Imgur yanks Brit access to memes as parent company faces fine (2025/10/01) ICO investigation into platform's lack of age assurance continues
Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told (2025/10/01) Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead
Schools are swotting up on security yet still flunk recovery when cyberattacks strike (2025/10/01) Coursework 'gone forever' as 10% report critical damage
UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check (2025/10/01) Experts ask: Where will staff come from, and what about gran's flip phone?
Away from Oktoberfest, Munich's museums also serve science on tap (2025/10/01) Geek's Guide Because sometimes you need a V2 rocket with your schnitzel
Blockchain just became an utterly mainstream part of the global financial system (2025/10/01) SWIFT and 30 banks promise to bake it into international payment infrastructure
Taliban impose tele-ban and take Afghanistan offline (2025/10/01) No internet or phones, which means no banks or commercial aviation, but lots more misery
Beijing-backed burglars master .NET to target government web servers (2025/10/01) ‘Phantom Taurus’ created custom malware to hunt secrets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Salesforce users grumble after Agentforce AI replaces search on some help pages (2025/10/01) This is one way to add a lot of AI users in a hurry, which Wall Street wants to see
Cyborg dreams move closer to reality with low-power artificial neuron (2025/10/01) UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication
Fake North Korean IT workers sneaking into healthcare, finance, and AI (2025/10/01) It's not just big tech anymore
Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers (2025/09/30) Plaintext transmissions, fixed MAC addresses, rotating 'unique' IDs, and more, make abuse easy
Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name (2025/09/30) Yep, we're sure that will win folks over
Google bolts AI into Drive to catch ransomware, but crooks not shaking yet (2025/09/30) Stopping the spread isn't the same as stopping attacks, period
Socket will block it with free malicious package firewall (2025/09/30) "sfw" stands for Socket Firewall, but perhaps also "safe for work."
Second time unlucky for Firefly as an Alpha rocket stage explodes (2025/09/30) Company faces a setback on the test stand
IBM killing mainframe coding kit for PCs this year (2025/09/30) Linux-based System z emulator will go away on Dec. 31, replaced by cloud-based solution from ISVs
Blood-red bot stalks the burbs armed with . . . groceries (2025/09/30) Rise of the machines DashCam's autonomous vehicle may strike fear into the hearts... of delivery drivers
California lawmakers pretend to regulate AI, create a pile of paperwork (2025/09/30) LLM makers have to file a steady stream of reports in the name of transparency
Tesla on the wrong tracks with Fail Self Driving, Senators worry (2025/09/30) Full Self-Driving mode could be on-track to cause serious accidents at train crossings