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Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI
PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; Google, Apple, India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
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Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else
Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code
Read full story →Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents
Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal
Read full story →LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in
Advert gets the chop, but the silent app installation mechanism remains untouched
Read full story →GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team
GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team The Register
Read full story →Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS
AI no longer welcome in human-focused community
Read full story →Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots
Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat
Read full story →Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything
Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job
Read full story →Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions
Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast
Read full story →Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic
And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack
Read full story →Google Cloud is killing it
It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit
Read full story →Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow
As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner
Read full story →Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool
Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?
Read full story →Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own
xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models – for a price
Read full story →OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents
As AI models become commoditized, maybe there's margin in the plumbing
Read full story →Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five
‘Digital transformation’ is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn
Read full story →The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now
Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3
Read full story →Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises
Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI
Read full story →Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief
Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain
Read full story →Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign
Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home
Read full story →NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD
New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code
Read full story →Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'
More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust
Read full story →How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality
SPONSORED POST: Feeling stuck with your AI application projects? Gartner has the solution
Read full story →Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project
Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel
Read full story →Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas
It’s possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules
Read full story →CISA sounds alarm over trio of exploited SharePoint flaws
Three bugs are under active attack, and two more critical holes could add to the pain
Read full story →Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices
Mega hardware vendor reports problems - but Windows maker isn't yet naming affected models
Read full story →ZTE's AI new calling builds an open and intelligent telecom ecosystem, transforming from basic voice call to an AI-powered service hub
PARTNER CONTENT: How "Calling as a Service" eliminates app downloads and unlocks new revenue for operators
Read full story →Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider
Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider The Register
Read full story →Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing
Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored
Read full story →IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic
CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'
Read full story →Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower
The last proprietary minicomputer, now in ‘deskside’ form if you fancy that
Read full story →Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street
Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors
Read full story →SREs to AI agents: Prove yourself before you touch production
SPONSORED FEATURE: 696 experts find co-pilot welcome, autopilot not so much
Read full story →Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old PC another year
Consumer security updates now run to October 2027, and Redmond doesn't mention Windows 11 once
Read full story →EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope
Brussels says Meta failed to properly assess or mitigate risks posed by infinite scroll, autoplay, and more
Read full story →AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year
Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone
Read full story →Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin
Read full story →Enterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking
Majority report AI-related security incidents or vulnerabilities
Read full story →Avoid AI atrophy - new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay
Want big muscles? Keep working out. Want big coding skillsets? Flex your dev skills with the Atrophy CLI app before they wither away
Read full story →UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster
Overhaul of process could give NIMBYs one year less to complain
Read full story →IBM teases new rackable mainframes that ‘complete’ the z17 family
Big Iron remains big business for Big Blue
Read full story →Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma
Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium
Read full story →Madlad builds homebrew GPU using 8,192 RISC-V chips
The next version will have 32,000 MCUs
Read full story →EU urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP
Campaigners demand investigation and long-delayed action on PEGA Committee recommendations
Read full story →Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble
Oracle's down more than 40% this month, the BIS thinks AI could destroy the economy, and we've got the Kettle on for a chat about the whole mess
Read full story →Companies that add more AI also add more people
But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs
Read full story →SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training
Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building
Read full story →India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears
Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators
Read full story →UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse
Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues
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