1 hour ago
Shai-Hulud keeps burrowing: 314 npm packages infected after another account compromise -- Popular JavaScript modules including size-sensor and echarts-for-react hit as hijacked account closed GitHub warnings7 days ago
Crook leaks 468k+ records, claims they pwned Portugal's postal carrier -- Ordered packages via CTT? Those phishing emails could be tricky to spot13 days ago
Do fear the Reaper - stealer swipes macOS users' passwords, wallets, then backdoors them -- While also spoofing all the trusted domains - Apple, Microsoft, and Google - in the same attack11 days ago
GTA cheat service Atlas Menu hacked as attacker alleges screenshot spying2 hours ago
Palo Alto VPN bug graduates from advisory to active exploitation5 hours ago
Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks6 hours ago
Lone attacker published 14 malicious npm packages mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch libraries2 days ago
ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal2 days ago
No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs - exploit module is out2 days ago
23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach3 days ago
Dutch cops wrest 17M devices from mystery botnet's clutches3 days ago
ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload3 days ago
Workday wants AI to punch in instead of having to hire new recruits -- CEO eyes margin gains by keeping headcount flat – bold for a company selling HR software to employers10 days ago
FBI warns Kali365 phishing kit is stealing Microsoft OAuth tokens at scale -- MFA? No problem, says crimeware that tricks users into handing attackers the keys to M3655 days ago
SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go -- Not all bad news: Crypto billionaire signs up for a mission to Mars10 days ago
On-Prem -- Outlook has an image problem -- Microsoft says classic client may lose embedded pictures thanks to wrapping bug8 days ago
SECURITY -- Techie claims Trump Mobile website was leaking thousands of people's data -- Customers' info potentially handed to anyone who could send an HTTP request5 days ago
Public Sector -- Irish Rail writes down €50M after train IT project goes off the rails -- State-owned operator loses confidence in delayed traffic management system as politicians compare Ireland's latest public-sector IT fiasco to 'Groundhog Day'9 days ago
BOFH -- BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has -- The Boss gives common sense an AI wrapper9 days ago
Public Sector -- Burnham backlash: UK Digital ID plans in peril if Manchester mayor succeeds Starmer -- He'll have to beat Nigel Farage in a Brexit-backing constituency first, though9 days ago
Systems -- UK nuclear investors get 'high' returns for lower risk than consumers, who also foot the bill -- Sizewell C could add £19 to yearly bills, spending watchdog says, but private investor may fail to keep costs down1 hour ago
Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working -- Techie regrets not taking credit for getting it done with amazing speed10 days ago
Cisco used AI to write security incident reports, with mixed results -- You'll need a lot of detailed prompts to get solid output - and even then it may have errors and typos5 days ago
Systems - Alibaba just admitted it's struggling to keep up with rival chipmakers and AI shops4 days ago
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage -- This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit12 days ago
Broadcom finds a VMware customer willing to stick around: London Stock Exchange -- LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it'll cost13 days ago
Baidu says the quiet part out loud – you can't build AI infrastructure, so clouds can cash in -- CFO says GPU rentals are 'structurally higher margin than CPU cloud'13 days ago
AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can't currently buy -- Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them17 days ago
Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads -- Chinese web giant says accelerator shortage is over as local hardware arrives in volume18 days ago
Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter -- Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images20 days ago
Sovereign cloud is only possible if you're Chinese or American: Gartner -- Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent21 days ago
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren't AI enough -- Around 20 percent of staff get an 'In one hour, you might not work here anymore' email24 days ago
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs -- Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream3 days ago
Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows -- Britain's 'free' internet economy is powered by invisible data extraction that feeds advertisers, AI firms, and digital platforms6 days ago
Security -- Dems slam Trump for making cybersecurity hold out the tin cup while splurging on ballroom and Jan. 6 'slush fund' -- 'Budgets are moral documents,' Rep. Delia Ramirez said5 days ago
AI + ML -- Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers -- Just like in The Truman Show10 days ago
DevOps -- Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion -- Plenty of time for cyber crims to grab data or hit you with a giant bill5 days ago
AI + ML -- Npm registry sets stage for more secure package publishing -- All the world's a stage, and all the packages are merely players10 days ago
Security -- HackerOne takes an axe to its bug bounty rewards -- Critical flaw payouts slashed by more than 75%6 days ago
AI + ML -- AI is getting expensive, but relief is on the way - just not for you -- New hardware promises greater efficiency, user experiences, and most importantly larger margins9 days ago
Personal Tech -- Flipper One wants to be the Linux multi-tool in your pocket -- Not a Zero successor, ARM box aims for openness, but shipping remains the hard part10 days ago
DevOps -- Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too -- Most software engineers now use AI for most of their code and fear the existential threat10 days ago
PaaS + IaaS -- AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud -- Customers want their data kept and processed strictly within the EU10 days ago
PaaS + IaaS -- Years after UK Post Office scandal broke, Accenture and OneView Commerce bag contract to replace Horizon -- Service tries to move on from troubled decades of Fujitsu relationship with £410 million in deals for system that hurt so many10 days ago
AI + ML -- Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report -- Developer: AI coding agent broke production and generated fictitious post-mortem paperwork after the rollback10 days ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident9 hours ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in7 days ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything14 days ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch16 days ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving26 days ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch24 days ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild24 days ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it24 days ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe24 days ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference24 days ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo24 days ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble24 days ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract24 days ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction24 days ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell24 days ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead24 days ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office24 days ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server24 days ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam24 days ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key24 days ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause24 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble24 days ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good24 days ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming24 days ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work24 days ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books24 days ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people24 days ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere24 days ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver24 days ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'24 days ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware24 days ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice24 days ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company24 days ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it24 days ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe24 days ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery24 days ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'24 days ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league24 days ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA24 days ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it24 days ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results24 days ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off24 days ago
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady24 days ago
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server24 days ago
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo24 days ago
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production24 days ago
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time24 days ago
Junior sysadmin's first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company24 days ago
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown24 days ago
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules24 days ago
Networks -- Iran hints it could interfere with submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz -- Threatens unspecified 'fees' and warns of economic consequences – yet only major kinetic action could stop data flows entirely6 hours ago
Europe tests laser links as satellite comms outgrow radio14 days ago
Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco18 days ago
FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security19 days ago
Lawsuit brought by former store operators missing from Vodafone results20 days ago
Jammin' on UK defence secretary's jet as Russia blamed for GPS interference3 days ago
Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner3 days ago
ICANN again intervenes to defend AFRINIC4 days ago
Broadcom gets early start on WiFi 8 with next-gen wireless routing kit5 days ago
UK armed forces aims for secure comms via optical satellite links5 days ago
6G: The next gen of wireless tech nobody's ready to pay for5 days ago
Cisco making SONiC available to all customers – not just hyperscalers5 days ago
AT&T sues to ditch Cali copper phone lines to save billions9 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Minecraft-streaming gran swatted while raising cash for grandson's cancer care -- Sue Jacquot said she had a great time, despite the rude awakening7 days ago
Security -- Attackers spill plaintext passwords of 46k Myspace93 users after 2021 breach -- Leakage blamed on treacherous friends exposed unencrypted credentials, email addresses9 days ago
Personal Tech -- Vivaldi 8 polishes the chrome without coating it in AI -- Unified UI revamp gives browser a cleaner look while rivals keep wedging assistants into the web10 days ago
Security -- Cisco serves up yet another perfect 10 bug with Secure Workload admin flaw -- Switchzilla says attackers could access sensitive data and make configuration changes across tenant boundaries through vulnerable internal APIs9 days ago
AI + ML -- Apple adds AI smarts to Voice Control, VoiceOver and Magnifier ahead of Accessibility Day -- Natural language commands and better image descriptions but Mac users and dictation fans may still be waiting10 days ago
Microsoft storms RAMPART, adds Clarity to agentic AI safety -- Redmond open sources two tools for building and maintaining safer agents1 hour ago
Public Sector -- Think tank to UK government: You can't build the future on systems from the past -- Legacy IT is getting worse, not better, and could trip up Whitehall's shiny digital plans, report warns10 days ago
AI + ML -- UK.gov hikes health AI tender by 400% – and hundreds of millions – after a chat with suppliers -- Maximum framework value sky-rockets from £150M to £600M after 'an extensive intelligence gathering exercise'10 days ago
Personal tech - UK's Education Committee: Social media ban a must to save children's mental health5 days ago
Zombie user account let hackers control the city's water -- Failing to disable a former employee's account was a huge mistake10 days ago
Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat -- Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot11 days ago
SpaceX pitches itself as integrated interplanetary proto-monopolist in IPO filing -- Aims for the stars while burning cash and blowing deadlines on Earth11 days ago
GPU behemoth Nvidia on track to be world's leading CPU supplier too, says CFO -- GPUzilla forecasts $20 billion in CPU revenues this year10 days ago
Overcoming the trade-offs in data sovereignty -- What does data sovereignty actually mean for your network, which trade-offs are unavoidable? Learn more.13 days ago
AMD says its $4K Ryzen AI Halo workstation practically pays for itself -- If you spend at least eight hours a day vibe coding that is11 days ago
Intuit axes 3,000 – without blaming AI -- 'Margin expansion' and a 'faster, leaner' company are CEO Sasan Goodarzi's goals11 days ago
AI + ML -- AI code accelerates production failures and spending, study finds -- CloudBees survey exposes verification gap11 days ago
Even Claude agrees: hole in its sandbox was real and dangerous -- Another day, another AI bug silently fixed with no CVE and no public disclosure3 days ago
Intel's CEO reveals early hiring challenges as bankruptcy concerns deterred top talent -- Recovering chipmaker looks beyond 14A to 10A and 7A process nodes in foundry comeback bid11 days ago
AI + ML -- OpenAI floats buy-before-your-try AI availability guarantee -- Nice AI workloads you have going, it'd be a shame we ran out of stock11 days ago
OSes -- Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped -- Red Hat's free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend11 days ago
AI + ML -- Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI -- Most users lose access June 18 - unless you've got enterprise creds or paid API keys11 days ago
SaaS -- Plex appeal fades as Lifetime Pass jumps to $750 -- How many times would you have to watch Lord of the Rings to cover that?11 days ago
AI + ML -- Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately5 days ago
Security -- Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops22 hours ago
Security -- Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public5 days ago
Security -- Troops' phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries14 hours ago
FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right -- TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations3 days ago
FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship after another launch mishap -- IPO? More like IP-uh-oh4 days ago
Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one -- Autonomous shuttle's second passenger trip ends with rear-end collision and a tow truck6 days ago
No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship -- Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors8 days ago
Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice -- AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh11 days ago
UK Typhoon jets fitted with bargain-bin drone busters for Middle East sorties -- Low-cost laser-guided rockets offer cheaper way to swat Shahed-style threats than firing pricey air-to-air missiles13 days ago
Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller -- Well, page is more accurate, but the source code is available if you want to try doing something even crazier13 days ago
UK reloads artillery plans with £1B remote-control howitzer order -- 72 Boxer-mounted RCH 155s due from 2028 as Britain fills the gap left by AS-90s sent to Ukraine17 days ago
Grad-to-be turns graduation cap into Rust-powered light show -- Eric Park tells us he doesn't plan to wear his modified cap to commencement, but his code's available for anyone with no such qualms and an upcoming ceremony18 days ago
Dude... where's my password? Claude reunites forgetful stoner with $400k Bitcoin stash -- AI to the rescue as 11-year search for password turns up in old PC files18 days ago
This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY -- Chromium extension swaps promos for John Carpenter-style subliminal slogans19 days ago
Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine -- Class A drugs loaded instead of A419 days ago
Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue -- Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope20 days ago
The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains -- Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.21 days ago
London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool -- Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London's West End23 days ago
Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard -- A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive24 days ago
Lego throws its own Hail Mary -- Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price24 days ago
Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere -- Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen24 days ago
Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets -- Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?25 days ago
IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested -- Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope20 days ago
UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones -- Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports26 days ago
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb -- GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them26 days ago
DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to -- A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not26 days ago
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area -- Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags26 days ago
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop -- Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space26 days ago
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs -- PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge26 days ago
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway -- But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev26 days ago
Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops -- Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves26 days ago
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages -- Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info26 days ago
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest26 days ago
Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute -- Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the show26 days ago
Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges -- PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role26 days ago
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects -- DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects26 days ago
Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' -- That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed26 days ago
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don't pay publishers -- Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home26 days ago
China blocks Zuck's acquisition of AI outfit Manus -- Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions26 days ago
Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again -- No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend26 days ago
SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months -- Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team26 days ago
In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis -- Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day26 days ago
BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges -- Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet?26 days ago
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why -- Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate26 days ago
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule -- Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences26 days ago
Space factories edge closer after experimental capsule survives hypersonic landing -- Varda hails success of autonomous touchdown tech and celebrates heat data haul12 days ago
Science - NASA's Psyche mission set for a brief encounter with Mars11 days ago
NASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon -- SpaceX and Blue Origin may yet get a role in low Earth orbit rehearsal, readiness permitting18 days ago
SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade? -- May 19 launch will put redesigned rocket, pad, and engines through their paces19 days ago
Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans3 days ago
Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry5 days ago
NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon5 days ago
Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust6 days ago
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins -- Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu20 days ago
SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch -- Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May20 days ago
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration21 days ago
Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool -- All driller, no filler25 days ago
More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook -- Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time26 days ago
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely26 days ago
AI + ML -- Those spared latest Meta job cuts forcibly reassigned to AI roles -- Staff protest overhaul and mouse tracking at 'Employee Data Extraction Factory'11 days ago
Systems -- Datacenter builds could be shielded from judicial review in UK planning reforms -- British government wants to ensure no hold-ups for critical energy and infrastructure projects6 days ago
Microsoft says cu l8r to text message security -- Old, busted, insecure authentication to be replaced with something shinier and safer12 days ago
'Workforce rebalancing' comes for Kyndryl, and delivery teams are in the firing line -- Big Blue spinout eyes up to $500M in savings and agentic AI while insiders grumble it's still 'IBM without the hardware'11 days ago
Science -- ESA boss tires of being dragged around by NASA mood swings -- Are we pilots or are we passengers? Aschbacher asks11 days ago