--- snapshot-1786337232+++ snapshot-1786342468@@ -119,7 +119,11 @@ Beijing’s not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron - ai and ml + OS PLATFORMS + + Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal + + He’s not thrilled, but won’t let it delay the release of version 7.2 Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads @@ -133,22 +137,22 @@ Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools + science + South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri - AI and ML - OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI + Security + Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks Calling all defenders - AI and ML - AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms @@ -165,63 +169,59 @@ Attackers turned admin access into a route downstream, while N-able tells N-central customers to patch – again + CYBER-CRIME + ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses Cancer diagnostics breach spills personal and health info as extortion crew says healthcare giant ‘should’ve paid the ransom’ + REG AD + security MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it - REG AD - - security + security Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder Investigation into whether staff improperly accessed Minnie Merriman’s file after she was named for the first time this week - APPLICATIONS + APPLICATIONS Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard Website support widget lasted 18 months before Redmond ended the conversation - Security + Security Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account Intruder gained access to engineering files and potentially export-controlled technical data - security - - Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people's data at risk - - Unlimited Technology Systems says names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and insurance details may have been swiped - MOST POPULAR + * security + + Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager + + * AI and ML + + AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon + * SECURITY IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in - * AI and ML - - AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon - * APPLICATIONS Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard - * security - - Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager - * Security - Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway + Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks Columnists @@ -271,6 +271,12 @@ Columnists Feature security systems FOSS BOFH Networks On Prem Off Prem Science Off beat * + security + + Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people's data at risk + + Unlimited Technology Systems says names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and insurance details may have been swiped + legal Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses @@ -385,788 +391,782 @@ It’s just a remote maintenance function, says Zbtlink - Virtualization + Virtualization Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter + Security + + OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack + + It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence + + AI AND ML + + Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent + + Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops + + AI AND ML + + An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse + + Would you rather play Russian roulette with an LLM or put your health and safety in the hands of a professional + Security - OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack - - It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence + Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are + + Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found + + ai and ml + + Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see + + Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them + + SYSTEMS + + Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars + + In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate + + security + + IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now + + A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA + + ON-PREM + + Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas + + But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid + + AI AND ML + + Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm + + Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures AI AND ML - Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent - - Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops + Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA + + SPONSORED POST: The AI factory concept encompasses the new AI stack, explain HPE’s Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA’s Kaushik Shirhatti AI AND ML - An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse - - Would you rather play Russian roulette with an LLM or put your health and safety in the hands of a professional - + SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions + + Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B + + REG AD Security - Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are - - Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found - - ai and ml - - Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see - - Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them + London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says + + Met ordered to improve safeguards after two preventable data breaches + + OFF-PREM + + Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn + + Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company's compute resources + + SCIENCE + + Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year + + Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time + + Security + + UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack + + Database backups likely stolen, potentially exposing donor, supporter, and service user details + + offbeat + + Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia + + Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start + + SAAS + + Double trouble for Microsoft as pre-owned software license claims converge + + Tribunal to explore how £270 million reseller case intersects with multibillion-pound class action + + offbeat + + New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut + + The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range + + COLUMNISTS + + Adding an API to networking hardware doesn’t solve management challenges + + This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent + + AI AND ML + + AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project + + Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge + + SYSTEMS + + AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries + + The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first + + EDGE AND IOT + + Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller + + Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like? + + ai and ml + + OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT + + New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys + + F eatures + + 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 + + REG AD + + * European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan + + * Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester + + * Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much + + * Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow + + * Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical + + * Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester + + * Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road + + * Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist + + * France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well + + * Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend + + DEVOPS + + Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages + + New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims + + security + + Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it + + Claiming 'it's my server' was often enough to persuade models to help + + Security + + This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp … + + What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas + + security + + Feds get 3 days to patch N-able God mode flaw under active exploit + + Experts warn hotfix not optional. MSPs warned attacker gains 'full administrative access to an N-central console' + + STORAGE + + NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs + + Exposing virtualization built into the SSD will make VM migration simpler, consortium says + + Security + + AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday + + Broader bounty rules added to a swelling volume of machine-assisted vulnerability reports + + OFF-prem + + Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges + + Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough + + Security + + Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras + + Cops arrest budding politician for allegedly dealing with Flock's expansion the American way + + SECURITY + + CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages + + Customers told traffic may be limited at certain times following more than ten days offline + + software + + UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware + + Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers + + SCIENCE + + NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck + + Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts + + security + + Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home + + Automates bug bounty triage with Sonnet for $58 a month, CSO says Mythos would cost $200k + + Sy stems + + * AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon + + Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second + + * Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice + + Connor Moucka pleads guilty over sprawling 2024 campaign that looted billions of records + + * HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months + + Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady + + * Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars + + In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate + + * AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries + + The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first + + * A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it + + 88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip + + * UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests + + Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized + + * Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold + + Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices + + * Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon + + But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple + + * Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix + + Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay + + EXPLORE SYSTEMS + + Windows Open Source FOSS Linux Virtualization Storage + + * + + legal + + China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of 'integrated circuits' + + Beijing's new rules also protect against copying local chip designs + + ai and ml + + China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic + + For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition + + Security + + Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence + + Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another + + security + + AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns + + With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue + + Security + + Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems + + Keyloggers, audio-visual surveillance, and token theft on CaptivePortal's agenda as hospitality sector put on alert + + AI AND ML + + MediaTek lines up $5B war chest for AI datacenter push + + Taiwanese silicon biz believes it can take up to 20% of $80B market with upcoming ASIC chips, but analysts are sceptical + + CYBER-CRIME + + Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak + + ExfilSquad claims 135,000 contact records weeks after hitting the Department for Education + + SCIENCE + + NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover + + Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap + + Security + + Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict + + Trump rejects Tehran theory, blames 'grossly incompetent' governor of Minnesota instead + + AI AND ML + + Google Earth's AI makeover survives for just one planetary rotation + + Turns out letting anyone rewrite the planet with a prompt had drawbacks + + ai and ml + + The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet + + Weird times in earnings-land, and we're talking about it on The Reg's home grown podcast + + SECURITY + + UK government investment arm cops to 40-hour leak of officials' contact details + + Employee failed to follow security policy, leaving internal management file open to the public + + REG AD + + EVENTS + + * Future-Proofing Payments + + Discover how payment rail consolidation, cloud and AI improve resilience, streamline operations, accelerate innovation, and fight fraud. + + * Taming Hybrid Cloud Chaos: Secure and Efficient Kubernetes Across Clouds + + Extending containerized applications to hybrid cloud and edge infrastructure often doubles operational overhead before delivering real agility. + + * F5 and Scality: Enhanced AI data delivery at scale + + As AI and analytics workloads scale up, organizations face challenges with storage inefficiencies, inconsistent performance, and more. + + * The Leverage Economy: Inside the Economics of Cyber Extortion + + Learn why outcomes are harder to forecast, which organizations are most exposed, and how prepared companies can respond with clarity. + + Explore