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Perplexity likens Amazon's legal threat to an attempt to ban access to... wrenches? Amazon.com has sent a cease and desist letter to Perplexity in which it insists the AI company prevent its Comet browser from making automated purchases on behalf of users.…

Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit Google on Tuesday announced a new moonshot – launching constellations of solar-powered satellites packed to the gills with its home-grown tensor processing units (TPUs) to form orbital AI datacenters.…

DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them If you're filing an immigration form - or helping someone who is - the Feds may soon want to look in your eyes, swab your cheek, and scan your face. ...

When you opt in, your taskbar becomes an extension of the Copilot app, but with some search added in hands on With Microsoft cramming Copilot into every nook and cranny of its software, it’s no surprise that everyone’s favorite AI assistant is now set to take over the search box. ...

They have no need to prove their bonafides Recently, I was spinning up yet another terribly coded thing for fun because I believe in making my problems everyone else's problems, and realized something that had been nagging at me for a while: working with AWS is relatively painful.…

Resource Actions expected to hit half of US Infrastructure group IBM this week began notifying several thousand employees that they will be laid off, according to sources familiar with the matter. …

Experts disagree about what the ruling means for AI training on copyrighted material London's High Court has dismissed the major portions of Getty Images' lawsuit against generative AI firm Stability AI for training its image-generation model on copyrighted images, which some legal experts say could weaken intellectual property laws. ...

Curly COMrades strike again Russia's Curly COMrades is abusing Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor in compromised Windows machines to create a hidden Alpine Linux-based virtual machine that bypasses endpoint security tools, giving the spies long-term network access to snoop and deploy malware.…

Security program fails to meet federal standards as government cuts drain resources The infosec program run by the US' Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) 'is not effective,' according to a fresh audit published by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).…

Only a point up in a year, but that’s a 50% leap for Linux gamers The latest edition of Valve's monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out, showing a rise in Steam usage on Linux. Penguin likes to play!…

PEP 810 approved following lengthy debate among developer community Python programs are set to get faster startup times with PEP 810 'Explicit lazy imports,' which allows scripts to defer loading imported libraries until they're actually needed rather than at startup.…

Trust me bro, says GitHub Copilot. And programmers just... do Developers who 'pair code' with an AI assistant stand to learn as much as they do in traditional human-human pairings, but also show a less critical attitude toward their silicon-based partner’s output, academics have found.…

Norges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids Norway's sovereign wealth fund has opposed Tesla CEO Elon Musk's proposed $1 trillion share award, which the carmaker's board says is necessary to retain him.…

Popular operating system much more sticky than Windows 7 was during its EOL As the dust settles over the end of support for many versions of Windows 10, the operating system remains a significant presence in the Windows market.…

Check Point lifts lid on a quartet of Teams vulns that made it possible to fake the boss, forge messages, and quietly rewrite history Microsoft Teams, one of the world's most widely used collaboration tools, contained serious, now-patched vulnerabilities that could have let attackers impersonate executives, rewrite chat history, and fake notifications or calls – all without users suspecting ...

Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot Liquid cooling tech is hot. It's only Tuesday and already infrastructure specialists have forked out more than $10 billion on companies proffering tech that promises to help ease energy bills of datacenter operators.…

France-based victims hit especially hard, while UK named most-targeted country generally Researchers are seeing a 'dramatic' increase in cybercrime involving physical violence across Europe, with at least 18 cases reported since the start of the year.…

Redmond uncovers SesameOp, a backdoor hiding its tracks by using OpenAI’s Assistants API as a command channel Hackers have found a new use for OpenAI's Assistants API – not to write poems or code, but to secretly control malware.…

Plans for investing in AI and service transformation held up as treasury pulls plug, NAO finds Police forces in England and Wales spend around 97 percent of their £2 billion ($2.6 billion) annual technology budget on maintaining legacy systems, an official report has found.…

Microsoft accidentally tells supported users that they aren't Microsoft says a broken update left some Windows 10 users staring at an out-of-support message despite having an activated Extended Security Updates (ESU) license or a version of Windows 10 that is still officially supported.…

How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff Feature In late 2025, a series of multi-billion-dollar deals in the artificial intelligence sector is causing déjà vu among industry veterans. ...

