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Updated 2026-11-11 20:19
Scientists check their work and confirm it with update on iconic black hole image
And find they were right all along
Canonical web services get stage fright ahead of Ubuntu Summit
Outage hits login, software repositories, and patching tools hours before online event kicks off
Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro does not like to be taken apart
Easy lid swaps earn praise from iFixit, but panel removal ends in cracks and USB-C repairs require logic board surgery
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday can't break stuff if it won't install
KB5132061 throws 0x800F0993 and 0x800F0989 errors, and Redmond is saying nothing
NASA asks Earthlings to wave as Voyager 1 reaches a light-day away
Flash VGR in Morse code on November 17 to salute the veteran probe - just don't expect it to see you
2013 breach at Russian cybercrime forum resurfaces with millions of victims' credentials
YouHack thought protecting members' passwords with mostly unsalted MD5 hashes would do
Apple tells its Support Community to STFU
User-to-user forum goes read-only ahead of November 20 closure, with archive's fate unclear
Shipping giant Maersk probes 'IT security incident,' data theft
Says it 'strongly' suspects attack limited to legacy system, and that nothing sensitive is at risk
Google gooses Python AI performance by... removing Python
Newly open sourced XSE handles six million queries a second across services including Search, Ads, and YouTube Shorts
Linux joins Heathrow's grounded fleet of information screens
Anything Windows can bork, the penguin can bork sideways
AMD: Where we're going we don't need (as much) DRAM
The House of Zen's Mext team promises smarter SWAP through the power of, you'll never guess: AI
UK's 'buy British' tech ambitions hit reality as less than £1 in £6 stays at home
Whitehall's biggest IT suppliers are overwhelmingly foreign, and Uncle Sam is making a killing
OpenAI builds a kill switch for its research models
How much damage can a rogue agent do in 35 seconds? Asking cos that's how long it might take to shut one down
Australia may make knowingly selling unsafe AI a crime
New regulator will require modelmakers to test and allow inspection, but not much more
Anthropic tiptoes into MS Office territory
Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data artifact types bring Claude closer to a productivity suite
Ye olde server consolidation has made Cisco push top-of-rack switching to 100G
Newer server processors pack more cores into fewer boxes, creating a need for network speed
VMware floats new standard to make sure apps don’t break in hybrid K8s environments
Virtzilla also taking on KubeVirt by sharing VM API with the CNCF
November Patch Tuesday boasts over 1,000 bugs but only one zero-day so far
Microsoft admins wail and gnash their teeth
Ring robots ready to patrol paranoids’ pads
Amazon calls its home security drone and business patrol bot 'proactive protection'
To thwart reverse engineering by agents, dev proposes blinding them
A poke in the AI with a sharp stick
Barracuda’s email security gateways bitten by make-me-root vulns
Someone's fishing for exposed devices
14-year-old creates tool for AI agents to band together like a team
Autark can act without constant prompting, but leaves users to enforce their own security boundaries
Mozilla Thunderbird email service edges closer to launch with early access
Some waitlist members get a first look at Thundermail, a paid alternative to Gmail
AMD winds up Zen 6 cores for faster clock speeds
Chips boast up to 256 cores, clocks up to 5.3 GHz, and IPC gains of 20 to 31 percent, just not all on the same SKU
AMD's Epyc X-chips are back after a three-year hiatus
Venice-X promises big speedup for EDA and HPC workloads
A closer look at Verano, AMD's first step toward a Zen-based superchip to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin
Cores, clocks, memory, and interconnects all perfectly balanced for a singular mission: keeping instinct fed.
Trump taps Palantir security chief to run battered US cyber defense agency
Michael LoSapio could inherit a depleted workforce and a political headache or two, courtesy of his current employer
Fireworks AI gets burned twice as customer data exposure widens
Inference biz pins latest breach on cloud provider and LLMJacking miscreants
Another contract extension for Fujitsu on the Post Office's Horizon
Just a few more months until Accenture takes over running scandal-hit Horizon system
Stanford's century-long AI study admits it's already out of date
Five-year review charts upheaval in work, science, and public life - with little consensus on who's in control
Chrome zero-day whack-a-mole continues as 2026 tally hits 8
Another Chrome memory bug gets squashed, but not before attackers got their hands on it
Ransomware threat blares from Vanderbilt University computers during cyberattack
BYOD claims extensive data theft as campus Wi-Fi returns, most systems remain restricted, and classes carry on
Smart meters to cost the UK billions: 2G switch-off means replacing 12-13 million
Sunset of legacy cellphone tech means forced upgrade for many millions of smart energy meter users
Google DeepMind melds humans and AI agents to vet Signal's secure messaging techniques
Post-quantum handshake and Triple Ratchet get a formal security check
Microsoft is giving Claude the keys to UK Copilot tenants by default
Admins have until December 9 to review access settings as Anthropic processes data in the US
EU's €212M border IT project lands IBM and Atos in legal water
After years of missed deadlines, ballooning costs, and a blame game over who was responsible, Brussels has finally called in the lawyers
Royal Navy stands up first autonomous boat squadron
Force deploys an operational squadron to gain experience in uncrewed systems as part of its Hybrid Navy vision
Microsoft teaches schools that free email was just a phase
Office 365 A1 and Student Use Benefit face retirement, leaving institutions to budget for paid replacements at renewal
Cisco to link all future products to its SaaS-y Cloud Control management tool
Global rollout of unified portal finally happening in 2027
Anthropic's super bug-finding Mythos model is going into Cisco and IBM products
Enterprise security tools will offer its capabilities without handing customers the model itself
France blames Iran for supermarket hack meltdowns
The 'first cyber offensive campaign carried out purely for the purpose of sabotage on national territory'
Attackers backdoor trusted AWS integrations to steal secrets
Wiz researchers uncovered the secret-stealing supply-chain attack
Researchers pwn automakers’ Android apps to remotely unlock cars, honk horns
Pair of researchers chain WAF bypasses and default logins to command vehicles in Australia and the US
Insight about how 'nature makes no leaps' promises better robot predictions
Leibniz lives!
Microsoft takes three decades to make Sticky Keys less sticky
Windows preview adds a 'don't ask again' option to accessibility prompts, sparing users a trip through Settings
NASA keeps its PROMISE to raid Mars testbeds for parts
Cut-and-shut trundlebot with spiffy new paint job meant to be headed to the Moon in 2028
Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching session
A mountain of CVEs, a certificate cleanup, and yet more work for Microsoft's patching teams
Who Gives A Crap? Hackers, apparently, after toilet paper maker's customer data exposed
UK shoppers caught up in third-party security mess, and nobody knows whether the data was flushed away
The AI bubble can wait, but your exit plan can't
Infrastructure spending outruns measurable returns, with supplier finances key to judging when trouble arrives
Outlook.com bounces legit emails as Microsoft's authentication crackdown goes sideways
Missing DMARC or wobbly SPF means your mail may be treated as suspicious
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