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Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage

MeetingTV wants to see the evidence

Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

Fortunately, they were professional red teamers. Unfortunately, they pwned the network

Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack

Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up

Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course

New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch

They're 90 percent human in some ways, can provide daily companionship psychological support

Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway

Left hand, meet right hand

Companies that add more AI also add more people

But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs

Two soldiers in camouflage uniforms and helmets salute during an outdoor ceremony.

personal tech

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC

Maybe they were looking for Private Data

Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track

A final humiliation for Australia’s Securities Exchange and its attempts to run a bourse on distributed ledgers

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it

Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts

In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical

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ai and ml

SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training

Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building

Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery

Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard

AI AND ML

SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI

Enterprise software giant confirms it's 'applying discipline' when it comes to hiring and business trips as tries to keep pace

Ctrl+Alt+Oops: FortiBleed criminal's logins stitch two gangs together

Researchers scoured logs, finding opsec fail for at least one person who was working with INC and Lynx simultaneously

Microsoft said exploitation was 'less likely' ... but CISA just added SharePoint RCE to KEV list

Attackers need little more than a valid SharePoint account to execute code on vulnerable on-prem servers

Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data

Company that also makes insulin pumps and other devices tells users what was exposed months after ShinyHunters attack

India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears

Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators

cyber-crime

Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released

Attackers appear to have reverse-engineered Big Red's patch

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offbeat

Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer

Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error

ai and ml

UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse

Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues

legal

Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore

Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house

ai and ml

Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI

Risk factors galore

Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest

Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Also, don't pick a contract fight with a monster of the art

Rupert Goodwins

Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips'

AWS better at running chip fabs than their mouths

Corey Quinn

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Rupert Goodwins

AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand

Corey Quinn

EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project

Rupert Goodwins

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

Rupert Goodwins

AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem?

Corey Quinn

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

Mark Pesce

Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that's coming off the tracks

Rupert Goodwins

EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought

It's a 'complete BEC operations environment,' Talos researcher says

DEVOPS

Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy

Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity

ai and ml

Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors

Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system

AI and ML

Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions

'We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'

Security

Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied

'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg

science

An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time

SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world

AI AND ML

AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models

Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough

RESEARCH

Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding

People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust

offbeat

NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight

Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule

os platforms

Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form

Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait

AI + ML

Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages

Some crawlers gather data for both search and AI training, so when publishers block them to protect content they risk disappearning from search results ...

personal tech

DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites

AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside

Virtualization

Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills

But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back

NETWORKS

Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger

Liberty Global, Telefónica, and InfraVia have grand designs on the UK fiber market

PERSONAL TECH

Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price

Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets

Offbeat

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix

public sector

UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies

Home Office deals with Deloitte and PA Consulting raise questions over Cabinet Office spending controls

os platforms

Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion

Can't verify the publisher's identity? Maybe stick a fried egg on it?

AI and ML

Japan wants 10 million more robots by 2040, some providing medical care

We’ve learned so much cleaning up after Fukushima, let’s level that up with added AI, says minister

Legal

Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys

Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program

virtualization

T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out

303,000 cores that power internal networks headed out the door

ai and ml

Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out

Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist

SYSTEMS

Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM

With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall

AI and ML

Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show

SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings

security

Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools

29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are

Security

Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe

Ex-employee claims this 'meets the definition of an insider threat'

offbeat

Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great

61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead

ai and ml

AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution

DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg

virtualization

Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows

Linux container CLI and API for Windows applications

Personal Tech

Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish

Even with lots of RAM, GPU, and fast disks, you probably don’t want it

Applications

UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees

Proposals could open cheaper routes for purchases made through third parties

os platforms

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

Rolling back the years and the bloat for veteran text editor

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AI and ML

Where there's a will, AI still has work to do

Probate lawyer finds generated document looked the part but missed many of the questions that matter

