EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law A new code aims to make it easy to figure out AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 8
At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automation AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 14
Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn Public Sector09 Jul 2025 | 20
Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet Edge + IoT08 Jul 2025 | 75
Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI 'We are troubled by the citation of bogus cases in the trial court’s order' AI + ML08 Jul 2025 | 38
EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations' AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 42
Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool Science03 Jul 2025 | 42
Figma files for an (A)IPO with prospectus that mentions AI 150+ times Warns investors its codebase is harder to maintain as it bakes in brainboxes Applications01 Jul 2025 | 2
A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well Legal01 Jul 2025 | 28
Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages 'Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA Devops27 Jun 2025 | 43
Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark At least the BSOD acronym will still work OSes26 Jun 2025 | 59
Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 31
Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free Public Sector25 Jun 2025 | 116
Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy Legal24 Jun 2025 | 8
AI may be after your job, but this AI agent promises to help you get a new one 'Jobright Agent' can apply for jobs on your behalf AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 12
American coders are most likely to use AI Baseball, apple pie, and assisted programming AI + ML19 Jun 2025 | 38
Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam 'vishing' schemes To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems Research19 Jun 2025 | 38
MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek – plus it's true open source China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms AI + ML17 Jun 2025 | 24
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 AI + ML15 Jun 2025 | 115
Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress DOGE moves fast and breaks things, and now our data is at risk, security guru warns in hearing Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 52
European pols wave their hands about digital sovereignty with broad but vague plan One Dutch developer called it a 'nothingburger' Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 18
Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping content into the maw of its eternally ravenous AI All the cool kids signed licensing deals with the recently-listed forum site AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 10
Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 28
Aussie businesses now have to fess up when they pay off ransomware crims Move should help government track infections and plan new legislation Public Sector31 May 2025 | 13
American science put on starvation diet National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60% Science30 May 2025 | 81
Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them Public Sector30 May 2025 | 24
Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table AI + ML29 May 2025 | 78
Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley Cyber-crime29 May 2025 | 43
From Russia with chokehold: Putin says foreign IT firms still in Russia should be 'strangled' He was responding to a gripe from a Russian IT provider about competition from Microsoft and Zoom Public Sector27 May 2025 | 25
Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers On-Prem16 May 2025 | 16
NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last Science14 May 2025 | 8
Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now CxO12 May 2025 | 46
US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom Science09 May 2025 | 81
After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – job cuts, leaning on AI CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate' CSO07 May 2025 | 14
From Russia with doubt: Go library's Kremlin ties stoke fear Easyjson library's presence in numerous open source projects alarms security biz Software06 May 2025 | 10
Liz Warren, Trump admin agree on something: Army should have right to repair As military memo makes it official policy Public Sector02 May 2025 | 27
AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals Keep plugging those LLMs into your apps, folks. This neural network told me it'll be fine AI + ML01 May 2025 | 39
TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech Good intentions, terrible wording – and Trump can't wait to use it because 'nobody gets treated worse than I do' Personal Tech29 Apr 2025 | 51
DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI Now that's a sum of all fears AI + ML27 Apr 2025 | 44
Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims WORLD WAR FEE One eight-person publisher says it'll be forced to pay $1.5M Bootnotes26 Apr 2025 | 129
New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant Updated Thousands face ax, more given RTO orders in quest to suck less On-Prem24 Apr 2025 | 79
IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette Big Blue downplays impact of Elon-gated cost-cutting Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 23
Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE Going to spend more time with his Sieg Heils, maybe Public Sector22 Apr 2025 | 110
RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a win for web giant's ad rivals Applications22 Apr 2025 | 24
Fog ransomware channels Musk with demands for work recaps or a trillion bucks In effect: 'Ha ha – the government is borked and so are you' Security22 Apr 2025 | 14
IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices Exclusive 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge On-Prem18 Apr 2025 | 34
Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke some antitrust law After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won Personal Tech17 Apr 2025 | 4
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting' AI Software Development Week12 Apr 2025 | 98
Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts $5.1B cancellations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 47
AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast Interview We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 29
Trump tariffs to make prices great – a gain World War Fee As costs for US shoppers set to rise, markets slump, orange is new red, we speak to economic experts Public Sector07 Apr 2025 | 78
Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption The need to scale still battling security worries ... on both sides PaaS + IaaS04 Apr 2025 | 35
For flux sake: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security CSO03 Apr 2025 | 5
Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling Double-oh-sh... CSO02 Apr 2025 | 10
Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work But his emails! Sharing them with Google! Public Sector02 Apr 2025 | 124
Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software Software28 Mar 2025 | 22
IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India Big Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America On-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 86
Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right? Science25 Mar 2025 | 117
OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts Updated Kari, are you OK, are you OK, Kari? Networks25 Mar 2025 | 109
Ex-NSA boss: Election security focus helped dissuade increase in Russian meddling with US Interview Plus AI in the infosec world, why CISA should know its place, and more CSO23 Mar 2025 | 43
Judge orders Feds rehire workers falsely fired for lousy performance Veteran of Oracle vs Google Java trial fumes over 'gimmicks' and 'sham' arguments Public Sector14 Mar 2025 | 109
AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 51