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Plus Anthropic has redesigned its Claude app

Anthropic has made it easier to automate Claude-oriented tasks without relying on autonomous agent software.…

One CVE under attack, one already disclosed by angry bug hunter, and 163 more

Attackers exploited a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server before Redmond issued a fix as part of April's mega Patch Tuesday.…

The company's new software keeps an eye on your agents and backs up data.

Keep your agents close and your agent-monitoring software closer. Commvault’s new AI Protect can discover and monitor AI agents running inside AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and even roll back their actions when something goes wrong.…

Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla

Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla's work-in-progress channel for its browser.…

Veterans think Congress may swat cuts again, but uncertainty could still do lasting damage

exclusive  As NASA's Artemis II mission headed for the Moon, the Trump administration unveiled another attempt to cut the agency's science budget. Yet some insiders, perhaps buoyed by déjà vu and a little post-traumatic resilience, are less alarmed than you might expect.…

With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optional

Bloom Energy says it has an expanded remit from Oracle to provide the energy for its US datacenter buildout plans with up to 2.8 GW of fuel cell systems.…

Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print files

California's proposed legislation to put the burden of blocking 3D-printed firearms onto printer manufacturers could effectively sideline open source tools and create new surveillance concerns, digital rights activists argue.…

Long-familiar workflow lets developers split big code changes into smaller, easier-to-review chunks

GitHub has unveiled Stacked PRs, a new feature aimed at making large pull requests easier to review, manage, and move through the pipeline faster.…

Paper says a single binary operator could replace a lot of scientific heavy lifting

Every now and then, a researcher comes up with something that sounds either wrong or unoriginal to outsiders – yet carries just enough of a chance of being correct, novel, and consequential to demand a closer look.…

Latest report from Stanford's AI boffins finds unsafe usage practices, widespread anxiety about impacts, and China catching up to the USA

Artificial intelligence has achieved mass adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet, reaching 53 percent of the population in just three years. The number of harmful AI incidents has increased correspondingly. And both experts and laypeople believe the impact will be felt in two areas: Elections and relationships.…

Deal only comes with 24 operational sats, but also an Apple deal, spectrum licenses, and plenty of IP

Amazon has agreed to pay more than $11.5 billion to expand its satellite constellation by about two dozen units with the acquisition of Globalstar. But it's more about the underlying technology that Amazon hopes will help it catch Elon Musk's Starlink. …

Honey, the skids are fighting again

Two rival ransomware gangs have locked horns after 0APT threatened to expose people affiliated with Krybit.…

Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases

IBM has become the first company to settle with the US government under the Trump administration's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, a program aimed at ensuring diversity programs don't cross a line and result in discrimination.…

Entry-level models jump by up to £220, mirroring steeper hikes in US

Microsoft's memory squeeze has reached the shop floor, and Surface prices have been jacked up to match.…

20-year-old Texan also allegedly planned to kill everyone inside the OpenAI office building

The man accused of attacking Sam Altman's San Francisco home with a Molotov cocktail on April 10 now faces charges of attempted murder.…

Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s

The British government has signed a deal with Rolls‑Royce to carry out the design work on small modular reactors (SMRs).…

Mailbox access in stripped-down Android app ends on May 25

Having blocked new installations of Outlook Lite in October 2025, Microsoft will " complete the retirement" of the app on May 25.…

Already £1.3B over budget and 4 years late, NS&I could extend timetable beyond 8 years

The UK's state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous transformation program, including busting the current timeline.…

Advisers say fewer staff could mean slower answers and tougher renewals

Oracle customers have been warned to watch for changes in support and pricing as Larry Ellison’s company makes huge datacenter spending commitments to support its AI ambitions.…

Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold

When IBM PCs set the standard for personal computing and Madonna topped the charts, Japan led the semiconductor industry. But that 1980s dominance faded as the fabless design and foundry model evolved.…