Security Shai-Hulud malware worms Red Hat npm package versions downloaded 80K times a week TeamPCP? Or copycat malware dev?
Anthropic, now atop the AI bubble, files for its IPO First it tops OpenAI's valuation, then it beats Altman to the IPO punch
US firms still dominate chip subsidies China's support is greater relative to semiconductor industry revenue
Agentic AI arrives for Delphi and C++ Builder Kai is an extension for RAD Studio (Delphi and C++ Builder) that integrates with external AI providers
On-Prem Ohio hits pause on datacenter tax breaks draining its coffers Buckeye State found it had inadvertently joined the billion dollar losers' club
GTA cheat service Atlas Menu hacked as attacker alleges screenshot spying A database containing 64,000 user records was published to GitHub after an attacker claimed to have compromised all Atlas systems
Cyber-crime Palo Alto VPN bug graduates from advisory to active exploitation Rapid7: Attackers exploit authentication bypass flaw in the wild, meaning more emergency patching for PAN-OS users
Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks Engineers' weekends ruined as Dashlane's automatic protections kicked in
Putin sends submarines to survey Britain's subsea cables. UK deploys Royal Navy, mobilizes parliamentary draftsmen Proposed legislation threatens fines and prison for reckless damage. Russian Prez must be shaking in his boots
I designed Microsoft's $5B EA channel architecture in 2001. The 2026 transition is missing what made it work The man behind Redmond's direct billing model and its geo rollout explains why the new version forgets the channel to its cost
Memory crunch sends PC prices into double-digit climb Notebooks up 11%, desktops 10% as chipmakers ditch consumer kit for AI server bling
AI + ML LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way Papal's 40k-word encyclical drops and lawyers already asking if Catholics can refuse workplace AI on religious grounds
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't Governments can't touch VPNs technically or commercially. The mess they'll make if they try will be off the scale Rupert Goodwins
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem? If a setting fails in the forest and nobody hears it ... Corey Quinn
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof Rupert Goodwins
systems If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst Chipzilla’s first 2nm-class Xeon is finally here bristling with 288 cores
Systems Intel Diamond Rapids to boost core counts to 192, but RIP Hyperthreading Threads on a half shell, Intel power!
Personal Tech Exploding rockets and exploding hardware prices make for a lousy new normal This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions
Software Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools
Offbeat Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft
SaaS AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand The energy drink of frontier models
Security Lone attacker published 14 malicious npm packages mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch libraries And then Microsoft busted them all
ai + ml Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch
public sector ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal And you thought a face recognition app was intrusive?
Security No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs - exploit module is out Researcher reported the vuln in March. Maintainers haven't responded to his messages since
AI + ML QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits
Legal 23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach California AG claims genetics biz downplayed 2023 mega-leak while paying ransom to attacker
