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No screenshots for you! In an effort to protect user privacy, Brave browser 1.81 will prevent Microsoft Recall from screenshotting it by default....

Goal is 'to enrich our workplace experience' Exclusive Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced an instant five-day return-to-work mandate for US workers, and warns that staff will be monitored and called out if they don't comply....

Huge models are error-prone and expensive Enterprise CIOs have been mesmerized by GenAI claims of autonomous agents and systems that can figure anything out. But the complexity that such large models deliver is also fueling errors, hallucinations, and spiraling bills....

Unlike traditional input, no cameras or surgery needed, they claim Researchers at Meta have come up with a wristband that picks up your muscle twitches and turns them into real-time computer commands - no cameras or implants required....

US DOE among breached government agencies More than 400 organizations have been compromised in the Microsoft SharePoint attack, according to Eye Security, which initially sounded the alarm on the mass exploitation last Friday, even before Redmond confirmed the critical vulnerabilities....

Loads of unexplained ones, too. Maybe normalize providing a freaking reason for multi-hour outages, mmm? The previous quarter was a busy one for internet disruptions, according to Cloudflare, with government-mandated shutdowns in several nations, a massive power outage hitting Spain's infrastructure, damage to fiber optic cabling, and technical issues hitting North America....

The 2026 tax year ought to be fun A quarter of the Internal Revenue Service's IT staff has departed since President Trump's workforce reduction efforts began earlier this year, and that has officials worried the 2026 tax season could be a mess....

Despite pledging help for those who don't sign for subs, Broadcom says validating their entitlements will delay support Exclusive Some customers of Broadcom's VMware business currently cannot access security patches, putting them at greater risk of attack....

Thingiverse ditches downloadable designs at the urging of Manhattan District Attorney, who wants more companies to do likewise A leading 3D printing site has agreed to purge its library of downloadable gun designs at the urging of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. However, it's unlikely to slow the proliferation of 3D printed weapons, as many other sites offer downloadable gun designs and parts....

Vendor sees 'slight deceleration' in cloud backlog as it offers mixed results SAP is warning of uncertainty in global markets after reporting revenue of 9 billion ($10.55 billion) for caledar Q2, up 9 percent year-on-year....

Hand us the mind bleach, we want to flush our memories of attack Clorox is suing its service desk provider, Cognizant, for $380 million in a California state court, alleging the IT support crew "enabled a cybercriminal to gain a foothold in Clorox's network" by handing over staffers' passwords to attackers after they simply requested them....

Total Recall: Capturing everything you do on your PC screen to become a 'true companion' Microsoft is again throwing AI at Windows 11 to see what sticks, releasing features including the even more eyebrow-raising successor to its controversial Recall, a screen-streaming remotely processed backseat driver dubbed Copilot Vision....

Uncertainty continues to knock tech industry confidence More tariff turmoil emerged this week as Nokia slashed its profit guidance for the year due to looming US levies on imported goods, while Texas Instruments' shares took a beating over fears that growth seen in Q2 will fall away following customer stockpiling to avoid import duties....

But there are tweaks for everyone - even if some are less welcome than others Mozilla has delivered the latest version of its web browser, alleviating a long-standing irritation for Linux users... but making its "AI" integration even more pervasive....

Deal adds to a string of relationships based on improving data and analytics NatWest Group has announced a five-year contract with AWS and Accenture intended to improve its analytics performance for customer data....

In space, no one can hear you step on a plastic brick The Lego bricks are being dusted off for a final time - at least for the Apollo program - to recreate the Apollo Soyuz Test Project via the medium of the plaything....

Science friction at the far end of time for SpaceX and astronomy Opinion Elon Musk's Starlink flying circus is many things. It's a multi-thousand satellite global internet provider, growing by hundreds of new orbiting relays a month. It's part of intricate geopolitical power games between the Pentagon, the US government, Ukraine, and Musk himself....

Organic waste to be pumped out of sight as part of 4.9M-tonne CO removal deal Microsoft has signed a contract with a company that will pump shit underground for it in exchange for carbon credits....

Boffins think worry and stress during the plague years changed our wetware, and that the damage can be reversed A longitudinal study of nearly 996 healthy adults found that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated ageing of their brains....

Already reeling from staff cuts, the health agency is choking on slop ai-pocalypse Amid expectations that the Trump administration will introduce an AI Action Plan on Wednesday to boost the use of AI in government, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are pleading for less of it....

176.5 Exabytes of the stuff shipped in 2024, another double-digit jump Shipments of tape storage media increased again in 2024, according to HPE, IBM, and Quantum - the three companies that back the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Format....

Suggests buying local tech to avoid infosec worries China's Ministry of State Security has spent the week warning of backdoored devices on land and at sea....

Who's picking up the tab again? AI hype man and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has convinced his buddies at Oracle to bring an additional 4.5 gigawatts of datacenter capacity online in the US as part of the startup's Stargate initiative....

