Friday, May 29, 2026 5:46 PM ET
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Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button -- Look, says Redmond, usage up 27-43% based on one week of data - admits it 'may not be indicative of long-term usage trends'4 hours ago
Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner -- What a wind-up!4 hours ago
Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience -- May security update trips over hostnames of a very specific length9 hours ago
ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload -- You and me go ChatGPhish-ing in the dark6 hours ago
Troops' phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries -- Lawmakers push DoD to tighten smartphone controls after adversaries exploited commercial tracking data9 hours ago
ai + ml - Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents - CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch27 minutes ago
QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban -- Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits3 hours ago
Legal - 23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach - California AG claims genetics biz downplayed 2023 mega-leak while paying ransom to attacker5 hours ago
UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle -- Discussion understood to concern delayed SaaS transformation project5 hours ago
Security - Dutch cops wrest 17M devices from mystery botnet's clutches - Hosting provider pulled the plug after police traced 200 servers to the Netherlands8 hours ago
FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right -- TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations9 hours ago
That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026 -- In a world of mass-produced bot-slopware, small is more beautiful than ever11 hours ago
Networks - Jammin' on UK defence secretary's jet as Russia blamed for GPS interference - Estonian academic fingers mobile tower-mounted devices as Kremlin tries to swat Ukrainian forces13 hours ago
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't -- Governments can't touch VPNs technically or commercially. The mess they'll make if they try will be off the scale -- Rupert Goodwins15 hours ago
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem? -- If a setting fails in the forest and nobody hears it ... -- Corey Quinn8 days ago
AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies -- Mark Pesce8 days ago
Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that's coming off the tracks -- Rupert Goodwins8 days ago
Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols8 days ago
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof -- Rupert Goodwins9 days ago
AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard -- Corey Quinn10 days ago
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols15 days ago
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now - Rupert Goodwins8 days ago
On-Prem -- Europe told to cool its datacenter boom before water and power run short -- Get the balance right, Grundfos says, and the region will be a shining example of how to do it without sacrificing the environment5 hours ago
Software -- Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.0 -- Andrew Kelley interview describes paying monthly for cloud-powered AI coding as an 'insane proposition'4 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Three in ten HP customers still clinging to Windows 10 -- Refresh cycle sluggishness is a tailwind, insists PC giant's money people7 hours ago
AI + ML -- AI agents get their own phone directory built atop DNS -- DNS-AID, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, promises easier agent discovery9 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Steam Deck prices go through the roof as Valve blames component shortages -- Same handheld, same specs, just a much steeper bill9 hours ago
Cyber-Crime -- Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach -- Travel and leisure giant was just one of many victims of the cybercrooks' crime spree this year2 hours ago
OSes -- ReactOS brings its Windows NT tribute act to ARM64 -- Experimental build boots on Raspberry Pi 5, but for now the joy is mostly in getting there10 hours ago
Legal -- Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday -- Feds say insider used confidential search trend data to score $1.2M in prediction market profits11 hours ago
Public Sector -- London cops post £300M tech shopping list after Palantir contract blocked -- Mayor's office says force only engaged with one supplier before deputy refused to approve deal worth up to £50M12 hours ago
On-Prem -- Kyndryl takes employees' pulse while cutting off circulation for some -- Redundancy notices and sentiment survey land in inboxes on same day in what tech services biz calls 'commitment to listen'4 hours ago
Personal Tech -- EU moderation watchdog says social media giants hate taking down hate speech -- Also somehow censoring too much while refusing to hand over account ban evidence for review13 hours ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack - SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure5 hours ago
Security - Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it - Also, missing school iPad resurfaced after coach's kids uploaded video to YouTube1 day ago
Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO -- Hyperscalers can get hardware before enterprise vendors and buyers don't much care where they land1 day ago
Salesforce waves bye-bye to UI in 'headless' embrace -- Anthropic's use of Sales Cloud increased five-fold as its workers access Salesforce through Claude and Slack6 hours ago
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators -- Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.2 days ago
FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship after another launch mishap -- IPO? More like IP-uh-oh2 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Malware dev tries to steal Claude users' secrets, writes npm slop, leaks own GitHub private token -- Script kiddies these days8 hours ago
AI + ML -- Argonne flexes spare supercompute to build private AI inference service -- Think ChatDoE1 day ago
AI + ML -- AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates -- Stanford researchers argue need for transparency and independent testing1 day ago
CYBER-CRIME -- CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet -- Developer-targeted, supply-chain attacks all the rage these days9 hours ago
AI + ML -- Bosses blinded by confidence about shadow AI use by workers -- More than half of orgs in Okta survey faced an AI-related security incident or near miss last year9 hours ago
AI + ML -- AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims -- LLMs prefer secular, rational reasoning, and while they'll still get religious on occasion, they have a negative view of Jehovah's Witnesses1 day ago
Security -- Extortion crews are visiting law firms pretending to be tech support, FBI warns -- Cybercriminals still allowed to walk into office blocks and convince staff to let them plug in their own thumb drives11 hours ago
AI + ML -- Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests -- Given a chance, AI will be breaking the law, breaking the law1 day ago
Science -- Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry -- Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted1 day ago
AI + ML -- 4 in 10 AI agents headed for demotion or the rubbish bin -- Gartner predicts governance struggles to plague rollout of this year's much-hyped technology1 day ago
Security -- India's cyber agency sets clock at 12 hours to tackle exploited bugs as AI turns up the heat -- CERT-In says internet-facing or critical systems should be patched, mitigated, or cut off within half a day where feasible1 day ago
Personal Tech -- Windows 11 update preview promises faster launches, puts Task Manager on NPU patrol -- Just mind the known issue that can still send installs rolling back1 day ago
AI+ML -- Broadcom's custom ASIC biz adds South Korea's FuriosaAI to its empire -- Third-gen chips to use Broadzilla's advanced packaging, networking tech1 day ago
Public Sector -- Tony Blair and the Reform party both want AI in government, though they can't agree on what for -- Former UK PM demands modernization, and right wing party channels inner Musk to call for mass job cuts in public sector2 days ago
Security -- How to guarantee a speaker gig: Hack the system. Literally -- Make your mark on the call-for-proposal platform13 hours ago
GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended' -- Another day, another GitHub wobble - but the service keeps growing2 days ago
Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula -- Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals2 days ago
AWS whips out Graviton-powered Redshift instances, claims 7x speed for data warehouse -- AI agents asking questions in natural language apparently issue a lot more queries than your average SQL jockey2 days ago
InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows -- Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder2 days ago
Iran slowly reconnects to the global internet -- Traffic floods back, without much of an explanation2 days ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?14 days ago
EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project3 days ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors13 days ago
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own15 days ago
Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads16 days ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits18 days ago
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds23 days ago
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question23 days ago
UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk23 days ago
Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future23 days ago
France's digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead23 days ago
AI + ML -- Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine -- The nature of AI is unnatural. It's not intelligent. It's not human2 days ago
NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon -- Astronauts will get to self-assemble lunar base2 days ago
California may let Linux bypass age check -- Exemption in amendment offers relief to open source software makers2 days ago
MyPillow must decide whether to be firm or soft as ransomware crims demand pay -- Guess they could deny the alleged intrusion ... like the 2020 election results1 day ago
MySQL faithful launch OurSQL Foundation to keep Oracle honest -- Community group wants transparency, collaboration, and a clearer roadmap for the open source database3 days ago
Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust -- Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit3 days ago
Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust -- Unsafe bits get a warning label in planned low-level coding shake-up3 days ago
Science -- Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks -- What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?2 days ago
AI + ML -- Rogue states are putting AI agents to work on sanctions evasion -- RUSI warns fake IDs, shell companies, and crypto laundering could soon operate at industrial scale2 days ago
Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform -- Systems based on Snapdragon C to target students, families, and small businesses1 day ago
Alibaba gets Android 16 running on RISC-V -- Beijing's sovereign stack ambitions strengthen2 days ago
Huawei's chip law looks less like Moore and more like marketing -- Chinese tech biz shows off clever workaround for its process node gap, but it isn't catching up with Intel and TSMC3 days ago
