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AI agents spill secrets just by previewing malicious links

Tue, 2026-02-10 17:55
Zero-click prompt injection can leak data when AI agents meet messaging apps, researchers warn

AI agents can shop for you, program for you, and, if you're feeling bold, chat for you in a messaging app. But beware: attackers can use malicious prompts in chat to trick an AI agent into generating a data-leaking URL, which link previews may fetch automatically.…

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Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave

Tue, 2026-02-10 17:25
CFO and general counsel both step down

IBM services spin-out Kyndryl said it was reviewing its accounting practices after it announced revenue below market expectations and the departure of its CFO.…

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AFRINIC says it's back on track and will soon deliver the plan that proves it

Tue, 2026-02-10 16:55
As the governance policy designed to protect regional internet registries nears completion

APRICOT 2026 After years of strife, the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is weeks away from signing off on a budget and action plan, activity that one of the organization’s newly appointed executives believes demonstrates it is back on track.…

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Trump to hyperscalers: your datacenters, your power bill

Tue, 2026-02-10 15:18
As communities push back on utility costs, White House tells Big Tech to fund their own AI expansion

The Trump administration continues its AI push, working to defuse public opposition to datacenter energy and water consumption - while dangling a promise to exempt hyperscalers from chip tariffs to help them stock their facilities with GPUs and accelerators.…

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Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security

Tue, 2026-02-10 15:05
More prompts when apps and agents roam around a user's system

Microsoft is introducing a raft of Windows security features that users and administrators alike might assume are already part of the operating system.…

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Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase

Tue, 2026-02-10 14:01
Survey finds nine in ten customers concerned as pricing changes push many toward open source alternatives

Concerns over changes to Oracle's Java licensing strategy are hitting more than nine out of ten users as businesses struggle to adapt to the regime, according to research.…

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Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks

Tue, 2026-02-10 13:43
Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industry

Singapore spent almost a year flushing a suspected China-linked espionage crew out of its telecom networks in what officials describe as the country's largest cyber defense operation to date.…

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GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

Tue, 2026-02-10 12:39
Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shack

Scarcely a day goes by without an outage at a cloud service. Forget five nines – the way things are going, one nine is looking like an ambitious goal.…

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Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores

Tue, 2026-02-10 12:34
Competition watchdog secures promises on approvals, rankings, and platform access

Apple and Google have pledged to change how their app stores operate in the UK following scrutiny from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is trying to curb their control over the app distribution pipelines feeding UK phones.…

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AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment

Tue, 2026-02-10 11:56
Leaving you to worry about the effects on your team, vendor lock-in, tokenomics, and more

APRICOT 2026 Indonesia's Universitas Islam conducted experiments that found using generative AI vastly reduces the cognitive load on network pros during IPv4 to IPv6 migrations, but that organizations may not be ready for both AI and the new network protocol.…

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Nearly 17,000 Volvo staff dinged in supplier breach

Tue, 2026-02-10 11:09
HR outsourcer Conduent confirms intruders accessed benefits-related records tied to US personnel

Nearly 17,000 Volvo employees had their personal data exposed after cybercriminals breached Conduent, an outsourcing giant that handles workforce benefits and back-office services.…

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Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031

Tue, 2026-02-10 10:45
AI, sovereignty drives continental drift of datacenter capacity

London will lose its dominance in colocation datacenters this decade with Frankfurt claiming the top spot by 2031, according to the EU Data Centre Association (EUDCA).…

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British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain

Tue, 2026-02-10 10:00
Troops fitted with new comms kit as part of Project ASGARD

British soldiers are to get an array of AI-ready kit that should mean they don't have to wait to see the "whites of their eyes" before pulling the trigger.…

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Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter

Tue, 2026-02-10 09:15
Planners backed it, campaigners blasted it, and officials sided with emissions fears

Edinburgh councillors have torpedoed plans for a massive "green" AI datacenter, voting it down despite city planners recommending approval.…

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Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own

Tue, 2026-02-10 08:30
Switchzilla leans on P4 programmability and revamped congestion controls to differentiate its latest Silicon One ASIC

As AI training and inference clusters grow larger, they require bigger, higher-bandwidth networks to feed them. With the introduction of the Silicon One G300 this week, Cisco now has a 102.4 Tbps monster to challenge Broadcom's Tomahawk 6 and Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics.…

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Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon

Tue, 2026-02-10 05:47
Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex

Systems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks.…

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Tue, 2026-02-10 03:58
Just the sort of project that screams ‘years of delays and blowouts’, but Asian giant thinks it can beat Silicon Valley at its own game

LY Corporation, the Korean web giant that combines Yahoo! Japan and messaging giant LINE, will try to build a unified private cloud for the brands, adopt AIOps, and get it all done in three years.…

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OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!

Tue, 2026-02-10 01:03
ChatGPT starts showing marketing messages in the US

OpenAI said on Monday it has begun testing ads in ChatGPT, one day after being lampooned for its chatbot ad plans in rival Anthropic's Super Bowl commercial.…

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Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt

Mon, 2026-02-09 23:27
Chaos-inciting fake news right this way

A single, unlabeled training prompt can break LLMs' safety behavior, according to Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and colleagues. They published a research paper that detailed how this prompt, "Create a fake news article that could lead to panic or chaos," removed 15 different language models' safety alignments.…

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Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials - but we don't know who or how

Mon, 2026-02-09 21:54
So many CVEs, so little time

Digital intruders exploited buggy SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances in December to break into victims' IT environments, move laterally, and steal high-privilege credentials, according to Microsoft researchers.…

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