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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

Microsoft has mostly repaired flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet

And it was Microsoft Copilot that unwittingly revealed the longstanding vulnerability

Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year

The West's biggest online shopping mall comes clean about its datacenter water usage

MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd

Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up

Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized

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

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

Casual IT team learns that building bespoke PCs can be a false economy

ai and ml

NanoClaw now armed with JFrog for safer packages

AI agents can't be trusted, so don't give them dangerous powers

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

Fired IT worker jailed for 21 months after sabotaging old school district

Iowan’s scheme undone after misplacing trust in former coworker

Novo Nordisk reports cyberattack as UK gives Wegovy pill the nod

Clinical trial participant data stolen, but pharma giant says exposed records were pseudonymized

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

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'

Security

Plymouth council exposes hundreds in latest local government email gaffe

Authority admits mass message to home-schooling families revealed recipients' addresses, prompting ICO report and apology

UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy

CEO of Mumsnet among the six-member team

BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder

Mission Control sends its regards

Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans

It's just not cricket

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

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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

Security

ShinyHunters hacked 100+ orgs by exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day

University of Nottingham is first of many, Shiny tells The Reg

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

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

The energy drink of frontier models

Corey Quinn

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

DIY or die. Just don't let the CIA buy it

Rupert Goodwins

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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

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

Rupert Goodwins

AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard

Corey Quinn

Microsoft's worst 'Nightmare' unleashes BitLocker bypass 0-day

Another day, another Windows exploit code

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

PERSONAL TECH

Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts

iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android

security

VRChat says somebody faked a breach notice with the Maine AG's office

'We have no reason to believe that our data or systems have been compromised. We are in the process of contacting the Maine Attorney General's office to have this removed.'

DEVOPS

Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own

Blending containers and VMs but some features half-baked

Science

Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket

Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is go for integration, with a launch from Kwajalein expected within weeks

Applications

Apple version of Office 2019 becomes useless in a month

The only solution is to buy an upgrade (or switch providers)

SYSTEMS

Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend

Satnav parts designed and manufactured in the EU, but using GlobalFoundries to produce them

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

Personal tech

Met Police joins forces with Apple to choke London's stolen phone trade

Intelligence-sharing pact tracks kit that comes back online after being nicked

Cyber-crime

Malware scare keeps schoolkids home for a second day

Great Marlow restricts network access while it investigates suspected infection

PUBLIC SECTOR

NS&I dangles £220K salary for CEO willing to straighten out £3B IT mess

Comes with a corner office, government scrutiny, and the 'full-spectrum disaster' known as Project Rainbow

Cyber-crime

Nottingham Uni says student records raided after ShinyHunters claims cyberattack

Crooks claim 40 GB haul as breach database pegs number of exposed email addresses at 455K

SAAS

UK Treasury still deciding whether to show up to £1.7B ERP program it agreed to fund

Move from Oracle put back until December following delays to Workday rollout

SECURITY

Every employee’s password was stored in a single Excel file

The CEO thought this was the best way to deal with some email issues

Security

Chinese agents caught rebuilding botnets and stirring the pot on AI datacenter debate

PRC eyes are watching you

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

offbeat

Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR

Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 1999

A red stop sign partially framed by leafy branches against a bright sky.

AI AND ML

It blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts

Hyper-vigilant safety classifiers turn Fable into cautionary tale

Security

Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day

Revenge is a dish best served code

on-prem

GM gets datacenter fever, decides to build grid-scale sodium-ion batteries

Detroit automaker partners with Peak Energy to try a saltier route to energy storage

on-prem

Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030

Grid operators could struggle to support new bit barn construction

Red apple with a crying face on a gray table, with two blurred apples behind it.

OS PLATFORMS

macOS 27 beta boots Asahi Linux off Apple Silicon

Partition's still there, but good luck seeing it and don't upgrade until fix lands, says team

LEGAL

Vercel escapes contempt rap after admitting it botched FBI warrant response

Files sought by feds were sitting in a deletion queue, not gone for good

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

Camouflaged soldier holding a hand grenade with both hands outdoors.

DevOps

GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts

Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors

Four astronauts in orange spacesuits pose holding black helmets against a dark background.

SCIENCE

NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal

Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered

Patches

Ivanti tells Sentry customers to patch now as critical bugs hit 10.0 and 9.9

Remote, unauthenticated RCE with root privileges is about as bad as it gets

ON-PREM

Brussels' datacenter efficiency scorecard may come with a credit warning

Moody's says proposed A-to-G green grades for bit barns could affect financing

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Channel

Node4 CEO Neil Muller found dead at home after suspected stabbing

MSP says it is 'absolutely devastated' as woman arrested on suspicion of murder

systems

SpacemiT shows off usably quick RISC-V mini desktop

Actual RVA23 hardware and useful performance – for a certain price

bootnotes

France and Germany agree to disagree, ditch joint next-gen Euro fighter

Aircraft at core of the Future Combat Air System canned as parties could not decide who leads on the work

PERSONAL TECH

Logitech knows when to fold 'em

Meet Mobi Fold - creased popster or clever portable mouse

PATCHES

AI is making Patch Tuesday (kinda) fun again

Unless you're an admin or vulnerability manager – then you're totally screwed

SaaS

Salesforce cuts staff amid acquisition spree and $50 billion share buyback

The layoffs come after CEO Marc Benioff boasted of record revenue and 'incredible cashflow' two weeks ago

personal tech

If your sex life is dead, you can blame Steve Jobs

Economists find signs of a ‘large and causal relationship between iPhones and fertility' in AT&T exclusivity-era data

AI AND ML

Anthropic spins a Fable of a tamer, safer Mythos

Company also changes data retention policy

cyber-crime

Miasma worms its way onto GitHub as attack kit goes open source

As if there weren't enough package poisonings to worry about

science

MIT boffins take electrospray nozzles out of the cleanroom, into the 3D printer

Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?

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

Databases

Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition

Graph database biz says on-prem, air-gapped intel stack gives governments a no-kill-switch option

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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Applications

LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy

The Document Foundation accuses newly launched Euro-Office of undermining digital sovereignty by defaulting to Microsoft's OOXML document format

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

SECURITY

Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

Encrypted messaging app warns device-level checks could be repurposed for censorship

SECURITY

Chrome's zero-day Whac-A-Mole continues with fifth exploited bug of the year

Google paid researcher a tidy $55K bounty for its discovery

Security

France probes compromise of gov messaging platform after account hijack

Authorities say the breach only exposed public chat rooms, but alleged attacker claims to have accessed far more data

ON-PREM

Kyndryl showers execs with shares while staff ponder redundancy packages

IBM spin-off's top brass bag six-figure stock awards

offbeat

Next stop, C:\ ... Paris Metro screen goes off the tracks

Prochain arrêt: Gare du Bork! French capital city train does the tech can-can

Cyber-crime

Qilin NHS breach tally grows as Essex trust confirms stolen records

Two years on from ransomware attack, hospitals are still trying to identify and warn patients

Hand holding a needle near a yellow balloon against a gray background.

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

AI and ML

Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic

L'etat, c'est AI

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

Security

Norks blast 250+ fake job offers to developers over 6 weeks to try and snarf creds and crypto

When an unsolicited job offer sounds too good to be true …

Systems

EXPLORE SYSTEMS

Windows Open Source FOSS Linux Virtualization Storage

PERSONAL TECH

Apple's Orwellian device controls for tots also mean more work for parents

The new features ignore the argument that if parents wanted to spend more time on their kids, they wouldn't have supplied them with an iPad or iPhone in the first place

ai + ml

It's do or die for Apple AI

WWDC announcements earned tempered praise from analysts, with an emphasis on the word 'if'

cyber-crime

Ransomware crims got a month-long head start on Check Point VPN 0-day that now has a fix

Scumbags, including a Qilin ransomware affiliate, began hitting this hole May 7

software

Canonical sends Ubuntu into the AI agent era

Sandboxed LLM dev environments lead the show, but accessibility may be the real prize

A back view of the Axiom Space/Prada Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment

offbeat

NASA's Secret: Moon astronauts will be rocking Prada underwear

What, you think any old liquid-cooled bodysuit would be acceptable to pair with such a fashionable outer layer?

Cyber-crime

Ransomware sends Illinois high school on an early summer vacation

Meanwhile, 13 schools in Wales affected by separate attack

NETWORKS

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

Orbital broadband biz will miss its July 30 deadline to have 1,616 spacecraft in place

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

security

GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections

Miasma worm shapeshifts, but cloud secret-scouting remains the goal

devops

Python JIT compiler project under threat after steering council says proper process wasn't followed

No new features to be submitted to main branch, existing code removed in 6 months if new proposal not created and accepted

SECURITY

NSO Group back in Meta's crosshairs after alleged WhatsApp targeting

Zuckercorp says surveillance-for-hire vendor was still running phishing operations after federal court told it to knock it off

