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Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs
Over the past few years, database and analytics vendors have hopped on a bandwagon that may take us all to a destination where common data queries are free from the constraints of the specialist query language SQL.…
Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects
One in five UK firms have already moved AI workloads abroad due to high energy costs, in findings likely to alarm a government counting on AI to drive economic growth.…
Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock
A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the world, Gartner increased its growth forecasts for global IT spending by nearly three percentage points.…
Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot
The Mozilla Foundation has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software defenders.…
Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs
Meta, the company built on watching everything its billions of users do online so it can keep them clicking on ragebait and targeted ads, is reportedly now installing surveillance software on employees’ work computers.…
Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan
Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its Pro subscription plan, according to some of its public-facing web pages, but the company says it’s only a test for a small number of users.…
Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI
OPINION Apple's pending leadership transition affords the company a rare opportunity to return to its roots and once again serve as a source of inspiration instead of frustration.…
Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor
State-sponsored cyberattacks from Chinese intelligence and military agencies display "an eye-watering level of sophistication," UK National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne is expected to say in a less-than-cheery opening speech to kick off its annual conference.…
Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears
The latest point release of Zorin OS is here, as an interesting alternative to Linux Mint for those still searching for a replacement for Windows 10 as the dust settles over the ruins.…
Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide
If a cyberattack leads to a death, that's murder. A former FBI cyber division chief urged the US Justice Department to consider felony homicide charges against ransomware actors when attacks on hospitals lead to patient deaths.…
More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks
America's lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to patch the security holes.…
Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months
The US and Starlink lead the way in the still-young direct-to-device (D2D) satellite market, where the number of connections recorded by Ookla rose nearly 25 percent between July 2025 and March 2026.…
macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets
A ClickFix campaign targeting macOS users delivers an AppleScript-based infostealer that collects credentials and live session cookies from 14 browsers, 16 cryptocurrency wallets, and more than 200 extensions.…
Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks
A new version of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit is out with enhanced testing support and improved memory management. The latter is a critical issue to devs and follows complaints of memory leaks causing problems in production.…
The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping
It might look like a map of the London Underground designed by a madman, but Gartner's newly-completed DBMS Market Share Ranks: 2011-2025 has an important message. The change may be glacial, but (most of the) dominant database vendors are slowly losing their grip on the market.…
Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords
The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two co-workers did the same.…
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap'
Blue Origin's New Glenn loss of a satellite has been classed as a "mishap" by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), triggering a mandatory investigation.…
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match
Review Ever since AMD's cache-stacked Ryzen 7 5800X3D closed the gap with Intel in gaming, folks have wondered: if one V-Cache chiplet is good, surely two must be better. With the launch of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition (DE), we finally have our answer.…
AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account
Vercel's CEO reckons the crooks behind its recent breach likely had a helping hand from AI, saying the attackers moved with "surprising velocity" and a deep understanding of the company's infrastructure.…
Crook claims to leak 'video surveillance footage' of companies
A Mexican IT infrastructure and digital transformation biz is on clean-up duty after a criminal posted screenshots of what they claimed was company video surveillance footage to a cybercrime forum.…