First they came for the drones, and now the vlogging cameras. DJI’s Osmo Pocket 4 is the first of its compact steadicams not to launch in the US, following a string of DJI drones also missing the US market. The good news for American buyers is that the Pocket 4 is mostly an evolutionary upgrade,…
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new frontier cybersecurity model, GPT-5.5-Cyber. CEO Sam Altman said the model will not be available to the general public, but will be first rolled out to a select group of trusted “cyber defenders” in order for institutions to shore up their cyberdefenses. The limited rollout will take place “in…
Emergency patches are available for a critical vulnerability in cPanel and WHM that allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain root access to servers managed using it. Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: ‘I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code’ READ MORE Given that cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) control panel help…
London cops are being told by their staff association to be “extremely cautious” about carrying work devices off duty, after the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) deployed Palantir’s technology to investigate hundreds of its own officers. The Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents more than 30,000 MPS officers, is considering legal action over the force’s use of…
Sony has finally stepped in to clear up the growing confusion around a new DRM (Digital Rights Management) system on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles. Users reported that the system’s latest updates seemingly introduced a requirement to go online once every 30 days to validate game licenses, but Sony now says this is false….
Britain’s notorious Ajax armored vehicles are being accepted back from the manufacturer after investigations found no single cause for the symptoms plaguing crews, meaning soldiers will need to grin and bear it. The tracked reconnaissance vehicle was effectively grounded in February, after repeated instances of crew members reporting ill after training. The Ministry of Defence…
PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found their own pile of quicksand and then jumped right into it. This week’s story involves keeping sensitive information in a very vulnerable place and then not protecting it adequately. The tale comes to us courtesy of…
Microsoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering large-scale sovereign infrastructure. The first role Microsoft assigned to Azure Local was as an on-prem option that uses the same hypervisor as the Azure Cloud, plus the Azure Kubernetes Service and software-defined storage. The product scaled to…
Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues. News of the chip sales emerged on Wednesday during the Q1 2026 earnings call for Alphabet, Google’s parent company. CEO Sundar Pichai said Google has observed growing demand for…
The European Commission has recommended EU member states adopt an age verification app designed to protect children from harmful online content. In an announcement, the EU’s executive branch said it had approved the roll-out the technology, which member states can deploy as a standalone app or integrate into a European Digital Identity Wallet – a…