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Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text
CyberVolk, a pro-Russian hacktivist crew, is back after months of silence with a new ransomware service. There's some bad news and some good news here.…
European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger
A trade group of European cloud providers has laid into the European Commission’s decision to allow the VMware-Broadcom merger to go ahead, alleging that it failed to assess the infrastructure and semiconductor company’s incentives to massively raise prices on customers.…
Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms
You can't generate solar power at night unless your panels are in space. A startup that wants to beam orbital sunlight straight into existing solar farms has just emerged from stealth, claiming a world-first power-beaming demo, but with a lot of critical information left unreported. …
Google fixes super-secret 8th Chrome 0-day
Google issued an emergency fix for a Chrome vulnerability already under exploitation, which marks the world's most popular browser's eighth zero-day bug of 2025.…
LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says LastPass must cough up £1.2 million ($1.6 million) after its two-part 2022 data breach compromised information from up to 1.6 million UK users.…
Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads
Legacy Update was already extremely useful if you chose to disembark from Microsoft's upgrade railroad. Now it's even more so.…
Taikonauts inspect cracked Shenzhou-20 window during Tiangong spacewalk
A pair of taikonauts ventured outside China's Tiangong space station this week to take a closer look at the cracked viewport window of the Shenzhou-20 vehicle.…
Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion
President Trump's "Genesis Mission" is taking shape with the award of more than $320 million from the Department of Energy (DOE) to advance AI in scientific research.…
Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme
A security researcher specializing in tracking China threats claims two of Salt Typhoon's members were former attendees of a training scheme run by Cisco.…
Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life
Microsoft analyzed 37.5 million de-identified Copilot conversations from January to September 2025, excluding commercial and educational accounts. The findings reveal distinct usage patterns based on device, time, and day.…
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.…

