Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America (2025/10/10) Outage blamed on misconfigured infrastructure as users report hour-long disruption
UK slaps 'strategic market status' on Google, unlocking power to pry open search (2025/10/10) Competition watchdog can now meddle in how the tech giant runs the biggest wing of its organization
Former UK prime minister Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic (2025/10/10) Conservative MP told he must not lobby for corporations
Cops nuke BreachForums (again) amid cybercrime supergroup extortion blitz (2025/10/10) US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting Salesforce
UK techies' union warns members after breach exposes sensitive personal details (2025/10/10) Prospect apologizes for cyber gaffe affecting up to 160K members
BOFH: Recover a database from five years ago? It's as easy as flicking a switch (2025/10/10) Episode 19 But nobody needs to know that
Microsoft hypes PCs with NPUs, still can't offer a good reason to buy one (2025/10/10) Comment AI tech not on the hardware compatibility list for now. But future Windows will need it
Client defended engineer after oil baron-turned tech support entrepreneur lied about dodgy dealings (2025/10/10) On Call Reputations earned over years of service can work wonders
RondoDox botnet fires 'exploit shotgun' at nearly every router and internet-connected home device (2025/10/10) 56 bugs across routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web servers … time to run for cover
It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic (2025/10/09) Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset
Amazon's Quick Suite is like agentic AI training wheels for enterprises (2025/10/09) Slow down there Andy; you wouldn't want to bump into any hallucinations
Google rearranges Agentspace into Gemini Enterprise (2025/10/09) A new spin on workflow automation as Chocolate Factory tries to displace Microsoft as the enterprise go-to
Crims had 3-month head start on defenders in Oracle EBS invasion (2025/10/09) The miscreants started their attack all the way back on July 10
This is your brain on bots: AI interaction may hurt students more than it helps (2025/10/09) More kids see AI as a friend or romantic interest, but few teachers know how to deal with the fallout, study finds
Space Shuttle war of words takes off as senator blasts 'woke Smithsonian' (2025/10/09) Exclusive Houston, we have a custody battle
GitHub Copilot Chat turns blabbermouth with crafty prompt injection attack (2025/10/09) AI assistant could be duped into leaking code and tokens via sneaky markdown
Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach (2025/10/09) No word on why the outsourced supplier was storing this data in the first place
US PC shipments hit the buffers as Trump’s tariffs take their toll (2025/10/09) WORLD WAR FEE Rest of the world surges on Windows 10 end-of-life upgrades
Gartner warns agentic AI startups: Prepare to be consolidated (2025/10/09) Analyst predicts over-supply will trigger a market correction in favor of deep-pocketed incumbents
Humans flunk the Turing test for voices as bots get chattier (2025/10/09) Coin toss odds for spotting a deepfake, study finds. And that's before the machines learn to sing