As Spain announces stern laws for social media, and Elon Musks response shows regulators keep looking his way The UKs Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has launched a probe into Elon Musks xAI, after its Grok chatbot produced sexual images of real people, without their consent.

As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk and urges admins to snuff it out If youre brave enough to want to run the demonstrably insecure AI assistant OpenClaw, several clouds have already started offering it as a service.

Single customer accounted for 63 percent of surging revenue In recent years, Supermicros regulatory filings often have delivered dramas such as losing its listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange, an admission its books may not be accurate, another possible delisting , and missing the AI boom .

A diverse portfolio is usually a good thing, except when AI is the only thing Usually diversity is a sign of a healthy and resilient business. But for the folks on Wall Street, the breadth of AMD's portfolio is a bug, not a feature one that sent the House of Zen's share price down by more than eight percent in after hours trading on Tuesday.

Versions installed via Snap don't delete files when users empty system trash Linux users who installed Microsoft's Visual Studio Code as a Snap package may want to check to see whether files they sent to the trash with the app have actually been deleted.

Don't relax: This is a 'when, not if' scenario AI agents and other systems can't yet conduct cyberattacks fully on their own - but they can help criminals in many stages of the attack chain, according to the International AI Safety report.

Many vital open source resources rely on the devotion of a few individuals It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

Code community site begins to see that AI could drive people away GitHub, the Microsoft code-hosting shop that popularized AI-assisted software development, is having some regrets about its Copilot infatuation.

E-commerce giant has watts of bit barns to deploy but nowhere to plug them in Amazon Web Services' European expansion has hit the buffers as the American cloud provider grapples with aging grid infrastructure and lengthy interconnect delays.

Less popular in Canada and Northern Europe Palantir is shaping the "under-the- hood" practices of the US Defense Department as demand for its software grows across warfighting, shipbuilding, and weapons procurement, CEO Alex Karp said during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Monday.

CEO Alex Karp meets criticism with soaring revenues and a sermon Opinion Palantir had a whopper of a Q4, showing accelerating revenue growth, beating Wall Street's profit estimates, and enjoying a share price jump of as much as 11% during pre-market trading on Tuesday before coming back down to earth.

Too slow react-ion time Baddies are exploiting a critical bug in React Native's Metro development server to deliver malware to both Windows and Linux machines, and yet the in-the-wild attacks still haven't received the "broad public acknowledgement" that they should, according to security researchers.

DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactors The Department of Energy says advanced nuclear reactor designs - many of which have so far existed mainly at the experimental, testing, or demonstration stage - generally pose limited environmental risk and can qualify for a streamlined environmental review for future projects.

Yes, it already had Unistore Snowflake is launching a PostgreSQL database-as- a-service within its AI data environment to place transactional workloads alongside analytics and AI under a single set of governance rules.

GreyNoise's Glenn Thorpe counts the cost of missed opportunities On 59 occasions throughout 2025, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) silently tweaked vulnerability notices to reflect their use by ransomware crooks. Experts say that's a problem.

Managed Identity and virtual machine failures triggered knock-on problems throughout cloud platform Microsoft has reported two Azure service wobbles in as many days, including a disruption affecting Virtual Machine management ops yesterday and a Managed Identity for Azure resources outage in East US and West US regions today.

Governments and businesses respond to Trump pressures by upping spending in domestically controlled infrastructure US tariffs may be squeezing Europe's trade balance, but they are also pushing governments and businesses to spend big on keeping tech closer to home.

Multimillion-dollar tenure could have bought a couple of crates of toner Longtime HP CEO Enrique Lores is decamping for a top job at PayPal, handing the reins to an interim chief while the business hunts for a permanent successor.

DDoSer of 'strategically important' websites admitted to most charges Polish authorities have cuffed a 20-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out DDoS attacks.

Algorithmic bias probe continues, CEO and former boss summoned to defend the platform's corner French police raided Elon Musk's X offices in Paris this morning as part of a criminal investigation into alleged algorithmic manipulation by foreign powers.

Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections Today is the day Azure Storage stops supporting versions 1.0 and 1.1 of Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS 1.2 is the new minimum.

