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AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues
Rise of the Machines The ancient games of chess and Go are now mere staging posts in the journey toward robots demonstrating their superior performance to humans - the machines can now beat us fleshbags at ping-pong.…
If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you
GCHQ's cyber arm has entered the hardware game with its first device designed to prevent cyberattacks on display devices.…
Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes
Bork!Bork!Bork! The curse of Bork is no respecter of status or class. It does not differentiate between a high-flying executive and a lowly worker. And so it was that Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian came unstuck due to some all-too-familiar video-conferencing struggles.…
Sharing isn’t caring if it’s an admin password
PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied your own shoelaces together, then tripped over them, or attempted to dive into a swimming pool but hit your head on the diving board, we’ll be talking about your cyber equivalent.…
Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it
AI overviews from the likes of Google are serving up false summaries of UK government information by drawing on stale GOV.UK pages, according to content designers at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).…
Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has officially endorsed passkeys as the default authentication standard, marking the first time the agency has told consumers to move away from passwords entirely.…
Kubernetes sets a new standard for release notes with Japanese poetry, also kills Ingress NGINX
Kubernetes issued a new release called “Haru” on Wednesday, and the release notes and logo might be more interesting than the software.…
Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments
Yet another npm supply-chain attack is worming its way through compromised packages, stealing secrets and sensitive data as it moves through developers' environments, and it shares significant overlap with the open source infections attributed to TeamPCP last month.…
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger
Anthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows that Mythos may not be as dangerous as some would have you believe.…
SK Hynix’s aspirations for ’Merica-made HBM inch closer to reality
SK Hynix has reportedly broken ground on a new advanced memory packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, that should boost the supply of US-made high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a key component in high-end AI accelerators from the likes of Nvidia and AMD.…
OpenAI now lets you screenshot your privacy in the foot
Those who cannot remember Microsoft Recall are condemned to repeat it. …
GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not
Users of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform has quietly begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from CLI users and enabled it by default.…
Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor
The prospect of OS-level age checks applying to open source systems is a serious concern for FOSS advocates. Campaigners appear to have secured proposed exemptions for open source operating systems, code repositories, and containers in one US state, but stricter federal legislation has already been introduced in Congress.…
Datacenter boom keeps dirty coal plants alive in the US
Datacenter growth in the US is helping keep aging fossil-fuel plants online longer, slowing the shift to a cleaner grid and worsening air pollution, according to new research from a group of environmental nonprofits.…
Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran
Workday, Rippling, and Salesforce-owned Slack rank among the worst performers for enterprise data movement, according to a new industry benchmark tracking the speeds needed to power analytics, machine learning, and AI agents.…
Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive
If you're stuck without access to tech support – say, half way to the Moon – then you're better off with a single install of Thunderbird than any number of Outlooks.…
You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is an invaluable tool, but anyone wanting to run it on a Windows 9x system would find themselves out of luck until now.…
NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ
Initial reports have confirmed NASA's assessment that the Orion heat shield kept the Artemis II crew safe during re-entry.…
Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad
Grafana is offering its AI assistant for free to open source and on-prem users — though on stage at its Barcelona user conference this week, CEO Raj Dutt joked they shouldn't use it too much.…
Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3
Framework, maker of modular and repairable laptops, has spruced its line-up with a completely redesigned 13-inch model sporting the latest Intel CPUs, new components for its 16-inch system, and a dock that lets users add devices like a desktop graphics card.…