Microsoft puts the squeeze on onmicrosoft.com freeloaders
Windows giant takes aim at spammers exploiting new 365 tenants
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?
Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two
Project scrambles for mitigation as AUR, forums, and main site feel the strain
Basic projector repair job turns into armed encounter at secret bunker
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Escort's forgotten cap left techie facing rifles and a debrief
Viking 1 at 50: NASA's first raid on the red planet
Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landings
Science22 Aug 2025 |
Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links
CRLite, link previews, and a llama-shaped surprise for devs
Applications22 Aug 2025 | 3
Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged'
LibDem leader Sir Ed Davey calls Elon Musk a threat to national security
Personal Tech22 Aug 2025 | 4
UK patches air defense with 6 extra Land Ceptor missile launchers
Hmm, six, well, that's going to make Russia worry ...
Public Sector22 Aug 2025 | 1
Windows Security Update turns smooth NDI streams into jittery messes
Users told to switch protocols or delay installation while Redmond investigates
OSes22 Aug 2025 | 1
Criminal background checker APCS faces data breach
Exclusive The attack first affected an upstream provider of bespoke software
Cyber-crime22 Aug 2025 | 3
Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware
ClickFix tricks
Research22 Aug 2025 | 4
Microsoft lets devs tell Copilot to STFU in Visual Studio
Update finally gives coders control over when – and if – AI butts in
AI + ML22 Aug 2025 | 4
Interpol bags 1,209 suspects, $97M in cybercrime operation focused on Africa
Crypto mines, BEC scams, fake passports, and a $300M fraud empire allegedly brought down during Serengeti 2.0
Cyber-crime22 Aug 2025 |
NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a $17B datacenter development in Georgia
Coweta County stalls bit barn vote as residents revolt
Systems22 Aug 2025 | 13
Everything is 'different on Windows': Zed port delays highlight dev friction
Graphics API, crash reporting and more: Making low-level code cross-platform for Windows is a challenge
OSes22 Aug 2025 | 20
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IBM, NASA cook up AI model to predict solar tantrums
Open source Surya system promises early alerts for space weather that can fry satellites and grids
AI + ML22 Aug 2025 | 7
BOFH: HR plays checkers, IT plays 5D chess
Episode 16 It's not sabotage if you log a maintenance ticket first
BOFH22 Aug 2025 | 35
Don't cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms
FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in
Public Sector22 Aug 2025 | 35
Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs
Fujitsu doesn’t have the project all to itself any more
HPC22 Aug 2025 | 2
Dwarf planet Ceres may have been habitable - for microbes - a couple of billion years back
Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean
Science22 Aug 2025 | 16
Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot
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AI + ML22 Aug 2025 | 31
DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon
Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon
AI + ML22 Aug 2025 | 4
Developer jailed for taking down employer's network with kill switch malware
Pro tip: When taking revenge, don't use your real name
Security22 Aug 2025 | 21
AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders
Updated One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute
Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason
Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right?
AI + ML21 Aug 2025 | 11
Microsoft reportedly cuts China's early access to bug disclosures, PoC exploit code
Better late than never after SharePoint assault?
Security21 Aug 2025 | 3
'Impersonation as a service' the next big thing in cybercrime
Underground forums now recruiting English-speaking social engineers
Cyber-crime21 Aug 2025 |
Honey, I shrunk the image and now I'm pwned
Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection
AI + ML21 Aug 2025 | 10
Congressman proposes bringing back letters of marque for cyber privateers
Bill would let US President commission white hat hackers to go after foreign threats, seize assets on the online seas
Security21 Aug 2025 | 33
Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal
If anyone’s gonna lock in Uncle Sam’s business, it'd better be us!
Public Sector21 Aug 2025 | 2
LibreOffice 25.8: Faster, leaner, and finally speaks PDF 2.0
Update boosts Microsoft file imports, adds new spreadsheet functions, and drops older Windows
Applications21 Aug 2025 | 37
Transatlantic chip war fizzles as EU and US framework confirms 15% tariff cap
World War Fee US pulls back from Trump's threatened 100% levy but not everyone pleased at Europe's concessions
Public Sector21 Aug 2025 | 27
Google's $250 AI agent can only help you book restaurant reservations
But the free AI Mode itself can now take your history into account
AI + ML21 Aug 2025 | 15
Microsoft continues Control Panel farewell tour
Latest Windows Insider Build puts time and language options in Settings
OSes21 Aug 2025 | 37
Not again! Microsoft blames config tweak for 365 outage in parts of North America
What testing is happening before changes hit production?
