AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows
Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia’s GPUs in the datacenter
Security & Lifecycle News
Aggregated from vendor advisories, security research, and industry publications.
Venezuelan Gets Record Federal Prison Term for ATM Jackpotting
Juan Manuel Gouveia-Aguilera has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for his role in an ATM jackpotting scheme that caused millions in losses. The post Venezuelan Gets Record Feder…
CISA orders urgent patching of actively exploited Zimbra flaw
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered U.S. government agencies to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) wi…
Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
Interesting paper: Abstract: With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception, employing deceptive means to defraud audie…
Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia
Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 2026
Personal Information Exposed in Apollo Global Data Breach
The private equity firm appears to have been targeted as part of a campaign focusing on major financial companies. The post Personal Information Exposed in Apollo Global Data Breac…
Rethinking Application Security for the AI Era
As AI dramatically shortens the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, enterprises must look beyond patching to reduce application risk. The post Rethinking Applicatio…
Microsoft shares temporary fix for Windows 11 gaming issues
Microsoft has shared a temporary fix for ongoing gaming issues caused by Windows 11 updates released during the August 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]
Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI
Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine
Iran-Linked Hackers Shut Down UK Power Plant for Four Days
The attack caused real-world operational disruption and raised concerns about the resilience of Britain’s distributed energy infrastructure and the potential for repeatable attacks…
TikTok Reaches $400 Million Settlement With US Justice Department Over Children’s Privacy
TikTok will pay $300 million immediately and another $100 million after an order vacates an earlier consent decree against its predecessor company, Musical.ly. The post TikTok Reac…
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring
Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement
UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkit
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group dubbed UAT-10147 that's targeting Windows and Linux web servers globally across the educatio…
Anthropic Expands Mythos 5 Access to More Defenders, Unveils $35M Open Source Fund
Claude Security, currently in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers, now runs codebase scans on Mythos 5. The post Anthropic Expands Mythos 5 Access to More Defenders, Unveil…
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight
Chang'e 7 didn’t meet unspecified ‘launch requirements’
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory
It survived testing and the boss signed off, so who was really to blame?
AI-driven upgrade of communications energy storage empowers a new energy ecosystem for multiple industries
SPONSORED FEATURE: Embedding AI at communication sites to empower energy optimization, power grid stability control and low-carbon development
Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave
Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing
ToxicPanda Android malware uses VPN permissions to block Google Play
The ToxicPanda Android malware has evolved with new malicious functionality, expanding its targeting to 349 applications and adding support for 167 remote commands. [...]
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings
S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf
Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust
If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will
Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst
TikTok Agrees to $400 Million Settlement in U.S. Child Privacy Lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on Friday that ByteDance-owned TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a 2024 lawsuit accusing the company of violating child privacy …
Hackers infect Android car head units with proxy botnet malware
A supply-chain attack targeting Android-based car head units is using a legitimate device-update app to spread malware that enlists compromised devices in a proxy botnet or uses th…
AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing
Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity
Named Pipes Under Attack: Securing Windows Interprocess Communication
Windows named pipes provide fast interprocess communication, but weak access controls can expose privileged services to untrusted processes. ThreatLocker explains how endpoint veri…
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs
Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost
Casio decides it's about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter
F-B100W adds Bluetooth and step tracking while keeping a two-year battery
Banking Trojans Manic, Grandoreiro, ToxicPanda 2.0 in the Spotlight
The spyware-equipped Manic, a persistent Grandoreiro campaign in Latin America and Europe, and an expanded ToxicPanda 2.0 malware. The post Banking Trojans Manic, Grandoreiro, Toxi…
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice
Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough