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Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms
AI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared – including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services.…
Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many
Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be.…
French cops free mother and son after 20-hour crypto kidnap ordeal
A mother and her ten-year-old son are now free after being kidnapped for around 20 hours while the father was being extorted for hundreds of thousands of euros.…
US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally
Many US states and local authorities are violating generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by failing to disclose revenue lost to datacenter tax subsidy schemes, according to Good Jobs First.…
Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work
Salesforce has introduced what it calls Headless 360 at its developer event TDX, which starts today in San Francisco, designed to expand the reach of its app-building tools beyond traditional developers.…
Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks
While Microsoft was rolling out its bumper Patch Tuesday updates this week, US cybersecurity agency CISA was readying an alert about a 17-year-old critical Excel flaw now under exploit.…
Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo
The latest version of Raspberry Pi OS now requires a password for sudo by default.…
Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031
The nukes-in-space ambitions of the current US administration have taken a step forward – and the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has just published its hopes for who does what.…
UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk
Britain has spent years wiring its public sector into US Big Tech, and a new report says that dependence could quickly become a national security headache.…
Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges
Brit boffins have a £2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) budget for fusion power research and development, and the government agency leading the effort has published a roadmap of targets to hit before the decade is out.…
Waymo's self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London
Waymo has started letting its software take the wheel on London streets, with trained specialists on standby as it gradually accelerates toward a fully driverless ride-hailing launch.…
Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven't warned users
Exclusive Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the vendors who run agents didn’t disclose the problem.…
Orbital datacenter startup CEO admits launch economics don't fly, presses ahead regardless
A startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space – if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs.…
The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out
Opinion Could the recent death of Meta's unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse?…
Boeing deliveries soar past Airbus for the first time in years, but this is no time to unbuckle your seat belt
Boeing has delivered more commercial planes in a quarter than Airbus for the first time in seven years.…
AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop: Gartner
Most mainframe users who turn to AI for help migrating legacy code to alternative platforms are going to be very disappointed, according to analyst firm Gartner.…
Claude Code routines promise mildly clever cron jobs
Anthropic has made it easier to automate Claude-oriented tasks without relying on autonomous agent software.…
Commvault has a Ctrl+Z for rogue AI agents
Keep your agents close and your agent-monitoring software closer. Commvault’s new AI Protect can discover and monitor AI agents running inside AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and even roll back their actions when something goes wrong.…
Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs
Attackers exploited a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server before Redmond issued a fix as part of April's mega Patch Tuesday.…
You can finally control serial devices from Firefox
Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla's work-in-progress channel for its browser.…