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Anthropic's bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator - After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw
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Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos -- Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there1 hour ago
Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse -- Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?21 hours ago
SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns -- Tech investment giant wants batteries for its own AI datacenters, and lots of them1 hour 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.6 hours ago
Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages -- Dull but important ... so, a bit like Debian itself, really1 hour ago
Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain -- Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease its computing burden, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical17 hours ago
OSes - Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life - Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 – and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth4 hours ago
Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released -- JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector5 hours ago
DevOps - Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged - Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack5 hours ago
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration7 hours ago
Personal Tech - Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug - Client's handy automations get grayed out unless you know the keyboard shortcut9 hours 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 continent14 hours ago
ASIA IN BRIEF: China's agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop -- PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!14 hours ago
OSes - Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon - Furores are fermenting in the forums1 day ago
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back -- Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols4 days ago
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now -- AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in -- Rupert Goodwins4 days ago
QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different -- Bruce Davie5 days ago
The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out -- Mark Pesce4 days ago
What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for - Rupert Goodwins4 days ago
Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere -- Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen3 days ago
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client -- It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in4 hours 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' email3 days ago
AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region -- Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere3 days ago
Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull -- Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic's uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference5 hours ago
Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs -- The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams3 days ago
Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time -- Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince will each do 18 months for hosting laptops used by North Korean IT workers to remotely infiltrate US companies6 hours ago
Anthropic response to 1-click pwn: Shouldn't have clicked 'ok' -- Security biz Adversa AI argues users of AI tools need clearer warnings7 hours ago
60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour -- Happy World Password Day! Maybe it's finally time to kill this holiday in favor of World No-More-Passwords Day?9 hours ago
IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power -- Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues4 days ago
$250M crypto-robbing gang's dirty work guy sentenced to 6.5 years behind bars -- The then-teen was told to break in and steal what the keyboard warriors couldn't9 hours ago
Personal Tech -- TomTom's route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion -- Users report disappearing favorites, blank route planners, and cloud sync failures amid outage3 days ago
Devops -- C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply -- Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations12 hours ago
Cyber-crime -- State-backed hackers hammer Palo Alto firewall zero-day before patch lands -- Internet-facing PAN-OS firewalls are once again doing impressions of initial access brokers9 hours ago
Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate -- Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware4 days ago
AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises -- MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card20 hours ago
Hungarian cops cuff suspected swatter after two-year FBI probe -- 20-year-old fessed up after investigators found video of crime in progress20 hours ago
AI + ML -- EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash -- Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat3 days ago
Software -- NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash -- Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default3 days ago
Security -- The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time -- Fortunately, it was a legit contractor who guessed it2 days ago
AI -- Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer -- You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?2 days ago
Public Sector -- Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking -- Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services – yours for up to £105K3 days ago
PaaS + IaaS -- Minister gives Palantir's NHS platform a clean bill of health -- £330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in4 days ago
AI + ML - OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw - A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform9 hours ago
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security - Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money9 hours ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits9 hours ago
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds5 days ago
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question5 days ago
UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk5 days ago
Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future5 days ago
France's digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead5 days ago
OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'5 days ago
Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list5 days ago
Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing'5 days ago
Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet5 days ago
Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis -- Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS4 days ago
Datacenter to become Arm's biggest business 'soon' -- Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips4 days ago
Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs -- For AI agents, seeing is expensive4 days ago
AI + ML -- Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity -- Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits4 days ago
AI + mL -- Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI -- Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff3 days ago
Security -- 1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials -- 13% say they've sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests3 days ago
Science -- Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool -- All driller, no filler4 days ago
Site News -- We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to -- A new coat of paint4 days ago
Systems -- DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year -- Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown4 days ago
Security -- Iran cybersnoops still LARPing as ransomware crooks in espionage ops -- MOIS-linked cyber outfit puts on a ransomware show to disguise the wide-open backdoor behind the scenes3 days ago
Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse -- Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?1 day ago
Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway -- Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters5 days ago
Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm -- They were doing it in Texas...5 days ago
Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores -- After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse5 days ago
AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers -- Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear5 days ago
Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet -- EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon5 days ago
AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned -- Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for5 days ago
Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help -- Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations5 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? Nope5 days ago
