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Reconfigure local app settings via a 'simple' POST request

A now-patched flaw in popular AI model runner Ollama allows drive-by attacks in which a miscreant uses a malicious website to remotely target people's personal computers, spy on their local chats, and even control the models the victim's app talks to, in extreme cases by serving poisoned models.…

Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them

Security boffin Eaton Zveare has highlighted some serious holes in the online infrastructure of chip giant Intel – walking through services with coding flaws to gain access to supposedly internal documentation, from non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to the personal details of more than 270,000 Intel staffers.…

Produces advice in a single day instead of two weeks – without job losses

The Australian arm of consultancy firm KPMG wrote a 100-page prompt to create an agentic system that prepares tax advice far faster than humans.…

Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types

Amazon Web Services has revealed it’s started running some custom cuts of Intel’s Xeon 6 processors.…

Rami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon

British chip designer Arm Holdings has reportedly recruited one of Amazon Web Services' top chip engineers.…

Intruders hoped no one would notice their presence

Criminals exploiting a critical vulnerability in open source Apache ActiveMQ middleware are fixing the flaw that allowed them access, after establishing persistence on Linux servers.…

When is a duck not also a rabbit? When it's a canard

Vision language models exhibit a form of self-delusion that echoes human psychology – they see patterns that aren't there.…

Don't be afraid of the dark

HANDS ON  Even when you have dark mode enabled in Windows 11, some important dialog boxes stay white. But that could be changing, if a new, hidden beta feature becomes widely available.…

It's that or a replacement for its aging H200 NVL PCIe cards

Nvidia is reportedly prepping a new Blackwell-based GPU for the Chinese market that'll outperform its controversial H20 accelerators.…

$1 trillion of new deployment needed by 2030

Colocation capacity in North American datacenters has dropped to a record low, with much of the construction pipeline already pre-leased, making this a key brake on growth. Keeping up with demand could take as much as $1 trillion in fresh datacenter builds before the decade is out.…

But 3.13 adoption lags as most devs stick with earlier releases

The Python Software Foundation (PSF), in association with tools vendor JetBrains, has published the eighth Python Developer Survey, with more than 30,000 contributors, making it the biggest yet.…

Funding fights and Starship stumbles could still bring it back down to Earth

NASA has begun assembling the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will send humans on a lunar landing mission in 2027.…

Plan includes chatbots 'with full user context and data access' – what could go wrong?

US government buyers have been busy getting AI into the hands of federal agencies, and now they're taking a moment to ask the industry how some of that AI magic could work for them. …

Toronto company says weekend cyber raid hit internal IT, not punters' wallets

Canadian casino software slinger Bragg Gaming Group has disclosed a "cybersecurity incident," though it's adamant the intruders never got their hands on customer data.…

Unexpected news from Pine64, but there are other goodies to compensate

Pine64 is moving from Arm kit to RISC-V. As a result, its higher-end open smartphones is for the chop – but not the lower-end model.…

Dame Rachel de Souza says under-18s are laughing off the Online Safety Act’s age blocks

England's children's commissioner has urged the government to shut down one of the most obvious loopholes in its new age-blocking regime: kids firing up a VPN.…

Report recommends that the UK become a leader in chip design

The British government's advisory body on science and technology thinks the country could be a world leader in designing AI chips, if it could just get the right investment and skills in place.…

Want to pass on that old PC? Perhaps wait until out-of-band patch arrives

Microsoft has broken the Windows reset and recovery functionality so badly, it must push an out-of-band update.…

500, 600, 1200, 2000... what's your number?

Hands on  The Commodore Amiga turned 40 this year, and the event has been marked by The National Museum Of Computing in the UK with a hands-on exhibition of models from the archives.…

These ten features would make users more productive

OPINION  From desktop alerts begging you to sign up for Xbox Game Pass to a second-chance out-of-the-box experience that insists you need Microsoft 365, Windows has a hard time taking "no" for an answer. The operating system's corporate parent isn't a good listener either, festooning the OS with useless features no one asked for.…