SPONSORED FEATURE: Toolstation swapped aging Linux tills across branches for compact ASUS NUCs on ChromeOS Flex, cutting support tickets and freeing counter space

Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories

Manus AI will delete some data to satisfy legal requirements

Regulator hopes for greater financial inclusion, without extra risk or blaming models for bad decisions

Developers await open source compiler release to dispel uncertainty following Qualcomm acquisition

One big caveat, though: You need your contact's phone number

Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm

Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency

This is why we can't have nice things, people

Semiconductor giant says opaquely it will use the proceeds for 'general corporate purposes'

Ukraine, Iran, and football inspire geopolitically motivated DDoS attacks, while 1 Tbps traffic jams up 519 percent

Newly minted RaaS crew breaks in through using internet-facing kit via known Fortinet flaws, then steals and scrambles data

Valve, Bol, ING, Ajax, and others affected as pwnage disrupts eight European warehouses

Face-swap software blinked for 'barely a second,' giving Spanish cops the break they needed

Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update

The bigger risk is underinvestment, claims consulting biz McKinsey

Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code

SPONSORED EXPLAINER: There's nothing wrong with hybrid cloud. It's the one- size-fits-all strategy on top of it that's the problem.

Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes

H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year

Solves tech support tickets fas

EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry

$125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?

Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI

Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'

30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow

Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost

What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw?

Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved

Bans on new server farm projects spread across the US, while plans meet with protests in the UK

Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data

Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either

No, no nasties to see here, guv...

Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape

Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive

The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M25

Just add smart humans and a pinch of dog

A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared

Hes not thrilled, but wont let it delay the release of version 7.2

PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare.