Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chips Intel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will restore the CPU to the center of compute - even…
Lees meerOval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don’t quite add up Donald Trump has threatened to whack the UK with a "big tariff" if it doesn't scrap its tax on large US tech firms, reviving a long-running spat ove…
Lees meerOpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs Black Hat Asia Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic's Mythos, according to Ari Herbert-Voss, CEO of…
Lees meerAiling scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives Microsoft's update to harden Remote Desktop against phishing attacks has arrived. When users open a Remote Desktop (.rdp) file, they should now see a warning listing all requested connec…
Lees meerNothing says 'We want honest opinions' like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowed Members of the UK government’s People’s Panel on Digital ID will spend two weekends in Birmingham and three evenings on Zoom discussing how Britai…
Lees meerOval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that but don’t quite add up Donald Trump has threatened to whack the UK with a "big tariff" if it doesn't scrap its tax on large US tech firms, reviving a long-running spat…
Lees meerMissed flights and more means something has got to give at the border Greece is taking a flexible approach to introducing the European Union's biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), after some British passport holders missed flights home following the s…
Lees meerNothing says 'We want honest opinions' like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowed Members of the UK government’s People’s Panel on Digital ID will spend two weekends in Birmingham and three evenings on Zoom discussing how Britai…
Lees meerComputer glitch spawns duplicate jackpots, disgruntled punters, and one very bad career choice A computer glitch in a Spanish betting shop triggered a chain of events that ended with the store manager being kidnapped and held for €50,000 ($58,000) i…
Lees meerFAST16 could be the first cyberweapon, and its effects could be with us today Black Hat Asia Infosec outfit SentinelOne found malware that tries to induce errors in engineering and physics simulation software and therefore represents an attempt at …
Lees meerDemonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhere Black Hat Asia Developers of rented internet of things infrastructure – stuff like public EV chargers and shared e-bikes – are prioritizing user convenience over security, and leaving themselves …
Lees meerTwo teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate With more capacity and faster charging, solid-state batteries could be the next big thing in energy. And good news: researchers may have pinned down one major reason thes…
Lees meerSystem changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline Claude users who complained about the AI service producing lower-quality responses over the past month weren’t imagining it.…
Lees meerTwo teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate With more capacity and faster charging, solid-state batteries could be the next big thing in energy. And good news: researchers may have pinned down one major reason thes…
Lees meerLegit-looking website, camera-on interviews, jokes about backdoors ... it worked EXCLUSIVE It all started with a LinkedIn message, as so many employment scams do these days.…
Lees meerRising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothing Anthropic's release last week of Opus 4.7 came with stronger safeguards to prevent misuse. Unfortunately, these safeguards have also managed to thwart legitimate …
Lees meerKeeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the column where we celebrate the people who’ve taught us how not to secure a server. If you’ve ever tied your own shoelaces together, then t…
Lees meerAll the Typhoons, everywhere, all at once A majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and disrupt vict…
Lees meerThree vendors matched to three sites The US Department of the Air Force (DAF) has selected three companies for possible nuclear microreactor projects at three of its installations under a program aimed at improving energy resilience if the electrici…
Lees meer'Differentiated, but open' Google Cloud Next Google Cloud’s Andi Gutmans said that the company holds a structural advantage over its largest rivals in the race to win value from AI agents in the enterprise, arguing that no competitor currently comb…
Lees meerWhat are you doing to solve the memory crisis? If you follow PC hardware prices, you’ll know AI demand has pushed memory prices higher as manufacturers prioritize memory for datacenters. To deal with that, you can pay through the nose, buy less memo…
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