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Bedrock and a hard place: Claude adventure leaves AWS user staring down $30K invoice

CAD: Cost Anomaly Detection or Create Astounding Debt?

Anthropic’s Bun Rust rewrite merged at speed of AI

Version 1.3.14 of JavaScript toolkit released as last Zig version; a million lines of Rust code merged in gargantuan commit

Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming

Security pros warn YellowKey claim could make stolen laptops a much bigger problem

Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads

Chinese web giant says accelerator shortage is over as local hardware arrives in volume

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

'What the hell is going on? It's just draining my money'

Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco

Reducing memory requirements to control costs in a new wave of kit

Dude… where’s my password? Claude reunites forgetful stoner with $400k Bitcoin stash

AI to the rescue as 11-year search for password turns up in old PC files

EU flag in binary code illustrating digital sovereignty.

OSES

KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows

UK begins antitrust inquiry into Microsoft's business software ecosystem

Brit regulator has 'heard' customers can't always 'effectively combine software from Microsoft with that of other providers'

AI to infest eight in ten premium phones within two years

And Counterpoint sees fad spreading from pricey handsets to smart rings and earbuds too... whether you asked for it or not

Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter

AI and the bit barns that power it have developed a serious PR problem

Science

NASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon

SpaceX and Blue Origin may yet get a role in low Earth orbit rehearsal, readiness permitting

Cops arrest man suspected of being Dream Market kingpin

Owe Martin Andresen faces charges in both US and Germany connected with money laundering, claims he sent gold bars directly to his doorstep

Public Sector

UK government prescribes Single Patient Record for NHS data chaos

Doctors welcome joined-up care plan, but warn patient trust depends on safeguards, access controls, and knowing where Palantir fits in

Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access

Fresh kernel flaw comes with public exploit code and continues ugly run of highly reliable privilege escalation bugs tied to memory and page-cache handling

Calling the cops just got extra AI as police seek to add tech to contact systems

AI already listening in to call handlers in real time, conducting live database searches

To gain root access at this company, all an intruder had to do was ask nicely

Human IT managers thought they were being nice to the boss, but were assisting a threat actor

AI models are getting better at replacing cybersecurity pros on certain tasks

UK researchers find LLMs are learning to finish jobs faster and improving all the time

patches

Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits

Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five

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Columnists

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

Rupert Goodwins

AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard

Eleven up, ten down

Corey Quinn

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now

Rupert Goodwins

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in

Rupert Goodwins

QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different

Bruce Davie

The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out

Mark Pesce

What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession

Rupert Goodwins

Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions

Corey Quinn

AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem?

If a setting fails in the forest and nobody hears it ...

software

Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that'

Right-clicking could go the way of the 3.5-inch floppy at the Chocolate Factory

On-Prem

Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures

And neither AI nor international conflict are helping

AI + ML

Anthropic butts in to small business, promises help with payroll and other core tasks

But Pro or Max biz users should know that the company may train its AI on your data

Security

Bug hunter tracks down three massive MCP flaws and one vendor won't fix theirs

Apache, Alibaba databases vulnerable and only one has a patch

AI + ML

See through local AI lies with Irish eyes

ICCL Enforce project offers Verity fact-checking server

AI + ML

Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown

AI rollback rates hit 81% at firms with mature guardrails, suggesting enterprises are struggling to manage the systems in production, says Sinch

On-Prem

Utah mega datacenter could dump 23 atomic bombs worth of energy per day

Physicist warns proposed Stratos campus could seriously affect local environment

On-Prem

Rust stalks IBM mainframes, but only in nightly form

Patch series would bring memory-safe code to Linux's s390 port, with compiler caveats attached

Public sector

Royal Household seeks £3M finance system fit for a King

One seeks contractor to manage millions in taxpayer cash, will provide generous 20% off Windsor biscuit tins and tea towels

OSes

Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf

Bittersweet post tells devs what they already knew: The framework is too slow

Science

SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade?

