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US, UK, Australia sanction Lockbit gang's hosting provider - 'Bulletproof' hosts partly dodged the last attack of this sort - Cyber-crime - 20 Nov 2025 - |

9 minutes ago

Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters -- Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers

22 hours ago

Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service -- Techie wired cryptominers into Nordex's network while company reeled from cyberattack

20 hours ago

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query -- Thought it was the victim of a 'hyper-scale DDoS attack' before finding the fix

13 hours ago

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold - Updated - Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along

18 hours ago

Vodafone, EE, O2, Three hit with £3B overcharging lawsuit -- Case alleges loyal customers continued to pay bundled rates after minimum contract terms ended

1 day ago

Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation -- Researchers say attacks are laying the groundwork for stealthy espionage activity

4 hours ago

Google Chrome bug exploited as an 0-day - patch now or risk full system compromise -- Seventh Chrome 0-day this year

10 hours ago

Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia -- Carrier insists network wasn't at fault when smartphone couldn't reach 000

6 hours ago

Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new 'Digital Signage mode' -- BORK is borked

4 hours ago

Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw -- Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms

9 minutes ago

A look at Google's Antigravity: Agentic AI development but some frustrations for early adopters - hands on - Designed for software developers using an AI-driven approach

9 hours ago

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query -- Thought it was the victim of a 'hyper-scale DDoS attack' before finding the fix

9 hours ago

Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation -- Researchers say attacks are laying the groundwork for stealthy espionage activity

9 hours ago

Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw -- Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms

4 hours ago

It's a good time to be the arms dealer for the AI boom -- Bubble? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doesn't see one -- Systems

2 hours ago

Fortinet 'fesses up to second 0-day within a week -- Attackers may be joining the dots to enable unauthenticated RCE -- Security

2 hours ago

Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats -- The force-feeding will continue until morale improves -- AI + ML

4 hours ago

Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos -- The latest attack on Section 230 is likely to face the same fate as many previous efforts -- Legal

4 hours ago

Pegasus XL rocket dusted off to rescue NASA's Swift observatory from fiery demise -- Air-launched antique picked for tricky low-inclination orbit job -- Science

4 hours ago

Amazon security boss: Hostile countries use cyber targeting for physical military strikes - interview - And companies are getting caught in the crossfire - CSO - 19 Nov 2025 - | 4

3 hours ago

DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move -- Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit -- Science

4 hours ago

Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376M -- Massive jump in spending shows the Great White North isn't betting everything on NASA -- Science

8 hours ago

Ford rolls into the Xen Project as hypervisor gears up for autos -- Version 4.21 also brings advances in the datacenter, on ARM, and RISC-V -- Virtualization

9 hours ago

US pumps $1B into Three Mile Island nuclear plant reboot to keep AI datacenters fed -- A reactor at the site suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 -- Systems

9 hours ago

San Jose's 'warrantless' license plate queries land cops in court -- Digital rights groups argue cameras used to unconstitutionally surveil locals -- Public Sector

9 hours ago

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere - Who, Me? Yes, he knows the 40x increase could have been avoided with some pretty simple automation

1 day ago

Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh -- Burnout and slowing growth push Eugen Rochko into an advisory role after nearly a decade in charge -- Applications

11 hours ago

Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI market -- Analysts warn LPDDR4 supply is tightening fast with shift to higher-end components -- Systems

12 hours ago

Microsoft-SAP pact aims to keep Euro cloud running in a crisis -- Vendors set up sovereign fallback so customers aren't stranded by foreign interference -- Off-Prem

12 hours ago

Ignite awash with agents as Microsoft triples down on AI -- Event supposedly for IT pros doesn't have much to tell admins on the Windows front -- AI + ML

13 hours ago

Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals -- Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says -- Databases

13 hours ago

CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out -- Preliminary proposal is already provoking debate -- Software

14 hours ago

Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction -- Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands

12 days ago

Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers -- The DoE's planned funding runs through 2030

12 days ago

$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday -- Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot

12 days ago

AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI - Feature - How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff

12 days ago

Building The Future Of Software In The AI-Native Era

4 hours ago

Inside HPE's Blueprint For Next-Generation Supercomputing

19 hours ago

Nvidia Brings Together Quantum And AI For HPC Centers

1 day ago

Modest HPC Centers Drive Top500 Supercomputer Rankings This Time Around

2 days ago

SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script -- B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain -- Databases

15 hours ago

Whatever your job, mentoring is your job – and the one that matters most - Opinion - Nobody succeeds alone, and no community thrives without generosity - On-Prem - 19 Nov 2025 - | 16

2 hours ago

China recruiting spies in the UK with fake headhunters and 'sites like LinkedIn' -- MI5 sounds the alarm about attempts to source sensitive information -- Public Sector

20 hours ago

Microsoft reveals new cloudy AI PC that's not a Copilot+ PC -- And a cloud PC that's for AI agents only -- Virtualization

20 hours ago

Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook -- Vertical integration meets subscriptions -- Networks

