ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Client defended engineer after oil baron-turned tech support entrepreneur lied about dodgy dealings

(2025/10/10)

On Call Reputations earned over years of service can work wonders



RondoDox botnet fires 'exploit shotgun' at nearly every router and internet-connected home device

(2025/10/10)

56 bugs across routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers … time to run for cover



It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic

(2025/10/09)

Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset



Amazon's Quick Suite is like agentic AI training wheels for enterprises

(2025/10/09)

Slow down there Andy; you wouldn't want to bump into any hallucinations



Google rearranges Agentspace into Gemini Enterprise

(2025/10/09)

A new spin on workflow automation as Chocolate Factory tries to displace Microsoft as the enterprise go-to



Crims had 3-month head start on defenders in Oracle EBS invasion

(2025/10/09)

The miscreants started their attack all the way back on July 10



This is your brain on bots: AI interaction may hurt students more than it helps

(2025/10/09)

More kids see AI as a friend or romantic interest, but few teachers know how to deal with the fallout, study finds



Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian'

(2025/10/09)

Exclusive Houston, we have a custody battle



GitHub Copilot Chat turns blabbermouth with crafty prompt injection attack

(2025/10/09)

AI assistant could be duped into leaking code and tokens via sneaky markdown



Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach

(2025/10/09)

No word on why the outsourced supplier was storing this data in the first place



US PC shipments hit the buffers as Trump’s tariffs take their toll

(2025/10/09)

WORLD WAR FEE Rest of the world surges on Windows 10 end-of-life upgrades



Gartner warns agentic AI startups: Prepare to be consolidated

(2025/10/09)

Analyst predicts over-supply will trigger a market correction in favor of deep-pocketed incumbents



Humans flunk the Turing test for voices as bots get chattier

(2025/10/09)

Coin toss odds for spotting a deepfake, study finds. And that's before the machines learn to sing



Meta will move React to Linux Foundation to address vendor dominance fears

(2025/10/09)

Independent technical governance will hope to unite fractured ecosystem



China moves to extend control over tech industry's critical rare earths

(2025/10/09)

New laws restrict goods that are manufactured outside of China



Windows 11 gets a fresh Start in latest Canary build

(2025/10/09)

Meanwhile, Microsoft resurrects Edit and kills .NET 3.5 SP1 on demand



Kubernetes kicks down Azure Front Door

(2025/10/09)

This time outage was not actually Microsoft's fault



Clearview AI sees red as UK tribunal sides with regulator over $10M GDPR fine

(2025/10/09)

Court says ICO can chase US outfit for unlawfully hoovering up Brits' selfies



SonicWall breach hits every cloud backup customer after 5% claim goes up in smoke

(2025/10/09)

Affects users regardless of when their backups were created



Intel's open source future in question as exec says he's done carrying the competition

(2025/10/09)

Kevork Kechichian says x86 giant's contributions should benefit Intel first



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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
-- Plato