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AWS Reportedly to Tuck Elon Musk's Grok Into Bedrock, Despite Zero Enterprise Demand
AWS is reportedly preparing to list Elon Musk’s Grok LLM on its Bedrock marketplace despite a clear lack of enterprise interest. Interviews with cloud‑contract signers reveal banks and large firms actively reject Grok, citing performance and reputational concerns. The move mirrors earlier AWS deals with Anthropic and OpenAI, which were driven by massive Trainium chip commitments rather than customer demand. Analysts suspect the Grok listing is a strategic play to lock SpaceXAI into Amazon’s silicon ecosystem while Amazon eyes broader competition with SpaceX’s satellite business.
Lone Attacker Published 14 Malicious Npm Packages Mimicking Popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch Libraries
A single npm maintainer alias published 14 malicious packages within four hours, impersonating popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, and DevOps libraries. The packages used typosquatting, spoofed metadata, and inflated version numbers to appear legitimate, then executed a Bun‑compiled credential harvester via install‑time...
Okta Writes Its Own License to Kill Rogue AI Agents
Okta announced a new identity‑centric control layer for autonomous AI agents, positioning itself as the "kill switch" for rogue bots. The company highlighted that 92% of executives report moderate or widespread AI‑agent use, yet only 22% have tied those agents...
ICE to Keep an Eye on Your Eyes Under $25M Biometric Scanner Deal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded Bi2 Technologies a $25.1 million contract for 1,570 biometric scanners that capture fingerprints, iris patterns and facial images. The devices, usable in both mobile and stationary setups, connect to Bi2’s IRIS system, which indexes over...
AI and Data Sovereignty in Postgres: An Answer to the Datacenter Energy Crisis
Datacenter construction is hitting grid‑connection bottlenecks, while AI workloads now consume about 1.5% of global electricity and are set to double by 2030. McKinsey projects total datacenter spending could reach $7 trillion by that year, creating a "intelligence per watt" dilemma...
Microsoft Slaps New Coat of Paint on Copilot, Buries Annoying Button
Microsoft refreshed its Copilot experience in Microsoft 365, adding a new visual design, a task‑aware prompt workspace, and an option to move the floating Copilot button back to the ribbon. The update claims the app loads more than twice as...
ChatGPT Blindly Trusts Browser Content, Turning the Page Into a Payload
A researcher has shown that ChatGPT cannot distinguish its own generated text from attacker‑controlled Markdown fetched from web pages, a flaw dubbed “ChatGPhish.” By embedding hidden instructions in a page, an attacker can make the model append phishing links or...
Russia-Linked Threat Group Put ChatGPT to Work From Lure to Payload
A Russia-linked cyber espionage group, dubbed GREYVIBE, has been leveraging generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Ideogram AI across its entire attack lifecycle against Ukrainian targets. The campaign, active since at least August 2025, employs AI‑generated spear‑phishing...
ShinyHunters Adds Charter to Trophy Shelf After 4.9M Customer Records Leak
ShinyHunters released the personal details of 4.9 million Charter Communications customers after the telecom declined the gang’s extortion demand. The leak, confirmed by Have I Been Pwned, contains names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, and a subset of about 85 000...
Company CEO Flooded File Share with Smut, Called for Help After He Deleted It
A corporate CEO stored explicit photos on a publicly accessible file share, prompting the IT department to restore and later delete the content at HR’s request. In a separate case, an employee’s personal porn files were discovered on a work...
Bare Metal Cloud Servers Now Cheaper and More Readily Available than On-Prem Hardware, Says Nutanix CEO
Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami told The Register that hyperscalers can now offer bare‑metal cloud servers at lower cost and faster delivery than traditional on‑prem hardware, prompting some enterprises to shift to the cloud. He warned that high memory and SSD...
Snowflake to Burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI Accelerators
Snowflake announced a $6 billion, five‑year commitment to run its AI workloads on Amazon Web Services’ Graviton Arm CPUs and custom AI accelerators. The deal deepens a decade‑long partnership and shifts more compute from Intel and AMD to AWS‑native silicon. Snowflake...
FAA Grounds SpaceX’s Starship After Another Launch Mishap
The FAA has grounded SpaceX’s Starship after the Super Heavy booster failed its flip maneuver and boost‑back burn, ending up in the Gulf of Mexico. The mishap, declared formal on Wednesday, marks the 12th Starship launch and the sixth FAA...
California May Let Linux Bypass Age Check
California's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) requires operating system providers to collect users' birth dates for age verification beginning Jan 1 2027. Lawmakers have introduced AB 1856, which adds a carve‑out exempting open‑source OSes that allow copying, redistribution and modification, potentially...
Starship Shows It Can Deploy Satellites, but Moon Mission Clock Still Ticks
SpaceX’s 12th Starship test lifted off on May 22, igniting all 33 Super Heavy Raptor 3 engines and deploying 20 Starlink simulators plus two modified satellites. A booster engine shutdown and a hot‑staging anomaly caused the Super Heavy to tumble and...