Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K

The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM

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Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer

Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections

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Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI

Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists

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Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel

Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit

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Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts

Agentic exploits for the win (again)

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North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices

WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets

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FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B

AI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con

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Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode

Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years

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KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal

Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user

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Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly

Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting

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The ideal database for AI agents doesn't exist yet, says Percona CEO

Iterative workloads caught vendors off guard, but requirements for a clean-slate solution remain unclear

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Former Labour deputy Tom Watson joins Palantir as £330M NHS deal nears break point

US spy-tech firm insists its new UK senior vice president is there to 'build things, not to open doors'

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KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting

AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing teams caught in latest reshaping of Big Four consultancy's Advisory arm

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British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky

Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas

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Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up

Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed

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