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Updated 2026-11-12 13:46
Quantum leap: IBM plans to scale beyond 1,000 qubits in 2027 with Nighthawk r3 processor
New unit sports more qubits and is planned to be part of future fault-tolerant rig
Hackers exploiting ScreenConnect plugin flaw to spread malware across hundreds of PCs
ConnectWise disables third-party extensions in 400 environments as bughunters uncover auth hole may let crims bypass MFA
The latest FreeBSD report is here, and the AI debate is ongoing
Only a minority want to ban it. Plus plenty of updates on 16 projects
Microsoft admits SQL Servers might wobble after October update
Linked server connections can linger long past their welcome
European tech buyers add digital sovereignty to cyber shopping list
Sales from EU HQ'd vendor rocket in two years. The Trump affect? Yes but NIS2 and DORA are factors too
Rockstar workers vote on union recognition as GTA VI launch looms
UK staff get their say while a separate union-busting dispute heads towards its conclusion
Orbit Global Menu: A working global menu addon for GNOME
We love this, but suspect this is the Marmite of GNOME extensions
London hotel put admin login for booking website on whiteboard behind the front desk
You could check out more than your room
Data sovereignty takes more than keeping data close to home
SPONSORED POST: Knowing where your data lives is only part of the challenge. Who controls it, who can access it and how quickly you can recover when things go wrong matter just as much.
Your AI agent is only as good as your endpoint data
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AWS distills its cloud into a local emulator that runs on your PC
Hyperscale meets micro-computing by offering APIs to test your apps
Disgraced former CA eMudhra blames buggy script for hopelessly weak certificates
Couldn't get the hardware it needed to generate certs, so tried to code a workaround
Russian cloud Yandex says drone attacks on its datacenters caused data loss
Now enables backup by default and hints a little on-prem infra never hurt anyone
US bit barn boom sees energy needs grow 10x as fast as grid capacity
Operators face longer connection waits and a growing need to bring their own electricity
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
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