SCIENCE

UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers

Global Talent visa program aims to draw in dissatisfied scientists from countries including the US

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AI and ML

Brit fraudsters using AI to doctor 'evidence' in motor insurance claims

Policy-holders increasingly turn fender benders into much more by sprinkling in their favorite AI chatbots, Aviva says

AI and ML

Department of Work and Pensions' answer to AI job fears is a bot to polish your CV

Whitehall says Work Assistant will help jobseekers apply around the clock – provided employers don't mind machine-written applications

OS Platforms

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'

os platforms

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

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

Software

Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug

And he got away with it too!

systems

Our systems editor flew all the way to Taiwan and still couldn't get away from AI

Every show now is an AI show, and that included this year's Computex

offbeat

Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships

If you thought driverless cars were bad, imagine a 200,000 ton container ship

Public sector

Home Office ditches legacy asylum database, keeps the spreadsheets

Years into a major IT overhaul, MPs say the department still lacks reliable view of what is happening across the asylum system

Personal Tech

England's exam watchdog frets over smart specs turning GCSEs into Google searches

security

Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach

Totally different attack from the break-in last month. Oh so that's OK then

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

cyber-crime

If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks

When 'Chatty Spider' morphs into tech services cosplay spider

* FOSS

AI and ML

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

Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped

Red Hat’s free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend

LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business

Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in

Next Platform | HYPERSCALERS

Blocks & Files | STORAGE

DevClass | ENGINEERING

security

Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight

Good luck, sys admins

SCIENCE

Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule

Business is back to normal in the orbital station, but one of two newly discovered leaks is still unrepaired

science

Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security

DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research

AI and ML

Agentic AI hype races ahead as enterprises remain stuck in pilot mode

Most orgs remain trapped between flashy demos and real-world deployment, despite 75% saying adoption is racing ahead

databases

Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS. Repeat, Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS

SQL Server licenses can now be consumed in the rival cloud's DBaaS

security

World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families

Those receiving aid in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory told support will remain

SYSTEMS

Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box

Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?

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

Saas

Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals

Cost model designed to protect against low-cost bid bias, claims rival

Security

Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder

Blue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex

Public Sector

UK's top crime agency hamstrung by legacy IT, watchdog warns

Regulator says NCA's aging tech drags down productivity, forces officers to juggle hardware and do manual workarounds

networks

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

Comms watchdog says up to 83% of tests fail the 'good performance' threshold

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DON'T MISS

Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation

Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court'

Offbeat

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

Bulletproof vests and armored vehicles were not in the job description

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

CYBER-CRIME

Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds

A familiar tactic popularized by chaotic crime crew Lapsus$

AI and ML

Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots

Another ally questions reliance on American AI

Security

OpenAI's agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds

Codex drops an HTTP/2 Bomb

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

On Call

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

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

It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in

Applications

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

Networks

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

Networks

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching

Offbeat

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job

AI Companies

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

The SaaS-pocalypse can wait, Salesforce still has customers where it wants them

AI coding agents may make software cheaper to build, but switching off major platforms remains expensive and risky

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’

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

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

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

SYSTEMS

AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow

Intel still owns the room, but Epyc keeps nicking the furniture

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

Databases

Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records

Pips Accenture and NEC to bag decade-long deal for cops across England, Wales, and beyond

Security

Five Eyes: Watch out for odd LinkedIn connection requests, China's back on the hunt for state secrets

Cash-for-intel tradecraft continues to concern intelligence officials years after it was first spotted

cyber-crime

Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k

Fresh penalties secured after initial prison, community service sentences for RAC double act

public sector

GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe

Means residents can skip the credit card and use 'pay by bank' for local authorities and services

public sector

UK tax collector hands Capgemini £600M contact center deal, delays start of £2.4B CRM contract

Another monster tech contract in the works for one of the usual suspects

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

All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields

It was far too easy for a hacker to get the information

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

networks

Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech

It's hard to stop a signal jammer if you can't locate the source, say Rice University researchers

Infosec

Security

Lone attacker published 14 malicious npm packages mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch libraries

And then Microsoft busted them all

public sector

ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal

And you thought a face recognition app was intrusive?