Samsung memory workers call off strike and may score six-figure bonuses -- PLUS: Huawei says it's replaced Moore's Law; Chinese mobile plans add token allowances; Singtel slinging Optus; And more!4 days ago
Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right -- Wood Mackenzie analysts say bit barn operators are in a tough spot7 days ago
UK nuclear investors get 'high' returns for lower risk than consumers, who also foot the bill -- Sizewell C could add £19 to yearly bills, spending watchdog says, but private investor may fail to keep costs down7 days ago
Security -- Experts pour cold borscht on Farage's Russian hack claim -- Reform UK leader alleges Moscow broke into his phone and leaked £5M gift story, but security specialists await evidence1 day ago
Personal Tech -- Logitech unveils a cushioned mouse for all-day use -- Ideal for aching palms – though only if you're right-handed2 days ago
SaaS -- The SaaS-pocalypse can wait, Salesforce still has customers where it wants them -- AI coding agents may make software cheaper to build, but switching off major platforms remains expensive and risky2 days ago
Personal Tech -- HP customer claims firmware update shoved printer off support cliff -- Internal notes point to cloud connectivity woes for older OfficeJets, though company denies systemic issue2 days ago
SaaS outfit ClickUp promises seven-figure salaries for survivors of 22 percent staff purge -- CEO jumps on the 'We must be fit for the AI future' bandwagon3 days ago
Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission -- Due on November 21, eleven months late - but on time to do science!3 days ago
AI + ML -- Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power -- Worries change may be 'governed only by technocratic thinking and presented as necessary and inevitable'2 days ago
AI + ML -- Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI -- Google Search used to direct users to websites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden3 days ago
Overcoming the trade-offs in data sovereignty -- What does data sovereignty actually mean for your network, which trade-offs are unavoidable? Learn more.10 days ago
From Prompt to Exploit: How LLMs Are Changing API Attacks -- Modern applications are API-driven, interconnected, and often over-permissioned, making them an ideal target for AI-assisted attacks.15 days ago
Architecting the Future: Unlocking Enterprise Data Services for Kubernetes -- Join us to discover how to eliminate infrastructure silos and establish a standardized, enterprise-grade cloud-native platform.8 days ago
Catch the Advanced Attacks Microsoft 365 Misses with Behavioral AI Security -- Microsoft 365 is the backbone of enterprise communication, and its native security filters out the known and the noisy.7 days ago
Virtual Cyber Recovery Sim -- Step into the chaos of a live ransomware breach, test your response skills, and team up with other IT and security pros to outsmart cybercriminals10 days ago
Virtual Cyber Recovery Simulation -- Ransomware attacks aren't slowing down, and neither are we. Druva's hit event, Escape Ransomware, is now fully virtual.8 days ago
Agentic AI at Scale: From Pilot to Production -- Join us to learn how to unlock real ROI by driving adoption of AI at scale.14 days ago
Explore all of our events23 days ago
OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge -- Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak4 days ago
Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public -- AI flaw-finder still under lock and key for now while company figures out guardrails, but extends access to more users including governments1 day ago
Operating Systems -- Linus Torvalds to 'start being more hardnosed' about 'pointless pull requests' – some of which come from AIs -- Warns large release candidates 'are *not* conducive to long-term stability'3 days ago
AI + ML -- Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately -- Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?2 days ago
Personal Tech -- HP investigating BIOS updates that leave premium laptop users in boot loop limbo -- Slowdowns, crashes, BSODs reported on pricey mobile workstations3 days ago
Security - AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend27 minutes ago
Public Sector -- UK MPs slam digital ID rollout as a 'fiasco' after botched launch -- Government's 'rushed' plans damaged public confidence before ministers had even explained how the system would work3 days ago
OSes -- The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors -- A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them3 days ago
SCIENCE -- Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation -- Release of spectrogram of cockpit recorder audio allows conversation recovery with 'emerging' decades-old tech3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business -- Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in11 days ago
dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years -- Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline16 days ago
Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line -- Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers17 days ago
Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages -- Dull but important ... so, a bit like Debian itself, really18 days ago
Data And Storage At The Center Of The AI Stack9 hours ago
GPUs And RAM Are In Short Supply, But The Real Bottleneck For AI Is Electricians1 day ago
Uncle Sam Awards $2 Billion-Plus To Quantum Companies, But Wants A Cut2 days ago
Not So Fast On That Charge For 800 Volt Datacenter Power2 days ago
Mistral AI chooses VAST Data for its AI data foundation5 hours ago
Dell's extraordinary AI server revenue acceleration6 hours ago
AI and all-flash demand send NetApp revenues to record heights7 hours ago
Qumulo and Nvidia support1 day ago
GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'1 day ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack1 day ago
Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too7 days ago
GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack8 days ago
AI + ML -- Minor edits to AI skills can make agents go rogue -- Text is the new attack3 days ago
Security -- A Russian speaker and jailbroken Gemini went on a hacking spree and emptied at least one MAGA victim's crypto wallets -- Hey, Gemini, how much can we earn from one pump-and-dump cycle?2 days ago
AI + ML -- Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio -- Limping Llama model needs a crutch made of surveillance tools4 days ago
Security -- Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings -- Will Jason Statham save us?2 days ago
Personal Tech -- As memory prices squeeze enterprise buyers, Lenovo laughs all the way to the bank -- Switch to premium devices pays off as PC giant post record record, just don't ask about cheap laptops4 days ago
Legal -- Media giant settles for $930k with FTC over allegations it lied about eavesdropping on conversations through smart devices -- Cox Media Group allegedly sold a bogus AI-powered snoopfest service4 days ago
AI + ML -- Microsoft lets users exile floating Copilot button after interface rage -- Listening to your customers? Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft?4 days ago
Workday wants AI to punch in instead of having to hire new recruits -- CEO eyes margin gains by keeping headcount flat – bold for a company selling HR software to employers7 days ago
FBI warns Kali365 phishing kit is stealing Microsoft OAuth tokens at scale -- MFA? No problem, says crimeware that tricks users into handing attackers the keys to M3652 days ago
SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go -- Not all bad news: Crypto billionaire signs up for a mission to Mars7 days ago
AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis6 hours ago
Explainer: Edge AI2 days ago
Ucell and ZTE complete large-scale deployment of AI‑Powered green network solution in Uzbekistan3 days ago
ZTE Day Indonesia 2026 strengthens AI innovation and digital infrastructure collaboration to accelerate Indonesia's digital transformation7 days ago
ZTE unveils localized roadmap for Eurasia's digital future at GSMA M360 Eurasia 20267 days ago
ZTE releases Sustainability Report 2025: driving a new chapter in sustainable development through AI9 days ago
ZTE Showcases AI Interactive Flat Panel at the Broadband User Congress in Brazil10 days ago
Fusion for the future: XLSMART and ZTE partnering for a boundless digital Indonesia14 days ago
ZTE and Telkom Indonesia sign strategic MoU to accelerate digital solutions and infrastructure development15 days ago
ZTE advances intelligent network monetization strategy at AGC2026, empowering ISPs for sustainable growth16 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'23 days ago
On-Prem -- Outlook has an image problem -- Microsoft says classic client may lose embedded pictures thanks to wrapping bug5 days ago
SECURITY -- Techie claims Trump Mobile website was leaking thousands of people's data -- Customers' info potentially handed to anyone who could send an HTTP request2 days ago
Public Sector -- Irish Rail writes down €50M after train IT project goes off the rails -- State-owned operator loses confidence in delayed traffic management system as politicians compare Ireland's latest public-sector IT fiasco to 'Groundhog Day'7 days ago
BOFH -- BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has -- The Boss gives common sense an AI wrapper6 days ago
Public Sector -- Burnham backlash: UK Digital ID plans in peril if Manchester mayor succeeds Starmer -- He'll have to beat Nigel Farage in a Brexit-backing constituency first, though7 days ago
Software -- Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working -- Techie regrets not taking credit for getting it done with amazing speed5 days ago
On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off8 days ago
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client10 days ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave16 days ago
Networks - To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane - Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials?8 days ago
Networks - Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching8 days ago
Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job21 days ago
Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled10 days ago
Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work16 days ago
SaaS - SAP's AI strategy: Come for the openness, stay because you have to - Joule Studio 2.0 waves the flag of interoperability, API policy tells enterprises who's really in charge10 days ago
The big AI companies are going to see their margins disappear -- AI will indeed eat the world – if your world involves software-size margins8 days ago
Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028 -- Claude maker warns authoritarian regimes could set the rules unless Washington tightens chip and model controls14 days ago
Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that' -- Right-clicking could go the way of the 3.5-inch floppy at the Chocolate Factory15 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 workflows22 days ago
Anthropic tosses agents into the API billing pool -- Limits Claude subscriptions to interactive use15 days ago
Dude... where's my password? Claude reunites forgetful stoner with $400k Bitcoin stash -- AI to the rescue as 11-year search for password turns up in old PC files15 days ago
Cisco used AI to write security incident reports, with mixed results -- You'll need a lot of detailed prompts to get solid output - and even then it may have errors and typos2 days ago
Alibaba just admitted it's struggling to keep up with rival chipmakers and AI shops -- Reveals decent new homegrown accelerator and tiny production volumes7 days ago
