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Out-of-band is becoming the norm rather than the exception

Microsoft is patching another patch that dumped some PCs into recovery mode with an unhelpful error code.…

Safety margin set to narrow – yes that buffer that helps prevent cascading failure events

The US electricity grid is likely to be highly constrained and less stable by 2030, and datacenters aren't helping.…

To stop the JINX-0132 gang behind these attacks, pay attention to HashiCorp, Docker, and Gitea security settings

Up to a quarter of all cloud users are at risk of having their computing resources stolen and used to illicitly mine for cryptocurrency, after crims cooked up a campaign that targets publicly accessible DevOps tools.…

February jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says

Workday has promised to rehire the 1,750 jobs it chopped earlier in the year, but in no particular timeframe and with a focus on investments in AI, the CFO has said.…

Nothing terribly valuable taken in data heist, though privacy a little tarnished

Global jewelry giant Cartier is writing to customers to confirm their data was exposed to cybercriminals that broke into its systems.…

Software among the sectors seeing a productivity boost, PwC claims

Sectors in which AI can be readily used for some tasks – including the software industry – have seen higher productivity and wage growth than others, according to research by PwC.…

That's how much on average they saved with Microsoft Copilot AI, according to a GDS study

The United Kingdom's Government Digital Service (GDS) has found that giving civil service employees access to Microsoft 365 Copilot saved them an average 26 minutes per day on office tasks.…

No wonder those products always rated so highly

Australia’s Securities & Investments Commission has sued a product comparison website that it alleges only considered products from a related company.…

Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye

Atlassian has notified its customers of a new “maximum quantity billing” scheme that is good news for those who want more of its wares, but less fun for others.…

Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’

IBM’s Cloud has experienced a second Severity One incident in a fortnight. Both meant users could not log in to the Big Blue Cloud, and therefore were prevented from controlling or creating resources.…

One possible solution - go join a union like recently-acquired-by-Redmond ZeniMax

UPDATED  Less than a month after Microsoft announced it was axing three percent of its staff, regulatory filings indicate new cuts at the tech behemoth.…

Probably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look

Security services vendor SentinelOne experienced a major outage on Thursday.…

Unsurprisingly, it's all about agents, the buzzword du jour

IBM on Monday unveiled watsonx AI Labs, a New York City hub where startups, researchers, and IBM engineers are expected to co-create agentic AI tools for enterprise use.…

Birthdays for ESA (50) and Johann Strauss (200) marked with music of the spheres

What did you do on Saturday? We ask because the Vienna Symphony Orchestra spent some of it playing a waltz that the European Space Agency (ESA) transmitted in the general direction of the Voyager 1 probe.…

A big win for North Dakota

CoreWeave is headed to North Dakota, where the rent-a-GPU outfit has signed two roughly 15-year lease agreements with Applied Digital for 250 megawatts of capacity, which the datacenter builder expects will generate around $7 billion in revenue.…

Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them

Computer scientists have developed a way for an AI system to rewrite its own code to improve itself.…

Remember Salt Typhoon? Anyone?

A group of Democratic senators has urged Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to reestablish the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), which had been investigating how China's Salt Typhoon hacked US government and telecommunications networks.…

NAACP claims that 'temporary' gas turbines were an attempt to get around environmental laws

Elon Musk's smog-belching Colossus AI datacenter in Memphis, Tennessee, is once again catching heat, this time from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which urges local authorities to halt operations and fine the startup for what it sees as a "clear" violation of the Clean Air Act.…

'It's a high-stakes intelligence war,' analyst explains

exclusive  A mystery whistleblower calling himself GangExposed has exposed key figures behind the Conti and Trickbot ransomware crews, publishing a trove of internal files and naming names.…

$100 million+ deals are beholden to enterprises' on-prem upgrade cycles

Snowflake's ability to grow in the market for larger enterprise customers is hampered by the renewal cycle for older, on-prem data warehouse and analytics tech.…