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UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government
ARIA – the UK science and technology agency inspired by DARPA in the US – was not asked to make savings leading up to the Spending Review, unlike other government departments.…
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
A UK government department's three-month trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot has revealed no discernible gain in productivity – speeding up some tasks yet making others slower due to lower quality outputs.…
Sainsbury's eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition
Sainsbury's, Britain's second-largest supermarket chain, has caught the attention of privacy campaigners by launching an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) tech in two of its stores to curb shoplifting.…
Microsoft open-sources the 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates himself
Microsoft has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers.…
France fines Google, SHEIN, for undercooked Cookie policies that led to crummy privacy
France’s data protection authority levied massive fines against Google and SHEIN for dropping cookies on customers without securing their permission, and also whacked Google for showing ads in email service.…
IBM Cloud to end free human support, suggests customers use enhanced AI instead
IBM Cloud will update the services it provides under its Basic Support tier, which will move to a self-service model in January 2026.…
US puts $10M bounty on three Russians accused of attacking critical infrastructure
The US State Department has put a $10 million bounty on the heads of three Russians accused of being intelligence agents hacking America's critical infrastructure - primarily via old Cisco kit, it seems.…
Congressional panel throws cyber threat intel-sharing, funding a lifeline
US security leaders have urged lawmakers to reauthorize two key pieces of cyber legislation, including one that facilitates threat-intel sharing between the private sector and federal government, before they expire at the end of the month.…
Oracle’s layoff train rolls on: 101 in WA, 250+ in CA - with more cuts looming
Oracle on Tuesday laid off more than 100 workers in Washington State and more than 250 in California, though we're told that the database giant may be firing thousands around the world.…
Android drops mega patch bomb - 120 fixes, two already exploited
Patch Tuesday is next week, but Android is ahead of the game, dropping its biggest patch bundle this year while attackers actively exploit two of the now-fixed flaws.…
Crims claim HexStrike AI penetration tool makes quick work of Citrix bugs
Attackers on underground forums claimed they were using HexStrike AI, an open-source red-teaming tool, against Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure, according to Check Point cybersecurity evangelist Amit Weigman.…
Biased bots: AI hiring managers shortlist candidates with AI resumes
Job seekers who use the same AI model to compose their resumes as the AI model used to evaluate their application are more likely to advance through the hiring process than those submitting human-written materials, according to researchers.…
ServiceNow signs Uncle Sam's latest short-term AI discount deal
Not wanting to miss the opportunity to grow its federal footprint, ServiceNow has signed a deal to offer the US government discounts on its latest AI innovations. …
Absolutely fabless: Trump derails TSMC's China chip-building effort
The Trump administration terminated the world's largest foundry operator's validated end-user (VEU) status this week in an apparent bid to push Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) out of China.…
It looks like you’re ransoming data. Would you like some help?
It's no secret that AI tools make it easier for cybercriminals to steal sensitive data and then extort victim organizations. But two recent developments illustrate exactly how much LLMs lower the bar for ransomware and other financially motivated cybercrime — and provide a glimpse to defenders about what's on the horizon.…
EU court's dismissal of US data transfer challenge raises privacy advocates' ire
The European Union General Court (EGC) has rejected a challenge to the US-EU Data Privacy Framework (DPF) allowing data to continue flowing across the pond, but the challenges are unlikely to stop there.…
Gitpod reinvents itself as Ona in pivot to AI agent platform
Gitpod, best known for cloud-hosted dev environments, has rebranded as Ona and is now pitching itself as an AI agent platform.…
Space Command gets Trumped out of Colorado, voting conspiracy cited
The US President, Donald Trump, has announced his intention to relocate the US Space Command headquarters from its current location in Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama.…
Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown
A RAID failure has taken the Matrix.org homeserver offline, leaving users of the decentralized messaging service unable to send or receive messages while engineers attempt a 55 TB database restore.…
Tech talent biz Andela trains up devs in GitHub Copilot
Techie hiring service Andela says it has trained 200 software developers in the nuances of GitHub Copilot as part of a multi-year effort to bridge the alleged AI talent gap.…