Dems slam Trump for making cybersecurity hold out the tin cup while splurging on ballroom and Jan. 6 'slush fund' -- 'Budgets are moral documents,' Rep. Delia Ramirez said2 days ago
AI + ML -- Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers -- Just like in The Truman Show7 days ago
DevOps -- Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion -- Plenty of time for cyber crims to grab data or hit you with a giant bill3 days ago
AI + ML -- Npm registry sets stage for more secure package publishing -- All the world's a stage, and all the packages are merely players7 days ago
Security -- HackerOne takes an axe to its bug bounty rewards -- Critical flaw payouts slashed by more than 75%3 days ago
AI + ML -- AI is getting expensive, but relief is on the way - just not for you -- New hardware promises greater efficiency, user experiences, and most importantly larger margins6 days ago
Personal Tech -- Flipper One wants to be the Linux multi-tool in your pocket -- Not a Zero successor, ARM box aims for openness, but shipping remains the hard part7 days ago
DevOps -- Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too -- Most software engineers now use AI for most of their code and fear the existential threat7 days ago
PaaS + IaaS -- AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud -- Customers want their data kept and processed strictly within the EU7 days ago
Crook leaks 468k+ records, claims they pwned Portugal's postal carrier -- Ordered packages via CTT? Those phishing emails could be tricky to spot10 days ago
Do fear the Reaper - stealer swipes macOS users' passwords, wallets, then backdoors them -- While also spoofing all the trusted domains - Apple, Microsoft, and Google - in the same attack8 days ago
Shai-Hulud copycat worm infects yet another npm package -- Plus three other stealers in three other packages, all from the same scumbag8 days ago
Security - Linux kernel flaw opens root-only files to unprivileged users - Plus ModuleJail, a radical proposal for minimizing the impact of similar bugs11 days ago
Dutch cops' shame game works wonders as most wanted scammers now turned in - Game Over?! gamified the identification of scammers who sought thrills from terrorising the elderly27 minutes ago
Hardening open source projects may deter contributions -- TanStack weighs invitation-only pull requests after supply chain attack -- Shai-Hulud worm exploited GitHub Actions misconfiguration to poison shared cache, now project weighing nuclear option on unsolicited contributions9 days ago
Security -- NGINX Rift attackers waste no time targeting exposed servers -- Researchers say 18-year-old flaw already being probed and exploited just days after disclosure9 days ago
Security -- Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative -- Shift comes amid mounting reports of successful social engineering attacks targeting higher-ups in government9 days ago
ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal27 minutes ago
No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs - exploit module is out2 hours ago
ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload9 hours ago
Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload9 hours ago
ShinyHunters adds Charter to trophy shelf after 4.9M customer records leak10 hours ago
Troops' phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries15 hours ago
Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops1 day ago
Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents1 day ago
PaaS + IaaS -- Years after UK Post Office scandal broke, Accenture and OneView Commerce bag contract to replace Horizon -- Service tries to move on from troubled decades of Fujitsu relationship with £410 million in deals for system that hurt so many7 days ago
AI + ML -- Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report -- Developer: AI coding agent broke production and generated fictitious post-mortem paperwork after the rollback7 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Minecraft-streaming gran swatted while raising cash for grandson's cancer care -- Sue Jacquot said she had a great time, despite the rude awakening4 days ago
Security -- Attackers spill plaintext passwords of 46k Myspace93 users after 2021 breach -- Leakage blamed on treacherous friends exposed unencrypted credentials, email addresses6 days ago
Personal Tech -- Vivaldi 8 polishes the chrome without coating it in AI -- Unified UI revamp gives browser a cleaner look while rivals keep wedging assistants into the web7 days ago
Security -- Cisco serves up yet another perfect 10 bug with Secure Workload admin flaw -- Switchzilla says attackers could access sensitive data and make configuration changes across tenant boundaries through vulnerable internal APIs7 days ago
AI + ML -- Apple adds AI smarts to Voice Control, VoiceOver and Magnifier ahead of Accessibility Day -- Natural language commands and better image descriptions but Mac users and dictation fans may still be waiting7 days ago
Security -- Microsoft storms RAMPART, adds Clarity to agentic AI safety -- Redmond open sources two tools for building and maintaining safer agents7 days ago
Public Sector -- Think tank to UK government: You can't build the future on systems from the past -- Legacy IT is getting worse, not better, and could trip up Whitehall's shiny digital plans, report warns8 days ago
AI + ML -- UK.gov hikes health AI tender by 400% – and hundreds of millions – after a chat with suppliers -- Maximum framework value sky-rockets from £150M to £600M after 'an extensive intelligence gathering exercise'8 days ago
Personal tech -- UK's Education Committee: Social media ban a must to save children's mental health -- Committee says tech companies are failing children and cannot be trusted to self-regulate8 days ago
Security - Zombie user account let hackers control the city's water2 days ago
