Chromebook sales surged in Q2 thanks to Japanese schools (2025/08/05) UPDATED Tablets have also been growing for six straight quarters, says Canalys
Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack (2025/08/05) black hat Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics?
Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices (2025/08/05) Updated CIOs at the EPA, DHS, and GSA are called out for failure to implement critical cybersecurity recommendations
Study finds humans not completely useless at malware detection (2025/08/05) Some pinpointed software nasties but were suspicious of printer drivers too
JetBrains previews Kineto for vibe no-coding (2025/08/05) Tools vendor targets 'creators who've never coded' but devs will be wary
NetBSD 11 prepares for launch with 57 supported platforms (2025/08/05) New version season is near, and some of the big names are dropping x86-32 – but not this one
Chained bugs in Nvidia's Triton Inference Server lead to full system compromise (2025/08/05) Wiz Research details flaws in Python backend that expose AI models and enable remote code execution
Lunar Trailblazer trails off as NASA loses probe to the void (2025/08/05) Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment
Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China (2025/08/05) Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports
Eutelsat LEO revenue rockets 84% as governments cool on Starlink (2025/08/05) OneWeb constellation may be smaller, but it's suddenly looking like a safer bet for some
How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier (2025/08/05) You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000
Hacker summer camp: What to expect from BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON (2025/08/05) These are the conference events to keep an eye on. You can even stream a few
TSMC launches legal action against insiders accused of trade secret theft (2025/08/05) UPDATED Tokyo Electron reveals a former employee is involved, and that no info reached third parties
Microsoft promises to eventually make WinUI 'truly open source' (2025/08/05) Developer community skeptical following 'long silent stagnation' of the framework and accompanying SDK
Skyrora wins green light to lob rockets from Scotland (2025/08/05) Launch license issued for suborbital Skylark L
Germany and Japan teamed their ISS robots for seek-and-photograph mission (2025/08/05) Bot built by Airbus and IBM recognized astronaut’s voice and issued instructions to camera drone
Lyft and Baidu plan Eurobocab launch, starting in UK and Germany next year (2025/08/05) Using the Apollo vehicles that already offer autonomous rides across China
Amazon’s Kuiper satellite broadband to offer commercial services in mid-2026, at least in Australia (2025/08/05) Updated Maybe sooner in other places
Foxconn says EV sales are so slow it's converting a factory to build AI servers instead (2025/08/05) Cites low demand and overcapacity for electric cars on the same day Tesla gives Elon Musk $29 billion for similar reasons
Antivirus vendors fail to spot persistent, nasty, stealthy Linux backdoor (2025/08/05) Updated 'Plague' malware has been around for months without tripping alarms