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Another contract extension for Fujitsu on the Post Office's Horizon

The UK Post Office is extending its contract with Fujitsu to give it time to move services to a new supplier, after a scandal that has long marred the relationship between the two. The current contract runs until March 2027, and the publicly owned c...

Stanford's century-long AI study admits it's already out of date

Twelve years into Stanford's 100-year study of artificial intelligence, the project's third report raises more questions than it answers.The 2026 AI100 Study Panel report acknowledges its limitations in its twelfth takeaway: "This report will be out...

Chrome zero-day whack-a-mole continues as 2026 tally hits 8

Google has patched its eighth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026, matching its total for the whole of last year with nearly two months still left on the calendar.The latest flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-125350, is a high-severity use-after-free...

Microsoft is giving Claude the keys to UK Copilot tenants by default

Microsoft will enable access to Anthropic's Claude models by default for UK Copilot tenants next month, giving administrators a deadline to decide whether US-based processing fits their compliance requirements.From December 9, UK tenants whose admin...

Microsoft teaches schools that free email was just a phase

Microsoft is retiring its free education email service, leaving schools, colleges, and universities facing new licensing bills if they want to keep students' mailboxes.The company announced plans last week to retire Office 365 A1, the Student Use Be...

Cisco to link all future products to its SaaS-y Cloud Control management tool

Cisco will no longer create products that don’t integrate with Cloud Control, its SaaS-y management platform that offers netadmins a single tool to manage all of the networking giant’s devices and much of its software portfolio.The networking giant...

Anthropic's super bug-finding Mythos model is going into Cisco and IBM products

Anthropic has started extending access to its bug-finding Mythos model by allowing Cisco and IBM to make it part of their security products.Cisco announced its integration today at an event in Melbourne, Australia, where it revealed that the red tea...

France blames Iran for supermarket hack meltdowns

France has turned up the heat on Iran over destructive cyberattacks targeting refrigeration controllers at more than 700 grocery stores in October, spoiling food and sparking fires. The country vowed to take action using “all available means of resp...

Attackers backdoor trusted AWS integrations to steal secrets

Unknown attackers used compromised identity and access management (IAM) credentials associated with Qubole's AWS account to access customer AWS environments, stealing secrets and other sensitive data from S3 buckets.Qubole is a cloud data processing...

David Ellison says AI could be the ‘biggest creative unlock in modern history’

During Paramount Skydance's latest earnings call, CEO David Ellison said "it's hard to imagine" AI won't have a bigger impact on the film industry than CGI. In response to a question about the company's outlook for AI, Ellison said:"I think whe...

What could China get from Jensen Huang?

It's difficult to overstate Nvidia's power in today's AI landscape. The company's chips are the bedrock upon which advanced AI technology in the US is being built, and demand has consistently outpaced supply for years. Nvidia has also been an i...

Here’s what Trump said he knew about Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang and President Trump. | Getty Images President Trump held a White House press briefing earlier today and responded to several questions about his knowledge of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Huang said...

Everything we know so far about the Nvidia spy scandal targeting CEO Jensen Huang

The leather-jacketed CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has acknowledged an affair with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, spurring an investigation by his company and intense discussions worldwide. Recent reporting noted that since last year, US intelligen...

Researchers pwn automakers’ Android apps to remotely unlock cars, honk horns

Security researchers exploited flaws in Android apps to gain remote access to connected cars from two major automakers, allowing them to start engines, flash headlights, and sound horns.Shubham Shah, co-founder at Assetnote, and researcher Sam Curry...

Insight about how 'nature makes no leaps' promises better robot predictions

Machine learning researchers have developed a technique that allows world models to make better predictions about how objects will behave.World models are used to train physical AI systems like robots how to navigate the real world. They predict the...

MSI’s refurbished QD-OLED gaming monitor is on sale for under $300

One of the best upgrades you can make to your PC gaming setup is an OLED monitor. Fortunately, MSI’s factory-reconditioned Mag 272QP X24 is on sale at Woot through November 18th with a 180-day manufacturer warranty for $290.99, which is more th...

Microsoft takes three decades to make Sticky Keys less sticky

Windows testers are getting a new option in the Sticky Keys and Filter Keys dialogs – one to banish the pop-ups without needing to venture deep into Settings.It's only taken several decades for Microsoft to put the off switch where the interruption...

The global pledge to use AI for climate good is a cruel joke

Murat Kurum (left), Turkey’s minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change; and Chris Bowen, Australia's minister for Climate Change and Energy, raise their hands together at the COP31 UN Climate Change Conference in Antalya, Turkey...

NASA keeps its PROMISE to raid Mars testbeds for parts

NASA is moving ahead with its plan to repurpose a Mars rover engineering model as a lunar trundlebot for less than $400 million.The robot, dubbed PROMISE (Polar Rover for Observation, Mapping, and In-Situ Exploration), is a cut-and-shut of engineeri...

Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching session

Microsoft has unleashed a whopper of an update for Azure Linux, packing more than 470 CVE fixes into a single release as the software industry's ever-growing pile of vulnerabilities shows little sign of shrinking.Over the weekend, Microsoft rolled o...