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)

Not again! Microsoft blames config tweak for 365 outage in parts of North America

(2025/08/21)

What testing is happening before changes hit production?



Orange Belgium mega-breach exposes 850K customers to serious fraud

(2025/08/21)

Everything a criminal needs for targeted attacks exposed, but telco insists 'no critical data compromised'



US cops wrap up RapperBot, one of world's biggest DDoS-for-hire rackets

(2025/08/21)

Feds say Mirai-spawned botnet blasted 370K attacks before AWS and pals helped yank its servers



Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS

(2025/08/21)

Another 'extremely sophisticated' exploit chewing at Cupertino's walled garden



Colt changes tune, admits data theft as Warlock gang begins auction

(2025/08/21)

Worried about your data? No probs, says firm, we'll check the dark web crims' list for you! Yes really



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



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One bright Sunday morning, in the shadows of the steeple,
By the Relief Office, I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there whistling,
This land was made for you and me.

Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back,
This land was made for you and me.

As I went walking, I saw a sign there,
And on the sign it said: "No Trespassing."
But on the other side, it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
-- Woody Guthrie, "This Land Is Your Land" (verses 4, 6, 7)
[If you ever wondered why Arlo was so anti-establishment when his dad
wrote such wonderful patriotic songs, the answer is that you haven't
heard all of Woody's songs]