Wednesday November 19, 2025
17:26
Amazon security boss: Hostile countries use cyber targeting for...And companies are getting caught in the crossfire interview Warfare has become a joint cyber-kinetic endeavor, with nations using cyber operations to scope out targets before launching missiles. And private companies, including shipping, transportation, and electronics manufacturers, are getting caught in the crossfire, according to Amazon.
17:16DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to moveSkim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit DARPA is on the verge of reaching a new low - an orbital one - as the Defense Department's research arm moves its Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) Otter satellite program into the production phase.
16:25Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376MMassive jump in spending shows the Great White North isnt betting everything on NASA Canada will boost its investment in European Space Agency (ESA) programs by CA$528.5 million ($376 million USD), a tenfold increase, according to the Canadian Space Agency.
15:30San Jose's 'warrantless' license plate queries land cops in courtDigital rights groups argue cameras used to unconstitutionally surveil locals The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) are suing the City of San Jose and its police department over alleged abuses of automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) technology.
13:18Mastodon CEO steps down with 1M payout and a deep sighBurnout and slowing growth push Eugen Rochko into an advisory role after nearly a decade in charge Eugen Rochko, CEO and founder of decentralized social network Mastodon, is stepping down after nearly a decade at the helm and walking away with a sizable exit payment.
13:08Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI marketAnalysts warn LPDDR4 supply is tightening fast with shift to higher-end components Memory prices could soon be double what they were earlier this year as chipmakers switch to advanced products to target the AI market, leaving a shortfall of more mature chips such as those meeting the LPDDR4 standard.
10:45Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres...Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says Microsoft has announced a distributed PostgreSQL database service designed to rival other hyperscaler systems and third-party RDBMSes such as CockroachDB and YugabyteDB.
10:00CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced outPreliminary proposal is already provoking debate The Python community is chewing over a new idea: allowing the C-based reference implementation, CPython, to incorporate Rust. It's only at the 'pre-PEP' stage, but it's already sparked lively debate.
09:15SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes...B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain In 2020, SAP's CFO told investors that its plans for customer upgrades, cloud migration, and a move to SaaS would give the German software vendor a greater 'share of wallet.'
06:33Whatever your job, mentoring is your job and the one that matters...Nobody succeeds alone, and no community thrives without generosity Opinion When I started coding for a living 43 years ago, I didn't know shit from Shinola. I'd written a lot of BASIC, some Z80 assembler, and knew my way around floppy drives and a disk operating system. I knew nothing at all about how to operate as a junior engineer in a professional environment.
01:06Cloudflare broke itself and a big chunk of the Internet with a bad ...Thought it was the victim of a hyper-scale DDoS attack before finding the fix Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a hyper-scale DDoS attack, before figuring out the real problem.
00:01Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbookVertical integration meets subscriptions 'We love moving packets,' declared Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, on a stage overlooking San Francisco Bay at the networking startup's annual networking event. He continued, 'This crowd probably knows this intimately, but everything in the world is packets. Regardless of what type of work you do, it is just packets all the way down.'
Tuesday November 18, 2025
20:58Anthropic is at the heart of the latest billion-dollar circular AI...What do you get when you combine Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia? A bubble that blows itself It wouldn't be a week of tech news without more circular exchanges of billions of dollars between AI firms. This time around, it's a $45 billion back-scratching session involving Microsoft, Anthropic, and Nvidia, announced during Redmond's Ignite conference.
20:43Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clustersUsing AI to attack AI Malefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
17:16FCC looks to torch Biden-era cyber rules sparked by Salt Typhoon messRegulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too burdensome The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in 2024, that required telecom carriers to adopt basic security controls.
17:07China readies a lifeboat for stranded Shenzhou crewStuck on the Tiangong station with a cracked capsule for company China is preparing for an early launch of the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft to rescue the crew of Shenzou-21, who were left stranded aboard the Tiangong space station after their emergency rescue of the Shenzou-20 crew earlier this month.
16:48Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss saysWhen? Sean Cairncross wouldn't say America is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive he just isn't saying when.
16:16Datacenter fossil fuel habit 'not sustainable' as AI workloads soarRising AI power demand is straining grids and pushing operators toward hydrogen, batteries, geothermal, and nuclear Gartner warns that fossil fuel dominance in on-site power generation is not sustainable, given the rapid rise in datacenter energy consumption due to AI servers.
15:29Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in...Carrier insists network wasn't at fault when smartphone couldn't reach 000 A Sydney resident died after their Samsung handset failed to connect to 000, Australia's primary emergency number, triggering a stark warning from telco TPG that outdated mobile software could be a matter of life or death.
13:23Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdownEuropean Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act The European Commission has launched investigations into Amazon and Microsoft's cloud services, and plans to review if legislation introduced in 2022 is being applied effectively to the cloud market.
13:15NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to...Lawsuit alleges he poached staff, lifted trade secrets, and set up Red Stapler before quitting NetApp has accused its former senior vice president and CTO of secretly building a rival cloud control platform while still on its payroll, triggering an urgent legal scramble.
12:38Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for...Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as 'fairly positive' about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain.
12:19Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a coldOutage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along Updated Internet services provider Cloudflare is suffering a major outage that has knocked chunks of the web offline including The Register.
11:15Rust on the Moon? Far-side dirt says yes, actuallyChang'e 6's soil sample turns up iron oxides where none were supposed to exist A Chinese-led team of boffins has uncovered tiny grains of hematite and maghemite in materials scooped from the Moon's far-side South Pole-Aitken Basin by the Chang'e 6 probe iron oxides more at home on rusty tools on Earth than on our bone-dry satellite.