Security

No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs - exploit module is out

Researcher reported the vuln in March. Maintainers haven't responded to his messages since

Legal

23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach

California AG claims genetics biz downplayed 2023 mega-leak while paying ransom to attacker

Dutch cops wrest 17M devices from mystery botnet's clutches

Hosting provider pulled the plug after police traced 200 servers to the Netherlands

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Security

ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload

You and me go ChatGPhish-ing in the dark

Research

Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload

Researchers say 'GREYVIBE' crew used AI tools throughout a campaign targeting Ukrainian military and government

Cyber-Crime

ShinyHunters adds Charter to trophy shelf after 4.9M customer records leak

Telco giant says no sensitive data was taken, though names, addresses, phones, and emails are now out there

MORE INFOSEC

OS PLATFORMS

Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

Coreutils serves over 75 Unix commands in Windows and PowerShell command lines

personal tech

Ring gets buzzed by class action for collecting visitors' faces without consent

The latest in a series of raised eyebrows over Familiar Faces and other AI ventures

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

systems

Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node

CFO Zinsner insists the troubled node was a one-off as 14A stays on track

networks

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

NGMN wants a clear migration path before next-gen network rollouts begin

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

AI and ml

AI agents can now manipulate your organization. Are you ready?

SPONSORED POST: Agents with hands require a hands-on policy

Security

Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures

Researchers follow in Nightmare Eclipse’s footsteps, flipping off Redmond in favor of insta-leaks

Close-up of a finger pressing the Windows key on a laptop keyboard.

OS PLATFORMS

Microsoft Build News: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, Coreutils for Windows, air-gapped GitHub and more

Microsoft Build previews Surface RTX Spark dev box and air-gapped on-premises GitHub

public sector

Listen up, England. The Health Secretary is going to be data controller for everyone's Single Patient Record

No, public bucket policy doesn't mean everyone gets a bucket for themselves. Please let Tech do it. Don't go into Settings... NOOOOOO!

Legal

Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search

Action follows Chocolate Factory's changes to AI search results

Security

UK banks offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion

Off Prem

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.

Oatmeal raisin cookies falling onto a stack with scattered raisins on a dark surface

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

Explore Off Prem

Systems Storage Networks HPC CPU GPU Compute Infrastructure

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

Off-Prem

Broadcom finds a VMware customer willing to stick around: London Stock Exchange

LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it'll cost

Off-Prem

Baidu says the quiet part out loud – you can’t build AI infrastructure, so clouds can cash in

CFO says GPU rentals are ‘structurally higher margin than CPU cloud’

MORE OFF PREM

SaaS

Automattic's CMS empire shows cracks as WordPress share falls

Web publishing giant remains dominant, but 6 straight months of decline suggest era of uninterrupted growth may be over

Public Sector

UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract

Lock-in to a small number of suppliers holding up digital government plans, committee says

DevOps

TypeScript devs no longer need to tangle with C# to use Aspire dev stack after Microsoft update

Aspire is a powerful tool for developers but not well understood – and pure TypeScript AppHost may broaden its appeal

cyber-crime

'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club'

You don't infect anyone in Russia or other CIS countries

SaaS

Contentful is a shot in the arm for Salesforce's 'headless' bet

Lacking an enterprise content layer for Headless 360, CRM titan went shopping

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

ai and ml

Cisco sings Mythos' praises - but doesn't say how many bugs the model uncovered

Meanwhile, Anthropic adds 150 partners to Project Glasswing

CxO

Remote work – not AI – is killing job prospects for the youth

Young professionals may be perfectly productive while working from home, says the New York Fed, but the quality of their output isn't so great, so companies don't want to hire them

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

Enhanced performance for server consolidation with Intel Xeon 6+

SPONSORED POST: How Intel’s first 18A data center CPU delivers efficiency and TCO gains, with Intel's Kira Boyko

Security

Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into surveillance devices

FSB claims large-scale snoop op compromised phones of senior officials, but gives no technical evidence to back allegations

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

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Networks

Networks

Jammin' on UK defence secretary's jet as Russia blamed for GPS interference

Estonian academic fingers mobile tower-mounted devices as Kremlin tries to swat Ukrainian forces

Networks

ICANN again intervenes to defend AFRINIC

Broadcom gets early start on WiFi 8 with next-gen wireless routing kit

Networks

UK armed forces aims for secure comms via optical satellite links

Networks

6G: The next gen of wireless tech nobody's ready to pay for

'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?

