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Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though

Cloud Next  This week Google joined a throng of tech vendors pushing the concept of "agentic AI" on an unsuspecting and perhaps unreceptive collection of enterprise users. Questions remain about how effective this tranche of tools will be at solving business problems and how much it might all cost.…

Alleges cybersecurity agency was ‘weaponized’ to suppress debunked theories

Updated  The Trump administration on Wednesday ordered a criminal investigation into alleged censorship conducted by the USA’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, plus revocation of any security clearances held by the agency's ex-head Chris Krebs and anyone else at SentinelOne, the cybersecurity company where he now works.…

Props for the transparency though

US sensor maker Sensata has told regulators that a ransomware attack caused an operational disruption, and that it's still working to fully restore affected systems.…

Llama 4 Scout is just the right size to ingest a lifetime of Facebook and Insta posts

Column  In the last twelve months generative AI has transformed from a helpful and cheeky tool into something more worrying.…

Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance

This year will be Ground Zero for the commercialization of satellite smartphone services, but a key question is whether operators will charge extra for this capability or include it as part of customer subscriptions.…

A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low

Patch Tuesday  Patch Tuesday has arrived, and Microsoft has revealed one flaw in its products under active exploitation and 11 critical issues in its code to fix.…

Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing'

Atlassian has decided to make its Rovo AI suite free but will in future introduce fees for use beyond a yet-to-be-determined threshold.…

The foundation model supports real-time bi-directional speech

Amazon has introduced a foundation model that claims to grasp not just what you're saying, but how you're saying it - tone, hesitation, and more.…

Practical matters like being 1 of most expensive energy regions in Europe focuses minds at AI Energy Council meeting

The UK government's AI Energy Council held its first meeting this week, in an attempt to square the circle of its AI ambitions with the state of the country's power infrastructure and having the most expensive energy in Europe.…

Scammers are already cashing in with fake invoices for import costs

World War Fee  As the trade war between America and China escalates, some infosec and policy experts fear Beijing will strike back in cyberspace.…

Government plans to boost efficiency with IT need to get people onside

UK health professionals remain "skeptical" about electronic patient records, despite the NHS in England achieving more than 90 percent coverage.…

Officials teased more details to come later this year

Following the 2024 takedown of several major malware operations under Operation Endgame, law enforcement has continued its crackdown into 2025, detaining five individuals linked to the Smokeloader botnet.…

Expected sales surge sparked by Windows 10 support ending could yet be trumped, analysts suggest

World War Fee  The first quarter of 2025 saw shipments of new PCs surge, as vendors and buyers tried to move machines before tariffs made them more expensive.…

TL;DR: Move along, still nothing to see here - an idea that leaves infosec pros aghast

Oracle's letter to customers about an intrusion into part of its public cloud empire - while insisting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was untouched - has sparked a mix of ridicule and outrage in the infosec community.…

OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago

A US banking regulator says sensitive financial oversight data was accessed by one or more system intruders for more than a year in what's been described as "a major information security incident."…

Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it?

Cloud Next  Google's seventh-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPU), announced Wednesday, will soon be available to cloud customers to rent in pods of 256 or 9,216 chips.…

It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again?

Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has been "actively hiding information" about American telecommunications networks' weak security for years, according to Senator Ron Wyden.…

Can't Redmond ask its whizz-bang Copilot AI to fix it?

Updated  Those keen to get their Microsoft PCs patched up as soon as possible have been getting an unpleasant shock when they try to get in using Windows Hello.…

Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights

Apple has agreed to settle charges of labor rights violations filed with America's employment watchdog by whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik.…

Best after-dinner mint ever

Nvidia may have been served a particularly delicious digestif after dropping a million bucks for dinner at President Trump’s Florida home Mar-a-Lago: A reprieve on restrictions of its AI chips to China.…