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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?

Banco CTT storefront window with a digital display showing a BIOS error message.

Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out

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

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

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

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

Please state the nature of the medical emergency

Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands

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

Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms

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

Storage

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

The alternative was moving back in with his parents

Malaysia ponders regulating management of IP addresses

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!

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

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

Open source advocates remain concerned over lack of binding commitments

Close-up of a printed circuit board with several black integrated circuits and fine copper traces.

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

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

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

Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365

Regulator says subscribers may have been defaulted onto more expensive plans with Copilot features attached

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

California Science Center in Los Angeles, a silver futuristic building beside low-rise buildings with a city skyline in the distance.

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

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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

BOFH

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

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

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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

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

Yes! It’s true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform

It always has been, but Microsoft didn’t realize it

Rupert Goodwins

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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

Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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

SPONSORED POST: Why an AI-era recovery architecture looks different, with Eon's Gonen Stein

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

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

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

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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

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

Plus interesting news from the Xfce-on-Wayland project

OFFBEAT

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

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

Explainer: Why your legacy storage is choking your expensive GPU

THE REGISTER EXPLAINER: GPUs idle? Blame your outdated storage, not the silicon sprinters.

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

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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HPC

Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list

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

ai and ml

OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions

Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost

AI and ML

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

offbeat

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

PERSONAL TECH

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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databases

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

Systems

EXPLORE SYSTEMS

Windows Open Source FOSS Linux Virtualization Storage

personal tech

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

offbeat

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

Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen

Security

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

PLUS: Indian telco ponders broadband satellites; Samsung goes all-in on OpenAI; Vietnam centrally plans ten tech giants; and more!

Security

Sniff out stale AI override advice with this open source CLI

Package dependencies can create vulnerabilities that are fiendishly hard to find and stamp out

Security

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

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

ON-PREM

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

Security

Security shops among the 'hundreds' of Klue hack victims

As yet another extortion crew Icarus exploits Salesforce-linked integrations

systems

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

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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

security

Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid

London Hydro says names, addresses, account details may have been exposed, but much about the intrusion is unknown

OS PLATFORMS

Microsoft tells Windows users to get ready for 26H2 – unless they're on 26H1

Same core as 24H2 and 25H2 means an enablement package, while Search gets a little more forgiving

PUBLIC SECTOR

As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains

Attempting to boost growth, efficiency, and sovereign tech proved too difficult. The next leader will face the same challenges... and temptations

security

Brazil probes emergency warning system after nationwide rogue alert

Severe weather event alert platform buzzed devices across the country with the word 'misanthropy'

PERSONAL TECH

Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads

Redmond manages to break replying to an email on Outlook for macOS, one of the most basic functions

Security

Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day

SCIENCE

Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon

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

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

Offbeat

Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy

Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?

* FOSS

On-PREM

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

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 streak

Next Platform | HYPERSCALERS

Blocks & Files | STORAGE

DevClass | ENGINEERING

Two clenched fists collide in a dramatic illustration with sparks and a dark background.

Virtualization

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

SOFTWARE

How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!

Rigid workplace cultures and youthful ambition do not mix

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

Security

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

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

OFFBEAT

EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife

Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation

OFFBEAT

Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up

Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package

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

SYSTEMS

Tensordyne makes a big bet on log math to beat Nvidia

Who needs compute-hungry multiplications when you can just add logarithms

SOFTWARE

Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'

More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too

OFFBEAT

Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones

Nearly 4,000 vehicles recalled for driving past closure warnings and between cones marking shut lanes

Networks

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

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

Security

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

Hunting and fishing license incident catches 3M residents

Partner Content

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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

DevOps

Vercel debuts eve open source agent framework, tries to fix shadow AI with Passport

Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims

PERSONAL TECH

Microsoft's latest Windows bug belongs in the Recycle Bin

File deletion dialog swaps recognizable names for internal gibberish

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

NETWORKS

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

Members aren't RIPE for a new charging scheme, though

ai and ml

Devs in the trenches are stressed from the mandate to automate everything, but Render thinks it can help

San Francisco plays host to hosting company's Localhost conference

OFFBEAT

Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting

Tribunal rejects bid to strike blacklisting claims, with proceedings due to conclude shortly before GTA VI launches

On Call

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

Software

Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working

Techie regrets not taking credit for getting it done with amazing speed

Systems

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

Close-up of a dangling Ethernet plug with a blurred cable on a white background.

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

Networks

To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane

AI Companies

security

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

Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs

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

US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive

Brussels says access curbs prove Europe needs greater technological independence

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

Claude is ready for its corporate close-up

IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements

Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits

Join Claude Corps, see the world, spread the gospel of AI

Nutanix's Tech Day London 2026 offers infrastructure insights

SPONSORED POST: Come join this working afternoon for infrastructure teams

PUBLIC SECTOR

Use of HMRC's taxing IR35 status tool drops 71% in two years

Data suggests firms are turning away from CEST as critics say it fails to reflect recent court rulings

Personal tech

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

Techie couldn’t help but be a little blunt when the support call came in – but has no regrets!

