UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout Summary The UK government’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has summoned senior officials to explain why only 12 of…
HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11 Summary HP reported stronger Personal Systems results in its fiscal third quarter (ended 31 July), with…
Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug Summary Click Studios has released Passwordstate build 9972 to address two security issues: a clickjacking fix for the browser extension and…
RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house Summary RefreshOS 2.5 is a Debian 12 (Bookworm) remix that uses the KDE Plasma desktop shell but…
FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP’s emails as spam Summary FTC chair Andrew Ferguson has written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, warning that Gmail’s spam-filtering could violate the FTC…
Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs Summary The US government converted a $5.7bn outstanding CHIPS Act grant to a 10% equity stake in…
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Summary The Pentagon has ordered Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers to support Azure cloud services used by US…
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 to GitHub Copilot as an opt-in public preview across…
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials Summary Amazon detailed how it disrupted an APT29 (Cozy Bear/Midnight Blizzard) watering-hole campaign that injected malicious JavaScript into legitimate websites and…
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Key Points • Cloudflare reports bots now account for roughly 30% of global web traffic,…
