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But only Qualcomm can power the most alluring features hands on Just 20 percent of punters who bought Samsung's 2025 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, cited AI as the main reason for their purchase. With this year's S26 models, the Korean giant hopes to improve that number....

Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed malicious repositories disguised as legitimate projects, according to Microsoft, which said a limited set of those repos were directly tied to observed compromises....

Sometimes the 'S' word slips through even the best media training Is it OK to say "slop" again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London leg of the company's AI tour and said the words that many an IT pro has uttered when faced with a Copilot rollout: "Nobody wants anything that is sloppy in terms of AI creation."...

Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens....

While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security It's not the only new feature in Firefox 148 yet one thing is very definitely the big news: the global off switch for its AI features that the company announced earlier this month is now included....

Research points to skills gaps and weak oversight as barriers to return on investment Just 4 percent of businesses achieved a return on their AI investments, yet rather than admit AI isn't living up to early expectations, a newly published study is blaming the users for not doing enough....

Former Trenchant manager profited millions from cyber tools reserved for the US The former general manager of L3Harris's cyber arm will spend the next seven years behind bars for selling trade secrets to Russia....

Orbit decay accelerates as solar activity rises, with no approved mission yet to raise the telescope's altitude A newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope's altitude shows just how quickly the observatory has descended in recent years....

As transatlantic tensions rattle nerves, Microsoft offers a digital bunker to the sufficiently paranoid Azure Local can now run fully disconnected with no cloud connectivity, Microsoft confirmed at the London leg of its AI tour....

Security pros question assurances as company offers staff credit monitoring Wynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was stolen from its servers, and is taking the hackers' word that they've since deleted it....

It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience' The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs....

Overhauling immigration system a 'significant change for millions of travelers,' government admits Many British citizens who hold another nationality are being barred from entering the UK unless they have a British passport or a 589 certificate as a result of the Home Office's efforts to digitize travel documents....

Galaxy S25 sheds 63% in 12 months as reseller questions LLM emphasis Smartphone makers love touting AI, but the technology may be quietly destroying resale values....

Agency that can't keep bots out of its booking system more than doubles size of services agreement The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency has more than doubled the maximum offer on the table for a new online theory test service to 700 million....

Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diary A ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement tried to use the AI chatbot to run smear campaigns targeting the Japanese prime minister and other critics of the Chinese Communist Party, according to OpenAI's latest report on malicious uses of its models....

Dude, where's my operating system? Bork!Bork!Bork! Airports and computers remain uneasy travel companions. At London Gatwick, the inter-terminal shuttle briefly demonstrated why, with one information screen declaring: "Operating System not found."...

And they're being stressed by geopolitical concerns that threaten to slow important data-sharing efforts Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to improve data sharing that they think will make it stronger....

Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter. And the company expects RAM's contribution will rise through the year....

Analyst firm bemoans peak insanity' among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth server farms Analyst firm Gartner thinks talk of placing datacenters in space has reached peak insanity," because orbiting facilities can't be run economically or satisfy demand for compute power on Earth....

Claims HR company can escape the SaaSpocalypse with its core expertise Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri has used the first quarterly earnings announcement since he returned to the big chair to reassure investors the company is building more capable agentic AI while keeping the fundamentals of the HR platform strong....

Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance Meta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed React Foundation, fulfilling a commitment made last October....

Fears of an AI bubble haven't tempered vulture capitalists' enthusiasm for silicon AI chip startups collectively walked away with more than a billion dollars of new capital on Tuesday, showing that venture capitalists are still excited about the opportunity to challenge Nvidia's dominance despite all the talk of an AI bubble....

Protect the robot, sacrifice the human opinion I've been watching AWS explain away outages for the better part of a decade. And this is hard!...

Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren't What good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches. But security researchers say that's not enough....

Cofounder promises transparency and full technical explanation of plans, which aren't actually changing Discord is delaying age verification checks for a little while after its plan inspired a lot of hand-wringing among the community. But it's not backing down....

SolarWinds + file transfer software = what attackers' dreams are made of If you run SolarWinds' Serv-U, you should patch promptly. Four critical vulnerabilities in the file transfer software can allow attackers to execute code as root....

iGiant also ramping US chip and AI server production Your next Mac might be made in the US of A. Apple this week revealed plans to manufacture its most affordable Macintosh computer at a new Foxconn facility in Texas....

37 groups urge the company to drop ID checks for apps distributed outside Play Soon, developers who just want to make Android apps for sideloading will have to register with Google. Thirty-seven technology companies, nonprofits, and civil society groups think that the Chocolate Factory should keep its nose out of third-party app stores and have asked its leadership to reconsider....

