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Snoops remained undetected for nearly 10 months Nation-state snoops broke into Ribbon Communications - an outfit that provides software and networking gear to Verizon, CenturyLink, and the US Defense Department - last December, remained hidden for about nine months, and stole files belonging to three customers, according to the US telecommunications firm....

More convenient layout saves you a click Four years after the debut of Windows 11, Microsoft has finally fixed one of the biggest problems with its Start menu: The need to click the All" button to view a complete list of all of your apps. A new Start menu, which gives you three different ways to view all installed programs without that extra click, is slowly rolling out to users....

Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised Microsoft reported earnings for the quarter ended Sept. 30 on Wednesday after market close and buried in its financial filings were a couple of passages suggesting that OpenAI suffered a net loss of $11.5 billion during the quarter....

Azure Front Door service outage disrupts airlines and other online services Microsoft Azure has been experiencing a global outage since around 1600 UTC, or 0900 PDT on Wednesday, October 29, 2025....

Petition seeks to rally community opposition and alert regulators Starting next year, Google plans to require all apps installed on certified Android devices, including sideloading, to come from developers it has verified. Many Android developers see the move as a power grab and have started a movement to "Keep Android Open."...

Team begs for help as teenage dev who revived Canonical's old Unity desktop prioritizes studies The Ubuntu Unity project is in trouble because its maintainer, a Linux whiz kid, has had less time to work on it due to his studies. Now other team members are appealing to the wider Ubuntu community for help....

Edge, Atlas, Brave among those affected Exclusive A critical, currently unpatched bug in Chromium's Blink rendering engine can be abused to crash many Chromium-based browsers within seconds, causing a denial-of-service condition - and, in some tests, freezing the host system....

Half a million Trainium2 chips now running Anthropic workloads, with half a million more waiting in the wings Never mind Sam Altman's Stargate, which is just beginning to open its portal to distant AI-fueled worlds: Amazon's competing mountain of AI compute power is already up and running....

Think a custom Yoke is cool? Check this out... How far would you take your flight simulation hobby? Perhaps some extra screens? Maybe some custom controllers? Or would you go as far as to revive a scrapped Boeing 747 cockpit to satisfy your simulation needs?...

The Big Four biz's big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the accounting and consulting megacorp's secrets....

Noncitizens, prepare to have your mugshot stored for up to 75 years Planning to visit the United States in the near future? If so, get ready to have your picture taken - and stored for decades - upon both entry and exit under a new Customs and Border Protection rule....

TypeScript was ranked top programming language The Indian software developer community will outgrow the US's by 2030, GitHub's Octoverse 2025 report shows. However, today, the United States remains in the lead....

Oscar-winning author and performer would prefer Copilot did not offer her writing assistance Dame Emma Thompson's expletive-laden takedown of AI writing assistants may strike a chord with frustrated users everywhere....

GPU giant teams with partners to create digital twin blueprint for next-gen datacenters Nvidia unveiled Omniverse DSX at its GTC event in Washington DC - a blueprint for designing and operating gigawatt-scale AI datacenters using digital twin technology....

Bosses banking on automation? 55% will regret those job cuts Many organizations rushing to cut staff in the name of AI efficiency are expected to quietly rehire those roles - often "offshore or at lower salary."...

Keeping track of checks, 1990s style The early versions of Windows NT were the last hurrah for the Windows 3.1-esque Program Manager. But getting the Windows 95 shell into the codebase occasionally required using CAPITAL LETTERS....

Emails confirm payroll and bank details lifted in cyberattack on US subsidiary Global marketing giant Dentsu is writing to current and former staff after a cyberattack on a subsidiary led to bank, payroll, and other sensitive data being stolen....

60% of government services rely on Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's clouds The UK government will publish a plan for handling future cloud outages after last week's AWS failure knocked out several departments....

ICO fined Bharat Singh Chand 200,000 after receiving 19,138 complaints Britain's data watchdog has fined a sole trader 200,000 for nearly a million spam texts targeting people in debt - almost 20 pence per message....

Onboard cores use a Linux stack based on Ubuntu Ubuntu Summit One of the more unexpected talks at last week's Ubuntu Summit 25.10 in London was by Antonio Salvemini of Bolt Graphics, who introduced the company's forthcoming range of Zeus graphics accelerator hardware. These are very unlike any conventional GPUs - or indeed anything else....

Dangles 100K for someone to fix 23B tech mess The UK government is on the hunt for a new CTO after incumbent David Knott announced his departure, citing family reasons....

Judges agree broadband biz didn't follow its own procedures when booting boss UK ISP Zen Internet has lost an appeal against a ruling that it unfairly dismissed former CEO Paul Stobart....

Cybersecurity agency urges organizations to upgrade or risk total network compromise Germany's infosec office (BSI) is sounding the alarm after finding that 92 percent of the nation's Exchange boxes are still running out-of-support software, a fortnight after Microsoft axed versions 2016 and 2019....

But the data describing where they're used - which is help to fight crime - isn't very useful Internetworking wonks have investigated Starlink's use of IP addresses and found some interesting facts....

Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids Australia's Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online....

Internal dependencies again prove problematic UPDATED Amazon Web Services' US-EAST-1 region, which last week caused massive disruption to online services, is having another bad day as internal dependencies again prove problematic....

Corporate restructuring will benefit ... uh, humanity OpenAI has obtained a new lease on life....

