Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software Opinion They're now good enough to do things well, if you take the time to learn how to steer them
Crisis in Icebergen: How NATO crafts stories to sharpen cyber skills Feature 1,500 military digital defenders spent the past week cleaning up a series of cyberattacks on fictional island
Microsoft won’t fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say Devs and users should know better, Microsoft tells watchTowr
Rocket Lab ready to send a Hungry Hippo into space Signoff for re-usable faring should help Neutron launcher get off the ground
Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming Databases11 Dec 2025 |
Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can updated If you opt in to the paid service that is Systems10 Dec 2025 |
700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised Cyber-crime10 Dec 2025 | 2
US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, it’s a worry AI + ML10 Dec 2025 | 6
Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting AI + ML10 Dec 2025 | 2
US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy Meet 'ShipOS' Public Sector10 Dec 2025 | 4
Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition California chipset giant says it’ll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel The Future of the Datacenter10 Dec 2025 |
US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia The digital intrusion allegedly caused thousands of pounds of meat to spoil and triggered an ammonia leak in the facility Cyber-crime10 Dec 2025 | 11
Microsoft won’t fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say Devs and users should know better, Microsoft tells watchTowr Security10 Dec 2025 | 9
Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts Countries subject to newly proposed rule include supposed trusted friends like the UK, France, and Germany Public Sector10 Dec 2025 | 82
Crisis in Icebergen: How NATO crafts stories to sharpen cyber skills feature 1,500 military digital defenders spent the past week cleaning up a series of cyberattacks on fictional island Security10 Dec 2025 | 4
Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds Recent collision data points to comparable injury rates across modern vehicle types Personal Tech10 Dec 2025 | 61
Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software Opinion They're now good enough to do things well, if you take the time to learn how to steer them AI + ML10 Dec 2025 | 80
Galactic Brain space datacenter coming in 2027, pledges startup Aetherflux Getting inferencing infrastructure into orbit may soon be cheaper than building it down here The Future of the Datacenter10 Dec 2025 | 21
Rocket Lab ready to send a Hungry Hippo into space Signoff for re-usable faring should help Neutron launcher get off the ground Science10 Dec 2025 | 16
Diversion to power datacenters earns Boom Supersonic a ticket to revive fast air transport Adapts its engines to power bit barns, and lands cash to fund its takeoff roll Off-Prem10 Dec 2025 | 36
Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after the horse has bolted US export controls on AI accelerators have only succeeded in forcing China to develop its own tech Systems09 Dec 2025 | 25
Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday Plus critical critical Notepad++, Ivanti, and Fortinet updates, and one of these patches an under-attack security hole Security09 Dec 2025 | 15
Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work Still, the ban has reset expectations and may reduce harm, and that’s kind of enough Legal09 Dec 2025 | 64
How to answer the door when the AI agents come knocking Identity management vendors like Okta see an opening to calm CISOs worried about agents running amok AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 10
Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill A win for the contractors Public Sector09 Dec 2025 | 48
Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels on AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 11
Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuck Security09 Dec 2025 | 99
Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours On Call Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security
Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to Debian 13 Trixie may have gone 64-bit for installs, but WMLive still ships an i686-bootable build OSes09 Dec 2025 | 13
Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say The Future of the Datacenter09 Dec 2025 | 7
Google's AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight Brussels probes whether unpaid web and YouTube content – and rivals' lock-outs – amount to abuse of dominance AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 6
Feds bust nefarious plot to ship Nvidia H200s to China and hurt US As Trump gives green light to ship Nvidia H200s to China and boost US Systems09 Dec 2025 | 5
As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs Interview Have we learned nothing from sci-fi films and TV shows? Research09 Dec 2025 | 40
NASA nominee Isaacman moves to full Senate vote amid budget carnage Billionaire's bid progresses while agency braces for sweeping reductions and program uncertainty Science09 Dec 2025 | 9
AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 – if the bubble doesn't pop first Analysts say demand keeps rising despite constraints, shaky returns, and mounting investor nerves The Future of the Datacenter09 Dec 2025 | 9
Protecting value at risk - the role of a risk operations center Why should Keith Richards’ fingers inform your approach to risk? Partner Content
SAP users in the dark about vendor's plan for data analytics February product launch fails to register, with concerns remaining about integration Databases09 Dec 2025 |
UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now Foreign secretary set to address senior diplomats later today Security09 Dec 2025 | 97
Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers Younger finance pros are just as loyal to Microsoft's venerable spreadsheet app as their elders Offbeat09 Dec 2025 | 52
IBM touts progress on tech stack for AI-enabled airline with no passengers or alcohol Digital native? Cloud native? No, we need to be AI native, says Riyadh Air AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 31
Care leavers mired in red tape trying to get their own records UK data watchdog demands public sector improves subject access request processing Legal09 Dec 2025 | 2
UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act As Portugal gives researchers a pass under cybersecurity law Security09 Dec 2025 | 47
