Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown Who, Me? And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else
Windows 11 migration heats up... on desktops What about notebooks, including AI-ready devices? Ah well, still months to go, eh Microsoft
The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge Turn out the lights, the internet is over
Iran cyberattacks against US biz more likely following air strikes Plus 'low-level' hacktivist attempts Cyber-crime23 Jun 2025 |
Empire State to site 1 GW nuke as AI bit barns guzzle power It would be the first major US nuclear plant built in over 15 years Systems23 Jun 2025 |
Second attack on McLaren Health Care in a year affects 743k people Criminals targeted the hospital and physician network’s Detroit cancer clinic this time Cyber-crime23 Jun 2025 |
Private equity types to snap up NoSQL biz Couchbase $1.5 billion offered for database company valued at $1.2 billion four years ago Databases23 Jun 2025 | 2
Breaking the nerd internet: Three overlapping generations of tech history – in one selfie Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Dave Cutler have dinner OSes23 Jun 2025 | 14
Wolfspeed to file for Chapter 11 in deal cutting 70% of debt Power chip biz to hand over equity to lenders, wipe out most shareholders, and keep running during restructuring Systems23 Jun 2025 | 4
Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell Cyber Monitoring Centre issues first severity assessment since February launch Cyber-crime23 Jun 2025 | 14
Economists sceptical over UK Spending Review's partly AI-driven 10% budget cuts MPs hear doubts over efficiency savings that are reliant on speculative gains from IT, machine learning Public Sector23 Jun 2025 | 10
The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world Opinion Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 6
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown Who, Me? And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 84
Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers Networks23 Jun 2025 | 29
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AI-hosted infomercial shifts $7.5 million worth of product in China Asia In Brief PLUS: India tries to untangle TXT marketing opt-ins; China’s AI crackdown succeeds; Australia and Boeing team AWACS, drones; and more! AI + ML23 Jun 2025 | 2
Former US Army Sergeant pleads guilty after amateurish attempt at selling secrets to China Infosec in brief PLUS: 5.4M healthcare records leak; AI makes Spam harder to spot; Many nasty Linux vulns; and more Security23 Jun 2025 | 6
The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge Turn out the lights, the internet is over AI + ML22 Jun 2025 | 98
Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says Skull emoji knife emoji moneybag emoji Offbeat21 Jun 2025 | 126
The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests Feature Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel
Netflix, Apple, BofA websites hijacked with fake help-desk numbers Don’t trust mystery digits popping up in your search bar Cyber-crime20 Jun 2025 | 14
New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers Welcome to bill shock, AI style Devops20 Jun 2025 | 34
US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it 'The selected vendor must be willing to receive consideration that is primarily non-monetary,' says the USPTO AI + ML20 Jun 2025 | 42
EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons DataFusion and WarehousePG meant to deal with AI-related workloads, not to compete with analytics data platforms Databases20 Jun 2025 |
Looks like Aflac is the latest insurance giant snagged in Scattered Spider’s web If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck... Cyber-crime20 Jun 2025 | 5
Qilin ransomware top dogs treat their minions to on-call lawyers for fierier negotiations It's a marketing move to lure more affiliates, says infosec veteran Cyber-crime20 Jun 2025 | 4
Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti Science20 Jun 2025 | 9
AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike Networks20 Jun 2025 | 1
Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development Comment X11 is very far from dead – no matter if some want it to be Software20 Jun 2025 | 92
OVHcloud chief talks up sovereignty discussions with the European Commision ... And then promptly deletes comment. Optimism or an opportunity? Or perhaps both PaaS + IaaS20 Jun 2025 | 8
DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers it calls 'tools of terrorism' Seizures up 830% since 2021, with devices linked to interference in emergency responses Networks20 Jun 2025 | 34
Put Large Reasoning Models under pressure and they stop making sense, say boffins Opinion Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hype
Broadcom's answer to VMware pricing outrage: You're using it wrong VCF bundle is worth it if you make the most of every part, says CTO Virtualization20 Jun 2025 | 37
Windows 11 migration heats up... on desktops What about notebooks, including AI-ready devices? Ah well, still months to go, eh Microsoft OSes20 Jun 2025 | 61
SAP ECC 6.0 lives to fight another decade under Rimini Street Third-party provider pledges to support legacy ERP until 2040 PaaS + IaaS20 Jun 2025 | 3
ZTE supports AI with full-stack IT offering Company expands from telco origins to support compute-hungry use cases Partner content
Attack on Oxford City Council exposes 21 years of election worker data Services coming back online after legacy systems compromised Cyber-crime20 Jun 2025 | 24
Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests Exclusive Framework agreement may rescue some unis from 'financial abyss' after Oracle per-employee Java license, says insider Software20 Jun 2025 | 43
Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747 'Black side down,' Lego style Bootnotes20 Jun 2025 | 60
Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it On Call Sometimes the 'R' in RTFM stands for 'Remember' Columnists20 Jun 2025 | 177
Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties Personal Tech20 Jun 2025 | 36
AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN’s attempt to replace officials fails Regulator remains concerned about election integrity Legal20 Jun 2025 | 4
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China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance Public Sector20 Jun 2025 | 34
Japan's sequel to Fugaku supercomputer will be Arm'd to the teeth Fujitsu picked to build system using 'MONAKA-X' CPUs Systems19 Jun 2025 | 4
American coders are most likely to use AI Baseball, apple pie, and assisted programming AI + ML19 Jun 2025 | 36
Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam 'vishing' schemes To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems Research19 Jun 2025 | 36
Microsoft 365 brings the shutters down on legacy protocols FrontPage Remote Procedure Call and others set to be blocked in the name of 'Secure by Default' Applications19 Jun 2025 | 28
EU Advocate General advises top court to toss Google appeal against €4B fine Case over bundling Play Store with Chrome and Google Search set to continue Legal19 Jun 2025 | 7
Uncle Sam seeks time in tower dump data grab case after judge calls it 'unconstitutional' Feds told they can't demand a haystack to find a needle Cyber-crime19 Jun 2025 | 17
Interactive IEA tracker shows where AI is guzzling the most energy Observatory maps datacenter hubs and power demand worldwide Systems19 Jun 2025 | 4
Glazed and confused: Hole lotta highly sensitive data nicked from Krispy Kreme Experts note 'major red flags' in donut giant's security as 161,676 staff and families informed of attack details Cyber-crime19 Jun 2025 | 48
ESA's XMM-Newton finds huge filament of missing matter Veteran X-ray telescope discovery shows that... phew, current model of the cosmos still works Science19 Jun 2025 | 20
UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash Good to see government that values its academics (cough cough). Plus: New board criticized for lacking 'ops' people Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 11
SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero Science19 Jun 2025 | 212
AI and virtualization are two major headaches for CIOs. Can storage help solve them both? It's about evolution not revolution, says Lenovo
From hype to harm: 78% of CISOs see AI attacks already AI attacks are keeping most practitioners up at night, says Darktrace, and with good reason
How homegrown AI cuts through the hype to deliver real results Nutanix leverages customer interactions to develop GenAI infra solution and the AI tools to support it
Why rapid proliferation of cloud native apps requires faster, more efficient toolsets Kubernetes enables easy, rapid AI app development, making it the industry standard for AI workloads
/e/ OS 3.0: Slightly less clunky, slightly more private Probably the easiest way to a Google-free smartphone or tablet OSes19 Jun 2025 | 57
Space manufacturing company Varda gets clearance to launch more uncrewed capsules UPDATED Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space Science19 Jun 2025 | 2
Europe slams online tat bazaar AliExpress for dodging obligation to stop dodgy traders Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop ‘em are hopeless Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 40
Sneaky Serpentine#Cloud slithers through Cloudflare tunnels to inject orgs with Python-based malware Phishing, Python and RATs, oh my Cyber-crime19 Jun 2025 | 2
The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge Turn out the lights, the internet is over
Former US Army Sergeant pleads guilty after amateurish attempt at selling secrets to China Infosec in brief PLUS: 5.4M healthcare records leak; AI makes Spam harder to spot; Many nasty Linux vulns; and more
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown Who, Me? And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else
Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers
Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell Cyber Monitoring Centre issues first severity assessment since February launch
AI-hosted infomercial shifts $7.5 million worth of product in China Asia In Brief PLUS: India tries to untangle TXT marketing opt-ins; China’s AI crackdown succeeds; Australia and Boeing team AWACS, drones; and more!
Breaking the nerd internet: Three overlapping generations of tech history – in one selfie Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Dave Cutler have dinner
The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world Opinion Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off
Economists sceptical over UK Spending Review's partly AI-driven 10% budget cuts MPs hear doubts over efficiency savings that are reliant on speculative gains from IT, machine learning
Wolfspeed to file for Chapter 11 in deal cutting 70% of debt Power chip biz to hand over equity to lenders, wipe out most shareholders, and keep running during restructuring
Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears ‘Windows 365 Reserve’ will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed fee Virtualization19 Jun 2025 | 34
Iran’s internet goes offline for hours amid claims of ‘enemy abuse’ Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to ‘other areas’ Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 13
Nvidia bets on Gates-backed nuclear startup to keep its AI ambitions from melting down $650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 2030 Science18 Jun 2025 | 14
Redefining identity security in the age of agentic AI Now AI agents have identity, too. Here's how to handle it Partner content
Military-tech upstart Anduril pushes further into NATO with German arms maker deal Move fast and blow things up Systems18 Jun 2025 | 13
Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 56
Minecraft cheaters never win ... but they may get malware Infostealers posing as popular cheat tools are cropping up on GitHub Cyber-crime18 Jun 2025 | 7
Asana's cutting-edge AI feature ran into a little data leakage problem New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks Security18 Jun 2025 | 2
Voltron Data throws its weight behind AMD for GPU-accelerated SQL Exclusive In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for Databases18 Jun 2025 | 7
Judge smacks down Pentagon plan to slash university research funding awards Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it's not like the military needs new tech, right? Public Sector18 Jun 2025 | 23
KDE Plasma 6.4 ships with major usability and Wayland improvements The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix OSes18 Jun 2025 | 19
European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips Personal Tech18 Jun 2025 | 120
How collaborative security can build you a better business Getting employees on board can do more than prevent breaches; it can send profitability soaring Sponsored Post
Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea's extinct after terms updated Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 9
Veeam patches third critical RCE bug in Backup & Replication in space of a year Version 13 can’t come soon enough Patches18 Jun 2025 | 1
ScyllaDB paddles toward scale and profit with Raft-powered upgrade Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm Databases18 Jun 2025 | 4