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CEO C.C. Wei cites strong demand for AI products. Intel may also be a factor TSMC is accelerating the rollout of advanced process nodes at its Arizona fabs to meet growing demand for American-made AI products....

And potentially 50 times more profitable People receiving an AI phishing email are 4.5 times more likely to click on the malicious link or file, according to Microsoft....

Datacenter hopefuls looking to cash in on AI craze are setting up shop in Lone Star State in search of cheap power Everything is bigger in Texas and that includes the GPU bit barns at the heart of the AI boom....

CVE and CVSS systems suffer from misaligned incentives and inconsistency Aram Hovespyan, co-founder and CEO of security biz Codific, says that the rating systems for identifying security vulnerabilities and assessing threat risk need to be overhauled....

If someone sends you a coding test, be wary of downloading it If you're a software developer looking for a job, North Korean scammers have an offer for you that's off the chain, the blockchain that is. These gangs have recently adopted a technique called EtherHiding, hiding malware inside blockchain smart contracts to sneak past detection and ultimately swipe victims' crypto and credentials, according to Google's Threat Intelligence team....

We've seen this before and it was called Cortana or Clippy As if pulling support for Windows 10 was not punishment enough for long-suffering customers, Microsoft has decided to shove Copilot down everyone's throats with a new voice activation feature and even more control over your PC. Soon, a Copilot box may even replace the search box on your taskbar....

CRM messiah preaches data discipline while rivals chase LLM miracles Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has warned investors to beware "false prophets" peddling AI salvation, as the CRM giant bets on its "agentic enterprise" vision to drive annual revenue past $60 billion by 2030....

Who needs enemies when you have friends like Xi? China's cyberspies quietly broke into a Russian IT service provider in what researchers say is a rare example of Beijing turning its digital gaze on Moscow....

It's all agents and LLMs in Vegas, and even legacy users can partake As Oracle pounds the market with AI announcements across cloud infrastructure, applications, and data analytics, experts have warned that users' path to adoption remains uncertain....

Joins its command-line client from a couple of years ago NordVPN has open sourced another of its Linux VPN client apps under the GPLv3. This time, it's the graphical user interface (GUI) version....

Recovery feature lets trusted contacts help you get back in when other methods fail The latest security feature for Gmail enables users to recover their accounts with a little help from their friends....

AI hype fuels bit barn boom - and utilities are sweating the surge Hyperscale datacenters stateside will consume 22 percent more grid power by the end of 2025 than a year ago, and are forecast to need nearly three times as much electricity by the end of the decade....

Flaw in Kestrel web server allowed request smuggling, impact depends on hosting setup and application code Microsoft has patched an ASP.NET Core vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.9, which security program manager Barry Dorrans said was "our highest ever." The flaw is in the Kestrel web server component and enables security bypass....

Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again Microsoft's October Windows 11 update has managed the impressive feat of breaking localhost, leaving developers unable to access web applications running on their own machines....

Bill Cassidy letter asks if Switchzilla sat on critical flaws before feds were forced into emergency patching US Senator Bill Cassidy has fired off a pointed letter to Cisco over the firewall flaws that allegedly let hackers breach "at least one federal agency."...

Jonathan Cirtain at the helm as revolving door swings for private corp Updated Axiom Space has ousted its CEO after just six months, hiring Jonathan Cirtain to replace Tejpaul Bhatia....

Alert says financial account information lifted from systems Auction house Sotheby's says it was breached on July 24, and those behind the intrusion stole an unspecified amount of data, including Social Security numbers and financial account information....

GenAI meets Gen Z - only one gets the job ai-pocalypse The UK tech sector is cutting graduate jobs dramatically - down 46 percent in the past year, with another 53 percent drop projected, according to figures from the Institute of Student Employers (ISE)....

Mozilla hardens its browser and toys with AI search while closing the door on legacy systems New versions of both Mozilla's browser and its subsidiary MZLA's messaging client are here - with some bad news for users of older kit....

The AI gold rush is so large that even third place is lucrative Feature The generative AI revolution has exposed a brutal truth: raw computing power means nothing if you can't feed the beast. In sprawling AI datacenters housing thousands of GPUs, the real chokepoint isn't processing speed - it's memory bandwidth....

Musk's moonshot still missing orbit, refueling, landing Comment SpaceX is celebrating two consecutive Starship launches without unplanned explosions, yet the business faces a daunting path forward before the spacecraft can deliver astronauts to the lunar surface....

Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet Comment If you're an Oracle customer - throw a pebble into a crowd of 100 CIOs and you're bound to hit one - then Big Red has vectorized you. Or, more accurately, it has vectorized your data, according to Larry Ellison, co-founder and CTO, who lobbed about the terminology in this week's conference keynote as if it conferred some sort of mystical technological incantation....

Windows 10 is the least of some people's problems Windows 10's free support has shuffled off this mortal coil for most customers - but that's merely the headline act in Microsoft's October support massacre. Older versions of Office and Windows Server have also been shown the door....

Minister pins hopes on low Earth orbit satellites to plug crap rail connectivity Data-hungry rail passengers will have to wait until at least 2030 before getting something like universal mobile data coverage across the UK, a minister confirmed this week....

No custom Arm CPUs to speak of yet Meta on Wednesday entered into a partnership with Arm Holdings with the aim of helping its software run more efficiently on the British chip designer's CPUs....