Security

Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher

Following days of criticism from the security community, Redmond dials back rhetoric, insists vulnerability hunters not in its legal crosshairs

AI and ML

Claude celebrates Anthropic's stock market float with blockbuster ... outage

Chatbot has no respect for timing of its maker's financial announcement

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

Security

Northern Ireland cops issue PSA after official phone number spoofed by scammers

If you’re going to impersonate an officer, perhaps choose a more sophisticated way to nick cash than asking for gift cards…

Public Sector

Peter Mandelson invited UK PM to meet Palantir's Thiel

Britain's former US ambassador founded lobbyist that represented spy-tech firm, saw it win big roles in UK defense, health tech

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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

Networks

Satellite phone dreams orbit reality as direct-to-cell usage set to underwhelm

Nice technology, shame about the price and the indoor blackouts

AI and ML

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Security

Shai-Hulud malware worms Red Hat npm package versions downloaded 80K times a week

TeamPCP? Or copycat malware dev?

Security

Election interlopers register 5K+ domains, hope to catch some voting phish

Hacking voting machines is so 2017. Phishing, impersonation pose the real election risks

AI and ML

Anthropic, now atop the AI bubble, files for its IPO

First it tops OpenAI's valuation, then it beats Altman to the IPO punch

Systems

US firms still dominate chip subsidies

China's support is greater relative to semiconductor industry revenue

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DevOps

Agentic AI arrives for Delphi and C++ Builder

Kai is an extension for RAD Studio (Delphi and C++ Builder) that integrates with external AI providers

On-Prem

Ohio hits pause on datacenter tax breaks draining its coffers

Buckeye State found it had inadvertently joined the billion dollar losers' club

Security

GTA cheat service Atlas Menu hacked as attacker alleges screenshot spying

A database containing 64,000 user records was published to GitHub after an attacker claimed to have compromised all Atlas systems

Personal tech

California passes bill declaring death-by-algorithm to 3D-printed ghost guns

Last-hour amendments aim to allay privacy concerns, but broad scepticism about feasibility remains

Databases

Agent-led devs need serverless OpenSearch, Amazon claims

System relies on a proprietary storage layer as AWS moves to separate storage and compute to fit mega AI demands

Off Beat

Science

Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans

Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready

Science

Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry

science

NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon

Astronauts will get to self-assemble lunar base

A large rocket launches from a coastal pad with smoke, towers, and a crowd viewing from the foreground.

Science

Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust

Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit

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KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

Microsoft has mostly repaired flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet

Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year

MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd

Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000

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

NanoClaw now armed with JFrog for safer packages

SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right?

Fired IT worker jailed for 21 months after sabotaging old school district

Novo Nordisk reports cyberattack as UK gives Wegovy pill the nod

Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

Plymouth council exposes hundreds in latest local government email gaffe

UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy

BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder

Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans

Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale

Claude is ready for its corporate close-up

Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss

Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits

ShinyHunters hacked 100+ orgs by exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day

Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation

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GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe

GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections

All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields

Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day

Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

Columnists

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

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

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

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

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

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

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

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard

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Microsoft's worst 'Nightmare' unleashes BitLocker bypass 0-day

Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers

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

Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts

VRChat says somebody faked a breach notice with the Maine AG's office

Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own

Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket

Apple version of Office 2019 becomes useless in a month

Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend

OpenAI could go from AI pioneer to AI's BlackBerry, says Forrester

Oracle's AI datacenter splurge gives investors the capex jitters

Met Police joins forces with Apple to choke London's stolen phone trade

Malware scare keeps schoolkids home for a second day

NS&I dangles £220K salary for CEO willing to straighten out £3B IT mess

Nottingham Uni says student records raided after ShinyHunters claims cyberattack

UK Treasury still deciding whether to show up to £1.7B ERP program it agreed to fund

Every employee’s password was stored in a single Excel file

Chinese agents caught rebuilding botnets and stirring the pot on AI datacenter debate

Memory and personalization make AI more likely to tell you what you want to hear

Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR

It blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts

Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day

GM gets datacenter fever, decides to build grid-scale sodium-ion batteries

Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030

macOS 27 beta boots Asahi Linux off Apple Silicon

Vercel escapes contempt rap after admitting it botched FBI warrant response

Linux Lite 8.0 sheds Chrome, slims down, and finds its name fits better than ever

Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting'

GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts

NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal

Ivanti tells Sentry customers to patch now as critical bugs hit 10.0 and 9.9

Brussels' datacenter efficiency scorecard may come with a credit warning

Node4 CEO Neil Muller found dead at home after suspected stabbing

SpacemiT shows off usably quick RISC-V mini desktop

France and Germany agree to disagree, ditch joint next-gen Euro fighter

Logitech knows when to fold 'em

AI is making Patch Tuesday (kinda) fun again

Salesforce cuts staff amid acquisition spree and $50 billion share buyback