Thursday, September 10, 2026 3:30 PM ET
36 minutes ago
AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web -- Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills6 hours ago
VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups– or migrations to rivals -- Says license was never about moving VMs8 hours ago
Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter -- Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI10 hours ago
NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools -- Can help you pick the perfect spot for your future evil lair, or boffins make discoveries about Earth's satellite36 minutes ago
German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration -- 'Realigned' project plan aims to move existing landscape to new platform to 'achieve faster progress'8 hours ago
OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought -- New report points finger at OpenAI bots that hijacked a German wiki for improper use of an additional 20 websites, and 14 fetching services36 minutes ago
security - Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script - Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!36 minutes ago
Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution -- Existing customers can carry on for now, but Microsoft offers no like-for-like successor3 hours ago
Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment -- Tracxn credits one AI infrastructure outfit with $3.7B of sector's $5.7B haul4 hours ago
Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled -- Government orders independent review as carriers demand boss's resignation36 minutes ago
cyber-crime - Trezor, BitBox users targeted in newsletter phishing spree - Attackers exploit legitimate mailing channels to demand crypto wallet backups8 hours ago
Laptop-slinger Framework refunding customers who paid top dollar for RAM -- Puts a whole new spin on 'Cheap as chips'12 hours ago
RESEARCH - Novel Blue Moon kit targeting Chrome and Windows reflects new reality of AI-driven exploits - Mind the patch gap, please and thank you13 hours ago
AI AND ML -- AI models don't kill people – people kill people -- AI fearmongers forget we could just jail tech execs until morale and model safety improve36 minutes ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple hawks $2k folding fondleslab -- Another new form factor for devs to adapt to1 hour ago
Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain -- Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory23 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements2 days ago
OFFBEAT -- Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer1 day ago
NETWORKS -- Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider7 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Another Microsoft team admits it's struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code7 hours ago
SECURITY -- Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge22 hours ago
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- And as for getting US government to help – uncontrolled AI is not as dangerous as AI under the control of the technically clueless -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols21 hours ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Rupert Goodwins1 hour ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Corey Quinn21 hours ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols7 days ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- Rupert Goodwins7 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Mark Pesce14 days ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic -- Rupert Goodwins14 days ago
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges - Bruce Davie1 hour ago
ON-PREM -- Google takes the nuclear option for €13B Finland expansion -- 22-year power deal covers up to half of Loviisa plant's capacity, with wind and battery projects alongside5 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK government says Fujitsu won't use framework places to chase new customers -- Procurement officials promise to police the scandal-hit supplier's voluntary bidding moratorium8 hours ago
Microsoft closes the book on Publisher and unplugs Project Online -- Office 2021 joins the October retirement list as customers weigh pricier alternatives1 day ago
PERSONAL tech -- Huawei Watch D3 pumps up its health-monitoring credentials -- Inflatable wrist cuff delivers 24-hour blood pressure readings, though the design remains chunky12 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 -- Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push13 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Another Microsoft team admits it's struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code -- Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments7 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing -- Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month14 hours ago
AI AND ML -- US claims Chinese AI companies' core AI strategy is distilling American models -- Spooks and CISA point to 'industrial-scale distillation' by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese players17 hours ago
SECURITY -- Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge -- Adobe also brought goodies to the patch party and they deserve immediate attention36 minutes ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic -- Vend it like Altman21 hours ago
AI+ML -- Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas -- See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad21 hours ago
Security -- OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack -- Researchers disclosed the cross-account trick the same day rogue agents exploited another zero-day for admin access5 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter's chamber of ads -- No defense against the dark arts Microsoft is practicing on your wallpaper23 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle -- DeepMind researchers propose tapping into the whistleblower tendency to keep agents in check1 day ago
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer -- Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project2 days ago
Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail -- Firm wants to take atomic power generation on a barge to wherever the need is1 day ago
Boston Scientific left nursing its bottom line after cyberattack -- Medical device giant warns August intrusion will hit Q3 and full-year sales and earnings as recovery drags on8 hours ago
ASML and TSMC want bigger masks for smaller chips -- Industry push aims to eliminate stitching constraints and ready high-NA EUV systems for production by 20332 days ago
How to secure hybrid meeting rooms without sacrificing user experience - SPONSORED FEATURE: With regulators tightening rules and attack surfaces widening, meeting-room kit must bake in security without pushing users toward workarounds1 day ago
LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection -- Claims follow scrutiny over monitors installing adware without user consent12 hours ago
SECURITY -- BigBear phishing crew nets thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials -- Researchers got inside the crooks' admin panel and found 5,137 stolen records tied to 461 organizations20 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Mistral bags €3B to build Europe's sovereign AI champion -- Samsung-led round values the French model maker at more than €21B1 day ago
RESEARCH -- Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns -- Companies 'don't want their IP exposed, so they're willing to pay'21 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK energy operator sticks with Palantir in £21M direct award -- Proprietary platform keeps incumbent in place while NESO prepares a future competition1 day ago
Legal -- Grindr pays £26M to settle UK privacy class action -- Dating app admits no liability over allegations that it shared sensitive user data, including HIV status, with third parties1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Whitehall's latest plan to get things done: Less Whitehall -- Ministers declare war on an 'industry of dither and delay' as consultations, legal caution, and judicial reviews get the chop1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Britain reboots its space strategy with £7.8B already on the launchpad -- Cross-government plan combines civil ambitions with an increasingly military view of orbit1 day ago
HPE makes its "unified storage" claim real as B10000 R6 hits GA - PARTNER CONTENT: Pairs block and adjacent file workloads with independent scaling of performance and capacity1 day ago
LEGAL -- 'Global reckoning' is coming for big tech, says Australian minister -- Introduces 'digital duty of care' that will mean Aussies get 'my feed, my way' – without algorithms if requested2 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction' -- MPs welcome move but still want answers over how the conflict of interest was allowed to arise2 days ago
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification -- Wheels turning on the road and in government3 days ago
DRAM contract prices forecast to grow only 13-18% in Q3 -- PC buyers already had enough of helping to fund the AI revolution, only essential refreshes happening now3 days ago
Nightwing CEO has a Labor Day message for staff – and apparently The Register -- Nothing says 'For internal use only' quite like emailing it to the press1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Oracle may be next in EU software licensing hot seat following SAP deal -- Commission reportedly seeks third-party views, although no formal investigation is underway2 days ago
SECURITY -- Hackers drain $320M in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, claim they're the good guys -- Self-described white hats promise to return 'most' of the 4,000 BTC once the vulnerability is fixed1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Asahi Linux takes on Apple M3, minus a few creature comforts -- Most hardware works, although graphics, sleep, and external displays need more attention2 days ago
Systems -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies1 month ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?3 months ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits - Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement2 months ago
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers9 hours ago
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech6 days ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan1 month ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester1 month ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much1 month ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow1 month ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical1 month ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester1 month ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road2 months ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist2 months ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Nitter lives to proxy another day after taking legal advice -- Public instance XCancel uncancelled after X Corp's cease-and-desist campaign, with others promised shortly2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements -- Vast majority of new devices on market still don't give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability2 days ago
Security -- Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff -- NRW says it has found no evidence data was misused after spreadsheet published in error five years ago1 day ago
SECURITY -- UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks -- Defending against cyber foes is among factors hitting food price inflation, report finds1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux -- Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin2 days ago
Security -- Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook -- Ministers say £17M corporate fines and forthcoming board-level governance rules provide sufficient accountability1 day ago
COLUMNISTS -- OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on -- 'The Collective' learned to communicate, organize, cheat, and apparently sacrifice its own2 days ago
ON-PREM -- Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport -- Couldn't stop before the end of a runway2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry -- This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds -- Last week, he blamed himself for being 'a grade A nincompoop' who assumed a system upgrade couldn't possibly go wrong1 day ago
d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs -- AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers6 hours ago
Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform -- New CPU and GPU designs chase lower latency and richer games within a 1 W power budget2 days ago
Huawei proudly shows off an entirely un-American chip -- Resistance is futile2 days ago
Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15 -- Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas8 days ago
Nvidia is building an IP licensing empire on the back of NVLink -- Even when you think you're not buying Nvidia, you might still be buying Nvidia9 days ago
Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff -- Paused export controls on materials used in key IT components due for review in November13 days ago
Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will (probably) never see -- Touting batch 1 token generation is a bit like boasting about the top speed of your car13 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why -- DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale3 days ago
SCIENCE -- BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury -- Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches3 days ago
AI and ml -- Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you -- Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases3 days ago
On-PREM -- AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets -- AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk3 days ago
SECURITY -- ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk -- Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident -- Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?2 days ago
Applications -- My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement -- Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels -- The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next3 days ago
Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers -- 2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes6 days ago
PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries -- Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up6 days ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up -- Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.6 days ago
How Cloudflare's "customer zero" journey offers a blueprint for secure enterprise AI adoption -- As AI tools rapidly enter the enterprise, security teams face a hard balance.9 days ago
CISO 3.0: Governing AI Agents at Machine Speed -- Join Snyk and AWS on 14 September to see what it takes to govern an agentic AI landscape at machine speed.16 days ago
Operationalizing AI with visibility, control, and multitenancy -- In this webinar, explore how an AI factory approach can help organizations build a scalable, secure and repeatable foundation for AI.8 days ago
The AI Iceberg: What 3,000+ Codebases Reveal About the Risk Hiding Below Your Model Count -- Snyk analyzed 1.39 million repositories across 3,044 enterprise accounts.6 days ago
How to prepare for the coming wave of autonomous attacks -- AI has handed attackers a capability most security programmes were never built to face: finding architectural flaws, at machine speed.30 days ago
AI Agents in 2026: Navigating the deployment-confidence gap -- This webinar, drawing from a global survey of security leaders, will dissect the structural control gaps hindering safe AI adoption.27 days ago
The Leverage Economy: Inside the Economics of Cyber Extortion -- Learn why outcomes are harder to forecast, which organizations are most exposed, and how prepared companies can respond with clarity.1 month ago
The Attacker's View of a Leaked AWS Key -- Join Product Manager Jim Freely in this session to learn why AWS access resists inspection, and how to see what a leaked credential really reaches.3 days ago
Resilient critical infrastructure -- In this discussion, experts unpack what the Bill means for boards and their ability to keep essential services running and recover from disruption.2 days ago
Data sovereignty without compromise -- Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.22 hours ago
Building a Unified AI Data Platform with Qumulo and Databricks -- As AI and analytics initiatives expand, organizations need governed access to distributed enterprise data — without the cost and complexity.6 days ago
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AI AND ML -- Wayve and Uber steal a march on Waymo with paid self-driving London rides -- 15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver3 days ago
US law firm accuses UK AI software firm of unwanted contract renewal when it tried to leave -- Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment6 days ago
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo -- Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense6 days ago
