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ServiceNow thinks you're doing AI fast and wrong
Three weeks after releasing one of its biannual platform upgrades, ServiceNow has started delivering an "AI Experience."…
NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) demonstration has completed its final pass, although there is a chance the system might be reactivated in the second half of 2026.…
'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab
The UK government is set to see annual spending on a procurement portal designed to help save money increase by more than eight times compared to projected plans.…
Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide
The government is to encourage police forces across England and Wales to adopt live facial recognition (LFR) technology, with a minister praising its use by the London's Metropolitan Police in a suburb in the south of the city.…
£5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run
London's Metropolitan Police has secured a "landmark conviction" following a record-busting Bitcoin seizure and seven-year investigation.…
UK splurges £4.4M on drones, e-planes, and other flights of fancy
The British government is splashing several million pounds on next-gen aviation projects to advance the use of unmanned aircraft for applications such as cargo delivery and infrastructure monitoring, as well as potential electric-powered light aircraft carrying passengers.…
Healthcare lags in Windows 11 upgrades – and lives may depend on it
Interview Enterprise plans for the end of Windows 10 should already be well underway, but some sectors are lagging, and there are other potential time bombs for administrators to worry about, according to asset management outfit Lansweeper.…
Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers
Opinion There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won't be much of an impact at all.…
AI upstart aims to do what mere mortals can't: Make sense of Microsoft licensing
Interview It was inevitable that AI would be deployed to help enterprises navigate the labyrinth that is modern software licensing, given the myriad options available from the tech giants.…
VMware bungles cloud management portal upgrade, twice in two weeks
VMware has bungled a portal upgrade project that aims to give its customers a superior experience when managing their clouds.…
YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump 'censorship' case go away
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to end the case brought by US president Donald Trump, who alleged the vid-streamer had infringed his freedom of speech.…
Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday will cut its ties to - and funding for - the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost cybersecurity services to state and local governments.…
California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car
Police in a Silicon Valley suburb were flummoxed last weekend after pulling over a self-driving Waymo robo-taxi for making an illegal turn, then finding no driver they could issue with a ticket.…
Whitebridge AI created false and alarming reputation reports, complaint alleges
Whitebridge AI, based in Lithuania, faces a privacy complaint for allegedly selling "reputation reports" based on unlawfully collected data and AI misinformation.…
Your AI conversations are a secret new treasure trove for marketers
ai-pocalypse Profound is a startup that promises to help companies understand how they appear in AI responses to customer queries. But one expert in the field thinks the AI analytics startup has been sucking up information on users' AI conversations without proper consent.…
One line of malicious npm code led to massive Postmark email heist
A fake npm package posing as Postmark's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server silently stole potentially thousands of emails a day by adding a single line of code that secretly copied outgoing messages to an attacker-controlled address.…
Asahi runs dry as online attackers take down Japanese brewer
Japan's largest brewery biz, Asahi, has shut down distribution systems following an online attack, and local drinkers will just have to make do with stocks as they stand.…
FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again
After years of relying on the FAA to certify its jets as airworthy, Boeing is finally going to be allowed to do so itself – sometimes. …
Forget vibe coding - Microsoft wants to make vibe working the new hotness
Microsoft is jumping on the vibe coding bandwagon with "vibe working," its name for adding AI agents to the online Office suite to help you complete your work.…
Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst
As part of its $300 billion cloud compute contract with OpenAI, Oracle may need to borrow roughly $100 billion over the next four years to build the datacenters required, according to KeyBanc's projections.…

