Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia
The former general manager of L3Harris's cyber arm will spend the next seven years behind bars for selling trade secrets to Russia.…
Wynn Resorts takes attacker's word for it that stolen staff data was deleted
Wynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was stolen from its servers, and is taking the hackers' word that they've since deleted it.…
Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost
A newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope's altitude shows just how quickly the observatory has descended in recent years.…
DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700M with no explanation
The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency has more than doubled the maximum offer on the table for a new online theory test service to £700 million.…
Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely
Azure Local can now run fully disconnected with no cloud connectivity, Microsoft confirmed at the London leg of its AI tour.…
Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs.…
Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive
Many British citizens who hold another nationality are being barred from entering the UK unless they have a British passport or a £589 certificate as a result of the Home Office's efforts to digitize travel documents.…
Recycling biz reckons AI features are destroying smartphone resale values
Smartphone makers love touting AI, but the technology may be quietly destroying resale values.…
OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents
A ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement tried to use the AI chatbot to run smear campaigns targeting the Japanese prime minister and other critics of the Chinese Communist Party, according to OpenAI's latest report on malicious uses of its models.…
Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves
Bork!Bork!Bork! Airports and computers remain uneasy travel companions. At London Gatwick, the inter-terminal shuttle briefly demonstrated why, with one information screen declaring: "Operating System not found."…
Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day
Hosting biz Hetzner, one of Europe's largest datacenter operators, is warning customers that prices are scheduled to jump by as much as 50 percent from April 1.…
Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links, researchers find
Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to improve data sharing that they think will make it stronger.…
Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast
Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri has used the first quarterly earnings announcement since he returned to the big chair to reassure investors the company is building more capable agentic AI while keeping the fundamentals of the HR platform strong.…
Meta frees React to live in its own foundation
Meta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed React Foundation, fulfilling a commitment made last October.…
It's only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding
AI chip startups collectively walked away with more than a billion dollars of new capital on Tuesday, showing that venture capitalists are still excited about the opportunity to challenge Nvidia's dominance despite all the talk of an AI bubble.…
Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
opinion I've been watching AWS explain away outages for the better part of a decade. And this is hard!…
Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026
Discord is delaying age verification checks for a little while after its plan inspired a lot of hand-wringing among the community. But it's not backing down. …
AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them
What good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches. But security researchers say that's not enough.…
Patch these 4 critical, make-me-root SolarWinds bugs ASAP
If you run SolarWinds’ Serv-U, you should patch promptly. Four critical vulnerabilities in the file transfer software can allow attackers to execute code as root.…
'Merica-made Mac Minis marked for manufacturing
Your next Mac might be made in the US of A. Apple this week revealed plans to manufacture its most affordable Macintosh computer at a new Foxconn facility in Texas.…
