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Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app - Oh my sweet secret informant lover, what happened in that NATO meeting today?

1 day ago

Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well -- On Call -- First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career

1 day ago

BOFH: The auditor is asking too many questions. We have just the laptop for that -- Episode 13 -- Sale, skip, or blackmail – your asset disposal options explained

1 day ago

Chinese censorship-busters claim Tencent is trying to kill its WeChat archive -- Alleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which caved -- Security

1 day ago

AI and virtualization are two major headaches for CIOs. Can storage help solve them both? -- It's about evolution not revolution, says Lenovo

1 month ago

French cops cuff Russian pro basketball player on ransomware charges -- 'He's useless with computers and can't even install an application' says lawyer

5 hours ago

Users of PostgreSQL in the cloud say the uptime just ain't up to it -- One in five users hit by service failures in the last year, research finds

1 day ago

If MCP is the USB-C of AI agents, A2A is their Ethernet -- Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak? -- AI + ML

6 hours ago

Looks like 1,300 Indeed and Glassdoor staffers will need their former employer's websites -- No reason given for the 6% cull, but the CEO has previously talked up AI taking jobs -- Software

1 day ago

Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video -- video -- An announcement so weird it could only come from the Trump administration -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show -- ai-pocalypse -- Data poisoning, meet data detox -- AI + ML

1 day ago

CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn -- Intruders looked up how to use curl mid-attack - rookie errors kept damage minimal -- Patches

1 day ago

Rimini Street, Oracle edge toward truce after years of legal warfare -- Hush-hush settlement follows decision to wind down PeopleSoft support -- Databases

1 day ago

Review: How Passwork 7 helps tame business passwords - A simple interface and new roles-based capabilities make this venerable password manager an attractive proposition - Sponsored feature

2 days ago

Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over -- A warmer world will affect bit barn resilience, warn consultants -- Systems

1 day ago

Microsoft fixes the ESU blues for Windows 10 users -- WIndows 11 might have a bigger market share, but Windows 10 is still alive. Kind of -- OSes

1 day ago

Docker adds AI agents to Compose along with GPU-powered cloud Offload service

2 days ago

Despite 30 months work, core developer says Python's JIT compiler is often slower than the interpreter

3 days ago

Things Go better with telemetry: Microsoft adds phone home to its Go build

4 days ago

Zig lead makes 'extremely breaking' change to std.io ahead of Async and Await's return

4 days ago

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not - Opinion - Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature

2 days ago

UK Online Safety Act 'not up to scratch' on misinformation, warn MPs -- Last summer's riots show how some content can be harmful but not illegal -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Microsoft offers EU cloud providers fresh commercial terms, staves off risk of litigation - Exclusive - Agreement or otherwise expected from CISPE top brass before August - PaaS + IaaS - 11 Jul 2025 - | 2

19 hours ago

Sizing Up AWS "Blackwell" GPU Systems Against Prior GPUs And Trainiums

2 days ago

Will Companies Build Or Buy Their GenAI Models?

2 days ago

How BigQuery Combines Data And AI For Business Transformation

2 days ago

With Money And Rhea1 Tapeout, SiPearl Gets Real About HPC CPUs

3 days ago

BOFH - : The auditor is asking too many questions. We have just the laptop for that - Episode 13 - Sale, skip, or blackmail – your asset disposal options explained - BOFH - 11 Jul 2025 - | 27

6 hours ago

China's biggest car rental company now offers autonomous cars -- Three-seater from Baidu delivers itself, follows directions, then finds its way home -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app -- Oh my sweet secret informant lover, what happened in that NATO meeting today? -- Security

2 days ago

Now everybody but Citrix agrees that CitrixBleed 2 is under exploit -- Add CISA to the list -- Patches

2 days ago

Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about time - Comment - Not even in the top 10, CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly tells employees - CxO - 10 Jul 2025 - | 60

6 hours ago

Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time - Who, Me? Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error

3 days ago

Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed -- It could have the same headcount as 1960 by the end of the month -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Ex-ASML engineer who stole chip tech for Russia gets three years in Dutch prison -- 'Whether those files were allowed to go to Russia? I didn't ask' -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center -- Company mum on whether the site will be shuttered -- On-Prem

2 days ago

The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience - Modern threats demand modern defenses. Cloud-native is the new baseline - Partner content

3 days ago

EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law -- A new code aims to make it easy to figure out -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Slow down on building power plants for all those new AI datacenters, report warns -- Projections are likely exaggerated, a new analysis from an environmental group says -- Systems

2 days ago

Please don't cut funds for space traffic control, industry begs Congress -- TraCSS is like an FAA for space, and it's slated for the chopping block -- Public Sector

