Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards
Mozilla hardens its browser and toys with AI search while closing the door on legacy systems
US hyperscalers to guzzle 22% more grid juice by end of 2025
AI hype fuels bit barn boom – and utilities are sweating the surge
CISA exec blames nation-state hackers and Democrats for putting America's critical systems at risk
Federal agencies have seven days to patch F5 products
Microsoft kills 9.9-rated ASP.NET Core bug – 'our highest ever' score
Flaw in Kestrel web server allowed request smuggling, impact depends on hosting setup and application code
'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident
On Call The 1990s called with a reminder that in the time before ransomware, infosec panics could be quite quaint
Networks17 Oct 2025 |
Anthropic brings mad Skills to Claude
Teaching an old bot new tricks
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 5
TSMC hurrying to bring advanced chip tech to Arizona fab
CEO C.C. Wei cites strong demand for AI products. Intel may also be a factor
Systems16 Oct 2025 |
AI makes phishing 4.5x more effective, Microsoft says
And potentially 50 times more profitable
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2025 | 7
Decomposed dinosaurs make Texas a top destination for AI bit barns
Datacenter hopefuls looking to cash in on AI craze are setting up shop in Lone Star State in search of cheap power
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 13
Vulnerability scores, huh, what are they good for? Almost nothing
CVE and CVSS systems suffer from misaligned incentives and inconsistency
Security16 Oct 2025 | 1
Nork scammers work the blockchain to steal crypto from job hunters
If someone sends you a coding test, be wary of downloading it
Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2025 | 1
Feeling lonely? Microsoft Copilot can now listen to your every word, watch your screen
We've seen this before and it was called Cortana or Clippy
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 30
CYBERSECURITY MONTH
Chinese gang used ArcGIS as a backdoor for a year – and no one noticed
Crims turned trusted mapping software into a hideout - no traditional malware required
'Highly sophisticated' government goons hacked F5, stole source code and undisclosed bug details
And they swiped a limited amount of customers' config data
Researchers intercept unencrypted satellite traffic from space blabbermouths
Updated University team picks up voice calls, texts, and corporate data from orbit with off-the-shelf kit
Chinese phishing kit helps scammers who send fake texts impersonate TikTok, Coinbase, others
Exclusive Researchers tracking 2,158 domains hosting YYlaiyu phishing pages
Salesforce's Benioff warns of AI 'false prophets' while promising true profits by 2030
CRM messiah preaches data discipline while rivals chase LLM miracles
SaaS16 Oct 2025 | 4
Chinese cyberspies snoop on Russian IT biz in rare east-on-east attack
Who needs enemies when you have friends like Xi?
Cyber-crime16 Oct 2025 | 5
Oracle goes all-in on AI, customers still figuring out how they'll use it
It's all agents and LLMs in Vegas, and even legacy users can partake
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 4
NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3
Joins its command-line client from a couple of years ago
Networks16 Oct 2025 | 5
Locked out of your Gmail account? Google says phone a friend
Recovery feature lets trusted contacts help you get back in when other methods fail
Personal Tech16 Oct 2025 | 11
US hyperscalers to guzzle 22% more grid juice by end of 2025
AI hype fuels bit barn boom – and utilities are sweating the surge
On-Prem16 Oct 2025 | 15
Microsoft kills 9.9-rated ASP.NET Core bug – 'our highest ever' score
Flaw in Kestrel web server allowed request smuggling, impact depends on hosting setup and application code
Security16 Oct 2025 |
Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround
Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again
OSes16 Oct 2025 | 47
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company
Who, Me? Illicit colo cleanup seemed like a good way to get out of the house during Covid
Senator presses Cisco over firewall flaws that burned US agency
Bill Cassidy letter asks if Switchzilla sat on critical flaws before feds were forced into emergency patching
Public Sector16 Oct 2025 | 6
Axiom Space ejects CEO after six months, installs NASA veteran as replacement
Updated Jonathan Cirtain at the helm as revolving door swings for private corp
Science16 Oct 2025 | 5
Auction house Sotheby's finds its data on the block after cyberattack
Alert says financial account information lifted from systems
Cyber-crime16 Oct 2025 | 6
Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work
ai-pocalypse GenAI meets Gen Z – only one gets the job
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 35
Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards
Mozilla hardens its browser and toys with AI search while closing the door on legacy systems
