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France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative
France has officially told Zoom, Teams, and the rest of the US videoconferencing herd to take a hike in favor of its own homegrown app.…
Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era
The Linux kernel project has finally answered one of the biggest questions gripping the community: what happens if Linus Torvalds is no longer able to lead it?…
Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort
Japan's RIKEN scientific research institute and Fujitsu are working with America's Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Nvidia to build and operate next-gen compute infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing (HPC), in line with President Trump's Genesis Mission.…
Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds
Microsoft illegally installed cookies on a school pupil's devices without consent, according to a ruling by the Austrian data protection authority (DSB).…
High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep
The High Court will hear from privacy campaigners this week who want to reshape the way the Metropolitan Police is allowed to use live facial recognition (LFR) tech.…
NASA confirms command error temporarily felled TESS planet hunter
NASA has confirmed that its planet hunter, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), entered safe mode due to a command error that inadvertently left the spacecraft's solar arrays angled away from the Sun.…
'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour
Feature Open source developer Geoff Huntley wrote a script that sometimes makes him nauseous. That's becaues it uses agentic AI and coding assistants to create high-quality software at such tiny cost, he worries it will upend his profession.…
Office zero-day exploited in the wild forces Microsoft OOB patch
Microsoft has issued an emergency Office patch after confirming a zero-day flaw is already being used in real world attacks.…
Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the original plan
It is 40 years since Voyager 2 performed the first and, so far, only flyby of the planet Uranus. The resulting trove of data, however, was a bonus that almost didn't happen.…
Salesforce AI buffet won't stay all-you-can-eat forever
Gartner is warning Salesforce users that a capped enterprise agreement for its AI and data platforms will not be available when they come to renew, leaving a struggle to predict costs and understand value.…
Crossrail? More like Borkrail...
Bork!Bork!Bork! London's Elizabeth Line is the latest thing in urban development (at least as far as the UK is concerned). So it seems appropriate that its borks should be similarly up to date, and its emoticons rotated so the intent cannot be mistaken.…
Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source
Tailwind Labs CEO Adam Wathan recently blamed AI for forcing him to lay off three workers.…
AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen
For a decade, AWS's position on multi-cloud was clear: don't.…
Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign
ShinyHunters has targeted around 100 organizations in its latest Okta single sign-on (SSO) credential stealing campaign, according to researchers and the criminal group itself.…
How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C
feature TrapC, a memory-safe version of the C programming language, is almost ready for testing.…
Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new in-house AI accelerator to rival Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs.…
US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day
TikTok's new life under majority American ownership is off to a rough start, after users complained of widespread service disruptions the company blamed on a datacenter power outage.…
Claude can now disgorge interface elements from other apps
Anthropic's Claude can now present the interfaces of other applications within its chat window, thanks to an extension of the Model Context Protocol (MCP).…
Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE
More than 400 tech workers have urged their CEOs to "call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities" after masked federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti over the weekend and the world's richest and most powerful chief executives remained silent.…
AI adoption at work flatlined in Q4, says Gallup
AI adoption in the workplace stalled in the fourth quarter of 2025, but those who have already started using it are making increased use of it, according to a survey by pollster Gallup. Don't let that fool you into thinking AI is taking over work, though: frequent AI users are still a tiny minority of overall workers.…

