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Pilots may soon have to compete against frakking toasters for the title of Top Gun

That autonomous fighter jet from DARPA is so 2023 that the agency is already well into a bid to give future combat jets autonomy for multi-ship missions over the horizon.…

Government and police employee credentials sold at bargain-basement prices on underground forums

Criminals are selling access to FBI and other law enforcement and government email accounts to other criminals via dark web marketplaces for as little as $40.…

The agency offered some tips for operational technology environments, where attacks are rising

CISA is urging companies with operational technology environments to set a better cybersecurity posture, and not just by adopting some new best practices and purchasing some new software.…

Lessons of Windows 8 unlearned as software giant gives users what it thinks they need

COMMENT  Microsoft Windows and Devices boss, Pavan Davuluri, has shed light on plans for the flagship OS. Voice, touch, and pen control will all be part of a multimodal future, alongside a raft of inevitable AI features.…

Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model?

Rent-a-GPU biz CoreWeave is still racking up eyewatering debts amid mounting net losses as it continues to burn cash on expanding datacenter capacity.…

Turkish exchange is the latest victim of a recent spate of major crypto thefts

Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk is halting all deposits and withdrawals amid fears that blockchain bandits succeeded in significantly compromising its hot wallets.…

Windows 11 24H2 fixes fail from Windows Server Update Services

Microsoft has admitted that the August patch Tuesday update might fail to install through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), but it's ok, admins. Home users are "unlikely to experience this issue."…

US DoE names firms for Pilot Program to show how it could be done

America's Department of Energy (DoE) has named ten companies it will work with to test advanced atomic reactor projects outside of the agency's world-famous national laboratories, in line with President Trump's Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program.…

Making apps is as easy as selling t-shirts, claims vibe coding startup

Hands On  Create has declared its vibe coding platform, now called Anything, production-ready at version 1.0, with support for both web and mobile applications – although our quick hands-on generated a host of errors.…

Moscow-linked miscreants accused of swiping sealed US court files and fiddling with a Norwegian dam’s floodgates

Russian attackers reportedly spent months rummaging through the US federal court's creaky case-management system, while Norway reckons the same Kremlin-friendly miscreants took control of a dam's controls – a transatlantic double-act in legal files and floodgates.…

Microsoft cap-ex larger than output of Uganda and Google trumps Slovenia... all in the name of AI

The level of investment pouring into new infrastructure from datacenter operators is comparable to the turnover of some mid-sized economies.…

Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts

Boffins have peered deep into the eyes of social media users and come to the conclusion that they're not great at spotting when an influencer is trying to sell them something.…

Nearly 100,000 records allegedly up for sale after apparent breach at booking system

Italy's digital agency (AGID) says a cybercriminal's claims concerning a spate of data thefts affecting various hotels across the country are genuine.…

WebSocket connections wrapped as streams, MAUI fixes and more as latest LTS version nears release candidate stage

Microsoft has released Preview 7 of its .NET 10 runtime and frameworks, with new features including wrapping WebSocket connections as streams, improved passkey authentication in ASP.NET, and new features and fixes for MAUI (Multi-platform App UI).…

Are UK taxpayers getting real value from SPA24 — or just high cost convenience?

Register debate series  The UK government's five-year Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA24) with Microsoft is set to see public sector bodies spend around £1.9 billion each year—nearly £9 billion in total over half a decade. It's a vast sum for software and services, and one that deserves close scrutiny.…

Meanwhile, the clock's ticking for the previous FOSS Redis

Redis 8.2 is FOSS again, albeit under a different license, and has multiple performance enhancements. Meanwhile, Redis 7.2, the last of the old FOSS versions, is nearing its end of life. New version, or new Valkey?…

Human usage set to double, AI agents might need them too

Analyst firm Gartner has declared hosted PCs are now often cheaper to operate than on-prem laptops, and two years away from being cost-effective for 95 percent of workers.…

$79 million is a small price to pay to keep China at bay

Australia will help to fund the development of two datacenters in the Pacific island nation Vanuatu, an example of tech infrastructure becoming an important diplomatic consideration.…

Big Tech is spending vastly more on AI infrastructure but Switchzilla thinks its piece of the pie will be fat and juicy

Cisco sold twice as much AI kit as it forecast during its 2025 fiscal year and expects the market for binary brainboxes will continue to boost its bank balance in future.…

A tool can become a crutch

When doctors use AI image recognition technology to spot and remove precancerous growths known as adenomas during colonoscopies, the detection rate is higher. But take the AI away, and their rate drops to below where it was in the first place.…