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Updated 2026-06-17 20:15
If AGENTS.md smells ripe, your code won’t live up to the hype
Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions
Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand
Jensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train
Massive password-stealing attack hits 75k Fortinet firewalls
Why are you even reading this?! Rotate your passwords!!
Uncle Sam bets $500M that Alphabet spinoff's AI can dig up new semiconductor materials
AI drug discovery is so last year, even though it hasn't accomplished much yet
Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction
Another fun example of AI hype and reality colliding
Smartphone market to shrink 15 percent this year due to memory crisis
Buyers put off by rising prices expected to turn to second-hand phones instead
AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket
Trust is the biggest barrier to AI adoption, says AI chief, claiming that new features in Bedrock AgentCore will prevent bad outcomes
Digital sovereignty needs an operating model
PARTNER CONTENT Europe wants control over its own technology, but what does that look like?
Surface tension rises as Microsoft's latest kit starts at a pricey $1,499
Snapdragon X2 silicon and recycled aluminum are nice, the sticker shock less so
Cisco adds another SD-WAN box to max-severity bug advisory
Updated at the time? No sweat. Check those logs, though
Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more
Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us
Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft
Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims
Intel starts cooking up enhanced 18A-P silicon for would-be foundry customers
Chipzilla claims 9% speed bump without extra power draw but is compatible with designs for 18A
Windows devs rerolled old code to save precious bytes
There really was a time when Microsoft cared about every KB
UK.gov links up with LinkedIn for jobs market intel from 40M accounts
What anonymized data taught me about B2B sales... and reliance on the private sector for statistical info
Brit competition cops order Google to make search rankings less mysterious
New rules cover organic rankings, AI Overviews, and user-approved search data sharing
Helpdesk scammers are making house calls to make their lies feel more real
15-year-old among six arrested after Dutch cops target suspected bank fraud call center
Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo
Microsoft won the OLE vs OpenDoc wars. Now it's saying OLE dependencies don't matter
System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years
Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything
Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks
Supermarket giant has turned to third-party support as court sets date to hear licensing dispute
Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace
Fear and even grief are natural reactions to machines that do your job. The next reactions - acceptance and innovation - are more useful
Cyberattack sees crops kept in the ground
Bitter harvest for Australia's Mackay Sugar, attacked in peak cane crushing season
AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created
Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion
The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess
Goodbye, useful Spotlight; hello force-fed Apple intelligence bloatware that feels distressingly like Google AI Overviews
Python dev saved from disaster by intuition... and AI
I'm sorry, Dave. I can't install that repo that will totally hose your system
Intel-born networking tech resurfaces as InfiniBand alternative for DoE supers
Omni-Path lights up Lawrence Livermore system at 400 Gbps
AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job
The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is
Three critical Fortinet sandbox bugs splattered by unknown attackers
All have patches, so make sure you upgrade to a fixed version
Commodore gets into the phone biz with Sailfish-powered retro 'Callback'
Ships sans email, web, or socials, but with plenty of beige plastic
HPE spruces up its AI infrastructure portfolio for agentic workloads
IT giant sprinkles updates across its AI Datacenter line-up, including Juniper Networking features
There's no such thing as an agentic CPU
AI agents are a general-purpose workload no different from any other
Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!'
As Google continues crippling Chrome ad-blockers, it's a good time to try Firefox
Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges
Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not!
Crooks found a new way to collaborate using Teams – by hiding command-and-control traffic
Custom malware routed communications through legitimate Microsoft services, making malicious activity look like routine corporate collaboration
Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven
More than 140,000 lines of code bite the dust as ancient CPUs, bus mice, and other legacy leftovers face the chop
Non-x86 servers now nearly half the market, IDC says
Demand for AI systems plus the shortage of DRAM and NAND are shaping the global market
NHS Palantir claims face scrutiny after data suggests uneven results
Campaign group says FOI figures show some trusts carried out fewer procedures than before
NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment
Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve
Cardiac monitor maker's security skips a beat as data thieves go for the jugular
Attackers used social engineering to access third-party business apps and steal patient information
Qualcomm said to be circling AI chip biz Tenstorrent in $10B RISC-V power play
Potential takeover would represent significant commitment to the open instruction set architecture
Scammers keep scoring: Brits fleeced for £1.3B as Americans lose $3.5B to impersonators
More reasons to love social media and AI
Capita is about to sail past deadline to fix civil service pensions scheme
Union says outsourcer will miss June 30 target after portal meltdown and mounting complaints
ZTE Day 2026 in Almaty Showcases Innovations Shaping Kazakhstan's Intelligent Telecom Future
PARTNER CONTENT: Empowering Kazakhstan's "Year of Digitalization and AI" with Next-Gen Connectivity and Supercomputing Solutions
SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love
Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the spotlight
ERP users may soon get ahead by going headless, says Rimini Street boss
Look to AI agents and open source to escape the vendor-driven upgrade cycle
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well
Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation
PARTNER CONTENT: From hyperscalers to enterprises, performance-per-watt and system-level efficiency are redefining the cloud compute foundation
A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI
What's up, DocLang?
Cisco SD-WAN make-me-root bug under attack
Second Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaw exploited as an 0-day this month
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
According to the one person who actually read the research paper
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