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Salesforce sacrifices 4,000 support jobs on the altar of AI

21 min 16 sec ago
Benioff boasts bots now handle half of customer chats as doubts over reliability linger

Speaking ahead of Labor Day – celebrated in the US to recognize the nation's labor movement – Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff said the company had slashed 4,000 customer support roles through the application of AI agents.…

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Tesla Model Ys recalled Down Under for overly enthusiastic electric windows

1 hour 8 min ago
Software glitch means glass may clamp down harder than intended

Tesla vehicles sold in Australia have been recalled over a window that could "close with excessive force" on a body part of an unwary driver.…

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Stolen OAuth tokens expose Palo Alto customer data

1 hour 25 min ago
Security firm's Salesforce instance accessed using credentials stolen from Salesloft's Drift platform breach

Palo Alto Networks is writing to customers that may have had commercially sensitive data exposed after criminals used stolen OAuth credentials lifted from the Salesloft Drift break-in to gain entry to its Salesforce instance.…

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Apple iOS 26 set to dump 75M iPhones on the e-waste pile

2 hours 35 min ago
XR, XS, and XS Max owners left with $268M worth of scrap

The pending release of Apple's iOS 26 could see around 75 million iPhones rendered obsolete, generating more than 1.2 million kilograms of e-waste globally, according to new research.…

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Microsoft readies Windows 11 25H2 while Windows 10 circles the drain

3 hours 17 min ago
Preview build drops as end-of-support deadline looms for predecessor

Microsoft has made Windows 11 25H2 available to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, as market share figures show the company's flagship operating system continues to enjoy a lead over its doomed predecessor, Windows 10.…

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Four more execs man the decks at leaky sales vessel Atos

3 hours 48 min ago
'Leading provider of AI-powered digital transformation' plays buzzword bingo as 'seasoned leaders' climb on board

A publication less kind than The Reg might couch Atos's latest leadership intake as the recruitment of more expensive execs coming armed with buckets to bail water from a sinking vessel.…

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Goldman Sachs warns AI bubble could burst datacenter boom

4 hours 58 min ago
Investment bank predicts capacity surge to 92 GW by 2027 but remains on high alert for market weakness

Datacenter capacity is forecast to surge 50 percent by 2027 driven by AI demand, with the sector's energy consumption doubling by 2030, according to the latest research from Goldman Sachs. But the financial services biz says it's watching for signs that AI adoption may fall short of current hype.…

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Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers

6 hours 20 min ago
Brit limb books just £188M in revenue – down 85% since 2019

Huawei's business in Britain has dwindled in the half-decade since the UK acquiesced to demands from the US to ban the Chinese networking giant from local telco networks.…

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Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk

7 hours 21 min ago
Major flaws uncovered in Copeland controllers: Patch now

Ten vulnerabilities in Copeland controllers, which are found in thousands of devices used by the world's largest supermarket chains and cold storage companies, could have allowed miscreants to manipulate temperatures and spoil food and medicine, leading to massive supply-chain disruptions.…

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Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector

7 hours 50 min ago
As government says £9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking

Register debate series Register readers are backing a shift away from Microsoft software as a default across the UK public sector after the government confirmed it expects to spend £9 billion with the software giant over five years.…

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Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane

9 hours 36 min ago
Bloc working on anti-jamming measures and plans extra sat to help

A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that authorities have pinned on Russia.…

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In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception

11 hours 6 min ago
Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks

Cisco’s Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.…

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Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins

14 hours 44 min ago
eBPF, shared SmartNICs, and smart scheduling have improved reliability and cut costs

Chinese web giant Alibaba has reduced network outages by 92 percent, cut load balancing costs by 18.9 percent, and found ways to improve SmartNIC performance by offloading workloads to idle infrastructure.…

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Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity'

Mon, 2025-09-01 15:45
Taylor Otwell says skip the clever code, keep it simple

Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.…

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Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fiber

Mon, 2025-09-01 15:00
Could dramatically reduce latency between datacenters and on mobile nets

A team of networking boffins has published fresh research on hollow fiber cables that it claims could offer the lowest ever recorded optical loss for a fiber – meaning the signal would weaken less as it travels, leading to faster speeds and lower latencies.…

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White House nixes NASA unions amid budget uncertainty

Mon, 2025-09-01 14:01
Executive order adds space agency to National Security Exclusions, voiding collective bargaining rights for staff

Happy Labor Day. The US administration has removed union recognition from NASA as budget cuts and layoffs loom.…

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Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire

Mon, 2025-09-01 12:45
Cloud customers left reeling as forecasts leap hundreds of percent

Some Microsoft Azure customers have had a worrying few days after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs for the cloud service to skyrocket, triggering budget alerts.…

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Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University

Mon, 2025-09-01 12:12
Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases

A research group funded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison is set to invest £118 million ($169.6 million) in applying AI to vaccine research with the UK's Oxford University.…

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Norway's £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships

Mon, 2025-09-01 11:22
BAE's sub hunter production line warms up – shame it's not for Britain

Norway has ordered British-made Type 26 frigates in a contract valued at roughly £10 billion to the UK economy, but this may delay the introduction of the Royal Navy's own desperately needed ships.…

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DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that's getting bigger. Let's kill it off

Mon, 2025-09-01 10:51
Don't worry, there's a twist at the end

Opinion Agatha Christie stuck a dagger in the notion that crime doesn't pay. With sales of between two and four billion books – fittingly, the exact number is a mystery – she built a career out of murder that out-bloodied Jack the Ripper. It's a fair bet that had she chosen to write about accountancy fraud instead, her sales would be between two and four billion fewer. Some crime is sexy. Some is not.…

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