OS PLATFORMS

Raspberry Pi OS gets a new kernel but apparently not a new version number

Linux 6.18 arrives with a few desktop tweaks, while the neglected x86 edition remains stuck on Debian 11

Software

No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle

Apple's final break with Chipzilla leaves another platform preparing to wind down support

Offbeat

HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track

Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station

public sector

Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals

After several delays in development, Atlas went live without functionality Home Office case manager needed, inspectors say

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software

Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings

Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in

AI AND ML

South Korea’s hot new sensation is 3S+1F – a quadrillion-Won AI plan, not a band

Seoul plans to spend about $900 billion to become K-semiconductor powerhouse

security

India’s central bank mandated use of .bank domains to enhance trust – but its registry leaked sensitive info

Open API could reveal everything an attacker needs to impersonate bank officials

AI and ML

Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection

If you want a picture of the future of LLM security, imagine Whac-a-Mole meets Groundhog Day

SECURITY

Four years into Ukraine invasion, Russia turns influence-ops back to US and Europe

Not today, Putin

Security

Anonymous researcher drops 0-day 'exploitarium' repo

At least two vulnerabilities are already under attack

Features

A glowing microchip with EU stars sits on a circuit board in a dark technological scene.

Systems

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies

Security

Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data

Other than Instructure execs - maybe?

Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits

Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement

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Legal

Supreme Court rules cops need a warrant to vacuum up phone location data

Efforts to grab all the location data in an area get clogged by Fourth Amendment

science

Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor

The High-Luminosity LHC will be mostly the same machine, but it'll deliver 10 times the luminosity and just as little chance of destroying the universe - sorry, conspiracy theorists

DevOps

.NET's long-term support is not long-term enough, dev complains

Three-year lifecycle leaves enterprises with barely a year to adopt each LTS release

AI and ML

How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge

Mageia 10 showing the Xfce 4.21 desktop and the Welcome screen

OS PLATFORMS

Mageia 10 keeps the 32-bit Linux flame alive

Polished Mandriva descendant still makes room for PCs the 64-bit world has left behind

NETWORKS

Rocket Lab buys its way into the satellite big league with $8B Iridium deal

SpaceX gains a vertically integrated rival as launch specialist adds global comms network

networks

Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement

Court says Redmond can file briefs, take part in hearings amid challenge to the current path Big Tech's data spice uses to legally flow

security

AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity

You don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy

SECURITY

Microsoft keeps Windows Server 2022 hotpatching alive into 2027

In the Azure Edition, of course

OFFBEAT

Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad

CEO says reconstruction has begun, though the timetable looks ambitious

Networks

BT and Verizon spin off international networking arms into $4B joint venture

Enterprise networking gets another consolidation play as firms pool their overseas operations

Security

Nissan says Oracle PeopleSoft break-in may have spilled payroll records, SSNs

Carmaker points finger at an 'unknown' flaw as customer fallout continues

Systems

EXPLORE SYSTEMS

Windows Open Source FOSS Linux Virtualization Storage

SYSTEMS

Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC

In production on millions of boxes and the payoff is a 25% reduction in machines needed for some inference workloads

networks

End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service

Aging infrastructure shuts down tomorrow after almost a century

public sector

UK firm bombarded debt-ridden people with 5.5M texts

KRA Consultancy Ltd fined £300K over fake bailiff threats in 'calculated' scheme that caused 'real fear and distress'

columnists

Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head

Show not tell makes a far finer script

Storage

Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess

The alternative was paying up and moving back in with his parents

networks

Malaysia ponders regulating management of IP addresses

Wants to revive the lost art of the National Internet Registry, which APNIC has deprecated and isn’t keen to bring back

public sector

Australia investigating five social media giants for not enforcing ban on kids

PLUS: Qualcomm tweaks datacenter chips for China; Japan's Air Force stretches into space; WiseTechs' woes mutiply; and more!

SCIENCE

Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light

Tastes great. Less filling. It's a floor wax. It's a dessert topping. Light shaping. Light sending. Why not both?

