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Updated 2026-09-15 19:01
America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them
Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will require $110 billion in new generation resources
Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email
Attackers already exploiting the critical flaw, and Cisco warns they may be able to cover their tracks once they're in
Twitter workaround worked around again: X's lawyers cancel XCancel again
Nitter's repository archived as of September 11, 2026
Who's governing your AI? A trust framework for enterprise agents and models
SPONSORED FEATURE: DigiCert wants to hand every agent a passport, complete with an expiry date and a named human owner
CenterPoint Energy confirms intruder helped themselves to customer information
Forum post claims 7.49 million files up for grabs as Texas utility investigates breach
September's Windows 11 patch needs an emergency patch of its own
Microsoft fixes RDP and Hyper-V fallout, but some USB audio stays silent
Swiss court sentences 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware dev to nearly 13 years in the cooler
The man allegedly wrote the code that powered the Lockergoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim operations
Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail
American model devs are trying to convince Washington to cement their dominance
Microsoft account refuseniks have another way of installing Windows
Has the good bork fairy paid a visit to Redmond?
US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace
Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?
Gov.uk still struggling with IT contractor tax rules
IR35 rules not getting easier for government departments
UK's Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off
The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze
PostgreSQL 19 graph queries fail the 'would you ship this?' test
SQL/PGQ gets bounced over unresolved bugs as concurrent REPACK promises fewer midnight calls for DBAs
Give Xfce a Mac or Unity-style makeover
The existing layouts are fun, but there's much more we can do
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute
Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter
How Everpure plans to stop AI from starving without data
SPONSORED FEATURE: The vendor's AI solutions are dedicated to increasing GPU utilization and avoiding costly GPUs doing nothing while waiting for data
Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there’s no ROI in that
Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner
Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds
Cupertino's $2,000 foldable gives devs more screen, and more UI state to manage
The latest AI doomsayer is China’s intelligence boss
Beijing's response is to firmly grasp technological sovereignty' and broad regulations
COBOL dev won .Net hackathon with help from AI – and their CIO loves it
Australia Taxation Office sees footling with Copilot as a way to develop muscles' for real AI work
Microsoft drafts feel-good AI model guidelines and wants your input
Redmond outlines 'aspirational' goals for model behavior, but gives itself a pass if it gets things wrong
HBO Max Reddit account compromised to serve ClickFix attacks
Part of a 'massive 48-hour malvertising blitz' targeting macOS and Windows machines with malware
Oracle celebrates banner quarter with another round of layoffs
Congratulations on helping Larry Ellison's AI cloud boom. Now please pack your bags and go
New hardware device can RAM into encrypted memory, expose your data
Attackers would need physical access to the server to pull off the DDR5 trick
OpenAI's malicious bot swarm attacked RubyGems
Ruby are you ok? Ruby are you ok? Are you ok Ruby?
Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder
Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing
Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable
Ubuntu Noble's likely last point release lands, then loses its desktop download
Installer bug crashes extended setups while Stonking Stingray circles ahead of October debut
Cyberattack sends International Meteor Organization crashing back to Earth
Attack dealt a 'critical blow' to aging infrastructure, with several weeks of disruption expected
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract
Bezos' biz gets familiar paperwork from unfamiliar quarters as rival challenges NASA award
Perfect-10 GitLab bug under attack days after patch lands
CISA confirms active exploitation as watchTowr spots miscreants probing internet-facing servers
Teravolt looks to cannibalize older industries to meet AI power demand
Bitcoin farms, aluminum smelters, and other old infra is more lucrative to repurpose as a datacenter
Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste
Redmond's quality drive takes another detour through the known issues list
Huawei pitches near-packaged optics as co-packaged costs bite
7.2 Tbps module arrives ahead of standards, with promises of fewer repair headaches
MPs and peers tell UK to stop winging it on AI regulation
Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies
Revolut falls for fake government requests, hands over customer data
Passports, selfies, transaction histories exposed as self-proclaimed culprits demand 10,000 Bitcoin
CPython eases Rust requirements as assimilation continues
By making Rust opt-in, the Python builders hope to enjoy Rust bennies without the backlash that roiled the Linux kernel keepers
The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture
Skynet is coming soon, and also there's this Nigerian prince with a $20 million fortune who wants to give it to you
UK.gov begins killing off passwords for 23 million users
Passkeys promise fewer phishing headaches - and 600 a day off Whitehall's SMS bill
Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten
Patchy compliance is an argument for stronger enforcement, not abandoning the project
Who, Me? Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button
Ticklish situation solved with a lie about emergency maintenance
AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner
Model-makers move too fast and don't care when they break things
Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’
Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker
Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware
Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow
RIP, you won't be mourned
How to make Xfce look like almost any desktop you want
Panel Profiles handles the heavy lifting, once you've installed the plugins it expects
Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late
Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required
Dell's 52-inch enormo-monitor is a tsunami of impractical fun
You probably don't need it, but as an example of the possible it impresses
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation
Information is not forthcoming from this screen
AI more likely to kill animals if it saves fuel or money
Machine learning models still have a lot to learn about the value of life
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