Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks Summary CISA has added a 17-year-old critical Microsoft Excel vulnerability (CVE-2009-0238) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue after confirming active…
US states can’t account for data centre tax breaks. Literally Summary Good Jobs First reports that many US states and local authorities are failing to disclose revenue lost to data…
Sweden says pro-Russian hackers attempted to breach thermal power plant Summary A suspected pro‑Russian hacker group tried to intrude on a thermal power plant in western Sweden in spring 2025,…
Waymo’s self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London Summary Waymo has begun letting its autonomous system actively drive on London streets while trained operators remain ready to intervene. The…
Agents hooked into GitHub can steal creds – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven’t warned users Summary Security researchers led by Aonan Guan (with collaborators at Johns Hopkins University) discovered…
Waymo’s self-driving cars face their toughest test yet: London Summary Waymo has begun letting its autonomous system handle driving on London streets while trained safety operators remain ready to intervene.…
UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk Summary The Open Rights Group (ORG) warns that years of wiring the UK public sector into US Big…
The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought Summary WIRED, working with Indicator, analysed publicly reported cases and found nearly 90 schools and about 600 pupils…
Can China’s Great Green Wall shape efforts to keep the world’s deserts at bay? Summary Rising aridity and expanding drylands threaten billions of people. China’s Three‑North Shelterbelt — the so‑called…
AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop: Gartner Summary Gartner warns that more than 70% of mainframe exit projects started in 2026 will fail to deliver expected benefits…
