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Apple goes all in on AI acceleration with M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros
Apple's fifth-generation of M-series silicon is starting to trickle out with the launch of the M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros this week.…
Japan tells OpenAI to stop spiriting away its copyrighted anime
OpenAI’s Sora 2 video generator has gone viral, particularly among users churning out anime that looks suspiciously like Studio Ghibli and other copyrighted works. Alarmed by the threat to one of its prized cultural exports, Japan has reportedly lodged a formal request that the American firm knock it off.…
Microsoft, Nvidia, and others inject $40B into AI bubble with massive datacenter deal
The AI bubble just keeps getting bigger. A consortium featuring BlackRock, Microsoft, Nvidia, xAI, and MGX is buying Aligned Data Centers in a deal valuing the operator at around $40 billion, in what is reportedly the biggest datacenter acquisition to date.…
Cisco: Most companies don't know what they're doing with AI
Contrary to popular belief, you can't succeed in business (or AI) without really trying. Many orgs are jumping on the AI bandwagon without the infrastructure they need to make it work or track results, Cisco says. Most haven't even defined what they want their AI agents to do.…
'Highly sophisticated' government goons hacked F5, stole source code and undisclosed bug details
Security shop F5 today said "highly sophisticated nation-state" hackers broke into its network and stole BIG-IP source code, undisclosed vulnerability details, and customer configuration data belonging to a "small percentage" of its users.…
Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload
Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks.…
Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint
Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has answered a lingering Windows question – why did video screenshots keep playing in Paint?…
ASML shrugs off China slump with faith in AI-fueled chip demand
Europe's tech darling ASML has warned Chinese demand for its chipmaking kit will plummet next year, as Beijing doubles down on home-grown alternatives in response to Uncle Sam's export restrictions and trade war shenanigans.…
Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, Peppermint OS join the Debian 13 club
A month after Debian 13.1's release, some of the more visible downstream forks, including Raspberry Pi OS, have decided it's time to incorporate the latest version of the main OS into their builds.…
AI startup Augment scraps 'unsustainable' pricing, users say new model is 10x worse
Augment has updated its pricing model for Augment Code, an AI coding assistant, to be based on AI usage rather than message interactions. The company said its existing model "isn't sustainable" but users have calculated that the new one is more than ten times as expensive.…
£2B UK cloud licensing claim against Microsoft seeks more business backers
The team pushing a £2 billion legal claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging businesses that use its software on rival clouds has called for further participants ahead of its first hearing in December.…
Everyone wants a fancy phone – even the folk buying them second-hand
Premium devices are what smartphone buyers want right now, and it seems that applies equally to the latest devices and second-hand models destined for emerging markets.…
Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a £14 million ($18.6 million) penalty to outsourcing giant Capita following a catastrophic 2023 cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 6.6 million people.…
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack
Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany, has finally concluded one element of a long-running project to eject Microsoft from its infrastructure by giving Exchange Server the boot.…
Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone
Canalys Forums 2025 US President Donald Trump released a wrecking ball that smashed through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies stateside – and it's now swinging across the Atlantic, according to analysts.…
UK government's £45B AI savings pitch built on broad-brush guesswork, MPs told
UK government's plans to save £45 billion through the application of AI in the public sector lack clarity and are based on broad-brush assumptions, Members of Parliament have heard.…
AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage
Column Steve Jobs probably didn't remember how many times he skinned his knees learning to ride a bike before describing a personal computer as a "bicycle for the mind." Jobs' point was that both tools help us to go further, faster, with just a little extra effort.…
Salesforce pumps the dream of AI agents as helpers, not replacements
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff heralded the arrival of the agentic era during his keynote at the CRM giant's annual Dreamforce conference.…
Frightful Patch Tuesday gives admins a scare with 175+ Microsoft CVEs, 3 under attack
Spooky season is in full swing, and this extends to Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday with security updates for a frightful 175 Microsoft vulnerabilities, plus an additional 21 non-Microsoft CVEs. And even scarier than the sheer number of bugs: three are listed as under attack, with three others publicly known, and 17 deemed critical security holes.…
CISA cuts more staff and reassigns others as government stays shut down
The Trump administration has continued to cut staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and is reportedly reassigning others, further imperiling the US' cybersecurity posture. …