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Friends and family support techs: get ready for permission changing and batch file creating

Microsoft has published a handy guide for regaining access to a C:\ drive borked by a Samsung application, but it isn't for the faint of heart.…

What exactly is AGI? Nobody knows, but Google's AI lab is asking for help trying to define it

If a bot actually achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI), how would we even know? Google DeepMind boffins have come up with what they say is an empirical, scientifically grounded framework to measure progress toward AGI, and they're looking for a few good devs to actually flesh it out. …

Strong forces tempting humans out of the AI loop, and reducing the experience needed to supervise and review

QCon London  AI is in a dangerous state where it is too useful not to use, but where by using it, developers are giving up the experience they need to review what it does, said a speaker at QCon London, a vendor-neutral developer conference underway this week.…

Good luck with that

The latest release of the most widely used Linux init system is here, and between dropping init script support and AI-assisted coding, we feel sure that this release will win it yet more admirers.…

Rozum orchestrates multiple flaky models and drives them to reasonable conclusions

Tech companies have in recent years developed a reputation for being rapacious rent-seekers, but can also be unwittingly generous because their penchant to prioritize popularity over quality leaves room for others to sell improvements or repairs.…

Jacob Andreou takes reins in latest reshuffle

Microsoft has rearranged the deckchairs on the RMS Copilot, sending Mustafa Suleyman to seek out superintelligence, and putting Jacob Andreou in charge of Copilot across consumer and commercial.…

Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators

Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea's fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies in order to funnel money back to the regime and steal sensitive information.…

Automatic deployment of Redmond's assistant halted for now

Microsoft has paused plans to force the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on users, halting automatic installations for an unspecified period.…

No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend £17.5 million on a remotely-operated satellite monitoring facility in Cyprus, partly to protect the UK's secure communications system Skynet.…

Median employee increase? 2.1%. And shareholders urged to vote against a request for AI bias reporting

Not all employees are created equally, just ask IBM boss Arvind Krishna, who received a financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers.…

Analysts say three-screen smartphone successful as a proof of concept, memory crunch potentially made it unsustainable

Samsung is killing the Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone after just three months on the market.…

Three is the magic number as first off-the-shelf general-purpose ternary hardware since c 1965 lands

The 5500FP is a ternary CPU implemented on an FPGA. It's not very fast, but it makes it easier to experiment with computers that don't use binary.…

Compute, storage, and SaaS all slugged - even on Alibaba's own silicon

Alibaba Cloud today informed users it will increase prices for many services by up to 34 percent.…

24 execs sign open letter demanding control-based definitions and reserved procurement

Execs from 24 European cloud and digital service providers are urging the European Commission to legislate for real tech sovereignty – not the illusion of it – in the upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA).…

F is for Free, FSF, and fat chance

Updated  The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has rattled a saber at Anthropic over the use of its materials in training the AI vendor's models, urging it to set its LLMs free.…

Even without a navy, or air power, 'They'll still have the ability to hack'

Businesses should expect that Iran will conduct more aggressive cyber-ops as the war escalates, according to security analysts.…

Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling

Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.…

In less polite places, this is called ‘hacking back’ or ‘offensive cyber-ops’

Japan’s government yesterday decided to allow its Self-Defense Force to conduct offensive cyber-operations, starting on October 1st.…

Beijing appears to have eased its policy of pushing local GPUs

GTC  Nvidia has called on its supply chain partners to begin manufacturing its ageing H200 GPUs to meet demand for chips in China, CEO Jensen Huang said Tuesday.…

Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked 'AI Grid'

GTC  HPE has expanded its Nvidia-based AI portfolio with new systems built on Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, alongside updates to its Alletra Storage MP X10000, which it claims is the first object storage platform to achieve Nvidia-Certified Storage validation.…