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Watch out for more Fortinet vulns! Two critical bugs in Fortinet's sandbox could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication or execute unauthorized code on vulnerable systems.…

Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished

No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.…

Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data

New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted "subliminally" from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed from training data.…

Some customer orgs tell staff to block inbound email from the provider

Autovista confirms that it called in outside support to help clean up a ransomware infection currently affecting systems in Europe and Australia.…

Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies

Many US states and local authorities are violating generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by failing to disclose revenue lost to datacenter tax subsidy schemes, according to Good Jobs First.…

Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves around

AI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared – including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services.…

We've all been there

Bork!Bork!Bork!  Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be.…

Researchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasive

Exclusive  Security researchers hijacked three popular AI agents that integrate with GitHub Actions by using a new type of prompt injection attack to steal API keys and access tokens, and the vendors who run agents didn’t disclose the problem.…

Latest in a string of cases that have earned France an unfortunate title

A mother and her ten-year-old son are now free after being kidnapped for around 20 hours while the father was being extorted for hundreds of thousands of euros.…

Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?

The nukes-in-space ambitions of the current US administration have taken a step forward – and the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has just published its hopes for who does what.…

Vuln old enough to drive lands on CISA's exploited list

While Microsoft was rolling out its bumper Patch Tuesday updates this week, US cybersecurity agency CISA was readying an alert about a 17-year-old critical Excel flaw now under exploit.…

Command prefix will require password by default

The latest version of Raspberry Pi OS now requires a password for sudo by default.…

Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposed

Britain has spent years wiring its public sector into US Big Tech, and a new report says that dependence could quickly become a national security headache.…

Armed with £2.5B, UKAEA sets out technical hurdles it wants cracked by end of decade

Brit boffins have a £2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) budget for fusion power research and development, and the government agency leading the effort has published a roadmap of targets to hit before the decade is out.…

One error in every thousand operations is one too many

Quantum computers promise major speedups for problems in materials science, logistics, and financial modeling, but first they need to be made reliable, something Nvidia believes its AI models can help with. When you've got a GPU hammer, every problem starts to look like an AI nail. …

Google sibling takes on the Big Smoke – with a human hand on the wheel

Waymo has started letting its software take the wheel on London streets, with trained specialists on standby as it gradually accelerates toward a fully driverless ride-hailing launch.…

Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away

Most mainframe users who turn to AI for help migrating legacy code to alternative platforms are going to be very disappointed, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it work

A startup called Orbital has revealed a plan to build a 10,000-satellite neocloud in space – if Elon Musk delivers on his ambitious plans to increase launch capacity and reduce costs.…

The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think

Opinion  Could the recent death of Meta's unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse?…

Supply chain and engineering woes keep the supply of new planes sputtering

Boeing has delivered more commercial planes in a quarter than Airbus for the first time in seven years.…