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Microsoft's August 2025 Windows Security Update is causing pain for administrators after a fix for a vulnerability led to some unintended consequences.…

Users and developers can expect the release of PostgreSQL 18 in September, the new iteration of the popular open source database, promising new features to enhance analytics and distributed architectures.…

Atlassian today revealed it has purchased New York startup The Browser Company, and it appears the pair have plans to reinvent the ChromeOS wheel with added... AI.…

Linux Lite 7.6 is the latest, slightly updated release of this technologically moderate distro from New Zealand.…

A former NASA administrator has told the US Senate Commerce Committee that it is "highly unlikely" the US will return humans to the Moon before a Chinese taikonaut plants a flag on the lunar surface.…

Free support is ending for many editions of Windows 10 on October 14, and enterprises unable to make the jump are on the hook for billions to keep the fixes flowing.…

SAP says it will pump €20 billion into expanding sovereign cloud infrastructure in Europe over the next ten years, pitching itself as a secure and compliant alternative to American cloud giants.…

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.…

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, 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 has open-sourced the version of BASIC it created in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor used in many early microcomputers.…

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 will update the services it provides under its Basic Support tier, which will move to a self-service model in January 2026.…

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.…

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 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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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. …