Technology news and analysis

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

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

Here's a look at the index card sized compute nodes that make up Gigabyte's R1C7-KOA-AS1. Each packs 8-core Intel Lunar Lake mobile processor with 32 GB of memory and a pair of m.2 SSDs.

Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box

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

All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good luck, sys admins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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$

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Columnists

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

Governments can't touch VPNs technically or commercially. The mess they'll make if they try will be off the scale

Rupert Goodwins

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

If a setting fails in the forest and nobody hears it ...

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

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now

Rupert Goodwins

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Bank of England building between London skyscrapers and older stone buildings.

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

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

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?

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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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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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

'16% of my monthly Pro+ allowance. Gone. For basically nothing'

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

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

Systems

EXPLORE SYSTEMS

Windows Open Source FOSS Linux Virtualization Storage

Cyber-crime

Palo Alto VPN bug graduates from advisory to active exploitation

Rapid7: Attackers exploit authentication bypass flaw in the wild, meaning more emergency patching for PAN-OS users

Systems

Nvidia's Grace Blackwell superchips are officially coming to the PC with RTX Spark notebooks

Forget Wintel, we're living in a Winvidia world now

Security

Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks

Engineers' weekends ruined as Dashlane's automatic protections kicked in

Networks

Putin sends submarines to survey Britain's subsea cables. UK deploys Royal Navy, mobilizes parliamentary draftsmen

Proposed legislation threatens fines and prison for reckless damage. Russian Prez must be shaking in his boots

OSes

I designed Microsoft's $5B EA channel architecture in 2001. The 2026 transition is missing what made it work

The man behind Redmond's direct billing model and its geo rollout explains why the new version forgets the channel to its cost

Personal Tech

Memory crunch sends PC prices into double-digit climb

Notebooks up 11%, desktops 10% as chipmakers ditch consumer kit for AI server bling

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

Offbeat

Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident

He knew this was amazingly dumb but couldn’t stop laughing as the fruit went splat

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

Systems

Intel Diamond Rapids to boost core counts to 192, but RIP Hyperthreading

Threads on a half shell, Intel power!

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

EVENTS

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Software

Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools

Offbeat

Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression

5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft

SaaS

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

The energy drink of frontier models

Security

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

And then Microsoft busted them all

ai + ml

Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents

CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch

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

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

Legal

23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach

software

UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle

Discussion understood to concern delayed SaaS transformation project

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'

Security

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

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

* FOSS

OSes

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

dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years

Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline

Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line

Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers

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Offbeat

FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right

TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations

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

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

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

Software

That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026

In a world of mass-produced bot-slopware, small is more beautiful than ever

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

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

What a wind-up!

Security

Troops’ phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries

Lawmakers push DoD to tighten smartphone controls after adversaries exploited commercial tracking data

Security

Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops

Six 0-days, three under active exploitation, more to come on July 14?

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

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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'

OSes

Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience

May security update trips over hostnames of a very specific length

On-Prem

Europe told to cool its datacenter boom before water and power run short

Get the balance right, Grundfos says, and the region will be a shining example of how to do it without sacrificing the environment

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'

Personal Tech

Three in ten HP customers still clinging to Windows 10

Refresh cycle sluggishness is a tailwind, insists PC giant's money people

Systems

Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform

Systems based on Snapdragon C to target students, families, and small businesses

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

Personal Tech

Steam Deck prices go through the roof as Valve blames component shortages

Same handheld, same specs, just a much steeper bill

On Call

Software

Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working

Systems

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

On-Prem

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

Applications

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem

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

Columnists

Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled

AI Companies

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

Anthropic’s Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling

Claude maker nabs SDK and MCP tooling biz, plans to sunset platform

SAP's AI strategy: Come for the openness, stay because you have to

Joule Studio 2.0 waves the flag of interoperability, API policy tells enterprises who's really in charge

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

The big AI companies are going to see their margins disappear

AI will indeed eat the world – if your world involves software-size margins

Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028

Claude maker warns authoritarian regimes could set the rules unless Washington tightens chip and model controls

Cyber-Crime

Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach

Travel and leisure giant was just one of many victims of the cybercrooks' crime spree this year

OSes

ReactOS brings its Windows NT tribute act to ARM64

Experimental build boots on Raspberry Pi 5, but for now the joy is mostly in getting there

Legal

Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday

Feds say insider used confidential search trend data to score $1.2M in prediction market profits

Public Sector

London cops post £300M tech shopping list after Palantir contract blocked

Mayor's office says force only engaged with one supplier before deputy refused to approve deal worth up to £50M

Hands hold a red heart above three wooden blocks showing happy and sad faces.

