Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query (2025/11/19) Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix
Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook (2025/11/19) Vertical integration meets subscriptions
Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new ‘Digital Signage mode’ (2025/11/19) BORK is borked
Anthropic is at the heart of the latest billion-dollar circular AI investment bonanza (2025/11/18) What do you get when you combine Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia? A bubble that blows itself
FCC looks to torch Biden-era cyber rules sparked by Salt Typhoon mess (2025/11/18) Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too ‘burdensome’
China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crew (2025/11/18) Stuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company
Google Chrome bug exploited as an 0-day - patch now or risk full system compromise (2025/11/18) Seventh Chrome 0-day this year
Datacenter fossil fuel habit 'not sustainable' as AI workloads soar (2025/11/18) Rising AI power demand is straining grids and pushing operators toward hydrogen, batteries, geothermal, and nuclear
Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia (2025/11/18) Carrier insists network wasn't at fault when smartphone couldn't reach 000
Microsoft issues patch to tackle Windows 10 Extended Security Updates failures (2025/11/18) Users who thought they were safely in the program hit errors on day one
Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown (2025/11/18) European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act
NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data (2025/11/18) Lawsuit alleges he poached staff, lifted trade secrets, and set up Red Stapler before quitting
Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters (2025/11/18) Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers
Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold (2025/11/18) Updated Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along
Zoomers are officially worse at passwords than 80-year-olds (2025/11/18) They can probably set up a printer faster, but look elsewhere for cryptography advice
Dutch turbine engineer tried to turn wind into crypto, ends up generating community service (2025/11/18) Techie wired cryptominers into Nordex's network while company reeled from cyberattack
Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actually (2025/11/18) Chang'e 6's soil sample turns up iron oxides where none were supposed to exist
Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel (2025/11/18) SC25 €544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower