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Five Eyes spook shops warn agentic is too wonky for rapid rollout

2 hours 36 min ago
Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns the technology will likely misbehave and amplifies organizations’ existing frailties, and therefore recommend slow and careful adoption of the tech.…

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Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

4 hours 38 min ago
PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge

A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI.…

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Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better

Sun, 2026-05-03 23:00
Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?

kettle When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. …

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Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark

Sun, 2026-05-03 13:05
In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy

AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups vying for a slice of Nvidia's pie, it's now or never.…

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Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’

Sun, 2026-05-03 10:30
Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet

The leader of Britain’s Royal Navy has outlined a “Hybrid Navy” built on a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms to ensure it can continue to defend the nation and operate overseas.…

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Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise

Sun, 2026-05-03 08:34
PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this?

Parliament's spending watchdog has held up a successful large-scale public sector tech transformation as a rare example worth emulating, in a striking departure from the usual diet of failure and overspend.…

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Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents

Sat, 2026-05-02 11:30
Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM

With model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usage-based pricing, that vibe-coded hobby project is about to get a whole lot more expensive. Fortunately, you're not without cost-saving options.…

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UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

Sat, 2026-05-02 09:24
Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it

The DVSA's driving test booking system has spent the week offline, according to frustrated users.…

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Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt

Sat, 2026-05-02 08:30
Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once

Britain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of buried flaws, leaving defenders scrambling to keep up.…

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ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs

Fri, 2026-05-01 21:39
CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'

The chase is on. Atlassian reported its largest-ever quarter for taking share from a major IT service management provider, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said on the company's fiscal third-quarter earnings call Thursday, escalating its rivalry with ServiceNow.…

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Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

Fri, 2026-05-01 16:57
Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it

Pentagon CTO Emil Michael pushed back on reports of a thaw in the department’s relationship with Anthropic: The two are not getting back together, even as Mythos draws interest from government agencies.…

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Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration

Fri, 2026-05-01 16:00
SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely

Amid the sensational NASA budget cut proposals taking place in the US at the moment, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has refined the Artemis III launch date to "late 2027."…

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Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

Fri, 2026-05-01 15:24
Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives

As both Apple and Google introduce unwelcome changes in their phone OSes, here's a quick reminder that you do have alternatives to the Gruesome Twosome.…

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CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos

Fri, 2026-05-01 14:54
If software writes software the risk is “systematic failure at scale”. Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester

Forrester predicts that by decade's end, the rush toward agentic AI will grow so chaotic that CIOs will be forced into a new role as enforcer of order.…

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That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry

Fri, 2026-05-01 14:16
Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock

Secondhand phones sales are booming - relatively speaking - and the industry has rising inflation, AI bloat, and consumers' growing apathy toward overpriced new handsets to thank for it.…

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First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed

Fri, 2026-05-01 13:10
Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand

CISA has added a critical cPanel bug to its known-exploited list, confirming that attackers are already poking holes in one of the internet's most widely used hosting stacks.…

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Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

Fri, 2026-05-01 12:42
Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow

Microsoft is following through on its promise to prioritize Windows stability with its April 30 non-security update.…

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OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that

Fri, 2026-05-01 11:42
Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked

OpenAI is lining up a limited release of its new GPT-5.5-Cyber model to a handpicked circle of "cyber defenders," just weeks after taking a swipe at Anthropic for doing almost exactly the same thing.…

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SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

Fri, 2026-05-01 11:15
But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev

An astronomy software dev claims a Falcon 9 upper stage will hit the Moon in August, traveling at several times the speed of sound.…

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Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

Fri, 2026-05-01 11:05
313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming

Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant.…

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