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Cohesity, ServiceNow and Datadog team on recoverability suite Three more vendors have decided that the world needs tools to roll back mistakes made by AI, after Cohesity teamed with ServiceNow and Datadog on a recoverability service that will hunt down all the files and data corrupted by bad AI actors and restore systems to a “trusted state.”…

Could steal sensitive personal and financial data After a whopper of a Patch Tuesday last month, with six Microsoft flaws exploited as zero-days, March didn't exactly roar in like a lion. Just two of the 83 Microsoft CVEs released on Tuesday are listed as publicly known, and none is under active exploitation, which we're sure is a welcome change to sysadmins.…

E-souk disputes report linking 'Gen-AI assisted changes' to recent high-impact incidents Amazon's weekly operations meeting today reportedly focused on recent service outages and on the role that code changes attributed to generative AI may have played. However, the company is downplaying the possibility of problems with AI.…

Think it's hard to tell bot from human on Facebook now? The biggest generator of AI slop on the internet has a new home, as Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook and hired the team behind the social network for AI agents.…

Ransomware, malware-as-a-service, infostealers benefit MOIS, too Iranian government-backed snoops are increasingly using cybercrime malware and ransomware infrastructure in their operations - not just hiding behind criminal masks as a cover for destructive cyber activity, according to security researchers.…

Study warns peak cooling demand could strain US water systems by 2030 Public water supplies in America will need billions invested to meet the peak requirements of datacenters during the hottest periods of the year, even if their overall annual consumption is relatively modest.…

Agentic 'Air' lets multiple AI agents run tasks concurrently, while loyal IntelliJ users wonder what's in it for them JetBrains has previewed Air, a tool for agentic AI development which it describes as a new wave of dev tooling.…

Rapid7 says crims broke into more than 250 sites globally, including a US Senate candidate’s campaign page Cyber baddies quietly compromised legitimate WordPress websites, including the campaign site of a US Senate candidate, turning them into launchpads for a global infostealer operation.…

FAA launches pilot projects starting this summer The skies over parts of the US could soon get busier, as the Federal Aviation Administration launches pilot projects spanning 26 states to test electric air taxis and other next-gen aircraft, with operations expected to begin by summer 2026.…

Launch predictions continue to be optimistic as 2027 and Artemis III near SpaceX has rolled another Starship super heavy booster to the launch pad as the company's boss, Elon Musk, admits the first launch of Starship V3 had slipped.…

Big Red waves new features including vector support, while skeptics await concrete timescales Oracle has proposed a more transparent approach to developing its open source database MySQL, including new features supporting vectors.…

Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure Chromebooks, the low-cost computing option popular with education buyers, will be squeezed hardest this year as memory prices spiral out of control.…

Don't celebrate yet – more states are considering them As more US states push to mandate OS-level age checks, System76 is taking its fight directly to lawmakers.…

Russian-speaking attackers lure HR staff into downloading ISO files that disable defenses A Russian-speaking cyber criminal is targeting corporate HR teams with fake CVs that quietly install malware which can disable security tools before stealing data from infected machines.…

Warning, lockout, then wipe if your device trips detection Microsoft is removing Entra credentials for school and work from jailbroken and rooted devices running iOS and Android.…

Skeptics who want to challenge these ideas face a very tough battle.. And being right is not enough. Throwing a bomb, as the DOE, the US Department of Energy,  did is helpful , but it is not enough to win the hearts and minds.

Crooks used simple phone scam to compromise vendor account, spilling personal and financial data belonging to more than 15,000 people A voice-phishing scam targeting one of Ericsson's service providers has exposed the personal data of more than 15,000 individuals after attackers sweet-talked an employee into handing over access.…

Digital freedom needs a Kali Linux for the rest of us Opinion  The hacker mind is a curious way to be. To have it means to embody endless analytical curiosity, an awareness of any given rule set as just one system among many, and an ability to see any system in ways that its creators never expected. Combine this with a drive to find the bad and make things better, and you become one of the fundamental forces of the technological universe.…

Kids profited from tools used to attack popular websites, say officials Polish police have referred seven suspected juvenile cybercriminals to family court over an alleged scheme to flog DDoS kits online.…

Analog video spied by looking really, really closely at tracks A retro tech enthusiast has demonstrated that it is possible to view media on LaserDisc using a relatively inexpensive digital microscope.…

Aircraft on the ground briefly halted until systems were up again JetBlue took the unusual step of requesting a ground stop for all flights this morning, with the US airline resuming operations less than an hour later and blaming the stop on "a brief system outage."…

Autonomous assistants could manipulate choices, push pricier deals, and prioritize their creators Britain's competition watchdog says the next wave of agentic AI assistants could end up nudging people toward worse deals, manipulating choices, or quietly prioritizing the interests of the companies behind them.…

These costs are only the tip of the iceberg, as far as Net Zero is concerned. They are only the items that appear on the government’s balance sheet.

As Citrix slips out a preview of Xen Server 9, the release that brings it back to the V12N mainstream The Xen Project has decided to support all releases of its flagship hypervisor for five years, and one of the first beneficiaries of the change is Citrix, which has delivered a preview of XenServer 9 – the release that will take the product back into the mainstream virtualization market.…

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by examining radio waves for artefacts that are unlikely to be the result of natural processes, thinks it may have been going about it the wrong way.…

The effort to bring Puerto Rico’s grid into the 21st century has a long way to go, but a federal approach that focuses on reliable, rather than intermittent, energy has a far greater chance to bring true prosperity to the long-ignored territory.

With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins HPE has changed its terms and conditions in ways that allow it to change hardware prices after it’s issued a quote, due to rampant storage and memory price rises.…

As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’ The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using Palantir to figure out where its staff should sit, after deciding only the colorful AI company can do the job.…

Scientists are claiming CSIRO job cuts will impede climate research. But the CSIRO has testified to the Senate there will be no impact on "the scale of research" into Climate Change.

First vibe coding, now vibe reviewing ... but the buzz is good as it finds worthy issues Anthropic has introduced a more extensive – and expensive – way to review source code in hosted repositories, many of which already contain large swaths of AI-generated code.…

David and Goliath…but with AI agents Researchers at red-team security startup CodeWall say their AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform and gained full read and write access to the chatbot in just two hours.…

“The global climate elite are scrambling for relevancy and power. The poll-conscious wind and solar lobbies are disingenuously pitching affordability. And the climate zealots are getting nutty. Energy reality bats last.”

Enjoy meltdowns from businesses on Yelp over negative reviews? AI is threatening to take that away Angry company responses to customer complaints are a favorite topic of internet amusement and outrage, but they're also embarrassing for the employees who post them. Having AI process customer reviews could be a better way. …

Copilot gets tuned to handle long-running knowledge work tasks Microsoft on Monday celebrated freedom of choice by giving customers in the company's Frontier program the option to use Anthropic and OpenAI models via Copilot Chat.…

And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks ShinyHunters told The Register that it has stolen data from about 100 high-profile companies in its latest Salesforce customer data heist, including Salesforce itself.…

Calls Musk’s orbital plans “speculative” despite Bezos touting orbiting compute Amazon wants US regulators to reject a SpaceX application for permission to launch a fleet of orbital datacenter satellites, criticizing it as incomplete, speculative, and unrealistic.…

For much of humanity’s existence, our traditional worldview or cosmos was based on sacred, reciprocal relationships with the land and governed by natural seasons and localised community rhythms. What we are currently seeing, however, is an accelerated shift from a physical universe rooted in seasons and community to a virtual one mediated by screens and …

Not a US flag in sight Researchers from China are narrowing down the landing sites for the nation’s first crewed mission to the Moon, set to take place before 2030.…

Feeds are alive, well, and can help deshittify things opinion  A couple of timely blog posts remind us that RSS is alive, well, and can help you resist enshittification of the Web.…

Three agents is about all we can handle As AI adoption in the workplace accelerates, many people find themselves in a position where babysitting bots and agents is a significant part of their day. Those people are feeling a bit like AI has fried their brains. …

Arctic scientists could have acted to save their own jobs, but it's too late now.

