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Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet
PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found their own pile of quicksand and then jumped right into it. This week's story involves keeping sensitive information in a very vulnerable place and then not protecting it adequately.…
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds
Microsoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering large-scale sovereign infrastructure.…
ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs
Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues.…
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises
If you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026 capital expenditure will hit $190 billion, with $25 billion of that due to rising component costs.…
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.…
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz
Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate ... and it would be closer to $50 billion if it included itself among the customers, CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s first quarter earnings call on Wednesday.…
Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm
Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm
GPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which drowns receivers in noise, are increasingly serious problems. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have created what they say is the most effective system yet for detecting GPS interference, which could help blunt such attacks.…
Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack
Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack
Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems.…
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026
Microsoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange Online.…
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages
Databricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, which several book authors contend was created with a database that contained pirated versions of some of their copyrighted books – and about 196,000 titles in all.…