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Hardly anybody bought Samsung's last smartphones for AI. It hopes this year's models change that
Just 20 percent of punters who bought Samsung's 2025 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, cited AI as the main reason for their purchase. With this year's S26 models, the Korean giant hopes to improve that number.…
Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware
Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed malicious repositories disguised as legitimate projects, according to Microsoft, which said a limited set of those repos were directly tied to observed compromises.…
Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'
Is it OK to say "slop" again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London leg of the company's AI tour and said the words that many an IT pro has uttered when faced with a Copilot rollout: "Nobody wants anything that is sloppy in terms of AI creation."…
Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI
A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.…
Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother
It's not the only new feature in Firefox 148 yet one thing is very definitely the big news: the global off switch for its AI features that the company announced earlier this month is now included.…
Execs love AI, just not enough to pay for user training
Just 4 percent of businesses achieved a return on their AI investments, yet rather than admit AI isn't living up to early expectations, a newly published study is blaming the users for not doing enough.…
Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia
The former general manager of L3Harris's cyber arm will spend the next seven years behind bars for selling trade secrets to Russia.…
Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost
A newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope's altitude shows just how quickly the observatory has descended in recent years.…
Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely
Azure Local can now run fully disconnected with no cloud connectivity, Microsoft confirmed at the London leg of its AI tour.…
Wynn Resorts takes attacker's word for it that stolen staff data was deleted
Wynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was stolen from its servers, and is taking the hackers' word that they've since deleted it.…
Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs.…
Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive
Many British citizens who hold another nationality are being barred from entering the UK unless they have a British passport or a £589 certificate as a result of the Home Office's efforts to digitize travel documents.…
Recycling biz reckons AI features are destroying smartphone resale values
Smartphone makers love touting AI, but the technology may be quietly destroying resale values.…
DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700m with no explanation
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency has more than doubled the maximum offer on the table for a new online theory test service to £700 million.…
OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents
A ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement tried to use the AI chatbot to run smear campaigns targeting the Japanese prime minister and other critics of the Chinese Communist Party, according to OpenAI's latest report on malicious uses of its models.…
Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves
Bork!Bork!Bork! Airports and computers remain uneasy travel companions. At London Gatwick, the inter-terminal shuttle briefly demonstrated why, with one information screen declaring: "Operating System not found."…
Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links, researchers find
Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to improve data sharing that they think will make it stronger.…
HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent
HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter. And the company expects RAM’s contribution will rise through the year.…
Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner
Analyst firm Gartner thinks talk of placing datacenters in space has reached “peak insanity,” because orbiting facilities can’t be run economically or satisfy demand for compute power on Earth.…
Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast
Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri has used the first quarterly earnings announcement since he returned to the big chair to reassure investors the company is building more capable agentic AI while keeping the fundamentals of the HR platform strong.…