Ubuntu Unity hanging by a thread as wunderkind maintainer gets busy with life
The Ubuntu Unity project is in trouble because its maintainer, a Linux whiz kid, has had less time to work on it due to his studies. Now other team members are appealing to the wider Ubuntu community for help. …
Atlas vuln lets crims inject malicious prompts ChatGPT won't forget between sessions
updated In yet another reminder to be wary of AI browsers, researchers at LayerX uncovered a vulnerability in OpenAI's Atlas that lets attackers inject malicious instructions into ChatGPT's memory using cross-site request forgery.…
Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has walked away from a $1.5 million government grant and you can blame the Trump administration's war on woke for effectively weakening some open source security. …
AWS Stargate-smashing Rainier AI megacluster is up and running
Never mind Sam Altman's Stargate, which is just beginning to open its portal to distant AI-fueled worlds: Amazon's competing mountain of AI compute power is already up and running. …
Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit
How far would you take your flight simulation hobby? Perhaps some extra screens? Maybe some custom controllers? Or would you go as far as to revive a scrapped Boeing 747 cockpit to satisfy your simulation needs?…
Dame Emma Thompson gives the 'AI revolution' both barrels
Dame Emma Thompson's expletive-laden takedown of AI writing assistants may strike a chord with frustrated users everywhere.…
EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long
A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the accounting and consulting megacorp's secrets.…
Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out
Planning to visit the United States in the near future? If so, get ready to have your picture taken – and stored for decades – upon both entry and exit under a new Customs and Border Protection rule.…
Android malware types like your gran to steal banking creds
Updated A new Android malware strain, Herodotus, steals credentials, logs keystrokes, streams victims' screens, and hijacks input - but with a twist: it mimics human typing by adding random delays between keystrokes to evade behavioral fraud detection systems.…
India to dethrone US for dev numbers as AI reshapes coding, says GitHub
The Indian software developer community will outgrow the US's by 2030, GitHub's Octoverse 2025 report shows. However, today, the United States remains in the lead.…
Nvidia pitches Omniverse DSX as model for gigawatt-scale AI factories
Nvidia unveiled Omniverse DSX at its GTC event in Washington DC — a blueprint for designing and operating gigawatt-scale AI datacenters using digital twin technology.…
AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay
Many organizations rushing to cut staff in the name of AI efficiency are expected to quietly rehire those roles – often "offshore or at lower salary."…
Firewalls and VPNs are so complex now, they can actually make you less secure
Organizations using Cisco and Citrix VPN devices were nearly seven times as likely to suffer a ransomware infection over a 15-month period, according to At-Bay, a provider of cyber insurance and a vendor of managed detection and response products.…
The CAPITAL LETTERS trick that helped merge Windows 95 into NT
The early versions of Windows NT were the last hurrah for the Windows 3.1-esque Program Manager. But getting the Windows 95 shell into the codebase occasionally required using CAPITAL LETTERS.…
Marketing giant Dentsu warns staff after Merkle data raid
Global marketing giant Dentsu is writing to current and former staff after a cyberattack on a subsidiary led to bank, payroll, and other sensitive data being stolen.…
UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity
The UK government will publish a plan for handling future cloud outages after last week's AWS failure knocked out several departments.…
Sole trader dispatched almost 1M spam texts to hard-up Brits, says watchdog
Britain's data watchdog has fined a sole trader £200,000 for nearly a million spam texts targeting people in debt – almost 20 pence per message.…
Bolt Graphics unveils Zeus GPU built on RISC-V and path tracing tech
Ubuntu Summit One of the more unexpected talks at last week's Ubuntu Summit 25.10 in London was by Antonio Salvemini of Bolt Graphics, who introduced the company's forthcoming range of Zeus graphics accelerator hardware. These are very unlike any conventional GPUs – or indeed anything else.…
AI bubble to deflate as enterprises defer spending to 2027
ai-pocalypse Bubble, meet pin. Large organizations are set to defer a quarter of planned AI spending from next year until 2027, forcing a market correction.…
UK government on the lookout for bargain-priced CTO
The UK government is on the hunt for a new CTO after incumbent David Knott announced his departure, citing family reasons.…
