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20-year-old fessed up after investigators found video of crime in progress
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| Updated | 2026-07-13 03:00 |
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Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat
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Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default
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Fortunately, it was a legit contractor who guessed it
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You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?
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Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services - yours for up to 105K
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330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in
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Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS
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Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips
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For AI agents, seeing is expensive
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Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?
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Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits
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Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters
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Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff
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13% say they've sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests
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Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown
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MOIS-linked cyber outfit puts on a ransomware show to disguise the wide-open backdoor behind the scenes
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Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for
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Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby - though with many limitations
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Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope
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Activists say ministers are targeting access rather than Big Tech's data-hungry business models
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Major .de domains experienced hours-long outage after registry distributed faulty signatures
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Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports
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Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan
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Investigators spent weeks unravelling enthusiast's bedroom project
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by Simon Sharwood on (#75E4T)
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....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#75E3W)
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....
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by O'Ryan Johnson on (#75E1J)
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....
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by Tobias Mann on (#75DZ3)
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....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#75DX0)
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....
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by Tobias Mann on (#75DX1)
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....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#75DX2)
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....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#75DTW)
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....
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by O'Ryan Johnson on (#75DQW)
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....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#75DQX)
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....
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by Carly Page on (#75DNH)
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....
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by Richard Speed on (#75DNJ)
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....
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by Tim Anderson on (#75DNK)
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."...
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by Connor Jones on (#75DJQ)
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....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#75DJR)
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....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#75DJS)
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....
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by Carly Page on (#75DJT)
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....
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Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
by Richard Speed on (#75DJV)
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."...
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by Connor Jones on (#75DGB)
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....
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by Dan Robinson on (#75DGC)
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....
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by Richard Speed on (#75DED)
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....
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by Connor Jones on (#75DEE)
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....
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#75DEF)
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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