Software It’s in Waterfox too, and there it does what you’d expect Firefox 149 quietly shipped an interesting new feature buried in the code. As Mozilla bug #2013888 documents, the browser maker incorporated Brave’s Rust-based adblock engine back in March – a detail surfaced in a blog post by Shivan Kaul Sahib, VP of Privacy and Security…
Cyber-crime Investigators spent weeks unravelling enthusiast’s bedroom project A university student in Taiwan is out on bail after being accused of interfering with signals sent to the country’s high-speed rail network, bringing trains to a halt. In a statement issued to local media, Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) confirmed that a 48-minute disruption to three…
personal tech Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan Microsoft is halting Copilot development for Xbox consoles. New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma made the announcement on X (formerly Twitter), saying the company “will stop development of Copilot on console,” retiring features that “don’t align with where we’re headed.” Whatever the…
Offbeat Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports The UK will spend £20.5 million developing “a numberplate system for the skies” that will centrally record the identity and location of drones when in flight. From the start of this year, the Civil Aviation Authority…
Systems Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips Chip design company Arm says the datacenter will soon be its biggest source of revenue. Arm rose to prominence as a purveyor of chip designs for low-powered devices and then became the de facto standard for smartphone processors. In recent years, the…
Networks Major .de domains experienced hours-long outage after registry distributed faulty signatures Denic says the DNS blunder that brought most of Germany’s internet down on Tuesday evening is now resolved, and that websites should be operating normally after hours of disruption. The registry, which looks after Germany’s .de top-level domain, said the problems were first…
Security Activists say ministers are targeting access rather than Big Tech’s data-hungry business models Privacy groups, VPN providers, and civil liberties outfits have lined up to warn the UK government that its latest plan to slap age gates across swathes of the internet risks breaking the web while doing little to keep kids safe. In…
Offbeat Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond’s answer? Nope Long before Copilot or even the Windows key, Microsoft and IBM were squabbling over Tab – a tale that says more about Big Blue’s bureaucracy than hopping between fields. Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen shared another war story this week, from…
DevOps Matz gets together with Anthropic’s Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations Yukihiro Matsumoto – better known as Matz – is building Spinel, a native compiler for Ruby, with help from Anthropic’s Claude Code. Spinel, which is on GitHub under the MIT license, works by parsing Ruby code…
AI Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn’t the gold mine some CEOs hoped for Bosses betting on AI to slash headcount and boost margins are discovering an uncomfortable truth: the strategy isn’t working. New research from Gartner lays out the problem in stark terms. The analyst firm surveyed 350 global businesses – all with…