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

Fears exponential increase in attack scale and speed

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

Giving v4 an ‘area code’ based on ASNs to give operators more addresses to play with, without upgrades

A robotic hand interacts with a code display, illustrating AI-assisted software development.

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

An intern who failed this much would be shown the door

Cookie thieves caught stealing dev secrets via fake Claude Code installers

New IElevator2 COM interface? No problem

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

Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages

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

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

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

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

A blue Best Western Central hotel sign mounted outdoors beside green trees.

BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks

Customers urged to keep an eye out for phisherfolk

Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released

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

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

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.

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

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

Software developers work at dual monitors in a glass-walled office

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.

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

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

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

A Microsoft Outlook app icon on a blue gradient background.

Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug

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

A dim hallway with multiple green illuminated emergency exit signs hanging from the ceiling.

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

A large station departure board displays a clock above commuters inside Victoria station.

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

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

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

That’s not a radio. THIS is a radio

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

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

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

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!

Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain

Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease its computing burden, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical

Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse

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

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon

Furores are fermenting in the forums

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?

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

Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

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

Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot

London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool

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

A close-up thumb in front of a digital fingerprint recognition overlay.

UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform

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

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Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims

Good times, bad times

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

Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift

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

Worm rubs out competitor's malware, then takes control

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

Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction

Twin brother still faces trial over broader cybercrime allegations

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.

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

'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.

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

In a word, 'Huh?'

Close-up of a finger touching a smartphone screen with social media app icons.

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

Scrabble-style letter tiles spelling BASIC on a beige background.

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

Close-up of a police officer in a checkered cap covering their face with one hand.

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.

GameStop CEO's eBay account reinstated following takeover PR stunt

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

Four young people lie on green grass in colorful clothing, viewed from above, smiling and relaxing.

Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack

ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security

Two clenched fists collide in a dramatic illustration with sparks and a dark background.

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

Electrical breaker panel with a small fire and smoke coming from the top left breaker.

Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom

No sparks, no glory

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A Lego Technic spacecraft model displayed on a desk beside an instruction booklet and a small minifigure.

Lego throws its own Hail Mary

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

Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere

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

Close-up of a dangling Ethernet plug with a blurred cable on a white background.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A finger presses a red OK button on a white background.

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

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

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?

IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power

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

$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

TomTom’s route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion

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

White head silhouette with blue C++ letters on a yellow background.

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

Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations

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

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

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

Three armed officers in tactical gear move through smoke in a dimly lit training scene.

Hungarian cops cuff suspected swatter after two-year FBI probe

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

Blue European Union flags with yellow stars flutter in front of a modern glass office building.

EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash

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

A blue-toned metal vault door with a circular locking mechanism set in a riveted steel wall

NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash

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

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?

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

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

Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis

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

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

For AI agents, seeing is expensive

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?

Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity

Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits

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

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

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.

Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool

All driller, no filler

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

A new coat of paint

DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year

Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown

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

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

Close-up of a finger pressing the Tab key on a black computer keyboard.

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

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

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

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

A quadcopter drone flies against a blue sky with scattered clouds.

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

Close-up of a black Xbox controller on a wooden surface.

It's game over for Copilot on Xbox

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

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

Investigators spent weeks unravelling enthusiast's bedroom project

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

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

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

Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors

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