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Forking confusing: Vulnerable Rust crate exposes uv Python packager

Wed, 2025-10-22 13:15
Forks of forks of forks, but which ones are patched?

A vulnerability in the popular Rust crate async-tar has affected the fast uv Python package manager, which uses a forked version that's now patched – but the most widely downloaded version remains unfixed.…

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New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process

Wed, 2025-10-22 12:10
RFC proposes power-button interrupt – and highlights wider problems with sleep states

A new Linux kernel patch lets you cancel the process of your machine going into hibernation, but the bigger context of the work may be more important.…

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AI bubble inflates Microsoft CEO pay to $96.5M

Wed, 2025-10-22 11:23
480:1 ratio compared to average employee? Must be all that 'leadership' juice

Months after saying job cuts at Microsoft weighed on him, bossman Satya Nadella has another problem: how to expend his swelling bank balance following another bumper pay rise.…

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Jaguar Land Rover cyber-meltdown tipped to cost the UK almost £2B

Wed, 2025-10-22 10:29
That's a lot of extended warranties

The Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) cyberattack could end up being the costliest such incident in UK history, billed at an estimated £1.9 billion and affecting over 5,000 organizations.…

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China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests

Wed, 2025-10-22 09:30
Wheeled wonder leaves European rail in the dust

China's CR450 train hit 453 km/h during pre-service trials, surpassing its CR400 predecessor's 420 km/h and outpacing Deutsche Bahn's 405 km/h test record.…

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Royal Navy sharpens claws on Wildcat choppers with anti-drone Martlet missiles

Wed, 2025-10-22 08:45
Laser-guided weapon reaches full service after successful sea trials

Royal Navy helicopters will soon carry drone-busting lightweight Martlet missiles, now declared fully operational following the anti-ship Sea Venom gaining initial operating capability (IOC) earlier this month.…

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Carnegie Mellon team claims vector-based system can turbocharge PostgreSQL

Wed, 2025-10-22 08:00
Researchers say 'Proto-X' fine-tunes databases automatically, delivering multifold performance boosts

Automated database systems based on vector embedding algorithms could improve the performance of default settings on common PostgreSQL database services by a factor of two to ten, according to a database researcher.…

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UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach

Wed, 2025-10-22 07:15
ICO says probe unnecessary after reviewing ministry's handling of leak

The UK's data protection regulator declined to launch an investigation into a leak at the Ministry of Defence that risked the lives of thousands of Afghans connected with the British Armed Forces.…

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Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI

Wed, 2025-10-22 03:55
YouTube and Gmail already running on both x86 and homebrew Axion silicon, 70,000 more apps in the conversion queue

Google has revealed it’s ported around 30,000 of its production packages to the Arm architecture and plans to convert them all so it can run workloads on both its own Axion silicon and x86 processors.…

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OpenAI releases bot-tom feeding browser with ChatGPT built in

Wed, 2025-10-22 00:11
Why experience the web for yourself when there's so much privacy to surrender?

In a bid to grab even more eyeballs, OpenAI has finally released Atlas, its long-teased, ChatGPT-powered web browser. Surfing the web may never be the same now that a bot is doing it for you – while training itself at the same time.…

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Fake home invasion vid lands woman in real trouble

Tue, 2025-10-21 22:46
And got arrested instead of earning a viral TikTok

A Maryland woman who allegedly used AI to fake a home invasion was arrested and charged with making false statements after telling police that the ersatz intruder was part of a prank gone wrong.…

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AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds

Tue, 2025-10-21 20:35
Rise and grind, robot overlords demand

AI services like OpenAI's ChatGPT have been pitched for potential productivity gains, but their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.…

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MCP attack abuses predictable session IDs to hijack AI agents

Tue, 2025-10-21 19:36
The vuln affects the Oat++ MCP implementation

A security flaw in the Oat++ implementation of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows attackers to predict or capture session IDs from active AI conversations, hijack MCP sessions, and inject malicious responses via the oatpp-mcp server.…

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AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

Tue, 2025-10-21 16:05
Amazon's hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos

When Amazon's cloud face-planted on Monday, it didn't just take down some of the world's most popular apps – it took down dignity, comfort, and the occasional cat toilet.…

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Is PHP declining? JetBrains says yes. And no

Tue, 2025-10-21 15:56
24,500 devs polled, two blog posts, one confusion

JetBrains has released its State of the Developer Ecosystem survey, with more than 24,500 responses, revealing AI's impact on developer tools and programming language trends - including the claim that PHP and Ruby are in "long term decline."…

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Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough

Tue, 2025-10-21 14:01
Dev unveils a faster, modernized take on Microsoft's file system for penguin-powered PCs

Just under four years after the Linux kernel gained built-in read-write access to Windows drives, an alternative option has appeared.…

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Microsoft's ancient icon library still lurks deep within Windows 11

Tue, 2025-10-21 13:25
Pixels of the past 'created just for fun'

The pifmgr.dll still lingers in modern Windows installations - a throwback to a simpler and blockier time, according to veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen.…

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SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition

Tue, 2025-10-21 12:31
Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers

NASA's Acting Administrator has admitted that SpaceX is behind in plans to return astronauts to the Moon, has reopened lander contract competition, and pushed the deadline for a lunar landing to the end of the Trump administration in 2029.…

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Brit boffins teach fusion plasma some manners with 3D magnetic field

Tue, 2025-10-21 11:39
MAST Upgrade team claims first suppression of pesky edge instabilities in a spherical tokamak

Scientists at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) claim they have taken a significant step toward making fusion energy possible by applying a 3D magnetic field to counteract instabilities in a spherical tokamak plasma for the first time.…

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Muji's minimalist calm shattered as ransomware takes down logistics partner

Tue, 2025-10-21 11:15
Japanese retailer halts online orders after attack cripples third-party vendor

Japanese retailer Muji is suspending online orders after logistics partner Askul was knocked offline by a ransomware attack.…

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