Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet (2025/11/06) Shopping bots pick first option and are 'vulnerable to manipulation', Magentic Marketplace trial finds
You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will (2025/11/06) Most of you still can't do better than 123456?
Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence (2025/11/06) Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen
SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach (2025/11/06) Spies, not crooks, were behind digital heist – damage stopped at the backups, says US cybersec biz
Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge (2025/11/06) Three hyperscale sheds to double capacity near Heathrow
Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei's Slack (2025/11/06) Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees' chats, spilling info on staff and partners
Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us (2025/11/06) Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers
UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn (2025/11/06) Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services
China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (2025/11/06) Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship
Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever (2025/11/06) Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners
Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit (2025/11/06) Updated Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want, once it fixed a bad link
Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks (2025/11/06) Some clever networking hacks open the door
Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event' (2025/11/06) Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs
Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees' (2025/11/05) Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent
Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer (2025/11/05) hands on For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store
Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M (2025/11/05) An hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands
Uncle Sam lets Google take Wiz for $32B (2025/11/05) Second time's the charm for after Wiz rejected Google's $23B offer last year
Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers (2025/11/05) The DoE’s planned funding runs through 2030
When Debian won't do, Devuan 6 'Excalibur' Linux makes the grade (2025/11/05) Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build
AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system (2025/11/05) CEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers