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AIOps is so powerful, vendors are building tools to clean up after agents break your infrastructure Cohesity, ServiceNow and Datadog team on recoverability suite Three more vendors have decided that the world needs tools to roll back mistakes made by AI, after Cohesity teamed with ServiceNow and Datadog on a recoverability service that will hunt down all the files and data corrupted by bad AI actors and restore systems to a “trusted state.”…

AIOps is so powerful, vendors are building tools to clean up after agents break your infrastructure

Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool First vibe coding, now vibe reviewing ... but the buzz is good as it finds worthy issues Anthropic has introduced a more extensive – and expensive – way to review source code in hosted repositories, many of which already contain large swaths of AI-generated code.…

ICYMI: Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool

AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours David and Goliath…but with AI agents Researchers at red-team security startup CodeWall say their AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform and gained full read and write access to the chatbot in just two hours.…

ICYMI: AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours

Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack Could steal sensitive personal and financial data After a whopper of a Patch Tuesday last month, with six Microsoft flaws exploited as zero-days, March didn't exactly roar in like a lion. Just two of the 83 Microsoft CVEs released on Tuesday are listed as publicly known, and none is under active exploitation, which we're sure is a welcome change to sysadmins.…

Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack

Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds Enjoy meltdowns from businesses on Yelp over negative reviews? AI is threatening to take that away Angry company responses to customer complaints are a favorite topic of internet amusement and outrage, but they're also embarrassing for the employees who post them. Having AI process customer reviews could be a better way. …

ICYMI: Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds

Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages E-souk disputes report linking 'Gen-AI assisted changes' to recent high-impact incidents Amazon's weekly operations meeting today reportedly focused on recent service outages and on the role that code changes attributed to generative AI may have played. However, the company is downplaying the possibility of problems with AI.…

Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages

Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent Copilot gets tuned to handle long-running knowledge work tasks Microsoft on Monday celebrated freedom of choice by giving customers in the company's Frontier program the option to use Anthropic and OpenAI models via Copilot Chat.…

ICYMI: Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent

AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook Think it's hard to tell bot from human on Facebook now? The biggest generator of AI slop on the internet has a new home, as Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook and hired the team behind the social network for AI agents.…

AI nonsense finds new home as Meta acquires Moltbook

Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought Kettle: Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead

The Kettle returns! Hosted by Brandon Vigliaorolo. Our first episode features Systems Editor Tobias Mann and Cybersecurity Editor Jessica Lyons, talking about tech's role in the war in Iran:

Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought Kettle: Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead

Cheer the return of our podcast The Kettle, hosted by Brandon Vigliarolo. First episode features Systems Editor Tobias Mann and Cybersecurity Editor Jessica Lyons talkinb about tech and the war in Iran:

AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg interview  AI agents allow cybercriminals and nation-state hackers to outsource the "janitorial-type work" needed to plan and carry out cyberattacks, according to Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft's GM of global threat intelligence. North Korea is taking advantage.…

FYI: AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work

ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks ShinyHunters told The Register that it has stolen data from about 100 high-profile companies in its latest Salesforce customer data heist, including Salesforce itself.…

ICYMI: ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist

Cybercrime isn't just a cover for Iran's government goons - it's a key part of their operations Ransomware, malware-as-a-service, infostealers benefit MOIS, too Iranian government-backed snoops are increasingly using cybercrime malware and ransomware infrastructure in their operations - not just hiding behind criminal masks as a cover for destructive cyber activity, according to security researchers.…

Cybercrime isn't just a cover for Iran's government goons - it's a key part of their operations

Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream Calls Musk’s orbital plans “speculative” despite Bezos touting orbiting compute Amazon wants US regulators to reject a SpaceX application for permission to launch a fleet of orbital datacenter satellites, criticizing it as incomplete, speculative, and unrealistic.…

ICYMI: Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream

China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon Not a US flag in sight Researchers from China are narrowing down the landing sites for the nation’s first crewed mission to the Moon, set to take place before 2030.…

ICYMI: China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom What hath science wrought? A clump of living human brain cells wired into a silicon chip has answered the internet's most important computing question: yes, it can run Doom.…

FYI: Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom

Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web Feeds are alive, well and can help deshittify things opinion  A couple of timely blog posts remind us that RSS is alive, well, and can help you resist enshittification of the Web.…

ICYMI: Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web

'AI brain fry' affects employees managing too many agents Three agents is about all we can handle As AI adoption in the workplace accelerates, many people find themselves in a position where babysitting bots and agents is a significant part of their day. Those people are feeling a bit like AI has fried their brains. …

ICYMI: 'AI brain fry' affects employees managing too many agents

AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days Study warns peak cooling demand could strain US water systems by 2030 Public water supplies in America will need billions invested to meet the peak requirements of datacenters during the hottest periods of the year, even if their overall annual consumption is relatively modest.…

AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days

JetBrains launches AI agent IDE built on the corpse of abandoned Fleet Agentic 'Air' lets multiple AI agents run tasks concurrently, while loyal IntelliJ users wonder what's in it for them JetBrains has previewed Air, a tool for agentic AI development which it describes as a new wave of dev tooling.…

JetBrains launches AI agent IDE built on the corpse of abandoned Fleet

Crooks compromise WordPress sites to push infostealers via fake CAPTCHA prompts Rapid7 says crims compromised more than 250 sites globally, including a US Senate candidate’s campaign page Cyber baddies quietly compromised legitimate WordPress websites, including the campaign site of a US Senate candidate, turning them into launchpads for a global infostealer operation.…

Crooks compromise WordPress sites to push infostealers via fake CAPTCHA prompts

Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts E7 arrives with plenty of AI and not much of a discount. Got to keep those shareholders happy Microsoft has finally confirmed that its AI-centric E7 subscription tier - where it licenses AI agent agents like employees - will debut on May 1 for an eye-watering $99 per user per month (pupm).…

ICYMI: Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts

Flying cabs, next-gen aircraft cleared for takeoff in 26 states FAA launches pilot projects starting this summer The skies over parts of the US could soon get busier, as the Federal Aviation Administration launches pilot projects spanning 26 states to test electric air taxis and other next-gen aircraft, with operations expected to begin by summer 2026.…

Flying cabs, next-gen aircraft cleared for takeoff in 26 states

EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen An attack on the company’s AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addresses Exclusive  ELECQ, maker of smart electric vehicle (EV) chargers, is warning customers that their personal details may have been stolen in a ransomware attack that encrypted and copied user data from its cloud systems.…

ICYMI: EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen

Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place Launch predictions continue to be optimistic as 2027 and Artemis III near SpaceX has rolled another Starship super heavy booster to the launch pad as the company's boss, Elon Musk, admits the first launch of Starship V3 had slipped.…

Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place

MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source After a couple of years of relative calm, the relationship between MariaDB and its open source foundation was ruffled in February, leaving observers with a few unanswered questions.…

ICYMI: MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry

Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales Oracle has proposed a more transparent approach to developing its open source database MySQL, including new features supporting vectors.…

Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care

RSS dulls the pain of the modern web opinion: Feeds are alive, well, and can help deshittify things

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Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure Chromebooks, the low-cost computing option popular with education buyers, will be squeezed hardest this year as memory prices spiral out of control.…

Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments

LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2 Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export Markdown has been around for more than 20 years, but native support in LibreOffice might suddenly help to make it viable for more people.…

ICYMI: LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2