Amazon security boss: Hostile countries use cyber targeting for physical military strikes Summary Amazon’s security leadership warns that hostile states are increasingly using cyber reconnaissance to feed physical military strikes,…
San Jose’s ‘warrantless’ licence plate queries land cops in court Summary The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU of Northern California have sued the City of San Jose and…
The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China Summary Experts warn the US is slipping behind in the race to produce open-weight AI models — those that…
Science on shaky ground: Canadian research shifts in the wake of US cuts Summary Cuts to US federal science funding — notably at agencies such as the NIH, NOAA and…
South Africa is right to put debt, climate and inequality at the heart of G20 Summary Johannesburg is hosting the first-ever G20 leaders’ meeting in Africa — a landmark moment…
Cloudflare Blames Outage on Internal Configuration Error Summary Cloudflare experienced a major outage beginning 11:20 UTC that left sites such as X, Uber, Canva and ChatGPT returning internal server errors…
Critical Railway Braking Systems Open to Tampering Summary Researchers demonstrated that legacy train protection systems can be spoofed or tampered with using very simple, low-cost hardware and publicly available information.…
Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI market Summary Analysts at Counterpoint Research warn that commodity memory prices could roughly double by mid-2026 as chipmakers reallocate…
Researchers claim ‘largest leak ever’ after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw Summary Researchers from the University of Vienna discovered an enumeration flaw in WhatsApp that allowed them to confirm 3.5 billion…
Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals Summary Microsoft has launched Azure HorizonDB, a fully distributed PostgreSQL-compatible database service designed to compete with hyperscaler and third-party…
