AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' (2025/08/21) They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?
Baidu robocabs break even on one metric in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere (2025/08/21) Web giant reworks AI infra to improve utilization, with mix of chips from home and away
China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday (2025/08/21) Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark
Microsoft stays mum about M365 Copilot on-demand security bypass (2025/08/21) UPDATED Redmond doesn't bother informing customers about some security fixes
Post-privacy AI glasses claim to listen to your every word (2025/08/21) Digitally enabled omniscience is neat, if you can bear the cost of being constantly monitored by an AI agent
Google tries to trump iPhone launch with AI-powered Pixel 10 range (2025/08/20) Video At 3% US market share, we don't think Cook & Co are sweating
Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE (2025/08/20) Move along, nothing to see here
Talk to the bot: Salesforce AI agents could replace US govt employees (2025/08/20) Have a complaint? Need a benefit? Agentforce now has a bot for that
IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers - partly to destroy IPv4 (2025/08/20) Dragging DNS into the modern age. And if that means fewer people need to buy IPv4, so much the better
Perplexity's Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions (2025/08/20) updated Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched
Opinionated Arch derivative CachyOS overtakes Mint and MX on DistroWatch (2025/08/20) Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans
FBI: Russian spies exploiting a 7-year-old Cisco bug to slurp configs from critical infrastructure (2025/08/20) Snarfing up config files for 'thousands' of devices…just for giggles, we're sure
Uncle Sam launches AI sandbox for government use, says it won't be around for long (2025/08/20) GSA AI chief says market can do better but the feds needed a kickstart
Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist (2025/08/20) Plessey sold to Haylo Labs, financed by $100M Goertek loan
Commvault releases patches for two nasty bug chains after exploits proven (2025/08/20) Updated Researchers disclosing their findings said 'it's as bad as it sounds'
'Limited' data leak at Aussie telco turns out to be 280K customer details (2025/08/20) iiNet breach blamed on single stolen login, with emails, phone numbers, and addresses exposed
GlobalFoundries inks domestic chipmaking deal with Cirrus Logic (2025/08/20) No word yet on when any homegrown hardware production begins
Google tweaks Play Store fees to keep Euro watchdogs at bay (2025/08/20) Epic boss brands the changes 'malicious compliance'
Space industry frets as UKSA set for bureaucratic re-entry (2025/08/20) Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined
Uncle Sam eyes slice of Intel in return for CHIPS Act cash (2025/08/20) Hmmm, state ownership of private corps... what does that remind us of?