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Updated 2026-07-13 03:00
Hungarian cops cuff suspected swatter after two-year FBI probe
20-year-old fessed up after investigators found video of crime in progress
EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash
Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat
NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash
Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default
The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time
Fortunately, it was a legit contractor who guessed it
Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer
You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?
Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking
Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services - yours for up to 105K
Minister gives Palantir's NHS platform a clean bill of health
330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in
Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis
Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS
Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’
Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips
Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs
For AI agents, seeing is expensive
Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets
Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?
Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity
Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits
Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway
Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters
Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI
Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff
1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials
13% say they've sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests
Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool
All driller, no filler
We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to
A new coat of paint
DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year
Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown
Iran cybersnoops still LARPing as ransomware crooks in espionage ops
MOIS-linked cyber outfit puts on a ransomware show to disguise the wide-open backdoor behind the scenes
AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned
Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for
Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help
Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby - though with many limitations
IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested
Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope
UK age-gating plans risk breaking the internet, privacy groups warn
Activists say ministers are targeting access rather than Big Tech's data-hungry business models
It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet
Major .de domains experienced hours-long outage after registry distributed faulty signatures
UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones
Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports
It's game over for Copilot on Xbox
Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan
Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill
Investigators spent weeks unravelling enthusiast's bedroom project
AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops - which could cost 500,00 tokens per click
Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper Amazon Web Services has let AI agents loose in its cloudy WorkSpaces virtual PCs....
India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree
Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks India's Securities and Exchange Board has advised participants in the nation's equities industry to immediately revisit their information security systems and practices, in case Anthropic's Mythos bug-finding AI sparks a cyberattack spree....
Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend
Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks There's gold in midmarket IT spend, and Anthropic - backed by private equity and banking heavyweights and tapping its Claude Partner Network - is coming for it....
OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year
If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math An executive for ChatGPT maker OpenAI said in court testimony on Tuesday that the AI model developer expects to burn $50 billion on computing power before the end of the year....
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them A LinkedIn feature the average non-paying user likely only glances past could end up setting a legal precedent in the EU regarding how companies treat customer data that they've processed....
Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch
High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage Astera Labs unveiled an alternative to Nvidia's NVSwitch for building rack-scale AI systems on Tuesday, claiming it will work with nearly any accelerator....
Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents
Always bet on backpropagation If you've ever read Anthropic's disclaimer that responses generated by Claude may contain mistakes and thought, "That's what I need to spice up financial operations," you're in luck....
IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf
With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2 IBM has added support for Google Vertex AI and Intel Gaudi to boost the AI-based management of its stalwart Db2 database....
ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower
ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows ServiceNow announced an expansion of its AI Control Tower, transforming what began last year as a governance dashboard into what the company now describes as a command center for managing AI assets across an entire enterprise, including those running outside ServiceNow's own platform....
DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to
A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not Shortwave radio enthusiasts are sure to know the problem: You're trying to tune in to your favorite global broadcast only to find that the signal is fuzzy. Is it you? Your equipment? It might just be the conditions in the ionosphere, which you'd know if you built this DIY device....
Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw
Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn't sit idle for long CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed "CopyFail" is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit....
More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook
Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time OPINION NASA's budget and its new administrator's statements are evoking a ghost from the agency's past: Faster, better, cheaper....
Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked
Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future Bun creator Jarred Sumner has posted a Zig-to-Rust porting guide, igniting speculation that the project may migrate away from Zig, though Sumner said there is no commitment to rewriting, only that he is "curious to see what a working version of this looks like."...
Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking
Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats Real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield has confirmed a data breach after two cybercrime groups, ShinyHunters and Qilin, separately claimed responsibility for attacks on the company....
SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition
ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration SAP has snapped up Dremio, a data integration and analytics provider, to extend the reach of its data analytics and AI agent-building tools into external data sources....
VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination
Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock VMware has announced an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite and tried to make it fit the times by adding features that allow users to run with less hardware....
ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild
Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched More than 119,000 Vimeo users's email addresses were extracted in a breach traced to a third-party analytics vendor, according to Have I Been Pwned....
Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."...
Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday
Victims losing 280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of 102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures....
Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal
CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule Vodafone has struck a deal to take full ownership of VodafoneThree, the mobile network formed from last year's merger of its British operations with Three, in a move designed to accelerate its UK ambitions....
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area
Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags Bork!Bork!Bork! Things must be tough for UK grocery retailer Sainsbury's, judging by the state of Windows Activation on one of its self-service kiosks....
NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns
Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization's open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic's Mythos....
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof
If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you? Opinion It's been another shabby week for Microsoft, and a shabbier one for its users. We learnt that Windows 11's epic habit of trying to corral customers into paid-for Microsoft services just got worse with a low-rent trick. Remote Desktop got a bit more secure, which is good, but in a way that suggests not too much user testing took place. As for GitHub... GitHub got two helpings of Chef Redmondo's Special Sauce....
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