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AI-nxiety is real, and it's causing some bizarre behavior

ai-pocalypse  If you're one of those people who pretend to use AI at work, then worry not: there are likely another 15 of you per hundred employees in your company. That's the finding of a survey from nearshoring tech recruitment company Howdy.com.…

Huge models are error-prone and expensive

Enterprise CIOs have been mesmerized by GenAI claims of autonomous agents and systems that can figure anything out. But the complexity that such large models deliver is also fueling errors, hallucinations, and spiraling bills.…

Unlike traditional input, no cameras or surgery needed, they claim

Researchers at Meta have come up with a wristband that picks up your muscle twitches and turns them into real-time computer commands - no cameras or implants required.…

US DOE among breached government agencies

More than 400 organizations have been compromised in the Microsoft SharePoint attack, according to Eye Security, which initially sounded the alarm on the mass exploitation last Friday, even before Redmond confirmed the critical vulnerabilities.…

Loads of unexplained ones, too. Maybe normalize providing a freaking reason for multi-hour outages, mmm?

The previous quarter was a busy one for internet disruptions, according to Cloudflare, with government-mandated shutdowns in several nations, a massive power outage hitting Spain's infrastructure, damage to fiber optic cabling, and technical issues hitting North America.…

The 2026 tax year ought to be fun

A quarter of the Internal Revenue Service's IT staff has departed since President Trump's workforce reduction efforts began earlier this year, and that has officials worried the 2026 tax season could be a mess.…

Despite pledging help for those who don’t sign for subs, Broadcom says validating their entitlements will delay support

Exclusive  Some customers of Broadcom’s VMware business currently cannot access security patches, putting them at greater risk of attack.…

Hand us the mind bleach, we want to flush our memories of attack

Clorox is suing its service desk provider, Cognizant, for $380 million in a California state court, alleging the IT support crew "enabled a cybercriminal to gain a foothold in Clorox's network" by handing over staffers' passwords to attackers after they simply requested them.…

Vendor sees 'slight deceleration' in cloud backlog as it offers mixed results

SAP is warning of uncertainty in global markets after reporting revenue of €9 billion ($10.55 billion) for caledar Q2, up 9 percent year-on-year.…

Total Recall: Capturing everything you do on your PC screen to become a 'true companion'

Microsoft is again throwing AI at Windows 11 to see what sticks, releasing features including the even more eyebrow-raising successor to its controversial Recall, a screen-streaming remotely processed backseat driver dubbed Copilot Vision.…

Uncertainty continues to knock tech industry confidence

More tariff turmoil emerged this week as Nokia slashed its profit guidance for the year due to looming US levies on imported goods, while Texas Instruments' shares took a beating over fears that growth seen in Q2 will fall away following customer stockpiling to avoid import duties.…

But there are tweaks for everyone – even if some are less welcome than others

Mozilla has delivered the latest version of its web browser, alleviating a long-standing irritation for Linux users… but making its "AI" integration even more pervasive.…

Deal adds to a string of relationships based on improving data and analytics

NatWest Group has announced a five-year contract with AWS and Accenture intended to improve its analytics performance for customer data.…

In space, no one can hear you step on a plastic brick

The Lego bricks are being dusted off for a final time – at least for the Apollo program – to recreate the Apollo Soyuz Test Project via the medium of the plaything.…

Science friction at the far end of time for SpaceX and astronomy

Opinion  Elon Musk's Starlink flying circus is many things. It's a multi-thousand satellite global internet provider, growing by hundreds of new orbiting relays a month. It's part of intricate geopolitical power games between the Pentagon, the US government, Ukraine, and Musk himself.…

Organic waste to be pumped out of sight as part of 4.9M-tonne CO2 removal deal

Microsoft has signed a contract with a company that will pump shit underground for it in exchange for carbon credits.…

Boffins think worry and stress during the plague years changed our wetware, and that the damage can be reversed

A longitudinal study of nearly 996 healthy adults found that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated ageing of their brains.…

Smaller vendors offering alternatives cash in concerns

Analysis  Recent research suggests customers are concerned about the uptime reliability of hyperscalers' PostgreSQL instances, giving smaller alternative vendors an opening to fill the gap.…

Fight back against Redmond's productivity sinks

HANDS ON  Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop operating system, finally beating Windows 10. But it's also loaded with head-scratching default settings that sap your productivity and treat you like a computer illiterate. …

Already reeling from staff cuts, the health agency is choking on slop

ai-pocalypse  Amid expectations that the Trump administration will introduce an AI Action Plan on Wednesday to boost the use of AI in government, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are pleading for less of it.…