Automakers' AI dreams may run out of road over the next five years (2025/12/08) Analysts reckon only a handful of manufacturers will push ahead as the rest hit the brakes
IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse (2025/12/08) Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates
IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions (2025/12/08) Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka
UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up (2025/12/08) Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance
Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute (2025/12/08) Warning that over-reserved capacity is blocking new connections
X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement (2025/12/08) Brussels accused of using Ad Composer quirk to post link disguised as a video
Kyocera claims 5.2 Gbps underwater laser data blast in lab tests (2025/12/08) Japanese outfit aims to improve comms for aquatic drones
Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes (2025/12/08) Regulator disappointed as soon-to-be-scrapped algo's problems remained a secret despite consistent engagement
Barts Health seeks High Court block after Clop pillages NHS trust data (2025/12/08) Body confirms patient and staff details siphoned via Oracle EBS flaw as gang threatens to leak haul
UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact (2025/12/08) Kendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants
Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era (2025/12/08) Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops
Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas (2025/12/08) Can’t take decades more synthetic case studies? Get those digital daggers out
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work (2025/12/08) Who, Me? Ignorance really can be bliss
Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner (2025/12/08) Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things
China’s first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew (2025/12/08) Asia In Brief PLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more
Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool (2025/12/08) Infosec in Brief PLUS: New kind of DDOS from the Americas; Predator still hunting spyware targets; NIST issues IoT advice; And more!
Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold (2025/12/07) From Amazon to AMD, everything looks like an NVL72 now
And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is... (2025/12/06) Peak Microsoft is whatever you want it to be. Or not
Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL (2025/12/06) Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push