On-PREM

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

You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute

ai and ml

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

AI AND ML

Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck

Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger

VIRTUALIZATION

Citrix now lets you run virtual desktops like a cost-conscious private equityeer

Soaring PC prices make alternatives to hardware refreshes interesting

OS platforms

Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app

Bird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray

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

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

SCIENCE

Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave

Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast

OS Platforms

KDE Plasma 6.7 brings the X11 era to a close

Plenty of new shiny in the service of improved usability

Infosec

CYBER-CRIME

Cardiac monitor maker's security skips a beat as data thieves go for the jugular

Attackers used social engineering to access third-party business apps and steal patient information

cyber-crime

Scammers keep scoring: Brits fleeced for £1.3B as Americans lose $3.5B to impersonators

More reasons to love social media and AI

PATCHES

Cisco SD-WAN make-me-root bug under attack

Second Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaw exploited as an 0-day this month

CYBER-CRIME

Council of Europe hacked in ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft heist

Joins the ranks of Nottingham Uni and 100 other unnamed victims

Feds snooze as US datacenter law set to lapse with no replacement in site

Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) of 2023 covers standards including security and sustainability

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CISO Identity Authentication Zero Trust Governance Encryption End Point Protection Advanced persistent threat Incident Phishing Ransomware Malware Spyware Hijack Trojan Breach Password

Security

Microsoft site throwing warnings after someone forgot to renew cert

Connectivity checker trips browser alarms thanks to lapsed security paperwork

RESEARCH

PRC-linked spies hid inside medical and military networks for more than a year, snooping through Gmail and stealing data

Google says the intruders were on the hunt for everything from drone tech to pathogens

Security

Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits

Community repo freezes new accounts after attackers swamp it with poisoned package updates

MORE INFOSEC

AI AND ML

AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease

Sampling patients' breath may save lives and emergency room resources

OFFBEAT

Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows

Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM

PUBLIC SECTOR

India blocks Telegram ahead of scandal-hit medical school entrance exam

2.3 million people sit test chasing 100,000 places, and country already canceled it once this year

OS PLATFORMS

FreeBSD 15.1 lands, but desktop dabblers still have to draw their own GUI

Better laptop sleep and Wi-Fi support make the beastie more portable-friendly, but getting beyond the shell remains a DIY job

PUBLIC SECTOR

Transport for London keeps Capita behind wheel of road charging ops in £912M extension

Replacement deal now expected in mid-2029 as body says safe transition will take at least five years

Oracle support timelines for Fusion Middleware tighter than expected

Big Red drops ominous mention of 'Market Driven Support' beyond 2027 - but there's good news for AIX users

Public sector

UK Cabinet Office hiring AI and innovation 'influencer' to build 'AI-first culture' in civil service

Every buzzword deployed in quest to transform into 'country that is equipped for an AI world'

RoachFest London 2026: The database as competitive asset

SPONSORED POST: Operate without fear. Build with confidence. Adapt to the AI era

SECURITY

Major US carrier stored credit card info in the clear, employee learned on first day

It happened at a major US telco in the early 2000s

cyber-crime

Cyber offenses now account for around a third of all crime across Asia and South Pacific

Latest Interpol review shows how scams continue to dominate, and AI-enabled attackers prove too hot to handle for cash-strapped regions

AI and ML

Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs

I am not a number! I am a free agent (that just happens to have a number)

devops

Git good with Epic Games' new open source VCS, Lore

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

AI AND ML

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

NetworkS

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

Jensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train

CYBER-CRIME

Massive password-stealing attack hits 75k Fortinet firewalls

Why are you even reading this?! Rotate your passwords!!

systems

Uncle Sam bets $500M that Alphabet spinoff's AI can dig up new semiconductor materials

AI drug discovery is so last year, even though it hasn't accomplished much yet

ON-PREM

Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction

Another fun example of AI hype and reality colliding

Personal Tech

Smartphone market to shrink 15 percent this year due to memory crisis

Buyers put off by rising prices expected to turn to second-hand phones instead

DEVOPS

AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket

Trust is the biggest barrier to AI adoption, says AI chief, claiming that new features in Bedrock AgentCore will prevent bad outcomes

PERSONAL TECH

Surface tension rises as Microsoft's latest kit starts at a pricey $1,499

Snapdragon X2 silicon and recycled aluminum are nice, the sticker shock less so

Security

Cisco adds another SD-WAN box to max-severity bug advisory

Updated at the time? No sweat. Check those logs, though

DevOps

Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more

Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us

Software

Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft

Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims

SYSTEMS

Intel starts cooking up enhanced 18A-P silicon for would-be foundry customers

Chipzilla claims 9% speed bump without extra power draw but is compatible with designs for 18A

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Networks

Networks

AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking

Honey, I flattened the datacenter network

NETWORKS

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

networks

Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class

networks

Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech

networks

Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators

Windows devs rerolled old code to save precious bytes

There really was a time when Microsoft cared about every KB

Public sector

UK.gov links up with LinkedIn for jobs market intel from 40M accounts

What anonymized data taught me about B2B sales... and reliance on the private sector for statistical info

PERSONAL TECH

Brit competition cops order Google to make search rankings less mysterious

New rules cover organic rankings, AI Overviews, and user-approved search data sharing

Cyber-crime

Helpdesk scammers are making house calls to make their lies feel more real

15-year-old among six arrested after Dutch cops target suspected bank fraud call center

PERSONAL TECH

Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo

Microsoft won the OLE vs OpenDoc wars. Now it's saying OLE dependencies don't matter

Personal Tech

System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years

Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything

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virtualization

Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks

Supermarket giant has turned to third-party support as court sets date to hear licensing dispute

AI and ML

Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace

Fear and even grief are natural reactions to machines that do your job. The next reactions – acceptance and innovation – are more useful

CYBER-CRIME

Cyberattack sees crops kept in the ground

SYSTEMS

AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created

Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion

ai and ml

The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess

Goodbye, useful Spotlight; hello force-fed Apple intelligence bloatware that feels distressingly like Google AI Overviews

AI AND ML

Python dev saved from disaster by intuition... and AI

I'm sorry, Dave. I can't install that repo that will totally hose your system

HPC

Intel-born networking tech resurfaces as InfiniBand alternative for DoE supers

Omni-Path lights up Lawrence Livermore system at 400 Gbps

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science

AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job

The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is

Security