Scammer steals $1.5 million from Baltimore by spoofing city vendor Summary Baltimore’s accounts payable department paid more than $1.5 million to a fraudster who impersonated a vendor employee and succeeded…
UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout Summary Senior officials have been summoned to the UK’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee after a previously secret 2023…
HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11 Summary HP reported Personal Systems revenue of $9.9bn for the quarter ended 31 July, up 6%…
Summary Australian developer Click Studios has issued Passwordstate build 9972 to fix two security issues: a clickjacking vulnerability in its browser extension and a critical authentication bypass affecting the Emergency…
Summary RefreshOS 2.5 is a Debian 12 (Bookworm) based distro that uses KDE Plasma 5.27.5 as its desktop shell but deliberately mixes apps from multiple desktop environments. Many default components…
Summary The Federal Trade Commission chair, Andrew Ferguson, has written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai after reports that Gmail was flagging Republican (GOP) fundraiser emails as spam while not doing…
Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs Summary The US government converted $5.7bn in outstanding CHIPS Act grants 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 the…
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 model to GitHub Copilot as an opt-in public preview…
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials Summary Amazon reported it disrupted a watering-hole campaign run by Russia-linked APT29 (aka Cozy Bear / Midnight Blizzard) that injected malicious…
