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Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.

Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has waded into the argument over where Microsoft has gone wrong with Windows, suggesting that perhaps the OS needs a hardcore mode to offset some of its fluffier edges.…

Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise

Google's Gemini Deep Research tool can now reach deep into Gmail, Drive, and Chat to obtain data that might be useful for answering research questions.…

Multi-year wait for destruction comes to an end for mystery attackers

Security experts have helped remove malicious NuGet packages planted in 2023 that were designed to destroy systems years in advance, with some payloads not due to hit until the latter part of this decade.…

MIT researchers offer cure for illegible software

A pair of MIT researchers have detailed a proposed new model for software that would help both humans and AI code generators alike create better and more transparent applications. No more vibing!…

Behold the one trillion dollar man

Tesla is awarding its CEO Elon Musk a package worth a possible $1 trillion, however, it relies in part on a dramatic increase in the value of the electric vehicle manufacturer.…

All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30

Anyone turning 25 this week has never known a time when humans weren't living in space. The same might not be true when they're 30.…

Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU

Microsoft is again banging the data sovereignty drum in Europe, months after admitting in a French court it couldn't guarantee that data will not be transmitted to the US government when it is legally required to do so.…

This kind of material economic impact from online crooks thought to be a UK-first

The Bank of England (BoE) has cited the cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as one of the reasons for the country's slower-than-expected GDP growth in its latest rates decision.…

Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands

A survey of datacenter professionals reveals that supply chain constraints and power availability are hampering the industry's efforts to scale datacenter capacity.…

Counterfeiter failed to conjure a credible claim, appeals court rules

A convicted identity thief has lost his appeal against Uncle Sam after claiming federal agents destroyed a seized hard drive containing cryptocurrency worth more than $345 million.…

Treasury found £1.6 billion for extra tech investment expecting 15 percent efficiency saving. So far HMRC has underwhelmed

The UK’s tax collector is yet to reach the levels of efficiency its investment in digital services has led auditors to expect, according to a new report.…

We're months away from AI building AI

Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn has confirmed it will use humanoid robots to make Nvidia servers in America.…

Grab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn’t make that easy

Singaporean super-app company Grab has dumped 200 cloudy Mac Minis and replaced them with physical machines, a move it expects will save $2.4 million over three years.…

It's not a bug, it's a feeling

Vibe coding has broken free of tech circles to claim Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year 2025 — a choice that may prompt developers to ask: what could possibly go wrong?…

Chocolate Factory's homegrown silicon boasts Blackwell-level perf at massive scale

Look out, Jensen! With its TPUs, Google has shown time and time again that it's not the size of your accelerators that matters but how efficiently you can scale them in production.…

Redmond's new AI boss is willing to sacrifice performance for the future of our species

Microsoft has joined the ranks of tech giants chasing superintelligent artificial intelligence, but the company's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman’s vision is markedly different from that articulated by other industry leaders…

Move fast - miscreants compromised a domain controller in 17 hours

Gootloader JavaScript malware, commonly used to deliver ransomware, is back in action after a period of reduced activity.…

Money-losing biz says it does not need help to meet massive infrastructure commitments

updated  After this story was published, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took a turn at damage control, following remarks from CFO Sarah Friar suggesting that the company was seeking federal loan guarantees – lanugage she later walked back.…

Plus 2 new critical vulns - patch now

Cisco warned customers about another wave of attacks against its firewalls, which have been battered by intruders for at least six months. It also patched two critical bugs in its Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) software that aren't under active exploitation - yet.…

Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation.

ai-pocalypse  A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn't come at a better time. October jobs data suggests AI is driving the largest wave of layoffs headed into the end of the year that we've seen since 2003. …