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Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences
Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) has issued its third European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) report, praising Microsoft's licensing concessions while accusing Broadcom of worsening anti-competitive practices.…
Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to
Anthropic has opened a waitlist for Claude for Excel, promising spreadsheet devotees that its LLM will be able to understand their entire workbook.…
Clearview AI faces criminal heat for ignoring EU data fines
Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users' faces without consent to train its AI algorithms.…
Cloudflare Q3 report shows the internet still breaks for the strangest reasons
Cloudflare's latest internet disruptions report reads like a global disaster log, with exam-related shutdowns, natural calamities, stray bullets, and even a Starlink software failure all taking chunks out of global connectivity.…
AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes
Feature With great power comes great vulnerability. Several new AI browsers, including OpenAI's Atlas, offer the ability to take actions on the user's behalf, such as opening web pages or even shopping. But these added capabilities create new attack vectors, particularly prompt injection.…
Beatings, killings, and lasting fear: The human toll of MoD's Afghan data breach
Research submitted to the UK Parliament has revealed explicit threats to life and the deaths of family members and colleagues directly linked to the Ministry of Defence's 2022 Afghan relocation scheme data breach.…
Amazon axes 14,000 desk jobs in AI-powered slimming plan
Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs, blaming the accelerating impact of artificial intelligence for changing how the company operates – and how many people it needs.…
Google says reports of a Gmail breach have been greatly exaggerated
Panic spread faster than a phishing email on Tuesday after claims of a massive Gmail breach hit the headlines – but Google says it's all nonsense.…
Chatbots parrot Putin's propaganda about the illegal invasion of Ukraine
Popular chatbots powered by large language models cited links to Russian state-attributed sources in up to a quarter of answers about the war in Ukraine, raising fresh questions over whether AI risks undermining efforts to enforce sanctions on Moscow-backed media.…
UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B
The UK government has launched a competition for cloud services worth up to £14 billion over four years – nearly triple the £4.8 billion over 18 months announced in an earlier market engagement.…
Marks & Spencer swaps out TCS for fresh helpdesk deal
UK retailer Marks & Spencer has replaced Tata Consultancy Services as its IT service desk provider following a procurement process that began in January.…
IBM Cloud stops signing and seeking new customers for its VMware service
IBM has announced it will stop marketing its VMware on IBM Cloud service to new customers.…
Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell
Tesco’s lawsuit against VMware has taken a twist, with Computacenter filing a claim against Broadcom and Dell.…
Qualcomm announces AI accelerators and mysterious racks they’ll run in
Qualcomm has announced some details of its tilt at the AI datacenter market by revealing a pair of accelerators and rack scale systems to house them, all focused on inferencing workloads.…
WSUS attacks hit 'multiple' orgs as Google and other infosec sleuths ring Redmond’s alarm bell
More threat intel teams are sounding the alarm about a critical Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59287 and now under active exploitation, just days after Microsoft pushed an emergency patch and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.…
Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm
Micro-OLED displays with 1080p (1920x1080) resolution have been around for a few years now, but a group of German researchers has taken things to the next level. They've engineered an OLED pixel so small that an entire 1080p display could fit into a single square millimeter, potentially changing the game for wearable displays.…
Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has walked away from a $1.5 million government grant and you can blame the Trump administration's war on woke for effectively weakening some open source security. …
Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem
Messaging service Signal may be unusual in its deployment of credible end-to-end encryption, but it shares a common availability vulnerability with many other internet services – dependence on Amazon Web Services (AWS).…
Atlas vuln lets crims inject malicious prompts ChatGPT won't forget between sessions
In yet another reminder to be wary of AI browsers, researchers at LayerX uncovered a vulnerability in OpenAI's Atlas that lets attackers inject malicious instructions into ChatGPT's memory using cross-site request forgery.…
HPE's Discovery to succeed Frontier supercomputer with next-gen Cray tech
HPE is set to build a successor to the Frontier exascale system for America's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, based on the next generation of its Cray supercomputer platform, plus a separate AI cluster to advance machine learning with a multi-tenant cloud-like platform.…