The UK government talks a good game about buying British, but less than £1 in every £6 spent with its biggest technology suppliers goes to British firms, according to research exposing how much Whitehall relies on foreign tech.A report from the Inst...
In 2019, OpenAI decided not to publicly release a new model because its research uncovered “concerns about malicious applications of the technology.” And on Tuesday, the company announced it has built a kill switch for the models deployed in its res...
Australia’s government will consider creating a new criminal offense to punish AI companies which knowingly release harmful models.Canberra dangled that possibility yesterday when releasing the results of an investigation into OpenAI’s admission tha...
Anthropic has introduced three new types of artifacts that show the company tiptoeing into the office productivity market long dominated by Microsoft and Google.On Tuesday, the Claudefather announced Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards, and Claude Dat...
Server consolidation has led Cisco to boost the speed of top-of-rack switches to 100G.The networking giant last week announced the catchily named N9348C8D-H2, a 1U device packing 48 100G SFP-DD ports and eight 400G QSFP-DD uplinks.At the Cisco Live...
Advocates for cloud-native software have long argued that their approach to development makes applications portable across different Kubernetes environments. But VMware argues that’s not happening across hybrid clouds, and has taken the lead in an e...
It’s another doozy of a Patch Tuesday, with Microsoft fixing 1,094 bugs in its products, including one that attackers exploited before Redmond released a patch. Jake Knott, head of threat intelligence at exposure management firm watchTowr, succinctl...
If you didn't have any privacy concerns about slapping a Ring doorbell on your front door or putting Ring cameras inside, you'll love Amazon's newest offerings, which move around homes and businesses to capture views stationary cameras might miss.Th...
Now that LLMs can help analyze commercial software binaries and recreate their functionality, one software developer and student has created a project designed to make this process more difficult.Timo Zhang's project is called Blind LLM Agents (BLA)...
The Xbox Ally X. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft is now rolling out Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR), an upscaling technology that competes with Nvidia's DLSS, for the Xbox Ally X, Xbox Ally X20, and select Windows...
Security company Barracuda warns that attackers are exploiting a pre-authentication authorization bypass bug and a command-injection vulnerability in its popular Email Security Gateway (ESG) products that, when chained, could allow the crims to run...
Built by a 14-year-old developer, a new tool called Autark treats AI agents as a virtual team that can work without constant prompting.Users put tasks in an inbox, where a manager agent delegates them to other agents that carry out the work and repo...
The Mozilla-backed Thunderbird project is getting closer to a wider launch of a hosted email service designed to complement its desktop mail app.Now known as Thundermail (what else?), the service was originally developed under the Thunderbird Pro ba...
After teasing its 256-core Epycs for more than a year, AMD is finally ready to talk about architectural changes to the Zen core that not only make it possible, but will eventually power its next generation of Ryzen processors in desktop and mobile P...
AMD's cache-packed Epyc X chips are officially making a comeback.Based on the House of Zen's frequency-optimized SKUs we looked at back in September, its HPC-optimized Venice-X parts will offer up to 96 cores and use the company's 3D V-Cache chip st...
AMD's upcoming Verano processors aren't like any Epyc CPUs we've seen before. Rather than general-purpose workloads, Verano is designed specifically to power AMD's next generation of GPU servers.In an interview with The Register during a press event...
Disney is bringing more than 60 3D movies to the Disney Plus app on Meta Quest. The movies will be available to Disney Plus subscribers as part of an updated Disney Plus app that's rolling out today.The 3D movies you can check out include The A...
Oura announced its quarterly earnings today and said it agreed to acquire Counsel Health for $625 million, after adding the company's AI chatbot to its app earlier this year. Counsel Health calls itself an "AI-native primary care company," usin...
President Donald Trump has nominated Palantir security chief Michael LoSapio to lead CISA, putting an executive from the controversial government supplier in line to run America's civilian cyber defense agency.The nomination, announced on Monday, co...
Sony has canceled Fairgames, a heist game announced in 2023, according to Bloomberg. Fairgames had once been part of Sony's big planned push for PlayStation live service games, but the company ended up canceling some planned live service titles...