1 day ago

BOFH: You know something's up when the suits want to spend money - Episode 21 - Generosity has nothing to do with it – there's a bonus (of sorts) on the line

1 day ago

Anthropic is at the heart of the latest billion-dollar circular AI investment bonanza -- What do you get when you combine Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia? A bubble that blows itself -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters - updated - Using AI to attack AI - Security - 18 Nov 2025 - | 4

3 hours ago

FCC looks to torch Biden-era cyber rules sparked by Salt Typhoon mess -- Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too 'burdensome' -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Taming data chaos: building AI-ready data platforms for the enterprise - Stop herding digital cats and unite all your AI data in one namespace, says Hammerspace - Partner Content

10 hours ago

China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew -- Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company -- Science

1 day ago

Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss says -- When? Sean Cairncross wouldn't say -- Security

1 day ago

Why don't storage systems last 12 years?

2 hours ago

WEKA's new appliances can run its GPU memory wall-busting software

9 hours ago

Veeam's lucky thirteen has twenty updates

11 hours ago

Hitachi Vantara's high-end block storage array news

11 hours ago

Datacenter fossil fuel habit 'not sustainable' as AI workloads soar -- Rising AI power demand is straining grids and pushing operators toward hydrogen, batteries, geothermal, and nuclear -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Microsoft issues patch to tackle Windows 10 Extended Security Updates failures -- Users who thought they were safely in the program hit errors on day one -- OSes

1 day ago

Selling technology investments to the board: a strategic guide for CISOs and CIOs - The C-suite will have zero interest in zero trust without a good business case - Partner Content

17 hours ago

Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown -- European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data -- Lawsuit alleges he poached staff, lifted trade secrets, and set up Red Stapler before quitting -- Storage

1 day ago

Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds -- They can probably set up a printer faster, but look elsewhere for cryptography advice -- Security

1 day ago

Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually -- Chang'e 6's soil sample turns up iron oxides where none were supposed to exist -- Science

1 day ago

Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel - SC25 - €544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower - SC25 - 18 Nov 2025 - | 1

1 day ago

Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium -- As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engine -- Software

1 day ago

Brits to help foot power bill for datacenters under government AI plans -- Cheaper electricity to lure bit barns north as planning fast-track kicks in -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Brits believe the bots even though study finds they're often talking nonsense -- Consumer group Which? warns AI assistants can dish out unclear, risky, or downright daft advice -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation

8 days ago

How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption

12 days ago

Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

13 days ago

AI's biggest threat isn't skynet, it's thermodynamics -- xFusion champions a holistic hardware strategy that tackles the fundamental physics of the modern datacenter

13 days ago

Starlink's method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer -- Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regime -- Networks

1 day ago

Alibaba releases chatbot that produces error when asked about Tiananmen Square -- Yet Chinese giant wants users to 'ask any question, big or small, anytime, anywhere!' -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years -- VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief -- Virtualization

1 day ago

Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI - Interview - Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing - SC25 - 18 Nov 2025 - | 8

1 day ago

'Largest-ever' cloud DDoS attack pummels Azure with 3.64B packets per second -- Aisuru botnet strikes again, bigger and badder -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Pentagon and soldiers let too many secrets slip on social networks, watchdog says -- Ready, aim, mire -- Security

2 days ago

AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows -- ORCA benchmark trips up ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek V3.2 -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Building the future of software in the AI-native era - Partner Content

2 days ago

Security researcher calls BS on Coinbase breach disclosure timeline -- Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run -- EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year

2 days ago

Google previews Code Wiki: Can you trust AI to document your repository? -- Documenting code can be dull, but explaining the source code of a complex project is hard for AI to get right -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints -- Vendor leans on Nvidia tie-up so hard you can hear the GPUs squeak

2 days ago

Selling your identity to North Korean IT scammers isn't a sustainable side hustle -- Four US citizens tried it, and the DoJ just secured guilty pleas from all of 'em -- Security

2 days ago

Game over: Europol storms gaming platforms in extremist content sweep -- Law enforcement agency's referral blitz hit gaming platforms hard, surfacing thousands of extremist URLs -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Windows boss defends 'agentic OS' push as users plead for reliability -- Microsoft claims it listens to feedback while complaints mount over everyday usability -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Jeff Bezos gives CEO another go at $6.2B AI startup Prometheus -- Named after titan who stole fire from the gods and was punished for eternity... Amazon warehouse staff know the feeling -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Overconfidence is the new zero-day as teams stumble through cyber simulations -- Readiness metrics have flatlined since 2023, with most sectors slipping backward as teams fumble crisis drills -- Security

2 days ago

SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness -- Disruption left customers unable to track support cases, upgrades, or patching work -- SaaS

2 days ago

Eurofiber admits crooks swiped data from French unit after cyberattack -- Regulator reports suggest telco was extorted, but company remains coy as to whether it paid -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform -- Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage -- Databases

2 days ago