ai and ml NanoClaw now armed with JFrog for safer packages AI agents can't be trusted, so don't give them dangerous powers
systems SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right? We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair
Software Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized
AI and ML KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations GPTZero claims only 5 of the report's 45 citations matched their sources, raising questions about how the Big Four's AI study was assembled
Security Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops Telegram-based 'Outsider Enterprise' accused of sending millions of scam texts and impersonating trusted brands
OFFBEAT Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000 Retail investors lined up to get a handful of Musk's magic beans in SpaceX's debut
AI and ml Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'
SYSTEMS Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box
ai and ml Claude is ready for its corporate close-up IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements
ai and ml Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss 'Enterprises are fed up,' says Alex Karp, because LLM makers 'want to tokenmax' instead of understanding enterprise needs
AI AND ML Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits Join Claude Corps, see the world, spread the gospel of AI
ai and ml Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory
offbeat Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?
PAAS AND IAAS 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
AI and ML OpenAI could go from AI pioneer to AI's BlackBerry, says Forrester As OpenAI courts investors and chases enterprise customers, Forrester says today's AI leader could become tomorrow's cautionary tale
PAAS AND IAAS Oracle's AI datacenter splurge gives investors the capex jitters Q4 sales climbed 21%, but Wall Street more interested in $70B buildout bill
AI + ML Memory and personalization make AI more likely to tell you what you want to hear A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, particularly for enterprise applications
AI AND ML It blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts Hyper-vigilant safety classifiers turn Fable into cautionary tale
on-prem Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030 Grid operators could struggle to support new bit barn construction
OS PLATFORMS Linux Lite 8.0 sheds Chrome, slims down, and finds its name fits better than ever Firefox is in, Snap and Flatpak are still out, but a default AI helper may raise eyebrows
AI AND ML Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting' Productivity gains lost as staff spoon-feed AI and correct its cock-ups
AI AND ML Anthropic spins a Fable of a tamer, safer Mythos Company also changes data retention policy
personal tech Apple’s iOS 27 goes all agentic on compromised passwords, promises to change them with one tap iBiz might not win the AI race, but analysts say it's focusing on features people may actually use
DEVOPS Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps
Public Sector UK.gov warned that digital transformation hype is no substitute for delivery Parliamentary committee says £45B savings claim risks undermining public sector tech reform rather than helping it
DEVOPS Apple courts developers with privacy and context in AI comeback bid Apple Intelligence stumbled through 2024 and 2025. It's starting to look respectable
AI AND ML NHS prescribes half a million Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache After a trial claimed chatbot saved staff 43 minutes a day, NHS England has decided it's time to supersize the experiment
Personal Tech England's exam watchdog frets over smart specs turning GCSEs into Google searches Ofqual says smart glasses, hidden earpieces, and AI tools are creating a new generation of cheating headaches
legal Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY The bill awaits Gov. Hochul's signature after passing the state legislature
Personal tech Raspberry Pi's profits are up. So is its DRAM bill Forecasts earnings well ahead of expectations, even as it taps credit facilities to lock in memory supply
AI AND ML 'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says The plea for caution comes the same week it beat AI archrival OpenAI to filing for an IPO
AI and ML Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots Another ally questions reliance on American AI
ai and ml AI heavyweights warn their tech could help terrorists develop bioweapons Scientists and industry leaders push for mandatory DNA synthesis screening
ai and ml Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault Tech biz teaching AI to use computers by slurping staff activity
Software 'Please do not vibe f--- up this software': Broken backups spark AI coding row in rsync project Users probe backup failures find Claude-assisted commits. Veteran engineer retorts: "I did not just vibe-code 'convert test suite to python'."
AI and ML Intel's mysterious new datacenter GPU is what Nvidia's Rubin CPX nearly was Nvidia's prefill accelerator was shelved, but Chipzilla's Crescent Island could fill the void
RESEARCH Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine 'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg
SECURITY Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state Those backup plans need backup testing
AI AND ML No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel Always-on agent promises to keep work moving, provided you trust it with practically everything
Networks The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company CU later, rivals? That's if Broadzilla doesn't eat its lunch first
Security UK banks offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion 150 new organizations inducted to cyber’s Soho House, including the first outside the US
AI AND ML Trump's AI E-(I)-O could let feds pick winners and losers Government gets a say in 'trusted partner' access, and that worries policy experts
Networks Marvell enters the AI network fray with 102.4 Tbps switch silicon High radix, low latency and low power is what AI datacenters crave, the chipmaker says
Storage Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite Chip costs may rise another 63% this quarter, as effects feed through to PC pricing
Personal Tech 'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices Your personal Jarvis or an end to privacy as we know it?
