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Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling
Opinion There were lots of announcements about Kubernetes at KubeCon North America in Atlanta. I should know, I was there from beginning to end. But the biggest Kubernetes story of all didn't get much attention. Kubernetes is retiring its popular Ingress NGINX controller. Ingress NGINX goes to that big bit farm in the sky in March 2026. After that, "there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered."…
Samsung reveals its first tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode
Samsung has revealed its first tri-fold phone, and it runs the Korean giant’s DeX desktop environment without the need for an external monitor.…
IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators
Early in the history of the internet, the powers that be granted amateur radio operators over 16 million IPv4 addresses. Now a proposal has emerged suggesting the same community be granted a substantial chunk of the IPv6 numberspace.…
India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset
India’s government has issued a directive that requires all smartphone manufacturers to install a government app on every handset in the country and has given them 90 days to get the job done – and to ensure users can’t remove the code.…
Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
The Foundation that promotes the Zig programming language has quit GitHub due to what its leadership perceives as the code sharing site's decline.…
AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite
RE:INVENT Amazon Web Services has decided to stream all five keynotes from its re:Invent conference in the hit multiplayer game Fortnite, which is more than a little bit bonkers.…
OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. OpenAI says that it has taken an undisclosed ownership stake in Thrive Holdings, the management-focused offshoot of private equity heavyweight Thrive Capital, which itself is a major investor in the ChatGPT maker.…
Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence
In what appears to be the latest example of a troubling trend of "vibe coding" software development tools behaving badly, a Reddit user is reporting that Google's Antigravity platform improperly wiped out the contents of an entire hard drive partition. …
UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server
WordPress is the world's most popular content management system, but not so much with the UK government. The country's Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has blamed an inadvertent budget disclosure last week on misconfiguration of its WordPress website.…
Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers
As part of its effort to spread GPUs everywhere, Nvidia is investing $2 billion into simulation giant Synopsys. …
Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware
A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the extensions with more than 4 million installs are still live in the Edge marketplace.…
Search the pre-ChatGPT internet with the Slop Evader browser extension
ChatGPT's public debut on November 30, 2022, is widely seen by critics as the start of the AI-slop era online. Those yearning for a more human-written web can get some relief from a browser extension that filters Google searches to pre-ChatGPT results.…
Four arrested in South Korea over massive IP camera snooping spree
Cybercrime suspects and offenders across three continents have been rounded up this week, with cases spanning hacked IP cameras in South Korea, evil twin Wi-Fi traps in Australia, and a dark web drug empire in rural England.…
HSBC partners with Mistral AI as banking giants spend billions looking for LLM boost
Global bank HSBC and Mistral AI have announced a deal they say will spread the use of generative AI across the financial institution, saving employees time and improving processes.…
HPE pumps AI cloud lineup with extra Nvidia capabilities
HPE is upgrading its Private Cloud AI stack with Nvidia technology and preparing a France-based AI Factory Lab where customers will be able to test out workloads.…
Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer
The Windows operating system is buckling under AI features that seem designed more for shareholders than users, and retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer says it's time to hit pause.…
Dutch study finds teen cybercrime is mostly just a phase
Young threat actors may be rebels without a cause. These cybercriminals typically grow out of their offending ways by the time they turn 20, according to data published by the Dutch government.…
AWS and Google build a fix for multi-cloud barriers they said didn't exist
Re:invent AWS and Google Cloud are promoting a jointly developed multi-cloud connectivity service, despite recently assuring competition authorities that no technical barriers existed for customers wanting to operate across multiple clouds.…
South Korea's answer to Amazon admits breach exposed 33.7M customers
South Korean retail behemoth Coupang has admitted to a data breach that exposed the personal details of 33.7 million customers, turning the company's famed "Rocket Delivery" logistics empire into an express shipment for personal information.…
Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival
Asda's delayed tech divorce from Walmart, which involved a complete SAP ERP upgrade, has caused "severe disruption" hitting the UK retailer's quarterly revenue.…