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UK manufacturers under cyber fire with 80% reporting attacks
Nearly 80 percent of British manufacturers say they've been hit by a cyber incident in the past year, as new research suggests disruption on the factory floor is no longer an exception but business as usual.…
Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system
Anthropic's Claude Code lacks the persistent kernel access of a rootkit. But an analysis of its code shows that the agent can exercise far more control over people's computers than even the most clear-eyed reader of contractual terms might suspect. It retains lots of your data and is even willing to hide its authorship from open-source projects that reject AI.…
Don't open that WhatsApp message, Microsoft warns
Be careful what you click on. Miscreants are abusing WhatsApp messages in a multi-stage attack that delivers malicious Microsoft Installer (MSI) packages, allowing criminals to control victims' machines and access all of their data.…
Gmail celebrates 22 years by finally letting users change their addresses
If you're embarrassed by your Gmail address but haven't wanted to start a new account for fear of losing messages, we have good news. Ahead of Gmail's 22nd anniversary on Wednesday, Google says it is now letting US users change their account username.…
Iran targets M365 accounts with password-spraying attacks
Suspected Iran-linked threat actors are conducting password-spraying attacks against hundreds of organizations, primarily Middle Eastern municipalities, in campaigns that security researchers believe may have been aimed at supporting bomb-damage assessment following missile strikes.…
Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security
Oracle laid off thousands of employees on Tuesday as it ramps spending on AI infrastructure projects internally and with major technology partners.…
Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident
Would you like a closer look at Claude? Someone at Anthropic has some explaining to do, as the official npm package for Claude Code shipped with a map file exposing what appears to be the popular AI coding tool's entire source code.…
Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid
Exclusive An internal memo dispatched by senior execs at Red Hat suggests the software biz is starting to push AI tooling within its Global Engineering department. RHEL may be about to get some Windows 11-style "improvements."…
UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe
The UK's competition watchdog will investigate Microsoft's business software ecosystem over concerns that its licensing policies reduce competition in the cloud market.…
Starlink sprays debris into orbit following another satellite 'anomaly'
Starlink satellite 34343 has suffered an "anomaly on-orbit," spraying debris at an altitude of approximately 560 km above Earth.…
Mars coughs up another maybe-life clue in the form of nickel compounds
A team of scientists in the US have discovered nickel compounds in Martian rocks, in an arrangement similar to organic carbon compounds understood to be formed by living organisms on Earth.…
ServiceNow allegedly says salesman 'overachieved' and is not entitled to comp
ServiceNow is refusing to pay a salesman commissions on more than $27 million in sales, telling the 13-year veteran of the company that he "overperformed" his quota and insisting that instead he sign paperwork that retroactively reduces the commission amount, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the salesperson. ServiceNow has denied all his claims.…
Microsoft reaches for yet another out-of-band patch to deal with latest update issue
Microsoft is preparing another out-of-band update to address its latest problematic update following reports of installation errors.…
Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb – especially in US and China
Raspberry Pi has reported impressive revenue and profit growth, but its hobbyist origins risk taking a backseat amid soaring semiconductor shipments.…
Arm says agentic AI needs a new kind of CPU. Intel's DC chief isn't buying it
Interview In recent weeks, the likes of Nvidia and Arm have revealed CPUs designed expressly to run AI agents like OpenClaw.…
Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME 50, which no longer supports Google Drive
Canonical has just released the beta of the next Ubuntu LTS – but what's grabbed the attention of many is that it features GNOME 50 as its default desktop environment. And GNOME 50 no longer supports Google Drive.…
Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
Users of Claude Code, Anthropic's AI-powered coding assistant, are experiencing high token usage and early quota exhaustion, disrupting their work.…
Usage pricing leaving software vendors guessing what lands on the invoice
Software companies are leaving money on the table because their core financial systems haven't kept pace with the way they sell pay-per-use services, which often now incorporate AI capabilities.…
Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines
One of npm's most widely used HTTP client libraries briefly became a malware delivery vehicle after attackers hijacked a maintainer's account and slipped a remote-access trojan (RAT) into two seemingly legitimate axios releases, in what's being described as "one of the most impactful npm supply chain attacks on record."…
Android keyboard ditches keys entirely, predicts what you mean
TapType is a new Android keyboard that's invisible. You can't see it – but that's OK, neither can its developer nor some of its target users.…