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From A2A to MCP, a look at the protocols that might one day help AI automate you out of a job -- Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak?

2 hours ago

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it - Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another

1 hour ago

Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production - Who, Me? For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage - Columnists - 14 Jul 2025 - | 34

1 minute ago

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

7 hours ago

Quantum sheds senior staff as financial woes mount

2 hours ago

xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man -- MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out -- AI + ML

1 hour ago

EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute -- Just because a student reads a book doesn't mean Midjourney gets to eat Disney -- AI + ML

2 hours ago

Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror -- First US-Soviet joint mission showed détente in action, but astronauts had a close call on return home -- Science

3 hours ago

Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start -- We need more paranoid Androids. And, well, everything else -- Applications

1 hour ago

GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan -- Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats -- Networks

5 hours ago

UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI -- Report on serious organized crime fails to account for differences, agency says -- Cyber-crime

6 hours ago

Google's Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console -- Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns -- AI + ML

8 hours ago

Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government - Despite loathing the USA, Iran wants providers who match NIST's definition of cloud computing - Public Sector - 14 Jul 2025 - | 6

30 minutes ago

Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: China's massive lithium find; Cisco's new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more -- Public Sector

13 hours ago

Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: Bluetooth mess leaves cars exposed; Bitcoin ATMs attacked; Deepfakers imitate US secretary of state Marco Rubio; and more -- Security

15 hours 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

4 days ago

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it -- Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another -- Cyber-crime

30 minutes ago

The price of software freedom is eternal politics - Comment - Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too - OSes - 12 Jul 2025 - | 74

17 minutes ago

From A2A to MCP, a look at the protocols that might one day help AI automate you out of a job -- Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak? -- AI + ML

2 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

2 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

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

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 - AI + ML - 11 Jul 2025 - | 85

1 hour 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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

Will Companies Build Or Buy Their GenAI Models?

3 days ago

How BigQuery Combines Data And AI For Business Transformation

4 days ago

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

4 days 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 -- Networks

2 days 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

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

British Perl guru Matt Trout dead at 42 - obituary - A controversial and polarizing figure, but also widely hailed - Software - 11 Jul 2025 - | 28

2 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 -- Public Sector

2 days ago

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

2 days 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 -- Databases

3 days 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

3 days 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

4 days 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 -- Databases

3 days ago

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

3 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

3 days ago

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

4 days 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

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 - | 40

2 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 -- Security

3 days ago

Power consumption and datacenters

4 hours ago

Quantum sheds senior staff as financial woes mount

1 hour ago

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

2 days ago

Employees prefer to keep quiet when hit by a cyberattack

2 days 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 -- Cyber-crime

3 days 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

3 days 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

3 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

5 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

3 days ago

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

3 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 - | 64

14 hours 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

3 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

3 days ago

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

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

3 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

3 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

3 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

3 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 - |

3 days ago

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

3 days 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

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

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

4 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

4 days ago

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

3 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

3 days 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

4 days ago

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

2 days ago

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

4 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

5 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

4 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

4 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

4 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

4 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

4 days 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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 days ago

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

4 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

4 days ago