Baidu says the quiet part out loud – you can't build AI infrastructure, so clouds can cash in -- CFO says GPU rentals are 'structurally higher margin than CPU cloud'10 days ago
AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can't currently buy -- Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them14 days ago
Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads -- Chinese web giant says accelerator shortage is over as local hardware arrives in volume15 days ago
Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter -- Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images17 days ago
Sovereign cloud is only possible if you're Chinese or American: Gartner -- Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent18 days ago
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren't AI enough -- Around 20 percent of staff get an 'In one hour, you might not work here anymore' email21 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... nowhere21 days ago
IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power -- Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues22 days ago
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs -- Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream1 day ago
Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows -- Britain's 'free' internet economy is powered by invisible data extraction that feeds advertisers, AI firms, and digital platforms3 days ago
Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat -- Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot8 days ago
SpaceX pitches itself as integrated interplanetary proto-monopolist in IPO filing -- Aims for the stars while burning cash and blowing deadlines on Earth8 days ago
GPU behemoth Nvidia on track to be world's leading CPU supplier too, says CFO -- GPUzilla forecasts $20 billion in CPU revenues this year8 days ago
Systems -- AMD says its $4K Ryzen AI Halo workstation practically pays for itself -- If you spend at least eight hours a day vibe coding that is1 day ago
SaaS -- Intuit axes 3,000 – without blaming AI -- 'Margin expansion' and a 'faster, leaner' company are CEO Sasan Goodarzi's goals8 days ago
AI + ML -- AI code accelerates production failures and spending, study finds -- CloudBees survey exposes verification gap8 days ago
Security -- Even Claude agrees: hole in its sandbox was real and dangerous -- Another day, another AI bug silently fixed with no CVE and no public disclosure7 days ago
Systems -- Intel's CEO reveals early hiring challenges as bankruptcy concerns deterred top talent -- Recovering chipmaker looks beyond 14A to 10A and 7A process nodes in foundry comeback bid2 days ago
AI + ML -- OpenAI floats buy-before-your-try AI availability guarantee -- Nice AI workloads you have going, it'd be a shame we ran out of stock8 days ago
OSes -- Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped -- Red Hat's free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend8 days ago
AI + ML -- Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI -- Most users lose access June 18 - unless you've got enterprise creds or paid API keys8 days ago
SaaS -- Plex appeal fades as Lifetime Pass jumps to $750 -- How many times would you have to watch Lord of the Rings to cover that?8 days ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in4 days ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything11 days ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch13 days ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving23 days ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch21 days ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild21 days ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it21 days ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe21 days ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference21 days ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo21 days ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble21 days ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract21 days ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction21 days ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell21 days ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead21 days ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office21 days ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server21 days ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam21 days ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key21 days ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause21 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble21 days ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good21 days ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming21 days ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work21 days ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books21 days ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people21 days ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere21 days ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver21 days ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'21 days ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware21 days ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice21 days ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company21 days ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it21 days ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe21 days ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery21 days ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'21 days ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league21 days ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA21 days ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it21 days ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results21 days ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off21 days ago
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady21 days ago
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server21 days ago
