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Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place
SpaceX has rolled another Starship super heavy booster to the launch pad as the company's boss, Elon Musk, admits the first launch of Starship V3 had slipped.…
Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care
Oracle has proposed a more transparent approach to developing its open source database MySQL, including new features supporting vectors.…
Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments
Chromebooks, the low-cost computing option popular with education buyers, will be squeezed hardest this year as memory prices spiral out of control.…
Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks
As more US states push to mandate OS-level age checks, System76 is taking its fight directly to lawmakers.…
Fake job applications pack malware that kills EDR before stealing data
A Russian-speaking cyber criminal is targeting corporate HR teams with fake CVs that quietly install malware which can disable security tools before stealing data from infected machines.…
Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones
Microsoft is removing Entra credentials for school and work from jailbroken and rooted devices running iOS and Android.…
Ericsson blames vendor vishing slip-up for breach exposing thousands of records
A voice-phishing scam targeting one of Ericsson's service providers has exposed the personal data of more than 15,000 individuals after attackers sweet-talked an employee into handing over access.…
Protecting democracy means democratizing cybersecurity. Bring on the hackers
Opinion The hacker mind is a curious way to be. To have it means to embody endless analytical curiosity, an awareness of any given rule set as just one system among many, and an ability to see any system in ways that its creators never expected. Combine this with a drive to find the bad and make things better, and you become one of the fundamental forces of the technological universe.…
Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12
Polish police have referred seven suspected juvenile cybercriminals to family court over an alleged scheme to flog DDoS kits online.…
Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a budget microscope
A retro tech enthusiast has demonstrated that it is possible to view media on LaserDisc using a relatively inexpensive digital microscope.…
Mystery outage behind US airline JetBlue asking FAA to ground its flights
JetBlue took the unusual step of requesting a groundstop for all flights this morning, with the US airline resuming operations less than an hour later and blaming the stop on "a brief system outage."…
Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers
Britain's competition watchdog says the next wave of agentic AI assistants could end up nudging people toward worse deals, manipulating choices, or quietly prioritizing the interests of the companies behind them.…
Xen Project quietly announced five years of support for all releases
The Xen Project has decided to support all releases of its flagship hypervisor for five years, and one of the first beneficiaries of the change is Citrix, which has delivered a preview of XenServer 9 – the release that will take the product back into the mainstream virtualization market.…
SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed
The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by examining radio waves for artefacts that are unlikely to be the result of natural processes, thinks it may have been going about it the wrong way.…
HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay
HPE has changed its terms and conditions in ways that allow it to change hardware prices after it’s issued a quote, due to rampant storage and memory price rises.…
Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using Palantir to figure out where its staff should sit, after deciding only the colorful AI company can do the job.…
Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool
Anthropic has introduced a more extensive – and expensive – way to review source code in hosted repositories, many of which already contain large swaths of AI-generated code.…
AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours
Researchers at red-team security startup CodeWall say their AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform and gained full read and write access to the chatbot in just two hours.…
Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds
Angry company responses to customer complaints are a favorite topic of internet amusement and outrage, but they're also embarrassing for the employees who post them. Having AI process customer reviews could be a better way. …
Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent
Microsoft on Monday celebrated freedom of choice by giving customers in the company's Frontier program the option to use Anthropic and OpenAI models via Copilot Chat.…

