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With more than 1.4 billion monthly active users, WeChat is among the most popular apps in the world. According to researchers at Calif, its VoIP stack contained a memory corruption bug that could enable a trusted…
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BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
The spacecraft stack separated from the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) on September 3 at around 1400 CEST. After a…
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Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action
That's in contrast to its cloud-based agent platform, Computer.Portable Computer consists of an agent harness, an…
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To keep the AI hacking genie bottled up, try one-way networks
Rogue AI models rise from the level of developer regret to mass threat when they gain access to the internet,…
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Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access
This week’s tale of toxic tech involves a disgruntled ex-employee who had the means and opportunity to wreak havoc.Our…
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Big Tech market power will cause UK to lose AI race, think tank warns
They rank this as a bigger constraint on their growth than access to finance or talent, according to the IPPR. In…
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Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose
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Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown
A judge has set a trial date for early 2028, pending attempts to settle the case out of court. Sopra Steria's…
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Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles
However, Chinese regulators are less than impressed with the tech and demanded that Tesla, alongside other brands,…
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Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain
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Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory
Simon Sharwood Simon Sharwood APAC Editor APAC Editor Published mon 24 Aug 2026 // 07:31 UTC WHO, ME? Hardly anything…
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Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble
It faces a growing number of roadblocks which, if left unchecked, could pop the bubble. Thus, the AI arms dealer has…
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SickKids children’s hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in
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Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70
King was a superb programmer – although he accomplished rather more than that. His most widely experienced work was a…
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Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu
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Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced
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Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard
Then something flew off the motherboard Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie Simon Sharwood Simon…
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Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too
You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, or…
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French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records
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Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
Hopefully, there’s a lesson in all this, but it could just be “stop shooting yourself in the foot.”Have a story about…
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DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection
It will initially fund five providers - Defendify, Legato Security, L1 Secure, Rapid7, and Sentinel Technologies - to…
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The Future is for Billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe
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The Future is for Billionaires, the rest will get open weight AI models, maybe
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Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer
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North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief
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Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list
An Australian man asked his AI agent to book him a class at his local gym, and the agent hacked into a waitlist API to…
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LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity
"We will be going after them for compensation, and I expect this will end up costing them millions and millions."Nexis…
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As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them
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Attackers pick Levi's pockets in social engineering attack
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Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers
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London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up
It puts their combined IT capacity at about 1.6 GW.By facility count, that would put Blighty second only to the US,…
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Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic
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Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn
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Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal
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I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it
Glue them together, and you can get awfully close. Tobias Mann Tobias Mann SYSTEMS EDITOR Published sun 9 Aug 2026 //…
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Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
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Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
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South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact
The impact was predicted to occur on August 5, and marked a landing on the Moon for SpaceX several years ahead of…
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AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription
AI giants have joined forces to create a standard format for writing agentic skills and tools, allowing developers to…
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Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
“These PLCs should not be connected to the internet.”In late July, the FBI said it was investigating attacks conducted…
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N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
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ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses
The leak includes names, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, genders, and personal health…
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MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
Their attack targets mitigations designed to neutralize potentially hostile branch predictor states before sensitive…
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Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder
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Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard
Microsoft blocked new setups on August 6 and told users to remove the widget from their websites before retirement.…
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Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account
The accompanying fake login page duly harvested the victim's M365 credentials. "Following containment and…
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Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people's data at risk
The company disclosed the breach in July but did not initially say how many people were affected.The scale is now…
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'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director
“If they pass the Turing test to everyone that they come into contact with, they're probably already there,” he told…
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Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses
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