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
No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms (2025/08/12) 'Hung' is out and 'Unresponsive' is in, according to the Academy Software Foundation and the Alliance for OpenUSD
BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown (2025/08/12) US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang - but the crooks remain at large
Java 25 puts 32-bit x86 out to pasture, adds 17 shiny new features (2025/08/12) Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next month