A report from cyber-insurer At-Bay fingers Cisco and Citrix VPNs as most likely to lead to ransomware trouble Organizations using Cisco and Citrix VPN devices were nearly seven times as likely to suffer a ransomware infection over a 15-month period, according to At-Bay, a provider of cyber insurance and a vendor of managed detection and response products....

Olafur Waage has an unusual take on "will it run Doom?" Ubuntu Summit Doom takes place on Mars, but up until recently, it has only been played on Earth. However, at the Ubuntu Summit, one enterprising developer explained how he extended the well-established "will it run Doom?" meme all the way into space....

100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big system The US Department of Energy is partnering with Nvidia and Oracle to build seven new AI supercomputers to accelerate scientific research and develop agentic AI for discovery. Two of these systems, located at Argonne National Laboratory, will together form the DOE's largest AI supercomputing infrastructure....

The pair intends to develop cellular infrastructure for running edge AI workloads Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday announced a partnership with Nokia to integrate AI technology into its mobile network infrastructure, bringing accelerated computing to the edge and paving the way for 6G-ready networks. As part of the deal, Nvidia will invest $1 billion in Nokia. Team Green's gear will boost spectral efficiency and make AI inference more accessible from mobile devices....

By appearing more human, it evades detection A new Android malware strain, Herodotus, steals credentials, logs keystrokes, streams victims' screens, and hijacks input - but with a twist: it mimics human typing by adding random delays between keystrokes to evade behavioral fraud detection systems....

'Electrons are the new oil,' ChatGPT maker claims, demanding 100 GW per year OpenAI wants the Trump administration to build 100 gigawatts of additional electricity generation capacity per annum to avoid the US being overtaken by China in the AI arms race....

Scratch Grokipedia and Wikipedia bleeds What do you do if you're the richest man on Earth and don't like Wikipedia? Start your own imitation encyclopedia, call it Grokipedia, lift a bunch of pages from the site, and let AI fill in the rest. Obviously, that's a recipe for success....

Gap between vendor promises and business results set to trigger market correction, research firm predicts ai-pocalypse Bubble, meet pin. Large organizations are set to defer a quarter of planned AI spending from next year until 2027, forcing a market correction....

More countries are prioritizing national security over scientific discovery Why can't we all just get along... for the good of science? New research suggests countries prioritizing national security over the greater good are hindering global research and economic development....

CISPE says post-VMware conduct raises fresh antitrust concerns Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has issued its third European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) report, praising Microsoft's licensing concessions while accusing Broadcom of worsening anti-competitive practices....

Good luck to the 1,000 enterprise guinea pigs on the initial preview Anthropic has opened a waitlist for Claude for Excel, promising spreadsheet devotees that its LLM will be able to understand their entire workbook....

Noyb says New York-based facial recognition biz flouted GDPR orders and kept scraping anyway Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users' faces without consent to train its AI algorithms....

From natural disasters to stray bullets and exams, it's been a shaky quarter for the world's connectivity Cloudflare's latest internet disruptions report reads like a global disaster log, with exam-related shutdowns, natural calamities, stray bullets, and even a Starlink software failure all taking chunks out of global connectivity....

Agentic features open the door to data exfiltration or worse Feature With great power comes great vulnerability. Several new AI browsers, including OpenAI's Atlas, offer the ability to take actions on the user's behalf, such as opening web pages or even shopping. But these added capabilities create new attack vectors, particularly prompt injection....

Research submitted to Parliament details deaths, raids, and mental trauma linked to 2022 relocation leak Research submitted to the UK Parliament has revealed explicit threats to life and the deaths of family members and colleagues directly linked to the Ministry of Defence's 2022 Afghan relocation scheme data breach....

Layoffs are part of an efficiency drive, not a sign of struggle, says HR exec Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs, blaming the accelerating impact of artificial intelligence for changing how the company operates - and how many people it needs....

Ad and cloud biz rubbishes claims that 183 million accounts broken into Panic spread faster than a phishing email on Tuesday after claims of a massive Gmail breach hit the headlines - but Google says it's all nonsense....

Fake views from Moscow's pet media outlets appear in about one in five responses Popular chatbots powered by large language models cited links to Russian state-attributed sources in up to a quarter of answers about the war in Ukraine, raising fresh questions over whether AI risks undermining efforts to enforce sanctions on Moscow-backed media....

Procurement delays and lock-in fears see framework balloon in size and scope The UK government has launched a competition for cloud services worth up to 14 billion over four years - nearly triple the 4.8 billion over 18 months announced in an earlier market engagement....

Move follows months-long procurement process as retailer refreshes parts of its IT support setup UK retailer Marks & Spencer has replaced Tata Consultancy Services as its IT service desk provider following a procurement process that began in January....

Blames Broadcom's licensing changes that haven't caused other hyperscalers to pull the pin IBM has announced it will stop marketing its VMware on IBM Cloud service to new customers....

As negotiations stalled, Broadcom feared Tesco no longer saw it as a long-term partner Tesco's lawsuit against VMware has taken a twist, with Computacenter filing a claim against Broadcom and Dell....

House of the Snapdragon promises - without much detail - this kit will enable coolly efficient inferencing Qualcomm has announced some details of its tilt at the AI datacenter market by revealing a pair of accelerators and rack scale systems to house them, all focused on inferencing workloads....