Salesforce pickin' up good vibrations
Salesforce is bringing "vibe coding" to enterprise customers through a service called Agentforce Vibes - and it may not be as troubling as it sounds.…
Ransomware scumbags say they deleted kids' info after other gangs called them out
A ransomware crew that posted pictures and addresses of preschool children in an effort to get a payday has now deleted the data, apparently under pressure from other criminals.…
Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips
Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond's leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators.…
College student went on a destructive rampage, then confessed to ChatGPT, cops say
A Missouri college student has learned the hard way that admitting a vandalism spree to ChatGPT and asking whether he was likely to get caught may not be the best use of AI. …
Curl project, swamped with AI slop, finds not all AI is bad
Over the past two years, the open source curl project has been flooded with bogus bug reports generated by AI models.…
UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home
Police in the United Kingdom appear to be taking a cue from Homer Simpson's playbook, with officers in multiple departments accused of "key jamming" to make it look like they were working from home when they likely weren't. …
Ex-US cyber boss slams politics getting in the way of preparedness
interview The bodies responsible for securing America from cyberattacks are currently too fragmented to be successful, according to former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, the first person ever to hold that job. …
Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told
How would you move Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Texas? The White House Office of Management and Budget asked NASA and the Smithsonian Institution and the response was to dismantle it.…
Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack
A software platform used by law enforcement agencies and major tech companies to manage subpoenas and data requests went dark this week after attackers socially engineered AWS into freezing its domain.…
Mad man builds chatbot in Minecraft with redstone, Python, and patience
Never mind Doom running on a potato, or whatever – the next generation of ridiculous computing belongs to Minecraft YouTuber Sammyuri, who built a working chatbot in the perennially popular voxel building sandbox.…
Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers
Tile Bluetooth trackers leak identifying data in plain text, giving stalkers an easy way to track victims despite Life360's security promises, a group of Georgia Tech researchers warns.…
OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject
OpenAI has persuaded two of South Korea's chip titans to fuel its bid to build the biggest AI engine yet.…
Dirty little Electron secret tanks macOS 26 performance
The Electron team has fixed code that caused system-wide slowdowns on the newly released macOS 26 "Tahoe."…
SaaS turbo-charged software spending tough for CIOs to control, says research
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is warning that organizations need to rethink their approach to buying software as the ongoing push of SaaS into the market gathers pace.…
US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on skeleton crews.…
Apple's AirPods Pro 3 are still chuck-and-buy-again specials
Improvements in repairability might have been made elsewhere in Apple's product range, but the AirPods Pro 3 model continue to make repairs virtually impossible.…
Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects
Updated The UK's pensions and benefits department has awarded IBM a contract that's worth up to £27 million to explore, deploy and support AI technologies to enhance its services.…
Clop-linked crims shake down Oracle execs with data theft claims
Criminals with potential links to the notorious Clop ransomware mob are bombarding Oracle execs with extortion emails, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from Big Red's E-Business Suite, according to researchers.…
EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers
An arsenal of angry European Parliament members (MEPs) is demanding answers from senior commissioners about why EU subsidies are ending up in the pockets of spyware companies.…
BT promises 5G Standalone for 99% of the UK by 2030
BT wants to have 5G Standalone (5G SA) mobile service available to 99 percent of the local population by the end of the decade, but it isn't the only telco with lofty ambitions.…
