LoginAWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen
The cloud giant talks loudest about what scares it most. Here's what should terrify it
For a decade, AWS's position on multi-cloud was clear: don't.…
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Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign
Atlassian, RingCentral, ZoomInfo also among tech targets
ShinyHunters has targeted around 100 organizations in its latest Okta single sign-on (SSO) credential stealing campaign, according to researchers and the criminal group itself.…
How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C
Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI
feature TrapC, a memory-safe version of the C programming language, is almost ready for testing.…
Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power
Inference-optimized chip 30% cheaper than any other AI silicon on the market today, Azure's Scott Guthrie claims
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new in-house AI accelerator to rival Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs.…
US ownership of TikTok off to a rocky start as outage continues into second day
The new US-based joint venture blamed a datacenter power outage, but hasn’t elaborated
TikTok's new life under majority American ownership is off to a rough start, after users complained of widespread service disruptions the company blamed on a datacenter power outage.…
Claude can now disgorge interface elements from other apps
An official Model Context Protocol extension
Anthropic's Claude can now present the interfaces of other applications within its chat window, thanks to an extension of the Model Context Protocol (MCP).…
Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE
But CEOs remain frozen in place
More than 400 tech workers have urged their CEOs to "call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities" after masked federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti over the weekend and the world's richest and most powerful chief executives remained silent.…
AI adoption at work flatlined in Q4, says Gallup
Points to a use-case problem
AI adoption in the workplace stalled in the fourth quarter of 2025, but those who have already started using it are making increased use of it, according to a survey by pollster Gallup. Don't let that fool you into thinking AI is taking over work, though: frequent AI users are still a tiny minority of overall workers.…
Keep it simple, stupid: Agentic AI tools choke on complexity
Even agents checking other agents can still get it wrong
Agents may be the next big thing in AI, but they have limits beyond which they will make mistakes, so exercise extreme caution, a recent research paper says.…
Internet spent Q4 '25 losing fights with cables, power, and itself
Latest data from Cloudflare shows cable cuts, power failures, and network faults drive steady run of internet outages
The internet spent the closing months of 2025 being knocked over by cut cables, broken power grids, bad weather, military strikes, and the occasional self-inflicted technical wound, according to Cloudflare's latest global traffic data.…
KDE Plasma 6.6 beta ships a login manager that won't log in without systemd
Bad luck, BSDs – although alternatives still work
KDE Plasma 6.6 is approaching, and one of its more controversial changes is a new login screen that depends on systemd – meaning that it won't work on the non-Linux operating systems KDE still nominally supports.…
Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy
Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations
Alaska Air's CEO says IT outages last year damaged the company on multiple fronts despite "triple redundancies" built into its disaster recovery plan.…
Knee-Deep in the CAD: Boffin gets Doom running inside a design modeler
The seminal shooter finds yet another unlikely home
Not content with rendering Doom in PCB design software or playing it on an oscilloscope, engineer Mike Ayles has got the 1990s shooter running in a computer-aided design (CAD) modeler.…
Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued
Researchers demonstrate fourfold improvement to LED steering results after enlisting the help of some good old-fashion AI
Boffins at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs are working to develop cheap and power efficient LEDs to replace lasers. One day, they let a trio of AI assistants loose in their lab.…
EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images
Probe follows outcry over use of creepy image generation tool
The European Commission has launched an investigation into X amid concerns that its GenAI model Grok offered users the ability to generate sexually explicit imagery, including sexualized images of children.…
Data thieves borrow Nike's 'Just Do It' mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB
US sports brand launches probe after extortion crew WorldLeaks claims it stole huge dataset
Nike says it is probing a possible breach after extortion crew WorldLeaks claimed to have lifted 1.4TB of internal data from the sportswear giant and posted samples on its leak site.…
Microsoft probes Windows 11 boot failures tied to January security updates
Some machines are failing to start after security updates, prompting yet another Microsoft investigation
Microsoft is investigating reports that its January 2026 security updates are leaving some Windows 11 machines stuck in a boot loop, adding another entry to this month's bumper post–Patch Tuesday borkage list.…
When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype
Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter
Opinion AI-integrated development environment (IDE) company Cursor recently implied it had built a working web browser almost entirely with its AI agents. I won't say they lied, but CEO Michael Truell certainly tweeted: "We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor."…
Moscow likely behind wiper attack on Poland’s power grid, experts say
Cyber sleuths believe Sandworm up to its old tricks with a brand-new sabotage toy
Russia was probably behind the failed attempts to compromise the systems of Poland's power companies in December, cybersecurity researchers claim.…
Just the Browser is just the beginning: Why breaking free means building small
Privacy tools are a start, but real freedom lives in the digital outskirts of the web
Opinion The Net is born free, but everywhere is in chains. This is a parody of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 book The Social Contract where he said the same about humans, but it's nonetheless true. The Net is built out of open, free protocols and open, free code. Yet it and we are bound by the rulemakers who build the services and set the laws of the places we go and the things that we do, not to our advantage.…