South Yorkshire becomes ground zero for nationwide experiment with 500K seed funding AI-pocalypse Barnsley, a town in South Yorkshire, England, best known for coal mining and glassmaking, is being thrust into the limelight as the country's first "Tech Town" shoehorning AI into everything from local businesses to public services.

Users can disable every generative feature in one click not everyone wants a chatbot bolted to their tabs Mozilla has decided that if AI is going to live in your browser, you should at least be able to kill it when it gets annoying.

This is starting to sound oddly familiar NASA has concluded a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for Artemis II, but recurring liquid hydrogen leaks forced the test to be halted short of completion, prompting the agency to delay the mission's launch to at least March 2026.

Your own personal Jarvis. A bot to hear your prayers. A bot that cares. Just not about keeping you safe OpenClaw, the AI-powered personal assistant users interact with via messaging apps and sometimes entrust with their credentials to various online services, has prompted a wave of malware and is delivering some shocking bills.

Armed Forces Bill would let troops take action against unmanned threats around defense sites Britain's defense personnel will be given the authority to neutralize drones threatening military bases under measures being introduced in the Armed Forces Bill, currently making its way through Parliament.

Blames unintended or nonstandard usage and the cost of keeping them alive Microsoft has slipped out news that its killing some standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans.

Burning Man woo woo values House of Grok at $250 billion Elon Musk on Monday revealed his space company SpaceX has acquired his AI outfit xAI, and that the two will work together to escape the surly bonds of Earthly powers by tapping the sun's enduring glow.

Main stock exchange targets shares, government agency looks for crypto crooks South Koreas government and main stock exchange have developed and deployed AI-powered tools to detect schemes that aim to send the price of cryptocurrencies and shares soaring so that unscrupulous investors can cash in.

The group targets telecoms, critical infrastructure - all the usual high-value orgs Security researchers have attributed the Notepad++ update hijacking to a Chinese government-linked espionage crew called Lotus Blossom (aka Lotus Panda, Billbug), which abused weaknesses in the update infrastructure to gain a foothold in high-value targets by delivering a newly identified backdoor dubbed Chrysalis.

Second price increase in just two months That slice of Pi is getting much more expensive. Everyones favorite single-board computer, the Raspberry Pi, is jumping up in price again, with increases ranging from $10 to $60, depending on how much memory your board has.

Chipzilla touts 4 TB of DDR5 and 128 lanes of PCIe 5 for less than the House of Zen just in time for memory winter Intel's workstation lineup is getting a much-needed refresh with the launch of its Xeon 600-series processors, boasting up to 86 cores and clocks topping 4.9 GHz. Chipzilla's timing couldn't be worse.

It's 7x the size of the regular board Arduino boards power everything from robots to RGB lights, but they're a little on the small side. YouTuber UncleStem has his own solution: build a gigantic, yet fully functional one.

'If we don't feed the advertisers, then we'll be forced to pay artists for their creative work' Come on, admit it. You like seeing banner ads on your favorite web pages, because they provide a nice break from reading text. If you're honest about this feeling, there's a new extension for you.

NAND flash now expected to surge 5560% compared to Q4 The memory shortage is worse than most of us first thought. Prices on DRAM and NAND flash memory are expected to surge in the first quarter of 2026 as AI-driven hyperscalers and cloud service providers (CSPs) continue to strain supply chains.

The ICE-tracking service says it doesn't store usernames or addresses ICE- reporting service StopICE has blamed a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent for attacking its app and website and sending users text messages warning them that their information had been "sent to the authorities."

Ukraines CERT says the bug went from disclosure to active exploitation in days Russia-linked attackers are already exploiting Microsoft's latest Office zero- day, with Ukraine's national cyber defense team warning that the same bug is being used to target government agencies inside the country and organizations across the EU.

Breach lingered for months before stronger signature checks shut the door A state-sponsored cyber criminal compromised Notepad++'s update service in 2025, according to the project's author.

Users happy with 19c as experts question AI lock-in Last week, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition for Linux x8664, but 13-year support for 19c and the prospect of AI lock-in might make users think twice about upgrading to it.

Your favorite menu item might be easy to remember but it will not secure your account Change Your Password Day took place over the weekend, and in case you doubt the need to improve this most basic element of cybersecurity hygiene, even McDonald's yes, the fast food chain is urging people to get more creative when it comes to passwords.