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Updated 2026-06-01 19:01
Ohio hits pause on datacenter tax breaks draining its coffers
Buckeye State found it had inadvertently joined the billion dollar losers' club
GTA cheat service Atlas Menu hacked as attacker alleges screenshot spying
A database containing 64,000 user records was published to GitHub after an attacker claimed to have compromised all Atlas systems
California passes bill declaring death-by-algorithm to 3D-printed ghost guns
Last-hour amendments aim to allay privacy concerns, but broad scepticism about feasibility remains
Agent-led devs need serverless OpenSearch, Amazon claims
System relies on a proprietary storage layer as AWS moves to separate storage and compute to fit mega AI demands
Palo Alto VPN bug graduates from advisory to active exploitation
Rapid7: Attackers exploit authentication bypass flaw in the wild, meaning more emergency patching for PAN-OS users
Nvidia's Grace Blackwell superchips are officially coming to the PC with RTX Spark notebooks
Forget Wintel, we're living in a Winvidia world now
Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks
Engineers' weekends ruined as Dashlane's automatic protections kicked in
Putin sends submarines to survey Britain's subsea cables. UK deploys Royal Navy, mobilizes parliamentary draftsmen
Proposed legislation threatens fines and prison for reckless damage. Russian Prez must be shaking in his boots
I designed Microsoft's $5B EA channel architecture in 2001. The 2026 transition is missing what made it work
The man behind Redmond's direct billing model and its geo rollout explains why the new version forgets the channel to its cost
Memory crunch sends PC prices into double-digit climb
Notebooks up 11%, desktops 10% as chipmakers ditch consumer kit for AI server bling
LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way
Papal's 40k-word encyclical drops and lawyers already asking if Catholics can refuse workplace AI on religious grounds
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident
He knew this was amazingly dumb but couldn't stop laughing as the fruit went splat
If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst
Chipzilla's first 2nm-class Xeon is finally here bristling with 288 cores
Intel Diamond Rapids to boost core counts to 192, but RIP Hyperthreading
Threads on a half shell, Intel power!
Exploding rockets and exploding hardware prices make for a lousy new normal
This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions
Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it
Project Headroom could save you big money, too
Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs
Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression
5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand
The energy drink of frontier models
Lone attacker published 14 malicious npm packages mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch libraries
And then Microsoft busted them all
Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents
CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch
ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal
And you thought a face recognition app was intrusive?
No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs - exploit module is out
Researcher reported the vuln in March. Maintainers haven't responded to his messages since
QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban
Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits
23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach
California AG claims genetics biz downplayed 2023 mega-leak while paying ransom to attacker
UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle
Discussion understood to concern delayed SaaS transformation project
AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis
A billion AI agents walk into a power grid
Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button
Look, says Redmond, usage up 27-43% based on one week of data - admits it 'may not be indicative of long-term usage trends'
Dutch cops wrest 17M devices from mystery botnet's clutches
Hosting provider pulled the plug after police traced 200 servers to the Netherlands
FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right
TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations
ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload
You and me go ChatGPhish-ing in the dark
Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload
Researchers say 'GREYVIBE' crew used AI tools throughout a campaign targeting Ukrainian military and government
Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans
Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready
ShinyHunters adds Charter to trophy shelf after 4.9M customer records leak
Telco giant says no sensitive data was taken, though names, addresses, phones, and emails are now out there
That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026
In a world of mass-produced bot-slopware, small is more beautiful than ever
Jammin' on UK defence secretary's jet as Russia blamed for GPS interference
Estonian academic fingers mobile tower-mounted devices as Kremlin tries to swat Ukrainian forces
Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner
What a wind-up!
Troops’ phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries
Lawmakers push DoD to tighten smartphone controls after adversaries exploited commercial tracking data
Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops
Six 0-days, three under active exploitation, more to come on July 14?
Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents
It is the database titan's sixth acquisition announcement since June 2025
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs
Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream
Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience
May security update trips over hostnames of a very specific length
Europe told to cool its datacenter boom before water and power run short
Get the balance right, Grundfos says, and the region will be a shining example of how to do it without sacrificing the environment
Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.0
Andrew Kelley interview describes paying monthly for cloud-powered AI coding as an 'insane proposition'
Three in ten HP customers still clinging to Windows 10
Refresh cycle sluggishness is a tailwind, insists PC giant's money people
Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform
Systems based on Snapdragon C to target students, families, and small businesses
AI agents get their own phone directory built atop DNS
DNS-AID, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, promises easier agent discovery
Steam Deck prices go through the roof as Valve blames component shortages
Same handheld, same specs, just a much steeper bill
Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach
Travel and leisure giant was just one of many victims of the cybercrooks' crime spree this year
ReactOS brings its Windows NT tribute act to ARM64
Experimental build boots on Raspberry Pi 5, but for now the joy is mostly in getting there
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