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Updated 2026-10-08 11:46
Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra
What the f?
Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks'
Understanding why our nearest star does what it does
Cheapskates wouldn't pay for security help, got hit by ransomware, and went bust months later
The owner knew a guy...
Embedding the human factor into AI agent adoption
SPONSORED FEATURE: Making the link between business strategy and how the workforce adopts technology will be crucial to business success in the agentic AI era
It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat
The ALBATROSS has landed
ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains
Big tech has piled in with plenty of asks, but faces a fight as eight applicants want .api and seven seek .agi
Ransomware fixer claimed he could decrypt files, allegedly defrauded clients instead
Feds claim he charged clients more than ransoms, paid up, pocketed the difference
Singapore’s central bank wants all FinTech AI use cases subject to independent review
Failures of third-party services no excuse for island nation's financial sector
Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system
But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right?
OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties
Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious
Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to
Talking to an X-ray nanoprobe beamline is far better than talking to a toaster, we assume
Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra
Poverty-spec model starts at $2,599 with 24 GB of RAM and 512GB of storage with 128 GB models topping $5,899
Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs
Trusted brand impersonation without the usual browser certificate warnings spells trouble
Browser-in-browser attacks use fake Meta Muse Ad lure to steal credentials
Wiley fisherfolk spin up a new page just days after Meta's AI agent launch
AWS launches open-source AI agent sandbox to prevent YOLO mode disasters
Strands Box is the latest open source AI control tool from the cloud giant; like its predecessors, it promises tighter reins on autonomous agents
US states sue popular kitmaker TP-Link over China risks
Router maker rejects allegations it misled buyers about protection and its reliance on Chinese suppliers
Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing
Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?
Poetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ servers
Quoth the LLM, 'More and more'
When one datacenter is no longer enough
SPONSORED POST: Why training AI across multiple sites is creating a new networking challenge
Europe's mobile operators sell fewer phones but gain share as budget market shrivels
Contract purchases hold up better than independent retail sales, with Apple overtaking Samsung in the carrier channel
Nine in 10 VMware customers eye the exit as licensing bills bite
Rimini Street-sponsored survey finds 48% have no plans to move workloads to Broadcom's preferred subscription platform
Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative
Email and calendars move in-house in 2027, with European open source tools to follow
FortiBleed still a bleeding nuisance as FBI confirms ongoing attacks
Tens of thousands more victims and more ransomware groups getting in on the act
Rails originator roasted over Rust boosterism
David Heinemeier Hansson's agent-coded bakeoff produced curious results
COSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in
System76 demands human-written contributions, while a rival desktop developer argues bot-found flaws are too valuable to ignore
From reactive to proactive: How endpoint monitoring is fixing broken meeting rooms
SPONSORED FEATURE: Cloud-based telemetry is turning meeting rooms into managed endpoints, letting IT teams anticipate failures rather than scramble once users complain
South Korean president calls for creation of tools that stop all cyber-attacks
'Complete security paradigm refresh' needed for the AI era
Microsoft defines its Azure instance lifecycle, without any info about timing
Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen
Anthropic reconfigures its cool kids security program
Company's Project Glasswing and Cyber Verification Program metamorphose into triple tier threat hunting club
Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up
Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity
Anthropic Claude subscription plan provides more value than OpenAI's, study says
Research firm not exactly thrilled by House of Altman's subscription changes
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb
Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity
European AI flag bearer Mistral's new open weights model is 'Le Chonk'
Oh lawd it is coming ... to Hugging Face later this month
Trump Mobile customers' data dumped - and some never even received their gold device
All that glitters ...
Wikimedia Foundation comes forward as latest OpenAI agent assault victim
Millions of automated requests may have contributed to partial Wikidata outage in May
Microsoft extends the Outlook naughty step with two more file types
You didn't really want to be sending around .msix and .msixbundle files, did you?
Classic Outlook clings to stale search results as Microsoft works on a fix
Moved messages linger and throw errors when clicked, leaving Windows Desktop Search as the workaround
Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets
Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances
Asos app delivers a data leak threat instead of fast fashion
Rogue notification claims Snowflake instance compromised, but customer info theft remains unverified
Denmark's ID register spills more people's details than the country has residents
Abuse of private firm's access exposed 8.8M records, including those of people who had died or moved abroad
Atos lands £350M beat keeping Met Police applications running
Six-year deal covers management and security, with options to add cloud and digital workplace services
Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom
Intruders retrieved email addresses from superseded tech kept running for an internal system
KPMG tells staff facing the axe: Here's £100, now zip it
Staff in AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing told the consultation is over, with notices due Friday
Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station
No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety
OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text
Compliance, we've heard of it
Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system
Death of a star may not be game over for the inner solar system after all
Atlassian warns of critical file access flaw in its datacenter products
Tells users action required' - but maybe don't make that action a Jira ticket, because it has this bug
Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw
Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem
Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies
Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra
Citrix NetScaler security snafus get even worse amid more 0-day reports
The new vuln, CVE-2026-88779, is a memory overflow bug that leads to denial of service
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