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Updated 2026-07-06 19:46
GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues
A purported jab of Sony's physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself.
EU urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP
Campaigners demand investigation and long-delayed action on PEGA Committee recommendations
Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter
Korean megacorp sets itself a target date to commercialize watery server farm concept
Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams
Xbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability
AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap
128 GB of memory! In this economy?
Europe's new import rules are coming for your bargains
Good news if you're an OEM printer maker, EU retail biz, or a customs official... but hobbyists and others less pleased
Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble
Oracle's down more than 40% this month, the BIS thinks AI could destroy the economy, and we've got the Kettle on for a chat about the whole mess
Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters
Up to 150 more stores to get the 'Orwellian' tech by year's end
Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert
ShinyHunters leaks names, addresses, DOBs, and more after Christian college discloses cyberattack
Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool
Modula-based source code resurfaces after nearly four decades
Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...
Barney Rubble points to bubble trouble
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code
Who wrote this rubbish? Oh ...
Japan’s asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock
Zipped just 800m past Asteroid Torifune as part of very extended mission
Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again
SCO's legal successor Xinuos asks legal brains to let it bite IBM over ancient license and copyright claims
EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account
PLUS: India attacks Uber; South Korea warned AI boom is dangerous; Scuba-diving cyborg cockroach; and more!
MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage
Financial institutions are putting their clients at risk in the name of convenience.
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability
Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled - and probably bewitched
Confidential computing's core trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist
Attested TLS: the handshake that can't prove who's on the other end
NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year
There might also be a downside
David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82
Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones... and duvets
Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms
Online emporium's Starlink rival says it will start service later this year as another 29 birds reach orbit
AdaptHealth says attackers sweet-talked their way into cloud systems and stole patient data
Third-party contractor compromise exposed health information and insurance billing passwords
Startup targets datacenters with 3D-printed nuclear reactor module
Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?
NetNut cracked as Google and FBI target 2 million-device botnet
Other residential proxy brands may rely on the same network
AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing
KPMG finds nearly a third of execs struggle to understand costs as companies rethink deployments
EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists
Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade
Databricks unifies OLTP and OLAP, depending on what counts as a copy
LTAP architecture does some clever engineering beneath a debatable marketing pitch
User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC
Maybe they were looking for Private Data
Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track
A final humiliation for Australia's Securities Exchange and its attempts to run a bourse on distributed ledgers
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it
Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts
In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical
SPONSORED FEATURE: ZTE unveils 2025 milestones
Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway
Left hand, meet right hand
Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage
MeetingTV wants to see the evidence
Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme
What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course
Companies that add more AI also add more people
But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs
Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack
Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up
SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training
Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building
Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery
Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard
SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI
Enterprise software giant confirms it's 'applying discipline' when it comes to hiring and business trips as tries to keep pace
Ctrl+Alt+Oops: FortiBleed criminal's logins stitch two gangs together
Researchers scoured logs, finding opsec fail for at least one person who was working with INC and Lynx simultaneously
Microsoft said exploitation was 'less likely' ... but CISA just added SharePoint RCE to KEV list
Attackers need little more than a valid SharePoint account to execute code on vulnerable on-prem servers
Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data
Company that also makes insulin pumps and other devices tells users what was exposed months after ShinyHunters attack
India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears
Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators
Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released
Attackers appear to have reverse-engineered Big Red's patch
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer
Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error
UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse
Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues
Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access
Fortunately, they were professional red teamers. Unfortunately, they pwned the network
Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore
Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house
New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch
They're 90 percent human in some ways, can provide daily companionship psychological support
Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI
Risk factors galore
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