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Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops
I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it
Starlink and 5G home internet are helping close the digital divide, but they're far from perfect. Glue them together, and you can get awfully close.
‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec
Machine-generated traffic to surge 1000x in five years, while we meatbags keep clicking away slowly
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees
What an idiot
'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director
Humans will get the AI models they deserve
How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era
AI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks' products
Beijing’s not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron
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
PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare.
NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car
PLUS: Infosys to wear Crocs for a decade; Fujifilm may quit printers; 2GW datacenter debuts in western China; and more!
Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
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
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 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
Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?
Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power
MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
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’
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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
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
Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard
Website support widget lasted 18 months before Redmond ended the conversation
Security
Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account
Intruder gained access to engineering files and potentially export-controlled technical data
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Columnists
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Trump's unpredictability is pushing governments and businesses toward open source while Britain remains glued to US tech
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another
Word up
Rupert Goodwins
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Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
Rupert Goodwins
Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2
Corey Quinn
The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web
Mark Pesce
How do you solve a problem like Capita?
Lindsay Clark
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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
Former Merseyside police officer sacked after failing to declare he was 'too close' with the wrong crowd
AI and ML
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
AI and ML
AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision
Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws
devops
Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death
Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits
SCIENCE
Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs
IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships
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Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests
You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?
SCIENCE
Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft?
Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward
devops
Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it
PARTNER CONTENT: Platform engineering won the argument. Now it has to grow up fast and evolve for the AI era.
AI AND ML
Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out
Perhaps an allow list of domains might be better?
storage
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
SCIENCE
Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve
Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year
oFF-PREM
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan
Nearly three-quarters worry Washington could cut access, yet fewer than half regularly test their fallback
SECURITY
IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in
Leaving this information exposed allowed someone else to gain access
OS PLATFORMS
Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra
ESU meter starts running in January, unless you're on the IoT edition
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Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen
Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to
AI AND ML
News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'
Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'
OFFBEAT
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time
It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound
systems
HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months
Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady
Security
Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway
It’s just a remote maintenance function, says Zbtlink
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
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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
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
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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
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Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm
Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures
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SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions
Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B
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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
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* 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
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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
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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
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
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
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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
Infosec
Security
Microsoft's solution to AI security: more AI and more acronyms
MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.4
ai and ml
Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack
The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems
PATCHES
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update
One bug disabled the security service on restart, another blocked installation on hardened RHEL systems
Security
Google goes it alone with a new cybercrime crew taxonomy
So much for Microsoft and CrowdStrike’s plans for consistent names across the industry
Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info
(Security) hole-ier than thou
Explore Security
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Security
Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com
Stop the spread (of online recruiting and propaganda)
Security
Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled
Policy targets online scammers, sextortionists, and potentially their immediate families
Security
OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be
Attack models gonna attack
MORE INFOSEC
* Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
* Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
* OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash
* Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
* Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
* N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
* ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses
* MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
* Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder
* 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
Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations
SCIENCE
Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees
Posisbly cracked mud, therefore more evidence Red Planet was once less horrible
systems
Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon
But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple
ON-PREM
Cisco 'retires' its Azure Local offering rather than catch up to Microsoft’s changed hardware requirements
Redmond now allows only locked-down rigs with joint software and hardware support for its on-prem hyperconverged cloud and Switchzilla won't go there
SOFTWARE
Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest
Capex spending? What? Me worry?
HPC
NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud
Government agency will use Google Cloud H4D VMs to replace HPE Cray machines
offbeat
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel
Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba
PUBLIC SECTOR
Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake
Meanwhile, the other state-backed foundry, Intel, wraps up RAMP-C defense test chip program
AI and ML
Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" is an effective sales pitch for open source
security
Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos
Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation
applications
Moscow slaps Telegram founder on wanted list, Durov responds with one-finger salute
Off Prem
off-prem
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours
Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services
off-prem
Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five
‘Digital transformation’ is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn
off-prem
Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud
off prem
Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
UPDATED: Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem and failure of diesel generators
off-prem
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral
Explore Off Prem
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off-prem
Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates
Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug
Off-prem
Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content
You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned
off-prem
AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites
Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery
MORE OFF PREM
* European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan
Nearly three-quarters worry Washington could cut access, yet fewer than half regularly test their fallback
* 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
* Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges
Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough
* Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing
Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
* 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
* Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours
Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services
* Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five
‘Digital transformation’ is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn
* Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud
* Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
UPDATED: Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem and failure of diesel generators
* AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
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.
SCIENCE
NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning
Two reaction wheels are out and comms sporadic as controllers work to stabilize LINK
Security
Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems
More than 30 facilities disrupted in 'coordinated cyberattack,' though officials have yet to name a culprit
STORAGE
AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning
Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 2028
SOFTWARE
Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike
Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans
AI AND ML
AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started
More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research
DATABASES
After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres
Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends
Storage
Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package
Product chief shoots straight to the top of the pay league, out-earning CEO in fiscal '26
PUBLIC SECTOR
NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure
Privacy guardian warns public trust quickly erodes when supplier access comes as a surprise
OFFBEAT
AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness
Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places
PUBLIC SECTOR
Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall
Splitting up responsibility for digital transformation and procurement while AI gets a seat at Cabinet risks incoherency
Who Me?
* IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day
* Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data
* Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
* User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap
* Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code
* Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess
* How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!
* Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet
* Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug
* Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident
* Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in
* Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything
* Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch
* Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
* PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch
* 'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild
* IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it
* The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe
* Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference
* Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo
* Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble
* Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract
* Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction
* Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell
* Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead
* Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office
* Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server
* Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam
* ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key
* Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause
* Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble
* New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good
* Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming
* Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
* Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books
* Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people
* Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
* Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
* ‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’
* Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware
* Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice
* Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company
* Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it
* Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe
* Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery
* After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'
* Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league
* I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA
* CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it
* Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results
Networks
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
NETWORKS
EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?
Networks
China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol
networks
NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage
networks
Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers
MORE NETWORKS STORIES
* I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it
* N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
* ‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec
* Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway
* Adding an API to networking hardware doesn’t solve management challenges
* Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner
* Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first
* Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber
* Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops
* 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
sytems
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
security
America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks
Docs point to China’s Unitree as prime example of the foreign clanker threat
Storage
A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch
With microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads – but gone before they arrived
AI and ML
MCP gets an enterprise makeover
Now happier running in a conventional K8s environment, with `an easier-to-live-with lifecycle
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JFrog's 0-days let OpenAI's models hack Hugging Face
OpenAI confirms the link
ai and ml
Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives
Up to 8 AI models running in the cloud weighing in on ambiguous business issues? Sounds affordable
AI and ML
War machines can run amok with AI in control
Security
Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs
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
Faster access and more secure recoveries are driving business, but mishaps and attacks can endanger data
ai and ml
College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought
security
DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'
More organizers prohibit camera-equipped specs, even with prescription lenses
WHITEPAPERS
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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
SECURITY
Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears
Customer funds safe, but 14,000 organizations may have to phone in time-sensitive payments
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
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
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
Off Beat
* Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time
It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound
* Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia
Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start
* New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut
The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range
* 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
* Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in
Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key
* Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene
Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police
* 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
* 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
* Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel
Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba
* AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness
Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places
* Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours
Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year
* Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory
Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?
* British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes
Tekever AR5 drone regarded as more up-to-date answer to provide battlefield surveillance for soldiers
* The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails
Would you like an error with your terror?
* Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs
Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network
* Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs
Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local
* Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots
Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat
* UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet
Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal
* Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display
ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste
* Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor
A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted
* US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns
Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too
* Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity
Step back three decades to 'a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines'
* Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5
This elevator is headed for floor Bork
* Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole
'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'
* Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street
Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors
* Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test
Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price
* Backup and running? Not this digital sign
Nagware goes large on the mean streets of Derby
* Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains
Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological
* Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car
Armed response and canine support called in for troublemaking duo ratted out by driverless car’s array of cameras
* C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability
Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched
* Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer
Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error
* An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time
SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world
* NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight
Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule
* Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands
It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix
* Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great
61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead
* HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track
Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station
* Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad
CEO says reconstruction has begun, though the timetable looks ambitious
* Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out
Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM
* US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals
Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says
* Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit
Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening
* They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius
'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI
* Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars
Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home
* Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia
A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest
* Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch
Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite
* Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage
Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen
* Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart
TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had
* Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems
One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here
* Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy
Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?
* EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife
Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation
* Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up
Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package
Science
science
SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13
Super Heavy booster had a super heavy landing, but other reusability tech did the trick
SCIENCE
The last Space Shuttle returned to Earth 15 years ago
SCIENCE
SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no
Replacement Raptors head for liftoff without a static fire test
SCIENCE
Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter
Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy
MORE SCIENCE
* South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact
1 day ago
* Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power
2 days ago
* Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs
3 days ago
* Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft?
3 days ago
SCIENCE
Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago
And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't
SCIENCE
SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit
Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort
SCIENCE
NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one
Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad
AI AND ML
AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding
Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure
SCIENCE
Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy
Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble
science
India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch
Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit
BOFH
* BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book
But so does this customer
* BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand
Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light
* BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry
There's no I in team, but there is one in insurance fraud
* BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
Mission Control sends its regards
* BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has
The Boss gives common sense an AI wrapper
* BOFH: Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom
No sparks, no glory
* BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges
Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet?
* BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them
How were we to know Bikram Choudhury was in the training data?
* BOFH: Are you ready to raise our expense account limits now?
Yet another AI sales creep ruined by PFY's manual reading tactics
* BOFH: What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge
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
Public meeting over proposed AI bit barn ended with zoning approval, a physics teacher arrested, and fresh questions over whether clapping now counts as disorderly conduct
SCIENCE
Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision
Support for e-MERLIN ends 2028 unless the historic radio astronomy center can find another source of cash
Security
Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud bug as CISA puts admins on the clock
Unauthenticated command injection scores perfect 10 and may expose managed Edge devices
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
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