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Big Red gets cozy with Google to offer TPUs to AI customers

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) customers will soon have a raft of new choices. Big Red is hosting an event in Las Vegas this week to inject more air into the AI bubble explain its latest AI investments, and front and center of those efforts are a...

Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute

Anthropic, prone to pronouncements about model safety, has given developers using Claude Code the opportunity to throw its guardrails out the window. The company's latest Claude Code build (v2.1.311) supports an environmental variable designed to al...

AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours

An autonomous AI agent discovered four vulnerabilities in the decades-old, widely used EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) open source software toolkit, including a critical flaw that could allow remote attackers to execute co...

Here’s why the iPhone Duo’s hinge could be cracking the screen

Within hours of the iPhone Duo launch last Friday, people reported that the inner screen on some brand new foldable phones was already broken. The issue was similar across many photos shared on social media: some kind of issue or crack would ap...

Apple takes powerful M6 chip to the MacBook Pro, iMac

If you were waiting to upgrade your Mac until you could get one with the latest CPU, the wait is over. Apple’s 6th-gen M-series processors are finally trickling down to its 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac family early next month.Available in either “sp...

EU privacy advocates accuse US data annotation firm of snooping on contractors

US data annotation operation Scale AI faces five GDPR complaints in four EU countries over allegations that it unlawfully monitors European contractors.Privacy campaigner noyb alleges that Scale tracks contractors who perform data annotation work on...

ZacOS 9 and Mavernix: Two classic Apple desktops find their Wayland to Linux

You wait decades for a Mac-like desktop for Linux, and then two of them come along at once. AI might be involved, but even so, it's still shiny.ZacOS 9 and Mavernix are two very new, independent, and separate projects, but there is a common thread l...

Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs

On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers...

Day 2 of canceled classes at University of New Mexico after Health Sciences Center cyberattack

The University of New Mexico is canceling classes across the medicine, nursing, and pharmacy faculties for a second day amid continued efforts to recover from a "cybersecurity event."The attack targeted the Health Sciences Center on Monday, the Uni...

Take it on the chin SatNad: Microsoft chief exec's pay slips 6% in record year

Sometimes you’ve just got to roll with the punches. Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella was knocked down recently: his total compensation for the corporation’s fiscal 2026 is 6 percent lighter than it was in the prior year.The leader of the sof...

Elon Musk says Ukraine’s military violated Starlink’s terms of service

Elon Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink's terms of service before the recent slowdown, as reported earlier by Ars Technica. According to Musk, "Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to ki...

CISA confirms PHP2Shell under attack as researchers clock successful exploits

The US government's cybersecurity watchdog has confirmed attackers are exploiting both critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, giving federal agencies three days to patch the bugs that have wreaked havoc across the web over the past week.CISA added CVE-...

Trump is making it easier for fossil fuel companies to leak methane

In its latest gift to oil and gas companies, the Trump administration is expected to announce plans today to weaken rules that guard against methane leaks.Methane is a smog-forming pollutant and a powerful greenhouse gas that's up to 80 times a...

A whopping 3% of boardroom execs spy productivity and costs savings from AI

Three-quarters of corporate board members expect AI to deliver productivity gains and cut costs, yet only three percent of organizations have hit their targets, according to researchers at Gartner. The figures came out of the analyst’s HR Symposium,...

VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue

In Marvel's VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantast...

Apple's foldable phone has a crease in its reputation

Apple has confirmed problems with the folding screen on its flagship iPhone Duo after reports of misbehaving displays spread among its customer base.A company spokesperson told The Register, "We are aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a...

When file infrastructure becomes the bottleneck

Nobody sets out to build file infrastructure that makes employees less productive. Yet sensible technology decisions made years ago can leave organizations wrestling with systems that no longer suit how their teams work.Take network-attached storage...

The Super Mouse puts a touchscreen macro pad under your hand

A company called Arctic Fox Technologies has announced a new multifunction mouse that forgoes a myriad of customizable shortcut buttons peppered across its surface for a compact touchscreen sitting beneath your hand. The Super Mouse may not pri...

Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay

Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its core missi...

Meta’s $25 billion legal loss just put blood in the water

When attorneys general from across the US announced a $17 billion settlement with Meta this summer, the sum was unprecedented. But a ruling last week by a New Mexico judge blew that number out of the water. The judge ordered Meta to pay $25 bil...