Applications21 Aug 2025 | 19
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable
On Call Somebody built a very sick network in the bowels of a hospital
Orange Belgium mega-breach exposes 850K customers to serious fraud
Everything a criminal needs for targeted attacks exposed, but telco insists 'no critical data compromised'
Cyber-crime21 Aug 2025 | 7
US cops wrap up RapperBot, one of world's biggest DDoS-for-hire rackets
Feds say Mirai-spawned botnet blasted 370K attacks before AWS and pals helped yank its servers
Cyber-crime21 Aug 2025 | 3
Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS
Another 'extremely sophisticated' exploit chewing at Cupertino's walled garden
Patches21 Aug 2025 | 19
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Colt changes tune, admits data theft as Warlock gang begins auction
Worried about your data? No probs, says firm, we'll check the dark web crims' list for you! Yes really
Networks21 Aug 2025 | 4
Google yet to take down 'screenshot-grabbing' Chrome VPN extension
Researcher claims extension didn't start out by exfiltrating info... while dev says its actions are 'compliant'
Research21 Aug 2025 | 10
Microsoft makes MCP in Visual Studio GA but researchers warn of risks
Compositional risk from multiple MCP Servers highlighted by report
AI + ML21 Aug 2025 | 1
FydeOS offers ChromeOS without the Google strings attached
Fork runs Android apps and keeps old PCs ticking over ... all without signing into an account with the mothership
Personal Tech21 Aug 2025 | 28
The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety
opinion US policymakers should take heed, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Columnists21 Aug 2025 | 130
Baidu robocabs break even on one metric in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere
Web giant reworks AI infra to improve utilization, with mix of chips from home and away
AI + ML21 Aug 2025 | 7
Beeline and ZTE advance Kazakhstan's digital future with Giga City 2.0
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China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday
Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark
Networks21 Aug 2025 | 52
Microsoft stays mum about M365 Copilot on-demand security bypass
UPDATED Redmond doesn't bother informing customers about some security fixes
Security20 Aug 2025 | 8
Post-privacy AI glasses claim to listen to your every word
Digitally enabled omniscience is neat, if you can bear the cost of being constantly monitored by an AI agent
AI + ML20 Aug 2025 | 27
Google tries to trump iPhone launch with AI-powered Pixel 10 range
Video At 3% US market share, we don't think Cook & Co are sweating
Personal Tech20 Aug 2025 | 66
Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE
Move along, nothing to see here
Patches20 Aug 2025 | 2
Talk to the bot: Salesforce AI agents could replace US govt employees
Have a complaint? Need a benefit? Agentforce now has a bot for that
AI + ML20 Aug 2025 | 7
IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers - partly to destroy IPv4
Dragging DNS into the modern age. And if that means fewer people need to buy IPv4, so much the better
Networks20 Aug 2025 | 120
Perplexity's Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions
updated Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched
AI + ML20 Aug 2025 | 7
Opinionated Arch derivative CachyOS overtakes Mint and MX on DistroWatch
Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans
OSes20 Aug 2025 | 32
FBI: Russian spies exploiting a 7-year-old Cisco bug to slurp configs from critical infrastructure
Snarfing up config files for 'thousands' of devices…just for giggles, we're sure
Cyber-crime20 Aug 2025 | 10
Uncle Sam launches AI sandbox for government use, says it won't be around for long
GSA AI chief says market can do better but the feds needed a kickstart
Public Sector20 Aug 2025 |
Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist
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Commvault releases patches for two nasty bug chains after exploits proven
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Patches20 Aug 2025 |
'Limited' data leak at Aussie telco turns out to be 280K customer details
iiNet breach blamed on single stolen login, with emails, phone numbers, and addresses exposed
Networks20 Aug 2025 | 6
GlobalFoundries inks domestic chipmaking deal with Cirrus Logic
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Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess
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AI + ML20 Aug 2025 | 22
Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records
Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them
Personal Tech20 Aug 2025 | 15
McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security
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AI + ML20 Aug 2025 | 8
KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot
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AWS still cares enough about Intel to order up a fresh batch of custom Xeons
Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types
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Top AWS chip designer reportedly defects to Arm as it weighs push into silicon
Rami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon
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Don't want drive-by Ollama attackers snooping on your local chats? Patch now
Reconfigure local app settings via a 'simple' POST request
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Like burglars closing a door, Apache ActiveMQ attackers patch critical vuln after breaking in
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Cyber-crime19 Aug 2025 | 5
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