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Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’

Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips

Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs

For AI agents, seeing is expensive

Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets

Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?

Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity

Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits

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Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway

Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters

Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI

Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff

1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials

13% say they’ve sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests

A NASA Curiosity rover sits on a rocky Mars landscape with its robotic arm extended.

Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool

All driller, no filler

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

A new coat of paint

DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year

Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown

Iran cybersnoops still LARPing as ransomware crooks in espionage ops

MOIS-linked cyber outfit puts on a ransomware show to disguise the wide-open backdoor behind the scenes

AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned

Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for

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Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help

Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations

Close-up of a finger pressing the Tab key on a black computer keyboard.

IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested

Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope

UK age-gating plans risk breaking the internet, privacy groups warn

Activists say ministers are targeting access rather than Big Tech's data-hungry business models

It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet

Major .de domains experienced hours-long outage after registry distributed faulty signatures

A quadcopter drone flies against a blue sky with scattered clouds.

UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones

Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports

Close-up of a black Xbox controller on a wooden surface.

It's game over for Copilot on Xbox

Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan

Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill

Investigators spent weeks unravelling enthusiast's bedroom project

Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads

It's in Waterfox too, and there it does what you'd expect

GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet

Seven official flavors offer alternatives to the default Wayland-only desktop – and Xfce looks like the leanest

Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors

MoD eyes Middle East exports after desert trials of Cambridge Aerospace system

Traditional terraced houses in warm sunset light with parked cars and trees.

Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration

EXCLUSIVE: Searches go missing, house sales fall through, and a 5G mast erected by mistake

AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click

Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper

India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree

Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks

Canary Wharf business life. Group of business people going home after working day.

Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend

Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks

OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year

If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math

Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them

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Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch

High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage

Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents

Always bet on backpropagation

IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf

With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2

ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower

ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows

Couple wearing sunglasses looking surprised by something

DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to

A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not

Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw

Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long

More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook

Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time

Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked

Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future

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Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking

Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats

SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition

ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration

VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination

Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock

influencer uploads video to Vimeo. image credit: Premreuthai / Shutterstock

ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild

Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched

credit card online. image credit: TippaPatt / Shutterstock

Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more

Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech

Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday

Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories

Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal

CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule

Self checkout sign and shoppers at Sainsburys. Pic credit: DacologyPhoto / Shutterstock

Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area

Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags

NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns

Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release

New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard

Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028

Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away

Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation

Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC

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Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'

The Iran war has been great for business

Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799

The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default

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Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop

Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port

It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho

Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear

The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs

'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'

AI inference just plays by different rules

Why no cloud storage architecture was designed for what agentic AI is about to demand

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges

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If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows

How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot

Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again?" Agentic AI support systems now seek and destroy tech issues before they're a problem.

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble

Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back

Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades

Slow Down road sign with cloudy background

Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky

Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge

Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better

Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?

Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark

In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy

Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’

Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet

Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise

PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this?

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents

Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs

Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it

Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt

Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once

ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs

CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it

Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration

SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely

The Librem 5 has 3GB of memory and 32GB of storage. Pic: Purism website

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives

CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos

If software writes software the risk is “systematic failure at scale”. Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester

That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry

Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock

First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed

Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow

People waiting behind velvet rope. pic: Altrendo Images / shutetrstock

OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that

Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming

security cctv camera on the roof of the van. mobile surveillance camera. Pic by: Semiglass / Shutterstock

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters

Windows error appearing on a portrait of a girl after a ghost train ride

Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?

Things that go bork in the night

Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed

Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year

DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it

Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right'

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem

Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’

Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler

Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over

In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can ‘contribute to global stability’

ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012

$227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts

The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools

Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware

Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue

Stop the sprawl!

Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser

Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open

Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled

KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start

FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control'

One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend

Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation

Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet

Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs

Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines

This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows

French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency

Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online