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Italy claims cyberattacks 'of Russian origin' are pelting Winter Olympics
Italy's foreign minister says the country has already started swatting away cyberattacks from Russia targeting the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.…
n8n security woes roll on as new critical flaws bypass December fix
Multiple newly disclosed bugs in the popular workflow automation tool n8n could allow attackers to hijack servers, steal credentials, and quietly disrupt AI-driven business processes.…
CentOS is coming to RISC-V soon if you have the kit
FOSDEM 2026 CentOS Connect 2026 took place in Brussels last week, over the two days preceding the sprawling FOSDEM festival of FOSS – the nerd world's Glastonbury, complete with the queues and the questionable hygiene.…
Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern
Interview Sovereignty remains a hot topic in the tech industry, but interpretations of what it actually means – and how much it matters – vary widely between organizations and sectors. While public bodies are often driven by regulation and national policy, the private sector tends to take a more pragmatic, cost-focused view.…
UK justice system unplugs from ancient datacenters after five-year slog
The courts system in England and Wales has moved 37 applications out of two outdated datacenters, although some will use a temporary hosting facility until they are replaced, according to the senior civil servant responsible.…
Britain courts private cash to fund 'golden age' of nuclear-powered AI
The British government today launched the Advanced Nuclear Framework to attract private investment in next-generation nuclear technology for factories and datacenters.…
Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door
Sleeper agent-style backdoors in AI large language models pose a straight-out-of-sci-fi security threat.…
Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has decided Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar, and shifted Charlie Bell, the company’s executive veep for security, into the new role.…
AI’s lust for memory drags down the smartphone industry, and Qualcomm with it
Qualcomm has warned that soaring memory prices will mean the smartphone industry will slow, news that so spooked investors they sent the company’s share price sliding by 11 percent.…
It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year
Google’s parent Alphabet is doubling down on generative AI in 2026. On Wednesday's earnings call, the search and advertising giant boosted its full-year capital expenditures target to between $175 and $185 billion, roughly twice what it spent last year.…
Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing
State and federal lawmakers have stepped up their efforts to prevent the creation of 3D printed guns. But Adafruit, a maker of electronics kits, warns that the proposed legislation is so broad it threatens everyone involved in open source manufacturing and technology education.…
Workday reveals around 400 staff soon won't have to work another day
Workday is laying off about two percent of its staff in a bid to align its people with its “highest priorities,” but at a significant cost to its margins for the quarter and the year, the company announced on Wednesday.…
Bots are taking over the internet and AI users are to blame
The AI bot takeover of the internet continues apace, and the latest data suggests the surge is being driven less by model-training scrapes and more by the growing use of AI tools as a stand-in for web search.…
Positron: we don’t need no fancy HBM to compete with Nvidia’s Rubin
On paper, Positron's next-gen Asimov accelerators, no doubt named for the beloved science fiction author, don't look like much of a match for Nvidia's Rubin GPUs.…
AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say
A digital intruder broke into an AWS cloud environment and in just under 10 minutes went from initial access to administrative privileges, thanks to an AI speed assist.…
Anthropic cements its position as the not-OpenAI with no-ads pledge
Anthropic has taken the high road by committing to keep its Claude AI model family free of advertising.…
Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug under attack
Attackers are exploiting a critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug - less than a week after the vendor disclosed and fixed the 9.8-rated flaw. That's according to America's lead cyber-defense agency, which set a Friday deadline for federal agencies to patch the security flaw.…
Rise of AI means companies could pass on SaaS
Software stocks have taken a beating over the last month as investors grow concerned that AI could put vertical SaaS vendors out of business.…
US Army looks for robots that can clean up chemical and bioweapons messes
It's bot versus bot! Just in time for the predicted rise of AI-made biological and chemical weapons, the US Army has plans to fight autonomy with autonomy by getting its hands on some bot-based chemical weapon cleanup tech.…
Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices
Datacenter servers will face a double whammy this year as CPU supply constraints pile on top of an already severe memory shortage. Even so, shipments are still expected to grow at a double-digit rate.…