Marc Andreessen wades into the UK's Online Safety Act furor (2025/08/13) Shock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan
Microsoft wares may be UK public sector's only viable option (2025/08/13) Register debate series For now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be
Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of 'high severity' protocol flaws need painful fixes (2025/08/13) Updated Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time
Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power (2025/08/13) You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI
I started losing my digital privacy in 1974, aged 11 (2025/08/13) Column An encounter with the healthcare system reveals sickening decisions about data
NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit (2025/08/13) Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays
Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul's 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash (2025/08/13) Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack
Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room (2025/08/13) First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor
Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia (2025/08/13) Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power
Crypto-crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion (2025/08/13) Tells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct'
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday baker's dozen: 12 critical bugs plus a SharePoint RCE (2025/08/13) None under active exploit…yet
Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion (2025/08/12) Could the most popular browser change hands?
Manpower franchise discloses data theft after RansomHub posts alleged stolen data (2025/08/12) And yes, there’s the usual credit monitoring
You've got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by . . . deleting old emails (2025/08/12) Keep calm and clear out that inbox. Also maybe lay off the GenAI
Beijing doesn't want Nvidia's H20s anywhere near sensitive government workloads (2025/08/12) Don't need to give Uncle Sam any more reason to think kill switches are a good idea
US lawmakers introduce bill to update ancient export control IT systems (2025/08/12) Last year's attempt failed, but increased concern over the state of the BIS might make the second time the charm
GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic (2025/08/12) Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filing
Suetopia: Generative AI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business (2025/08/12) Enter a prompt and get back a copyright infringement
Major outage at Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office blamed on 'cyber incident' (2025/08/12) Website, emails, and phones are down for a second day
Platform9 pushes swing capacity workaround for VMware migrants (2025/08/12) Efforts to build easier off-ramps are … err … ramping up