OFFBEAT

Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out

Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM

AI AND ML

NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor

Please state the nature of the medical emergency

Security

It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns

Time to start praying to the goddess of wisdom and war

Security

Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones

Personal cell phones on protective missions, no threat detection on government-issued devices among the litany of sins

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science

Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands

Remove something from the internet? You can't stop the (climate change) signal, Mal

AI AND ML

Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms

Surely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing

offbeat

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals

Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says

security

Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds

Researchers warn many AI coding assistants now execute commands from project configurations

DATABASES

Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees

Open source advocates remain concerned over lack of binding commitments

SOFTWARE

One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V

A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets' latest operating system

AI AND ML

Notion kills its Gmail client after AI agents keep humans from troubling inbox

More than half of users now let bots handle email, so service is headed for shutdown

security

Miasma campaign poisons 20-plus npm packages, hunts for developer secrets

Microsoft says latest attack targets Leo Platform and RStreams packages, harvesting creds and going after more maintainers

saas

Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365

SYSTEMS

Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant

SEC claims former Constellation employee made $1.4M trading options before the restart deal was announced

OFFBEAT

Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit

Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening

SOFTWARE

Three FOSS projects for developers, procrastinators, and media wranglers

Prism tracks AI emissions, Super Productivity keeps tasks local, and TAMOSS brings the BBC's media API to Kubernetes

* FOSS

SOFTWARE

Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'

More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too

France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well

Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another

History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system

When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'

Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

Project Headroom could save you big money, too

Next Platform | HYPERSCALERS

Blocks & Files | STORAGE

DevClass | ENGINEERING

A burning match touches the side of a matchbox on a dark background.

BOFH

BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry

There's no I in team, but there is one in insurance fraud

security

Security boss thought MFA would be too much security

One rule for the workers, another for execs

OS PLATFORMS

Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable

Tiny tweak to support page reveals consumers can purchase another year of patch protection

Security

Chinese cybersecurity company claims it’s built a better-than-Mythos bug finder

Qihoo 360, which the US has banned, says it’s needed as a deterrent to weaponized Anthropic models

AI and ML

AI giants back non-profit to retrain workers left behind by AI

Sorry we spent your wages on datacenters, but call us when you're AI-ready

security

Self-destructing Mistic backdoor linked to access broker selling corporate footholds to ransomware gangs

Spotted in intrusions targeting insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors

offbeat

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI

Cyber-Crime

Ex-Huntress analyst claims company insider fed info to a ransomware crim. Social media drama ensues

Former employee accuses company of prioritizing pending IPO over client security

AI and ML

OpenAI says 97.9 percent of its employees are now using agents

Codex, it's not just for developers, really

offbeat

Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars

Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home

personal tech

FOSS dev builds a BASIC compiler using LLVM

Not just any old BASIC, either: OS-9’s BASIC09

Recovery has to keep up with AI

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don't miss

The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon

Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components

personal tech

Apple passes RAMpocalypse costs on to consumers

Fondleslab and Mac prices rise by hundreds; phones safe ... for now

PERSONAL TECH

Windows 11 can now turn back the clock when updates go bad

Point-in-time restore offers a 72-hour escape hatch for stricken PCs

Software

Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency

SPI co-creator Dave Verwer joins Apple, says 'We will be moving away from that model completely'

PAAS AND IAAS

Amazon pours another $13B into India's AI and cloud infrastructure

Mumbai and Hyderabad datacenter expansion forms part of broader $48B five-year investment pledge

LEGAL

European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status

Preliminary position calls for designation under the Digital Markets Act

APPLICATIONS

Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up

Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default

DATABASES

Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting

CEO says automation is enabling leaner teams as engineering is split into three core areas

On Call

Personal tech

Users claimed they’d never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles

Personal Tech

This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken

Offbeat

Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes

Networks

Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner

What a wind-up!

