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A crock of what now? Microsoft is reportedly preparing to unleash its latest product on the public: limited edition XP-themed Crocs....

Communication problems for recently launched small satellites NASA is having trouble tracking down two of its spacecraft. One of the TRACERS spacecraft has lost contact with Earth while the Athena EPIC satellite failed to send an important beacon signal....

Cloud giant erased decade of work - denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool An open source developer is claiming AWS deleted his ten-year-old account, wiping all the data. He believes this was due to a botched test of a script designed to prune dormant accounts....

Feds claim suspects rerouted kit through Malaysia Federal authorities in the US have charged two Chinese nationals with secretly exporting advanced AI chips to China....

October 14 is going to be a big day in the Redmond world It isn't only Windows 10 due for the support axe on October 14. Other Microsoft products will soon be stashed in Redmond's cupboard of forgotten dreams, including the venerable Visual Studio 2015....

Australia's Castlepoint Systems recruited to avoid repeat of Afghan breach scandal The UK's Ministry of Defence is the latest to slap its hand on the big red AI button as it seeks solutions to prevent data leaks....

Upstream changes force users to pick an init system at install instead of boot Debian 13 "Trixie" is coming, closely followed by a new release of MX Linux, MX 25, which will lose some of its init-system switching abilities....

Security hardening and DevOps activities the tipping point It might not be the year of the Linux desktop just yet, but ongoing cyberattacks and a general desire for a more secure posture are driving some businesses to the way of the penguin, according to asset manager Lansweeper....

Former Space Shuttle support vehicle surfaces after surplus slip-up Space fans looking to camp out in style have a chance to pick up an Airstream trailer that once served as the Convoy Command Vehicle for NASA's Space Shuttle operations at Edwards Air Force Base - if they have a couple hundred thousand to spare, that is....

Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch The second attempt by Europe's largest local authority to implement an Oracle finance and HR system - after the first left it unable to produce auditable accounts - remains on an "Amber-Red" risk rating less than nine months before it is expected to go live....

First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations Satellite comms services to standard phones are officially here, but customers expecting a full voice and data experience may have to wait a while longer and make sure their current devices meet the right level of telecoms standard....

PiStorm adapter and a parasitic OS hijack classic 68000 hardware in the name of retro carnage Linux developer Matthew Garrett has taken inspiration from the fungus kingdom to give a classic Commodore Amiga a brain transplant - turning it into a single-minded device that does nothing but run id Software's 1993 classic first-person shooter Doom under a "parasitic Linux" operating system....

Customers compare upgrade to Microsoft's mega-messy Windows 8, Angry users of Atlassian's Trello project management tool users are dishing out harsh criticism about a recent redesign....

Expect the price hikes and channel changes that proved controversial at VMware, Citrix, and DOGE The Cloud Software Group has acquired data management tools vendor Arctera, the owner of Backup Exec and other data management tools....

Worry not, the rest of the business is EPYC and demand is RYZEN AMD's revenue from AI products destined for datacenters dipped in the quarter ended June 28th, thanks to the USA's ban on GPU exports to China....

Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead Broadcom on Monday unveiled a new switch which could allow AI model developers to train models on GPUs spread across multiple datacenters up to 100 kilometers apart. The switch could help pave the way for an alternative to the massive facilities currently being built to power the AI boom, allowing companies to stitch together distant and less power-hungry datacenters....

More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration, silently swapping it for a malicious command without any user prompt....

They want you to use a Microsoft account, but we'll show you how to get around it hands on Redmond really - and I mean really - wants you to log into Windows 11 with a Microsoft account....

GPT-OSS now available in 120 and 20 billion parameter sizes under Apache 2.0 license OpenAI released its first open weights language models since GPT-2 on Tuesday with the debut of GPT-OSS....

The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options A jury has unanimously found Meta guilty of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act by using data from menstruation and fertility app Flo to sell advertising to the social network....

AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network made technical errors in its analysis of Perplexity's operations....

Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys Chromebook demand surged in the second quarter of 2025, Canalys reported Tuesday, but that doesn't necessarily mean permanent growth is on the horizon....

Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics? black hat Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users' devices, steal passwords, and access sensitive data, including fingerprint information, according to Cisco Talos....

CIOs at the EPA, DHS, and GSA are called out for failure to implement critical cybersecurity recommendations The Government Accountability Office (GAO) scolded a trio of federal agencies on Monday because their CIOs haven't implemented IT-related recommendations designed to safeguard national cybersecurity....

Some pinpointed software nasties but were suspicious of printer drivers too Researchers from the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo have discovered exactly how users decide whether an application is legitimate or malware before installing it - and the good news is they're better than you might expect, at least when primed to expect malware....

Tools vendor targets 'creators who've never coded' but devs will be wary IDE and developer tools vendor JetBrains has released a private preview of Kineto, an AI-driven no-code platform for creators and small businesses....

New version season is near, and some of the big names are dropping x86-32 - but not this one NetBSD 11 is taking shape and the code branch for the new release has been created....

Wiz Research details flaws in Python backend that expose AI models and enable remote code execution Security researchers have lifted the lid on a chain of high-severity vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on Nvidia's Triton Inference Server....

Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment NASA has called it quits on attempts to contact its Lunar Trailblazer probe, notching up a failure in its low-cost, high-risk science program....

Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports The Trump administration wants better ways to track the location of chips, as part of attempts to prevent advanced AI accelerator hardware from getting into Chinese hands....

OneWeb constellation may be smaller, but it's suddenly looking like a safer bet for some Paris-based Eutelsat is reporting rocketing revenues in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite services, driven partly by an uptick in interest from governments seeking to reduce reliance on US providers....

You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000 Before humanoid robots walk among us, they'll be operated remotely, in part to gather the training data to develop Vision-Language-Action Models for autonomous, nonlethal bipedal ambulation....

These are the conference events to keep an eye on. You can even stream a few The security industry is hitting Vegas hard this week with three conferences in Sin City that bring the world's largest collection of security pros together for the annual summer camp....

Chipmaker said it caught the unauthorized activity' early Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has launched legal proceedings against an unknown number of employees as it investigates a potential breach of trade secrets....

Developer community skeptical following 'long silent stagnation' of the framework and accompanying SDK Microsoft lead software engineer Beth Pan has stated that WinUI, the modern user interface framework for Windows, will be made "truly open source," though no date is yet set because of deep entanglements with proprietary code in the operating system....

Launch license issued for suborbital Skylark L The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has granted British rocketeer Skyrora a launch operator license....

Bot built by Airbus and IBM recognized astronaut's voice and issued instructions to camera drone Japanese space agency JAXA and Germany's DLR have conducted what they say is the first collaboration between independently developed robots on the International Space Station....

Using the Apollo vehicles that already offer autonomous rides across China Rideshare challenger Lyft and China's Baidu plan to bring robo-cabs to the UK and Europe next year....

We know this because it just won a big client - Australia - which says that's when it will start selling connections Amazon's Project Kuiper space broadband service will be ready for commercial services from the middle of 2026" according to NBN Co, the operator of Australia's National Broadband Network....

Cites low demand and overcapacity for electric cars on the same day Tesla gives Elon Musk $29 billion for similar reasons Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant Foxconn has sold its US electric vehicle factory and will use the land to make AI servers instead....

'Plague' malware has been around for months without tripping alarms Researchers at German infosec services company Nextron Threat have spotted malware that creates a highly-persistent Linux backdoor and say antivirus engines do not flag the code as malicious....

On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday....

Bypassing MFA and deploying ransomware...sounds like something that rhymes with 'schmero-day' SonicWall on Monday confirmed that it's investigating a rash of ransomware activity targeting its firewall devices, following multiple reports of a zero-day bug under active exploit in its VPNs....

Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives....

One new military branch per term would have to be some sort of record The US Space Force won't be the only new military branch Donald Trump has created if forthcoming recommendations from a group of retired military and civilian leadership end up being adopted. They want the President to form a US "Cyber Force" too....

Fermi America will also have 4GW of gas generators for the Amarillo 'HyperGrid' Nuclear power is enjoying something of a second renaissance in the US as hyperscalers grapple with AI's seemingly insatiable appetite for power....

PXA Stealer pilfers data from nearly 40 browsers, including Chrome More than 4,000 victims across 62 countries have been infected by stealthy infostealers pilfering people's passwords, credit card numbers, and browser cookies, which are then sold to other criminals on Telegram-based marketplaces....

The payroll growth we thought we experienced in May and June? Gone, like tears in the rain The US IT jobs market hasn't exactly been robust thus far in 2025, and downward revisions to May and June's Bureau of Labor Statistics data mean IT jobs lost in July are part of an even deeper sector slowdown than previously believed....

Instrument works fine. Now, about those transistors NASA's Europa Clipper probe checked out its radar as the spacecraft hurtled past Mars on the way to Jupiter's moon Europa....

Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts Mozilla is warning of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting developers of Firefox add-ons....