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Win10 still clings to over 40% of devices weeks after Microsoft pulls support
As the dust settles over the end of support for many versions of Windows 10, the operating system remains a significant presence in the Windows market.…
Invasion of the message body snatchers! Teams flaw allowed crims to impersonate the boss
Microsoft Teams, one of the world's most widely used collaboration tools, contained serious, now-patched vulnerabilities that could have let attackers impersonate executives, rewrite chat history, and fake notifications or calls – all without users suspecting a thing.…
$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday
Liquid cooling tech is hot. It's only Tuesday and already infrastructure specialists have forked out more than $10 billion on companies proffering tech that promises to help ease energy bills of datacenter operators.…
Cybercrooks getting violent more often to secure big payouts in Europe
Researchers are seeing a "dramatic" increase in cybercrime involving physical violence across Europe, with at least 18 cases reported since the start of the year.…
OpenAI API moonlights as malware HQ in Microsoft’s latest discovery
Hackers have found a new use for OpenAI's Assistants API – not to write poems or code, but to secretly control malware.…
Keeping the lights on takes up nearly all police IT spending in England and Wales
Police forces in England and Wales spend around 97 percent of their £2 billion ($2.6 billion) annual technology budget on maintaining legacy systems, an official report has found.…
'What the hell, Microsoft?' Users hit with incorrect ESU and LTSC Win10 out-of-support messages
Microsoft says a broken update left some Windows 10 users staring at an out-of-support message despite having an activated Extended Security Updates (ESU) license or a version of Windows 10 that is still officially supported.…
AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI
Feature In late 2025, a series of multi-billion-dollar deals in the artificial intelligence sector is causing déjà vu among industry veterans. Money, computer chips, and cloud credits are rotating in a closed loop among a handful of companies: Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle, AMD, CoreWeave, xAI, and a few others. This has fueled a trillion-dollar AI boom or bubble built on intertwined investments and contracts.…
Ministry of Defence's F-35 blunder: £57B and counting
Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is being criticized for undermining its F-35 stealth fighter program through years of short-term budget decisions that have increased long-term costs and left the fleet understrength and undercapable.…
Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons
The founder of a service that manages SSL certificates says Google Cloud has suspended his account three times, without good reason, and recommended not using the G-Cloud for serious workloads.…
China's president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones
Chinese president Xi Jinping has joked that smartphones from Xiaomi might include backdoors.…
LLMs are lousy at reading Asian languages, finds Singapore’s Grab
Proprietary large language models are bad at interpreting Asian languages, according to Singaporean super-app company Grab, which has built its own model instead.…
AN0M, the backdoored ‘secure’ messaging app for criminals, is still producing arrests after four years
Australian police last week made 55 arrests using evidence gathered with a backdoored messaging app that authorities distributed in the criminal community.…
Cisco suggests a stubby chassis, shrunken servers and router, to tame the edge
Cisco entered the server market in 2009 because the company thought incumbent vendors weren’t satisfying customers. On Monday, the networking giant entered the edge infrastructure market for the same reason.…
Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all
Palantir CEO Alex Karp used his quarterly shareholder letter to take aim at critics after the company beat Q3 2025 earnings estimates.…
MIT Sloan quietly shelves AI ransomware study after researcher calls BS
Do 80 percent of ransomware attacks really come from AI? MIT Sloan has now withdrawn a working paper that made that eyebrow-raising claim after criticism from security researcher Kevin Beaumont.…
Ransomware negotiator, pay thyself!
A ransomware negotiator and an incident response manager at two separate cybersecurity firms have been indicted for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks of their own against multiple US companies.…
Google yanks Gemma after US senator says model ‘hallucinated’ her committing crimes
If Google's Gemma were an employee, it might be facing HR right now. The company yanked the model from AI Studio after it allegedly invented criminal accusations about a US senator and a conservative activist. However, it seems like the aggrieved parties went out of their way to get the offending output.…
AWS, Nvidia, Crowdstrike seek security startups to enter the arena
Cloud and AI security startups have two weeks to apply for a program that fast-tracks access to investors and mentors from Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike, and Nvidia.…
OpenAI spreads the imaginary wealth beyond Microsoft with $38B AWS deal
OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, adding another hyperscaler alongside Microsoft Azure for its growing AI compute needs. Where it's getting all this money was not disclosed.…