2 days ago

HoloMem's drop-in holographic tape drive for LTO tape libraries

18 hours ago

Employees prefer to keep quiet when hit by a cyberattack

1 day ago

IDC brings out AI-Ready Data Storage Infrastructure paper

1 day ago

Kioxia UFS 4.1 flash promises smoother AI app performance

2 days ago

Red Hat sweetens the RHEL deal for biz devs – just don't put it in prod -- Up to 25 instances for free, but only to play with -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Firebase Studio's new Agent Mode wants to code so you don't have to - Gemini CLI integration is nice, but there's little polish in building apps from prompts - Software - 10 Jul 2025 - |

2 days ago

Russia, hotbed of cybercrime, says nyet to ethical hacking bill -- Politicians uneasy over potential impact on national security, local reports say -- Security

2 days ago

Reframing investments in security as investments in the business - A little skill in business communication can help get the board on board - Partner content

3 days ago

Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax -- Shipments in America flat, surge across ROTW ahead of Win 10 support cutoff -- Channel

2 days ago

Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion -- 'I don't think there's a spare megawatt sitting anywhere idle in all of Europe, or the US, as a matter of fact' -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Former reality TV star appointed NASA interim administrator -- Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge? -- Science

2 days ago

NCA arrests four in connection with UK retail ransomware attacks -- Crime-fighting agency cagey on details, probes into intrusions at M&S, Harrods, and Co-op continue -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud keeps AI data in UK, but not the support -- Processing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in Blighty -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Outlook takes another sick day - updated - Millions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamed - Applications - 10 Jul 2025 - | 48

16 hours ago

Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform -- Controversial system requires local NHS investment to maximize productivity -- Databases

2 days ago

At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto -- Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automation -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Swiss boffins just trained a 'fully open' LLM on the Alps supercomputer -- Source code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on top -- HPC

2 days ago

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds -- New Zealand's Giant Moa stood over three meters tall but were easy prey -- Science

3 days ago

Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It's not going well -- Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won't listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ways -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Citrix signals return to the mainstream hypervisor market with a product it says isn't quite ready for the job -- Cites 'aggressive licensing changes' from rivals, but like Broadcom only sells bundles -- Virtualization

2 days ago

From hype to harm: 78% of CISOs see AI attacks already -- AI attacks are keeping most practitioners up at night, says Darktrace, and with good reason

1 month ago

How homegrown AI cuts through the hype to deliver real results -- Nutanix leverages customer interactions to develop GenAI infra solution and the AI tools to support it

1 month ago

Why rapid proliferation of cloud native apps requires faster, more efficient toolsets -- Kubernetes enables easy, rapid AI app development, making it the industry standard for AI workloads

1 month ago

Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts -- 'The Things We'll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing -- Science

3 days ago

How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up -- No, really, those are the magic words -- Research

3 days ago

Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet -- Built on Chromium, ironically -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses -- Hey, teacher, leave those kids to AI -- AI + ML

3 days ago

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds -- Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag

18 hours ago

Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well -- On Call -- First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career

1 day ago

ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election -- As allegations fly regarding fraudulent powers of attorney, one member wants to wind up AFRINIC and start again

17 hours ago

Users of PostgreSQL in the cloud say the uptime just ain't up to it -- One in five users hit by service failures in the last year, research finds

17 hours ago

Telefónica Germany offloads VMware support to Spinnaker due to high renewal costs -- 'Our offer from Broadcom was five times higher than we expected'

17 hours ago

Pentagon snaps up ownership stake in America's only rare earths mine -- Rare earth metals are vital to electronics, and most of them are mined in China

8 hours ago

British Perl guru Matt Trout dead at 42 -- obituary -- A controversial and polarizing figure, but also widely hailed

14 hours ago

More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn -- Intro of package for cloud ERP is creating challenges, and more changes likely next year

6 hours ago

The price of software freedom is eternal politics -- Comment -- Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too

49 minutes ago

Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality -- Welcome back to the age of dark patterns -- Legal

3 days ago

US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader -- Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim's nukes doesn't jibe with Uncle Sam -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs -- Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly -- Security

3 days ago

How BigQuery combines data and AI for business transformation - AI ingests and prepares data to generate valuable insight, but only with the right data warehousing system. Sponsored feature

3 days ago

Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO -- Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers - Updated - Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of 'AI' companies - AI + ML - 09 Jul 2025 - | 33

2 days ago

Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip -- Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 silicon -- Systems

3 days ago

Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate -- But Chocolate Factory love-in sorely lacks detail -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant -- No word on who pressed the 'MechaHitler' button -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions -- Version 140 has built-in MS Exchange support – and a year's updates ahead -- Applications

3 days ago

Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their home address -- Plus: Confirms less serious data points like meal preferences also leaked -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded - Comment - Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuff - Science - 09 Jul 2025 - | 13

2 days ago

The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience - Archive deleted

3 days ago

Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attack -- Customers say things are still far from perfect as lengthy support queues hamper business dealings -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests -- Activists argue the resources spent on tech aren't leading to worthwhile numbers -- Security

3 days ago

C-suite sours on AI despite rising investment, survey finds -- Akkodis report suggests people skills may be helpful to bring out the best in AI -- AI + ML

3 days ago