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Get ready for 2026, the year of AI-aided ransomware
Cybercriminals, including ransomware crews, will lean more heavily on agentic AI next year as attackers automate more of their operations, Trend Micro's researchers believe.…
Microsoft's fix for slow File Explorer: load it before you need it
Microsoft is tackling File Explorer's sluggish launch times - not by stripping out the bloat or optimizing code, but by preloading the application in the background.…
Employee trust in SAP board dips amid ongoing restructure
An internal SAP employee survey reveals declining confidence in leadership as the software giant's restructuring program continues, with trust in the executive board waning in the past six months.…
Trump wants to turn it on again with 'Genesis Mission' for AI in science
US President Trump has ordered the launch of the "Genesis Mission," a national effort to use AI to drive scientific discoveries, with the aim of strengthening America's technological leadership and global competitiveness.…
Campbell's CISO canned after lawsuit alleges hour-long rant against staff and customers
Campbell's has placed its US CISO and vice president on temporary leave while it investigates allegations that he disparaged customers, the company's products, and Indian staffers.…
NASA pares back Boeing's Starliner deal after 2024 calamity
NASA has modified its Commercial Crew contract with Boeing, dropping the order from six to four missions, of which one will be uncrewed.…
Clop's Oracle EBS rampage reaches Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College has confirmed it's the latest victim of Clop's Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) smash-and-grab.…
Airbus: We were hours from pausing production in Spain
Exclusive Airbus is overhauling its datacenter contingency plans after a ten-hour power outage across Spain and Portugal in April nearly forced a complete production shutdown.…
Ukraine first country in Europe to get Starlink satellite phone service
Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has launched Starlink's Direct to Cell satellite service for its subscribers, making the war-torn nation the first in Europe to offer it.…
Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous
China's uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft has successfully docked with the Tiangong space station, providing relief to the crew who were relying on a damaged capsule with a cracked window as their only ride home.…
CISA warns spyware crews are breaking into Signal and WhatsApp accounts
CISA has warned that state-backed snoops and cyber-mercenaries are actively abusing commercial spyware to break into Signal and WhatsApp accounts, hijack devices, and quietly rummage through the phones of what the agency calls "high-value" users.…
Russian spy ship theories sink after Orkney blackout traced to wind farm fault
Cock-up beats conspiracy most of the time, but that didn't stop Orkney residents wondering if a Russian warship caused their two-hour power cut.…
UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite
The UK government is looking for cloud providers to support its ambition of increasing its AI compute capacity twentyfold by 2030 in a deal that could be worth £250 million.…
Calls grow for inquiry into UK data watchdog after MoD leak
Civil society groups are urging MPs to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), accusing the UK data watchdog of abandoning its enforcement duties after it declined to investigate a Ministry of Defence data leak linked to dozens of deaths.…
Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges
The UK is following the US in seeking to fast-track new atomic development, spurred on by the need to provide enough energy for its AI ambitions plus the increasing electrification of industry and vehicles.…
Atlassian ran a tabletop DR simulation that revealed it lived in dependency hell
Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has revealed it’s spent four years trying to reduce dangerous internal dependencies, and while it has rebuilt its PaaS, it still has issues – but thinks they’re now manageable.…
AWS to build 1.3 gigawatts of government-grade supercomputing power for Uncle Sam
Amazon Web Services on Monday announced a plan to build 1.3 gigawatts of compute capacity in new datacenters dedicated to serving the US government, at a cost of up to $50 billion.…
Apple reportedly peels away some sales staff in small round of layoffs
Apple, which unlike its Big Tech peers has not made substantial job cuts, is reportedly in the process of eliminating several dozen positions in its sales organization.…
Fresh ClickFix attacks use Windows Update trick-pics to steal credentials
A fresh wave of ClickFix attacks is using fake Windows update screens to trick victims into downloading infostealer malware.…
Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers
Is Meta acting like a tobacco company denying cigarettes cause cancer, or an oil giant downplaying climate science? Lawyers in a recent court filing claim the social media titan buried internal research for years suggesting its platforms can harm children's mental health.…