May 19 launch will put redesigned rocket, pad, and engines through their paces

Public Sector

Greater Manchester still says no to NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart

Public concern has only grown, says ICB, while evidence of benefits remains thin

OSes

Microsoft gives Windows Update a Ctrl-Z for bad drivers

Cloud-powered undo will roll back dodgy code without users or hardware partners lifting a finger

Public sector

London cops hail fixed facial recognition cams after suspects collared every 35 mins

Croydon trial helped secure 173 arrests, though civil liberties groups remain unconvinced

OSes

Linux gains more critical Windows apps: 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball

Further demonstrating its role as industry default OS the versatility of modern porting tools

Databases

dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years

Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline

Offbeat

This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY

Chromium extension swaps promos for John Carpenter-style subliminal slogans

AI + ML

SAP U-turn brings AI features to ECC and on-prem S/4HANA

CEO says there is 'no confusion at all' after cloud-only innovation plan drew flak

Public Sector

Civil servants to protest outside Capita AGM over pension shambles

Union demands government strips outsourcer of contract after delays, bereavement failures, and data breach

AI + ML

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

That's fine when playing poker, but less useful when we trust LLMs with serious work like finding software flaws

Security

Malware crew TeamPCP open-sources its Shai-Hulud worm on GitHub

Where it’s been well and truly forked, seemingly without Microsoft’s code locker noticing

Offbeat

Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine

Class A drugs loaded instead of A4

Public Sector

Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads

Communist government plans personalized ‘data-driven decision-making based on real-time information’ by 2035

AI + ML

Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less

As suits say they're burning cash on brainboxes without seeing results

Security

Doozy of a Patch Tuesday includes 30 critical Microsoft CVEs

The good news: no 0-days. The bad news: busy week ahead for Microsoft admins

cyber-crime

Foxconn confirms cyberattack after ransomware crew claims it stole confidential Apple, Nvidia files

Affected factories back up and running, we're told

Personal Tech

Google launches line of Android laptops festooned with Gemini AI

If you're not a fan of having AI baked into your OS, look elsewhere

aI + ML

Hollywood A-listers back proposed standard that would pay them when AI uses their likeness or work

RSL Media expands machine-readable licensing rules to cover AI use of identities and creative works

Offbeat

US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins

Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu

Networks

FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security

Quietly extends waivers to 2029 after realizing it was about to leave millions of devices unpatched

cyber-crime

Congress investigates Canvas breach as company pays ransom

Instructure CEO Steve Daly's got some explaining to do

Cyber-crime

AirBit crypto Ponzi victims can now claim slice of $400M asset haul

After guilty pleas, prison terms, and seizures, the DOJ has opened the compensation process

Security

US bank reports itself after slinging customer data at 'unauthorized AI app'

Volume and sensitivity of the data cited as chief concerns

Science

SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch

Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May

Networks

Lawsuit brought by former store operators missing from Vodafone results

Former franchise operators claim telco unfairly cut commission and other payments

Databases

NHS England confirms: Palantir staff can access patient data

Tech firm's employees can get an 'admin' role letting them into the National Data Integration Tenant... and its identifiable information

Cyber-crime

Cache-poisoning caper turns TanStack npm packages toxic

Six-minute supply chain blitz pushed 84 malicious versions with credential theft and disk-wiping code

Software

EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way

Mozilla claims the Digital Markets Act delivered lasting bump, invites Britain to do similar

Personal tech

Microsoft makes Copilot easier to summon, harder to ignore in Office

It looks like you're trying to get more Microsoft 365 users to engage with your assistant. Would you like help?

Offbeat

Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue

Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope

Security

Apple, Google drag cross-platform texting into the encrypted age

After years of stopping dead at the green bubble border, iPhone and Android users can finally send E2EE messages without relying on third-party apps

Cyber-crime

FleetWave outage takes another turn. Chevin confirms crooks accessed customer data

A month after bringing systems back online, SaaS vendor tells customers attackers potentially walked off with operational data, contact details, and payroll numbers

Networks

Britain pays Starlink millions despite Musk's calls to overthrow UK government

Satellite service supports troops and Ukraine, but payments may raise eyebrows after boss's political broadsides

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Features

AI + ML

OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw

A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform

Dropping a coin into poor homeless beggar's hands

Security

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course

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Security

Japan’s PM orders cybersecurity review to stop Mythos going full CyberZilla

Fears exponential increase in attack scale and speed

Networks

Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6

Critics are not convinced this plan to add an ‘area code’ based on ASNs has much merit

DevOps

GitLab promises a different kind of layoff as biz pivots toward AI

Code hosting biz is trimming its global footprint and flattening its management layer

Off-Prem

Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter

Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images

Virtualization

Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure

Analyst says modernizing applications is probably a better use of your time than hypervisor migration

Security

Double Canvas breach acknowledged as ShinyHunters sets new pay-or-leak deadline

UPDATED: Sorry, kids, everything's back up so get to work on your new assignment - An essay on the ethics of paying ransoms, because it looks like that's what happened here

Software

Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line

Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers

aI + ML

Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks

An intern who failed this much would be shown the door

Security

Cookie thieves caught stealing dev secrets via fake Claude Code installers

New IElevator2 COM interface? No problem

AI + ML

OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own

By which we mean it bought someone else's with other people's money

oSes

Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages

Dull but important … so, a bit like Debian itself, really

Security

Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw

Systems

EXPLORE SYSTEMS

Windows Open Source FOSS Linux Virtualization Storage

OSes

Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life

Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 – and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth

Cyber-Crime

BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks

Customers urged to keep an eye out for phisherfolk

DevOps

Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released

JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector

On-prem

SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns

Tech investment giant wants batteries for its own AI datacenters, and lots of them

A close-up of a rusted pipe valve leaking water outdoors.

Cyber-crime

Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine

Utility provider failed to detect Cl0p ransomware attack for nearly two years

DevOps

Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged

Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack

Illustration of a gold spacecraft with solar panels near a bright swirling object in space.

Science

NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle

Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration

OSES

Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos

Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there

Personal Tech

Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug

Client's handy automations get grayed out unless you know the keyboard shortcut

Public Sector

Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits

Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement

Bork!Bork!Bork!

The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains

Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.

Security

Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that’s coming off the tracks

That’s not a radio. THIS is a radio

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Personal Tech

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

The office sink is always a horror. Managers worried this one glowed

Off-Prem

Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner

Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent

AI + ML

ASIA IN BRIEF: China’s agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop

PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!

AI + ML

Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain

In The Register's Kettle podcast we discuss how Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease computing pain, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical

Systems

Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse

Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?

OSes

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon

Furores are fermenting in the forums

personal tech

HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin

It's not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who's this for, exactly?

aI + mL

Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device

Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

Software

macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel

Offbeat

London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool

Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London’s West End

Public Sector

UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform

Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up

Networks

Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims

Good times, bad times

* FOSS

The Librem 5 has 3GB of memory and 32GB of storage. Pic: Purism website

Personal Tech

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives

Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it

New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver

Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software

Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager

Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished

Next Platform | HYPERSCALERS

Blocks & Files | STORAGE

DevClass | ENGINEERING

AI + ML

GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash

It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

CxO

Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift

Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes

Security

Worm rubs out competitor's malware, then takes control

All your compromised credentials are belong to us now instead of the other gang

Cyber Crime

Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction

Twin brother still faces trial over broader cybercrime allegations

On-Prem

Iran war hits datacenter building supply chains, upping costs

BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveries

A raspberry tart on a glass plate with a jar of jam, red berries, and green leaves on a white surface.

Personal Tech

Raspberry Pi wants Windows admins to Connect – or it might pull the plug

Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it

Security

'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit

Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE

Stylized black-and-white portrait of Donald Trump on a dark background.

Columnists

Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy

In a word, 'Huh?'

Security

Meta U-turns on encryption push for Instagram as DMs go plaintext

After years of insisting end-to-end encryption was the future of online comms, Zuckcorp has handed itself full visibility into user chats once again

Offbeat

Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard

A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive

UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls

Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs

GameStop storefront with large windows and red signs on a street corner, with pedestrians walking past.

