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Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink

Citing national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.…

Silent exodus brewing but other customers say they feel trapped

Half of VMware users plan to reduce their use of the virtualization pioneer’s products by 2028, according to a survey by independent analyst firm Virtified.…

Nearly 300 employees caught up in intrusion at benefits provider Navia

Almost 300 HackerOne employees are caught up in a data breach, with the bug bounty biz slamming a third-party benefits provider for a weeks-long delay in notification.…

Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft

Microsoft is rolling out technology to transform OneDrive photos into AI-infused masterpieces. Or top up the bucket of slop, depending on your perspective.…

A knowledge database where AI agents read, add and score the items – what could go wrong?

Mozilla is building cq - described by staff engineer Peter Wilson as "Stack Overflow for agents" - as an open source project to enable AI agents to discover and share collective knowledge.…

Aleksei Volkov sentenced after enabling attacks that cost victims millions

A Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his handiwork to a string of ransomware attacks costing victims millions of dollars.…

Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMs

AntiX Linux is a heavily cut-down version of Debian 13, with a choice of init systems and ultralightweight GUIs. This means it's able to run usefully on older and lower-end PCs – and, of course, to run faster on modern ones.…

New commercial models planned after cloud transition falls €2B behind target

SAP has begun to shift focus away from its failure to hit legacy software and cloud migration targets and onto the latest so-called "innovation" elements of its portfolio, such as AI.…

Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edges

AvaloniaUI has previewed MAUI support for Linux and WebAssembly browser applications – platforms Microsoft's own cross-platform .NET framework lacks – but low adoption and persistent bugs are likely to constrain uptake.…

Sorry seems to be the hardest word at Microsoft

Opinion  Has Microsoft finally reckoned with Windows 11's many failings - or has its OS chief, Pavan Davuluri, simply offered more soothing platitudes to users fed up with bugs and unwanted AI?…

Open letter warns tech is shaping what audiences see while slipping past regulation

Europe's broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are fast becoming the next Big Tech gatekeepers, with little sign of Brussels stepping in.…

‘People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do’

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, has argued he and others who believed immersive environments would require head-mounted hardware got it wrong.…

Researchers say persona-based prompting can improve works for safety but not for facts

Many people start their work with AI by prompting the machine to imagine it is an expert at the task they want it to perform, a technique that boffins have found may be futile.…

'It freakin' worked' says Rob Joyce - and shows how relentless AI agents can find holes humans miss

RSAC 2026  The now-infamous Anthropic report about Chinese cyberspies abusing Claude AI to automate cyberattacks was a Rorschach test for the infosec community, according to former NSA cyber boss Rob Joyce.…

Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairs

RSAC 2026  Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government's top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to share information, in real time, about this loosely knit extortion ring that was terrorizing enterprises.…

Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins

RSAC 2026  Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims' IT estate – and the No. 1 tactic used when breaking into cloud environments.…

Zenity CTO demos 0-click AI agent exploits on stage at RSAC

RSAC 2026  There's a very simple reason why just about every enterprise AI agent is vulnerable to zero-click attacks, according to Michael Bargury, CTO of AI security company Zenity.…

US analytics firm handed access to sensitive intel, raising yet more questions about vendor lock-in

US data miner Palantir has quietly landed inside the UK's financial watchdog, plugging into a trove of sensitive data as Whitehall simultaneously insists it wants to wean itself off exactly this kind of dependency.…

Customers are 'excited' says one solution provider

Snowflake is putting cash and kinetic energy behind the idea that AI works best in its platform.…

Here's where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this year

Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to exploit vulns, and fooling more staff than ever into giving up their credentials. …