Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet
Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection
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Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet
Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures o…
Google Fixes CVSS 10 Gemini CLI CI RCE and Cursor Flaws Enable Code Execution
Google has addressed a maximum severity security flaw in Gemini CLI -- the "@google/gemini-cli" npm package and the "google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli" GitHub Actions workflow -…
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds
Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management Microsoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering …
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds
Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management
ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine
ZTE and NCRCIM leverage 'CardioMind' AI and full-stack computing to drive global healthcare equity
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs
AI is driving more searches and ads Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diver…
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs
AI is driving more searches and ads
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises
Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises
Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand If you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company…
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LP…
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation
Claude Mythos Fears Startle Japan's Financial Services Sector
Global financial institutions are panicked over Anthropic's new superhacker AI model. Cyber experts aren't quite as worried.
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz
The Trainium train keeps a-rollin' Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate …
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz
The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'
Cisco bolsters security, AI support in latest SD-WAN release
Cisco has bolstered the security and AI control features in its latest release of SD-WAN software. The company rolled out Cisco SD-WAN 26.1.1 with a number of new features that,…
Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm
ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength
Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm
ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength GPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which dr…
Reverse Engineering With AI Unearths High-Severity GitHub Bug
Wiz used an AI reverse-engineering tool to pinpoint a vulnerability that previously would have been too costly and time-consuming to undertake.
The era of chatbot AIOps is fading as agentic AI gains traction
New research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) suggests that the first wave of AI adoption—centered on chatbots and virtual assistants—is succumbing to an AI agent-driven…
AI Finds 38 Security Flaws in Electronic Health Record Platform
Flaws in OpenEMR's platform — used by more than 100,000 healthcare providers — enabled database compromise, remote code execution, and data theft.
Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack
Second try's a charm? Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose se…
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026
Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security 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 …
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026
Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's security
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages
Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages
Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info Databricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, wh…
D2DO301: Actually Implementing AI
Kyler and Ned are joined by Enrico Teotti, an independent consultant with over 25 years of experience. Enrico has worked with clients on real-world AI implementations, and he’s her…
Auvik bets agentic AI can fill the networking skills gap
IT teams managing multi-vendor networks are dealing with a growing volume of alerts and a shrinking pool of engineers with the expertise to act on them. AI, and more specifically a…
Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it
New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too