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US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns
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US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns

Don't worry - it can autonomously attack ground targets, too

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Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
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Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again

AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud

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Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises
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Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises

Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI

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Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement
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Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement

Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain

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Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
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Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

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Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing
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Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing

If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?

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Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA
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Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA

Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar

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Inside Mistral’s monster fundraise and Palantir-like repositioning
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Inside Mistral’s monster fundraise and Palantir-like repositioning

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AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert
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AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert

Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time

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Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet
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10h ago

Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet

Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon

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LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware
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10h ago

LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware

Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for

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UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years
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11h ago

UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years

RIP DSIT: Digital transformation duties shuffle off to reborn DCMS, with GDS along for the ride

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Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support
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11h ago

Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support

Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset

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'If you're not AI-native, you're not getting funded': European fintech's H1 funding figures
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'If you're not AI-native, you're not getting funded': European fintech's H1 funding figures

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Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago
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Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago

And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't

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Kanishka Narayan named UK's first cabinet-level AI minister
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Kanishka Narayan named UK's first cabinet-level AI minister

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Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out
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Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out

Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants

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Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party
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Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party

SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal

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Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade
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14h ago

Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade

Supplier stumbles and MoD staffing shortages earn the program a red delivery rating

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Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods
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16h ago

Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods

Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China’s cheap e-commerce champs

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Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
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Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes

Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming

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University of Bristol spinouts looking to raise
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University of Bristol spinouts looking to raise

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OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy
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19h ago

OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy

French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime

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Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief
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Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief

Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain

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Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims
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1d ago

Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims

IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake

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AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
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AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical

An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral

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Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid
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1d ago

Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid

Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy

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Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents
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1d ago

Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents

Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged

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Reynolds appointed business secretary as DSIT scrapped
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Reynolds appointed business secretary as DSIT scrapped

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The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash
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The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash

OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly

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Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign
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Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign

Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home

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Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain
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1d ago

Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain

Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory

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EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month
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1d ago

EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month

Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who – or what – users are talking to

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Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball
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1d ago

Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball

On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire – literally

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Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online
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1d ago

Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online

HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details

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Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs
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1d ago

Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs

With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all

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CuspAI lands $450m round to accelerate AI materials discovery
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CuspAI lands $450m round to accelerate AI materials discovery

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UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme
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UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

One of Labour's biggest technology projects is headed for the bin as Burnham reshuffles Whitehall's priorities

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Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red
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1d ago

Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red

Nine-department ERP overhaul judged unachievable without urgent action

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Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
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1d ago

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

Which way to the Land of the Free again?

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Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings
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1d ago

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings

Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector

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High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required
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High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required

Worries about ‘prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node’

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Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
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Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

Developer was hired to write VB, used C# instead, and thought he mostly made it work

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15 anti-fraud startups to watch in 2026, according to investors
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15 anti-fraud startups to watch in 2026, according to investors

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How Daniel Ek is building his ‘new European dream’
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How Daniel Ek is building his ‘new European dream’

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Burnham sparks backlash over reported plans to ditch DSIT
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Burnham sparks backlash over reported plans to ditch DSIT

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AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner
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1d ago

AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner

Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker

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Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check
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1d ago

Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check

PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!

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Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius
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2d ago

Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius

Connect all the things and watch what happens

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