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)

Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum

(2025/11/24)

Japanese team finds 80% of the tiny plant cells remained viable after 283 days in orbit



Years-old bugs in open source tool left every major cloud open to disruption

(2025/11/24)

Fluent Bit has 15B+ deployments … and 5 newly assigned CVEs



Intrusion at real estate finance biz sparks concern for big banks

(2025/11/24)

SitusAMC rules out ransomware, but accounting records for major institutions potentially affected



Shai-Hulud worm returns, belches secrets to 25K GitHub repos

(2025/11/24)

Trojanized npm packages spread new variant that executes in pre-install phase, hitting thousands within days



Microsoft wedges tables into Notepad for some reason

(2025/11/24)

WordPad died for this?



NATO taps Google for air-gapped sovereign cloud

(2025/11/24)

Chocolate Factory wins contract to build fully disconnected systems for training and operational support



FCC guts post-Salt Typhoon telco rules despite ongoing espionage risk

(2025/11/24)

Months after China-linked spies burrowed into US networks, regulator tears up its own response



6G isn't even here yet but mobile industry wants triple the spectrum

(2025/11/24)

Report warns of 2030s capacity crunch without expanding mid-band airwaves



CISA orders feds to patch Oracle Identity Manager zero-day after signs of abuse

(2025/11/24)

Agencies have until December 12 to mitigate flaw that was likely exploited before Big Red released fix



DragonFire laser to be fitted to Royal Navy ships after acing drone-zapping trials

(2025/11/24)

Costs a tenner a shot instead of £1M per anti-aircraft missile



This Thanksgiving, top your turkey with Cranberry sOSS to fund open source

(2025/11/24)

Unusual holiday drive raises cash for the people keeping critical code alive



Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

(2025/11/24)

Opinion Coding purists once considered BASIC harmful. AI can't even manage that



UK Covid-19 Inquiry finds early pandemic surveillance was weeks out of date

(2025/11/24)

Lack of effective data flows and reduced scientific investment hampered response



Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people

(2025/11/24)

Who, Me? Customer signed off and a remaining staffer triggered the mess



Cryptology boffins’ association to re-run election after losing encryption key needed to count votes

(2025/11/24)

The shoemaker’s children have new friends



OVH CEO predicts some cloud prices to rise 5-10 percent by mid-2026

(2025/11/24)

Or maybe even sooner, warns Octave Klaba, as AI sends storage costs soaring



70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture

(2025/11/24)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Manga publishers win Cloudflare copyright case; India, EU to link payment systems; Storm over Australia’s weather website; And more!



Weaponized file name flaw makes updating glob an urgent job

(2025/11/23)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: CISA issues drone warning; China-linked DNS-hijacking malware; Prison for BTC Samourai; And more



Bossware booms as bots determine whether you're doing a good job

(2025/11/23)

A lot of companies are turning to employee monitoring tools to make sure workers aren't slacking off



It's TEE time for Brave's AI assistant Leo

(2025/11/22)

Browser maker wraps cloud AI data processing in confidential computing



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And yet, seasons must be taken with a grain of salt, for they too have
a sense of humor, as does history. Corn stalks comedy, comedy stalks
tragedy, and this too is historic. And yet, still, when corn meets
tragedy face to face, we have politics.
-- Dalglish, Larsen and Sutherland, "Root Crops and
Ground Cover"