Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync -- On Call -- Network Time Protocol sometimes needs help from a temporal cops

2 days ago

How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away -- Opinion -- The once mighty Wintel supercontinent is cracking in more ways than you might think

2 days ago

Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe - They use AI more but also check it more

2 days ago

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

12 days ago

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American' -- Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries

2 days ago

AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help -- "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" -- Science

9 hours ago

Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off -- Feature -- Running AIs on your own machine lets you stick it to the man and save some cash in the process -- AI + ML

17 hours ago

Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too -- opinion -- We are drowning in code, but at least some folks are swimming -- Devops

1 day ago

Kilopixel creator kills livestream switch before woodblock display hits Crysis point -- All good things must come to an end -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Uncle Sam doesn't want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China -- End of verified end user status means South Korean memory vendors will need licenses to bring restricted chipmaking tech into Chinese fabs -- Systems

2 days ago

Researcher who found McDonald's free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots -- The controls were left wide open on Pudu's robots -- Research

1 day ago

Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference -- Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party -- Systems

2 days ago

xAI's Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups -- Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole 'MechaHitler' thing are all the evidence needed, say authors -- Public Sector

2 days ago

AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says -- GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers -- Systems

2 days ago

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content - Opinion - But the cure may ruin the web.... AI + ML - 29 Aug 2025 - | 38

3 hours ago

AWS catches Russia's Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials -- Look who's visiting the watering hole these days -- Security

2 days ago

16 billion credentials exposed: why your business needs a password manager now - Your passwords may already be at risk. Partner Content

3 days ago

GitHub engineer claims team was 'coerced' to put Grok into Copilot -- Platform's staffer complains security review was 'rushed' -- Devops

2 days ago

Pentagon ends Microsoft's use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud -- 'It blows my mind,' says SecDef -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Intel's deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs -- The $5.7B check has cleared, CFO says -- Public Sector

2 days ago

FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam -- Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QED -- Public Sector

2 days ago

RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house -- A remarkable mixture of different components, but it works -- OSes

2 days ago

30 years later, Doom returns to SNES with Raspberry Pi RP2350 muscle -- Limited Run Games swaps in silicon to emulate Super FX chip and hit 20 fps -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug -- Up to 29,000 organizations and potentially 370,000 security and IT pros affected -- Security

2 days ago

HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11 -- Nobody knows why they need one, but folk seem to be buying them -- Systems

2 days ago

The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon - Opinion - Are tech giants getting nervous? They should be

3 days ago

UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout -- Senior officials summoned to science and tech committee to explain further -- CSO

2 days ago

Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026 -- Microsoft shifts cellular management to Settings and the web -- Applications

2 days ago

UK datacenter developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds -- Hang on, what happened to gov.UK's bitbarn-favoring Industrial Strategy? -- Cloud Infrastructure Month

2 days ago

With AI Boom, Dell's Datacenter Biz Is Finally Bigger Than Its PC Biz

2 days ago

Nvidia Sets The Datacenter Growth Bar Very High As Compute Sales Dip

3 days ago

IBM And AMD Tag Team On Hybrid Classical-Quantum Supercomputers

4 days ago

Intel's "Clearwater Forest" Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be A Beast

5 days ago

How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away -- Opinion -- The once mighty Wintel supercontinent is cracking in more ways than you might think -- Columnists

2 days ago

Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible -- Feature -- Maybe someday we'll just call it 'data processing' again -- Cloud Infrastructure Month

2 days ago

Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync -- On Call -- Network Time Protocol sometimes needs help from a temporal cops -- Columnists

2 days ago

China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build - 700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles - Science - 29 Aug 2025 - | 8

2 days ago

China's KylinOS Linux takes a great leap forward to v11 and kernel 6.6 -- Supports several Chinese chips and GPUs – and of course it has AI inside -- OSes

2 days ago

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American' -- Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries -- Security

2 days ago

Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe -- They use AI more but also check it more -- Software

3 days ago

Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations -- Microsoft AI honcho insists partnership with Sam Altman's brainbox behemoth is alive and well -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises - Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits

3 days ago

Five years – that's how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out -- My brain hurts a lot -- AI + ML

3 days ago

DOGE delayed deals, says Nutanix -- But private cloud contender sees upside in its modernization mission -- Virtualization

3 days ago

vSphere upgrades are not near the top of VMware's to-do list -- Nor is its Arm port -- VMware Explore

3 days ago

Crossing the agentic chasm with a sovereign data and AI platform - AI Factory empowers developers to build reliable, sovereign AI platforms - Partner Content

3 days ago

DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America -- Our drones are OK, but those other drones? -- Security

3 days ago

Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban -- Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots -- Applications

3 days ago

FBI, Dutch cops seize fake ID marketplace that sold identity docs for $9 -- $6.4M VerifTools marketplace offline -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

VAST talks up storage work for SK Telecom

2 days ago

Storage news ticker – 29 August 2025

2 days ago

Dell's AI-accelerated revenues explode upwards

2 days ago

Pure Storage hammers revenue guidance as Meta deal boosts bottom line, outlook

2 days ago

How does China keep stealing our stuff, wonders DoD group responsible for keeping foreign agents out -- 'The homeland is no longer secure,' says Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency leader -- Security

