Google DeepMind melds humans and AI agents to vet Signal's secure messaging techniques

Easy lid swaps earn praise from iFixit, but panel removal ends in cracks and USB-C repairs require logic board surgery

NASA asks Earthlings to wave as Voyager 1 reaches a light-day away

Flash VGR in Morse code on November 17 to salute the veteran probe – just don't expect it to see you

From expertise to intelligence: NISCO deploys world's first swarm-intelligence steel model at scale

PARTNER CONTENT: 300+ AI applications delivering surges in core metrics and annual cost reduction of over CNY100m

2013 breach at Russian cybercrime forum resurfaces with millions of victims' credentials

YouHack thought protecting members' passwords with mostly unsalted MD5 hashes would do

AI echo chambers and sanity in tech leadership: Three case studies

Altman, Torvalds, Yen. One has got his head screwed on. The others could do with some grounding

Apple tells its Support Community to STFU

User-to-user forum goes read-only ahead of November 20 closure, with archive's fate unclear

British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted

British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted

Cops bust botnet of 1.3M infected Android TV boxes

Cops bust botnet of 1.3M infected Android TV boxes

Microsoft teaches schools that free email was just a phase

Microsoft teaches schools that free email was just a phase

North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

VMware returns to low-end server virtualization with 'vSphere Express'

VMware returns to low-end server virtualization with 'vSphere Express'

Uber says it alone can make robotaxis pay, hours after Waymo quit its app

Uber says it alone can make robotaxis pay, hours after Waymo quit its app

To thwart reverse engineering by agents, dev proposes blinding them A poke in the AI with a sharp stick

To thwart reverse engineering by agents, dev proposes blinding them

A poke in the AI with a sharp stick

AMD winds up Zen 6 cores for faster clock speeds Chips boast up to 256 cores, clocks up to 5.3 GHz, and IPC gains of 20 to 31 percent, just not all on the same SKU

AMD winds up Zen 6 cores for faster clock speeds

Chips boast up to 256 cores, clocks up to 5.3 GHz, and IPC gains of 20 to 31 percent, just not all on the same SKU

A closer look at Verano, AMD's first step toward a Zen-based superchip to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin Cores, clocks, memory, and interconnects all perfectly balanced for a singular mission: keeping instinct fed.

A closer look at Verano, AMD's first step toward a Zen-based superchip to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin

Cores, clocks, memory, and interconnects all perfectly balanced for a singular mission: keeping instinct fed.

Fireworks AI gets burned twice as customer data exposure widens Inference biz pins latest breach on cloud provider and LLMJacking miscreants

Fireworks AI gets burned twice as customer data exposure widens

Inference biz pins latest breach on cloud provider and LLMJacking miscreants

Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching session A mountain of CVEs, a certificate cleanup, and yet more work for Microsoft's patching teams

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

A mountain of CVEs, a certificate cleanup, and yet more work for Microsoft's patching teams

Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!

Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks

PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!

Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more

Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack

PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more

Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included

Black Hat and DEF CON

DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure

Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included

Security EQT buys majority in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified

EQT buys majority in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis

Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified

Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

Crowd fave Linux Mint update approaches, fresh from autumn release of Cinnamon desktop Mint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8

Crowd fave Linux Mint update approaches, fresh from autumn release of Cinnamon desktop

Mint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8

openSUSE Leap 16.1 gives Linux users the right to remain immutable One installer now offers conventional and read-only systems as separate Micro distro bows out

openSUSE Leap 16.1 gives Linux users the right to remain immutable

One installer now offers conventional and read-only systems as separate Micro distro bows out

Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktop Very nearly 30something environment gets spruced up… and there's a new Trinity, too

Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktop

Very nearly 30something environment gets spruced up… and there's a new Trinity, too

Architect creates open source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hidden OpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale

Architect creates open source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hidden

OpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale

AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland

AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS

Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland

Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing

Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop

Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing