UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo
Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is seeking anti-drone technology capable of protecting troops from saturation attacks designed to overwhelm defenses […]
Month: September 2026
US law firm accuses UK AI software firm of unwanted contract renewal when it tried to leave
A US law firm is alleging that UK-based telecoms and software company ConnexAI sold it software and AI systems that […]
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud
Google Cloud has revealed the embarrassing reason for a partial outage at its us-central1-b region this week: An engineer unplugged […]
On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key
ON CALL Welcome to another Friday and therefore to a fresh instalment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column that […]
OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders
OpenAI has pledged $1 billion in credits to subsidize access to its services and training for resource-strapped cyber defenders around […]
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release
Cisco has warned its customers of three critical-rated flaws in its products. Two of them are present in the Cisco […]
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech
Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the […]
Hugging Face CEO says ‘planets aligned’ for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users
The chief exec of Hugging Face says he wants to take the platform to 100 million users within the next […]
CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian
CERN is moving several thousand computers that control its particle accelerator hardware from Red Hat-family Linux distros to Debian. CERN […]
Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC
The disgruntled security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse (aka Chaotic Eclipse, Infinite Nightmare, and now also MSNightmare) is moving away […]