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Updated 2026-09-03 02:32
Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon'
While you wait, Meta says it's taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often
VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade
Found the time to focus and corrected' incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say
Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'
Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November
The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip
Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend
With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race
AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)
AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit
Adding insult to injury
Infosec pros say we're not ready to lose control of AI
Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable
SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again
Miscreants use chained zero days to pwn boxen as third-party SOCs say further attacks 'almost certain'
Microsoft will stop finishing your sentences in Word and Outlook
Predictive text remains available, but users will have to invite it into their workflow
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science
Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry
Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill
Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much - that's what ESR is for
Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers
Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials
Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15
Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas
Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest'
Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return
Photonics startups like iPronics are raking in hundreds of millions in funding to make optical circuit switches faster, denser, and cheaper
Microsoft update disarms Outlook and Teams on Arm PCs
Installing an AI gaming package offers relief while custom cursors suffer a separate reset
A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter
The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble
London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above
Mobile signal below ground beats the citywide average, Ookla says
UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme
Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy
Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition
Japanese supplier remains in place despite scrutiny over its Horizon role
UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it
Ministers reject proposed red lines and emergency shutdown powers, pointing instead to voluntary safeguards
UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on
Spending watchdog says fragmented data and inconsistent standards would constrain any future attempt
Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss
And RISC-V is absolutely nowhere
Tape still isn’t dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025
LTO program is confident this is a glitch, not terminal unspooling
Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes
23-year-old botnet down
Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked
More compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable
Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans
Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit
Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks
The model provider gave METR the credits for free. An actual customer would not have been so lucky
Firefox helps iPhone users bypass ads on web sites while making money showing its own ads
Baked-in Firefox ad blocking on iOS begins rolling out slowly today, and is off by default
Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in
Security ... this time it will be different
ReactOS 0.4.16 serves '90s Windows nostalgia with fewer bugs
30 years on, it's still alpha, but 0.4.16 brings plenty of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements - just in time for Windows XP's 25th anniversary
Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering
Big Red talks up superhuman coders after shedding 21,000 staff
Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed
New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff
ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango
Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering
The Gentlemen come calling as Nutex confirms sensitive data theft
Ransomware crew threatens publication while healthcare biz assesses which records escaped
33-hour BGP hijack of Softaculous traffic prompts security scramble
Hosting software vendor tells customers to reset credentials and hunt for malicious packages
Windows 11 misses the pointer while Defender cries wolf
August 27 update reportedly scrambles cursor customizations as bogus antivirus alerts spread
Insider: Red Hat is capping devs' bot budgets
And no sharing your allowance! What do you think we are, communists?
AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate
Dutch in-process OLAP systems set to be the 'SDK for data' as developers scale systems, cloud giant claims after DuckLab acquisition
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender
Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten
Hacking education to thrive in the AI world is the first and best step in keeping control
If hardware price squeezes make you sad, VMware says it will all end in tiers
Virtzilla finding more ways to pull data out of DRAM to enable densification' and dodge the RAMpocalypse
AI adoption at work is broad but shallow
GenAI now reaches 80% of occupations, but in most of those fewer than half of workers use it
Nvidia is building an IP licensing empire on the back of NVLink
Even when you think you're not buying Nvidia, you might still be buying Nvidia
Healthcare cyberattacks hit pacemakers and millions of patient records
McKesson admits breach as ShinyHunters demands $55.2M
VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD
Forget the confusing branding and focus on your shrinking token bill
Orbify.eu pitches warped Inception-style 3D maps for navigation
'You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling'
OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire
Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness
Attack hides malware in PNGs and drops custom reverse tunnel on victims' machines
Next-level ClickFix wave sets off multi-stage attack chain
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