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10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet
Docker Hub has quietly become a treasure trove of live cloud keys and credentials, with more than 10,000 public container images exposing sensitive secrets from over 100 companies, including a Fortune 500 firm and a major bank.…
Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030
Exclusive Airbus is undertaking a major overhaul to migrate its sprawling SAP environment to S/4HANA – and potentially to the cloud – as the aerospace giant grapples with the same deadline pressures facing thousands of enterprise customers worldwide.…
Users report chaos as Legal Aid Agency stumbles back online after cyberattack
Exclusive Seven months after a landmark cyberattack, the UK's Legal Aid Agency (LAA) says it's returning to pre-breach operations, although law firms are still wrestling with buggy and more laborious systems.…
India’s government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models
The government of India wants AI companies to pay for accessing content they use to train models, but only once they start producing revenue.…
Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane
VIDEO An Australian parachuting club has been told to improve the software it uses to manage jumps, after an accident in which a jumper’s ‘chute hooked on an aircraft’s tailplane.…
NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter
Houston, we have a problem: NASA has lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.…
Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties
Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon have called off their planned merger.…
Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors
Oracle expects its FY 2026 capital expenditures will be $15 billion higher that previously predicted, as the cloudy database biz invests to accommodate AI workloads.…
Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can
Nvidia is developing a new inventory management service that could be used by customers to verify the location of their existing GPU stockpiles.…
700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent
Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day bug in Gogs, a popular self-hosted Git service, and the open source project doesn't yet have a fix.…
US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains
Alongside TikTok and Instagram, teens have added ChatGPT to the mix. Pew says about two-thirds of US teenagers have tried an AI chatbot, with nearly a third using one every day. Negative mental-health warnings be damned!…
Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers
Most big AI providers scrape the open web, hoovering up content to improve their chatbots, which then compete with publishers for the attention of internet users. However, more AI orgs might have to pay up soon, because the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) spec has reached version 1.0, providing guidance on how to set machine-readable rules for crawlers.…
US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy
Palantir and the US Navy have signed a two-year deal to test whether its Foundry operational software can streamline the nation’s shipbuilding efforts and steer the Secretary of the Navy's top budget priority into port.…
Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition
Qualcomm could soon be serving up RISC-V cores alongside its custom Arm ones following the acquisition of Ventana Micro Systems on Wednesday.…
US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia
A Ukrainian woman accused of hacking US public drinking water systems and a meat processing facility on behalf of Kremlin-backed cyber groups was extradited to the US earlier this year and will stand trial in early 2026.…
Microsoft won’t fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say
Security researchers have revealed a .NET security flaw thought to affect a host of enterprise-grade products that they say Microsoft refuses to fix.…
Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts
The next time someone visits the US, customs may ask to see their passport, their Facebook feed, and all of their Instagram posts. The United States maintains a list of 42 countries whose citizens are allowed to enter without a visa, but visitors from those nations may soon have to provide five years' worth of their social media history in order to gain entry. …
Crisis in Icebergen: How NATO crafts stories to sharpen cyber skills
Andravia and Harbadus – two nations so often at odds with one another – were once again embroiled in conflict over the past seven days, which thoroughly tested NATO's cybersecurity experts' ability to coordinate defenses across battlefield domains.…
Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds
Electric cars are no more of a danger to pedestrians than conventional vehicles, according to new research.…
Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software
Opinion For most of the last year, the phrase 'vibe coding' seemed more punchline than possibility. That outlook altered significantly over the last month after step-changes in quality mean vibe coding tools now generate code that’s good enough to rewrite expectations about how IT will operate before the end of this decade.…