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Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages
Databricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, which several book authors contend was created with a database that contained pirated versions of some of their copyrighted books – and about 196,000 titles in all.…
Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it
Fedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options.…
Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1
The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in severe and prolonged internet disruptions, from government shutdowns to power outages to the occasional mystery incident.…
Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models
Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web material into confident answers. Case in point: A security engineer convinced several bots that he was the reigning world champion of a popular German card game, even though no such championship exists.…
NASA boss: Make Pluto A Planet Again
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman delivered some potentially good news at a Senate hearing this week, as well as some slightly odd news: in an environment of constrained budgets, the space agency was somehow finding resources to contest the decision to relegate Pluto from planet status.…
CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning anyone who uses GrassMarlin, a tool developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), about a new vulnerability that attackers can use to snoop on sensitive information.…
AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard
On Tuesday in San Francisco at an event called "What's Next with AWS," CEO Matt Garman took the stage to announce that AWS is (for what, depending on how you count, is the seventh, eighth, or ninth time) moving up the stack and entering the applications business.…
GitHub: Woah, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop. Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash
Wiz researchers are set for a tidy payday thanks to their discovery of a high-severity flaw in GitHub's git infrastructure that handed remote attackers full read/write access to private GitHub repositories using a single command.…
AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story
Interview Steve Tarcza, director of Amazon Stores, says his team — StoreGen — exists to help the retail giant's developers move faster and cut friction. But despite the AI mandate, one principle is non-negotiable: nothing ships without a human checking it first.…
Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00
Antiques code show Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This time, it's 86-DOS 1.00 getting the open source treatment, and a whole lot more for retro enthusiasts.…
EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online
The European Commission has recommended EU member states adopt an age verification app designed to protect children from harmful online content.…
GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain
Microsoft's code hosting shack Github has published a lengthy mea culpa about its availability and reliability woes - one that includes the words "we are sorry."…
GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks
GoDaddy is currently investigating claims that it handed complete control of a valid 27-year-old domain to another customer, without requiring them to pass any authentication processes or upload any supporting documents.…
AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in
SAP is prohibiting the use of its APIs to integrate with AI systems outside its endorsed architectures, raising concerns that it is locking out third-party AI tools from customers' SAP data.…
Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute
BORK!BORK!BORK! The keynote gods are a fickle bunch, as SUSE discovered at its annual shindig in Prague. What should have been a slick edge demo instead served up error pages to unsuspecting attendees, while keynote presentations attracted some unwelcome visitors.…
30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm
Thirty ClawHub skills published by a single author are silently co-opting AI agents and creating a mass cryptocurrency mining swarm – without any malware or user consent.…
Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’
Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto has decided GitHub is so unstable it is “no longer a place for serious work,” and will therefore move his current project elsewhere.…
Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’
Your next holiday memory might involve humanoid robots losing your luggage.…
The future of software development: Now with less software development
More than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era.…
Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm
Close on the heels of a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle is keeping calm and carrying on with a massive new datacenter complex in the New Mexico desert.…