UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers
The UK government is to buy 12 F-35A fighters capable of carrying nuclear weapons as part of the NATO deterrent, but there's a snag: the new jets are incompatible with the RAF's refueling tanker aircraft.…
Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts
Updated British MPs and peers are questioning the government's decision to continue accepting bids for large-scale IT contracts from Fujitsu, despite the Japanese supplier's previous pledge to stop bidding.…
Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds
Five popular AI models all show signs of bias toward viewpoints promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, and censor material it finds distasteful, according to a new report.…
That WhatsApp from an Israeli infosec expert could be a Iranian phish
The cyber-ops arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has started a spear-phishing campaign intent on stealing credentials from Israeli journalists, cybersecurity experts, and computer science professors from leading Israeli universities.…
French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools
The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft’s Office suite and plans to adopt Linux and PostgreSQL.…
Japanese company using mee-AI-ow to detect stressed cats
A Japanese company called Rabo that makes a smart collar for cats and uses the motto “Because nine lives are never enough” has started using AI to monitor feline stress levels.…
Intel totals automotive group
Intel is shuttering its automotive efforts and laying off the bulk of the team responsible.…
Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore
The US State Department last week said foreign nationals seeking to study in the US must make their social media profiles public, prompting some students to delete their social media posts.…
HPE Aruba boasts that when network problems come along, its AI will whip them into shape
Not all the autonomous agentic AI that HPE announced at its annual Discover conference this week is live and ready for customers, but don't tell that to the Aruba networking group – whose enthusiasm outpaces its parent company’s, at least in terms of talking points.…
Computer vision research feeds surveillance tech as patent links spike 5×
A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.…
Citrix bleeds again: This time a zero-day exploited - patch now
Hot on the heels of patching a critical bug in Citrix-owned Netscaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that one security researcher dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," the embattled networking device vendor today issued an emergency patch for yet another super-serious flaw in the same products — but not before criminals found and exploited it as a zero-day.…
Don't panic, but it's only a matter of time before critical 'CitrixBleed 2' is under attack
Citrix patched a critical vulnerability in its NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products that is already being compared to the infamous CitrixBleed flaw exploited by ransomware gangs and other cyber scum, although there haven't been any reports of active exploitation. Yet.…
Rack-scale networks are the new hotness for massive AI training and inference workloads
Analysis If you thought AI networks weren't complicated enough, the rise of rack-scale architectures from the likes of Nvidia, AMD, and soon Intel has introduced a new layer of complexity.…
Amazon's Ring can now use AI to 'learn the routines of your residence'
Ring doorbells and cameras are using AI to "learn the routines of your residence," via a new feature called Video Descriptions.…
Cosmoe: New C++ toolkit for building native Wayland apps
Cosmoe is a modern C++ UI library, but it's also a new iteration of a project with roots in one of the most elegant GUIs ever written.…
Supply chain attacks surge with orgs 'flying blind' about dependencies
The vast majority of global businesses are handling at least one material supply chain attack per year, but very few are doing enough to counter the growing threat.…
Three goes to zero as UK mobile provider suffers voice and text outage
Britain's Three mobile network has suffered a major outage, with voice calls out of action and limitations on texting.…
Hyperscalers to eat 61% of global datacenter capacity by decade's end
Hyperscale operators are expected to account for 61 percent of all datacenter capacity by 2030, thanks in part to the growth of cloud services and rising demand for compute to feed AI.…
French cybercrime police arrest five suspected BreachForums admins
The Paris police force's cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums.…
Typhoon-like gang slinging TLS certificate 'signed' by the Los Angeles Police Department
A stealthy, ongoing campaign to gain long-term access to networks bears all the markings of intrusions conducted by China’s ‘Typhoon’ crews and has infected at least 1,000 devices, primarily in the US and South East, according to SecurityScorecard's Strike threat intel analysts. And it uses a phony certificate purportedly signed by the Los Angeles police department to try and gain access to critical infrastructure.…
