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Updated 2026-06-08 22:45
Ransomware crims got a month-long head start on Check Point VPN 0-day that now has a fix
Scumbags, including a Qilin ransomware affiliate, began hitting this hole May 7
Canonical sends Ubuntu into the AI agent era
Sandboxed LLM dev environments lead the show, but accessibility may be the real prize
ZTE Demonstrates Integrated AI, Connectivity and Digital Utility Technologies at TNB Energy Transition Conference
PARTNER CONTENT: Driving Grid Modernization and Energy Transition in Malaysia Through Advanced AI and Smart Infrastructure Solutions
NASA's Secret: Moon astronauts will be rocking Prada underwear
What, you think any old liquid-cooled bodysuit would be acceptable to pair with such a fashionable outer layer?
Ransomware sends Illinois high school on an early summer vacation
Meanwhile, 13 schools in Wales affected by separate attack
Amazon Leo's satellite homework is late, but FCC won't flunk it just yet
Orbital broadband biz will miss its July 30 deadline to have 1,616 spacecraft in place
NHS prescribes half a million Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache
After a trial claimed chatbot saved staff 43 minutes a day, NHS England has decided it's time to supersize the experiment
GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections
Miasma worm shapeshifts, but cloud secret-scouting remains the goal
Python JIT compiler project under threat after steering council says proper process wasn't followed
No new features to be submitted to main branch, existing code removed in 6 months if new proposal not created and accepted
NSO Group back in Meta's crosshairs after alleged WhatsApp targeting
Zuckercorp says surveillance-for-hire vendor was still running phishing operations after federal court told it to knock it off
UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers
Global Talent visa program aims to draw in dissatisfied scientists from countries including the US
Brit fraudsters using AI to doctor 'evidence' in motor insurance claims
Policy-holders increasingly turn fender benders into much more by sprinkling in their favorite AI chatbots, Aviva says
Department of Work and Pensions' answer to AI job fears is a bot to polish your CV
Whitehall says Work Assistant will help jobseekers apply around the clock - provided employers don't mind machine-written applications
History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system
When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'
Yes! It’s true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform
It always has been, but Microsoft didn't realize it
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug
And he got away with it too!
Our systems editor flew all the way to Taiwan and still couldn't get away from AI
Every show now is an AI show, and that included this year's Computex
Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships
If you thought driverless cars were bad, imagine a 200,000 ton container ship
Home Office ditches legacy asylum database, keeps the spreadsheets
Years into a major IT overhaul, MPs say the department still lacks reliable view of what is happening across the asylum system
UK exam watchdog frets over smart specs turning GCSEs into Google searches
Ofqual says smart glasses, hidden earpieces, and AI tools are creating a new generation of cheating headaches
Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach
Totally different attack from the break-in last month. Oh so that's OK then
Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY
The bill awaits Gov. Hochul's signature after passing the state legislature
If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks
When 'Chatty Spider' morphs into tech services cosplay spider
Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight
Good luck, sys admins
Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule
Business is back to normal in the orbital station, but one of two newly discovered leaks is still unrepaired
Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security
DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research
ZTE showcases AI-driven project management innovations at the 14th IPMA Research Conference 2026
PARTNER CONTENT: Integrating AI into the iEPMS platform to achieve a 98% quality review accuracy rate and slash report generation times, leveraging experience from 240,000 global projects
China Mobile Jiangsu and ZTE unveil intelligent complaint analysis agent to reshape core network O&M
PARTNER CONTENT: Leveraging multi-modal LLMs and agent technology to automate signaling analysis and shift core network O&M from experience to knowledge-driven
Agentic AI hype races ahead as enterprises remain stuck in pilot mode
Most orgs remain trapped between flashy demos and real-world deployment, despite 75% saying adoption is racing ahead
Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS. Repeat, Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS
SQL Server licenses can now be consumed in the rival cloud's DBaaS
World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families
Those receiving aid in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory told support will remain
Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box
Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?
Raspberry Pi's profits are up. So is its DRAM bill
Forecasts earnings well ahead of expectations, even as it taps credit facilities to lock in memory supply
Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals
Cost model designed to protect against low-cost bid bias, claims rival
Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder
Blue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex
UK's top crime agency hamstrung by legacy IT, watchdog warns
Regulator says NCA's aging tech drags down productivity, forces officers to juggle hardware and do manual workarounds
Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class
Comms watchdog says up to 83% of tests fail the 'good performance' threshold
Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes
Bulletproof vests and armored vehicles were not in the job description
'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says
The plea for caution comes the same week it beat AI archrival OpenAI to filing for an IPO
Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds
A familiar tactic popularized by chaotic crime crew Lapsus$
Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots
Another ally questions reliance on American AI
OpenAI's agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds
Codex drops an HTTP/2 Bomb
AI heavyweights warn their tech could help terrorists develop bioweapons
Scientists and industry leaders push for mandatory DNA synthesis screening
Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault
Tech biz teaching AI to use computers by slurping staff activity
AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow
Intel still owns the room, but Epyc keeps nicking the furniture
'Please do not vibe f--- up this software': Broken backups spark AI coding row in rsync project
Users probe backup failures find Claude-assisted commits. Veteran engineer retorts: "I did not just vibe-code 'convert test suite to python'."
Intel's mysterious new datacenter GPU is what Nvidia's Rubin CPX nearly was
Nvidia's prefill accelerator was shelved, but Chipzilla's Crescent Island could fill the void
Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records
Pips Accenture and NEC to bag decade-long deal for cops across England, Wales, and beyond
Five Eyes: Watch out for odd LinkedIn connection requests, China's back on the hunt for state secrets
Cash-for-intel tradecraft continues to concern intelligence officials years after it was first spotted
Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k
Fresh penalties secured after initial prison, community service sentences for RAC double act
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