Panther Lake sets stage for Intel's 2 nm comeback, but many details still TBD (2025/10/09) Notebook chip promises 8 to 16 cores and up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance when it hits shelves in January
SoftBank snaps up ABB's robotics biz for $5.4B to fuel 'physical AI' dreams (2025/10/09) Japanese tech goliath gets grabby with industrial automation as ABB shelves spin-off plans
Nextcloud withdraws European Commission OneDrive bundling complaint (2025/10/09) Blames 'lack of interest' from the EU policy enforcer for towel throwing
Hundreds of millions of business PCs are still on Windows 10 as D-Day nears (2025/10/09) It's the end of support as we know it and users feel fine
Zero-day lets nation-state spies cross-examine elite US law firm Williams & Connolly (2025/10/09) China-linked snoops crack email at DC powerhouse that represented Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Holmes
McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits (2025/10/09) Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity
Hobble your AI agents to prevent them from hurting you too badly (2025/10/09) That's the main takeaway from the Zenity AI Agent Security Summit
CoreWeave bets on serverless agent builder to woo penny-pinching enterprises (2025/10/09) Because what enterprises really love are vague consumption-based pricing models
3 more infamous cybercrime crews team up to 'maximize income' in 'challenging' ransomware biz (2025/10/08) It's hard out there for a crim
The price is wrong! California goes Bob Barker on algorithmic price rigging (2025/10/08) When sellers collude through a computer algorithm, that doesn't make it right
Cisco’s new router unites disparate datacenters into AI training behemoths (2025/10/08) With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second
Mars’ powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions (2025/10/08) Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA’s veteran orbiters
AI gets more 'meh' as you get to know it better, researchers discover (2025/10/08) Most scientists now use the tech in their work, but still question its usefulness
Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort (2025/10/08) CRM giant 'will not engage, negotiate with, or pay' the scumbags
Bank of England smells hint of dotcom bubble 2.0 in AI froth (2025/10/08) UK central bank warns of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks
IBM's big iron to get Spyre AI accelerator upgrade this month (2025/10/08) Giving the mainframe customers what they want
Exchange Online will start archiving your oldest emails before your inbox bursts (2025/10/08) Microsoft promises fewer 'mailbox full' errors in face of message deluge
IBM invites CockroachDB to infest its mainframes with PostgreSQL (2025/10/08) Vendors promote bridge to modern architecture for legacy systems, but Db2 not going anywhere just yet
Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle (2025/10/08) Can be shifted for a tenth of the price AND the wings don't have to come off – allegedly
Germany slams brakes on EU's Chat Control device-scanning snoopfest (2025/10/08) Berlin's opposition likely kills off Brussels' bid to scan everyone's messages