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Updated 2026-05-10 21:00
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
Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs
The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams
Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time
Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince will each do 18 months for hosting laptops used by North Korean IT workers to remotely infiltrate US companies
Anthropic response to 1-click pwn: Shouldn't have clicked 'ok'
Security biz Adversa AI argues users of AI tools need clearer warnings
60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour
Happy World Password Day! Maybe it's finally time to kill this holiday in favor of World No-More-Passwords Day?
IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power
Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues
$250M crypto-robbing gang’s dirty work guy sentenced to 6.5 years behind bars
The then-teen was told to break in and steal what the keyboard warriors couldn't
TomTom’s route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion
Users report disappearing favorites, blank route planners, and cloud sync failures amid outage
C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply
Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations
State-backed hackers hammer Palo Alto firewall zero-day before patch lands
Internet-facing PAN-OS firewalls are once again doing impressions of initial access brokers
Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate
Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware
AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises
MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card
Hungarian cops cuff suspected swatter after two-year FBI probe
20-year-old fessed up after investigators found video of crime in progress
EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash
Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat
NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash
Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default
The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time
Fortunately, it was a legit contractor who guessed it
Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer
You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?
Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking
Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services - yours for up to 105K
Minister gives Palantir's NHS platform a clean bill of health
330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in
Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis
Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS
Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’
Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips
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