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

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

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

Project Headroom could save you big money, too

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

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

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

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

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

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

Networks

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

Nice technology, shame about the price and the indoor blackouts

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

TeamPCP? Or copycat malware dev?

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

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

US firms still dominate chip subsidies

China's support is greater relative to semiconductor industry revenue

Robot waiter delivering a plate of food to a diner in a modern restaurant.

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

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

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

Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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 + 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

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

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

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 + 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

Man using a desktop computer in a server room with equipment racks.

OSes

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

May security update trips over hostnames of a very specific length

Close-up of a metal pipe dripping water with a blurred green background.

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

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

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

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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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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

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

AI + ML

Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests

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

Systems

EXPLORE SYSTEMS

Windows Open Source FOSS Linux Virtualization Storage

Illustration of a gold spacecraft with solar panels near a bright swirling object in space.

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

CERT-In says internet-facing or critical systems should be patched, mitigated, or cut off within half a day where feasible

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

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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

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

Networks

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

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

DevOps

Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust

Unsafe bits get a warning label in planned low-level coding shake-up

* FOSS

personal tech

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

Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages

Dull but important … so, a bit like Debian itself, really

Next Platform | HYPERSCALERS

Blocks & Files | STORAGE

DevClass | ENGINEERING

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

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

A Logitech keyboard and a matching ergonomic mouse sit side by side on a wood tabletop.

Personal Tech

Logitech unveils a cushioned mouse for all-day use

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

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!

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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'

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

Offbeat

Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer’s bizarre crusade against hyperscalers

A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign

Networks

Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in

After making a medical clinic's network rather ill, she 'kept working until I somewhat knew what I was doing'

Software

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

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

Systems

Samsung memory workers call off strike and may score six-figure bonuses

PLUS: Huawei says it’s replaced Moore’s Law; Chinese mobile plans add token allowances; Singtel slinging Optus; And more!

On Call

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

Networks

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

Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials?

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

On-Prem

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

AI Companies

AI + ML

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

The big AI companies are going to see their margins disappear

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

Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy

Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers

Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that'

Right-clicking could go the way of the 3.5-inch floppy at the Chocolate Factory

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

Anthropic tosses agents into the API billing pool

Limits Claude subscriptions to interactive use

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 + ML

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?

Personal Tech

HP investigating BIOS updates that leave premium laptop users in boot loop limbo

Slowdowns, crashes, BSODs reported on pricey mobile workstations

Offbeat

No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship

Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors

Close-up of a frayed rope knot against a dark background.

Security

AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend

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

Public Sector

UK MPs slam digital ID rollout as a 'fiasco' after botched launch

Government's 'rushed' plans damaged public confidence before ministers had even explained how the system would work

OSes

The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors

A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them

science

Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation

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

AI + ML

Minor edits to AI skills can make agents go rogue

Text is the new attack

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?

AI + ML

Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio

Limping Llama model needs a crutch made of surveillance tools

Security

Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings

Will Jason Statham save us?

Infosec

DevOps

GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack

Initial assessment says customer data spared while users wonder what else may have slipped out

Databases

London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year

A Freedom of Information Act request shows the extent of the surveillance

Security

Microsoft shuts down illegal code-signing operation used by ransomware crims to mask their malware

'Thousands' of US victims, including 12+ machines owned and operated by Redmond

Security

America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames

I wonder what's in 'external-secret-repo-creds.yaml' and 'AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv'?

Clear your calendar, Drupal user: You have a critically urgent patch to install

The org’s staying mum on the details, but Wednesday’s fixes reach back to unsupported 8.9 branches

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Cyber-crime

Shai-Hulud keeps burrowing: 314 npm packages infected after another account compromise

Popular JavaScript modules including size-sensor and echarts-for-react hit as hijacked account closed GitHub warnings

Cyber-Crime

Crook leaks 468k+ records, claims they pwned Portugal’s postal carrier

Ordered packages via CTT? Those phishing emails could be tricky to spot

Security

Do fear the Reaper - stealer swipes macOS users' passwords, wallets, then backdoors them

While also spoofing all the trusted domains - Apple, Microsoft, and Google - in the same attack

MORE INFOSEC

Systems

Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right

Wood Mackenzie analysts say bit barn operators are in a tough spot

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

Legal

Media giant settles for $930k with FTC over allegations it lied about eavesdropping on conversations through smart devices

Cox Media Group allegedly sold a bogus AI-powered snoopfest service

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?

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

Robots working at desktop computers in an office

SaaS

Workday wants AI to punch in instead of having to hire new recruits

CEO eyes margin gains by keeping headcount flat – bold for a company selling HR software to employers

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

Science

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go

Not all bad news: Crypto billionaire signs up for a mission to Mars

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On-Prem

Outlook has an image problem

Microsoft says classic client may lose embedded pictures thanks to wrapping bug

security

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

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

Public Sector

Irish Rail writes down €50M after train IT project goes off the rails

State-owned operator loses confidence in delayed traffic management system as politicians compare Ireland’s latest public-sector IT fiasco to 'Groundhog Day'

BOFH

BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has

Off Prem

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

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

Explore Off Prem

Systems Storage Networks HPC CPU GPU Compute Infrastructure

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

Off-Prem

Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email

MORE OFF PREM

Andy Burnham outside during a rally in Manchester, with a blurred crowd in the background.

Public Sector

Burnham backlash: UK Digital ID plans in peril if Manchester mayor succeeds Starmer

He'll have to beat Nigel Farage in a Brexit-backing constituency first, though

Systems

UK nuclear investors get 'high' returns for lower risk than consumers, who also foot the bill

Sizewell C could add £19 to yearly bills, spending watchdog says, but private investor may fail to keep costs down

Software

Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working

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

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

Systems

Alibaba just admitted it’s struggling to keep up with rival chipmakers and AI shops

Reveals decent new homegrown accelerator and tiny production volumes

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

AI + ML

Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers

Just like in The Truman Show

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

AI + ML

Npm registry sets stage for more secure package publishing

All the world's a stage, and all the packages are merely players

Security

HackerOne takes an axe to its bug bounty rewards

Critical flaw payouts slashed by more than 75%

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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

Who Me?

Networks

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

Threatens unspecified ‘fees’ and warns of economic consequences – yet only major kinetic action could stop data flows entirely

Illustration of multiple satellites above Earth connected by thin laser beams.

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

Hands connecting a white Wi‑Fi router on a table next to a laptop and small plant.

Networks

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

Networks

Lawsuit brought by former store operators missing from Vodafone results

Flipper One wants to be the Linux multi-tool in your pocket

Not a Zero successor, ARM box aims for openness, but shipping remains the hard part

DevOps

Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too

Most software engineers now use AI for most of their code and fear the existential threat

PaaS + IaaS

AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud

Customers want their data kept and processed strictly within the EU

PaaS + IaaS

Years after UK Post Office scandal broke, Accenture and OneView Commerce bag contract to replace Horizon

Service tries to move on from troubled decades of Fujitsu relationship with £410 million in deals for system that hurt so many

AI + 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

Cyber-crime

Minecraft-streaming gran swatted while raising cash for grandson's cancer care

Sue Jacquot said she had a great time, despite the rude awakening

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

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

Agent-led devs need serverless OpenSearch, Amazon claims

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

US firms still dominate chip subsidies

Agentic AI arrives for Delphi and C++ Builder

Ohio hits pause on datacenter tax breaks draining its coffers

GTA cheat service Atlas Menu hacked as attacker alleges screenshot spying

Palo Alto VPN bug graduates from advisory to active exploitation

Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks

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

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

Memory crunch sends PC prices into double-digit climb

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

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LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way

If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst

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

Exploding rockets and exploding hardware prices make for a lousy new normal

Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

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

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

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

Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents

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

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

QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban

23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach

UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle

Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Troops’ phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries

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

Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents

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

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

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

Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.0

Three in ten HP customers still clinging to Windows 10

Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform

AI agents get their own phone directory built atop DNS

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

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

ReactOS brings its Windows NT tribute act to ARM64

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

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

Kyndryl takes employees' pulse while cutting off circulation for some

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

Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack

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

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

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

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