Qantas penalises executives for July cyberattack Summary Qantas has reduced short-term bonuses for its CEO and executive management by 15 percentage points after a July cyberattack that exposed the personal…
OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart Summary OpenAI is pairing its OpenAI Academy training with a new jobs board so workers displaced…
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype Summary Microsoft Research in Cambridge has unveiled a prototype Analog Optical Computer (AOC) that uses light as the computational medium to…
Trump tells Big Tech: Your power woes? Totally fixable Summary President Donald Trump hosted a White House dinner for senior tech executives and pledged to tackle the electricity and grid‑connection…
Linux Mint 22.2 polishes the desktop, but kernel updates are the real deal Summary Linux Mint 22.2 (codename “Zara”) is a point release based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 that brings a…
Firefox ESR 115 won’t quit Windows 7 – at least not until March 2026 Summary Mozilla has extended support for Firefox ESR 115 on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 until…
Europe’s Jupiter supercomputer hits exascale threshold at inauguration Summary At its inauguration on 5 September 2025 the Jupiter supercomputer at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre surpassed the exascale threshold — one…
Bot shots: US Army enlists AI startup to provide target-tracking Summary The US Army has awarded San Francisco startup TurbineOne a five-year contract worth up to $98.9m to scale its…
Critical, make-me-super-user SAP S/4HANA bug under active exploitation Summary A critical code-injection vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA (CVE-2025-42957) rated 9.9 is being actively exploited in the wild, according to SecurityBridge Threat…
HHS warns US health care industry to share data with patients or else Summary The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced it will take an “active…
