If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard Loud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear waste dump. And many localities are now saying "not in my backyard."…
Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well' North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, acc...
Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on Reddit Anthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor it has picked is the same outfit that sparked controversy when Discord tested similar ...
Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the "small changes" problem that they say plagues lakehouse implementations of the kind based on technologies from Databricks,...
Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes North America has some of the world's most expensive broadband, according to a new study, while Iran has the cheapest.…
Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam Two Americans have been jailed for a combined 200 months for helping North Korea generate $5 million through fraudulent IT worker schemes.…
Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up Brussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms, sketching out how it expects the tech giant to comply with the bloc's competition rulebook.…
When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on... Britain's government faces a public backlash against AI unless it can show ordinary people that they stand to benefit from its push to inject the technology into every area of the UK in the name of growth.…
Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEs Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet developer frustration over color contrast and forced updates continue to overshadow the improvements.…
Forged metadata made AI reviewer treat hostile changes as though they came from known maintainer Security boffins say Anthropic's Claude can be tricked into approving malicious code with just two Git commands by spoofing a trusted developer's identity.…
Publisher claims misconfigured Salesforce-hosted page leaked data Textbook giant McGraw Hill has landed on a ransomware crew's leak site after an alleged Salesforce-linked misconfiguration spilled 13.5 million records into the wild.…
Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systems The UK government says it will deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine this year to help it fight against Russia.…
Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cash Microsoft will keep delivering security updates for old versions of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server, after admitting that some customers aren't ready to make the move to newer products.…
Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start Bork!Bork!Bork! Sweden is arguably the home of bork – think the Swedish Chef from The Muppets – so we are delighted to note an example of the breed turning up north of Stockholm.…
Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budget UK police tech buyers have awarded a £25 million no-competition contract for communications technology first commissioned in 2000, with the replacement project 12 years behind schedule and £3 billion over bu...
Your cybersecurity is only as good as the physical security of the servers PWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we immortalize the worst vulns that organizations opened up for themselves. If you’re the kind of person who leaves your car doors unlocked with a pile of cash in the center c...
Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephant While Larry was producing most of the content for the "Request/Reponse" chapter for the next edition of our book, I took the lead on writing a section on QUIC, since I...
Shinkansen upgrade rolling out in October Some Japanese bullet trains will soon be equipped with private suites that include windows with embedded 5G antennas and noise-cancelling technology that envelops passengers in a bubble of quiet.…
Services giant’s staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices Police in the Indian city of Nashik conducted a sting operation at Tata Consultancy Services and allegedly found instances of sexual harassment and other revolting behavior.…
Browser fingerprinting is everywhere Google markets its Chrome browser by citing its superior safety features, but according to privacy consultant Alexander Hanff, Chrome does not protect against browser fingerprinting – a method of tracking people online by capturing technical details about thei...