With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator We could really have used this a couple of days ago, guys
How do you solve a problem like Discovery? Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US?
BOFH: Saving the planet, one falsified metric at a time Episode 20 The quickest route to carbon neutrality is creative accounting
Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia The 0-days have left the building
MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech Committee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act Personal Tech25 Oct 2025 | 18
Berkeley boffins build better load balancing algo with AI One way AI can improve on human work AI + ML25 Oct 2025 | 1
Everybody's warning about critical Windows Server WSUS bug exploits ... but Microsoft's mum Critical 9.8-rated vulnerability affects Windows Server 2012 - 2025 Cybersecurity Month24 Oct 2025 | 8
High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses 31 alleged poker schemers nabbed alongside arrest of separate sports betting ring Offbeat24 Oct 2025 | 18
Sneaky Mermaid attack in Microsoft 365 Copilot steals data updated Redmond says it's fixed this particular indirect prompt injection vuln Cyber-crime24 Oct 2025 | 8
Sora makes slurfect deepfakes of celebs spewing racial epithets If you listen closely, you’ll realize Sam Altman and the others are only saying sound-alike words AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 7
Uncle Sam's new power plan will plug AI farms into the grid faster Proposal would fast-track hookups for the megawatt-hungry datacenters driving US electricity demand AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 10
OpenAI goes after Microsoft 365 Copilot's lunch with 'company knowledge' feature ChatGPT can now rummage through corporate files via connectors, though Redmond still has the deeper hooks SaaS24 Oct 2025 | 3
Ex-Uber CSO is gellin' like a felon with teen cyber crims, explains why they do it interview Meanwhile Sullivan's legal battle continues
Norks droning on about your dream job while pwning your PC Social engineering? Check. Trojanized open source? Check. Lazarus’ pet RAT? Also check
Salt Typhoon hit governments on three continents with SharePoint attacks Plus spy helping spy: Typhoons teaming up
A simple AI prompt saved a developer from this job interview scam INFOSEC IN BRIEF Plus: Ransomware posing as Teams installer, Cisco 0-day exploit to drop rootkit, and European cops bust SIM-box service
Apple faces £1.5B payout after losing UK App Store case iPhone maker overcharged devs and users, says competition court Applications24 Oct 2025 | 21
AI investment is the only thing keeping the US out of recession Datacenter infrastructure and model development spending offset high borrowing costs AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 20
Microsoft drops surprise Windows Server patch before weekend downtime You didn't have plans, did you? Patches24 Oct 2025 | 13
Alaska Airlines grounded by mystery IT meltdown Updated Failure at primary datacenter leaves planes parked and passengers angry, second incident since July On-Prem24 Oct 2025 | 17
Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers Starmer rebrands unpopular scheme as convenience tool after backlash Public Sector24 Oct 2025 | 94
Windows Insiders get special anniversary desktop wallpaper 11 years of filing feedback and all we got was a bloody... not even a T-shirt? SaaS24 Oct 2025 | 10
BBC probe finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries Google Gemini worst offender with 76% error rate AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 35
How do you solve a problem like Discovery? Request For Ideas: How would you move a retired orbiter across the US? Offbeat24 Oct 2025 | 138
Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout column When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
Shield AI shows off not-at-all-terrifying autonomous VTOL combat drone Runways? Where we're going, we don't need runways Offbeat24 Oct 2025 | 31
BOFH: Saving the planet, one falsified metric at a time Episode 20 The quickest route to carbon neutrality is creative accounting BOFH24 Oct 2025 | 36
Britain's Ministry of Justice just signed up to ChatGPT Enterprise OpenAI sweetens the deal with data residency AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 20
New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails On Call Techie summoned at 02:00 AM to sort things out sent another 2 billion trying to fix it Columnists24 Oct 2025 | 70
Iran's MuddyWater wades into 100+ government networks in latest spying spree Group-IB says Tehran-linked crew used hijacked mailbox and VPN to sling phishing emails across Middle East Security24 Oct 2025 |
Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more Mystery customer wants an upgrade that will take some time Systems24 Oct 2025 | 2
Intel says server CPUs will be hot again – in a good way, to power AI workloads – any year now Chipzilla returns to profit and suggests customers are primed to sign for foundry services once it nails 18A process Systems24 Oct 2025 | 6
Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia The 0-days have left the building Cyber-crime24 Oct 2025 | 26
Clippy rises from the dead in major update to Copilot and its voice interface Hands On The new Microsoft assistant is a blob named Mico, but you can turn it into everyone’s favorite paper clip. AI + ML24 Oct 2025 | 18
Google and Anthropic wave hands about mega TPU deal worth 'tens of billions' But AWS is still the AI upstart's primary partner AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 4
Don't take AI to Thanksgiving: Bots have hidden biases It's not a bug, it's a feature AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 13
Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice Who, Me? Oh … you mean we shouldn’t press that button?
Playtime’s over: Crooks swipe Toys R Us Canada customer data and dump it online What?! No complimentary credit monitoring? Cyber-crime23 Oct 2025 | 3
Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything iPhone and iPad users vexed by denial of spreadsheets Applications23 Oct 2025 | 16
Give Europe some space! 3 companies join forces to reach for the stars Airbus, Leonardo and Thales seek to 'strengthen Europe’s strategic autonomy in space' Science23 Oct 2025 | 5
Engineering CPO is easy — scaling it for AI will take an ecosystem Co-packaged optics promise a big boost for AI Sponsored Post
Blinded by the light: Tesla fixes glaringly bright Cybertruck headlights Plus: Model 3/Y recall over battery-pack contactors that can cut drive power Offbeat23 Oct 2025 | 40
Trump's workforce cuts blamed as America's cyber edge dulls The Cyberspace Solarium Commission says years of progress are being undone amid current administration's cuts Public Sector23 Oct 2025 | 25
Microsoft suggests temporary registry hack for stricken smart card users When is an issue not an issue? When it's intentional SaaS23 Oct 2025 | 21
Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease Weak demand for iPhone Air and delays to a costly foldable tablet suggest Cupertino's hardware experiments are struggling Personal Tech23 Oct 2025 | 106
Fedora council approves policy allowing AI-assisted contributions Intense discussion approves AI – but subject to full responsibility and disclosure AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 2
Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software Check Point helps exorcise vast 'Ghost Network' that used fake tutorials to push infostealers Cyber-crime23 Oct 2025 | 19
AI is driving networking and compute together ZTE CEO Xu Ziyang talks power, performance and sustainability Sponsored Feature
A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2025 | 105
SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs Share price dips as cloud sales outlook disappoints amid slow US public sector bookings Databases23 Oct 2025 | 5
Senators accuse Smithsonian of 'illegal lobbying' over Discovery squabbles Cornyn & co ask DoJ to probe respected research institution for trying to 'influence' public Science23 Oct 2025 | 85
Amazon's AI specs aim to stop delivery drivers getting lost between van and porch Why monitor staff through phones or cameras when Bezos' boxshifter can strap surveillance to their heads? Offbeat23 Oct 2025 | 49
Microsoft threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem Survey probes interest in AI assistance for locally hosted email setups AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 29
SpaceX pulls plug on 2,500 Starlink terminals tied to Myanmar fraud farms Criminal outfits had been using Musk's broadband beacons to run cyber-slavery scams across Southeast Asia Cyber-crime23 Oct 2025 | 17
Microsoft finance slang defines the eternal optimist: The 'hockey stick on wheels' The wheels on Copilot's hockey stick must be giving off smoke by now Bootnotes23 Oct 2025 | 28
OpenBSD 7.8 out now, and you're not seeing double, 9front releases 'Release' New version includes multithreaded TCP/IP and Raspberry Pi 5 support OSes23 Oct 2025 | 25
UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI Meanwhile, civil services claims 75,000 days could be saved by the tech each year Public Sector23 Oct 2025 | 66
Apple’s AirDrop makes weird latency spikes for Wi-Fi wonks, researcher finds Cupertino wants you on certain channels, and pushes back if you have your own preferences Networks23 Oct 2025 | 34
With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator We could really have used this a couple of days ago, guys Off-Prem23 Oct 2025 | 15
IBM is just not into the 'spend megabucks on cloudy GPUs' thing, rents them instead Infra revenue soars and AI helps everything … except the share price Off-Prem23 Oct 2025 | 9
AI on a laptop? It's more realistic than you think Inside the Snapdragon X Series quest to reinvent AI
Rethinking application delivery for the hybrid world Why bake apps into your OS when you can deliver them as a side dish?