Free Software Foundation project aims to reverse-engineer non-freedom respecting firmware To bridge the gap between Android distributions and true mobile phone freedom, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched an initiative called Librephone....

Federal agencies have seven days to patch F5 products An unidentified nation-state hacking crew targeting vulnerable F5 products to break into US government networks poses an "imminent risk" to federal agencies, American cyber officials warned on Wednesday - while also blaming Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown and insisting that the staffing cuts haven't hurt cyber defenses at all....

Meet [user] from [location] In an effort to help human readers figure out whether they can trust the source of information (or opinion) posted on X, Elon Musk's social network plans to add a new "About this account" screen with metadata from each user, including their location, how long they've had the account, and how many times they've changed their usernames....

If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free OpenAI is losing about three times more money than it's earning, and 95 percent of those using ChatGPT, which generates roughly 70 percent of the company's recurring revenue, aren't paying a dime to help stem the losses....

Oh and the CPU is up to 15% faster for those that could care less about articifically intelligent Apple products and more about getting work done Apple's fifth-generation of M-series silicon is starting to trickle out with the launch of the M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros this week....

Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law OpenAI's Sora 2 video generator has gone viral, particularly among users churning out anime that looks suspiciously like Studio Ghibli and other copyrighted works. Alarmed by the threat to one of its prized cultural exports, Japan has reportedly lodged a formal request that the American firm knock it off....

Big Tech and big money unite to back world's biggest bit-barn buyout The AI bubble just keeps getting bigger. A consortium featuring BlackRock, Microsoft, Nvidia, xAI, and MGX is buying Aligned Data Centers in a deal valuing the operator at around $40 billion, in what is reportedly the biggest datacenter acquisition to date....

Only 13% are AI-ready; the rest are bolting it on and hoping for ROI Contrary to popular belief, you can't succeed in business (or AI) without really trying. Many orgs are jumping on the AI bandwagon without the infrastructure they need to make it work or track results, Cisco says. Most haven't even defined what they want their AI agents to do....

And they swiped a limited amount of customers' config data Security shop F5 today said "highly sophisticated nation-state" hackers broke into its network and stole BIG-IP source code, undisclosed vulnerability details, and customer configuration data belonging to a "small percentage" of its users....

Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks....

Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback - with curious side effects Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has answered a lingering Windows question - why did video screenshots keep playing in Paint?...

Beijing's self-reliance push and US export limits hit orders Europe's tech darling ASML has warned Chinese demand for its chipmaking kit will plummet next year, as Beijing doubles down on home-grown alternatives in response to Uncle Sam's export restrictions and trade war shenanigans....

Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release A month after Debian 13.1's release, some of the more visible downstream forks, including Raspberry Pi OS, have decided it's time to incorporate the latest version of the main OS into their builds....

Second huge increase in six months sees some devs heading for the exit Augment has updated its pricing model for Augment Code, an AI coding assistant, to be based on AI usage rather than message interactions. The company said its existing model "isn't sustainable" but users have calculated that the new one is more than ten times as expensive....

Action alleges Redmond unfairly hikes costs for businesses running Windows Server outside Azure The team pushing a 2 billion legal claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging businesses that use its software on rival clouds has called for further participants ahead of its first hearing in December....

IDC and Counterpoint say premium kit is driving sales in both new and used markets Premium devices are what smartphone buyers want right now, and it seems that applies equally to the latest devices and second-hand models destined for emerging markets....

ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a 14 million ($18.6 million) penalty to outsourcing giant Capita following a catastrophic 2023 cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 6.6 million people....

Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook - and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany, has finally concluded one element of a long-running project to eject Microsoft from its infrastructure by giving Exchange Server the boot....

ESG kicked like a 'toxic political football' amid greenwashing Canalys Forums 2025 US President Donald Trump released a wrecking ball that smashed through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies stateside - and it's now swinging across the Atlantic, according to analysts....

Think tank cautions that without job cuts or capital savings, the math doesn't add up UK government's plans to save 45 billion through the application of AI in the public sector lack clarity and are based on broad-brush assumptions, Members of Parliament have heard....

And which will crash, repeatedly, until users learn how to handle it safely Column Steve Jobs probably didn't remember how many times he skinned his knees learning to ride a bike before describing a personal computer as a "bicycle for the mind." Jobs' point was that both tools help us to go further, faster, with just a little extra effort....

In the Agentic Enterprise, 'AI doesn't replace people, it elevates them' Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff heralded the arrival of the agentic era during his keynote at the CRM giant's annual Dreamforce conference....

Plus: Adobe, SAP, Ivanti offer treats, not tricks Spooky season is in full swing, and this extends to Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday with security updates for a frightful 175 Microsoft vulnerabilities, plus an additional 21 non-Microsoft CVEs. And even scarier than the sheer number of bugs: three are listed as under attack, with three others publicly known, and 17 deemed critical security holes....

America's main cybersecurity agency has lost almost 1,000 people this year The Trump administration has continued to cut staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and is reportedly reassigning others, further imperiling the US' cybersecurity posture....

Laptop maker's apolitical endorsement of politically contentious projects meets resistance Six days ago, upgradeable laptop maker Framework tried to convince its fractious user community to live in a "big tent" after a Debian developer objected to the company's sponsorship of Hyprland and its social media promotion of Omarchy, with both projects associated with politically polarizing viewpoints....