On-Prem

Kyndryl takes employees' pulse while cutting off circulation for some

Redundancy notices and sentiment survey land in inboxes on same day in what tech services biz calls 'commitment to listen'

Personal Tech

EU moderation watchdog says social media giants hate taking down hate speech

Also somehow censoring too much while refusing to hand over account ban evidence for review

Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack

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

Security

Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it

Also, missing school iPad resurfaced after coach’s kids uploaded video to YouTube

Virtualization

Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO

Hyperscalers can get hardware before enterprise vendors and buyers don't much care where they land

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.

offbeat

FAA grounds SpaceX’s Starship after another launch mishap

IPO? More like IP-uh-oh

Infosec

Security

AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend

Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragesia show the new reality

Security

A Russian speaker and jailbroken Gemini went on a hacking spree and emptied at least one MAGA victim's crypto wallets

Hey, Gemini, how much can we earn from one pump-and-dump cycle?

Security

Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings

Will Jason Statham save us?

Cyber-Crime

FBI warns Kali365 phishing kit is stealing Microsoft OAuth tokens at scale

MFA? No problem, says crimeware that tricks users into handing attackers the keys to M365

Techie claims Trump Mobile website was leaking thousands of people's data

Customers' info potentially handed to anyone who could send an HTTP request

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Security

Cisco used AI to write security incident reports, with mixed results

You’ll need a lot of detailed prompts to get solid output - and even then it may have errors and typos

Security

Dems slam Trump for making cybersecurity hold out the tin cup while splurging on ballroom and Jan. 6 'slush fund'

'Budgets are moral documents,' Rep. Delia Ramirez said

DevOps

Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion

Plenty of time for cyber crims to grab data or hit you with a giant bill

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cyber-crime

Malware dev tries to steal Claude users' secrets, writes npm slop, leaks own GitHub private token

Script kiddies these days

ai + ml

Argonne flexes spare supercompute to build private AI inference service

Think ChatDoE

Networks

ICANN again intervenes to defend AFRINIC

Africa’s regional internet registry and its longtime antagonist are fighting on old and new fronts

AI + ML

AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates

Stanford researchers argue need for transparency and independent testing

cyber-crime

CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet

Developer-targeted, supply-chain attacks all the rage these days

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

Security

Extortion crews are visiting law firms pretending to be tech support, FBI warns

Cybercriminals still allowed to walk into office blocks and convince staff to let them plug in their own thumb drives

Several humanoid robots with metallic faces and bodies arranged in a dark, monochrome setting.

AI + ML

Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests

Given a chance, AI will be breaking the law, breaking the law

Science

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

Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted

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

Security

India's cyber agency sets clock at 12 hours to tackle exploited bugs as AI turns up the heat

Off Prem

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

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’

Off-Prem

AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can’t currently buy

Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them

Explore Off Prem

Systems Storage Networks HPC CPU GPU Compute Infrastructure

Off-Prem

Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads

Chinese web giant says accelerator shortage is over as local hardware arrives in volume

Off-Prem

Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter

Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images

Off-Prem

Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner

Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent

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Personal Tech

Windows 11 update preview promises faster launches, puts Task Manager on NPU patrol

Just mind the known issue that can still send installs rolling back

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

Better, more reliable, and cheaper? Isn't that the story every generation?

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

Public Sector

Tony Blair and the Reform party both want AI in government, though they can't agree on what for

Former UK PM demands modernization, and right wing party channels inner Musk to call for mass job cuts in public sector

Networks

UK armed forces aims for secure comms via optical satellite links

Brit military boffins test ground station with infra-red lasers to deliver multi-gigabits downloads

Security

How to guarantee a speaker gig: Hack the system. Literally

Make your mark on the call-for-proposal platform

DevOps

GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'

Another day, another GitHub wobble - but the service keeps growing

Offbeat

Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula

Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals

Networks

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

Standards body on track for 2028 specs drop. Telcos on track for 2028 existential crisis about 5G ROI

Databases

AWS whips out Graviton-powered Redshift instances, claims 7x speed for data warehouse

AI agents asking questions in natural language apparently issue a lot more queries than your average SQL jockey

A parcel locker touchscreen shows a Windows activation warning beside an InPost prompt.

