Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM And US government adverts at that, say senators Personal Tech08 Feb 2025 | 4
Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out Funding freeze while Feds review priorities Science07 Feb 2025 | 8
'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama Open source project chief hits out at 'social media brigading' Software07 Feb 2025 | 18
NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water Science07 Feb 2025 | 8
UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order Blighty’s latest stab at encryption? A secret order to pry open iCloud, sources claim Security07 Feb 2025 | 82
SoftBank woos OpenAI with $40B, making Microsoft's $13B look quaint Some of that cash is reportedly headed for $500B Stargate dream AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 5
Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI's insatiable thirst Shocking research warns electricity shortages could create construction bottleneck On-Prem07 Feb 2025 | 16
Microsoft 365 price rises are coming – pay up or opt out (if you can find the button) It's not auto-enrollment. It's just your current plan with extra Copilot for more money. Completely different AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 33
Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data But 'original sin' has already been committed, shrugs industry AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 37
UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks Freshly minted organization aims to take the guesswork out of incident severity for insurers and policy holders Cyber-crime07 Feb 2025 | 3
Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov Opinion 248-year-old democracy is not a tech startup Public Sector07 Feb 2025 | 189
BOFH: Engage Hollywood Protocol – because nonsense always looks legit Episode 3 And if that fails, there's cold, hard cash BOFH07 Feb 2025 | 35
I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried? On Call Shabby admin invented 'transparent tape' – a terrible storage medium but a magic tool for unlocking IT budgets Storage07 Feb 2025 | 128
Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions still hasn't satisfied developers Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren't kept Personal Tech07 Feb 2025 | 29
Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build Reverses life extensions for some servers it now feels aren’t useful in the inferencing age AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 3
Apple missed screenshot-snooping malware in code that made it into the App Store, Kaspersky claims OCR plugin great for extracting crypto-wallet secrets from galleries Cyber-crime07 Feb 2025 | 4
If Ransomware Inc was a company, its 2024 results would be a horror show 35% drop in payments across the year as your backups got better and law enforcement made a difference CSO07 Feb 2025 | 2
DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims Updated We did Nazi see that coming Public Sector07 Feb 2025 | 189
Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear Science06 Feb 2025 | 9
Coordinates of millions of smartphones feared stolen, sparking yet another lawsuit against data broker Fourth time’s the harm? Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 5
Federal judge tightens DOGE leash over critical Treasury payment system access Updated Lawsuit: 'Scale of intrusion into individuals' privacy is massive and unprecedented' Public Sector06 Feb 2025 | 21
Dems want answers on national security risks posed by hiring freeze, DOGE probes Updated Are cybersecurity roles included? Are Elon's enforcers vetted? Inquiring minds want to know Security06 Feb 2025 | 32
When it comes to AI ROI, IT decision-makers not convinced Proof of concept projects stuck in pilot phase as investors get itchy feet AI + ML06 Feb 2025 | 15
Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil For those for whom a runny white or a hard yolk is just not good un œuf Offbeat06 Feb 2025 | 98
Google exec sees enterprise quantum app on closer horizon 20 years? More like five for real-world workloads, says q-AI lead HPC06 Feb 2025 | 6
Veterans Affairs reboots Oracle health records project for $330M Concerns around unfixed problems remain after system resulted in harm to some 150 patients Databases06 Feb 2025 | 12
Microsoft makes sweet, sweet music with Windows MIDI Services Preview arrives in Canary Channel, release planned for Windows 10 and 11 OSes06 Feb 2025 | 31
Uber CEO warns robotaxis can't find a fast route to commercial viability Fleets built to handle peak demand will lose money, leaving humans driving to the rescue Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 41
Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren't buying it – yet 57% higher price point and app compatibility issues aren't helping Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 71
Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemd FOSDEM 2025 Lennart Poettering gave packed-out keynote talk. Jack Dorsey … didn't OSes06 Feb 2025 | 85
Robot dogs learn bomb disposal tricks in trials 'Fetch' just got a lot more interesting Offbeat06 Feb 2025 | 17
Openreach tests 50 Gbps broadband – don’t expect it anytime soon Download speeds of 41.9 Gbps and upload speeds of 20.6 Gbps achieved, claims BT division Networks06 Feb 2025 | 37
Accelerating Europe’s digital future Europe’s most global, collaborative and cross-industry tech and startup event takes centre stage Partner Content
Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers Updated Individual publishers could be held liable for visitors' off-topic posts, legal eagle argues Legal06 Feb 2025 | 95
Tesla sales crash in Europe, UK. We can only wonder why Somewhat stale range of Muskmobiles, competition from China, Elon being Elon, or all of the above? Personal Tech06 Feb 2025 | 204
Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license The British are coming, the British are coming ... to terms with their loss On-Prem06 Feb 2025 | 27
Democrats demand to know WTF is up with that DOGE server on OPM's network Are you trying to make this easy for China and Russia? Public Sector06 Feb 2025 | 148
Robocallers who phoned the FCC pretending to be from the FCC land telco in trouble Don't laugh: The $4.5m fine proposed for carrier Telnyx shows how the Trump administration will run its comms regulator Networks06 Feb 2025 | 26
Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer Updated Some worry multiple languages will make it harder to maintain this open source uber-project, others disagree Software05 Feb 2025 | 110
Cisco patches two critical Identity Services Engine flaws One gives root access, the other lets you steal info and reconfig nodes, in the right (or should that be wrong) circumstances Networks05 Feb 2025 |
Poland’s 2nd astronaut brings pierogi to the ISS party Here's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter Science05 Feb 2025 | 14
DOGE latest: Citrix supremo has 'read-only' access to US Treasury payment system CEO of Cloud Software a 'special government employee' probing for Team Elon Public Sector05 Feb 2025 | 26
Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening door to political appointees Fall in line with executive policy or you're gone, acting OPM chief insists CxO05 Feb 2025 | 45
Blue Origin spins up lunar gravity for New Shepard flight Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers Science05 Feb 2025 | 24
Netgear fixes critical bugs as Five Eyes warn about break-ins at the edge International security squads all focus on stopping baddies busting in through routers, IoT kit etc Edge + IoT05 Feb 2025 | 4
You know something's wrong when Clippy fills you with nostalgia for simpler times It looks like you want to irritate Windows users. Do you want some help with that? Offbeat05 Feb 2025 | 27
Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below Systems05 Feb 2025 | 3
US cranks up espionage charges against ex-Googler accused of trade secrets heist Mountain View clocked onto the scheme with days to spare AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 12
Workday erases 8.5% of workforce because of ... AI That's 1,750 positions about to join the employment queue and it's only February SaaS05 Feb 2025 | 24
Microsoft's final Exchange Server 2019 update still missing as support deadline ticks down CU15 MIA as Redmond scrambles to fix issues PaaS + IaaS05 Feb 2025 | 6
Early mornings, late evenings, weekends. Useless users always demand support OnCall... even when I'm not Techie complains as biz ignores contractual working hours On-Prem05 Feb 2025 | 90
Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024 More Catastrophic Capsule than Calamity Capsule for Boeing's beancounters Public Sector05 Feb 2025 | 28
Remember it'll cost ya to keep the lights on for Windows 10 At $61 per device, doubling each year, security updates from November are going to add up quickly OSes05 Feb 2025 | 44
Microsoft quietly erases Windows 11 TPM 2.0 bypass workaround from help page updated You'll upgrade that aging piece of kit and you'll like it OSes05 Feb 2025 | 45
Oracle starts laying mines in JavaScript trademark battle Big Red accused of stalling or derailing legal fight by challenging fraud claim Software05 Feb 2025 | 75
Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills Exclusive New home, Platform9, says it’s also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs Virtualization05 Feb 2025 | 6
DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 10
Who's afraid of DeepSeek's impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive Systems05 Feb 2025 |
Alphabet achieves first $100B annual profit ... and sees its shares sink Whaddya gotta do to impress investors these days? Maybe convince them you're not overspending on AI? Off-Prem05 Feb 2025 | 6
Google torpedoes 'no AI for weapons' rules Will now happily unleash the bots when 'likely overall benefits substantially outweigh the foreseeable risks' AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 34
Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least Patches04 Feb 2025 | 75
China sticks antitrust probe into Google amid retaliation for Trump import tariffs Updated Plus, Middle Kingdom announces levies and export controls of its own Software04 Feb 2025 | 14
FBI's secret UFO hunters fear Trump's January 6 purge will send them into orbit Maybe Musk just wants the alien space tech that definitely doesn't exist? Public Sector04 Feb 2025 | 53
OpenAI, Microsoft urge judge to toss out Musk's 'fact-free' lawsuit Updated Lawyers argue billionaire's 105-page complaint 'lurches from theory to theory' AI + ML04 Feb 2025 | 17
Poisoned Go programming language package lay undetected for 3 years Researcher says ecosystem's auto-caching is a net positive but presents exploitable quirks Security04 Feb 2025 | 9
Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority,' says CEO Um, does anyone wanna switch seats? Applications04 Feb 2025 | 62
Grubhub serves up security incident with a side of needing to change your password Contact info and partial payment details may be compromised Cyber-crime04 Feb 2025 |
US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme Suspect, still at large, said to back concept that 'code is law' Legal04 Feb 2025 | 24
Intel knocked off global chip revenue top spot after rotten 2024 Missed the AI processor boat, split with CEO savior, lost #1 seat to Samsung Systems04 Feb 2025 | 5
Ireland's AI minister has never used ChatGPT but swears she'll learn fast Hey, it's not like any governments know what they are doing Offbeat04 Feb 2025 | 23
Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11 Comment No reason to upgrade other than the looming end of Windows 10 OSes04 Feb 2025 | 256
