Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour
US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why
DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
Eight year after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches
Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases
AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk
Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters
Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?
My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement
Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels
The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers
2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes
PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries
Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up
Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox
No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices
Wayve and Uber steal a march on Waymo with paid self-driving London rides
15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2
The new extreme sport: Windows Updates
US law firm accuses UK AI software firm of unwanted contract renewal when it tried to leave
Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo
Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense
Best eSIM for travel 2026: which one offers the best value for money?
PARTNER CONTENT: Price isn't everything
On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key
Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud
This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale
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