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GOTO 1976

Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers.…

Shift to self-service will apparently improve support, presumably Big Blue's bottom line too

IBM Cloud will update the services it provides under its Basic Support tier, which will move to a self-service model in January 2026.…

Clock is ticking

US security leaders have urged lawmakers to reauthorize two key pieces of cyber legislation, including one that facilitates threat-intel sharing between the private sector and federal government, before they expire at the end of the month.…

September bundle the largest this year, and possibly the most serious

Patch Tuesday is next week, but Android is ahead of the game, dropping its biggest patch bundle this year while attackers actively exploit two of the now-fixed flaws.…

LLMs and 0-days - what could possibly go wrong?

Attackers on underground forums claimed they were using HexStrike AI, an open-source red-teaming tool, against Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure, according to Check Point cybersecurity evangelist Amit Weigman.…

When AI runs recruiting, the winning move is using the same bot

Job seekers who use the same AI model to compose their resumes as the AI model used to evaluate their application are more likely to advance through the hiring process than those submitting human-written materials, according to researchers.…

The first one's always free - or at least deeply discounted for the first year

Not wanting to miss the opportunity to grow its federal footprint, ServiceNow has signed a deal to offer the US government discounts on its latest AI innovations. …

World's largest foundry operator joins Samsung and SK Hynix, which recently lost their validated end-user status

The Trump administration terminated the world's largest foundry operator's validated end-user (VEU) status this week in an apparent bid to push Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) out of China.…

Now you've gone and done it: Privacy lawyer says he's working on challenge to 2023 Data Protection Framework

The European Union General Court (EGC) has rejected a challenge to the US-EU Data Privacy Framework (DPF) allowing data to continue flowing across the pond, but the challenges are unlikely to stop there.…

From cloud IDEs to autonomous assistants, company says future is agentic

Gitpod, best known for cloud-hosted dev environments, has rebranded as Ona and is now pitching itself as an AI agent platform.…

Benioff boasts bots now handle half of customer chats as doubts over reliability linger

Updated  Speaking ahead of Labor Day – celebrated in the US to recognize the nation's labor movement – Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff said the company had slashed 4,000 customer support roles through the application of AI agents.…

New Alabama HQ to be named the Donald J. Trump Space Command Center, says local Senator

The US President, Donald Trump, has announced his intention to relocate the US Space Command headquarters from its current location in Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama.…

Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up

A RAID failure has taken the Matrix.org homeserver offline, leaving users of the decentralized messaging service unable to send or receive messages while engineers attempt a 55 TB database restore.…

The beatings will continue until usage improves

Techie hiring service Andela says it has trained 200 software developers in the nuances of GitHub Copilot as part of a multi-year effort to bridge the alleged AI talent gap.…

But it's OK to use it for docs and translations

The latest status report from the FreeBSD Project says no thanks to code generated by LLM-based assistants.…

Claude maker hits $183B valuation as bubble fears grow

Opinion  Anthropic has just pocketed another $13 billion, pushing its valuation to a staggering $183 billion – fresh proof that investors still can't kick their AI habit.…

Six years in the making, but some features do not work yet, and has the tool been overtaken by AI?

JetBrains has updated ReSharper, its .NET plugin for Visual Studio, with an out-of-process design that achieves a 61 percent reduction in UI freezes, the company claims. However, the new mode has reduced functionality.…

Board calls move a mutual decision but offers no details on what went wrong

The GNOME Foundation is once again hunting for a new boss after executive director Steven Deobald departed less than four months into the role, a move the board described as mutual.…

Warnings of internal skills shortages fail to quell appetite for hand-holding

The UK Home Office has upped its planned spending on external data and tech consultants by £100 million to a maximum of £350 million.…

Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI

Champagne will be flowing at Google HQ after US District Judge Amit Mehta decided to do very little to rein in the monopolistic web giant.…