Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name (2025/09/30) Yep, we're sure that will win folks over
Google bolts AI into Drive to catch ransomware, but crooks not shaking yet (2025/09/30) Stopping the spread isn't the same as stopping attacks, period
Socket will block it with free malicious package firewall (2025/09/30) "sfw" stands for Socket Firewall, but perhaps also "safe for work."
Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes (2025/09/30) Company faces a setback on the test stand
IBM killing mainframe coding kit for PCs this year (2025/09/30) Linux-based System z emulator will go away on Dec. 31, replaced by cloud-based solution from ISVs
Blood-red bot stalks the burbs armed with . . . groceries (2025/09/30) Rise of the machines DashCam's autonomous vehicle may strike fear into the hearts... of delivery drivers
California lawmakers pretend to regulate AI, create a pile of paperwork (2025/09/30) LLM makers have to file a steady stream of reports in the name of transparency
Tesla on the wrong tracks with Fail Self Driving, Senators worry (2025/09/30) Full Self-Driving mode could be on-track to cause serious accidents at train crossings
Warnings about Cisco vulns under active exploit are falling on deaf ears (2025/09/30) 50,000 firewall devices still exposed
Pop! System76's 24.04 beta is here – complete with a beta of polarizing COSMIC (2025/09/30) Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right?
Logitech's MX Master 4 mouse buzzes with haptic feedback but lacks lefty love (2025/09/30) (Right) Hands On Ergonomic, feature-packed, and still right-handed only
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead? No, wait – it's on Windows (2025/09/30) Rust-coded editor beta arrives with general availability promised in October
ServiceNow thinks you're doing AI fast and wrong (2025/09/30) And of course thinks it can help you do it right, once it gets around to delivering
NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat (2025/09/30) DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark
'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab (2025/09/30) Updated Projected £1.5M running costs balloon to £12M under new contracts
Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide (2025/09/30) Met's Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year
£5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run (2025/09/30) Zhimin Qian recruited takeaway worker to launder funds through property overseas
UK splurges £4.4M on drones, e-planes, and other flights of fancy (2025/09/30) Taxpayer cash fuels 14 projects from NHS blood-hauling UAVs to posh eVTOL shuttles
Healthcare lags in Windows 11 upgrades – and lives may depend on it (2025/09/30) Interview Most orgs still on Windows 10, so maybe don't get ill after October 14
Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers (2025/09/30) Opinion Impact? Nope, don't worry, be happy, says Linux veteran