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Updated 2026-08-11 10:31
Building up the US power grid won't be wasted, even if the AI bubble bursts
The bigger risk is underinvestment, claims consulting biz McKinsey
Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G
Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code
Why hybrid clouds break and what to do about it
SPONSORED EXPLAINER: There's nothing wrong with hybrid cloud. It's the one-size-fits-all strategy on top of it that's the problem.
OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs
Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes
Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation
H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year
Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI
Solves tech support tickets faster and more accurately by keeping them away from LLMs
Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU
EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry
Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you
$125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?
DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection
Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI
The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe
Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'
Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer
30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow
North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief
Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost
Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list
What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw?
LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity
Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved
As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them
Bans on new server farm projects spread across the US, while plans meet with protests in the UK
Attackers pick Levi's pockets in social engineering attack
Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers
Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either
Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China
No, no nasties to see here, guv...
Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack
Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape
Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat
Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive
London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up
The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M25
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic
Just add smart humans - and a pinch of dog
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn
A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared
Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal
He's not thrilled, but won't let it delay the release of version 7.2
Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads
PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare.
NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car
PLUS: Infosys to wear Crocs for a decade; Fujifilm may quit printers; 2GW datacenter debuts in western China; and more!
I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it
Starlink and 5G home internet are helping close the digital divide, but they're far from perfect. Glue them together, and you can get awfully close.
Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops
Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools
South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact
Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri
OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI
Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
Calling all defenders
AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription
Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms
Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?
Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power
MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
Attackers turned admin access into a route downstream, while N-able tells N-central customers to patch - again
ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses
Cancer diagnostics breach spills personal and health info as extortion crew says healthcare giant should've paid the ransom'
MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it
Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder
Investigation into whether staff improperly accessed Minnie Merriman's file after she was named for the first time this week
Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard
Website support widget lasted 18 months before Redmond ended the conversation
Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account
Intruder gained access to engineering files and potentially export-controlled technical data
Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people's data at risk
Unlimited Technology Systems says names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and insurance details may have been swiped
'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director
Humans will get the AI models they deserve
Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses
Former Merseyside police officer sacked after failing to declare he was 'too close' with the wrong crowd
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees
What an idiot
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks' products
Beijing's not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron
‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec
Machine-generated traffic to surge 1000x in five years, while we meatbags keep clicking away slowly
How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era
AI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision
Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws
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