VMware customers say bye-bye Broadcom and vote for Nutanix Many seeking a replacement for VMware are turning to Nutanix as a strategic choice
How fixed wireless access can bridge the digital divide wherever you are Wireless reaches the parts fiber can’t
OpenAI's Atlas shrugs off inevitability of prompt injection, releases AI browser anyway 'Trust no AI' says one researcher Cybersecurity Month22 Oct 2025 | 12
NextSilicon Maverick-2 promises to blow away the HPC market Nvidia left behind The one chip startup building accelerators for something other than AI boasts performance up 10x that of modern GPUs using a fraction the power HPC22 Oct 2025 | 2
Reddit to Perplexity: Get your filthy hands off our forums Updated Social media site continues legal campaign against those who take its content without a license Legal22 Oct 2025 | 24
TI CEO says some customers still wary of Trump's import tax roulette Company shares lost value on slow-than-expected sales Systems22 Oct 2025 | 3
A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours
New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails On Call Techie summoned at 02:00 AM to sort things out sent another 2 billion trying to fix it
Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia The 0-days have left the building
Apple's ultra-thin iPhone flops as foldable iPad hits a crease Weak demand for iPhone Air and delays to a costly foldable tablet suggest Cupertino's hardware experiments are struggling
Google nukes 3,000 YouTube videos that sowed malware disguised as cracked software Check Point helps exorcise vast 'Ghost Network' that used fake tutorials to push infostealers
Microsoft drops surprise Windows Server patch before weekend downtime You didn't have plans, did you?
Clippy rises from the dead in major update to Copilot and its voice interface Hands On The new Microsoft assistant is a blob named Mico, but you can turn it into everyone’s favorite paper clip.
Trump's workforce cuts blamed as America's cyber edge dulls The Cyberspace Solarium Commission says years of progress are being undone amid current administration's cuts
Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers Starmer rebrands unpopular scheme as convenience tool after backlash
Sneaky Mermaid attack in Microsoft 365 Copilot steals data updated Redmond says it's fixed this particular indirect prompt injection vuln
AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out Not the default file system, but in the installer if you want it OSes22 Oct 2025 | 9
Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block The end is nigh, now get thee to 365 SaaS22 Oct 2025 | 37
Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators AI power demands drive operators to repurpose aircraft parts amid gas turbine shortages Systems22 Oct 2025 | 61
Conquer your storage challenges for generative AI success HPE's Alletra Storage MP X10000 addresses the problems of AI data management Partner Content
Dropping Nvidia for Amazon's custom chips helped gene therapy startup Metagenomi cut AI bill 56% It's not the size of your accelerator, it's how you use it AI + ML22 Oct 2025 | 8
UK competition cops brand Apple, Google with 'strategic market status' for mobile Designation hands CMA broad oversight of their app stores and platforms Personal Tech22 Oct 2025 | 11
Forking confusing: Vulnerable Rust crate exposes uv Python packager Forks of forks of forks, but which ones are patched? Patches22 Oct 2025 | 6
New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process RFC proposes power-button interrupt – and highlights wider problems with sleep states OSes22 Oct 2025 | 42
AI bubble inflates Microsoft CEO pay to $96.5M 480:1 ratio compared to average employee? Must be all that 'leadership' juice AI + ML22 Oct 2025 | 25
Jaguar Land Rover cyber-meltdown tipped to cost the UK almost £2B That's a lot of extended warranties Cyber-crime22 Oct 2025 | 37
China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests Wheeled wonder leaves European rail in the dust Offbeat22 Oct 2025 | 83
Royal Navy sharpens claws on Wildcat choppers with anti-drone Martlet missiles Laser-guided weapon reaches full service after successful sea trials Public Sector22 Oct 2025 | 24
Carnegie Mellon team claims vector-based system can turbocharge PostgreSQL Researchers say 'Proto-X' fine-tunes databases automatically, delivering multifold performance boosts Databases22 Oct 2025 | 6
UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach ICO says probe unnecessary after reviewing ministry's handling of leak Security22 Oct 2025 | 29
Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI YouTube and Gmail already running on both x86 and homebrew Axion silicon, 70,000 more apps in the conversion queue PaaS + IaaS22 Oct 2025 | 28
OpenAI releases bot-tom feeding browser with ChatGPT built in Why experience the web for yourself when there's so much privacy to surrender? AI + ML22 Oct 2025 | 28