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For the third time in a decade

Streaming platform Plex is warning some users to reset their passwords after suffering yet another breach.…

Netherlands based Nebius Group to deliver capacity from facility in New Jersey

As the AI frenzy shows no signs of letting up, Microsoft has signed an agreement that could be worth up to $19.4 billion with Netherlands-based Nebius Group – formerly known as Yandex N.V. – in exchange for access to its GPU infrastructure over five years.…

First, server products go end of life, now datacenter gets the chop, and larger customers will pay more

Atlassian is discontinuing its datacenter products, including Jira, Confluence and Bamboo, in favor of Atlassian Cloud. There is a partial exception for Bitbucket, a source code repository manager, which will have a license option covering both cloud and datacenter.…

Dreams of one satellite constellation die so another can live

EchoStar has agreed to sell the company's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses to SpaceX in a transaction worth $17 billion.…

Package queues jammed until Monday despite brief downtime

When is an outage not an outage? According to Canonical's forum, it's when a 36-minute server disruption creates a multi-day backlog that leaves users unable to install or update Ubuntu systems.…

Ivalo XE handset targets governments and security critical sectors, though Qualcomm silicon keeps it tied to the US

Finnish phone maker HMD Global is launching a business unit called HMD Secure to target governments and other security-critical customers, and has its first device ready to go.…

AI security reviews add new risks, say researchers

App security outfit Checkmarx says automated reviews in Anthropic's Claude Code can catch some bugs but miss others – and sometimes create new risks by executing code while testing it.…

From fast food fiascos to botched databases, there are fresh honors for machine learning misadventures

It was bound to happen. The Darwin Awards are being extended to include examples of misadventures involving overzealous applications of AI.…

Report warns creaking infrastructure undermines the National Crime Agency's efficiency and effectiveness

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) clings to legacy systems and relies on an IT strategy that lacks clarity, a policing watchdog has found.…

Charities welcome change, but critics warn the law is already too broad

Tech companies will be legally required to prevent content involving self-harm from appearing on their platforms – rather than responding and removing it – in a planned amendment to the UK's controversial Online Safety Act.…

Dev admits the game once ate an entire CPU core

Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has come clean and admitted that the worst bug he ever shipped was in... Pinball.…

Prepare to take tests in stuff you already know how to do, just to keep you sharp

Using AI may cause some of your skills atrophy, and your employer therefore needs to take steps to keep you sharp.…

Brace for ‘loss of functionality’ next April, and an upsell conversation before that deadline

Citrix on Monday advised its customers that products acquired under its current file-based licensing system will experience “loss of functionality and potential impacts on end-users” next April, and that upgrading to a new cloudy licensing scheme is the way to avoid potential problems.…

Michelle Johnston Holthaus' tenure as Intel Products CEO lasted just ten months

Intel’s CEO of Products, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, will leave the business, as part of the latest executive shake-up since CEO Lip Bu Tan seized the company's reins.…

Meta shrugs off allegations of improper dismissal, ignoring privacy and security

WhatsApp's former head of security, Attaullah Baig, has filed a lawsuit against its parent company, Meta, alleging that the social media megalith retaliated against him for reporting security failings that violated legal commitments.…

Why reinvent the CPU wheel when you can spend your time engineering a way out of your dependence on Nvidia?

Every quarter, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is asked about the growing number of custom ASICs encroaching on his AI empire, and each time he downplays the threat, arguing that GPUs offer superior programmability in a rapidly changing environment.…

'Stop this garbage already!'

The latest release candidate for Linux is out, but before its release, Linus Torvalds had something he wanted to get off his chest in his usual style.…

Like a snake eating its own tail

ai-pocalypse  Welcome to the age of ouroboros. Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the top of organic search results, are drawing around 10 percent of their sources from documents written by ... other AIs, according to a recent report.…

Auditors find federal cybersecurity workforce data messy, incomplete, and unreliable

The US federal government employs tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals at a cost of billions per year – or at least it thinks it does, as auditors have found the figures are incomplete and unreliable. …

Meanwhile the victim count grows

The Salesloft Drift breach that compromised "hundreds" of companies including Google, Palo Alto Networks, and Cloudflare, all started with miscreants gaining access to the Salesloft GitHub account in March.…