Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block
Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block Summary Microsoft has announced that Office Online Server (OOS) will be retired on 31 December 2026. After that date Microsoft will…
Salt Typhoon hit governments on three continents with SharePoint attacks
Salt Typhoon hit governments on three continents with SharePoint attacks Summary Security researchers from Broadcom-owned Symantec and Carbon Black say China-aligned threat actors, including Salt Typhoon, exploited the critical ToolShell…
AWS cloud outage reveals vendor concentration risk
AWS cloud outage reveals vendor concentration risk Summary On 20 Oct 2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage centred on its US‑EAST‑1 region in Virginia. A DNS resolution…
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too Summary A new study from researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M and Purdue finds that large language models trained on…
UK facing ‘most contested and complex’ threat in decades, warns GCHQ director
UK facing ‘most contested and complex’ threat in decades, warns GCHQ director Summary Anne Keast-Butler, director of GCHQ, told the Predict Europe conference that Britain is experiencing the most “contested…
WhatsApp Secures Ban on NSO Group After 6-Year Legal Battle
WhatsApp Secures Ban on NSO Group After 6-Year Legal Battle Summary WhatsApp (Meta) has won a permanent injunction against NSO Group after a long legal fight over the commercial spyware…
Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side
Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side Summary Sifting through the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, researchers discovered unexpected fragments of…
Gene implicated in the heart defects associated with Down’s syndrome
Gene implicated in the heart defects associated with Down’s syndrome Article Date: 22 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03396-8 Article Image: Image Summary Down’s syndrome (trisomy 21) raises the incidence of…
AI discovers learning algorithm that outperforms those designed by humans
AI discovers learning algorithm that outperforms those designed by humans Article metadata Article Date: 22 October 2025 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03398-6 Article Image: https://media.nature.com/lw100/magazine-assets/d41586-025-03398-6/d41586-025-03398-6_51600446.jpg Summary Researchers report an AI system that…
Tumours might be sensitised to immune therapy by COVID mRNA vaccines
Tumours might be sensitised to immune therapy by COVID mRNA vaccines Summary Commercially available SARS‑CoV‑2 mRNA vaccines have been reported to prime patients’ immune systems in ways that help them…