UK age-gating plans risk breaking the internet, privacy groups warn -- Activists say ministers are targeting access rather than Big Tech's data-hungry business models3 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 airports5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- It's game over for Copilot on Xbox -- Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan5 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill -- Investigators spent weeks unravelling enthusiast's bedroom project3 days ago
Software -- Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads -- It's in Waterfox too, and there it does what you'd expect3 days ago
GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet -- Seven official flavors offer alternatives to the default Wayland-only desktop – and Xfce looks like the leanest5 days ago
Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors -- MoD eyes Middle East exports after desert trials of Cambridge Aerospace system5 days ago
Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration -- EXCLUSIVE: Searches go missing, house sales fall through, and a 5G mast erected by mistake5 days ago
Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack -- When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision.5 days ago
The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence Is Forcing a New IT Playbook -- Infrastructure teams are facing a perfect storm: extended hardware lead times, rising costs driven by AI demand, and accelerated platform timelines.5 days ago
Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival -- Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape.5 days ago
Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival -- Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape.5 days ago
Unfriendly Followers: The Black Market For Your Identity -- They'll reveal how attackers use your profile as intel and show you how to make yourself harder to target5 days ago
AI Found the Problem. Now What? -- AI is transforming the software development lifecycle, helping teams identify and remediate vulnerabilities before they reach production.3 days ago
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PaaS + IaaS -- AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly -- Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper1 day ago
Security -- India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree -- Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks4 days ago
SaaS -- Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend -- Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks5 days ago
AI + ML -- OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year -- If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math5 days ago
AI + ML -- Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch -- High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage5 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 not5 days ago
Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw -- Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn't sit idle for long4 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 time5 days ago
OSes -- Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver -- Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software5 days ago
Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager -- Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished5 days ago
Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash -- Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'5 days ago
SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support -- And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis5 days ago
Compute And Memory Price Hikes Drive IT Spending Way Higher2 hours ago
Sometimes, Air Is The Only Way For AI Systems To Keep Their Cool3 days ago
Arista Rides AI Scale Out Networks, Moves Into Scale Across, And Awaits Scale Up3 days ago
MSP-focussed Virtuozzo goes all-in on AI2 hours ago
Ten enterprise AI storage systems reviewed and reported4 hours ago
DRAM and gloom-glut cyclicality4 hours ago
C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply -- Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations7 hours ago
Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help -- Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations7 hours ago
Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked -- Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future7 hours ago
Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked -- Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future5 days ago
Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking -- Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats4 days ago
SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition -- ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration5 days ago
PaaS + IaaS -- VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination -- Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock5 days ago
Cyber-crime -- ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild -- Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched3 days ago
AI + ML -- Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more -- Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech4 days ago
Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday -- Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories5 days ago
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area -- Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags5 days ago
Software -- NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns -- Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change5 days ago
Columnists -- Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof -- If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?4 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release -- New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard5 days ago
AI inference just plays by different rules4 days ago
How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot4 days ago
It's time to make agentic automation scalable4 days ago
ZTE and China Telecom win GSMA GLOMO "Best Private Network Solution" for EasyOn 5G-A-RobotNet5 days ago
China Unicom and ZTE release 5GAxI UniMAX ubiquitous deterministic connectivity solution to empower 5G-A+AI convergence5 days ago
ZTE launches GigaMIMO: AI-native wireless empowers human-agent synergy5 days ago
ZTE honored with three GSMA GLOMO Awards, pioneering an intelligent future5 days ago
U Mobile to leverage ZTE's AIR Core solution to pilot AI capabilities in their 5G network to improve efficiency, stability and capabilities in latest MoU5 days ago
ZTE debuts next-gen FWA line-up powered by AI, Wi-Fi 8 and 5G-A at MWC Barcelona 20265 days ago
ZTE and SURGE mark milestone partnership to deliver world's first commercial 5G FWA 1.4GHz service5 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'5 days ago
Security -- Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation -- Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC5 days ago
Personal Tech -- Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple's Mac Mini now starts at $799 -- The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer5 days ago
AI + ML -- Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work -- Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default5 days ago
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache -- 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them5 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 space5 days ago
Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port -- It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho5 days ago
To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane5 days ago
Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching3 days ago
Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job3 days ago
Columnists - Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled - Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine3 days ago
On-Prem - Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work3 days ago
While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?3 days ago
Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds3 days ago
Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out3 days ago
Public Sector - Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred - Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it5 days ago
Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now -- Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos5 days ago
It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well -- OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs5 days ago
Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts -- The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AI5 days ago
Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town -- Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed5 days ago
Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter -- System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline5 days ago
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger -- Hackpocalypse deferred5 days ago
Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs -- 'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'5 days ago
Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner -- Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges4 days ago
Security -- If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked -- Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows5 days ago
Personal Tech -- Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back -- Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades5 days ago
Security -- Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky -- Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada5 days ago
OSes -- Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better -- Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what's wrong at Redmond?5 days ago
AI + ML -- Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark -- In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy5 days ago
AI + ML -- Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents -- Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM5 days ago
AI + ML -- Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models -- There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was5 days ago
Security -- CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool -- GrassMarlin leaks sensitive information, provided your targeting phishing skills are sharp enough5 days ago
Security - GitHub: Zounds, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop! Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash - Claude ploughs through months of work in rapid time, helps Wiz researchers nab lucrative award2 hours ago
30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm - Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw2 hours ago
Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out -- 'Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker'5 days ago
Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak -- Names, phone numbers, physical addresses also included in Shiny Hunters alleged data dump5 days ago
Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools -- Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump3 days ago
Anthropic's bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator2 hours ago
BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks4 hours ago
Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree4 hours ago
Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine5 hours ago
Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that's coming off the tracks10 hours ago
Worm rubs out competitor's malware, then takes control2 days ago
Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction3 days ago
'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit3 days ago
Meta U-turns on encryption push for Instagram as DMs go plaintext3 days ago
UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs -- Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it5 days ago
Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt -- Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once5 days ago
ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs -- CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'5 days ago
Personal Tech -- Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone -- Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives5 days ago
AI + ML -- CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos -- If software writes software the risk is "systematic failure at scale". Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester5 days ago
Personal Tech -- That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry -- Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock5 days ago
Cyber-crime -- First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed -- Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand5 days ago
OSes -- Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' -- Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow5 days ago
OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that -- Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked5 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 dev5 days ago
Cyber-crime - Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down2 hours ago
UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe -- CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms5 days ago
Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city -- Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shift5 days ago
Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews -- One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdog5 days ago
Tencent says small clouds can't get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices -- Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise party5 days ago
AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left -- Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart5 days ago
BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops -- MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead5 days ago
AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes' -- Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint5 days ago
Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies -- Remember: Truth is the first casualty of war5 days ago
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 -- Haswell's had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away5 days ago
Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? -- Things that go bork in the night5 days ago
Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed -- Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year5 days ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave -- For once, Oracle ERP wasn't the problem5 days ago
Qualcomm teases 'dedicated CPU for agentic experiences' and 'agentic smartphones' -- Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler5 days ago
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over -- In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can 'contribute to global stability'5 days ago
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 -- $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts5 days ago
Security -- The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools -- Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware5 days ago
AI + ML -- Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue -- Stop the sprawl!5 days ago
AI + ML -- Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser -- Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open5 days ago
Security -- Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled -- KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start5 days ago
Security -- FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control' -- One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend5 days ago
Personal Tech -- Phone users know when to hold 'em, delay upgrades amid inflation -- Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average5 days ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch4 hours ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving5 days ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch3 days ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild3 days ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it3 days ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe3 days ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference3 days ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo3 days ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble3 days ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract3 days ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction3 days ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell3 days ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead3 days ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office3 days ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server3 days ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam3 days ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key3 days ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause3 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble3 days ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good3 days ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming3 days ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work3 days ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books3 days ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people3 days ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere3 days ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver3 days ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'3 days ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware3 days ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice3 days ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company3 days ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it3 days ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe3 days ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery3 days ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'3 days ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league3 days ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA3 days ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it3 days ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results3 days ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off3 days ago
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady3 days ago
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server3 days ago
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo3 days ago
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production3 days ago
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time3 days ago
Junior sysadmin's first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company3 days ago
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown3 days ago
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules3 days ago
Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe3 days ago
Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter3 days ago
Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away3 days ago
ZTE and XLSMART officially launch Innovation Center in Jakarta, accelerating 5G-advanced and AI readiness for Indonesia5 days ago
GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks5 days ago
When robots join the race: 5G-A powers a new kind of marathon5 days ago
Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts5 days ago
Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims2 days ago
HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi3 days ago
It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet5 days ago
Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal5 days ago
Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear5 days ago
Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet5 days ago
Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q15 days ago
Wind Telecom Dominican Republic and ZTE join forces to accelerate smart home innovation5 days ago
Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines -- This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows4 days ago
French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state's secure document agency -- Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online5 days ago
Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool -- Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor5 days ago
AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud -- When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job5 days ago
Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI -- Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party5 days ago
AI + ML -- SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy -- Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations – including AI – that connect to SAP systems5 days ago
OSes -- Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' -- But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya?5 days ago
AI + ML - Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes2 days ago
Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005 -- Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support'5 days ago
What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia -- Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit5 days ago
Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day -- Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected5 days ago
Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs -- Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops5 days ago
Securing the Untrusted Agentic Development Layer -- Join us to learn how to architect a development environment where your builders and their agents can move fast and securely.5 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 themselves5 days ago
Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet -- Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection5 days ago
ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine -- ZTE and NCRCIM leverage "CardioMind" AI and full-stack computing to drive global healthcare equity5 days ago
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs -- AI is driving more searches and ads5 days ago
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises -- Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand5 days ago
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root -- Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation5 days ago
AI + ML -- Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz -- The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'5 days ago
Research -- Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm -- ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength5 days ago
OFF-PREM -- IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power3 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill4 days ago
AI + ML -- Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer2 days ago
AI + ML -- Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin3 hours 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.10 hours ago
London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool -- Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London's West End2 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 alive3 days ago
Lego throws its own Hail Mary -- Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price3 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?4 days ago
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb -- GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them5 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 surge5 days ago
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely5 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 show5 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 role5 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 home5 days ago
China blocks Zuck's acquisition of AI outfit Manus -- Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions5 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 friend5 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 day5 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?5 days ago
Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes -- Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn5 days ago
Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit -- Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place5 days ago
NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer -- Tests scheduled for May can't come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown5 days ago
NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission -- Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms5 days ago
Would you like fries with that terminal? -- Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't5 days ago
Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars -- Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam5 days ago
Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall -- Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start5 days ago
Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment -- Services giant's staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices5 days ago
Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many -- We've all been there5 days ago
Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031 -- Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?5 days ago
Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges -- Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decade5 days ago
Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London -- Google sibling takes on the Big Smoke – with a human hand on the wheel5 days ago
Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt -- Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputtering5 days ago
California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says -- Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print files5 days ago
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest5 days ago
Science - Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects4 hours 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 slashed5 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 team5 days ago
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle7 hours ago
Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool5 days ago
More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook5 days ago
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration5 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 cooperate5 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 experiences5 days ago
NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ -- Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision5 days ago
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' -- One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume5 days ago
NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess5 days ago
You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house -- It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'5 days ago
Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack -- Second try's a charm?5 days ago
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 -- Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security5 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 info5 days ago
Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it -- New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too5 days ago