Bring back your old Mac: 5 ways to refresh the OS on elderly Apples (2025/09/13) Newer OSes for unsupported kit, and new browsers for older OSes. There's always a way
Inventor who encouraged Elon Musk to make Optimus says most humanoid robots today are 'terrifying' (2025/09/13) interview Scott LaValley, CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, says robot makers should prioritize social acceptance over capabilities
HybridPetya: More proof that Secure Boot bypasses are not just an urban legend (2025/09/13) Although it hasn't been seen in the wild yet
Fire up the gas turbines, says US Interior Secretary: We gotta win the AI arms race (2025/09/12) Climate change? No worry - we can solve that later, argues Doug Burgum
SK Hynix cranks up the HBM4 assembly line to prep for next-gen GPUs (2025/09/12) Top AI chipmakers count on faster, denser, more efficient memory to boost training
CISA program gave out $20k+ payments to unqualified employees, auditor says (2025/09/12) The OIG says the Cyber Incentive program was rife with 'fraud, waste, and abuse'
Samsung fixes Android 0-day that may have been used to spy on WhatsApp messages (2025/09/12) A similar vuln on Apple devices was used against 'specific targeted users'
Your call is very important to us – which is why we're connecting you to a human (2025/09/12) ai-pocalypse Gartner survey shows very few are planning to replace human support staff
All your vulns are belong to us! CISA wants to maintain gov control of CVE program (2025/09/12) Get ready for a fight over who steers the global standard for vulnerability identification
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart (2025/09/12) But it reads at about the speed of punch cards
Silent magnetosphere spacecraft starts talking to controllers again (2025/09/12) Half of TRACERS satellite duo tripped up by power problems
Fork that: Three alternative kernels show devs don't need Linux (2025/09/12) Managarm, Asterinas, Xous – where disaffected code whisperers could go
1,200 undergrads hung out to dry after jailbreak attack on laundry machines (2025/09/12) Dorm management refuses to cover costs after payment system borked
Think tank warns China's polysilicon subsidies are frying Western fabs (2025/09/12) US boffins say Beijing's bargain wafers are burning rivals below cost
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen (2025/09/12) Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop
I'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel version (2025/09/12) The first distro vendor to announces its move says nein, danke
Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services (2025/09/12) Deal promises sovereign datacenters, AI, and cybersecurity to strengthen communication links with US
EU regulators let Microsoft off the hook after Teams unbundling pledge (2025/09/12) Slack's complaint sparked a five-year investigation, but Redmond walks away fine-free
Privacy activists warn digital ID won’t stop small boats – but will enable mass surveillance (2025/09/12) Big Brother Watch says a so-called BritCard could turn daily life into one long identity check – and warn that Whitehall can’t be trusted to run
Hack to school: Parents told to keep their little script kiddies in line (2025/09/12) UK data watchdog says students behind most education cyberattacks