British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry’s team gave it “to show us what it could do.” The prof gave the agent, which was built with OpenClaw, some real-world chores to highlight both its capabilities and the risks…
VMware has announced an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite and tried to make it fit the times by adding features that allow users to run with less hardware. VCF 9.1, announced today, tries to improve on VMware’s memory tiering tech that shifts data out of RAM and onto NVMe storage,…
SAP has snapped up Dremio, a data integration and analytics provider, to extend the reach of its data analytics and AI agent-building tools into external data sources. The ERP giant spent an undisclosed sum on the Iceberg-based lakehouse biz in a bid to help its customers eliminate data fragmentation and improve integration. The purchase will,…
Real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield has confirmed a data breach after two cybercrime groups, ShinyHunters and Qilin, separately claimed responsibility for attacks on the company. A spokesperson told The Register the attack was “limited” in scope and stemmed from vishing (voice phishing), suggesting an employee was socially engineered. The representative said: “Cushman & Wakefield…
Bun creator Jarred Sumner has posted a Zig-to-Rust porting guide, igniting speculation that the project may migrate away from Zig, though Sumner said there is no commitment to rewriting, only that he is “curious to see what a working version of this looks like.” Bun, a JavaScript runtime and toolkit, is a prominent user of…
OPINION NASA’s budget and its new administrator’s statements are evoking a ghost from the agency’s past: Faster, better, cheaper. The agency closed out the last century with a near decade-long experiment in doing more with less. Administrator Dan Goldin championed the philosophy as NASA faced criticism that its flagship programs, including the Cassini mission to…
CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed “CopyFail” is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit. Tracked as CVE-2026-31431, the bug sits in the Linux kernel and gives low-level users a way to take full control of a system by modifying data they should only be able…
If you’ve ever read Anthropic’s disclaimer that responses generated by Claude may contain mistakes and thought, “That’s what I need to spice up financial operations,” you’re in luck. Anthropic has released a set of financial agent templates designed to allow its Claude AI service to better assist with financial tasks. “Each agent template is a…
There’s gold in midmarket IT spend, and Anthropic – backed by private equity and banking heavyweights and tapping its Claude Partner Network – is coming for it. Anthropic and a group of investors are launching a standalone AI-native enterprise services firm for mid-sized companies to build custom Claude-powered systems for core business operations, with the…
A LinkedIn feature the average non-paying user likely only glances past could end up setting a legal precedent in the EU regarding how companies treat customer data that they’ve processed. Take a look at your LinkedIn profile, if you have one, and you’ll see a space where you can look at profile viewers. For premium…