Government spending watchdog eviscerates penny wise, pound foolish approach Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is being criticized for undermining its F-35 stealth fighter program through years of short-term budget decisions that have increased long-term costs and left the fleet understrength and undercapable.…

Experience leads company boss to decide 'I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases' The founder of a service that manages SSL certificates says Google Cloud has suspended his account three times, without good reason, and recommended not using the G-Cloud for serious workloads.…

South Korea's president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China's censorship and snooping Chinese president Xi Jinping has joked that smartphones from Xiaomi might include backdoors.…

Superapp company that chased Uber away built its own model to do the job right Proprietary large language models are bad at interpreting Asian languages, according to Singaporean super-app company Grab, which has built its own model instead.…

55 cuffed last week after court ruled sting operation was legal Australian police last week made 55 arrests using evidence gathered with a backdoored messaging app that authorities distributed in the criminal community.…

'Unified Edge' designed so even retail workers can replace a server Cisco entered the server market in 2009 because the company thought incumbent vendors weren’t satisfying customers. On Monday, the networking giant entered the edge infrastructure market for the same reason.…

If you want your First Amendment rights, make money the Palantir way Palantir CEO Alex Karp used his quarterly shareholder letter to take aim at critics after the company beat Q3 2025 earnings estimates.…

Even AI has doubts about the claim that '80% of ransomware attacks are AI-driven' Do 80 percent of ransomware attacks really come from AI? MIT Sloan has now withdrawn a working paper that made that eyebrow-raising claim after criticism from security researcher Kevin Beaumont.…

Rogues committed extortion while working for infosec firms A ransomware negotiator and an incident response manager at two separate cybersecurity firms have been indicted for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks of their own against multiple US companies.…

Still available via API, the developer-facing AI isn't even really designed to answer general-purpose questions If Google's Gemma were an employee, it might be facing HR right now. The company yanked the model from AI Studio after it allegedly invented criminal accusations about a US senator and a conservative activist. ...

Last year's winner scored a $65M funding round on a $300M valuation Cloud and AI security startups have two weeks to apply for a program that fast-tracks access to investors and mentors from Amazon Web Services, CrowdStrike, and Nvidia.…

Amazon deal still dwarfed by $250B Azure commitment made as part of OpenAI's for-profit transformation OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, adding another hyperscaler alongside Microsoft Azure for its growing AI compute needs. Where it's getting all this money was not disclosed.…

Accenture to poke around the beleaguered airline's IT infrastructure Alaska Airlines has called in consultants to advise it on what went wrong during a late October IT meltdown that grounded flights and wreaked havoc for two days.…

The spending will continue until ROI improves Tech companies continue to sling crazy amounts of money at AI, with Microsoft announcing deals worth billions in Texas and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), while Google parent Alphabet is selling bonds in Europe to raise cash for more AI expansion.…

Old-school cargo heists reborn in the cyber age Cybercriminals are increasingly orchestrating lucrative cargo thefts alongside organized crime groups (OCGs) in a modern-day resurgence of attacks on freight companies.…

Researchers point to risks in high-stakes applications as well as the potential to spread misinformation Large language models often fail to distinguish between factual knowledge and personal belief, and are especially poor at recognizing when a belief is false.…

Memory safety trumps retro computing: Alpha, PA-RISC, m68k, SH4 face the chop in 2026 Debian's APT package manager will have a 'hard requirement' on Rust from May 2026. This move may make some rather big waves.…

Help me, HOBI-WAN, you're my only hope for lunch The European Space Agency (ESA) has coined a tortured acronym for its project to feed astronauts on long-duration missions: HOBI-WAN (Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria In Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition).…

IEEE survey of senior techies in six countries finds recrutiment for data analytics, and machine learning on the up Demand for software development skills in AI-related roles is set to fall next year as agentic AI accelerates across business markets, according to an IEEE industry survey.…