Ex-OpenAI engineer pulls the curtain back on a chaotic hot mess 'Everything breaks when you scale that quickly'
VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out Exclusive Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today
Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open source
Large Hadron Collider data hints at explanation for why everything exists The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity Science17 Jul 2025 | 7
Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian It did get sourced, but nobody cared OSes17 Jul 2025 | 13
Microsoft offers vintage Exchange and Skype server users six more months of security updates It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing Patches17 Jul 2025 | 5
Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor Bayesian optimizations apparently build better slabs Off-Prem17 Jul 2025 | 10
Intel swings the axe again as it looks to lose 5,000 staff Our sources tell us mostly back office staff were let go, and that the mood in the office is very pessimistic On-Prem17 Jul 2025 | 4
Trump tax law keeps Bill Gates' nuclear datacenter dreams alive The Microsoft cofounder breathed that sigh of relief in a Cipher News interview - just before it folded On-Prem16 Jul 2025 | 11
Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network 'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization' Security16 Jul 2025 | 29
Operation Eastwood shutters 100+ servers used to DDoS websites supporting Ukraine Two Russian suspects in cuffs, seven warrants out Cyber-crime16 Jul 2025 | 8
Ex-OpenAI engineer pulls the curtain back on a chaotic hot mess 'Everything breaks when you scale that quickly' AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 12
Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three Networks16 Jul 2025 | 25
Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong? Westinghouse taps Big G's cloud smarts to speed up atomic plant builds and keep the grid humming AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 9
Review: How Passwork 7 helps tame business passwords A simple interface and new roles-based capabilities make this venerable password manager an attractive proposition Sponsored feature
JWST peers through dusty curtain to catch young star making baby planets Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape Science16 Jul 2025 | 4
Crims hijacking fully patched SonicWall VPNs to deploy stealthy backdoor and rootkit Updated Someone's OVERSTEPing the mark Research16 Jul 2025 | 3
Google's Android boss suggests ChromeOS could be on borrowed time Gentoo derivative is the most popular Linux distro, but its days are apparently numbered OSes16 Jul 2025 | 25
ASML shares tumble as US tariff turmoil rattles investors World War Fee AI boom can't mask trade gloom, says Dutch lithography giant Systems16 Jul 2025 | 4
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production Who, Me? For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage
Retailer Co-op: Attackers snatched all 6.5M member records Supermarket announces white hat education scheme as four suspects released on bail Cyber-crime16 Jul 2025 | 26
Turbulence at Air Serbia, the latest airline under cyber siege Exclusive Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be 'deep breach' of Active Directory Cyber-crime16 Jul 2025 |
UK tech minister negotiated nothing with Google. He may get even less than that Comment Peter Kyle promised alternative to 'ball and chain' of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power Public Sector16 Jul 2025 | 33
If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn't make a mistake – forever Column CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 50
VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out Exclusive Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today Channel16 Jul 2025 | 26
Starlink says SpaceX targeting 2026 for launch of Starship-ready terabit satellites Network update reports median 25 ms latency – in the US – as capacity rockets upwards Networks16 Jul 2025 | 36
Uber to roll out thousands of robo-cabs built by China’s Baidu Coming soon, somewhere in the Middle East or Asia AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 15
AMD cleared to join Nvidia and resume selling some underpowered AI chips to China Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish Systems16 Jul 2025 | 3
Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 20
Ex-US soldier who Googled 'can hacking be treason' pleads guilty to extortion File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crime Cyber-crime15 Jul 2025 | 14
German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk Let us delve swiftly into meticulous inquiry with our AI masters AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 46
BOFH: The auditor is asking too many questions. We have just the laptop for that Episode 13 Sale, skip, or blackmail – your asset disposal options explained
Mistral launches Voxtral speech recognition model Apache-licensed plan takes aim at costlier options AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 4
Caught between China and Trump, Apple spends $500M on rare earth recycling MP Materials aims to deliver US-made, recycled magnets by 2027 Personal Tech15 Jul 2025 | 15
Faceless megacorps could be a salary-hungry IT pro's best friend, if you're in AI that is They might pay more, but don't expect a mega salary anymore AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 6
The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience Modern threats demand modern defenses. Cloud-native is the new baseline Partner content
Smartphones in the doldrums due to crap demand and tariff woes Inventories stack up stateside as Apple and co prep for import tax tweaks Personal Tech15 Jul 2025 | 30
Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open source Devops15 Jul 2025 | 34
AI creeps into the risk register for America's biggest firms S&P 500 businesses warn investors they may never see ROI in SEC filings AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 9
With Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom asks who needs UALink when there's Ethernet? The never Nvidia networking party just got another option Networks15 Jul 2025 | 1
IT consultancy settles US battle over alleged $14.75M government contract fraud Outfit was accused of charging for specialist IT labor performed by uncertified folks Public Sector15 Jul 2025 | 2