New ransomware of choice, same critical targets North Korea's Lazarus Group appears to have added another tool to its kit. It has begun using Medusa ransomware in extortion attacks targeting at least one US healthcare organization and an unnamed victim in the Middle East, according to Symantec and Carbon Black threat hunters....

Manufacturers like John Deere have resisted broader access to proprietary repair software Soon, farmers could have easier access to the tools and software needed to repair their tractors. A recent Iowa House committee vote advancing a right-to-repair bill could bring changes benefiting thousands of farmers in the US' second-largest agricultural state, supporters say....

FreeBSD's friendliest desktop distro bets on the controversial fork GhostBSD plans to move to the XLibre X11 server to better support its flagship MATE desktop - as well as Xfce and the new Gershwin....

When a one-line fix triggers thousands of PRs, something's off A Go library maintainer has urged developers to turn off GitHub's Dependabot, arguing that false positives from the dependency-scanning tool "reduce security by causing alert fatigue."...

The House of Zen signed a nearly identical deal with OpenAI last fall AMD just signed a mega chip deal with Meta that appears almost identical to the one it signed with OpenAI last fall. And just like all cross-industry agreements between AI and chip makers of late, this one comes with some circular financing, too....

With Server 2016 and other OSes for the chop, security fixes can continue to flow for a price Microsoft is giving Windows customers the "gift of time" but expects compensation for its generosity....

No, customers aren't laughing either as pressure from memory shortages bites Hosting biz Hetzner, one of Europe's largest datacenter operators, is warning customers that prices are scheduled to jump by as much as 50 percent from April 1....

Social media giant retorts it doesn't want to collect 'private' data, and plans to appeal The UK's data protection regulator has fined social media giant Reddit 14.47 million ($19.5 million) over its use of children's data....

BSD support improves, FreeBSD eyes a desktop option, and the init wars refuse to die The latest KDE desktop environment is out. Among other things, it comes with a pledge that it won't require systemd, and this version has improved OpenBSD support. FreeBSD 15.1's installer offers KDE too....

Public prosecutor mulls sentencing following investigations into two separate attacks Two South Korean teenagers were this week charged with breaching Seoul's public bike service, Ttareungyi....

Parliament committee finds AI BS helped shape a real-world decision UK Parliament has delivered the official postmortem on West Midlands Police's Copilot saga, and it reads like a case study in how not to mix generative AI with public order decision-making....

Upstart's 5th-gen RDU aims to undercut Nvidia's B200 on speed and cost AI infrastructure company SambaNova has raised $350 million to advance its dataflow architecture, which it pitches as an alternative to GPU-based AI systems....

Visa applications down, executives emigrating, and AI blamed for the rest The number of international workers applying for a visa to work in the UK's tech sector dropped 11 percent between Q2 and Q3 2025, and was down 6 percent year-on-year, according to consultancy RSM UK....

We like our surface-to-air weapons affordable Britain has joined a handful of European allies in a program to develop low-cost air defense systems, including autonomous drones or missiles, with project delivery of the first elements scheduled for as early as 2027....

Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive Microsoft has teased a significant upgrade to its SharePoint collaborationware package....

As Pure Storage adopts a watered-down name for a rebrand Logowatch Cisco and the vendor formerly known as Pure Storage have let their designers and marketers loose on the internet to explain some recent decisions....

Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax are using 'distillation' to gin up their own models Having built a business by remixing content created by others, Anthropic worries that Chinese AI labs are stealing its data....

Big Blue has been saying this itself since 2023 IBM's share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post that points out its Claude Code tools can accelerate refactoring of apps written in the ancient COBOL language....

'This is a warning. We know you live right here' Two US residents have sued several Homeland Security agencies and officials, including Secretary Kristi Noem, for allegedly using surveillance tools to harass them, branding them as "domestic terrorists," and even showing up at their homes based on license-plate recognition....

What do Taylor Swift and Drake's release days have to do with road deaths? More than you'd think Who doesn't like streaming music while driving? Unfortunately, new research suggests that when major albums drop and streaming spikes, traffic fatalities rise too....

Company tries to curb strain by banning customer accounts for 'malicious' usage Google customers paying $250 per month for AI Ultra subscriptions and less extravagant spenders have been surprised to find their accounts suspended for using the company's Antigravity agent development app and Gemini services with third-party agent tools like OpenClaw and OpenCode....

Nv-based integrated graphics for Wintel box also in the works Your next laptop may have Nvidia inside - not in the form of a GPU, but as a system on a chip, complete with CPU. Team Green could be chipping away at Intel's marketshare and giving people Arm-based systems that compete with Apple's MacBook line....