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Jen Easterly, cybersecurity's 'relentless optimist,' hopes feds come back to RSAC next year

Ex-CISA boss also says no reason to panic about AI and security

Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war

Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC…

1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack

Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects

Claude attacks were 'Rorschach test' for infosec community, scaring former NSA boss

'It freakin' worked' says Rob Joyce - and shows how relentless AI agents can find holes humans miss

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RSA panelists cry out for help to missing feds

Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairs

AI agents are 'gullible' and easy to turn into your minions

Zenity CTO demos 0-click AI agent exploits on stage at RSAC

Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web

Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy

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Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says

Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins

RSAC 2026: Uncle Sam backs out, and AI agents are everywhere

Infosec pros descend on San Francisco

Each LPU compute tray features eight liquid-cooled Groq-3 LPUs totalling 4GB of SRAM

Decoding Nvidia's Groq-powered LPX and the rest of its new rack systems

From LPUs and GPUs to CPUs and switches, everything you need to know about Nvidia's latest kit

The agentic AI boom is here; operations will decide who wins

Agentic AI moves the advantage from models to operational fluency

Chips... in spaaaace – courtesy of Nvidia

The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needs

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Stuttgart university, where the HPC center is based

HPE adds Blackwell, Rubin systems to Nvidia-backed sovereign AI push

Plus: Object storage gets stamp of approval, and it intros network linked 'AI Grid'

Nvidia's DLSS 5 promises to bring you out the other side of the uncanny valley

Latest generation of AI image enhancer brings characters to life

Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security

'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEO

Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors

The cubicals of the agentic AI age are cores

Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time

GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than ever

AI Burning Man happens next week – what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026

From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town

All these agentic acronomys sound like alphabet soup

Deciphering the alphabet soup of agentic AI protocols

Tools, agents, UI, and e-commerce - of course each one needs its own set of competing protocols

Agents gone wild! Companies give untrustworthy bots keys to the kingdom

'We're letting thousands of interns run around in our production environment'

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Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push

The world’s most popular browser has gained a dedicated sidebar for AI browsing

ServiceNow boasts about years of sweat equity that went into making its AI agents smarter

80 billion workflows makes a difference

This data anlytics agent uses a Python interpreter and an uploaded CSV to answer user prompts

Yes, you can build an AI agent – here's how, using LangFlow

AI automation, now as simple as point, click, drag, and drop

AI agent hype cools as enterprises struggle to get into production

Only the biggest businesses are up to the challenge, says Redis CEO

How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies

You can’t cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up

Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues

The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it

Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army

Analytics features arrive first; agentic AI comes later

'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour

Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways

Gartner questions whether Salesforce AI buffet will stay all-you-can-eat forever

Analysts say today's capped deals may become tomorrow's cost shock

Claude can now disgorge interface elements from other apps

An official Model Context Protocol extension

Keep it simple, stupid: Agentic AI tools choke on complexity

Even agents checking other agents can still get it wrong

Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued

Researchers demonstrate fourfold improvement to LED steering results after enlisting the help of some good old-fashion AI

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When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter

Palo Alto Networks security-intel boss calls AI agents 2026's biggest insider threat

Lock 'em down

AI is rewriting how power flows through the datacenter

Rising rack densities are driving changes from grid connection to chip-level delivery

Workers should control the means of agentic production, suggests WorkBeaver boss

What if AI vendors focused on the demand side?

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Radiant says its Kaleidos reactor design can be transported via semi-trailer and is capable of producing up to a megawatt of power

All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup

Startup expects its first Kaleidos reactor to power on at Idaho National Lab next year

Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators

Amazon, meanwhile, claims its datacenters are helping ratepayers despite tons of evidence to the contrary

From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill

Communities on both sides of the Atlantic push back against rapid build-outs

Building the AI factory datacenter

Practical lessons on power, modular build, networking and AIOps from HPE's Dave Strong

An arial view of OpenAI's StarGate 1 datacenter campus in Abilene Texas

Delays? What delays? Oracle insists its $300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track