Former Google DeepMind engineer behind Simular says other AI agents are doing it wrong Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fill AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 18
Reframing investments in security as investments in the business A little skill in business communication can help get the board on board Partner content
CIOs pause net-new IT investments as global tariff jitters bite World War Fee Uncertainty to blame as businesses wait to see what US Prez Trump does next On-Prem15 Jul 2025 | 7
HAMR time: Seagate unleashes 30 TB disks to feed the AI beast Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere Storage15 Jul 2025 | 9
Britain's billion-pound F-35s not quite ready for, well, anything Stealth jets can't fight, can't fly much, and can't shoot UK missiles, says NAO Security15 Jul 2025 | 174
Meta reveals plan for several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters First, Zuck takes Manhattan. Then he might actually deliver a product that matters Off-Prem15 Jul 2025 | 30
Scientists spot massive black hole collision that defies current theories Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars Science15 Jul 2025 | 41
Nvidia to resume sales to China – with Trump administration approval Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of permission to sell the H20 and a new RTX Pro GPU Public Sector15 Jul 2025 | 8
Malaysia closes a back door that may have allowed US-sourced AI chips to reach China Stricter regulation follows last week's tariff whack Public Sector15 Jul 2025 |
Someone hijacked Elmo's X account to post antisemitic rants Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'… Cyber-crime14 Jul 2025 | 21
Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon Updated Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 13
Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun Research14 Jul 2025 | 4
Nvidia CEO says China wouldn't risk building military supers with American AI chips With half the AI devs in the world, if China can't build on American hardware, they'll build on their own, Jensen warns HPC14 Jul 2025 | 7
A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely Updated Neil Smith has been trying to get the railroad industry to listen since 2012, but it took a CISA warning to get there Security14 Jul 2025 | 70
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
GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot it Software14 Jul 2025 | 22
AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding Delivers specs in the form of user stories AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 12
xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man Opinion MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 94
EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute Just because a student reads a book doesn't mean Midjourney gets to eat Disney AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 39
Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open source
VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out Exclusive Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today
Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots
Former Google DeepMind engineer behind Simular says other AI agents are doing it wrong Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fill
AI creeps into the risk register for America's biggest firms S&P 500 businesses warn investors they may never see ROI in SEC filings
With Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom asks who needs UALink when there's Ethernet? The never Nvidia networking party just got another option
If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn't make a mistake – forever Column CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line
Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three
Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network 'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization'
Turbulence at Air Serbia, the latest airline under cyber siege Exclusive Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be 'deep breach' of Active Directory
Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror First US-Soviet joint mission showed détente in action, but astronauts had a close call on return home Science14 Jul 2025 | 20
Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start Opinion We need more paranoid Androids. And, well, everything else Applications14 Jul 2025 | 34
GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats Networks14 Jul 2025 | 68
How BigQuery combines data and AI for business transformation AI ingests and prepares data to generate valuable insight, but only with the right data warehousing system. Sponsored feature
UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI Report on serious organized crime fails to account for differences, agency says Cyber-crime14 Jul 2025 | 28
Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 97
Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government Despite loathing the USA, Iran wants providers who match NIST’s definition of cloud computing Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 9
Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe Asia In Brief PLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 8
Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks Infosec In Brief PLUS: Bluetooth mess leaves cars exposed; Bitcoin ATMs attacked; Deepfakers imitate US secretary of state Marco Rubio; and more Security13 Jul 2025 | 7
You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another Cyber-crime13 Jul 2025 | 112
The price of software freedom is eternal politics Comment Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too OSes12 Jul 2025 | 92
From A2A to MCP, a look at the protocols that might one day help AI automate you out of a job Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak? AI + ML12 Jul 2025 | 7
Is your password ecosystem ready for the regulators? The clipboard warriors are coming. Time to check on your password management Sponsored feature
Looks like 1,300 Indeed and Glassdoor staffers will need their former employer's websites No reason given for the 6% cull, but the CEO has previously talked up AI taking jobs Software12 Jul 2025 | 43
AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag AI + ML11 Jul 2025 | 91
Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video video An announcement so weird it could only come from the Trump administration Public Sector11 Jul 2025 | 87