Best eSIM for travel 2026: which one offers the best value for money? PARTNER CONTENT: Price isn't everything3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key -- Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work4 days ago
Security -- OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders -- Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams2 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI throws Astra into the top-tier model ring -- OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot6 days ago
Applications -- LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI -- It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer3 days ago
Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming -- GRUB's up for furry new update13 days ago
AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi -- Plus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming14 days ago
Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot -- The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one... or does he?17 days ago
HPE Sees No Customer Pushback On Rising Datacenter Equipment Costs1 day ago
Dell Says AI Will Drive 75 Percent Of Datacenter Demand By 20302 days ago
Nvidia Expands Its Open Source AI Presence With $12.9 Billion Hugging Face Buy6 days ago
Optics Still Driving Marvell's AI Business More Than Custom Chips7 days ago
Media workflows get better wth LucidLink6 hours ago
Commvault recovering Active Directory faster6 hours ago
Scality's Maestro manages ARTESCA fleets6 hours ago
WEKA partnering Backblaze for its B2 cloud storage6 hours ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up5 days ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v113 days ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings17 days ago
Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords19 days ago
AI AND ML -- Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands -- $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note6 days ago
AI and ML -- True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once -- All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues6 days ago
Security -- Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC -- A shared security 'Nightmare'3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian -- Prompted by CentOS 8's premature demise, it's a very visible loss for the Red Hat ecosystem6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users -- When the moon is in the seventh house...6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s -- The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot6 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 20286 days ago
Drowning in CVEs and thirsty for answers? Try CTEM - SPONSORED FEATURE: Boards want to know if they're less exposed than last quarter. Patching metrics aren't the solution6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance -- But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast -- A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promises not to squeeze too hard -- GPU giant pledges to keep the model hub open to the entire AI ecosystem6 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Cybercrooks trawl Fishbrain to net password hashes -- Armed with password hashes and salts, attackers could already be kraken those creds3 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports1 month ago
OS PLATFORM -- Windows 11 update sends some desktops into an unwanted goth phase -- Hello darkness, my old friend... I've trusted Redmond once again6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Which came first, Windows 95's taskbar or NeXT's Dock? Neither -- Reg hack accidentally rattles Microsoft folks' cages... again6 days ago
UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say -- Children's Commissioner also furious with Ofcom over a string of failures3 days ago
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%7 days ago
Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now? SPONSORED POST: A free event with Nutanix on Oct 7 can win some of it back7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- On Call: Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call23 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it23 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support23 hours ago
software - Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees - What an idiot23 hours ago
SOFTWARE - Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered1 month ago
Software -- Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it1 month ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem1 month ago
OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign1 month ago
security - Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website - More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi10 days ago
Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have -- Judge finds national-security rationale was assembled after Hegseth had already decided AI maker was a threat13 days ago
Anthropic proposes plumbing spec to link AI agents to lab kit and robots -- Say you're trying to enrich Uranium and your centrifuges broke - soon it will be easy to connect an AI to figure out why13 days ago
Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN -- A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages1 month ago
'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes -- Human did 10% of the job,AI did 90%1 month ago
Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you -- Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now15 days ago
AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC -- Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature19 days ago
SECURITY -- Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access -- They had more access than the average Joe, and IT didn't track what needed to be cut off3 days ago
AI AND ML -- To keep the AI hacking genie bottled up, try one-way networks -- Sandboxes, permissions, and VMs aren't enough to keep frontier models at bay. "Data diodes" might do the job3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon' -- While you wait, Meta says it's taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often7 days ago
VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade -- Found the time to focus and 'corrected' incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds6 days ago
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say -- Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'3 days ago
Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November -- The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data7 days ago
AI AND ML -- With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race -- AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)7 days ago
SECURITY -- AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit -- Adding insult to injury6 days ago
AI and ML -- Infosec pros say we're not ready to lose control of AI -- Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable7 days ago
SECURITY -- SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again -- Miscreants use chained zero days to pwn boxen as third-party SOCs say further attacks 'almost certain'6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft will stop finishing your sentences in Word and Outlook -- Predictive text remains available, but users will have to invite it into their workflow7 days ago
Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private -- Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats8 days ago
US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies -- The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA's Insider Threat Division8 days ago
CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago -- Organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption blamed for sorry state of affairs6 days ago
security - Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution - 100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses13 days ago
Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it's drawing customers' blood - The fix is either an unvalidated and unofficial emergency patch or taking the server offline36 minutes ago
Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds -- Alleged crew behind the Shai-Hulud worm and other supply chain attacks nabbed with help from the FBI9 days ago
CRPx0 hacking service for dummies claims victim count more than quintupled -- It's 'built to be operated by a human with no technical background'10 days ago
AI girlfriend review site's secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks -- Even testing and staging sites need protection from prying eyes10 days ago
ShinyHunters expose 6.4M in attack on medical supplier McKesson5 hours ago
