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The agentic era may not be all that it's cracked up to be

google i/o  At Google I/O this week, the Chocolate Factory argued for its AI supremacy, making the case with benchmark-topping machine learning models, developer tools, and a few promising products.…

The 19-year-old and a partner first tried to extort an unnamed telco, but failed

A 19-year-old student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into the systems of two companies as part of an extortion scheme, and The Register has learned that one of the targets was PowerSchool.…

LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper

Scientists have developed a machine learning model that can outperform official agencies at predicting tropical cyclone tracks, and do it faster and cheaper than traditional physics-based systems.…

Chocolate Factory comes for Meta's Ray-Bans with Warby Parker pact

Google I/O  Google and eyeglass maker Warby Parker have partnered to create a more stylish successor to Google Glass, which cofounder Sergey Brin quipped will actually be polished before launch this time.…

Their connection? Aiding Ukraine, duh

Russian cyberspies have targeted "dozens" of Western and NATO-country logistics providers, tech companies, and government orgs providing transport and foreign assistance to Ukraine, according to a joint government announcement issued Wednesday.…

Being human and working on a team is the job, not writing code

Column  Whenever I read the news these days, I see the same warning to developers: Watch out, AI is going to replace you.…

Bribed support staff identified, fired

Coinbase says the data of nearly 70,000 customers was handed over by overseas support staff who were bribed by criminals to give up the goods.…

Credit card theft losses in 2023 alone totaled $36.5M

International cops working with Microsoft have shut down infrastructure and seized web domains used to run a distribution service for info-stealing malware Lumma. Criminals paid $250 to $1,000 a month to get access to the infostealer.…

Nothing like insecure code in security suites

The "ongoing exploitation" of two Ivanti bugs has now extended beyond on-premises environments and hit customers' cloud instances, according to security shop Wiz.…

Every hardware claim is equal, but some are more equal than others

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has explained another Windows oddity – this time, why the operating system can appear to report two different CPU speeds.…

From air-gapped bunkers to partner-run platforms, sovereignty is suddenly in vogue

Google has updated its sovereign cloud services, including an air-gapped solution for customers with strict data security and residency requirements, as customers grow uneasy over US digital dominance.…

Mix Master Mike will spin up Nutanix, VMware, Red Hat on the same beastly cluster

Dell has created a private cloud that isn't actually a private cloud – but will let users create private clouds built on software stacks from VMware, Nutanix, and Red Hat.…

CS remains hopeful damages will be limited to seven figures

CrowdStrike is "confident" that the worst-case scenario of its pending lawsuit with Delta will result in it paying the airline a sum in the "single-digit millions."…

In practice, it'll cost many times that and almost certainly won't work

In a White House press conference on Tuesday President Trump announced his plans for a defensive network of missiles, radar, space surveillance, and attack satellites that he promised would protect America.…

Will the US President take credit for that one as well?

NASA was already considering reducing crew size on the International Space Station (ISS) before cuts to the agency's budget were proposed.…

No need for thumbscrews when your chatbot never lets up

Large language models (LLMs) are not just about assistance and hallucinations. The technology has a darker side.…

Care board draws red lines over use of UK government-backed Federated Data Platform

A report for a Northern England health authority says its analytics platform is more capable than anything offered under a controversial central government deal with Palantir.…

Downtime stings retailer, with technical recovery costs coming at a later date

Marks & Spencer says the disruption related to its ongoing cyberattack is likely to knock around £300 million ($402 million) off its operating profits for the next financial year (2025/26).…

After 60 years+ cooperation on space and military ops, worrying 'rhetoric' from Team Trump has Brits examining options

The current rhetoric coming from the US is "alarming" for the UK, which depends on a continuation of their long-standing co-operation around space and military tech for the future, the UK's second parliamentary chamber heard this week.…

A fair dinkum disaster

Updated  Australia's first homegrown rocket launch has been delayed after the vehicle's fairing unexpectedly deployed on the launchpad.…