E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happy Microsoft has finally confirmed that its AI-centric E7 subscription tier - where it licenses AI agent agents like employees - will debut on May 1 for an eye-watering $99 per user per month (pupm).…

An attack on the company’s AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addresses Exclusive  ELECQ, maker of smart electric vehicle (EV) chargers, is warning customers that their personal details may have been stolen in a ransomware attack that encrypted and copied user data from its cloud systems.…

The Technocratic Dark State and other matters discussed by author Iain Davis and Paul Brennan on Reality Check Radio. The post The Technocratic Dark State – Reality Check Radio appeared first on Iain Davis.

But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open source After a couple of years of relative calm, the relationship between MariaDB and its open source foundation was ruffled in February, leaving observers with a few unanswered questions.…

Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export Markdown has been around for more than 20 years, but native support in LibreOffice might suddenly help to make it viable for more people.…

Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker Former British deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg has landed a board seat at UK-based neocloud Nscale, alongside fellow ex-Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg and former president of Yahoo Susan Decker.…

Two-week deadline to fraudsters to fess up or have their faces plastered across every screen in the country Dutch national police are taking a novel stand against scammers - 100 suspects now have less than two weeks to hand themselves in or face public shaming.…

Accordingly, any effort to limit the expansion of air conditioning use is logically going to lead to more sickness and probably death, especially in vulnerable populations like the elderly.

Dutch spies flag large-scale campaign to hijack secure messaging accounts Russian-linked hackers are trying to break into the Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government officials, journalists, and military personnel globally – not by cracking encryption, but by simply tricking people into handing over the keys.…

Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on lander NASA has selected United Launch Alliance's Centaur V upper stage for the Artemis missions that aim to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.…

This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example.…

UK government slams comments as 'sickening and irresponsible' Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is once again under investigation after it began posting explicit and derogatory remarks about historic football disasters when prompted by users on X.…

Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is late The British government is to pour £180 million into ensuring the UK keeps up with the times.…

Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers Opinion  On the eve of its fifth birthday, the UK's Shared Services Strategy for Government got a couple of presents. With around £1.7 billion already committed to tech suppliers and a 2028 deadline looming, the 450,000 civil servants and military personnel set to depend on these systems might wonder what was in store.…

Quote of the Week: “…science as a method of finding things out. This method is based on the principle that observation is the judge of whether something is so or not. All other aspects and characteristics of science can be understood directly when we understand that observation is the ultimate and final judge of the truth of an idea.”— Richard Feynman, “The Uncertainty of Science” in The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks Britain's Royal Navy is urgently seeking a ship-based counter-drone system and recent world events likely explain why.…

Ignorance really was the way to achieve bliss Who, Me?  Welcome to another working week, and another installment of "Who, Me?" – a weekly reader-contributed column that unearths your errors and reveals how you rebounded afterwards.…

Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack World War Fee  Tech companies have started suing the US government to seek repayment of tariffs that the Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional.…

According to the survey, 53 percent of Germans are in favor of pushing back the target for climate neutrality from 2045 to 2050. This shift would align Germany with the general European Union timeline and end the current “special path” (Sonderweg) of an accelerated exit.

You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers NASA has published new analysis of its 2022 planetary defense test that suggests the mission slowed down the target asteroids, albeit infinitesimally.…

ABC News repeatedly botched the science of a major regulation “to fight climate change” while falsely accusing President Trump of “rejecting” and “wiping out” “science.”

IN THIS ISSUE: Reliable Solar Has Larger Land Footprint Than Previously Thought No Significant Change in European Flooding China and India Keep Adding Coal

As if scaring children wasn't bad enough.

My claims upfront: We are born into an extraordinary mystery, with too few clues to realistically hope to solve it in this lifetime. We have been given a compass (moral compass, and intuition), so we do have something to guide us through this mystery, but we don’t know who gave us this compass, and we cannot …

On Tuesday, President Trump announced on Truth Social that the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) would provide political risk insurance and even U.S. Navy escorts for merchant vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

A place for discussion

...their own data fails to bear this out. For instance, if we look at the wettest months in England & Wales, those with more than 170mm of rain, they are not occurring more often than they used. Nor are they becoming wetter.

Observed data show expanding vegetation, not disappearing grasslands. Claims of a climate-driven grassland collapse is just another speculative climate disaster fairy tale presented as fact. Earth.org got their facts badly wrong by failing to examine actual data.

