LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Summary Researchers from King’s College London presented findings at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium showing that system-prompt engineering can turn…
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Summary The UK government talks big about AI and digital transformation, but a large slice of its estate remains trapped…
Summary London-headquartered telco Colt Technology Services reported a cyber incident that began on 12 August 2025. As a protective measure the company took a number of internal systems offline, which…
Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that the widely touted AI cost-savings are largely illusory and that organisations may…
Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline Summary The Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands (Openbaar Ministerie) suffered a cyberattack first observed on 17 July that exploited…
Little LLM on the RAM: Google’s Gemma 270M hits the scene Summary Google has released Gemma 3 270M, a compact 270‑million‑parameter language model that runs in roughly 550MB of RAM…
Microsoft kills volume rebates in name of ‘transparency’ Summary Microsoft is changing how it prices Online Services in Enterprise Agreements. From 1 November 2025, Online Services such as Dynamics 365…
Asmi Linux 13 Debian Edition debuts: Xfce desktop never looked so good Summary Asmi Linux 13 Debian Edition is a polished Debian “Trixie” spin from TeejeeTech that dresses up Xfce…
Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? Summary NASA has issued a Request For Information (RFI) for a Fission Surface Power System to be deployed on the…
Summary Cisco has released a patch for a maximum-severity remote code execution vulnerability in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC). Tracked as CVE-2025-20265 and scored CVSS 10.0, the flaw stems…