Intel Core Ultra Processors: Powering business-ready AI PCs A one-stop hub of practical resources for IT teams exploring AI-enabled laptop refresh strategies Sponsored Post
Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost Officials insist OBR relied on 'early estimate' and real figure won't emerge until next year Public Sector09 Dec 2025 | 50
Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks Get your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi setups in order, people Virtualization09 Dec 2025 | 10
Intel to explore making chips with mega-corp Tata in India’s first fab Chipzilla doesn’t need 28nm product, so maybe this is about landing another outsourced packaging partner On-Prem09 Dec 2025 | 6
Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut Blackwell and Rubin kit remain off limits Public Sector09 Dec 2025 | 26
Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix 'User Alignment Critic' will review agentic actions so bots don't do things like emptying your bank account AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 27
Bezos-backed Unconventional AI aims to make datacenter power problems go away Interview Startup wagers the path to sustainable AI might be found in nature’s most amazing design - the brain The Future of the Datacenter08 Dec 2025 | 27
Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic AI + ML08 Dec 2025 | 21
DJ Garman drops the ball instead of the bass in AWS re:Invent keynote But the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for AWS Re:invent08 Dec 2025 | 3
Meta and Google turn to NextEra to feed insatiable datacenter power hunger The Chocolate Factory will also put its AI to work inside one of America’s biggest utilities The Future of the Datacenter08 Dec 2025 |
ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software Suit argues forcing Apple to remove app, and threatening dev with legal action is a First Amendment violation Legal08 Dec 2025 | 56
193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting 'violence-as-a-service' Minors groomed to kill and intimidate victims Cyber-crime08 Dec 2025 | 5
Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft’s agentic future Native MCP support lands in Insider Dev and Beta builds OSes08 Dec 2025 | 38
Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it’s time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.
Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it How your data strategy can fuel innovation
How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption
Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix
Classic MacOS for non-Apple PowerPC kit rediscovered Unreleased variants that Jobs killed off found – 7.6 on a G4, anyone? OSes08 Dec 2025 | 19
Automakers' AI dreams may run out of road over the next five years Analysts reckon only a handful of manufacturers will push ahead as the rest hit the brakes AI + ML08 Dec 2025 | 25
IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates Databases08 Dec 2025 | 5
IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka AI + ML08 Dec 2025 | 18
UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act As Portugal gives researchers a pass under cybersecurity law
Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuck
Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks Get your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi setups in order, people
As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs Interview Have we learned nothing from sci-fi films and TV shows?
Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday Plus critical critical Notepad++, Ivanti, and Fortinet updates, and one of these patches an under-attack security hole
Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill A win for the contractors
Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix 'User Alignment Critic' will review agentic actions so bots don't do things like emptying your bank account
Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut Blackwell and Rubin kit remain off limits
Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost Officials insist OBR relied on 'early estimate' and real figure won't emerge until next year
UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now Foreign secretary set to address senior diplomats later today
UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance Networks08 Dec 2025 | 21
Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute Warning that over-reserved capacity is blocking new connections The Future of the Datacenter08 Dec 2025 | 29
X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement Brussels accused of using Ad Composer quirk to post link disguised as a video Personal Tech08 Dec 2025 | 90
Cutting through the noise on AI PCs with Intel Core Ultra What changes for battery life, security, and real-world productivity when AI moves onto the laptop Sponsored Post
Kyocera claims 5.2 Gbps underwater laser data blast in lab tests Japanese outfit aims to improve comms for aquatic drones Networks08 Dec 2025 | 14
Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes Regulator disappointed as soon-to-be-scrapped algo's problems remained a secret despite consistent engagement Security08 Dec 2025 | 23
Barts Health seeks High Court block after Clop pillages NHS trust data Body confirms patient and staff details siphoned via Oracle EBS flaw as gang threatens to leak haul Cyber-crime08 Dec 2025 | 23
UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact Kendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants Public Sector08 Dec 2025 | 21
Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops Software08 Dec 2025 | 24
Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas Can’t take decades more synthetic case studies? Get those digital daggers out Software08 Dec 2025 | 11
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work Who, Me? Ignorance really can be bliss On-Prem08 Dec 2025 | 42
Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things AI + ML08 Dec 2025 | 55
China’s first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew Asia In Brief PLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more Networks08 Dec 2025 | 18
Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool Infosec in Brief PLUS: New kind of DDOS from the Americas; Predator still hunting spyware targets; NIST issues IoT advice; And more! Security08 Dec 2025 | 7
Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold From Amazon to AMD, everything looks like an NVL72 now The Future of the Datacenter07 Dec 2025 | 8
And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is... Peak Microsoft is whatever you want it to be. Or not Offbeat06 Dec 2025 | 22