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo21 days ago
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production21 days ago
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time21 days ago
Junior sysadmin's first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company21 days ago
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown21 days ago
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules21 days ago
Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe21 days ago
Europe tests laser links as satellite comms outgrow radio11 days ago
Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco15 days ago
FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security17 days ago
Lawsuit brought by former store operators missing from Vodafone results17 days ago
Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner13 hours ago
ICANN again intervenes to defend AFRINIC2 days ago
Broadcom gets early start on WiFi 8 with next-gen wireless routing kit2 days ago
UK armed forces aims for secure comms via optical satellite links2 days ago
6G: The next gen of wireless tech nobody's ready to pay for2 days ago
Cisco making SONiC available to all customers – not just hyperscalers2 days ago
AT&T sues to ditch Cali copper phone lines to save billions7 days ago
Iran hints it could interfere with submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz10 days ago
AI + ML -- Those spared latest Meta job cuts forcibly reassigned to AI roles -- Staff protest overhaul and mouse tracking at 'Employee Data Extraction Factory'8 days ago
Datacenter builds could be shielded from judicial review in UK planning reforms -- British government wants to ensure no hold-ups for critical energy and infrastructure projects9 days ago
Microsoft says cu l8r to text message security -- Old, busted, insecure authentication to be replaced with something shinier and safer9 days ago
'Workforce rebalancing' comes for Kyndryl, and delivery teams are in the firing line -- Big Blue spinout eyes up to $500M in savings and agentic AI while insiders grumble it's still 'IBM without the hardware'8 days ago
ESA boss tires of being dragged around by NASA mood swings -- Are we pilots or are we passengers? Aschbacher asks9 days ago
GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack -- Initial assessment says customer data spared while users wonder what else may have slipped out7 days ago
Public Sector -- Smaller suppliers invited to pitch for £2.9B UK defense tech framework -- Government Commercial Agency wants DIPS 2 to reach beyond MoD buyers and the usual big-name suppliers8 days ago
Databases -- PostgreSQL backup tool gets some backup of its own after sole maintainer sounds alarm -- AWS, Percona, Supabase, pgEdge, and Tiger Data rally round pgBackRest with funding pledge8 days ago
Databases - London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year3 days ago
Space factories edge closer after experimental capsule survives hypersonic landing -- Varda hails success of autonomous touchdown tech and celebrates heat data haul9 days ago
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage -- This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit9 days ago
Public Sector -- AI sackings reach New Zealand, which will use it to eject 14 percent of government staff -- Minister demands AI becomes 'basic expectation for all public entities'8 days ago
AI + ML -- Anthropic's Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling -- Claude maker nabs SDK and MCP tooling biz, plans to sunset platform9 days ago
Google accused of pushing 'free for life' G Suite users onto paid plans -- Users claim personal family domains are being falsely flagged for commercial use, leaving long-time G Suite Legacy customers facing a pay-up-or-lose-access ultimatum9 days ago
Microsoft shuts down illegal code-signing operation used by ransomware crims to mask their malware -- 'Thousands' of US victims, including 12+ machines owned and operated by Redmond3 days ago
AI + ML -- Frustrated franchisee sues Pizza Hut over crappy kitchen AI -- The group claims $100M in losses from flubby system9 days ago
AI + ML -- Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy -- Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers9 days ago
Software -- Firefox 151 helps you edit PDFs – and switch OSes -- Export a profile on Windows, restore it on Linux. Extensions and themes too9 days ago
Security -- America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames -- I wonder what's in 'external-secret-repo-creds.yaml' and 'AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv'?8 days ago
AI + ML -- Shadow AI invades the workplace, up 4x in the last year -- Employers increasingly blind to unauthorized AI use and where their staff are sending proprietary files9 days ago
Airbus gets HPC-as-a-service supercomputer from Bull -- Aerospace giant rents new system over 5 years to help develop new aircraft10 days ago
Clear your calendar, Drupal user: You have a critically urgent patch to install -- The org's staying mum on the details, but Wednesday's fixes reach back to unsupported 8.9 branches8 days ago
AI + ML -- Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately2 days ago
Security -- Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public3 days ago
Operating Systems -- Linus Torvalds to 'start being more hardnosed' about 'pointless pull requests' – some of which come from AIs1 day ago
Security -- Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings19 hours ago
Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one -- Autonomous shuttle's second passenger trip ends with rear-end collision and a tow truck3 days ago
Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer's bizarre crusade against hyperscalers -- A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign4 days ago
