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Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers
Amazon is rewarding long-time Kindle users by ditching support for aging devices, though it is trying to "minimize disruption" for existing customers by dangling a 20 percent discount for new models along with an eBook credit.…
Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do
Bork!Bork!Bork! You might say this bork was bread to fail, but at least it involves a version of Windows that most people actually like.…
Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack
A Dutch healthcare software vendor has been knocked offline following a ransomware attack, officials say.…
Investors are going nuclear to keep UK's AI datacenters fed
Investors are backing nuclear power as a solution to fuel the UK's datacenter buildout, according to researchers tracking investment activity.…
DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B
The UK's largest police force has awarded DXC Technology a contract worth up to £1 billion to develop and run a host of business process outsourcing services – including building a new Oracle ERP system.…
NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams
Multiple domains belonging to Scottish healthcare providers have been hijacked and are now pushing links to adult content and illegal sports streams, according to a researcher.…
Virtual SG-41 project brings Nazi cipher machine to life in the browser
An enthusiast has built a digital 3D model of the SG-41 cipher machine, replete with wheels, levers, and stepping logic, accessible via a browser.…
UK's grand plan to fuel AI with public data faces uphill battle
The UK's hopes of fueling cutting-edge AI development and applications with a National Data Library (NDL) could be dashed unless it makes datasets easier to use.…
Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones
Microsoft is reevaluating how it designs and builds datacenters in conflict-prone regions after Iran began targeting Middle Eastern bit barns in retaliation for US military operations.…
Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’
Japan’s Minister for Digital Transformation Hisashi Matsumoto has declared the nation will become the easiest place in the world to develop AI apps, thanks to legal changes that mean organizations won’t need to secure consent to use some personal information.…
Anthropic: All your zero-days are belong to Mythos
For years, the infosec community’s biggest existential worry has been quantum computers blowing away all classical encryption and revealing the world’s secrets. Now they have a new Big Bad: an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities.…
Iran cyber actors disrupting US water, energy facilities, FBI warns
Iranian-affiliated actors have escalated intrusions targeting critical US water and energy facilities, in some cases disrupting operations, the FBI and American cyber defense agencies said on Tuesday.…
Nutanix thinks some Azure cloud desktops belong on-prem to make them usable
.NEXT Nutanix has teamed with Microsoft to bring cloudy desktops on-prem, using its extensive desktop virtualization (VDI) experience to make it work.…
Cloudflare, GoDaddy team up to curb AI bot brigades
Citing the need to adapt to an internet increasingly serving the needs of AI agents without considering the needs of site owners, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are partnering on efforts to control how AIs crawl the web and interact with web content.…
AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped
Stefan Weitz, CEO and co-founder of the Human[X] conference, welcomed attendees to the AI-focused bitshow in San Francisco with the promise that they would receive no certainty and no playbook.…
Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks
Hundreds of organizations have been compromised daily by a Microsoft device-code phishing campaign that uses AI and automation at nearly every stage of the attack chain to ultimately snoop through corporate email inboxes and steal financial data.…
Intel gets trapped in Elon’s reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions
In the realm of his other unrealistic plans and potentially broken promises, Elon Musk's Terafab stands out as one of the biggest pipedreams, promising to boost semiconductor production by 50x for the benefit of orbital datacenters. But hey, this idea must have legs, because now Intel has announced it is joining the aspiring Bond villain's initiative.…
Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again
.NEXT Nutanix exists to abstract hardware into a pool of logical resources, leaving servers and storage forgotten by all but a few datacenter hardheads. But the company's annual .NEXT conference, which kicked off in Chicago on Tuesday, put hardware at the top of the agenda.…
US cybercrime losses pass $20B for first time as AI boosts online fraud
Crims are taking advantage of AI to sharpen old scams. The FBI reported Monday that cybercrime losses hit a record $20.87 billion in 2025, with help from bots.…
Russia's Fancy Bear still attacking routers to boost fake sites, NCSC warns
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a fresh warning about Russia's ongoing targeting of routers to steal passwords and other secrets.…

