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Updated 2026-10-02 15:46
Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam’s approval
Prosecutors claim Greg Lui helped China procure advanced hardware to develop, ahem, 'super intelligence'
The VMware Exit Is a Protection Upgrade
PARTNER CONTENT: VergeIO says an exit is also an opportunity
OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena
Plus: Attorneys-general say investigators should have direct access to AI companies' records when things go wrong
Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter
Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk
OpenAI shows three staff the door over alleged information misuse
Two safety researchers and a program manager dismissed, company denies retaliation for raising concerns
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch
Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price
Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report
Copilot builds charts and metrics from spreadsheet data, with automatic refreshes when the numbers change
Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers, arrest three
Operation KillSwitch takes over leak site holding at least 110 TB of stolen data
Once a $35 computer, the 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs $67.50
Pi 5 also gets a $12.50 bump as customers urged to consider older models or less RAM
Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day
No login required, exploitation underway, and some admins are still waiting for patches
UK spending watchdog opens investigation into Capita's pension fiasco
Outsourcer admits service remains below expectations after missed recovery deadline
Met Police suspends use of phone-hacking software over Russian links
Scotland Yard hits pause after US prosecutors trace supposedly American tech back to Moscow
Flight delayed? So are these codec updates
A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantari International Airport
Techie was stung by a wasp, held overnight by Chinese police, then trapped in a 13-hour meeting
Sales calls can be even nastier than support calls
Pi coding agent pulls a 180 and adds MCP support
To maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component
AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs
Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions
Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work
If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems,
AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org
Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds
Cloudflare tries to outplay Jev with open-weight Clef models
Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP
Homa is a rethink of networks for the AI age
Cloudflare launches Data Platform with bland 'Basin' branding, promise of fewer fees
Serverless data management without egress fees, sort of
EU’s hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank
RUSI wants procurement rethink that could put US suppliers under scrutiny too
Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing
Your invite to a fake AI policy advisory committee has strings attached
AWS offers local, open source leash for agent harnesses
Dogwood Local Engine checks AI tool calls against user-defined temporal rules before they run
Microsoft makes Windows settings backup the default in 26H2
Annual update installed. You're up to date, so nothing seems to have changed. Wait a minute...
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Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure
Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name
MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies
Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law
CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch
Replacing letters with symbols still doesn't make it good.
Exchange Web Services enters the final stretch before Microsoft pulls access
Legacy API begins disappearing from tenants today, with no exceptions after April
Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data
Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures
England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents
Two-thirds report immediate recovery, although teachers remain divided over whose job security is
UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ
The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control
Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal
Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP
Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry
Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they'll get pregnant, says survey
Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes
So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda
The tech industry is hot for shopping bots, but they're years away
What's good for human shoppers does not work with probabilistic AI agents
Singapore’s government creates a dating app
Team that gave the world Bluetooth COVID tracking swipes right on algorithmic matchmaking
RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates ‘much higher’ prices
Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come
Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services
Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn't sure how
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'
Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners
Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.
YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator
If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have
Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China
The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says
Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding
Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents
16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows
It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?
Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon
Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed
Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us
Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains
Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call
MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails
AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit
That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment
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