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Updated 2026-08-13 02:15
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous
And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there
'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency
Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
Tailscale says deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's outages
Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset took six months of hunting and development of a new logging tool to identify
Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare
Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution
Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router?
NeMo Switchyard brings GPT-5-style model routing to the mainstream
Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows
Exploit Wednesday's back, baby
OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models
Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B
Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending
Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes
Social engineering and malware combine to enable financial fraud before banks have time to act
Sovereign AI overcomes compliance challenges and feeds innovation in public sector and other regulated industries, say HPE and NVIDIA
SPONSORED POST: Sovereign AI is becoming a strategic infrastructure priority, explain HPE's Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA's Kaushik Shirhatti
Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in
Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes
Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak
Nobody patched the CMS or read the alerts, and ACRO still cannot tell whether info was exfiltrated
Akira ransomware scum blocked victim's security tools – and broke their own encryptor
Gives a whole new meaning to Safe Mode
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget
Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 1977
Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground
Victoria is the first stop as privacy campaigners warn the technology is becoming routine
Big Cloud is poised to corner the market for enterprise hardware
AI gave hyperscalers first dibs on scarce kit, and business buyers may have little choice but to rent it back
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi
What would be your tip for this stricken device?
UK puts £14B cloud framework in place with SMEs promised a bigger slice
Global players dominate the market. Will public sector buyers give local suppliers a look-in?
Nailed it: Toolstation gives its store IT an ASUS NUC refurb
SPONSORED FEATURE: Toolstation swapped aging Linux tills across branches for compact ASUS NUCs on ChromeOS Flex, cutting support tickets and freeing counter space
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas
Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories
Zuck’s Chinese agentic prey escapes, will resume standalone ops
Manus AI will delete some data to satisfy legal requirements
India’s central bank wants AI to approve loans that humans would reject
Regulator hopes for greater financial inclusion, without extra risk or blaming models for bad decisions
Modular's Mojo programming language hits 1.0 milestone
Developers await open source compiler release to dispel uncertainty following Qualcomm acquisition
Signal adds an extra layer of security to make sure you're actually chatting with the right person
One big caveat, though: You need your contact's phone number
421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one
Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm
Give Palantir up to $244m through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo
Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency
Together AI embraces the competition with $240M IBM Cloud deal
Deal to fund 'large' deployment of Nvidia's last-gen HGX B300 systems launching in Q1 2027
DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi
This is why we can't have nice things, people
Intel upsizes stock sale to $20B with spending plans still fuzzy
Semiconductor giant says opaquely it will use the proceeds for 'general corporate purposes'
Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers
Ukraine, Iran, and football inspire geopolitically motivated DDoS attacks, while 1 Tbps traffic jams up 519 percent
Feds warn Gunra ransomware is exploiting known bugs to hit critical infrastructure
Newly minted RaaS crew breaks in through using internet-facing kit via known Fortinet flaws, then steals and scrambles data
Cyberattack on logistics giant CEVA delivers customer data into the wrong hands
Valve, Bol, ING, Ajax, and others affected as pwnage disrupts eight European warehouses
Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster
Face-swap software blinked for 'barely a second,' giving Spanish cops the break they needed
Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub
Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update
Building up the US power grid won't be wasted, even if the AI bubble bursts
The bigger risk is underinvestment, claims consulting biz McKinsey
Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G
Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code
Why hybrid clouds break and what to do about it
SPONSORED EXPLAINER: There's nothing wrong with hybrid cloud. It's the one-size-fits-all strategy on top of it that's the problem.
OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs
Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes
Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation
H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year
Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI
Solves tech support tickets faster and more accurately by keeping them away from LLMs
Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU
EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry
Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you
$125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?
DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection
Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI
The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe
Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'
Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer
30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow
North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief
Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost
Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list
What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw?
LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity
Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved
As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them
Bans on new server farm projects spread across the US, while plans meet with protests in the UK
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