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Updated 2026-06-01 20:46
GameStop CEO's eBay account reinstated following takeover PR stunt
Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site
Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack
ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security
Meta fights Ofcom over how many billions count as billions
Social media biz says watchdog's fine formula is 'disproportionate' and should stop counting global revenue
BOFH: Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom
No sparks, no glory
Lego throws its own Hail Mary
Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price
Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere
Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client
It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough
Around 20 percent of staff get an In one hour, you might not work here anymore' email
AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region
Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere
HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi
NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork
Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull
Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic's uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference
Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs
The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams
Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time
Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince will each do 18 months for hosting laptops used by North Korean IT workers to remotely infiltrate US companies
Anthropic response to 1-click pwn: Shouldn't have clicked 'ok'
Security biz Adversa AI argues users of AI tools need clearer warnings
60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour
Happy World Password Day! Maybe it's finally time to kill this holiday in favor of World No-More-Passwords Day?
IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power
Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues
$250M crypto-robbing gang’s dirty work guy sentenced to 6.5 years behind bars
The then-teen was told to break in and steal what the keyboard warriors couldn't
TomTom’s route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion
Users report disappearing favorites, blank route planners, and cloud sync failures amid outage
C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply
Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations
State-backed hackers hammer Palo Alto firewall zero-day before patch lands
Internet-facing PAN-OS firewalls are once again doing impressions of initial access brokers
Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate
Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware
AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises
MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card
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....
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