Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it
Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service, and not even AI can save […]
Month: July 2026
Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway
During a 48-hour period from June 7 to 8, developer Charles Jones’s Google Cloud account registered $11,089.77 in charges – […]
In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical
Sustainability demands progress on several fronts at once. For example, societies must reduce factory energy use, roll out EVs, and […]
Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme
AI infrastructure doesn’t come cheap. To keep up, rent-a-GPU outfits such as CoreWeave and Lambda have had to borrow billions […]
Startup sues Palo Alto Networks’ Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage
MeetingTV has sued Palo Alto Networks after its newly acquired Koi Security threat-intelligence biz published a blog that linked the […]
Companies that add more AI also add more people
AI leads to job losses, or so the conventional wisdom goes. But a new survey of over 21,000 US firms […]
Smooth AI criminal drives ‘first’ end-to-end agentic ransomware attack
They’re not bad; they’re just prompted that way. Sysdig threat hunters documented what they say is the first-ever documented agentic […]
Ctrl+Alt+Oops: FortiBleed criminal’s logins stitch two gangs together
Security sleuths say last month’s FortiBleed campaign is tied to two separate ransomware groups, after they found evidence of one […]
SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI
SAP is cutting hiring and business travel to boost its investment in AI amid intensifying competition in the enterprise application […]
Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery
If you find yourself editing text at the Linux command prompt, you’ve probably either used nano, which is simplest, or […]