all of our events + + AI AND ML + + Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft + + LLMs are theft by 'absolute scum' who make life harder for writers by putting them in copyright peril + + AI AND ML + + As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK + + Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don't submit its output + + COLUMNISTS + + Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it + + 'As a big AI skeptic, you just blew my mind' + + security + + AI is 'both the weapon and the target' in latest wave of cyberattacks + + CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours + + OS PLATFORMS + + IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day + + Daddy, I typed a Unix command! Was it a bad one? + + OS PLATFORMS + + Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11 + + Redmond adds new items to its make-Windows-better list + + public sector + + Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister + + PLUS: DeepSeek to double peak hour prices for new model; Australia hikes fines for Big Tech; Japan’s next moonshot to ride local rocket; and more! + + OFFBEAT + + Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online + + Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web + + OFFBEAT + + Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in SYSTEMS - Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars - - In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate + A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it + + 88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip + + OFF-PREM + + Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing + + Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating + + DEVOPS + + Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer + + Persistent sessions could be just the beginning + + * FOSS + + SOFTWARE + + GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions + + New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way + + A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32 + + New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15 + + Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites + + Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide + + Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly + + Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan + + Next Platform | HYPERSCALERS + + * With Taalas, AMD Can Bake AI Inference Directly Into Its Chippery + + * D-Wave Intros Two-Qubit, Error Correcting Gate For Its Dual-Rail Quantum Architecture + + * Google Builds A New Gemini Model Team As AI Investments Accelerate + + * Your Platform Was Built For A Different Era, And AI Just Exposed It + + Blocks & Files | STORAGE + + * Storage News Ticker - 7 Aug 2026 + + * HDD failure rates by manufacturer revealed + + * Ex-Nasuni AI head’s AI implementation prescription + + * SK Hynix building new DRAM and NAND fabs + + DevClass | ENGINEERING + + * AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription + + * Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it + + * Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages + + * Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer security - IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now - - A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA + The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters + + Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems + + CYBER-CRIME + + US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data + + History suggests this was not wise + + SECURITY + + Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder + + Whoever wins, we lose + + SOFTWARE + + Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar + + A nice little summer job for someone + + SECURITY + + Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts + + A week into shutdown, 14,000 customers still have no restoration date and some are struggling to pay staff + + SCIENCE + + NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin + + Engineers make progress in stabilizing mission but push back the rendezvous date + + NETWORKS + + Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner + + £4.3B deal gives telco full control of Britain's largest mobile operator + + cyber-crime + + Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in + + APUC investigating after criminals claim historical data theft + + AI AND ML + + Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester + + European firms feel the greatest pressure as US giants dominate cloud and AI infrastructure + + SYSTEMS + + UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests + + Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized + + OFFBEAT + + Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene + + Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police + + SOFTWARE + + Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered + + The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects + + DON't MISS + + Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days + + Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports + + AI AND ML + + Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations + + Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem + + PAAS AND IAAS + + Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney + + "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies" + + ai and ml + + LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower + + AI-riddled social network adds button to report sloppy posts, ditches AI rewrite tools, and promises more to come + + AI AND ML + + Oracle adds Google Gemini to the agent menu + + Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party + + STORAGE + + GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech + + High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows + + AI AND ML + + Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font + + ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting + + Security + + Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages + + A lesson for aspiring vandals: Take out all the cameras, not just the ones that flout your ideals + + On Call + + Software + + Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it + + personal tech + + Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem + + OFFBEAT + + Backup and running? Not this digital sign + + on-prem + + Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year + + Police wanted to call off a grudge game until tech support electrified fevered fans + + personal tech + + User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC + + security + + Security boss thought MFA would be too much security + + Personal tech + + Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles + + Personal Tech + + This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken + + AI Companies + + AI + ML + + Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering + + American AI flag bearers get in line, at least on paper + + Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude + + Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation + + Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling + + And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention + + Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN + + A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages + + 'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes + + Human did 10% of the job, AI did 90% + + Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past + + Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog + + Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic + + And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack + + personal tech + + Americans give all-day school phone bans a ringing endorsement + + Polling suggests patience with handsets in the classroom is running shorter than a teenager's battery life + + From individual achievement to partner impact + + PARTNER CONTENT: Databricks survey data suggests certified professionals lift partner delivery capacity, customer credibility, and AI readiness well beyond the individuals who earn the credential + + SYSTEMS + + Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold + + Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices + + cyber-crime + + Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew + + Researchers say Sapphire Sleet socially engineered maintainers before publishing malicious updates through trusted accounts ON-PREM - Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas - - But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid - - AI AND ML - - Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm - - Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures - - AI AND ML - - Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA - - SPONSORED POST: The AI factory concept encompasses the new AI stack, explain HPE’s Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA’s Kaushik Shirhatti - - AI AND ML - - SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions - - Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B + Microsoft makes Copilot harder to miss in Classic Outlook + + New button beside the ribbon promises consistency – and more questions for admins + + Legal + + Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button + + FTC says Meta and Snap received sensitive patient information while customers faced unexpected prescription charges + + DATABASES + + MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future + + Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology + + security + + Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook + + Opening a booby-trapped message unleashes a browser implant that can survive password changes and device rebuilds + + OFF-PREM + + The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time + + Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time + + OFFBEAT + + 30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage + + Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold + + OFFBEAT + + Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up + + Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun Security - London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says - - Met ordered to improve safeguards after two preventable data breaches - - REG AD - OFF-PREM - - Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn - - Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company's compute resources - - SCIENCE - - Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year - - Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time - - Security - - UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack - - Database backups likely stolen, potentially exposing donor, supporter, and service user details - - offbeat - - Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia - - Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start - - SAAS - - Double trouble for Microsoft as pre-owned software license claims converge - - Tribunal to explore how £270 million reseller case intersects with multibillion-pound class action - - offbeat - - New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut - - The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range - - COLUMNISTS - - Adding an API to networking hardware doesn’t solve management challenges - - This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent - - AI AND ML - - AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project - - Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge - - SYSTEMS - - AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries - - The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first - - EDGE AND IOT - - Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller - - Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like? - - ai and ml - - OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT - - New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys - - DEVOPS - - Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages - - New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims - - F eatures - - 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 - - REG AD - - * European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan - - * Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester - - * Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much - - * Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow - - * Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical - - * Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester - - * Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road - - * Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist - - * France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well - - * Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend - - security - - Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it - - Claiming 'it's my server' was often enough to persuade models to help - - Security - - This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp … - - What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas - - security - - Feds get 3 days to patch N-able God mode flaw under active exploit - - Experts warn hotfix not optional. MSPs warned attacker gains 'full administrative access to an N-central console' - - STORAGE - - NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs - - Exposing virtualization built into the SSD will make VM migration simpler, consortium says - - Security - - AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday - - Broader bounty rules added to a swelling volume of machine-assisted vulnerability reports - - OFF-prem - - Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges - - Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough - - Security - - Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras - - Cops arrest budding politician for allegedly