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Whatever your job, mentoring is your job – and the one that matters most

4 hours 39 minutes ago
Nobody succeeds alone, and no community thrives without generosity

Opinion  When I started coding for a living 43 years ago, I didn't know shit from Shinola. I'd written a lot of BASIC, some Z80 assembler, and knew my way around floppy drives and a disk operating system. I knew nothing at all about how to operate as a junior engineer in a professional environment.…

Mark Pesce

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

10 hours 5 minutes ago
Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.…

Simon Sharwood

Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook

11 hours 10 minutes ago
Vertical integration meets subscriptions

"We love moving packets," declared Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, on a stage overlooking San Francisco Bay at the networking startup's annual networking event. He continued, "This crowd probably knows this intimately, but everything in the world is packets. Regardless of what type of work you do, it is just packets all the way down."…

Thomas Claburn

Anthropic is at the heart of the latest billion-dollar circular AI investment bonanza

14 hours 14 minutes ago
What do you get when you combine Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia? A bubble that blows itself

It wouldn't be a week of tech news without more circular exchanges of billions of dollars between AI firms. This time around, it's a $45 billion back-scratching session involving Microsoft, Anthropic, and Nvidia, announced during Redmond's Ignite conference.…

Brandon Vigliarolo

Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters

14 hours 29 minutes ago
Using AI to attack AI

Malefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…

Jessica Lyons

Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss says

17 hours 34 minutes ago
When? Sean Cairncross wouldn't say

America is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive – he just isn't saying when.…

Brandon Vigliarolo

FCC looks to torch Biden-era cyber rules sparked by Salt Typhoon mess

17 hours 55 minutes ago
Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too ‘burdensome’

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in 2024, that required telecom carriers to adopt basic security controls.…

Connor Jones

China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew

18 hours 4 minutes ago
Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company

China is preparing for an early launch of the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft to rescue the crew of Shenzou-21, who were left stranded aboard the Tiangong space station after their emergency rescue of the Shenzou-20 crew earlier this month.…

Richard Speed

Datacenter fossil fuel habit 'not sustainable' as AI workloads soar

18 hours 55 minutes ago
Rising AI power demand is straining grids and pushing operators toward hydrogen, batteries, geothermal, and nuclear

Gartner warns that fossil fuel dominance in on-site power generation is not sustainable, given the rapid rise in datacenter energy consumption due to AI servers.…

Dan Robinson

Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown

19 hours 8 minutes ago
European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act

The European Commission has launched investigations into Amazon and Microsoft's cloud services, and plans to review if legislation introduced in 2022 is being applied effectively to the cloud market.…

Lindsay Clark

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

20 hours 13 minutes ago
Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along

Updated  Internet services provider Cloudflare is suffering a major outage that has knocked chunks of the web offline – including The Register.…

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