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DoJ's 'Super Intelligence Task Force' up and running
Organization responsible for countering anyone who wishes to scupper the US's ambition for AI supremacy
Crowd fave Linux Mint update approaches, fresh from autumn release of Cinnamon desktop
Mint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8
Blue Origin unveils more thrust, less haste as New Glenn slips to 2027
Staff memo pushes return to flight into January, overshadowing third-stage and engine announcements
DigiCert admits 16-month security lapse exposed customer information
Botched server move left the door open, and DigiCert took months to notice someone had wandered in
Home Office cloud services contract may net AWS £1B
Planning notice puts renewal at nearly twice the 2023 value, just as Whitehall frets about US tech dependence
Bank of England pours cold water on AI productivity boom
Turns out throwing billions at GPUs doesn't automatically mean everyone gets more done
UK ministers seek powers to investigate when AI agents are let off the leash
Cyber Security and Resilience Bill could pave way for searches, seizures, and inspections when operators lose control of automated systems
NHS wants a second opinion on Palantir's glowing self-assessments
Supplier told to clear benefit claims with health chiefs, though enforcing approval could prove tricky
Britain's tech ambitions depend on minerals made in China, MPs warn
Committee can't confidently tick off any of government's ten supply security tests, with alternatives a decade away
Safari's Autofill feature may be distorting time
Repeated reports about inaccurate form filling have lingered for years
Hospital gave very sick doctor a special PC for his personal, erm, pleasure
Support chap told to either allow blatant policy violations or find a new job
AI agents are a 'bane' for some website operators, says Cloudflare
CEO says sovereigns probably exploited PHP2SHELL ages ago, and suggests containers are dead
Threat actor targets Indian fintechs on weekends when defenders aren’t watching
CERT-IN warns of ‘significant escalation’ in AI-powered attacks, some after victims tried to improve defences
Feds warn grocers: Don't chill on cyber defenses as freezer hacking spree heats up
No documented attacks against American supermarkets…yet
AWS Kiro aims to solve identity crisis by adding another identity: bot orchestrator
The cloud giant refits its agentic dev tools for agent orchestration
The White House is apparently a popular residential proxy exit spot
How it got there is another matter entirely
Get root on a musl Linux system by slamming it with an overly long password
Decade-old vulnerability in OpenSSH is now fixed, so get a-patchin'
October crypto-tracker hack: Access cracked, law enforcement tokens packed
Agentic 'on-path attack' went after Chainalysis's tools, which are routinely called upon to assist police investigations
openSUSE Leap 16.1 gives Linux users the right to remain immutable
One installer now offers conventional and read-only systems as separate Micro distro bows out
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber, and promises this one stays within 'rules of engagement'
The latest bug hunting model 'avoided exploiting out-of-scope services over 99 percent of the time', claims House of Altman
Copilot Chat has usage caps, and Microsoft would rather you found them by hitting them
Mystery limits expand for users without the paid add-on, with upgrade prompts ready when features run dry
Tobacco company got smoked by leaving secret recipes on a file share
They denied the data was real...then removed it
Memory makers mint megabucks while buyers beg for mercy
DRAM revenue jumps 369 percent as AI demand keeps supplies tight and prices climbing
Microsoft fixed Excel 2016 copy-paste bug. Then reintroduced it. Now it's fixed again
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again. Maybe
'Stop dirty datacenters': Europe-wide protests planned demanding building moratorium
Curbing compute farms played a big part in recent US elections, now Euro activists are making their feelings known
Anthropic won't fix a Claude Dispatch flaw that could let attackers execute remote commands across corporate boundaries
From EOP to RCE in six simple steps
New York's Queens Public Library battles ransomware crims: Wi-Fi, checkouts, and website go dark
No gang has claimed the attack on incredible neighborhood resource yet
Norway's aid agency pwned and all users' data is stolen
Norad said it cannot be sure that the details of those in 'conflict areas and authoritarian states' are safe or not
SAP promises to open out data flows in both directions
New commitment to Apache Iceberg and expanded Databricks partnership point to battle ahead over context layer
Royal London plans IT outsourcing shake-up as staff brace for redundancies
IBM deal could see tech jobs shipped to India, with cuts expected before Christmas
When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn’t happen for Google in London
October outage caused by bad PLC config exposed at a time maintenance work reduced resilience
VMware quietly offers European users extended sales and support for low-end vSphere
Version 8 of Standard and Enterprise Plus will stay alive until October 2028
Microsoft admits certifications can be a drag, launches creds that recognize skills
‘Pro Badges’ don’t require a test, Microsoft awards them by watching you use GitHub
Uber says it alone can make robotaxis pay, hours after Waymo quit its app
Oh, the irony, as platform players fight
Meta brings Conductor on board its model train
Agent orchestration startup gets its exit
Building AI factories at enterprise scale
SPONSORED FEATURE: ASUS wants to scale AI everywhere in the enterprise
Apple turns iCloud into spy cloud, will start looking at public share links
Content shared with anyone who has the URL will be scanned for 'harmful content,' though the iMaker hasn't defined that term
Hey, Siri: Plug into my app like you said you'd do way back in 2024
More than two years after promising it, Apple lets developers test Siri AI app integration
Palantir CEO says it's pioneering an antiwar movement – while happily accepting defense dollars
Alex Karp casts military software as a force for peace while declaring a moral imperative to dominate the market
Fedora 45 is finally finished and fit
After two last-minute delays, it's here and running – albeit with a kernel series already at upstream end of life
Turn your home into a giant crane game with this open source robot
Who needs a humanoid to pick up after you when you can suspend an AI-powered claw from cables near your ceiling?
Boffins use machine-learning tricks to create a starlight dimmer switch
FLIP reveals a planet hidden in Webb data, boosting detection sensitivity by up to 15 times
Bare metal boom: On-prem server sales for HPC and AI up 20% this year
Firms still want kit on-premises, but spike in revenue is as much about increased costs as higher sales
VMware returns to low-end server virtualization with 'vSphere Express'
128-cores max, sold on distributors' marketplaces, and in with a shot of restoring some trust
US gov IT worker pleads guilty to sending Top Secret files to Ethiopia
Help desk technician agrees to minimum 10-year jail term after being caught copying files for more than 2 years
HP Inc hires former GSK boss as CEO
Brit Emma Walsley swaps big pharma for big printer: Prep for PCs, ink, and lots of DRAM-induced headaches
America unites on one issue: Reining in datacenters
The results were particularly stark where voters got to weigh in directly
Watchdog sticks probe into Capita's handling of 1.7 million member civil service pension scheme
Public Accounts Committee talks of 'broken promises' and 'chaos' as 'thousands' of retired folk miss out on money