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AI skeptics zone out when chatbots get preachy
Interview Large language models stumble when trying to sway buyers with moral arguments, according to research from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Sakarya Business School.…
Fried chips: UK's nascent semi industry risks faltering
Feature It's not easy to grow a national chip industry. Semiconductor startups are a risky investment. They chew through early-stage capital, often with little to show for it, making them a long-term proposition. Those that pay off can deliver big, but success is far from guaranteed.…
Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess
Microsoft has moved swiftly to remove the bullet it fired into its own foot with the August 2025 Security Update reset and recovery bug.…
Anarchy in the AI: Trump's desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles
Opinion It's 1976, and in the country of the Beatles, another guitar band is giving it some. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols isn't so keen on love and blackbirds. Instead, he sings lustily that he wants to be an anarchist, destroying passers-by and in general promoting anarchy in the UK.…
Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records
Security boffin Eaton Zveare has highlighted some serious holes in the online infrastructure of chip giant Intel – walking through services with coding flaws to gain access to supposedly internal documentation, from non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to the personal details of more than 270,000 Intel staffers.…
McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security
A white-hat hacker has discovered a series of critical flaws in McDonald's staff and partner portals that allowed anyone to order free food online, get admin rights to the burger slinger's marketing materials, and could allow an attacker to get a corporate email account with which to conduct a little filet-o-phishing.…
Open the pod bay door, GPT-4o
Businesses may be struggling to find meaningful ways to use artificial intelligence software, but space scientists at least have a few ideas about how to deploy AI models.…
KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot
The Australian arm of consultancy firm KPMG wrote a 100-page prompt to create an agentic system that prepares tax advice far faster than humans.…
AWS still cares enough about Intel to order up a fresh batch of custom Xeons
Amazon Web Services has revealed it’s started running some custom cuts of Intel’s Xeon 6 processors.…
Top AWS chip designer reportedly defects to Arm as it weighs push into silicon
British chip designer Arm Holdings has reportedly recruited one of Amazon Web Services' top chip engineers.…
Don't want drive-by Ollama attackers snooping on your local chats? Patch now
A now-patched flaw in popular AI model runner Ollama allows drive-by attacks in which a miscreant uses a malicious website to remotely target people's personal computers, spy on their local chats, and even control the models the victim's app talks to, in extreme cases by serving poisoned models.…
Like burglars closing a door, Apache ActiveMQ attackers patch critical vuln after breaking in
Criminals exploiting a critical vulnerability in open source Apache ActiveMQ middleware are fixing the flaw that allowed them access, after establishing persistence on Linux servers.…