Meta just saved an Illinois nuclear plant that was set to be mothballed (2025/06/03) The 20-year deal with Constellation will slake Zuckercorp's thirst for energy to power AI datacenters
Google quietly pushes emergency fix for Chrome 0-day as exploit runs wild (2025/06/03) TAG team spotted the V8 bug first, so you can bet nation-states weren’t far behind
Microsoft will stop pestering Windows users about Edge in EU (2025/06/03) Plus, Europeans will find it easier to sideline Bing and uninstall the Windows Store
X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it (2025/06/03) Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads
Crooks fleece The North Face accounts with recycled logins (2025/06/03) Outdoorsy brand blames credential stuffing
AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0 (2025/06/03) Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025
Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff (2025/06/03) Microsoft's latest and greatest still lags behind predecessor as time runs out
Engineers bring Psyche's thrusters back online (2025/06/03) Diagnosing a borkage from a million miles away
Microsoft patches the patch that put Windows 11 in a coma (2025/06/03) Out-of-band is becoming the norm rather than the exception
Schneider Electric says US grid will be less stable by 2030 as datacenter demand rises (2025/06/03) Safety margin set to narrow – yes that buffer that helps prevent cascading failure events
Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs that leave clouds vulnerable (2025/06/03) To stop the JINX-0132 gang behind these attacks, pay attention to HashiCorp, Docker, and Gitea security settings
Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs (2025/06/03) February jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says
Bling slinger Cartier tells customers to be wary of phishing attacks after intrusion (2025/06/03) Nothing terribly valuable taken in data heist, though privacy a little tarnished
AI hype fuels pay rise – but only if you're in the right gig (2025/06/03) Software among the sectors seeing a productivity boost, PwC claims
What will UK government workers do with an extra 26 minutes a day? (2025/06/03) That's how much on average they saved with Microsoft Copilot AI, according to a GDS study
Regulator sues product comparison site alleged to only compare products on which it earned commission (2025/06/03) No wonder those products always rated so highly
Atlassian tweaks licenses to reward those who buy more, but gets its sums wrong (2025/06/03) Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye
IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight (2025/06/03) Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’
More layoffs at Microsoft as axe falls in Washington and California (2025/06/03) UPDATED One possible solution - go join a union like recently-acquired-by-Redmond ZeniMax
IBM Watson zombie brand shuffles forward with new AI lab in NYC (2025/06/03) Unsurprisingly, it's all about agents, the buzzword du jour