They are completely delusional. However, nothing but an actual disaster, if that, will ever convince them that they were wrong. We have to recognize that if we successfully take a somewhat graceful off-ramp from the green energy delusion, these people will go on believing that the CLCPA would have worked if only it was really tried. (Like Socialism.). So maybe we are better off going off the cliff.

What a disaster that would be - not.

The New York Times frames climate change as an emerging inflationary force poised to accelerate, but observational economic record refutes any such economy-wide climate-driven inflation trend. Weather anecdotes, modeling projections, and policy cost provide no proof of climate-driven inflation. Inflation is fundamentally a monetary and policy phenomenon. Blaming it on the weather may make compelling click-bait copy, but it does not withstand economic scrutiny.

It is therefore a bit rich for Ed Davey to complain about energy bills now, when it was his decision to saddle bill payers with the cost of his obsession with climate change.

When the war with Iran officially began on Saturday, I annoyed quite a few people by replying to James Delingpole on twtter with this comment: I stand by it. In fact I can amplify it. There’s ample evidence to show we’re already living in the post-nation age, and this was made explicitly clear by the …

What is happening in Iran and why is it happening? In order to understand these events, you’ll have to learn about the history and context that has led us to this conflict. Join James for today’s edition of The Corbett Report podcast as he explores the deep background of the Iran war. A full transcript, …

The War in Iran is already pushing The Great Reset agenda forward, as every major narrative seems to do. Iran is threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, or already has, or can’t because their navy was destroyed, or is closing it for everyone but China. It’s all rather unclear. What IS clear is that …

We are told that the UK government is led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and that he is a “decent man”. After more than 82% of the electorate did not vote for either Starmer or the Labour party, his government secured a whopping 170+ seat majority. It can do pretty much anything it likes while it keeps …

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Spying, spying and more spying The UK government has been spying on drivers of electric vehicles using mobile phone data for over two years, …

Last night, the US and Israeli air forces reportedly carried out strikes on targets all over Iran, allegedly in response to stalled talks on Iran’s nuclear program and the on-going civil unrest that has been blamed (somewhat unbelievably) for tens of thousands of deaths. Donald Trump is calling the people of Iran to “rise up”. …

How do you stand your ground when you are confronted by would-be authorities. As too many around the world are finding out these days, not having an answer to this question could cost you your life. In the latest Solutions Watch, James Corbett talks to Jason Bassler and Séamus O’Laoi about knowing and asserting your …

Keir Starmer has a dubious history of child protection failures. We examine some of those conspicuous alleged "mistakes." What we are asked to believe is sometimes very hard to accept. The post Keir Starmer’s Questionable Child Protection History appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Filton Six have not been found guilty in a trial by jury. The Jury in the case exercised their constitutional rights and liberties. To appreciate the staggering importance of the jury's decision read here The post The Filton Six: The People Rule, OK? appeared first on Iain Davis.

What is a 15-Minute City? Is it, as some apparently believe, simply an urban space where essential goods and services can be accessed within 15 minute walk or cycle ride from you home? No! As usual, there is much more to it than that. The post What Is A 15-Minute City? appeared first on Iain Davis.

The official UK digital identity Panopticon has been announced by the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. The implication for the British people are extremely concerning. Read more here. The post The Official UK Digital Identity Panopticon appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State with Grand Theft World - Author Iain Davis discusses his latest book with Richard Grove from Grand Theft World The post The Technocratic Dark State and Grand Theft World appeared first on Iain Davis.

The fake Digital ID "victory" in the UK is explored by Iain Davis and Ant Critchley from Becoming Stellify. Possible solutions are discussed. Watch here! The post Fake Digital ID “Victory” appeared first on Iain Davis.

Operation Talla exposes the British state for what it is: unconstitutional and unlawful. We only know about it thanks to the tireless work of committed campaigners. Read the incredible story of Operation Talla here. The post Operation Talla – Unconstitutional and Unlawful appeared first on Iain Davis.

In this article we consider what the UK constitutionally rule of law means and how we can use it to resist the UK dictatorship. Read more HERE. The post How We Can Resist The UK Dictatorship – Part 2 appeared first on Iain Davis.

Please check out my speech at the Mass Non Compliance protest rally against digital ID in London on 13th December 2025. The post Iain Davis Speaks At The Mass Non Compliance Protest Against Digital ID appeared first on Iain Davis.