dealing with Flock's expansion the American way - - SECURITY - - CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages - - Customers told traffic may be limited at certain times following more than ten days offline - - software - - UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware - - Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers - - SCIENCE - - NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck - - Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts - - security - - Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home - - Automates bug bounty triage with Sonnet for $58 a month, CSO says Mythos would cost $200k - - legal - - China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of 'integrated circuits' - - Beijing's new rules also protect against copying local chip designs - - Sy stems - - * AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon - - Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second - - * Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice - - Connor Moucka pleads guilty over sprawling 2024 campaign that looted billions of records - - * HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months - - Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady - - * Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars - - In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate - - * AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries - - The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first - - * A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it - - 88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip - - * UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests - - Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized - - * Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold - - Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices - - * Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon - - But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple - - * Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix - - Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay - - EXPLORE SYSTEMS - - Windows Open Source FOSS Linux Virtualization Storage - - * - - ai and ml - - China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic - - For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition - - Security - - Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence - - Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another - - security - - AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns - - With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue - - Security - - Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems - - Keyloggers, audio-visual surveillance, and token theft on CaptivePortal's agenda as hospitality sector put on alert - - AI AND ML - - MediaTek lines up $5B war chest for AI datacenter push - - Taiwanese silicon biz believes it can take up to 20% of $80B market with upcoming ASIC chips, but analysts are sceptical - - CYBER-CRIME - - Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak - - ExfilSquad claims 135,000 contact records weeks after hitting the Department for Education - - SCIENCE - - NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover - - Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap - - Security - - Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict - - Trump rejects Tehran theory, blames 'grossly incompetent' governor of Minnesota instead - - AI AND ML - - Google Earth's AI makeover survives for just one planetary rotation - - Turns out letting anyone rewrite the planet with a prompt had drawbacks - - ai and ml - - The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet - - Weird times in earnings-land, and we're talking about it on The Reg's home grown podcast - - SECURITY - - UK government investment arm cops to 40-hour leak of officials' contact details - - Employee failed to follow security policy, leaving internal management file open to the public - - AI AND ML - - Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft - - LLMs are theft by 'absolute scum' who make life harder for writers by putting them in copyright peril - - REG AD - - EVENTS - - * Future-Proofing Payments - - Discover how payment rail consolidation, cloud and AI improve resilience, streamline operations, accelerate innovation, and fight fraud. - - * Taming Hybrid Cloud Chaos: Secure and Efficient Kubernetes Across Clouds - - Extending containerized applications to hybrid cloud and edge infrastructure often doubles operational overhead before delivering real agility. - - * F5 and Scality: Enhanced AI data delivery at scale - - As AI and analytics workloads scale up, organizations face challenges with storage inefficiencies, inconsistent performance, and more. - - * The Leverage Economy: Inside the Economics of Cyber Extortion - - Learn why outcomes are harder to forecast, which organizations are most exposed, and how prepared companies can respond with clarity. - - Explore all of our events - - AI AND ML - - As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK - - Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don't submit its output - - COLUMNISTS - - Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it - - 'As a big AI skeptic, you just blew my mind' - - security - - AI is 'both the weapon and the target' in latest wave of cyberattacks - - CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours - - OS PLATFORMS - - IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day - - Daddy, I typed a Unix command! Was it a bad one? - - OS PLATFORMS - - Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11 - - Redmond adds new items to its make-Windows-better list - - public sector - - Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister - - PLUS: DeepSeek to double peak hour prices for new model; Australia hikes fines for Big Tech; Japan’s next moonshot to ride local rocket; and more! - - OFFBEAT - - Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online - - Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web - - OFFBEAT - - Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in - - Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key - - SYSTEMS - - A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it - - OFF-PREM - - Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing - - Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating - - DEVOPS - - Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer - - Persistent sessions could be just the beginning - - security - - The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters - - Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems - - * FOSS - - SOFTWARE - - GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions - - New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way - - A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32 - - New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15 - - Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites - - Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide - - Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly - - Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan - - Next Platform | HYPERSCALERS - - * With Taalas, AMD Can Bake AI Inference Directly Into Its Chippery - - * D-Wave Intros Two-Qubit, Error Correcting Gate For Its Dual-Rail Quantum Architecture - - * Google Builds A New Gemini Model Team As AI Investments Accelerate - - * Your Platform Was Built For A Different Era, And AI Just Exposed It - - Blocks & Files | STORAGE - - * Storage News Ticker - 7 Aug 2026 - - * HDD failure rates by manufacturer revealed - - * Ex-Nasuni AI head’s AI implementation prescription - - * SK Hynix building new DRAM and NAND fabs - - DevClass | ENGINEERING - - * AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription - - * Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it - - * Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages - - * Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer - - CYBER-CRIME - - US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data - - History suggests this was not wise - - SECURITY - - Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder - - Whoever wins, we lose - - SOFTWARE - - Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar - - A nice little summer job for someone - - SECURITY - - Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts - - A week into shutdown, 14,000 customers still have no restoration date and some are struggling to pay staff - - SCIENCE - - NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin - - Engineers make progress in stabilizing mission but push back the rendezvous date - - NETWORKS - - Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner - - £4.3B deal gives telco full control of Britain's largest mobile operator - - cyber-crime - - Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in - - APUC investigating after criminals claim historical data theft - - AI AND ML - - Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester - - European firms feel the greatest pressure as US giants dominate cloud and AI infrastructure - - SYSTEMS - - UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests - - Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized - - OFFBEAT - - Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene - - Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police - - SOFTWARE - - Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered - - The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects - - AI AND ML - - Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations - - Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem - - DON't MISS - - Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days - - Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports - - PAAS AND IAAS - - Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney - - "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies" - - ai and ml - - LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower - - AI-riddled social network adds button to report sloppy posts, ditches AI rewrite tools, and promises more to come - - AI AND ML - - Oracle adds Google Gemini to the agent menu - - Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party - - STORAGE - - GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech - - High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows - - AI AND ML - - Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font - - ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting - - Security - - Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages - - A lesson for aspiring vandals: Take out all the cameras, not just the ones that flout your ideals - - personal tech - - Americans give all-day school phone bans a ringing endorsement - - Polling suggests patience with handsets in the classroom is running shorter than a teenager's battery life - - On Call - - Software - - Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it - - personal tech - - Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem - - OFFBEAT - - Backup and running? Not this digital sign - - on-prem - - Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year - - Police wanted to call off a grudge game until tech support electrified fevered fans - - personal tech - - User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC - - security - - Security boss thought MFA would be too much security - - Personal tech - - Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles - - Personal Tech - - This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken - - AI Companies - - AI + ML - - Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering - - American AI flag bearers get in line, at least on paper - - Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude - - Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation - - Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling - - And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention - - Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN - - A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages - - 'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes - - Human did 10% of the job, AI did 90% - - Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past - - Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog - - Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic - - And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack - - From individual achievement to partner impact - - PARTNER CONTENT: Databricks survey data suggests certified professionals lift partner delivery capacity, customer credibility, and AI readiness well beyond the individuals who earn the credential - - SYSTEMS - - Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold - - Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices - - cyber-crime - - Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew - - Researchers say Sapphire Sleet socially engineered maintainers before publishing malicious updates through trusted accounts - - ON-PREM - - Microsoft makes Copilot harder to miss in Classic Outlook - - New button beside the ribbon promises consistency – and more questions for admins - - Legal - - Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button - - FTC says Meta and Snap received sensitive patient information while customers faced unexpected prescription charges - - DATABASES - - MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future - - Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology - - security - - Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook - - Opening a booby-trapped message unleashes a browser implant that can survive password changes and device rebuilds - - OFF-PREM - - The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time - - Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time - - OFFBEAT - - 