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Computer vision research feeds surveillance tech as patent links spike 5×
A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.…
Supply chain attacks surge with orgs 'flying blind' about dependencies
The vast majority of global businesses are handling at least one material supply chain attack per year, but very few are doing enough to counter the growing threat.…
Three goes to zero as UK mobile provider suffers voice and text outage
Britain's Three mobile network has suffered a major outage, with voice calls out of action and limitations on texting.…
Hyperscalers to eat 61% of global datacenter capacity by decade's end
Hyperscale operators are expected to account for 61 percent of all datacenter capacity by 2030, thanks in part to the growth of cloud services and rising demand for compute to feed AI.…
French cybercrime police arrest five suspected BreachForums admins
The Paris police force's cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums.…
CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs
interview Anuj Kapur, CEO of DevOps darling CloudBees, reckons that AI could retest the founding assumptions of DevOps as a whole, but warns against the risk of creating black-boxed code in the pursuit of greater efficiency. He also says that some customers who rushed into AI-generated code for fear of missing out (FOMO) are starting to slow down and be more considered.…
Microsoft dangles extended Windows 10 support in exchange for Reward Points
Microsoft has found a new use for Reward Points – and another incentive to upload everything you hold dear to someone else's servers.…
Anthropic: All the major AI models will blackmail us if pushed hard enough
Anthropic published research last week showing that all major AI models may resort to blackmail to avoid being shut down – but the researchers essentially pushed them into the undesired behavior through a series of artificial constraints that forced them into a binary decision.…
Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom
Three American hyperscalers are the gatekeepers to AI, as they possess the necessary compute infrastructure and access to the volumes of data required to train and deploy models at scale. …
Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts
British MPs and peers are questioning the government's decision to continue accepting bids for large-scale IT contracts from Fujitsu, despite the Japanese supplier's previous pledge to stop bidding.…
UK govt dept website that campaigns against encryption hijacked to advertise ... payday loans
A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme.…
Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7 million after revising data strategy
The UK central bank is expecting a 45 percent hike in the maximum cost of support services as it moves to the cloud and executes a revised data and analytics plan.…
HPE Aruba boasts that when network problems come along, its AI will whip them into shape
Not all the autonomous agentic AI that HPE announced at its annual Discover conference this week is live and ready for customers, but don't tell that to the Aruba networking group – whose enthusiasm outpaces its parent company’s, at least in terms of talking points.…
Anthropic won't fix a bug in its SQLite MCP server
Anthropic says it won't fix an SQL injection vulnerability in its SQLite Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that a researcher says could be used to hijack a support bot and prompt the AI agent to send customer data to an attacker's email, among other things.…
Don't look up: NASA is struggling to execute its planetary defense plan
NASA is struggling to meet all the goals of its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan, the effort that aims to prevent humanity being wiped out by space rocks that hit Earth.…
Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo
Video On Monday, Elon Musk proudly launched his often-promised Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, but early videos shot by riders show how far the service lags behind Waymo.…
Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the revised version of the NO FAKES Act, reintroduced in April, would be a disaster for free speech and innovation if signed into law.…
Don't panic, but it's only a matter of time before critical 'CitrixBleed 2' is under attack
Citrix patched a critical vulnerability in its NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products that is already being compared to the infamous CitrixBleed flaw exploited by ransomware gangs and other cyber scum, although there haven't been any reports of active exploitation. Yet.…
LLMs can hoover up data from books, judge rules
One of the most tech-savvy judges in the US has ruled that Anthropic is within its rights to scan purchased books to train its Claude AI model, but that pirating content is legally out of bounds.…
Axiom Mission 4 finally set for launch June 25
NASA has a launch date for Axiom Mission 4. The much-delayed private astronaut expedition is now targeting for liftoff on Wednesday, June 25.…