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Agents gone wild! Companies give untrustworthy bots keys to the kingdom
Corporate use of AI agents in 2026 looks like the Wild West, with bots running amok and no one quite knowing what to do about it - especially when it comes to managing and securing their identities.…
Dow Chemical says AI is the element behind 4,500 job cuts
ai-pocalypse The jury is still out when it comes to determining how much job loss AI is causing. However, we now have another case study. Dow Chemical blames AI automation for its plans to cut 4,500 jobs, about 12.5 percent of its work force.…
AI datacenter boom triples US gas power builds, filling the air with more CO2
Fossil fuel-fired power plant development is roaring back to life in the US thanks to the AI datacenter boom, with data from 2025 suggesting we're reaching the point where the renewable energy transition - and efforts to ease carbon emissions - may well be doomed.…
To stop crims, Google starts dismantling residential proxy network they use to hide
Crims love to make it look like their traffic is actually coming from legit homes and businesses, and they do so by using residential proxy networks. Now, Google says it has "significantly degraded" what it believes is one of the world's largest residential proxy networks.…
AV vendor goes to war with security shop over update server scare
A spat has erupted between antivirus vendor eScan and threat intelligence outfit Morphisec over who spotted an update server incident that disrupted some eScan customers earlier this month.…
Uncle Sam dangles nuclear campuses for states while watering down safety rules
The Department of Energy (DOE) is inviting US states to host "Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses" to revitalize atomic power amid reports the agency has weakened safety rules governing the way nuclear sites operate.…
Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted
Linux celeb Lennart Poettering has left Microsoft and co-founded a new company, Amutable, with Chris Kühl and Christian Brauner.…
IBM says AI is insane in the mainframe as z17 sales surge
IBM's leader has trumpeted an AI-on-the-mainframe future as generative AI fills in the COBOL gap left by earlier generations of techies.…
ShinyHunters swipes right on 10M records in alleged dating app data grab
ShinyHunters has added a fresh notch to its breach belt, claiming it has pinched more than 10 million records from Match Group, a US firm that owns some of the world's most widely used swipe-based dating platforms.…
Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out
Oracle could cut up to 30,000 jobs and sell health tech unit Cerner to ease its AI datacenter financing challenges, investment banker TD Cown has claimed, amid changing sentiment on Big Red's massive build-out plans.…
Tesla revenue falls for first time as Musk bets big on robots and autonomy
Tesla reported 2025 revenue of $94.8 billion, down 3 percent year-on-year and marking the first annual revenue decline since the electric car maker began publishing financial results in 2010.…
Patch or perish: Vulnerability exploits now dominate intrusions
What good is a fix if you don't use it? Experts are urging security teams to patch promptly as vulnerability exploits now account for the majority of intrusions, according to the latest figures.…
Sat Nad declares Windows 11 has a billion users – just don't bother asking for details
Microsoft is famously reticent about operating system usage figures unless it has something to boast about. So CEO Satya Nadella stating that Windows 11 had reached one billion users raised a few eyebrows.…
Meta to pour the GDP of Kenya into AI infrastructure push in 2026
Meta is to nearly double its capital investments aimed at AI this year, spending more on infrastructure than the entire output of some mid-sized economies, as the AI datacenter feeding frenzy shows no sign of ending.…
Latest Vivaldi release surfs a wave of anti-AI sentiment
Interview Vivaldi has raised a middle finger to the influx of AI in the browser space with its latest version.…
Cyberattack on Poland's power grid could have turned deadly in winter cold
Cybersecurity experts involved in the cleanup of the cyberattacks on Poland's power network say the consequences could have been lethal.…
Capita pension portal 'fiasco' forces Cabinet Office into damage control
The UK Cabinet Office is being forced to promise "interim support measures" for struggling retired government workers as Capita's botched takeover of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) lurches from bad to worse.…
Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working
Birmingham City Council's SAP-to-Oracle project is set to cost £144.4 million – more than seven times earlier estimates – as it waits for a fully functioning system five years after its planned go-live date.…
If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this
Opinion It's not your fault Amazon hired you for a position that it no longer deems necessary - blame bad planning or unanticipated market conditions. Everybody guesses wrong sometimes, even with the power of the most sophisticated business analysis software and the smartest prognosticators one can hire.…
Irony alert: Anthropic helps UK.gov to build chatbot for job seekers
The UK government will work with supplier Anthropic to build an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for job seekers, despite its chief executive’s doom-laden views of the job market.…