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Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews
Brussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms, sketching out how it expects the tech giant to comply with the bloc's competition rulebook.…
Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned
Britain's government faces a public backlash against AI unless it can show ordinary people that they stand to benefit from its push to inject the technology into every area of the UK in the name of growth.…
Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue
Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet developer frustration over color contrast and forced updates continue to overshadow the improvements.…
Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod
Security boffins say Anthropic's Claude can be tricked into approving malicious code with just two Git commands by spoofing a trusted developer's identity.…
Textbook titan McGraw Hill on ransomware crew's reading list after 13.5M records exposed
Textbook giant McGraw Hill has landed on a ransomware crew's leak site after an alleged Salesforce-linked misconfiguration spilled 13.5 million records into the wild.…
Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine
The UK government says it will deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine this year to help it fight against Russia.…
Microsoft announces product it doesn't want you to buy: Extended security updates for old Exchange, and Skype for Biz
Microsoft will keep delivering security updates for old versions of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server, after admitting that some customers aren't ready to make the move to newer products.…
Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall
Bork!Bork!Bork! Sweden is arguably the home of bork – think the Swedish Chef from The Muppets – so we are delighted to note an example of the breed turning up north of Stockholm.…
Cops hand Motorola £25M no-bid deal to keep 2000-era radios alive
UK police tech buyers have awarded a £25 million no-competition contract for communications technology first commissioned in 2000, with the replacement project 12 years behind schedule and £3 billion over budget.…
Server-room lock was nothing but a crock
PWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we immortalize the worst vulns that organizations opened up for themselves. If you’re the kind of person who leaves your car doors unlocked with a pile of cash in the center console, this week’s story is for you.…
QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different
While Larry was producing most of the content for the "Request/Reponse" chapter for the next edition of our book, I took the lead on writing a section on QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections), since I have closely followed its development.…
Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan
Some Japanese bullet trains will soon be equipped with private suites that include windows with embedded 5G antennas and noise-cancelling technology that envelops passengers in a bubble of quiet.…
Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment
Police in the Indian city of Nashik conducted a sting operation at Tata Consultancy Services and allegedly found instances of sexual harassment and other revolting behavior.…
Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online
Google markets its Chrome browser by citing its superior safety features, but according to privacy consultant Alexander Hanff, Chrome does not protect against browser fingerprinting – a method of tracking people online by capturing technical details about their browser.…
Anthropic's Project Glasswing CVE tally is still anyone's guess
Last week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. Now, under the title of Project Glasswing, over 50 selected companies and orgs are allowed to test the hyped up LLM to find security holes in their own products. But just how many problems have they really discovered?…
Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time
People ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this: research shows today's leading AI models fail at early differential diagnosis in more than 8 out of 10 cases.…
Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits
Microsoft's GitHub last week told Copilot customers that they'd have to reduce their use of the AI service to ease the strain on company servers. This follows the company's discovery last month of a token counting bug that appears to have broken the company's pricing model.…
Shoe company says it's getting into AI infrastructure and yes this is the top
OPINION Back in December 2017, an obscure American soft drinks company changed its name from Long Island Iced Tea to Long Blockchain.…
Patch these critical Fortinet sandbox bugs that let attackers bypass login, run commands over HTTP
Watch out for more Fortinet vulns! Two critical bugs in Fortinet's sandbox could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication or execute unauthorized code on vulnerable systems.…
Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager
No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.…