Offbeat

InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows

Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder

Networks

Iran slowly reconnects to the global internet

Traffic floods back, without much of an explanation

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Networks

Networks

AT&T sues to ditch Cali copper phone lines to save billions

Telecoms giant files suit in Golden State so it doesn't have to maintain network it claims is hardly used

Networks

Iran hints it could interfere with submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz

Networks

Europe tests laser links as satellite comms outgrow radio

Networks

Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco

Networks

FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security

Cisco making SONiC available to all customers – not just hyperscalers

Hardened version of open-source NOS coming to Nexus 9000s

Systems

Alibaba gets Android 16 running on RISC-V

Beijing’s sovereign stack ambitions strengthen

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

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

Software

California may let Linux bypass age check

Exemption in amendment offers relief to open source software makers

cyber-crime

MyPillow must decide whether to be firm or soft as ransomware crims demand pay

Guess they could deny the alleged intrusion … like the 2020 election results

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Databases

MySQL faithful launch OurSQL Foundation to keep Oracle honest

Community group wants transparency, collaboration, and a clearer roadmap for the open source database

Science

Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust

Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit

Close-up of C sharp code with binary numbers.

DevOps

Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust

A SpaceX Starship rocket lifts off above a coastal landscape with smoke trailing from the launch pad.

Science

Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks

What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?

Systems

Huawei's chip law looks less like Moore and more like marketing

Chinese tech biz shows off clever workaround for its process node gap, but it isn't catching up with Intel and TSMC

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

Offbeat

Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one

Autonomous shuttle's second passenger trip ends with rear-end collision and a tow truck

WHITEPAPERS

Overcoming the trade-offs in data sovereignty

What does data sovereignty actually mean for your network, which trade-offs are unavoidable? Learn more.

Security

Experts pour cold borscht on Farage's Russian hack claim

Reform UK leader alleges Moscow broke into his phone and leaked £5M gift story, but security specialists await evidence

Personal Tech

Logitech unveils a cushioned mouse for all-day use

Ideal for aching palms – though only if you're right-handed

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

SaaS

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

Personal Tech

HP customer claims firmware update shoved printer off support cliff

Internal notes point to cloud connectivity woes for older OfficeJets, though company denies systemic issue

Systems

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

SaaS

SaaS outfit ClickUp promises seven-figure salaries for survivors of 22 percent staff purge

CEO jumps on the ‘We must be fit for the AI future’ bandwagon

Science

Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission

Due on November 21, eleven months late - but on time to do science!

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’

Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation

Release of spectrogram of cockpit recorder audio allows conversation recovery with 'emerging' decades-old tech

Science

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go

Science

ESA boss tires of being dragged around by NASA mood swings

Are we pilots or are we passengers? Aschbacher asks

Science

Space factories edge closer after experimental capsule survives hypersonic landing

Varda hails success of autonomous touchdown tech and celebrates heat data haul

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Science

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

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

Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box

All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields

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

GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe

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

Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY

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

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

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

Raspberry Pi's profits are up. So is its DRAM bill

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

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

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

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

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

'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says

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

Columnists

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

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now

MORE TOPICS

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

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

AI heavyweights warn their tech could help terrorists develop bioweapons

Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault

AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow

'Please do not vibe f--- up this software': Broken backups spark AI coding row in rsync project

Intel's mysterious new datacenter GPU is what Nvidia's Rubin CPX nearly was

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

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

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

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

Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine

Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state

Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech

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

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

No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel

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

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

The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company

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

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

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

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

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

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

Automattic's CMS empire shows cracks as WordPress share falls

UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract

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

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

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

Trump's AI E-(I)-O could let feds pick winners and losers

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

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

Marvell enters the AI network fray with 102.4 Tbps switch silicon

Enhanced performance for server consolidation with Intel Xeon 6+

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

Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

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

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

HPE declares Juniper deal a 'home run' as AI and networking fuel record quarter

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

Peter Mandelson invited UK PM to meet Palantir's Thiel

Features

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

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

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

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

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