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Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too
Your supervisor may like using employee monitoring apps to keep tabs on you, but crims like the snooping software even more. Threat actors are now using legit bossware to blend into corporate networks and attempt ransomware deployment.…
Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract
Oracle has picked up an $88 million contract with the US Air Force to provide cloud infrastructure services for the department's Cloud One program.…
$8K laundry bot knows when to hold ’em, knows when to fold ’em, and knows it has help standing by
Nobody likes folding laundry, but you really have to hate it to spend $7,999 on a robot that'll fold it for you with a whole heap of limitations – including company employees getting the occasional peep at your tough-to-fold unmentionables.…
Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution'
Elon Musk has framed the recent exodus of talent from his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, as a necessary growing pain, saying the company's evolution "required parting ways with some people."…
'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation
Microsoft has abruptly announced the deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks with less than two months' notice, throwing the future of the .NET Interactive project into doubt.…
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting every iOS version since 1.0, used in what the company calls an "extremely sophisticated attack" against targeted individuals.…
Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree
Exploding memory prices are pushing corporate buyers to fast-track PC purchases before costs climb further.…
NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission
NASA has ended most science operations on its Swift observatory to keep the spacecraft in orbit a little longer.…
Supply chain attacks now fuel a 'self-reinforcing' cybercrime economy
Cybercriminals are turning supply chain attacks into an industrial-scale operation, linking breaches, credential theft, and ransomware into a "self-reinforcing" ecosystem, researchers say.…
The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware
Open Source Policy Summit 2026 SUSE recommends that companies should run on FOSS – but an accidental revelation from a company exec, live on stage, reveals it doesn't practice what it preaches. It's not alone.…
UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks
The UK government claims a new Telecoms Consumer Charter will stop customers being hit by unexpected bill increases and offer clearer pricing when signing up to deals.…
Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is offering between £270,000 to £300,000 for a senior digital leader who will oversee more than £4.6 billion in spending and more than 3,000 specialist staff.…
The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X
Most UK government departments have spent little or nothing with social media platform X since July 2024 following an unpublished 2023 evaluation by the Cabinet Office. But the Department for Education has bucked the trend, spending £27,118.…
Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs
A Chinese government hacking group that has been sanctioned for targeting America's critical infrastructure used Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, to auto-analyze vulnerabilities and plan cyberattacks against US organizations, the company says.…
Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators
APRICOT 2026 Starlink can sometimes shift data more quickly than is possible on terrestrial networks, and improves connectivity in remote areas. But the space broadband service also presents new technical and regulatory challenges, according to speakers who took to the stage on Tuesday at the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) in Jakarta, Indonesia.…
Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care
Cisco has increased the prices for its hardware to cover the increased cost of memory and says the resulting bigger bills are not changing customers’ buying habits.…
Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust
Amid its ongoing promotion of AI’s wonders, Microsoft has warned customers it has found many instances of a technique that manipulates the technology to produce biased advice.…
Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill
Model-maker and SaaS-y AI outfit Anthropic has committed to covering any increases in energy prices paid by consumers caused by its power-hungry datacenters.…
Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers
They know where you've been and they're going to share it. A security researcher has identified 287 Chrome extensions that allegedly exfiltrate browsing history data for an estimated 37.4 million installations.…
Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely
Meta has decided to let Threads users make custom tweaks to its all-important algorithm, but don't expect your preferences to stick and do expect to bring your best manners.…