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Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red
Datacenters don't come cheap. Oracle debt bond holders are suing the tech giant, because they say that the company didn't tell them it would need to borrow even more money after its original sale, making their purchases less valuable.…
Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork
Anthropic's tendency to wave off prompt-injection risks is rearing its head in the company's new Cowork productivity AI, which suffers from a Files API exfiltration attack chain first disclosed last October and acknowledged but not fixed by Anthropic.…
OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal
OpenAI says it will deploy 750 megawatts worth of Nvidia competitor Cerebras' dinner-plate sized accelerators through 2028 to bolster its inference services.…
Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown
The ongoing Grok fiasco has claimed two more unwilling participants, as campaigners demand Apple and Google boot X and its AI sidekick out of their app stores, because of the Elon Musk-owned AI's tendency to produce illicit images of real people.…
A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud'
A critical misconfiguration in AWS's CodeBuild service allowed complete takeover of the cloud provider's own GitHub repositories and put every AWS environment in the world at risk, according to Wiz security researchers.…
Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise
The memory shortage is forecast to push smartphone prices higher in 2026, triggering a market decline and forcing budget phone makers to merge or disappear.…
Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year
Microsoft has kicked off 2026 with another faulty Windows update. This time, it is connection and authentication failures in Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 related to the Windows App.…
Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans
Large language models (LLMs) trained to misbehave in one domain exhibit errant behavior in unrelated areas, a discovery with significant implications for AI safety and deployment, according to research published in Nature this week.…
US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking
The Federal Trade Commission has banned General Motors and subsidiary OnStar from sharing drivers' precise location and behavior data with consumer reporting agencies for five years under a 20-year consent order finalized January 14.…
Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach
The UK's West Midlands Police has released a woman on bail as part of an investigation into a data breach at a Walsall general practitioner's (GP) surgery.…
Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever
The latest version of the Wine Windows app runner arrives a year after version 10. Given its annual release cycle, its magic is starting to seem almost boring and routine, but it's far from it.…
Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2
Raspberry Pi has launched the AI HAT+ 2 with 8 GB of onboard RAM and the Hailo-10H neural network accelerator aimed at local AI computing.…
Microsoft taps UK courts to dismantle cybercrime host RedVDS
Microsoft has taken its cybercrime fight to the UK in its first major civil action outside the US, moving to shut down RedVDS, a virtual desktop service used to power phishing and fraud at global scale.…
Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix
Ofcom is continuing with its investigation into X, despite the social media platform saying it will block Grok from digitally undressing people.…
Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die
Microsoft's From Software Assurance (SA) program is the subject of a disclosure application as the long-running spat between Microsoft and ValueLicensing over the resale of software licenses rumbles on.…
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
Amid continued trade and geopolitical volatility between Europe and the US, Amazon Web Services is making its European Sovereign Cloud generally available today and plans to expand so-called Dedicated Local Zones.…
Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it
Exclusive Dell has filed a claim against VMware in the software licensing dispute brought by supermarket giant Tesco and wants the virtualization giant should fork over at least £10 million under certain circumstances.…
China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware
Chinese outfit Zhipu AI claims it trained a new model entirely using Huawei hardware, and that it’s the first company to build an advanced model entirely on Chinese hardware.…
AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics
Interview Analyst firm Forrester’s vice president and principal analyst J. P. Gownder remains unconvinced that AI will revolutionize productivity.…
Maker fight! SparkFun cuts ties with Adafruit in harassment dispute
Retailer SparkFun Electronics last month said it would no longer do business with electronics kit-maker Adafruit Industries, citing violations of SparkFun's Code of Conduct during online interactions.…