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Updated 2026-05-11 19:30
OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own
By which we mean it bought someone else's with other people's money
Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages
Dull but important ... so, a bit like Debian itself, really
Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator
After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw
Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life
Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 - and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth
BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks
Customers urged to keep an eye out for phisherfolk
Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released
JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector
Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree
GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks
SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns
Tech investment giant wants batteries for its own AI datacenters, and lots of them
Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine
Utility provider failed to detect Cl0p ransomware attack for nearly two years
Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged
Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle
Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration
Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos
Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there
Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug
Client's handy automations get grayed out unless you know the keyboard shortcut
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits
Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement
The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains
Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.
Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that’s coming off the tracks
That's not a radio. THIS is a radio
Who, Me? Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch
The office sink is always a horror. Managers worried this one glowed
Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner
Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent
ASIA IN BRIEF: China’s agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop
PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!
Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain
Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease its computing burden, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical
Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse
Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?
Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon
Furores are fermenting in the forums
HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin
It's not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who's this for, exactly?
Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device
Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns
macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel
Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot
London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool
Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London's West End
UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform
Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up
Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims
Good times, bad times
GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash
It's not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too
Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift
Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes
Worm rubs out competitor's malware, then takes control
All your compromised credentials are belong to us now instead of the other gang
Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction
Twin brother still faces trial over broader cybercrime allegations
Iran war hits datacenter building supply chains, upping costs
BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveries
Raspberry Pi wants Windows admins to Connect – or it might pull the plug
Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it
'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit
Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE
Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy
In a word, 'Huh?'
Meta U-turns on encryption push for Instagram as DMs go plaintext
After years of insisting end-to-end encryption was the future of online comms, Zuckcorp has handed itself full visibility into user chats once again
Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard
A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive
UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls
Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at 26M in extra costs
GameStop CEO's eBay account reinstated following takeover PR stunt
Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site
Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack
ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security
Meta fights Ofcom over how many billions count as billions
Social media biz says watchdog's fine formula is 'disproportionate' and should stop counting global revenue
BOFH: Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom
No sparks, no glory
Lego throws its own Hail Mary
Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price
Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere
Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client
It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough
Around 20 percent of staff get an In one hour, you might not work here anymore' email
AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region
Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere
HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi
NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork
Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull
Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic's uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference
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