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Updated 2026-08-13 21:00
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph
Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books
Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back
Contractors could surveil and disrupt foreign criminal networks, provided they follow strict rules and put up $1M
The backup Microsoft never promised you
SPONSORED FEATURE: Your M365 and Azure data might not be as safe as you think from ransomware; time for a reality check
Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals
Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan
Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat
AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon's charity data
CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop
Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows
Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad
Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
Developer spotted hostname and credential string lurking in autocomplete
Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit
CEO says buyers are moving fast and shuffling budgets to replace old boxen
Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads
Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term
Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM
OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns
ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you
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
Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale 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
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