Legal

GameStop CEO's eBay account reinstated following takeover PR stunt

Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site

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DON'T MISS

Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation

Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court'

Security

Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack

ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security

Security

Meta fights Ofcom over how many billions count as billions

Social media biz says watchdog's fine formula is 'disproportionate' and should stop counting global revenue

BOFH

Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom

No sparks, no glory

Offbeat

Lego throws its own Hail Mary

Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price

offbeat

Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere

Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen

On-Prem

Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client

It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in

Off-Prem

Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email

On Call

Applications

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

Networks

To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane

Networks

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching

Columnists

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job

The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job

Columnists

Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled

On-Prem

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

On-Prem

While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?

On-Prem

Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds

AI Companies

Software

NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns

Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it

Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes

AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them

Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines

This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows

Create with AI in Android Studio enables building a project from scratch with prompts

Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts

The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AI

Google Cloud Next at London's Excel conference centre

Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now

Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos

It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well

OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs

Several matches stand upright on a red background, with one group burning and flames rising above them.

UPDATED

AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region

Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere

networks

HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi

NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork

security

Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull

Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic's uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference

devops

Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs

The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams

cyber-crime

Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time

Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince will each do 18 months for hosting laptops used by North Korean IT workers to remotely infiltrate US companies

security

Anthropic response to 1-click pwn: Shouldn't have clicked 'ok'

Security biz Adversa AI argues users of AI tools need clearer warnings

security

60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour

Happy World Password Day! Maybe it's finally time to kill this holiday in favor of World No-More-Passwords Day?

off-prem

IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power

Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues

Cybercrime

$250M crypto-robbing gang’s dirty work guy sentenced to 6.5 years behind bars

The then-teen was told to break in and steal what the keyboard warriors couldn’t

Personal Tech

TomTom’s route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion

Users report disappearing favorites, blank route planners, and cloud sync failures amid outage

Devops

C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply

Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations

Cyber-crime

State-backed hackers hammer Palo Alto firewall zero-day before patch lands

Internet-facing PAN-OS firewalls are once again doing impressions of initial access brokers

Infosec

AI + ML

Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree

GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks

Security

Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday

Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories

Security

Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation

Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC

Research

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs

'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'

Explore Security

CISO Identity Authentication Zero Trust Governance Encryption End Point Protection Advanced persistent threat Incident Phishing Ransomware Malware Spyware Hijack Trojan Breach Password

Security

If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows

Security

Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky

Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

Security

Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt

Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once

MORE INFOSEC

Storage

Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate

Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware

Systems

AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises

MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card

Cyber-Crime

Hungarian cops cuff suspected swatter after two-year FBI probe

20-year-old fessed up after investigators found video of crime in progress

AI + ML

EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash

Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat

Software

NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash

Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default

Security

The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time

Fortunately, it was a legit contractor who guessed it

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?

Public Sector

Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking

Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services – yours for up to £105K

PaaS + IaaS

Minister gives Palantir's NHS platform a clean bill of health

£330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in

Off-Prem

Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis

Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS

Systems

Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’

Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips

Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs

Off Prem

Off-Prem

Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028

Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away

Off-Prem

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it

Off-Prem

ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012

$227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts

Off-Prem

AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud

When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job

Off-Prem

Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs

AI is driving more searches and ads

Explore Off Prem

Systems Storage Networks HPC CPU GPU Compute Infrastructure

Off-Prem

Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises

Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand

Off-Prem

UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe

CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms

Off-Prem

Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city

Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shift

MORE OFF PREM

Offbeat

Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets

Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?

AI + ML

Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity

Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits

systems

Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway

Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters

AI + mL

Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI

Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff

Security

1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials

13% say they’ve sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests

A NASA Curiosity rover sits on a rocky Mars landscape with its robotic arm extended.

Science

Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool

All driller, no filler

Site News

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

A new coat of paint

Systems

DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year

Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown

Security

Iran cybersnoops still LARPing as ransomware crooks in espionage ops

MOIS-linked cyber outfit puts on a ransomware show to disguise the wide-open backdoor behind the scenes

AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned

Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for

DevOps

Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help

Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations

Offbeat

IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested

Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope

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Networks

Networks

Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal

CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule

Networks

Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear

Networks

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

Networks

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet

Networks

Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1

UK age-gating plans risk breaking the internet, privacy groups warn

Activists say ministers are targeting access rather than Big Tech's data-hungry business models

Networks

It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet

Major .de domains experienced hours-long outage after registry distributed faulty signatures

OFFBEAT

UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones

Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports

personal tech

It's game over for Copilot on Xbox

Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan

Cyber-crime

Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill

Investigators spent weeks unravelling enthusiast's bedroom project

Software

Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads

It's in Waterfox too, and there it does what you'd expect

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OSes

GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet

Seven official flavors offer alternatives to the default Wayland-only desktop – and Xfce looks like the leanest

Bootnotes

Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors

MoD eyes Middle East exports after desert trials of Cambridge Aerospace system

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SAAS

Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration

PaaS + IaaS

AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly

Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper

Security

India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree

Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks

SaaS

Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend

Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks

AI + ML

OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year

If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math

WHITEPAPERS

Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack

When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision.

Legal

Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them

AI + ML

Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch

High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage

AI + ML

Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents

Always bet on backpropagation

AI + ML

IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf

With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2

AI + ML

ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower

ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows

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Offbeat

DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to

A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not

Cyber-crime

Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw

Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long

Science

More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook

Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time

DevOps

Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked

Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future

Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration

SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely

Science

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

Science

NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again

Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest

Science

Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects

DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects

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Bedrock and a hard place: Claude adventure leaves AWS user staring down $30K invoice

Anthropic’s Bun Rust rewrite merged at speed of AI

Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming

Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco

Dude… where’s my password? Claude reunites forgetful stoner with $400k Bitcoin stash

KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own

UK begins antitrust inquiry into Microsoft's business software ecosystem

AI to infest eight in ten premium phones within two years

Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter

NASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon

Cops arrest man suspected of being Dream Market kingpin

UK government prescribes Single Patient Record for NHS data chaos

Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access

Calling the cops just got extra AI as police seek to add tech to contact systems

To gain root access at this company, all an intruder had to do was ask nicely

AI models are getting better at replacing cybersecurity pros on certain tasks

Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits

Columnists

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in

QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different

The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out

What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession

Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions

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AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem?

Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that'

Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures

Anthropic butts in to small business, promises help with payroll and other core tasks

Bug hunter tracks down three massive MCP flaws and one vendor won't fix theirs

See through local AI lies with Irish eyes

Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown

Utah mega datacenter could dump 23 atomic bombs worth of energy per day

Rust stalks IBM mainframes, but only in nightly form

Royal Household seeks £3M finance system fit for a King

Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf

SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade?

Greater Manchester still says no to NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart

Microsoft gives Windows Update a Ctrl-Z for bad drivers

London cops hail fixed facial recognition cams after suspects collared every 35 mins

Linux gains more critical Windows apps: 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball

dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years

This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY

SAP U-turn brings AI features to ECC and on-prem S/4HANA

Civil servants to protest outside Capita AGM over pension shambles

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

Malware crew TeamPCP open-sources its Shai-Hulud worm on GitHub

Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine

Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads

Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less

Doozy of a Patch Tuesday includes 30 critical Microsoft CVEs

Foxconn confirms cyberattack after ransomware crew claims it stole confidential Apple, Nvidia files

Google launches line of Android laptops festooned with Gemini AI

Hollywood A-listers back proposed standard that would pay them when AI uses their likeness or work

US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins

FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security

Congress investigates Canvas breach as company pays ransom

AirBit crypto Ponzi victims can now claim slice of $400M asset haul

US bank reports itself after slinging customer data at 'unauthorized AI app'

SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch

Lawsuit brought by former store operators missing from Vodafone results

NHS England confirms: Palantir staff can access patient data

Cache-poisoning caper turns TanStack npm packages toxic

EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way

Microsoft makes Copilot easier to summon, harder to ignore in Office

Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue

Apple, Google drag cross-platform texting into the encrypted age

FleetWave outage takes another turn. Chevin confirms crooks accessed customer data

Britain pays Starlink millions despite Musk's calls to overthrow UK government

Features

OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads