NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns
Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change
Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw
Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long
Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked
DevOps
Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future
Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech
nubia Neo 5 Max with 7.5-Inch display lands as a new PadPhone category
PARTNER CONTENT: nubia Neo 5 Max redefines mobile gaming with its PadPhone concept, combining 7.5-inch display, Neo Triggers 5.0, 7,100mAh super dual-cell battery and 30,000mm²+ cooling system
Personal Tech11 Aug 2026 |
Building up the US power grid won't be wasted, even if the AI bubble bursts
ON-PREM The bigger risk is underinvestment, claims consulting biz McKinsey
On-Prem11 Aug 2026 |
Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G
security Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code
Security11 Aug 2026 | 2
Why hybrid clouds break and what to do about it
paas and iaas SPONSORED EXPLAINER: There's nothing wrong with hybrid cloud. It's the one-size-fits-all strategy on top of it that's the problem.
PaaS and IaaS11 Aug 2026 |
OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs
off-prem Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes
Off-Prem11 Aug 2026 | 5
Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation
science H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year
Science11 Aug 2026 |
Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI
AI and ML Solves tech support tickets faster and more accurately by keeping them away from LLMs
AI and ML11 Aug 2026 |
Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI
AI and ML Solves tech support tickets faster and more accurately by keeping them away from LLMs
AI and ML11 Aug 2026 | 1
Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU
Ai and ML EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry
AI and ML11 Aug 2026 | 7
Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you
ai and ml $125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?
AI and ML10 Aug 2026 | 3
DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection
Security Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI
Security10 Aug 2026 | 6
The Future is for Billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe
AI and ML Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'
AI and ML10 Aug 2026 | 35
Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer
AI AND ML 30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow
AI and ML10 Aug 2026 | 3
North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief
Security Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost
Security10 Aug 2026 | 1
Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list
ai and ml What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw?
AI and ML10 Aug 2026 | 93
LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity
off-prem Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved
Off-Prem10 Aug 2026 | 3
As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them
ON-PREM Bans on new server farm projects spread across the US, while plans meet with protests in the UK
On-Prem10 Aug 2026 | 11
Attackers pick Levi's pockets in social engineering attack
SECURITY Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data
Security10 Aug 2026 | 3
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers
Personal tech Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either
Personal Tech10 Aug 2026 | 32
Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China
EDGE AND IOT No, no nasties to see here, guv...
Edge and IOT10 Aug 2026 | 29
Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack
PERSONAL TECH Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape
Personal Tech10 Aug 2026 | 8
Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat
AI AND ML Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive
AI and ML10 Aug 2026 | 3
London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up
SYSTEMS The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M25
Systems10 Aug 2026 | 35
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic
COLUMNISTS Just add smart humans – and a pinch of dog
Columnists10 Aug 2026 | 34
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn
Software A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared
Software10 Aug 2026 | 40
Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal
OS PLATFORMS He’s not thrilled, but won’t let it delay the release of version 7.2
OS Platforms10 Aug 2026 | 42
Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads
ai and ml PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare
AI and ML10 Aug 2026 | 8
NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car
SOFTWARE PLUS: Infosys to wear Crocs for a decade; Fujifilm may quit printers; 2GW datacenter debuts in western China; and more!
Software10 Aug 2026 | 17
I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it
Networks Starlink and 5G home internet are helping close the digital divide, but they're far from perfect. Glue them together, and you can get awfully close.
Networks09 Aug 2026 | 34
Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
security Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops
Security09 Aug 2026 | 38
Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
AI and ML Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools
AI and ML08 Aug 2026 | 19
South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact
science Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri
Science08 Aug 2026 | 38
OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash
AI and ML Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI
AI and ML07 Aug 2026 |
OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash
AI and ML Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI
AI and ML07 Aug 2026 | 20
Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
Security Calling all defenders
Cyber-crime07 Aug 2026 | 87
AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription
AI and ML Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms
Devops07 Aug 2026 | 5
Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
security What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?
