AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms
Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard Website support widget lasted 18 months before Redmond ended the conversation
How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era AI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws
Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits
Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?
Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it PARTNER CONTENT: Platform engineering won the argument. Now it has to grow up fast and evolve for the AI era.
Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter
An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse Would you rather play Russian roulette with an LLM or put your health and safety in the hands of a professional
Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate
Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like?
Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims
This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp … What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas
NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs Exposing virtualization built into the SSD will make VM migration simpler, consortium says
UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers
China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition
Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another
Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak ExfilSquad claims 135,000 contact records weeks after hitting the Department for Education
A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it 88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer Persistent sessions could be just the beginning
UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects
Oracle adds Google Gemini to the agent menu Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party
GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows
Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting
MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology
The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time
Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations
Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest Capex spending? What? Me worry?
Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" is an effective sales pitch for open source
Moscow slaps Telegram founder on wanted list, Durov responds with one-finger salute FSB claims Ukrainian spies use chat platform to recruit Russians for sabotage and arson
The VMware deadline that could reshape your IT strategy PARTNER CONTENT: With vSphere 8 support ending in 2027, IT leaders must navigate tight timelines and costs to modernize on their terms.
Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans
After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends
A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch With microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads – but gone before they arrived
MCP gets an enterprise makeover Now happier running in a conventional K8s environment, with `an easier-to-live-with lifecycle
Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives Up to 8 AI models running in the cloud weighing in on ambiguous business issues? Sounds affordable
War machines can run amok with AI in control Tour of the AI kill chain maps the risks of ubiquitous surveillance and flawed algorithms
Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers Just don’t call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in
Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation
Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle £270M ValueLicensing case remains mostly paused while Redmond pursues permission to appeal
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data Never believe a suit who says they're handy with tech
Foxconn unit drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcfra for workloads including AI PLUS: New CEO for Infosys; China fines Trip.com; India demands GitHub remove Jack Dorsey's distributed social network; And more!
How AI drove Shopify back to clean code Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback
Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention
Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?
Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it Sleep doesn't pay
OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap
Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS AI no longer welcome in human-focused community
AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper
Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog
GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters
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
IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets
Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal
OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused
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
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
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?