On-prem HPE declares Juniper deal a 'home run' as AI and networking fuel record quarter Networking orders surged, AI demand showed little sign of slowing, and HPE used the occasion to take a victory lap over its $14 billion Juniper bet
AI and ML Intel and pals cram 36,864 CPU cores into a 100kW rack while chasing the agentic AI dragon Meanwhile, Intel and SambaNova's disaggregated inference blueprint lands its first customer
AI and ML Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold '16% of my monthly Pro+ allowance. Gone. For basically nothing'
AI + ML LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way Papal's 40k-word encyclical drops and lawyers already asking if Catholics can refuse workplace AI on religious grounds
systems If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst Chipzilla’s first 2nm-class Xeon is finally here bristling with 288 cores
Personal Tech Exploding rockets and exploding hardware prices make for a lousy new normal This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions
AI and ML Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it Project Headroom could save you big money, too
SaaS AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand The energy drink of frontier models
ai + ml Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch
AI and ML QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits
AI + ML Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button Look, says Redmond, usage up 27-43% based on one week of data - admits it 'may not be indicative of long-term usage trends'
AI and ML Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents It is the database titan’s sixth acquisition announcement since June 2025
off prem Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream
Software Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.0 Andrew Kelley interview describes paying monthly for cloud-powered AI coding as an 'insane proposition'
AI + ML AI agents get their own phone directory built atop DNS DNS-AID, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, promises easier agent discovery
SaaS Salesforce waves bye-bye to UI in 'headless' embrace Anthropic's use of Sales Cloud increased five-fold as its workers access Salesforce through Claude and Slack
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.
AI + ML AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates Stanford researchers argue need for transparency and independent testing
AI + ML Bosses blinded by confidence about shadow AI use by workers More than half of orgs in Okta survey faced an AI-related security incident or near miss last year
AI + ML AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims LLMs prefer secular, rational reasoning, and while they'll still get religious on occasion, they have a negative view of Jehovah's Witnesses
AI + ML Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests Given a chance, AI will be breaking the law, breaking the law
AI + ML 4 in 10 AI agents headed for demotion or the rubbish bin Gartner predicts governance struggles to plague rollout of this year’s much-hyped technology
AI+ML Broadcom's custom ASIC biz adds South Korea's FuriosaAI to its empire Third-gen chips to use Broadzilla's advanced packaging, networking tech
AI and ML Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine The nature of AI is unnatural. It's not intelligent. It's not human
AI + ML Rogue states are putting AI agents to work on sanctions evasion RUSI warns fake IDs, shell companies, and crypto laundering could soon operate at industrial scale
AI + ML Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power Worries change may be ‘governed only by technocratic thinking and presented as necessary and inevitable’
AI + ML Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI Google Search used to direct users to websites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden
Security Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public AI flaw-finder still under lock and key for now while company figures out guardrails, but extends access to more users including governments
Operating Systems Linus Torvalds to ‘start being more hardnosed’ about ‘pointless pull requests’ – some of which come from AIs Warns large release candidates ‘are *not* conducive to long-term stability’
AI AND ML Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?
AI + ML Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio Limping Llama model needs a crutch made of surveillance tools
Personal Tech As memory prices squeeze enterprise buyers, Lenovo laughs all the way to the bank Switch to premium devices pays off as PC giant post record record, just don't ask about cheap laptops
AI + ML Microsoft lets users exile floating Copilot button after interface rage Listening to your customers? Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft?
AI + ML Npm registry sets stage for more secure package publishing All the world's a stage, and all the packages are merely players
ai + ml AI is getting expensive, but relief is on the way - just not for you New hardware promises greater efficiency, user experiences, and most importantly larger margins
AI + ML Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh
AI AND ML Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report Developer: AI coding agent broke production and generated fictitious post-mortem paperwork after the rollback
AI + ML Apple adds AI smarts to Voice Control, VoiceOver and Magnifier ahead of Accessibility Day Natural language commands and better image descriptions but Mac users and dictation fans may still be waiting
AI + ML UK.gov hikes health AI tender by 400% – and hundreds of millions – after a chat with suppliers Maximum framework value sky-rockets from £150M to £600M after 'an extensive intelligence gathering exercise'
Systems AMD says its $4K Ryzen AI Halo workstation practically pays for itself If you spend at least eight hours a day vibe coding that is
AI + ML AI code accelerates production failures and spending, study finds CloudBees survey exposes verification gap
Security Even Claude agrees: hole in its sandbox was real and dangerous Another day, another AI bug silently fixed with no CVE and no public disclosure
AI + ML OpenAI floats buy-before-your-try AI availability guarantee Nice AI workloads you have going, it'd be a shame we ran out of stock
Security Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
AI+ML Cerebras risked it all on dinner plate-sized AI accelerators a decade ago. Today it's worth $66B
patches Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits
Public Sector Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads
aI + ML Hollywood A-listers back proposed standard that would pay them when AI uses their likeness or work
PaaS + IaaS AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly
AI + ML Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
Columnists Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof
Networks Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet
Legal Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages
Systems Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm
AI + ML DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs
AI + ML Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects
