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Ghost in the shell script: Boffins reckon they can catch bugs before programs run
Shell scripting may finally get a proper bug-checker. A group of academics has proposed static analysis techniques aimed at improving the correctness and reliability of Unix shell programs.…
Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends
MPs heard a range of interpretations of UK law when it comes to the spread of misinformation online, a critical factor in the riots across England and Northern Ireland sparked by inaccurate social media posts about the fatal stabbings at a children's dance class on 29 July last year.…
AWS creates EC2 instance types tailored for demanding on-prem workloads
Amazon Web services has created new elastic compute cloud instance types for its on-prem Outposts racks, the second generation of which was announced on Tuesday.…
30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has revealed about thirty percent of code in the company’s repositories was written by an AI.…
Chinese carmaker Chery using DeepSeek-driven humanoid robots as showroom sales staff
Chinese carmaker Chery has started using its own humanoid robots as sales staff in its showrooms.…
Supermicro warns of massive revenue miss as buyers pause purchasing plans
Supermicro shares slumped 15 percent in after-hours trading as the company warned next week’s quarterly results will see it miss forecast revenue by up to $1.5 billion.…
Homeland Security boss says CISA has gone off the rails, vows to set it right
RSAC Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has gone off the rails by trying to dispel disinformation, according to US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.…
Intel tweaks its 18A process with variants tailored to mass-market chips, big AI brains
Direct Connect Intel has revealed a pair of variants of its long-awaited 18A process node to make it better suited for, one, manufacturing mass-market processors and, two, complex multi-die semiconductors for – of course – AI.…
Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices
World War Fee On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced Amazon after it was reported the tech giant intended to show how much President Trump's import tariffs would inflate the price of stuff sold through its internet souk.…
RSA cofounder: The world would've been better without cryptocurrencies
RSAC It was a somewhat gloomy Cryptographers' Panel at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, with two of the industry's sages in a pretty grim mood.…
Meta bets you want a sprinkle of social in your chatbot
Meta is scrambling to grab some of that ChatGPT and Grok buzz with the launch of its own standalone AI app. Built on its Llama 4 LLM, the assistant touts personalization and smoother voice chats, but the most visible feature is a Discover feed showing off how other users interact with it, and even that feels more like a gimmick than a game-changer.…
TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech
Federal legislation that would protect people from having explicit images of themselves posted and shared online without their consent is set to become law in the USA after passing the House on Monday.…
Watch out for any Linux malware sneakily evading syscall-watching antivirus
A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring "blind spot" in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface.…
Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors
Duolingo has become the latest tech outfit to attempt to declare itself 'AI-first,' with CEO Luis von Ahn telling staff the biz hopes to gradually phase out contractors for work neural networks can take over.…
Enterprise tech dominates zero-day exploits with no signs of slowdown
Backblaze denies 'sham accounting' claims as short sellers circle
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has denied accusations made by financial analysts of "sham accounting" and "insider dumping," as well as claims it inflated cash flow forecasts to hide its real performance.…
China now America's number one cyber threat – US must get up to speed
RSAC Russia used to be considered America's biggest adversary online, but over the past couple of years China has taken the role, and is proving highly effective at it.…
OpenBSD 7.7 released with updated hardware support, 9Front ships second update of 2025
Fresh from their respective bunkers, OpenBSD 7.7 and a new version of Plan 9 fork 9Front have dropped, bringing hardened security, obscure charm, and, oddly enough, artwork from the same designer.…
Infosec pros tell Trump to quit bullying Chris Krebs – it's undermining security
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and numerous infosec leaders are lobbying US President Donald Trump to drop his enduring investigation into Chris Krebs, claiming that targeting the former CISA boss amounts to bullying.…
The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already
OpenLogic's 2025 State of Open Source Report offers a slightly different perspective on modern corporate adoption of FOSS – and it's not a reassuring one.…