Software16 Oct 2025 | 20
The $100B memory war: Inside the battle for AI's future
Feature The AI gold rush is so large that even third place is lucrative
Storage16 Oct 2025 | 7
SpaceX's Starship: Two down, Mons Huygens to climb
Comment Musk's moonshot still missing orbit, refueling, landing
Science16 Oct 2025 | 69
Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers
Comment Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 29
End of support for older Office and Windows Server versions pile on the pain for admins
Windows 10 is the least of some people's problems
Applications16 Oct 2025 | 28
Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030
Minister pins hopes on low Earth orbit satellites to plug crap rail connectivity
Networks16 Oct 2025 | 14
Meta sends Arm a friend request asking for help with Nvidia’s Grace CPUs
No custom Arm CPUs to speak of yet
Systems16 Oct 2025 |
BOFH: Recover a database from five years ago? It's as easy as flicking a switch
Episode 19 But nobody needs to know that
Librephone battles the proprietary binary blob
Free Software Foundation project aims to reverse-engineer non-freedom respecting firmware
OSes15 Oct 2025 | 28
CISA exec blames nation-state hackers and Democrats for putting America's critical systems at risk
Federal agencies have seven days to patch F5 products
Cybersecurity Month15 Oct 2025 | 11
X to combat bot problem by showing more info about users
Meet [user] from [location]
Applications15 Oct 2025 | 17
Machine learning meets malware: how AI-powered ransomware could destroy your business
How to avoid your business being felled by an AI-powered ransomware attack that costs less than a laptop.
Passwork
OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it
If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 66
Apple goes all in on AI acceleration with M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros
Oh and the CPU is up to 15% faster for those that could care less about articifically intelligent Apple products and more about getting work done
Personal Tech15 Oct 2025 | 47
Japan tells OpenAI to stop spiriting away its copyrighted anime
Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 10
Microsoft, Nvidia, and others inject $40B into AI bubble with massive datacenter deal
Big Tech and big money unite to back world’s biggest bit-barn buyout
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 9
Cisco: Most companies don't know what they're doing with AI
Only 13% are AI-ready; the rest are bolting it on and hoping for ROI
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 18
Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload
Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix
Research15 Oct 2025 | 9
Credential stuffing: £2.31 million fine shows passwords are still the weakest link
How recycled passwords and poor security habits are fueling a cybercrime gold rush
Partner Content
Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint
Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback – with curious side effects
Offbeat15 Oct 2025 | 20
ASML shrugs off China slump with faith in AI-fueled chip demand
Beijing's self-reliance push and US export limits hit orders
Systems15 Oct 2025 | 5
Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, Peppermint OS join the Debian 13 club
Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release
OSes15 Oct 2025 | 20
AI startup Augment scraps 'unsustainable' pricing, users say new model is 10x worse
Second huge increase in six months sees some devs heading for the exit
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 23
£2B UK cloud licensing claim against Microsoft seeks more business backers
Updated Action alleges Redmond unfairly hikes costs for businesses running Windows Server outside Azure
Software15 Oct 2025 | 5
Everyone wants a fancy phone – even the folk buying them second-hand
IDC and Counterpoint say premium kit is driving sales in both new and used markets
Personal Tech15 Oct 2025 | 21
Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records
ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response
Cybersecurity Month15 Oct 2025 | 29
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack
Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses
Applications15 Oct 2025 | 46
Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone
canalys emea forum 2025 ESG kicked like a 'toxic political football' amid greenwashing
CxO15 Oct 2025 | 122
UK government's £45B AI savings pitch built on broad-brush guesswork, MPs told
Think tank cautions that without job cuts or capital savings, the math doesn't add up
Public Sector15 Oct 2025 | 40
AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage
Column And which will crash, repeatedly, until users learn how to handle it safely
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 60
Salesforce pumps the dream of AI agents as helpers, not replacements
In the Agentic Enterprise, 'AI doesn’t replace people, it elevates them'
SaaS15 Oct 2025 | 7
SPONSORED FEATURES
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
Frightful Patch Tuesday gives admins a scare with 175+ Microsoft CVEs, 3 under attack
Plus: Adobe, SAP, Ivanti offer treats, not tricks
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2025 | 20
CISA cuts more staff and reassigns others as government stays shut down
America's main cybersecurity agency has lost almost 1,000 people this year
Public Sector14 Oct 2025 | 6
Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects
Laptop maker's apolitical endorsement of politically contentious projects meets resistance
OSes14 Oct 2025 | 109
18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year
New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs
Systems14 Oct 2025 | 7
Popular
OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it
If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free
Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround
Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again
Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records
ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response
Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload
Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix
'Highly sophisticated' government goons hacked F5, stole source code and undisclosed bug details
And they swiped a limited amount of customers' config data
CISA exec blames nation-state hackers and Democrats for putting America's critical systems at risk
Federal agencies have seven days to patch F5 products
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack
Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses
Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint
Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback – with curious side effects
Microsoft kills 9.9-rated ASP.NET Core bug – 'our highest ever' score
Flaw in Kestrel web server allowed request smuggling, impact depends on hosting setup and application code
AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage
Column And which will crash, repeatedly, until users learn how to handle it safely
STORIES
Some like it bot! ChatGPT promises AI-rotica is coming for verified adults
Maybe this will bring in some actual profit?
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 32
Microsoft seeding Washington schools with free AI to get kids and teachers hooked
To the slop trough, kiddos!
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 18
DGX Spark, Nvidia’s tiniest supercomputer, tackles large models at solid speeds
hands on This relatively affordable AI workstation isn’t about going fast; it’s about doing everything well enough
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 12
AI's security paradox: how enterprises can have their cake and eat it too
Speed or security? Why not have both?
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KuzuDB says so long and thanks for all the commits, marooning community
Users left wondering whether to fork it or forget it as another FOSS project bites the dust
Software14 Oct 2025 | 23
Asahi breach leaves bitter taste as brewer fears personal data slurped
Japan's beer behemoth still mopping up after ransomware spill that disrupted deliveries and delayed results
Cyber-crime14 Oct 2025 |
What do we want? Windows 10 support! When do we want it? Until 2030!
Updated Protesters slam forced obsolescence outside Microsoft's office
OSes14 Oct 2025 | 66
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building
US government shutdown nothing to do with action as space veteran calls move 'an alarming time' for science
Science14 Oct 2025 | 43
Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN
Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months
Networks14 Oct 2025 | 44
Oracle rushes out another emergency E-Business Suite patch as Clop fallout widens
Latest in a long line of EBS flaws leta miscreants remotely compromise enterprise systems to pinch sensitive data
Patches14 Oct 2025 | 1
Shadow AI: Staffers are bringing AI tools they use at home to work, warns Microsoft
Bring Your Copilot To Work Day, anyone?
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 30
Lance takes aim at Parquet in file format joust
Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads
Databases14 Oct 2025 |
British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%
Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing
Cyber-crime14 Oct 2025 | 35
Brit AI boffins making bank with £560K average pay packet at Anthropic
Google, DeepMind, Microsoft also shower UK staff with six-figure salaries
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 16
Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken
Canonical's Questing Quokka waddles in at 5.7 GB with AppArmor woes
OSes14 Oct 2025 | 30
Unwary SAP private cloud users face 10% renewal hikes, warns Gartner
On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing
Databases14 Oct 2025 |
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