Security07 Aug 2026 | 10
Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power
SCIENCE MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing
Science07 Aug 2026 | 63
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
networks Attackers turned admin access into a route downstream, while N-able tells N-central customers to patch – again
Networks07 Aug 2026 |
ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses
CYBER-CRIME Cancer diagnostics breach spills personal and health info as extortion crew says healthcare giant ‘should’ve paid the ransom’
Cyber-crime07 Aug 2026 | 23
MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
security Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it
Security07 Aug 2026 | 5
Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder
security Investigation into whether staff improperly accessed Minnie Merriman’s file after she was named for the first time this week
Security07 Aug 2026 | 12
Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard
APPLICATIONS Website support widget lasted 18 months before Redmond ended the conversation
SaaS07 Aug 2026 | 31
Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account
Security Intruder gained access to engineering files and potentially export-controlled technical data
Security07 Aug 2026 | 19
Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people's data at risk
security Unlimited Technology Systems says names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and insurance details may have been swiped
Cyber-crime07 Aug 2026 | 3
'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director
Security Humans will get the AI models they deserve
Security07 Aug 2026 | 90
Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses
legal Former Merseyside police officer sacked after failing to declare he was 'too close' with the wrong crowd
Legal07 Aug 2026 | 18
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees
software What an idiot
Software07 Aug 2026 | 179
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks' products
security Beijing’s not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron
Security07 Aug 2026 | 8
‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec
networks Machine-generated traffic to surge 1000x in five years, while we meatbags keep clicking away slowly
Networks07 Aug 2026 | 50
How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era
AI and ML AI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem
AI and ML06 Aug 2026 | 8
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
AI and ML Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
Systems06 Aug 2026 | 11
AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision
AI and ML Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws
AI and ML06 Aug 2026 | 5
Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death
devops Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits
Devops06 Aug 2026 | 21
Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs
SCIENCE IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships
Science06 Aug 2026 | 19
Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests
ai and ml You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?
AI and ML06 Aug 2026 | 16
Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft?
SCIENCE Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward
Science06 Aug 2026 | 22
Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it
devops PARTNER CONTENT: Platform engineering won the argument. Now it has to grow up fast and evolve for the AI era
Devops06 Aug 2026 |
Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out
AI AND ML Perhaps an allow list of domains might be better?
AI and ML06 Aug 2026 | 8
Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice
storage Connor Moucka pleads guilty over sprawling 2024 campaign that looted billions of records
Systems06 Aug 2026 | 7
Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve
SCIENCE Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year
Science06 Aug 2026 | 6
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan
oFF-PREM Nearly three-quarters worry Washington could cut access, yet fewer than half regularly test their fallback
Off-Prem06 Aug 2026 | 19
IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in
SECURITY Leaving this information exposed allowed someone else to gain access
Security06 Aug 2026 | 68
Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra
OS PLATFORMS ESU meter starts running in January, unless you're on the IoT edition
OS Platforms06 Aug 2026 | 11
Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen
ai and ml Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to
AI and ML06 Aug 2026 | 30
News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'
AI AND ML Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'
AI and ML06 Aug 2026 |
News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'
AI AND ML Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'
AI and ML06 Aug 2026 | 24
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time
OFFBEAT It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound
Offbeat06 Aug 2026 | 16
HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months
systems Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady
Systems06 Aug 2026 | 3
Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway
Security It’s just a remote maintenance function, says Zbtlink
Security06 Aug 2026 | 20
Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro
Virtualization VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter
Virtualization06 Aug 2026 | 8
OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack
Security It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence
Security06 Aug 2026 | 37
Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent
AI AND ML Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops
AI and ML06 Aug 2026 | 5
An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse
AI AND ML Would you rather play Russian roulette with an LLM or put your health and safety in the hands of a professional
AI and ML05 Aug 2026 | 12
Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are
Security Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found
Security05 Aug 2026 | 10
Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see
ai and ml Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them
AI and ML05 Aug 2026 | 29
Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars
SYSTEMS In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate
Systems05 Aug 2026 | 19
IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now
security A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA
Cyber-crime05 Aug 2026 | 7
Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas
ON-PREM But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid
On-Prem05 Aug 2026 | 34
Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm
AI AND ML Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures
AI and ML05 Aug 2026 | 59
Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA
ai and ml SPONSORED POST: The AI factory concept encompasses the new AI stack, explain HPE’s Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA’s Kaushik Shirhatti
AI and ML05 Aug 2026 |
SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions
AI AND ML Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B
AI and ML05 Aug 2026 | 30
London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says
Security Met ordered to improve safeguards after two preventable data breaches
Security05 Aug 2026 | 52
Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn
OFF-PREM Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company's compute resources
Off-Prem05 Aug 2026 | 4
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year
SCIENCE Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time
Science05 Aug 2026 | 37
UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack
Security Database backups likely stolen, potentially exposing donor, supporter, and service user details
Security05 Aug 2026 | 10
ZTE and SKY47 unveil Pakistan's largest purpose-built data center – Sky47 Karakoram-01
PARTNER CONTENT: The facility marks a new milestone in Pakistan's progress toward digital transformation and economic modernization
Networks05 Aug 2026 |
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia
offbeat Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start
Offbeat05 Aug 2026 | 46
Double trouble for Microsoft as pre-owned software license claims converge
saas Tribunal to explore how £270 million reseller case intersects with multibillion-pound class action
SaaS05 Aug 2026 | 9
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut
offbeat The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range
Offbeat05 Aug 2026 | 103
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn’t solve management challenges
COLUMNISTS This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent
Networks05 Aug 2026 | 14
AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project
AI AND ML Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge
AI and ML05 Aug 2026 | 29