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Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts
President Trump's budget slashes funding for science and led to the cancellation or reduction of thousands of research programs, so scientists have staged a series of presentations to show legislators innovations that America will miss out on in the future.…
How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up
A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game.…
Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet
Perplexity has released its own web browser called Comet, and it's clearly aimed at Google.…
Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses
After committing more than $13 billion in strategic investments to OpenAI, Microsoft is splashing out billions more to get people using the technology.…
Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality
The US was supposed to celebrate the enforcement date for an FTC rule requiring companies to offer simple, clear, one-click subscription cancellations next Monday, but a panel of appeals court judges has decided otherwise.…
US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader
The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang.…
AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs
AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead to information disclosure.…
Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO
US Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer has a blunt message for AI hype-chasers: Shiny-object syndrome too often drives teams to leap into AI without defining a clear use case or vetting their data, leaving them to wonder why it doesn't work.…
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying to feed their hungry LLM bots.…
Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip
Euro chip designer SiPearl has finally taped out its Rhea1 processor destined for Jupiter, the first European exascale supercomputer, just as its Series A financing round ends with an injection of cash from a new investor.…
Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate
The UK government has signed a pact with Google Cloud to "upskill" as many as 100,000 civil servants in the latest tech by 2030.…
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant
xAI is scrambling to contain the fallout after its Grok chatbot went – and there is no other way of putting this – full Nazi in its X (formerly Twitter) posts.…
Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions
The latest version of the messaging client from Mozilla subsidiary MZLA has a bunch of useful new features, and will get updated until mid 2026.…
Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their home address
Qantas says that when cybercrooks attacked a "third party platform" used by the airline's contact center systems, they accessed the personal information and frequent flyer numbers of the "majority" of the circa 5.7 million people affected.…
ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded
Comment The European Space Agency (ESA) is pressing ahead with its European Launcher Challenge (ELC), and the good news is that three of the five pre-selected candidates have yet to explode anything in public.…
Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attack
Ingram Micro says it is gradually reactivating customer's ordering capabilities across the world, region by region, now its ransomware attack is thought to be "contained".…
Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests
Privacy activists are unimpressed with London's Metropolitan Police and its use of live facial recognition (LFR) to catch criminals, saying it is not effective use of taxpayer money and an overreach by government.…
C-suite sours on AI despite rising investment, survey finds
Executives are losing faith in AI initiatives despite rising investment, according to a study conducted by consultancy Akkodis.…
Iranian ransomware crew reemerges, promises big bucks for attacks on US or Israel
An Iranian ransomware-as-a-service operation with ties to a government-backed cyber crew has reemerged after a nearly five-year hiatus, and is offering would-be cybercriminals cash to infect organizations in the US and Israel.…
Chipmaker GlobalFoundries acquires chip designer MIPS
GlobalFoundries has acquired chip design firm MIPS, creating a company that both designs and creates semiconductors.…