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Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them?
Black Hat Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it's much easier and cheaper just to hack them.…
OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations
OpenAI unveiled its most capable model yet on Thursday with the launch of GPT-5.…
German security researchers say 'Windows Hell No' to Microsoft biometrics for biz
Black Hat Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows users to shift from using passwords to its Hello biometrics system, but researchers sponsored by the German government have found a critical flaw in its business implementation.…
AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028
The US government is about to get more AWS in more places thanks to a new $1 billion deal between Uncle Sam and Amazon. …
Microsoft, CISA warn yet another Exchange server bug can lead to 'total domain compromise'
Microsoft and the feds late Wednesday sounded the alarm on another high-severity bug in Exchange Server hybrid deployments that could allow attackers to escalate privileges from on-premises Exchange to the cloud.…
NASA changes the rules of the game for commercial space stations
NASA has moved the goalposts for companies seeking to replace the aging International Space Station (ISS) and changed the minimum capability required to four crew for one-month "increments." The change means that the permanent occupation of the ISS will be a thing of the past, at least as far as the US space agency is concerned.…
Politically hot parts of US Constitution briefly deleted thanks to 'coding error'
Several sections of the online annotated US Constitution maintained by the Library of Congress vanished recently due to what the Library maintains was a coding error. However, the content of the now-restored sections has raised suspicions that the move was political. …
Euro Commish on US lobbying against EU DSA rules: 'Our standards are not up for discussion'
The second Trump administration has repeatedly complained about Europe's tech laws targeting Silicon Valley's finest, but now its antipathy is going into overdrive.…
Black Hat's network ops center brings rivals together for a common cause
Black Hat Neil "Grifter" Wyler is spending the week "looking for a needle in a needle stack," a task he'll perform from the network operations center (NOC) that powers the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.…
CISA releases malware analysis for Sharepoint Server attack
CISA has published a malware analysis report with compromise indicators and Sigma rules for "ToolShell" attacks targeting specific Microsoft SharePoint Server versions.…
Trump calls for Intel CEO's head over alleged China links
US President Donald Trump has called for the immediate resignation of Intel's recently installed chief exec, following concerns raised by a Republican Senator over his links with China.…
Snowflake builds Spark clients for its own analytics engine
Snowflake is launching a client connector to run Apache Spark code directly in its cloud warehouse - no cluster setup required.…
KLM, Air France latest major organizations looted for customer data
European airline giants Air France and KLM say they are the latest in a string of major organizations to have their customers' data stolen by way of a break-in at a third party org.…
Meta training AI on social media posts? Only 7% in Europe think it's OK
Updated Meta's enthusiasm for training its AI on user data is not shared by the users themselves – at least for some Europeans – according a study commissioned by Facebook legal nemesis Max Schrems and his privacy advocacy group Noyb.…
LG ordered to pay £150k after phone defect caused Scotland house fire
A Scottish woman who suffered a house fire in 2018 has won her case against LG after a judge ruled that her work-issued phone caused the blaze.…
OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 reaches RC status
A release candidate of openSUSE Leap 16.0 is here. It boldly strips out more established legacy tech than almost any other Linux we've seen.…
The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward
In December 2024, Japanese tech giant NTT revealed two impressive feats of high-speed networking.…
Microsoft eventually realized the world isn't just the Northern Hemisphere
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has explained why the megacorp ditched its increasingly twee naming conventions for Windows 10 releases in favor of the blander H1 and H2.…
GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has stated in a personal blog that the most advanced developers have "moved from writing code to architecting and verifying the implementation work that is carried out by AI agents."…
Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots
Amnesty International claims Elon Musk's X platform "played a central role" in pushing the misinformation that stoked racially charged violence following last year's Southport murders.…