ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Google yet to take down 'screenshot-grabbing' Chrome VPN extension

(2025/08/21)

Researcher claims extension didn't start out by exfiltrating info... while dev says its actions are 'compliant'



AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders

(2025/08/21)

Updated One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute



Microsoft makes MCP in Visual Studio GA but researchers warn of risks

(2025/08/21)

Compositional risk from multiple MCP Servers highlighted by report



FydeOS offers ChromeOS without the Google strings attached

(2025/08/21)

Fork runs Android apps and keeps old PCs ticking over ... all without signing into an account with the mothership



The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety

(2025/08/21)

opinion US policymakers should take heed, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation



AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

(2025/08/21)

They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?



Baidu robocabs break even on one metric in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere

(2025/08/21)

Web giant reworks AI infra to improve utilization, with mix of chips from home and away



China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday

(2025/08/21)

Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark



Microsoft stays mum about M365 Copilot on-demand security bypass

(2025/08/21)

UPDATED Redmond doesn't bother informing customers about some security fixes



Post-privacy AI glasses claim to listen to your every word

(2025/08/21)

Digitally enabled omniscience is neat, if you can bear the cost of being constantly monitored by an AI agent



Google tries to trump iPhone launch with AI-powered Pixel 10 range

(2025/08/20)

Video At 3% US market share, we don't think Cook & Co are sweating



Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE

(2025/08/20)

Move along, nothing to see here



Talk to the bot: Salesforce AI agents could replace US govt employees

(2025/08/20)

Have a complaint? Need a benefit? Agentforce now has a bot for that



IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers - partly to destroy IPv4

(2025/08/20)

Dragging DNS into the modern age. And if that means fewer people need to buy IPv4, so much the better



Perplexity's Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions

(2025/08/20)

updated Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched



Opinionated Arch derivative CachyOS overtakes Mint and MX on DistroWatch

(2025/08/20)

Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans



FBI: Russian spies exploiting a 7-year-old Cisco bug to slurp configs from critical infrastructure

(2025/08/20)

Snarfing up config files for 'thousands' of devices…just for giggles, we're sure



Uncle Sam launches AI sandbox for government use, says it won't be around for long

(2025/08/20)

GSA AI chief says market can do better but the feds needed a kickstart



Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist

(2025/08/20)

Plessey sold to Haylo Labs, financed by $100M Goertek loan



Commvault releases patches for two nasty bug chains after exploits proven

(2025/08/20)

Updated Researchers disclosing their findings said 'it's as bad as it sounds'



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