Software

Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working

Systems

On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off

On-Prem

Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client

Applications

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

AI Companies

ai and ml

Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated

It sure seems like the Trump administration is just bullying Anthropic for not acquiescing to its every move, and it's the cybersecurity community who'll suffer for it

Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn

Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher

According to the one person who actually read the research paper

Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers

Just like in The Truman Show

Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy

Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers

A close-up thumb in front of a digital fingerprint recognition overlay.

Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs

How can I help you today? Present your papers to begin

EU flag in binary code illustrating digital sovereignty.

US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive

Brussels says access curbs prove Europe needs greater technological independence

Man holding a semiconductor wafer manufactured using IBM's new sub-1 nm process

SYSTEMS

IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future

Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom

public sector

Digital ID brain trust will meet behind closed doors as minister ducks cost questions

Minutes will not be published, and MPs still have no answer on the group's budget or how its members were chosen

SCIENCE

Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another

The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone

SECURITY

UK school’s network left wide open for invasion, student found

And the admin password was right in the Active Directory description field

Channel

Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software

Despite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs

security

Nation-state actors cracked critical Australian infrastructure to ‘cripple it at a time of their choosing’

To defuse another attack, Oz spies called foreign counterparts to tell them an op was a bust

systems

Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits

Devops

Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen

93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI

Security

The hits keep on coming for Cisco vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-20230 under exploitation, while an earlier SD-WAN 0-day looks even worse than we thought

systems

Qualcomm claims it's not too late for Dragonfly to land in datacenters

Oh, Snap(dragon): DC chief says the mobile-chip giant sees bit barns as its next growth market

ai and ml

Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop

Prompting less and automating more comes with a price

AI and ML

OpenAI gets chippy with Broadcom

Jalapeño is the latest announcement that attempts to portray OpenAI as more than a race-to-the-bottom model maker

Infosec

Security

Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day

IT thought a fake offer of extra time off for hard-pressed Canadian medical workers was the way to go

Security

Gizmodo readers hit with ClickFix malware prompts after account compromise

Infosec buffs say Windows users could have been infected with a nasty trojan, while Mac users got off lightly

Security

Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance

VP Eric Brandwine explains people aren't all that great, actually

Security

Researchers drop checkm8-style BootROM exploit for A12 and A13 iPhones

Owners of affected iPhones can stop checking for patches now: the fix for this SecureROM bug comes in a new handset

Everything's bigger and better in Texas – even data breaches

Hunting and fishing license incident catches 3M residents

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Security

Britain's privacy watchdog quits after 'poor judgment' admission

John Edwards says his position had become 'untenable' following investigation into conduct including inappropriate attempts at humor

security

Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate

Campaigners say tech is unable to reliably distinguish between kids and adults at the boundary where use is planned

Security

Google told researcher 'Nice catch!' Then denied bug bounty for flaw it still hasn't fixed

EXCLUSIVE 'Working as intended' for the win … again

MORE INFOSEC

security

Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit

200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down

OS PLATFORMS

Windows 11 turns five, leaving some important lessons for Microsoft

Maybe sometimes users know best

software

Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update

Feature is not yet stable, but will offer easy conversion of web applications

Research

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound

ai and ml

Medical diagnosis AIs can be tricked into telling whose data trained them

Did you read all the documents you signed last time you had a medical test?

public sector

British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems

£120k ... but you must take ultimate responsibility for functionality of e-gates, passports and more

PERSONAL TECH

UK government wants 'trusted' news sources promoted above the social media noise

That's public service media such as the BBC, according to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

ai and ml

AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them

Consumption-based pricing and scant cost controls are sending monthly bills into five figures, Gartner warns

Metropolitan Police van parked outside Shepherd's Bush station during facial recognition operation.

security

London cops bring live facial recognition to West End

'Permanent biometric surveillance of the public square' incompatible with policing by consent, say critics

saas

Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them

Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition

DATABASES

Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs

Pinecone and Tiger Data say smarter data plumbing can cut token use and tame agentic workloads

OS PLATFORMS

Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC

Off Prem

Off-PREM

Fire burns Google Cloud India’s network, which remains slow a week later

PLUS: Japan’s space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!