30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage - - Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold - - OFFBEAT - - Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up - - Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun - - Security - Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine Schools often don't prioritize or understand cybersecurity - - LEGAL - - Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law - - If your AI goes rogue, better have a good lawyer Infosec @@ -1243,6 +1243,12 @@ * Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account + LEGAL + + Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law + + If your AI goes rogue, better have a good lawyer + virtualization Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one @@ -1306,12 +1312,6 @@ applications Moscow slaps Telegram founder on wanted list, Durov responds with one-finger salute - - FSB claims Ukrainian spies use chat platform to recruit Russians for sabotage and arson - - STORAGE - - MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish Off Prem @@ -1410,6 +1410,12 @@ An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral + STORAGE + + MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish + + AIStor keeps context, files, and secrets under customer control so interrupted jobs can pick up where they left off + The VMware deadline that could reshape your IT strategy PARTNER CONTENT: With vSphere 8 support ending in 2027, IT leaders must navigate tight timelines and costs to modernize on their terms. @@ -1474,10 +1480,6 @@ Splitting up responsibility for digital transformation and procurement while AI gets a seat at Cabinet risks incoherency - Why the 'patchpocalypse' demands immediate isolation - - PARTNER CONTENT: Attackers automated, but your 30-day patch window didn't - Who Me? * IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day @@ -1584,9 +1586,13 @@ NETWORKS - EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment? - - Proposed cybersecurity legislation may force a cull of high-risk network technology, costing tens of billions + Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops + + Token costs not quite sorted, but on-prem will be an option + + NETWORKS + + EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment? Networks @@ -1600,10 +1606,6 @@ Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers - networks - - User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap - MORE NETWORKS STORIES * I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it @@ -1626,11 +1628,15 @@ * EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment? + Why the 'patchpocalypse' demands immediate isolation + + PARTNER CONTENT: Attackers automated, but your 30-day patch window didn't + offbeat - Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours - - Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year + Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours + + Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year sytems @@ -1656,23 +1662,23 @@ Now happier running in a conventional K8s environment, with `an easier-to-live-with lifecycle + The Register NEWSLETTER + + Sign up to get IT daily + + ­ + + EXPLORE OUR COVERAGE + + AWS Google Microsoft Red Hat Anthropic Nvidia Databricks Servicenow Snowflake Everpure Crowdstrike OpenAI Palo Alto Networks Cloudflare Oracle HPE ASML Nutanix HashiCorp Zscaler Dell IngramMicro Broadcom AMD SAP Salesforce Fedora Palantir Atlassian HPE + + * Security JFrog's 0-days let OpenAI's models hack Hugging Face OpenAI confirms the link - The Register NEWSLETTER - - Sign up to get IT daily - - ­ - - EXPLORE OUR COVERAGE - - AWS Google Microsoft Red Hat Anthropic Nvidia Databricks Servicenow Snowflake Everpure Crowdstrike OpenAI Palo Alto Networks Cloudflare Oracle HPE ASML Nutanix HashiCorp Zscaler Dell IngramMicro Broadcom AMD SAP Salesforce Fedora Palantir Atlassian HPE - - * ai and ml Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives @@ -1683,13 +1689,13 @@ War machines can run amok with AI in control - Tour of the AI kill chain maps the risks of ubiquitous surveillance and flawed algorithms - - Security + Security Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs - AI and ML + Secret to their success: Using the right model for the right security job + + AI and ML AI is storage's biggest opportunity – and biggest threat @@ -1705,18 +1711,18 @@ More organizers prohibit camera-equipped specs, even with prescription lenses + WHITEPAPERS + + Assess your storage strategy for the AI era + + Assess your readiness to scale AI and build a data-centric storage strategy that turns infrastructure into strategic advantage. + SECURITY AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype VulnCheck says fewer than 2% of AI-assisted vulnerability discoveries have been weaponized, casting doubt on claims frontier models are handing attackers a major advantage - WHITEPAPERS - - Assess your storage strategy for the AI era - - Assess your readiness to scale AI and build a data-centric storage strategy that turns infrastructure into strategic advantage. - SECURITY Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears @@ -1725,27 +1731,21 @@ SCIENCE - Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires - - NASA reports some cable damage near Madrid as its antennas and ESA's Cebreros station emerge largely intact + Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires + + NASA reports some cable damage near Madrid as its antennas and ESA's Cebreros station emerge largely intact AI AND ML - Hugging Face rebuilt a third of its infrastructure after OpenAI agents ran amok - - Postmortem offers finer details on the 'unprecedented' attack that's reshaping approaches to security + Hugging Face rebuilt a third of its infrastructure after OpenAI agents ran amok + + Postmortem offers finer details on the 'unprecedented' attack that's reshaping approaches to security NETWORKS Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first Washington rallies allies to shape next-generation networks after spending 18 months rattling them - - AI and ML - - Too many AI agents can get in each other's way - - For enterprise agents, less is more Off Beat @@ -2068,6 +2068,12 @@ The Boss imagineers a new laptop spec with help from AI + AI and ML + + Too many AI agents can get in each other's way + + For enterprise agents, less is more + On-PREM Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics @@ -2088,15 +2094,9 @@ NETWORKS - Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber - - Latest batch takes the copper sales restrictions to 1,572 locations and 15.4 million premises - - NETWORKS - - Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops - - Token costs not quite sorted, but on-prem will be an option + Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber + + Latest batch takes the copper sales restrictions to 1,572 locations and 15.4 million premises Biting the hand that feeds IT