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Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase
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.…
Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks
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.…
GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
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.…
Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores
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.…
AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment
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.…
Nearly 17,000 Volvo staff dinged in supplier breach
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.…
Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031
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).…
British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain
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.…
Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter
Edinburgh councillors have torpedoed plans for a massive "green" AI datacenter, voting it down despite city planners recommending approval.…
Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own
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.…
Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon
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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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.…
OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!
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.…
Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt
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.…
Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials - but we don't know who or how
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.…
Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree
Let's hope it's always sunny ... in Texas, at least for Google's sake. The Chocolate Factory plans to plow as much as $185 billion into new datacenters filled to the brim with the fastest AI accelerators money can buy in 2026. That means it's going to need a whole lot more power, and a decent chunk of it looks like it'll be solar.…
AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine
Healthcare researchers have found that AI chatbots could put patients at risk by giving shoddy medical advice.…
Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise
Don't want Discord to start treating your account like it belongs to an underage kid? Then you'd better be willing to fork over some PII – just months after the company's age verification partner had such data stolen. …
'Roaring cougars' lunched on OpenAI in Super Bowl ad battle, but ai.com wins the day
Anthropic's sensitive cubs and roaring cougars commercial trampled OpenAI's offerings in searches and site hit metrics during the Super Bowl, according to ad tracking firm EDO. However, the unknown player ai.com, which pitched the fantastical idea that “AGI is coming,” won the day.…
Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users
Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says it recovered nearly all of the more than $40 billion worth of funds it mistakenly handed out to customers as part of a promotional campaign.…