OFF-PREM

EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow

Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source

off prem

Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs

Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream

Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack

SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure

off-Prem

Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators

Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.

Explore Off Prem

Systems Storage Networks HPC CPU GPU Compute Infrastructure

Off-prem

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 platforms

Off-Prem

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 hot

Off-Prem

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 outfit

MORE OFF PREM

McDonald's touchscreen kiosk showing a blue BIOS setup utility screen indoors.

OFFBEAT

Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia

A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest

networks

Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled

Unexplained GSM-R failure at Deutsche Bahn caused confusion and delay

Cyber-Crime

You have got to be KDDI-ng – Japanese telco exposes 14.2 million managed email credentials

Five ISPs and plenty of users await their fate

HPC

Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list

Use of Arm cores and Linux mean Beijing hasn’t broken away from the world

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OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions

Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost

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Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker

The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack

Security

Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era

Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP

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Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch

Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite

NETWORKS

O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date

It's not just old phones – many smart meters and telecare alarms still use the ancient technology

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Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze

Alternatively, you can install SteamOS 3.8 on your own AMD-powered hardware

DATABASES

21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI

Annual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion

HPC

Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028

Ahem. National effort required to kick-start the era of quantum-enabled scientific discovery and keep America ahead of the game

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Networks

Networks

Telegram founder accuses Meta of sabotaging access in India with BGP hijacks

Allegations of fake routes are fake news, says Indian telco Jio

NETWORKS

Geopolitical jitters push Europe's internet registry away from cloud-first strategy

NetworkS

Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand

Networks

AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking

NETWORKS

Amazon Leo's satellite homework is late, but FCC won't flunk it just yet

Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit

CRT-era restriction dragged into the widescreen age after 34 years

DEVOPS

AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime

Suitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task

software

Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form

Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK

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Brits still reckon Big Tech isn't paying enough tax

Poll finds two-thirds support squeeze on Silicon Valley despite US pressure

systems

Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges

Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites

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Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage

Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen

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Five Eyes spooks warn AI means infosec incidents can become ‘major operational and financial crises’

Bosses told to step up and get cybersecurity right

Personal tech

India and China are home to 2.9 billion people – and together they bought just 13 million PCs in Q1

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Sniff out stale AI override advice with this open source CLI

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OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too!

A plethora of pwn-prevention, including a 'Patch The Planet' pledge

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Texas lassoes massive Microsoft datacenter - and 20 years of gas turbine emissions

The air turns brown when bit barns come to town … deep in the heart of Texas

Software

Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors

Makers of Chrome, Edge, Firefox back bot-fraud defense called Private Access Control Tokens

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Security shops among the 'hundreds' of Klue hack victims

As yet another extortion crew Icarus exploits Salesforce-linked integrations

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Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research

Tireless AI agents could help scientists do research humans alone can't, says GPU giant

DATABASES

The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators

From academic toss-aside to cloud substrate

offbeat

Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart

TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had

offbeat

Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems

One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here

Databases

The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything

'Humans are not going to be using data platforms in the next three to five years,' product exec tells us

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SCIENCE

Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon

Neuraspace CEO floats lunar scrapyards as a cleaner way to handle hardware left behind

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2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud

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Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'

The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention

SCIENCE

NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit

Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground

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Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

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Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

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Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway

Companies that add more AI also add more people

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Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it

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Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest

Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips'

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EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought

Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy

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Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied

An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time

AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models

Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding

NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight

Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form

Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages

DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites

Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills

Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger

Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies

Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion

Japan wants 10 million more robots by 2040, some providing medical care

Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys

T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out

Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out

Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM

Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show

Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools

Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe

Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great

AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution

Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows

Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish

UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees

Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size

Where there's a will, AI still has work to do

Raspberry Pi OS gets a new kernel but apparently not a new version number

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HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track

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