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Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and 3B over budget UK police tech buyers have awarded a 25 million no-competition contract for communications technology first commissioned in 2000, with the replacement project 12 years behind schedule and 3 billion over budget....

Your cybersecurity is only as good as the physical security of the servers PWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we immortalize the worst vulns that organizations opened up for themselves. If you're the kind of person who leaves your car doors unlocked with a pile of cash in the center console, this week's story is for you....

Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephant While Larry was producing most of the content for the "Request/Reponse" chapter for the next edition of our book, I took the lead on writing a section on QUIC, since I have closely followed its development....

Private Shinkansen suites are pulling up to the station in October Some Japanese bullet trains will soon be equipped with private suites that include windows with embedded 5G antennas and noise-cancelling technology that envelops passengers in a bubble of quiet....

Services giant's staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices Police in the Indian city of Nashik conducted a sting operation at Tata Consultancy Services and allegedly found instances of sexual harassment and other revolting behavior....

Browser fingerprinting is everywhere Google markets its Chrome browser by citing its superior safety features, but according to privacy consultant Alexander Hanff, Chrome does not protect against browser fingerprinting - a method of tracking people online by capturing technical details about their browser....

Like the majority of the companies participating, it remains a mystery Last week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. Now, under the title of Project Glasswing, over 50 selected companies and orgs are allowed to test the hyped up LLM to find security holes in their own products. But just how many problems have they really discovered?...

'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise People ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this: research shows today's leading AI models fail at early differential diagnosis in more than 8 out of 10 cases....

Repair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowance Microsoft's GitHub last week told Copilot customers that they'd have to reduce their use of the AI service to ease the strain on company servers. This follows the company's discovery last month of a token counting bug that appears to have broken the company's pricing model....

Following in the footsteps of Long Island Iced Tea OPINION Back in December 2017, an obscure American soft drinks company changed its name from Long Island Iced Tea to Long Blockchain....

No reports of active exploitation (yet) Watch out for more Fortinet vulns! Two critical bugs in Fortinet's sandbox could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication or execute unauthorized code on vulnerable systems....

Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software....

Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted "subliminally" from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed from training data....

Some customer orgs tell staff to block inbound email from the provider Autovista confirms that it called in outside support to help clean up a ransomware infection currently affecting systems in Europe and Australia....

Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves around AI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared - including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services....

We've all been there Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be....

Latest in a string of cases that have earned France an unfortunate title A mother and her ten-year-old son are now free after being kidnapped for around 20 hours while the father was being extorted for hundreds of thousands of euros....

Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies Many US states and local authorities are violating generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by failing to disclose revenue lost to datacenter tax subsidy schemes, according to Good Jobs First....

Here comes 'enterprise vibe coding' as CRM giant aims to open development to anyone on the platform Salesforce has introduced what it calls Headless 360 at its developer event TDX, which starts today in San Francisco, designed to expand the reach of its app-building tools beyond traditional developers....

Vuln old enough to drive lands on CISA's exploited list While Microsoft was rolling out its bumper Patch Tuesday updates this week, US cybersecurity agency CISA was readying an alert about a 17-year-old critical Excel flaw now under exploit....

Command prefix will require password by default The latest version of Raspberry Pi OS now requires a password for sudo by default....

Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds? The nukes-in-space ambitions of the current US administration have taken a step forward - and the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has just published its hopes for who does what....

Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposed Britain has spent years wiring its public sector into US Big Tech, and a new report says that dependence could quickly become a national security headache....

Armed with 2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decade Brit boffins have a 2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) budget for fusion power research and development, and the government agency leading the effort has published a roadmap of targets to hit before the decade is out....

Google sibling takes on the Big Smoke - with a human hand on the wheel Waymo has started letting its software take the wheel on London streets, with trained specialists on standby as it gradually accelerates toward a fully driverless ride-hailing launch....

Researchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasive Exclusive Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the vendors who run agents didn't disclose the problem....

Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it work A startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space - if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs....

The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think Opinion Could the recent death of Meta's unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse?...

Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputtering Boeing has delivered more commercial planes in a quarter than Airbus for the first time in seven years....

Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away Most mainframe users who turn to AI for help migrating legacy code to alternative platforms are going to be very disappointed, according to analyst firm Gartner....

Plus Anthropic has redesigned its Claude app Anthropic has made it easier to automate Claude-oriented tasks without relying on autonomous agent software....

The company's new software keeps an eye on your agents and backs up data. Keep your agents close and your agent-monitoring software closer. Commvault's new AI Protect can discover and monitor AI agents running inside AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and even roll back their actions when something goes wrong....

One CVE under attack, one already disclosed by angry bug hunter, and 163 more Attackers exploited a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server before Redmond issued a fix as part of April's mega Patch Tuesday....

Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla's work-in-progress channel for its browser....

One error in every thousand operations is one too many Quantum computers promise major speedups for problems in materials science, logistics, and financial modeling, but first they need to be made reliable, something Nvidia believes its AI models can help with. When you've got a GPU hammer, every problem starts to look like an AI nail....

With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optional Bloom Energy says it has an expanded remit from Oracle to provide the energy for its US datacenter buildout plans with up to 2.8 GW of fuel cell systems....

Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print files California's proposed legislation to put the burden of blocking 3D-printed firearms onto printer manufacturers could effectively sideline open source tools and create new surveillance concerns, digital rights activists argue....

Long-familiar workflow lets developers split big code changes into smaller, easier-to-review chunks GitHub has unveiled Stacked PRs, a new feature aimed at making large pull requests easier to review, manage, and move through the pipeline faster....

Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting Every now and then, a researcher comes up with something that sounds either wrong or unoriginal to outsiders - yet carries just enough of a chance of being correct, novel, and consequential to demand a closer look....

Deal only comes with 24 operational sats, but also an Apple deal, spectrum licenses, and plenty of IP Amazon has agreed to pay more than $11.5 billion to expand its satellite constellation by about two dozen units with the acquisition of Globalstar. But it's more about the underlying technology that Amazon hopes will help it catch Elon Musk's Starlink....

Honey, the skids are fighting again Two rival ransomware gangs have locked horns after 0APT threatened to expose people affiliated with Krybit....

Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damage As NASA's Artemis II mission headed for the Moon, the Trump administration unveiled another attempt to cut the agency's science budget. Yet some insiders, perhaps buoyed by deja vu and a little post-traumatic resilience, are less alarmed than you might expect....

Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases IBM has become the first company to settle with the US government under the Trump administration's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, a program aimed at ensuring diversity programs don't cross a line and result in discrimination....

Entry-level models jump by up to 220, mirroring steeper hikes in US Microsoft's memory squeeze has reached the shop floor, and Surface prices have been jacked up to match....

20-year-old Texan also allegedly planned to kill everyone inside the OpenAI office building The man accused of attacking Sam Altman's San Francisco home with a Molotov cocktail on April 10 now faces charges of attempted murder....

Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s The British government has signed a deal with RollsRoyce to carry out the design work on small modular reactors (SMRs)....

Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25 Having blocked new installations of Outlook Lite in October 2025, Microsoft will " complete the retirement" of the app on May 25....

Already 1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 years The UK's state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous transformation program, including busting the current timeline....

Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold When IBM PCs set the standard for personal computing and Madonna topped the charts, Japan led the semiconductor industry. But that 1980s dominance faded as the fabless design and foundry model evolved....

Microsoft punishes you for updating infrequently Opinion It's not the first time this has happened to me and it won't be the last. I pulled a laptop that I hadn't used for six months out of a drawer, then waited through three hours and four rounds of reboots for it to update Windows 11 completely....