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Microsoft will force its 'superintelligence' to be a 'humanist' and play nice with people
Microsoft has joined the ranks of tech giants chasing superintelligent artificial intelligence, but the company's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman’s vision is markedly different from that articulated by other industry leaders…
Gootloader malware back for the attack, serves up ransomware
Gootloader JavaScript malware, commonly used to deliver ransomware, is back in action after a period of reduced activity.…
Google’s Ironwood TPUs represent a bigger threat than Nvidia would have you believe
opinion Look out, Jensen! With its TPUs, Google has shown time and time again that it's not the size of your accelerators that matters but how efficiently you can scale them in production.…
OpenAI CFO says can keep afloat without federal bailout
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says that her company is not seeking federal loan guarantees after suggesting the opposite in an on-stage interview at a Wall Street Journal event.…
Cisco warns of 'new attack variant' battering firewalls under exploit for 6 months
Cisco warned customers about another wave of attacks against its firewalls, which have been battered by intruders for at least six months. It also patched two critical bugs in its Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) software that aren't under active exploitation - yet.…
Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October
ai-pocalypse A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn't come at a better time. October jobs data suggests AI is driving the largest wave of layoffs headed into the end of the year that we've seen since 2003. …
Union brands Rockstar’s leak claim “a distraction” as protests hit Take-Two London
Rockstar Games denies claims that it fired several employees over their union activity, insisting that it sacked the team members for leaking confidential information.…
FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute
A convicted identity thief has lost his appeal against Uncle Sam after claiming federal agents destroyed a seized hard drive containing cryptocurrency worth more than $345 million.…
Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software
Opinion The agentic era remains a fantasy world. Software agents, the notional next frontier for generative AI services, cannot escape the gravity of their contradictions, legal ambiguities, and competitive pressures. Not everyone, especially not competing businesses, wants a bot representing the customer.…
Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters
Lenovo says that traditional datacenters are not fit for purpose, and must evolve to future-proof businesses across EMEA. This is based on research, but the PC and server biz has come up with some wacky possible designs, including one that is almost literally in the clouds.…
Vibe coding named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant
Vibe coding has broken free of tech circles to claim Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year 2025 — a choice that may prompt developers to ask: what could possibly go wrong?…
Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet
Ready to have your agent talk to my agent and arrange a sale? Microsoft has published a simulated marketplace to put AI agents through their paces and answer a question for the new age: Would you trust AI with your credit card?…
You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will
123456. admin. password. For years, the IT world has been reminding users not to rely on such predictable passwords. And yet here we are with another study finding that those sorts of quickly-guessable, universally-held-to-be-bad passwords are still the most popular ones.…
Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence
Microsoft has officially confirmed that Configuration Manager will transition to an annual release cadence, with Intune as the primary focus for innovation.…
SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach
SonicWall has blamed an unnamed, state-sponsored collective for the September break-in that saw cybercriminals rifle through a cache of firewall configuration backups.…
Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge
Colt Data Centre Services has secured approval to invest £2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) in three hyperscale data centers at its Hayes Digital Park campus in west London.…
Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei's Slack
Japanese media behemoth Nikkei has admitted to a data breach after miscreants slipped into its internal Slack workspace, exposing the personal details of more than 17,000 employees and business partners.…
Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us
Cloud vendors’ commercial models poorly serve scientists, forcing them to struggle for value amid tightening budgets, according to research.…
UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn
The UK's House of Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee has published a scathing report, "The Space Economy: Act Now or Lose Out," declaring that the 2021 National Space Strategy has "failed to turn its ambitions into reality."…
China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
China has matched the European Space Agency’s feat of taking a snapshot of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from a Mars orbiter.…