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Updated 2026-11-02 13:47
Vintage fun: Prodding AI agents using retro hardware just because you can
'It helps me stretch what I can do in the current age of AI coding, and keeps my curiosity alive'
Microsoft's moolah mountain is more massive than ever. It just doesn't want the people who built it
Flash the cash, flush the cache
Britain's driverless dream hits a roundabout of awkward questions
Institute for Driverless Transport wants answers on jobs impact and what happens if the supplier bails
From Expertise to Intelligence: NISCO Deploys World's First Swarm-Intelligence Steel Model at Scale
PARTNER CONTENT: 300+ AI applications delivering surges in core metrics and annual cost reduction of over CNY100m
Manager threatened to fire a colleague, then gave them a critical task – which they flubbed
Nobody noticed for years, at which point the boss realized they had to cover up their poor decision
Chap who coded Google’s Pac-Man clone reveals how the game freaked out Firefox
Waka-waka-waka-waka why why why why?
India floats AI plan under which ‘The model travels to the data, rather than the data travelling to the model’
Wants more local AI, without Big Tech getting open access to everything
Google says Asian advertisers spending less due to Europe's customs changes
PLUS: Brake pedals break on Huawei-made cars; North Korea named as source of Binance hack; and more!
Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel is out of ‘stabilization phase’ and using ‘much healthier model’ for AI contributions
Yet machine-made patches often get rewritten'
'Mother of all editors' Emacs is 50
By a startling coincidence, so is its arch-rival Vi
Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions – Openreach
Legacy public switched telephone network service is to be retired on January 31, 2027
Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry
Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s
Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?
Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use
A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession
Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out
London's Oxford Street signage shows its underwear to passing tourists
Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan
How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot
Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts
Blame plunging token prices
HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare
How the Uber-bound delivery giant tuned its mobile networking stack to cut latency
Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see
n0n-existent security
GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement
$220 million? For all of you? Yeah, we can probably dig that up ...
Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise… couldn't be us
Claudeshop fingers 'malicious actor' in targeted supply-chain attack on Cursor
Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment
Whew! Only kidding, here I am
AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS
Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland
NASA ponders a Hubble servicing mission or a controlled deorbit
Agency only looking for information, but reentry countdown ticking for veteran space telescope
Topcoat enables Rust to render server-side web apps
Rust guru rejiggers web app reactivity for potentially speedier page loading
Suspected Chinese attackers built a custom PHP2Shell exploit and rooted 25 servers
Snoops 'likely still' have access to US government-affiliated network
Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop
Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing
BattMan aims to turbocharge US batteries without robbin' critical minerals
DoE-backed consortium hoping to scale, says orgs can apply to become, literally, part of BattMan
GSA left sensitive Google Drive files open to staff, contractors
Auditors have flagged similar security failures since 2014
Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat
Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030
Built to bend: Postgres’s inventor and a steward on what AI really needs
PARTNER CONTENT: Michael Stonebraker and Bruce Momjian on why enterprise AI needs a database that no one controls, and what PostgreSQL 19 says about the road ahead
Belgium's tax agency confirms cyberattack, pulls services offline
Officials confirm this week's tax deadlines extended to November as a result
Systemd adds support for Rust
What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!
Critical launch for Vulcan as ULA targets Friday the 13th
Hopefully without disintegrating SRB nozzles
Shortlist of age checks for the UK's under-16 social media ban is out, 'some' adults will need verifying
Some adults may not need to prove it, but many will
Attackers turn GitHub issues into supply chain campaign against 61 public repos in less than an hour
'The workflow automatically is triggered within a second, and if the workflow is indeed vulnerable, then the attack is executed successfully'
LibreOffice's 'no AI' stance meets LLM-assisted code
Core developers avoid AI coding assistants, while community contributors face disclosure and review rules
Traces of new Pi hardware spotted in GitHub
A new Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A seen lurking in the repository
Microsoft breaks New Outlook attachment opening with Edge Update
Attachments in New Outlook come undone thanks to Windows' fundamental interconnectedness of things
Matrix takes sovereign messaging into the realm of the tech giants
Once more, with feeling: 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you'
Admin dropped the F-bomb in a password to show hackers who was really 1337
Cursing in login credentials can help keep the bad guys out, but not when the rest of your security is BS
HPE puts storage to work on AI’s expensive memory problem
PARTNER CONTENT: HPE Alletra MP X10000 cache offload delivers up to 20* faster time to first token in testing validated by Kamiwaza. Apparently, remembering things beats calculating them again.
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon looks like a diamond in the rough
Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO
Boffin's software found a possible dwarf planet - a result so rare he thought it must be a bug
2026 ED138 is way out beyond Neptune and perhaps the smallest known object of its type
Tape is so not dead that Fujifilm will increase production capacity 5x
Because, sigh, AI
Google struggling to make AI Mode searches pay
That's a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud
Please state the nature of the medical emergency: Google is building a robot medic for NASA
The AI medical assistant is still being tested. Now the space boffins want to give it hands
Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead
Why give people tests that AI aces?
Oracle celebrates end of Cybersecurity Awareness Month with quadruple trouble
Attackers probe another EBS bug, and ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft 0-day turns out to involve three vulns
Amazon tells tokenmaxxing devs to slow their AI roll
Focus more on what matters, please, like creating useful software and accomplishing company goals
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