And don't sweat the debt either, we've got plenty of capital at our disposal

Salesforce willing to lose money on AI agent licenses when customers are locked in

Flat-rate deals may sting now, but vendor expects payback over decades

Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3

IDC's latest tracker numbers were brought to you by the letters A and I

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British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted

CEO warns airlines that don’t learn to sell themselves to machines could soon be flying under the radar

AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns

Bank sketches four scenarios in which monetization falters or demand swamps supply by 2030

Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition

California chipset giant says it’ll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel

Galactic Brain space datacenter coming in 2027, pledges startup Aetherflux

Getting inferencing infrastructure into orbit may soon be cheaper than building it down here

Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts

Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say

AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 – if the bubble doesn't pop first

Analysts say demand keeps rising despite constraints, shaky returns, and mounting investor nerves

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Bezos-backed Unconventional AI aims to make datacenter power problems go away

Startup wagers the path to sustainable AI might be found in nature’s most amazing design - the brain

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DJ Garman drops the ball instead of the bass in AWS re:Invent keynote

But the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for

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Meta and Google turn to NextEra to feed insatiable datacenter power hunger

The Chocolate Factory will also put its AI to work inside one of America’s biggest utilities

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Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute

Warning that over-reserved capacity is blocking new connections

Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold

From Amazon to AMD, everything looks like an NVL72 now

EC2 Veep David Brown unveils Amazon's 5th-gen Graviton CPUs

Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU

The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years

Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative

Nvidia is along for the ride with chips to offer, naturally

Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power

3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove

A datacenter worker sitting down looking dejected

Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail

It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices

Escaping the squeeze: your strategy for a confident VMware-to-AWS migration

Make the transition with confidence in this focused webinar

AWS CEO Matt Garman presents at Re:Invent 2025

Amazon is forging a walled garden for enterprise AI

AWS Chief Matt Garman lays out his vision bringing artificial intelligence to the enterprise

AWS offers AI-in-a-box for enterprise datacenters

If sovereignty or on-prem AI matters, the new AI Factories could be for you

AWS admits AI coding tools cause problems, reckons its three new agents fix 'em

Autonomous AI triages DevOps issues and pushes code to repositories, while checking security

HPE backs AMD's Helios AI rack with Juniper's scale-up switch

Hardware bundle ties next-gen accelerators to an Ethernet fabric arriving in 2026

AWS joins Microsoft, Google in the security AI agent race

Preview tool promises quicker reviews and faster flaw-finding for cloud apps

Each Trainium2 package features a pair of 5nm compute dies flanked on either side by high-bandwidth memory

Amazon primed to fuse Nvidia's NVLink into 4th-gen Trainium accelerators

Meanwhile, Trainium3 makes its debut promising million-chip training clusters

London grid crunch delays new housing amid datacenter boom

Assembly report urges clearer planning as soaring AI power demands strain capital's network

AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite

Drive around a virtual track in Las Vegas while watching Matt Garman speak on in-game billboards

AWS and Google build a fix for multi-cloud barriers they said didn't exist

After reassuring regulators all was well, pair debut interconnect to smooth the bumps

GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are

Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce

HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show

Arm and RISC-V would like a word

Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon

HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potential

The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC

From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower

India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions

Creating 37 supers in a decade is impressive. The homegrown tech in them, less so

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UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite

Plan would link commercial capacity with Britain's flagship supercomputers

Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges

Taskforce calls UK the priciest place on Earth to build nuclear projects and urges radical regulatory reset

How high-end supercomputer filesystem DAOS can break out of its niche

DAOS needs user education, Nvidia GPU access, and better manageability to grow

Here's a closer look at Nvidia's 144 Tbps Quantum X Photonics switch which boasts 144 800 Gbps optical InfiniBand ports

Copackaged optics have officially found their killer app - of course it's AI

With power in such short supply, every watt counts

Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes efficiency title

Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt

Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters

It’s an ethereal and weighty problem, not a powerful conundrum

SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions

Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference

Andy Jassy, AWS CEO, at re:Invent in Las Vegas

AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market

Google and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base

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Amazon security boss: Hostile countries use cyber targeting for physical military strikes

And companies are getting caught in the crossfire

Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown

European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act

Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel

€544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower

Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI

Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing

Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run

EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year

Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints

Vendor leans on Nvidia tie-up so hard you can hear the GPUs squeak

Inside HPE's blueprint for next-generation supercomputing

From UK innovation to exascale breakthroughs, HPE's approach is reshaping efficient, sovereign compute

In this render, Ayar shows how it imagnies optical interconnects might be integrated into a GPU platform for scale out compute.

Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab

Who needs 600 kilowatt racks when a single computer can span entire datacenters?

Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems

Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp weights impact of densification on the datacenter and the rise of the AI factory

GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast

VDURA boss: Your x86 clusters are obsolete, metadata is eating 20% of I/O, and every idle GPU second burns cash

HPE details Vera Rubin blades for next-gen Cray supercomputers

Promised for 2027 racks, mixing Nvidia and AMD silicon in one liquid-cooled box

Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud

Atlassian twice shunned AWS Graviton CPUs, but now runs Jira and Confluence on them

Battery trade war hits booming datacenter industry

AI isn't throttling HPC. It is HPC

Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software

Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers

AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system

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Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction

$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday

AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI

AI blew open software security, now OpenAI wants to fix it with an agent called Aardvark

Ransomware gang runs ads for Microsoft Teams to pwn victims

Hacking LED Halloween masks is frighteningly easy

Claude code will send your data to crims ... if they ask it nicely

Major telecom supplier compromised by unnamed nation-state attackers

Nvidia pitches Omniverse DSX as model for gigawatt-scale AI factories

Firewalls and VPNs are so complex now, they can actually make you less secure

Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever

Android malware types like your gran to steal banking creds

Qualcomm Rack-Scale Data Center Inference rig featuring its own accelerators

Qualcomm announces AI accelerators and mysterious racks they’ll run in

Atlas vuln lets crims inject malicious prompts ChatGPT won't forget between sessions

HPE's Discovery to succeed Frontier supercomputer with next-gen Cray tech

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Everybody's warning about critical Windows Server WSUS bug exploits ... but Microsoft's mum

Norks droning on about your dream job while pwning your PC

OpenAI's Atlas shrugs off inevitability of prompt injection, releases AI browser anyway

Ex-Uber CSO is gellin' like a felon with teen cyber crims, explains why they do it

Cover image of NextSilicon's Maverick 2 accelerator

NextSilicon Maverick-2 promises to blow away the HPC market Nvidia left behind

Salt Typhoon hit governments on three continents with SharePoint attacks

MCP attack abuses predictable session IDs to hijack AI agents

Suspected Salt Typhoon snoops lurking in European telco's network

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Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection

China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world's biggest bit burglar

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A simple AI prompt saved a developer from this job interview scam

American Airlines subsidiary Envoy caught in Clop's Oracle EBS raid

AI makes phishing 4.5x more effective, Microsoft says

Nork scammers work the blockchain to steal crypto from job hunters

CISA exec blames nation-state hackers and Democrats for putting America's critical systems at risk

'Highly sophisticated' government goons hacked F5, stole source code and undisclosed bug details

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Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records

Frightful Patch Tuesday gives admins a scare with 175+ Microsoft CVEs, 3 under attack

Chinese gang used ArcGIS as a backdoor for a year – and no one noticed

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Researchers intercept unencrypted satellite traffic from space blabbermouths

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters rage-quit the internet (again), promise to return next year

Google Android toy in front of a laptop showing some code

Android 'Pixnapping' attack can capture app data like 2FA codes

Senators try to save cyber threat sharing law, sans government funding

UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders

Chinese phishing kit helps scammers who send fake texts impersonate TikTok, Coinbase, others

Ransomware crims that exploited SharePoint 0-days add Velociraptor to their arsenal

Zero-day in file-sharing software leads to RCE, and attacks are ongoing

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UK techies' union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details

RondoDox botnet fires 'exploit shotgun' at nearly every router and internet-connected home device

Crims had 3-month head start on defenders in Oracle EBS invasion

GitHub Copilot Chat turns blabbermouth with crafty prompt injection attack

Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach

Washington's elite law firm Williams & Connolly has confirmed that hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability to access a handful of attorney email accounts in what it believes was a nation-state-linked cyberattack

Zero-day lets nation-state spies cross-examine elite US law firm Williams & Connolly

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Hobble your AI agents to prevent them from hurting you too badly

3 more infamous cybercrime crews team up to 'maximize income' in 'challenging' ransomware biz

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Telecoms wholesaler ICUK restores services after two-day DDoS pelting

Teens arrested in London preschool ransomware attack

Google declares AI bug hunting season open, sets a $30K max reward

Clop raid on Oracle E-Business Suite started months ago, researchers warn

The mouse sitting next to you can be turned into a microphone thanks to some cunning use of its sensors to pick up vibrations from your voice in an attack dubbed Mic-E-Mouse.

How your mouse could eavesdrop on you and rat you out

Red Hat breach escalates as criminals collaborate on 'multi-terabyte' extortion plot

Google DeepMind minds the patch with AI flaw-fixing scheme

Microsoft blames Medusa ransomware affiliates for GoAnywhere exploits while Fortra keeps head buried

Level-10 vuln lurking in Redis source code for 13 years could allow remote code execution

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offering $10 in Bitcoin to 'endlessly harass' execs

Radiant Group won't touch kids' data now, but apparently hospitals are fair game

Clop crew hits Oracle E-Business Suite users with fresh zero-day

Leak suggests US government is fibbing over FEMA security failings

Hacking contest kerfuffle over copied rules pits Wiz against ZDI

Hacked Ford screens put anti-RTO slogan above CEO’s face

No suds for you! Asahi brewery attack leaves Japanese drinkers dry

'Retired' cybercrime group demands ransom not to leak 1B Salesforce records

Red Hat fesses up to GitLab breach after attackers brag of data theft

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Oracle tells Clop-targeted EBS users to apply July patch, problem solved

Criminals take Renault UK customer data for a joyride

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Pentagon decrees warfighters don't need 'frequent' cybersecurity training

Ransomware scumbags say they deleted kids' info after other gangs called them out

Ex-US cyber boss slams politics getting in the way of preparedness

Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack

Clop-linked crims shake down Oracle execs with data theft claims

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EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers

Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files

US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew

'Delightful' root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover

Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach

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3.7M breach notification letters set to flood North America's mailboxes

Schools are swotting up on security yet still flunk recovery when cyberattacks strike

Beijing-backed burglars master .NET to target government web servers

Self-propagating worm fuels latest npm supply chain compromise

China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents

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Jaguar Land Rover supply chain workers must get Covid-style support, says union

CISA program gave out $20k+ payments to unqualified employees, auditor says

All your vulns are belong to us! CISA wants to maintain gov control of CVE program

Europe’s Jupiter supercomputer hits exascale threshold at inauguration

UK datacenter developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds

Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible

vSphere upgrades are not near the top of VMware's to-do list

'It isn't designed to solve privacy concerns,' Grafana CTO says of Bring Your Own Cloud

Solo.io boss: I was wrong, I made mistakes – and that made me a better CEO

We all live in a virtual machine, a virtual machine, a virtual machine

Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so'

VMware: The private cloud's main purpose is now keeping developers happy

Datacenters face rising thirst as Europe dries up

Azure apparatchik shows custom silicon keeping everything locked down

Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises

VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps

VMware before Broadcom was 'a unicorn in fluffy cloudland'

Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty

How low can colo go, asks JLL, as datacenter vacancy rates near zero

Ethernet switch vendors like Cisco are riding high on AI network economics

Amazon's $100B DC spend similar to entire Costa Rica GDP

Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super

CoreWeave CFO: $25B raised in debt and equity in 18 months

Defra doubles contract value for cloud and DC services

News from a possible future: ‘Rampant jellyfish cause AI outage by taking datacenter offline'

Sudden spike in demand causes issues in Azure East US region

$500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project struggles to get off the drawing board