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 $1m in global shakedown (2025/08/12) US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang - but the crooks remain at large
Java 25 puts 32-bit x86 out to pasture, adds 17 shiny new features (2025/08/12) Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next month
Arm juices mobile GPUs with neural tech for better graphics (2025/08/12) Designs scheduled for launch in 2026, developer kit for programmers out today
Debian 13 'Trixie' arrives: x86-32 and MIPS out, RISC-V in (2025/08/12) Aside from glam, includes cool features like standalone GNOME Flashback session with no GNOME shell
Trump does a 180 on Intel chief following White House meeting (2025/08/12) Chip giant praises 'president's strong leadership,' promises to 'restore this great American company'
Oh, great.Three notorious cybercrime gangs appear to be collaborating (2025/08/12) Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ spent the weekend bragging to each other on a Telegram channel
Hyundai: Want cyber-secure car locks? That'll be £49, please (2025/08/12) Automaker's answer to spate of car thefts is to charge customers for extra
Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc (2025/08/12) Exclusive updated UK online reseller bought out of administration in -pre-pack agreement, say sources
VS Code previews chat checkpoints for unpicking careless talk (2025/08/12) Microsoft’s AI-centric code editor and IDE adds the ability to rollback misguided AI prompts