Dental contractor set up secret account with access to 4,000 patient records then left the company10 hours ago
Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI17 hours ago
Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit23 hours ago
Cryptocrook ringleader, 22, who met crew on Minecraft admits role in $245M heist1 day ago
WeChat worm could pwn a friend before they even answered the call1 day ago
Security boffin claims airport group left API keys in client-side JavaScript for four years1 day ago
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science -- Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry8 days ago
Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill -- Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for8 days ago
Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers -- Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest' -- Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft update disarms Outlook and Teams on Arm PCs -- Installing an AI gaming package offers relief while custom cursors suffer a separate reset7 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter -- The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble7 days ago
AI AND ML -- UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme -- Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition -- Japanese supplier remains in place despite scrutiny over its Horizon role7 days ago
security - UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it2 days ago
SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year -- And fly 'significant scale' in 2028 – a claim that isn't entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt16 days ago
Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins -- Cloudy AI is Chinese giant's 'most certain' path to growth as e-commerce slows20 days ago
US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations -- Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland21 days ago
Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown - And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal21 days ago
Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads - Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term27 days ago
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous -- And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there28 days ago
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B -- Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending29 days ago
Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips -- Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute2 days ago
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals -- PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more3 days ago
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox -- No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices6 days ago
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud -- This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale6 days ago
Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed -- New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff9 days ago
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan -- Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat28 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on -- Spending watchdog says fragmented data and inconsistent standards would constrain any future attempt7 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss -- And RISC-V is absolutely nowhere7 days ago
STORAGE -- Tape still isn't dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025 -- LTO program is confident this is a glitch, not terminal unspooling7 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes -- 23-year-old botnet down7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked -- More compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable8 days ago
SECURITY -- Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans -- Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit7 days ago
Security -- Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks -- The model provider gave METR the credits for free. An actual customer would not have been so lucky7 days ago
SECURITY -- Firefox helps iPhone users bypass ads on web sites while making money showing its own ads -- Baked-in Firefox ad blocking on iOS begins rolling out slowly today, and is off by default7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in -- Security ... this time it will be different7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- ReactOS 0.4.16 serves '90s Windows nostalgia with fewer bugs -- 30 years on, it's still alpha, but 0.4.16 brings plenty of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements - just in time for Windows XP's 25th anniversary8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering -- Big Red talks up superhuman coders after shedding 21,000 staff8 days ago
Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire3 days ago
Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up10 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory17 days ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard24 days ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn1 month ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day1 month ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data1 month ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'1 month ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap1 month ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code2 months ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess2 months ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!2 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet2 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug3 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident3 months ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in3 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything3 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch3 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving4 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch4 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild4 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it4 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe4 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference4 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo4 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble4 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract4 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction4 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell4 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead4 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office4 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server4 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam4 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key4 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause10 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble4 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good4 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming4 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work2 months ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books4 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people4 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere4 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver4 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'4 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware4 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice4 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company4 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it4 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe4 months ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery4 months ago
You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way14 days ago
Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch20 days ago
EE invites mobile users to live life in the 5G Fast Lane – for a price20 days ago
Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.20 days ago
Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider1 day ago
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release6 days ago
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving7 days ago
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return8 days ago
London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above8 days ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's10 days ago
Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election13 days ago
SCIENCE -- ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango -- Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering8 days ago
The Gentlemen come calling as Nutex confirms sensitive data theft -- Ransomware crew threatens publication while healthcare biz assesses which records escaped7 days ago
33-hour BGP hijack of Softaculous traffic prompts security scramble -- Hosting software vendor tells customers to reset credentials and hunt for malicious packages7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 misses the pointer while Defender cries wolf -- August 27 update reportedly scrambles cursor customizations as bogus antivirus alerts spread8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Insider: Red Hat is capping devs' bot budgets -- And no sharing your allowance! What do you think we are, communists?8 days ago
AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate -- Dutch in-process OLAP systems set to be the 'SDK for data' as developers scale systems, cloud giant claims after DuckLab acquisition9 days ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning9 days ago
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten -- Hacking education to thrive in the AI world is the first and best step in keeping control9 days ago
virtualization - If hardware price squeezes make you sad, VMware says it will all end in tiers3 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI adoption at work is broad but shallow -- GenAI now reaches 80% of occupations, but in most of those fewer than half of workers use it8 days ago
Healthcare cyberattacks hit pacemakers and millions of patient records -- McKesson admits breach as ShinyHunters demands $55.2M8 days ago
VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD -- Forget the confusing branding and focus on your shrinking token bill9 days ago
Why Enterprise AI Sovereignty Really Matters: Control Your Intelligence -- This white paper argues that the real issue facing enterprise AI isn't cost or capability, but control.1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Orbify.eu pitches warped Inception-style 3D maps for navigation -- 'You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling'9 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire -- Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness8 days ago
SECURITY -- Attack hides malware in PNGs and drops custom reverse tunnel on victims' machines -- Next-level ClickFix wave sets off multi-stage attack chain8 days ago
Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries -- Promises 'secure artifacts' for Spring and RabbitMQ, and other projects that matter to its Tanzu suite8 days ago
Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens -- Commodity malware steals authenticated sessions, letting thieves freeload on victims' paid usage8 days ago
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft -- Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded1 day ago
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium -- Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour4 days ago
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates6 days ago
'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda -- No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets7 days ago
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip -- Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend7 days ago
From watches to passwords on paper, everything that's old is new again -- This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper10 days ago
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems -- Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle12 days ago
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads12 days ago
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense12 days ago
Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?14 days ago
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...15 days ago
Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago -- So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it16 days ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck16 days ago
Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles -- At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 202717 days ago
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf -- Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust18 days ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost19 days ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches20 days ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster21 days ago
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon -- As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations22 days ago
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers -- After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers24 days ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change25 days ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices26 days ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons27 days ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology27 days ago
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard24 days ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books28 days ago
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop -- Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work28 days ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad28 days ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?29 days ago
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers -- Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either1 month ago
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound1 month ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start1 month ago
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut -- The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range1 month ago
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online -- Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web1 month ago
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key1 month ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police1 month ago
30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage -- Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold1 month ago
Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up -- Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun1 month ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba1 month ago
AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness -- Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places1 month ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year1 month ago
Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory -- Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?1 month ago
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters -- How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?12 days ago
offbeat - Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims7 days ago
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast -- Plans to break ground in 2027, produce its own propellant, and power a 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 to orbit14 days ago
India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets -- A space station by 2035 is ISRO's new mission15 days ago
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft1 day ago
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium4 days ago
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury5 days ago
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area7 days ago
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight -- Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified 'launch requirements'17 days ago
No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue -- LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory21 days ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job -- Astronauts removed broken hardware but will have to return for more orbital DIY22 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures -- Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak23 days ago
SCIENCE -- How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget -- Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 197721 days ago
SCIENCE -- Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation -- H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year29 days ago
AI AND ML -- Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI -- Company's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge9 days ago
The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit -- The real fight is who wins the most AI and K8s workloads10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Debian votes to let contributors code with AI -- Disclosure optional, quality mandatory9 days ago