AI-nxiety is real, and it's causing some bizarre behavior ai-pocalypse If you're one of those people who pretend to use AI at work, then worry not: there are likely another 15 of you per hundred employees in your company. That's the finding of a survey from nearshoring tech recruitment company Howdy.com....

No more consideration of affordability or 1 Gbps speed goal if Chairman Carr gets his way The next edition of the Federal Communications Commission's broadband expansion progress report is going to paint a rosier reality than usual, if a proposal being put to a vote at next month's meeting gets a pass....

CyberSentry work grinds to a halt Government funding for a program that hunts for threats on America's critical infrastructure networks expired on Sunday, preventing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from analyzing activity that could indicate a cyberattack, theprogram director told Congress on Tuesday....

Summarizing online content is good for the search giant, not so much for publishers ai-pocalypse Google Search users are less likely to click on search result links when those pages have AI Overviews, according to the Pew Research Center....

Sotheby's also flogs off dinosaur skeleton for $26M Videos The largest chunk of Mars yet discovered on Earth, a 54-pound (25kg) chunk of the Red Planet, has been purchased at auction for $5.3 million by an unknown bidder....

Turn that Copilot or Scroll Lock key into a media control or extended character. HANDS ON In the era of laptops and tenkeyless keyboards, many of us are living with fewer keys than we had years ago. But even on a small keyboard, you'll find keys that you just don't need....

Testing shows RNGD chips up to 2.25x higher performance per watt than.... five-year-old Nvidia silicon South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI scored a major customer win this week after LG's AI Research division tapped its AI accelerators to power servers running its Exaone family of large language models....

The diner is now open in West Hollywood, and Musk wants to start a chain video Facing declining sales and a tarnished reputation, EV manufacturer Tesla is looking to a new industry to generate some revenue: Fast-casual food service....

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies....

Fans say low usage no surprise when obscure but beloved feature disabled by default GitHub has "paused" the removal of the command palette,which enables keyboard control of the GitHub web application, following developer protests....

With more to come, no doubt At least three Chinese groups are attacking on-premises SharePoint servers via a couple of recently disclosed Microsoft bugs, according to Redmond....

Used stolen info to pitch for Chinese tech talent program A Silicon Valley engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of trade secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including crucial military technology....

Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspot Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation....

Credulous minister claims MoU - not contract - with chatbot biz could help 'fix NHS' and 'drive economic growth' The UK's Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) is jumping into bed with chatbot biz OpenAI, signing a memorandum of understanding to expand OpenAI's footprint in the nation while inserting its tech firmly into the public sector....

Admins urged to rotate machine keys, restart IIS after emergency fix Microsoft has good news for administrators running SharePoint Server 2016. The cloud and software megacorp has published updates to close a gaping hole in the document management service....

The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions Column When you don't like the message, what do you do? You shoot the messenger, of course....

High Court judge slashes tech titan's $4B damages claim by almost 80% A High Court judge has ruled that the estate of Autonomy founder Dr Mike Lynch will not have to pay the billions of dollars sought in damages by HPE following its ill-fated acquisition of Autonomy in 2011....

Voyager Declaration rails against 'indiscriminate cuts' to science and aeronautics research Updated NASA's Goddard Center Director, Makenzie Lystrup, is to depart after just over two years in the role....

'We're going to smash the business model' NHS, councils, and schools told The UK government is proposing to "ban" public sector organizations and critical national infrastructure from paying criminal operators behind ransomware attacks, under new measures outlined today....

After abandoning in-house replacement for scandal-hit system, government company looks to off-the-shelf software The UK Post Office has said the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal is a risk to its 410 million ($552 million) plan to replace its ageing POS and accounting system, and may force changes to awarded contracts....

The modern art form that redeemed a Windows utility has lessons for all Opinion The speedrun is one of the internet's genuinely new artforms. At its best, it's akin to a virtuoso piano recital. Less emotional depth, more adrenalin. Watching an expert fly through a game creates an endorphin rush without the expense or time of doing it for yourself....

Ofcom suggests government should use legislation to back PSB content on the platform Public service broadcasters (PSBs) need to work with Google-owned YouTube "urgently," says the UK's communications watchdog, Ofcom....

As long as you get paid like a 5-day gig Employees work better and tire less when working a four-day week, according to a six-month trial involving thousands of individuals....

Smaller vendors offering alternatives cash in concerns Analysis Recent research suggests customers are concerned about the uptime reliability of hyperscalers' PostgreSQL instances, giving smaller alternative vendors an opening to fill the gap....

Announces beta for separate production and development databases that will land in a few weeks Vibe coding service Replit has announced changes to its product that should prevent the database deletion disaster reported by one of its users....

Deliberate overheating brought relief to Juno probe's camera, twice NASA has revealed that one of the cameras on the Juno craft it sent to Jupiter malfunctioned, and that it fixed it with some very, very, remote hardware hacking....

Raided homes despite known likelihood that aircon or EVs could explain high electricity consumption The Electronic Frontier Foundation has advanced a lawsuit in which it alleges the City of Sacramento misused energy records to accuse residents of growing cannabis, often with disastrous results....