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New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks

Asana has fixed a bug in its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that could have allowed users to view other organizations' data, and the experimental feature is back up and running after nearly two weeks of downtime to fix the issue.…

Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it's not like the military needs new tech, right?

A federal judge has temporarily blocked an attempt by the Department of Defense to cut funding for university research programs, perhaps inadvertently saving the DoD from an own-goal.…

The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix

The second of three KDE point releases planned for 2025 is here, with more tiling options, accessibility improvements, and much more.…

Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips

Less than a third of European consumers trade in or sell their old phones, limiting the supply of secondhand devices that might otherwise stimulate a more environmentally friendly alternative to buying brand new.…

Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though

Mastodon is the latest platform to push back against AI training, updating its terms and conditions to ban the use of user content for large language models (LLMs).…

China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms

MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in terms of performance and cost.…

Version 13 can’t come soon enough

Veeam Backup & Replication users are urged to apply the latest patches that fix another critical bug leading to remote code execution (RCE) on backup servers.…

Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm

ScyllaDB, the wide-column database used by Comcast, Samsung, and banking giant Santander, has released a new database service it claims improves scalability and lowers cost.…

Some servers can't renew IP addresses, and there's no fix yet

Microsoft has admitted that June's Patch Tuesday updates could break the DHCP service on Windows Server.…

Amid growing unease that US may compel cloud providers to hand over European data

Capitalizing on the new interest in sovereign cloud, UK datacenter biz Pulsant has teamed up with Nine23, a firm specializing in high-assurance managed services for users such as the government, law enforcement, and defense sectors.…

UK needs skills task force to get slice of $1.8 trillion pie, Lords told

The British space industry is struggling to compete for math, physics, and engineering graduates against a banking sector that can offer £90,000 ($120,000) salaries.…

For that laptop feel without the laptop

Logitech has embraced the sound of silence with its Signature Slim Wired K620 keyboard and M520 mouse combo.…

Meanwhile, next-gen script kiddies are levelling up faster thanks to agentic AI

Interview  Iran's state-sponsored cyber operatives and hacktivists have all increased their activities since the military conflict with Israel erupted last week – but not necessarily in the way that Amazon chief information security officer CJ Moses expected.…

Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions

Google has been testing a new way for websites to ask permission to access sensitive browser controls, such as the microphone and camera, despite longstanding opposition from Mozilla and Apple. Following recent refinements to the proposal, Mozilla now appears to be warming to the changes.…

France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day

Japanese automotive giant Honda has successfully launched and landed a small rocket.…

Quick reminder: The law that banned the app is called ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’

The Trump administration is set to again waive the 2024 law that requires the made-in-China social network TikTok to either sell its US operations to a local company or stop operating on US soil.…

Expect headcount reductions over the next few years, says Andy Jassy

Amazon staff on Tuesday got an email from their CEO advising that some of them will probably be replaced by bots.…

Little agents everywhere

Salesforce is raising prices for a bunch of its products and claims that increasing integration with AI justifies the increased bills, even after one of its own researchers recently said that AI agents are often underdelivered on basic CRM tasks.…

They're taking the data from IRSengard, claim Dems; officials tell us that's not true

A coalition of House and Senate Democrats has sent an aggressive letter to Palantir CEO Alex Karp questioning whether the controversial data intelligence biz is breaking federal law by allegedly helping the IRS build a searchable "mega database" of taxpayer information, and, likening his firm to US companies accused of aiding human rights violations in apartheid South Africa, Nazi Germany, and the People's Republic of China. …

Plus adds a ton more security capabilities for cloud customers at re:Inforce

Amazon Web Services hit a major multi-factor authentication milestone, achieving 100 percent MFA enforcement for root users across all types of AWS accounts.…