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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.…
Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it
Stack Overflow, the once-popular dev community, has abandoned a planned redesign that was meant to refocus the site more on discussions than the question-and-answer format that built its reputation.…
Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo
The Artemis II mission has produced some stunning imagery as the spacecraft loops around the Moon on its journey from Earth and back.…
Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard
Samsung and Apple phones are more difficult to repair than those from other makers, according to a report ranking devices by how easy to fix they are.…
Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off, survey finds
Tech leaders hoping AI might help save money and improve efficiency in IT infrastructure should know that only 28 percent of use cases fully succeed and offer return on investment (ROI).…
White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record
First, the good news: the Artemis II crew has successfully swung around the far side of the Moon and surpassed Apollo 13's record for the farthest distance traveled by humans in space. Now the bad news: the White House is sharpening the budget blade once again.…
No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships
The UALink Consortium, a group of tech giants working on GPU networking standards to provide an alternative to Nvidia's NVLink and NVSwitch, has released new specs, but is still months away from shipping silicon.…
Shots fired over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis
Datacenter protests have taken an ugly turn in the US, with gunshots fired at the home of an Indianapolis councilor who recently lent his support to plans for a server farm in the area.…
OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'
Kubecon Sovereignty was a big topic was at last week's Kubecon, and Thierry Carrez, the General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, shared strong feelings around it that included raising the idea that tech companies might be forced by their countries' governments to deploy "kill switches."…
Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows
Opinion When the first M1 Apple Silicon systems sprouted at the end of 2020, we loved the tech but not the walled garden it grew in. Apple had complete control over all its platforms and could set its own rules, but only to become more Apple-y. There was a whole world outside that area where Apple Silicon would never tread, even if Cupertino could iterate fast enough to keep up. Plus, Apple's appliance sensibility limited its expansion options, especially with performance dependent on its own silicon. …
Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online
British adults are now less active on social media, according to Ofcom, with just half of users actively posting, and fewer now believe the benefits outweigh the risks of being online.…