Cyberattack on NHS causes hospitals to miss cancer care targets Healthcare chiefs say impact will persist for months Cyber-crime04 Feb 2025 | 12
Abandoned AWS S3 buckets can be reused in supply-chain attacks that would make SolarWinds look 'insignificant' When cloud customers don't clean up after themselves, part 97 CSO04 Feb 2025 | 33
Amazon's Kuiper secures license to take on Starlink in the UK Everybody is going to play nice, OK? Networks04 Feb 2025 | 33
UK govt must learn fast and let failing projects die young Tackle longstanding issues around productivity, cyber resilience and public sector culture, advises spending watchdog Public Sector04 Feb 2025 | 11
Google patches odd Android kernel security bug amid signs of targeted exploitation Also, Netgear fixes critical router, access point vulnerabilities Patches04 Feb 2025 | 5
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Not even Nvidia's Jensen Huang can talk President Tariffs out of chip import taxes GPU giant could just wait eight minutes for Donald to change his mind AI + ML04 Feb 2025 | 28
Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID Who better to trust trillions of dollars, SSNs and other sensitive info with than Elon Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 274
US senator wants to slap prison term, $1M fine on anyone aiding Chinese AI with ... downloads? As UK proposes laws against neural-nets-for-pedophiles AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 40
TSA’s airport facial-recog tech faces audit probe Senators ask, Homeland Security watchdog answers: Is it worth the money? Security03 Feb 2025 | 21
Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – again Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 133
Ontario responds to Trump tariff by pitching Starlink deal into the trash Updated Canadian province 'won't do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy' Networks03 Feb 2025 | 103
Microsoft to kill off Defender VPN this month Throw Copilot down the same well, too, maybe? No? OK Software03 Feb 2025 | 18
Intel rakes in €515M from EU after ancient antitrust fine nixed A glimmer of light in an otherwise gloomy year for troubled chipmaker Systems03 Feb 2025 | 12
Call of Duty studio co-founder pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting aircraft Peter Tripp Akemann avoids jail, will pay 'Super Scooper' repair costs and is ordered to help with LA's wildfire recovery Personal Tech03 Feb 2025 | 66
OpenAI unveils deep research agent for ChatGPT Takes a bit more time to spout a bit less nonsense AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 14
Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough Sci-fi interstellar travel gets another tiny push Science03 Feb 2025 | 15
US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs Updated Short-term result likely to be increased energy prices across the board On-Prem03 Feb 2025 | 125
DeepSeek spills Big AI's open secret: Bright people with good ideas can beat billion dollar binges Opinion You can’t make monopoly money without a monopoly, but you sure can lose it AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 28
FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket Fun with a FOSS-focused Phosh fondleslab Personal Tech03 Feb 2025 | 82
2 officers bailed as anti-corruption unit probes data payouts to N Irish cops Investigating compensation to police whose sensitive info was leaked in 2023 Security03 Feb 2025 | 19
Motorola appeal over £200M price cap for Airwave service rejected Profiteering from emergency services comms network in Britain? Not anymore, says CMA Networks03 Feb 2025 | 19
Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays Third-party software sticking plaster expected six months late Databases03 Feb 2025 | 38
UK biz dept overspent by £208M prepping to pay workers hurt in Post Office IT scandal Updated Auditor offers qualified opinion as financial fallout from historic miscarriage of justice remains unclear Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 45
CompSci teacher sets lab task: Accidentally breaking the university Who, Me? Hey! Teacher! Leave our network alone! Networks03 Feb 2025 | 51
Privacy Commissioner warns the ‘John Smiths’ of the world can acquire ‘digital doppelgangers’ Australian government staff mixed medical info for folk who share names and birthdays Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 44
As Trump slugs Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs, industry groups hope trade war weapon isn’t pointed at their feet Updated Tech lobby isn't at the negotiating table, fears unintended consequences Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 141
Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP Infosec in brief PLUS: MGM settles breach suits; AWS doesn't trust you with security defaults; A new .NET backdoor; and more Security03 Feb 2025 | 9
Singapore says Nvidia's astounding local sales don't mean it's the source of DeepSeek's GPUs Asia In Brief PLUS: Chinese bus lanes put Tesla in a tangle; India drops electronics tariffs; Samsung worries about soft demand AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 15
Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price Special report Amid wildfire death and destruction, there are solutions, workable smart solutions, but who wants to talk about that? Science02 Feb 2025 | 225
What does it mean to build in security from the ground up? Systems Approach As if secure design is the only bullet point in a list of software engineering best practices CSO02 Feb 2025 | 12
Gilmore Girls fans nabbed as Eurocops dismantle two major cybercrime forums Nulled and Cracked had a Lorelai-cal rise - until Operation Talent stepped in Security02 Feb 2025 | 2
Microsoft vet laments a world where even toothbrushes need reboots Comment Raymond Chen reflects on the never-ending cycle of updates and restarts Personal Tech02 Feb 2025 | 121