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Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain

Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease its computing burden, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical

Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse

Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon

Furores are fermenting in the forums

macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel

Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot

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HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi

NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork

Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs

The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams

White head silhouette with blue C++ letters on a yellow background.

C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply

Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations

AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises

MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card

A blue-toned metal vault door with a circular locking mechanism set in a riveted steel wall

NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash

Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default

Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis

Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS

Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help

Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations

Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads

It's in Waterfox too, and there it does what you'd expect

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GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet

Seven official flavors offer alternatives to the default Wayland-only desktop – and Xfce looks like the leanest

AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly

Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper

India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree

Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks

OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year

If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math

Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch

High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage

Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents

Always bet on backpropagation

IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf

With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2

ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower

ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows

Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked

Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future

SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition

ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration

VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination

Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock

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Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more

Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech

NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns

Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release

New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard

Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation

Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port

It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho

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Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs

'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges

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If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows

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How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot

Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again?" Agentic AI support systems now seek and destroy tech issues before they're a problem.

Slow Down road sign with cloudy background

Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky

Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge

Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better

Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?

Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark

In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents

Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM

Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt

Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it

CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos

If software writes software the risk is “systematic failure at scale”. Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow

Windows error appearing on a portrait of a girl after a ghost train ride

Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?

Things that go bork in the night

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem

Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’

Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler

Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue

Stop the sprawl!

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Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser

Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open

Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled

KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet

Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs

Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines

This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows

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Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool

Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor

SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy

Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations – including AI – that connect to SAP systems

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'

But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya?

Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes

AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs

Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops

Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds

Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management

Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs

AI is driving more searches and ads

Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises

Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand

Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root

Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation

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

Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz

The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'

Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages

Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info

Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it

New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too

Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models

There is no 6 Nimmt! champion, but a $12 domain registration and one Wikipedia edit convinced several bots there was

AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard

Eleven up, ten down

AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story

No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers

Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00

Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes

EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online

'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses'

GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain

After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slide

ZTE ensures 2026 Jiangsu Football City League opening ceremony with 5G-A, powering robot traffic police debut

Pioneering the future of smart sports with the world’s first practical deployment of 5G-A "EasyOn·Robot" private networks for humanoid traffic police