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Updated 2026-07-22 21:16
Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool
Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?
Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days
Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports
Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter
Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor
A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted
Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own
xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models - for a price
OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents
As AI models become commoditized, maybe there's margin in the plumbing
Sneaky Windows stealer targets 300+ apps, gives crims an AI profiler to maximize profits
Move over Flipper. There's a new Dophin X in town
Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions
Government plans another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals
Greedy ransomware crews return for seconds after victims cough up first extortion payments
Some never saw their files again either, infosec biz Proofpoint finds
GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions
New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products
Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other
Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2
More screen, more pixels, and a Pi 5 required to drive the lot
Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree
Herefordshire employee handed suspended sentence for breach of Computer Misuse Act
Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five
Digital transformation' is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn
China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol
IPv6+ could make it easier to censor netizens or block traffic, and Beijing is already exporting it
OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face
Sandboxed experiment found itself a zero day, escaped onto the open internet and validated scary predictions about rogue agents
The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now
Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3
Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI
Don't call them chatbots
AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep
Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns
Don't worry - it can autonomously attack ground targets, too
Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud
Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises
Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI
Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement
Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain
Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing
If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?
Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA
Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar
AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert
Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time
Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet
Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon
LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware
Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for
UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years
RIP DSIT: Digital transformation duties shuffle off to reborn DCMS, with GDS along for the ride
Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support
Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset
Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago
And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't
Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out
Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14 C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants
Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party
SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Orebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal
Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade
Supplier stumbles and MoD staffing shortages earn the program a red delivery rating
Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods
Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China's cheap e-commerce champs
Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
Single datacenter and just three services taken down by upstream' power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming
OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy
French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn't seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime
Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief
Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims
IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral
Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid
Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy
Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents
Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged
The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash
OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly
Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign
Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home
Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain
Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory
EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month
Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who - or what - users are talking to
Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball
On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire - literally
Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online
HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details
Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs
With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all
UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme
One of Labour's biggest technology projects is headed for the bin as Burnham reshuffles Whitehall's priorities
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