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Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price
El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16
Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems
'Hold my beer, have fun getting into your offices'
Alicja Kowalewska-Montfort: From green claims to green revenues
For much of the past decade, sustainable investing has been driven by commitments. Net zero targets, transition plans and ESG frameworks have all played an important role in directing capital towards the green energy transition.
Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk
Revenge is a dish best served by autoexec.bat
ConnectWise turns off its SaaS-y backup, security, and management services to probe security SNAFU
Huntress alleges takeover of M365 accounts
ICANN vows to work faster, improve transparency
Leaders expect AI and geopolitics will throw up more governance challenges and threats
Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical, may represent a new way to attack penguin-powered networking
Party like it’s CVE-2026-99999 – a 9.3-rated nasty called PwnEscape
Microsoft warns over “active supply chain attack” as ConnectWise 0Auth app compromised
"Follow-on activity included Microsoft Graph API reconnaissance and attempts to add additional credentials on the related service principal in target tenants..."
Acorns buys Gen Z social finance app Frich
Savings and investment app Acorns has acquired Gen Z-focused social finance app Frich. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug
Cite difficulty of updating IoT devices as major reason to stop adding time
AI models self-replicating in smart ovens? "These f*****g clowns"
Anthropic's frontier Red Team has enraged cybersecurity professionals with its posts on "AI worms" and GLM 5.3 alike
World takes on AI-driven impersonations with new suite for banking and finance
World, the digital identity project co-founded by OpenAI boss Sam Altman has unveiled suite of tools designed to help banks prevent deepfake fraud and AI-driven impersonation across customer accounts, employee workflows, and agents.
Oh no, what happened to my OOHPod? Windows command prompt puts in a surprise appearance
Pop quiz: somebody left a command shell logged in. What do you do?
Runtime: Datadog bets on a custom SRE model
+ Perplexity open-sources a sandbox, and Chainguard joins the Mythos club.
Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training
The future is private, the present is plunder
Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you
Would you like personalized shopping recommendations based on that conversation you just had?
Open-weight models win hearts, minds, and wallets
They handle 71.5% of Vercel gateway tokens and nearly a quarter of estimated spending
Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission
ClearSpace UK aims to be operational in 2029 with public's suggestion etched on the side of the spacecraft
Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers
You're building servers 'wrong,' says Ryan Dahl as Cloudflare gobbles his Deno startup
Uncle Scam Wants You … to cough up your cash and personal data, FBI warns ahead of midterms
The inevitable election-themed cyberattacks are whirring again, as the feds issue PSA about the ones to watch out for
Ubuntu Stonking Stingray swims into spotlight with pre-release kernel
26.10 is here, with not-quite-ready kernel 7.3 and speech-to-text recognition
New online tool will check lawyers' sloppy AI-written briefs since they can't seem to be bothered
Bogus AI-generated citations keep turning up in court documents, but lawyers could at least run those docs through this legal citation checker
Security firm Proofpoint acquires Varonis for $6.3bn
The combined company will focus on data security as a "defining priority" for companies deploying AI.
As AI changes everything, technical support providers try to steer a course
SaaSpocalypse fears, “headless” software, and AI investments raise questions about the future of the sector.
NTT Global Data Centers weighs the price tag of not building fast enough
SPONSORED POST: As AI hunger soars, NTT Global Data Centers finds it's permits, not parts, that could cap the datacenter boom
Barbour and A.P.C partner for limited-edition Autumn/Winter 2026 collection
Barbour and French house A.P.C have unveiled a capsule collection that was created on the “appreciation for craftsmanship and enduring style”. The collection is formed of outerwear, denim, knitwear, shirts and accessories.
Beauty fans queue round the block for SEPHORiA London
On Friday 16 October, consumers hoping for a sneak peek at the latest Sephora beauty brands and trends waited in line on the Strand to gain entry to 180 Studios. Even those with “golden tickets” had to wait patiently for over an hour for the interactive experience.
BofA called in 1000 contractors to patch flaws found by Mythos
Bank of America brought in 1000 contractors to support 3000 internal staff to patch software flaws uncovered by Anthropic's Mythos model earlier this year.
