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India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree

(2026/05/06)

Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks



Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend

(2026/05/06)

Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks



OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year

(2026/05/05)

If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math



Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

(2026/05/05)

GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them



Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch

(2026/05/05)

High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage



Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents

(2026/05/05)

Always bet on backpropagation



IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf

(2026/05/05)

With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2



ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower

(2026/05/05)

ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows



DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to

(2026/05/05)

A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not



Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw

(2026/05/05)

Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long



More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook

(2026/05/05)

OPINION Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time



Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked

(2026/05/05)

Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future



Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking

(2026/05/05)

Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats



SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition

(2026/05/05)

ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration



VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination

(2026/05/05)

Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock



ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild

(2026/05/05)

Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched



Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more

(2026/05/05)

Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech



Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday

(2026/05/05)

Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories



Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal

(2026/05/05)

CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule



Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area

(2026/05/05)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags



NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns

(2026/05/05)

Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change



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The fountain code has been tightened slightly so you can no longer dip objects
into a fountain or drink from one while you are floating in mid-air due to
levitation.

Teleporting to hell via a teleportation trap will no longer occur if the
character does not have fire resistance.

-- README file from the NetHack game