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Updated 2026-05-12 18:00
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins
Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu
FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security
Quietly extends waivers to 2029 after realizing it was about to leave millions of devices unpatched
Congress investigates Canvas breach as company pays ransom
Instructure CEO Steve Daly's got some explaining to do
AirBit crypto Ponzi victims can now claim slice of $400M asset haul
After guilty pleas, prison terms, and seizures, the DOJ has opened the compensation process
US bank reports itself after slinging customer data at 'unauthorized AI app'
Volume and sensitivity of the data cited as chief concerns
SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch
Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May
Lawsuit brought by former store operators missing from Vodafone results
Former franchise operators claim telco unfairly cut commission and other payments
NHS England confirms: Palantir staff can access patient data
Tech firm's employees can get an 'admin' role letting them into the National Data Integration Tenant... and its identifiable information
Frontier AI safety tests may be creating the very risks they're meant to stop
Think tank warns outsider access to powerful models is governed by patchy controls and a hope nobody dangerous gets in
Cache-poisoning caper turns TanStack npm packages toxic
Six-minute supply chain blitz pushed 84 malicious versions with credential theft and disk-wiping code
EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way
Mozilla claims the Digital Markets Act delivered lasting bump, invites Britain to do similar
Microsoft makes Copilot easier to summon, harder to ignore in Office
It looks like you're trying to get more Microsoft 365 users to engage with your assistant. Would you like help?
Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue
Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope
Apple, Google drag cross-platform texting into the encrypted age
After years of stopping dead at the green bubble border, iPhone and Android users can finally send E2EE messages without relying on third-party apps
ZTE and Claro launch next-generation 4K Ultra HD IP STB in Brazil
Device delivers smoother streaming and simpler interaction, elevating home entertainment
FleetWave outage takes another turn. Chevin confirms crooks accessed customer data
A month after bringing systems back online, SaaS vendor tells customers attackers potentially walked off with operational data, contact details, and payroll numbers
Britain pays Starlink millions despite Musk's calls to overthrow UK government
Satellite service supports troops and Ukraine, but payments may raise eyebrows after boss's political broadsides
Japan’s PM orders cybersecurity review to stop Mythos going full CyberZilla
Fears exponential increase in attack scale and speed
Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6
Critics are not convinced this plan to add an area code' based on ASNs has much merit
GitLab promises a different kind of layoff as biz pivots toward AI
Code hosting biz is trimming its global footprint and flattening its management layer
Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter
Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images
Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure
Analyst says modernizing applications is probably a better use of your time than hypervisor migration
Double Canvas breach acknowledged as ShinyHunters sets new pay-or-leak deadline
UPDATED: Sorry, kids, everything's back up so get to work on your new assignment - An essay on the ethics of paying ransoms, because it looks like that's what happened here
Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line
Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers
Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks
An intern who failed this much would be shown the door
Cookie thieves caught stealing dev secrets via fake Claude Code installers
New IElevator2 COM interface? No problem
OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own
By which we mean it bought someone else's with other people's money
Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages
Dull but important ... so, a bit like Debian itself, really
Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator
After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw
Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life
Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 - and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth
BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks
Customers urged to keep an eye out for phisherfolk
Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released
JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector
Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree
GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks
SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns
Tech investment giant wants batteries for its own AI datacenters, and lots of them
Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine
Utility provider failed to detect Cl0p ransomware attack for nearly two years
Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged
Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle
Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration
Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos
Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there
Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug
Client's handy automations get grayed out unless you know the keyboard shortcut
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits
Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement
The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains
Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.
Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that’s coming off the tracks
That's not a radio. THIS is a radio
Who, Me? Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch
The office sink is always a horror. Managers worried this one glowed
Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner
Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent
ASIA IN BRIEF: China’s agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop
PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!
Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain
Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease its computing burden, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical
Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse
Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?
Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon
Furores are fermenting in the forums
HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin
It's not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who's this for, exactly?
Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device
Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns
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