Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs isn't just a bad idea, it's the law (2025/07/21) Opinion Getting carded is one thing. A full strip search? Welcome to Britain
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo (2025/07/21) Who, Me? 'This, many considered, was bad'
Alaska Airlines grounded itself due to mysterious IT problem (2025/07/21) UPDATED Now flying again, but not saying what went wrong
Japan discovers object out beyond Pluto that rewrites the Planet 9 theory (2025/07/21) Asia In Brief PLUS: Perplexity AI scores 360-million-customer win in India; Australian billionaire’s political party suffers data breach, won’t contact victims; and more
Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore (2025/07/21) AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things
Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack (2025/07/21) Infosec In Brief PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more
US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery (2025/07/20) Foreign worker program represents betrayal of US computer science students, advocacy group argues
UK uncovers novel Microsoft snooping malware, blames and sanctions GRU cyberspies (2025/07/20) Fancy Bear can't keep its claws out of Outlook inboxes
China proves that open models are more effective than all the GPUs in the world (2025/07/19) Comment OpenAI delayed its promised open-weights model since GPT-2, leaving the Middle Kingdom clearly in the lead
Ex-IDF cyber chief on Iran, Scattered Spider, and why social engineering worries him more than 0-days (2025/07/19) Interview Keep It Simple, Stupid
Republican calls out Trump admin's decision to resume GPU sales to China (2025/07/19) Moolenaar demands answers from Commerce Secretary
Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines (2025/07/19) GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges
Foundry competition heats up as Japan’s Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027 (2025/07/18) That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else
Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state (2025/07/18) Comment And we’re the ones building it
YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims (2025/07/18) Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device
Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live (2025/07/18) Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters
As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out (2025/07/18) Analysis WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably
Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus (2025/07/18) 2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time
Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight (2025/07/18) Comment With watchdog set to publish report into health of market next month, will it hold AWS and Microsoft's feet to the fire?
The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement (2025/07/18) Interview We spoke to the smoot's namesake