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Updated 2026-09-04 22:18
Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases
AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk
Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters
Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?
My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement
Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels
The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers
2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes
PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries
Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up
Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox
No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices
Wayve and Uber steal a march on Waymo with paid self-driving London rides
15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2
The new extreme sport: Windows Updates
US law firm accuses UK AI software firm of unwanted contract renewal when it tried to leave
Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo
Project PANOPTES puts 5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense
Best eSIM for travel 2026: which one offers the best value for money?
PARTNER CONTENT: Price isn't everything
On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key
Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud
This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech
Why now? Well, the Linux desktop market share in the EU doubled between 2024 and 2025 (to 5.7%). That's why!
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release
Three critical vulns demand your attention, one a make-me-root mess in Nexus 9000 Series Switches that you can mitigate, not fix
OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders
Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams
OpenAI throws Astra into the top-tier model ring
OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot
Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands
$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note
True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once
All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues
Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC
A shared security 'Nightmare'
CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian
Prompted by CentOS 8's premature demise, it's a very visible loss for the Red Hat ecosystem
Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users
When the moon is in the seventh house...
Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s
The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area
Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028
Drowning in CVEs and thirsty for answers? Try CTEM
SPONSORED FEATURE: Boards want to know if they're less exposed than last quarter. Patching metrics aren't the solution
Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance
But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully
Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast
A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone
Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promises not to squeeze too hard
GPU giant pledges to keep the model hub open to the entire AI ecosystem
Cybercrooks trawl Fishbrain to net password hashes
Armed with password hashes and salts, attackers could already be kraken those creds
'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda
No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets
Windows 11 update sends some desktops into an unwanted goth phase
Hello darkness, my old friend... I've trusted Redmond once again
Which came first, Windows 95's taskbar or NeXT's Dock? Neither
Reg hack accidentally rattles Microsoft folks' cages... again
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving
Part of wider infrastructure replacement upgrade project with HPE
UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
Children's Commissioner also furious with Ofcom over a string of failures
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship
Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%
Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now?
SPONSORED POST: A free event with Nutanix on Oct 7 can win some of it back
Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access
They had more access than the average Joe, and IT didn't track what needed to be cut off
To keep the AI hacking genie bottled up, try one-way networks
Sandboxes, permissions, and VMs aren't enough to keep frontier models at bay. "Data diodes" might do the job
Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon'
While you wait, Meta says it's taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often
VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade
Found the time to focus and corrected' incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say
Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'
Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November
The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip
Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend
With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race
AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)
AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit
Adding insult to injury
Infosec pros say we're not ready to lose control of AI
Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable
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