No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship -- Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors5 days ago
Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice -- AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh8 days ago
UK Typhoon jets fitted with bargain-bin drone busters for Middle East sorties -- Low-cost laser-guided rockets offer cheaper way to swat Shahed-style threats than firing pricey air-to-air missiles10 days ago
Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller -- Well, page is more accurate, but the source code is available if you want to try doing something even crazier11 days ago
UK reloads artillery plans with £1B remote-control howitzer order -- 72 Boxer-mounted RCH 155s due from 2028 as Britain fills the gap left by AS-90s sent to Ukraine14 days ago
Grad-to-be turns graduation cap into Rust-powered light show -- Eric Park tells us he doesn't plan to wear his modified cap to commencement, but his code's available for anyone with no such qualms and an upcoming ceremony15 days ago
This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY -- Chromium extension swaps promos for John Carpenter-style subliminal slogans16 days ago
Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine -- Class A drugs loaded instead of A416 days ago
Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue -- Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope17 days ago
The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains -- Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.18 days ago
London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool -- Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London's West End20 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 alive21 days ago
Lego throws its own Hail Mary -- Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price21 days ago
Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere -- Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen21 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?23 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? Nope17 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 airports23 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 them23 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 not23 days ago
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area -- Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags23 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 space23 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 surge23 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 themselves23 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 info23 days ago
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest23 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 show23 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 role23 days ago
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects -- DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects23 days ago
Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' -- That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed23 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 home23 days ago
China blocks Zuck's acquisition of AI outfit Manus -- Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions23 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 friend23 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 team23 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 day23 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?23 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 cooperate23 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 experiences23 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 turn23 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 decision23 days ago
NASA's Psyche mission set for a brief encounter with Mars -- There sure are some clever people on Earth14 days ago
Science - NASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon9 days ago
SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade? -- May 19 launch will put redesigned rocket, pad, and engines through their paces16 days ago
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins -- Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu17 days ago
Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans9 hours ago
Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry2 days ago
NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon2 days ago
Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust3 days ago
SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch -- Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May17 days ago
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration18 days ago
Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool -- All driller, no filler23 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 time23 days ago
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely23 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 dev23 days ago
SaaS -- SAP customers warned AI agents could put costs on autopilot -- Billing will be based on 'actions,' whatever those are, leaving enterprises to wonder how fast the meter might run9 days ago
Personal Tech -- X limits hot takes from freeloaders to 50 a day -- How will they manage? It's not like anyone can see their posts anyway9 days ago
Shai-Hulud keeps burrowing: 314 npm packages infected after another account compromise -- Popular JavaScript modules including size-sensor and echarts-for-react hit as hijacked account closed GitHub warnings4 days ago
Broadcom finds a VMware customer willing to stick around: London Stock Exchange -- LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it'll cost10 days ago
Public Sector -- Indra rides off with £1.96B Transport for London ticketing deal as Oyster heads for back-office overhaul -- Nothing says 'future of urban transit' like a defense contractor running your bus, tube, and train pass9 days ago