3 days ago

Dialing Earth: Skylo set to leapfrog T-Mobile and offer voice calls via satellite -- Only a few Android phones will be able to support the service -- Networks

3 days ago

Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly -- Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats -- Applications

3 days ago

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

5 days ago

AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas -- Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200 -- Applications -- 28 Aug 2025

3 days ago

'It isn't designed to solve privacy concerns,' Grafana CTO says of Bring Your Own Cloud -- INTERVIEW -- Think BYOC will solve all your sovereignty and privacy worries? You might be missing the point -- Cloud Infrastructure Month

3 days ago

Google and Zed push protocol to pry AI agents out of VS Code's clutches -- Because not every bot wants to live inside Microsoft's walled garden -- AI + ML -- 28 Aug 2025

3 days ago

SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot -- Regulator points to lack of 'basic access controls' between internet-facing systems, internal network -- Cyber-crime -- 28 Aug 2025

3 days ago

Firefly reckons thermal tweaks will stop next rocket tearing itself apart -- Company cleared to launch again after April failure -- Science

3 days ago

TransUnion admits 4.5M affected after third-party support app breached -- Credit agency offers own services as compensation -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Thousands of Citrix NetScaler boxes still sitting ducks despite patches -- Shadowserver counts more than 13,000 appliances still wide open – including thousands in US, Germany, and UK -- Patches

3 days ago

Ransomware crooks knock Swedish municipalities offline for measly sum of $168K -- Miljödata meltdown leaves 200 local authorities scrambling over 1.5 BTC -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Good morning, Brit Xbox fans – ready to prove your age? -- Microsoft blames incoming UK Online Safety Act, says you have until 2026 -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Euro banks block billions in rogue PayPal direct debits after fraud glitch -- US payments platform back in action, says it's informing affected customers -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details -- Apology issued after names tied to redress scheme revealed in mass mailing -- CSO

3 days ago

UK unions want 'worker first' plan for AI as people fear for their jobs - AI-Pocalypse - Labor group says new technologies could increase inequality if we're not careful - AI + ML - 28 Aug 2025 - | 40

2 days ago

Could agentic AI save us from the cybercrisis? -- Many hands make light work in the SOC

12 days ago

Riding the AI current: why leaders are letting it flow -- Would you let AI make lifestyle decisions for you? Statistically, the two people sitting next to you would.

12 days ago

Google's open lakehouse: the foundation for enterprise AI data -- Unifying data to support AI applications used to come with trade-offs. Not any more, says Google

12 days ago

Wastewater monitoring project could catch next pandemic early, says health agency -- UK starts early warning system combing through stuff that folks flush away -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Solo.io boss: I was wrong, I made mistakes – and that made me a better CEO - Interview - Idit Levine on going from startup to a billion-dollar valuation - Cloud Infrastructure Month - 28 Aug 2025 - | 9

3 days ago

If you thought China's Salt Typhoon was booted off critical networks, think again -- 13 governments sound the alarm about ongoing unpleasantness -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Online property ad reveals looted Nazi war art, triggers police raid -- Stolen painting still missing, sadly -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Japan exploring whether AI could help inspect its nuclear power plants -- If regulators heed the lessons of Fukushima, testing will have to jump Godzilla-sized hurdles -- AI + ML

3 days ago

ChatGPT hates LA Chargers fans -- Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user's inferred politics and other affiliations -- AI + ML

4 days ago

AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war -- China would be a $50 billion a year market for Nvidia if Uncle Sam would let us sell competitive products, says Jensen Huang -- Systems

4 days ago

The APAC AI paradox: unlocking potential amidst evolving perceptions - APAC consumers love AI productivity gains, slightly less keen on the whopping energy bills - Partner content

5 days ago

We all live in a virtual machine, a virtual machine, a virtual machine -- VMware tweaked its licenses to suit submarines -- VMware Explore

4 days ago

Nvidia details its itty bitty GB10 superchip for local AI development -- Hot Chips -- Starting at $2,999, tiny doesn't mean cheap -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Sting nails two front firms in Nork IT worker scam -- There's also a rogue Russian on the list -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise -- comment -- AI lowers the bar for cybercrime, Anthropic admits -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Windows Backup for Organizations doesn't actually save data files -- Not a disaster recovery option, but good enough for a migration -- OSes

4 days ago

Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russia-based Yandex dev - updated - Fast-glob is widely used in government, security lab says - Security - 27 Aug 2025 - | 33

3 days ago

Word to autosave new docs to the cloud before you can even hit Ctrl+S -- Feature rolls out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, stashing unnamed files in OneDrive by default -- Applications

4 days ago

Bun JS toolkit adds MySQL driver, secrets API, YAML, and more - Feature bloat, or added value for this JavaScript toolkit? Devops - 27 Aug 2025 - |

4 days ago

Build with confidence with Azure Essentials - How Microsoft's Azure resources help IT teams unlock cloud and AI value - Partner Content

10 days ago

Nx NPM packages poisoned in AI-assisted supply chain attack -- Stolen dev credentials posted to GitHub as attackers abuse CLI tools for recon -- Devops

4 days ago

Uncle Sam throws AI 'chili cook-off' to spice up healthcare fraud detection -- No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data -- Public Sector

4 days ago

The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams -- Don't let it happen to you -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago