Docker Compose vulnerability opens door to host-level writes – patch pronto
Docker Compose users are being strongly urged to upgrade their versions of the orchestration tool after a researcher uncovered a flaw that could allow attackers to stage path traversal attacks.…
Trump and Xi ease trade tensions, but Nvidia still can't sell Blackwell in China
Talks between US President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea yielded a modest thaw, with the two agreeing to trim tariffs and pause new rare-earth export curbs. But whether Nvidia can sell its latest GPUs to China remains an open question.…
US government shutdown clouds an otherwise sunny ServiceNow forecast
ServiceNow has built some "prudence" into its earnings guidance due to the ongoing US government shutdown.…
KDE tidies up Plasma 6.5 with 60-odd fixes and smoother setup for OEMs
The KDE Plasma 6.5 graphical shell arrived last week for Unix-like operating systems, and now 6.5.1 is here for the more cautious. The team's squashed over 60 bugs – and they're by no means all new.…
Invisible npm malware pulls a disappearing act – then nicks your tokens
A new supply chain attack dubbed PhantomRaven has flooded the npm registry with malicious packages that steal credentials, tokens, and secrets during installation. The packages appear safe when first downloaded, making them particularly difficult for security apps to identify.…
Italian tech company promises to make America Online great again
Bending Spoons, an Italian tech biz, is buying AOL from Yahoo, funded by a $2.8 billion debt financing package that will also bankroll future acquisitions.…
Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market
Interview An initial public offering is a matter of when, not if, for Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth, though interested stock owners shouldn't expect a prospectus anytime soon.…
Equinix revealed as occupant of £3.9B UK datacenter campus
Equinix will occupy a massive datacenter campus near London's M25, investing £3.9 billion ($5.1 billion) in the 85-acre (0.34 square kilometers) Hertfordshire plot close to South Mimms services.…
Cyberpunks mess with Canada's water, energy, and farm systems
Hacktivists have breached Canadian critical infrastructure systems to meddle with controls that could have led to dangerous conditions, marking the latest in a string of real-world intrusions driven by online activists rather than spies.…
Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe
As Azure staggers back to its feet following an hours-long outage last night, British and European businesses are questioning their reliance on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.…
Microsoft gives Windows 11 a fresh Start – here's how to get it
Four years after the debut of Windows 11, Microsoft has finally fixed one of the biggest problems with its Start menu: The need to click the “All” button to view a complete list of all of your apps. A new Start menu, which gives you three different ways to view all installed programs without that extra click, is slowly rolling out to users.…
There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing
US boffins claim early tests indicate edible mushrooms can function as organic memory devices, though significant challenges remain before the lab experiment can be turned into something practical.…
Postcode Lottery's lucky dip turns into data slip as players draw each other's info
A major UK lottery organization says it has resolved a technical error that exposed customer data to other users.…
France jacks into the Matrix for state messaging – and pays too
Comment Decentralized communications network Matrix is hoping to be the beneficiary as European public and private sector organizations ponder alternatives to the messaging status quo.…
'Keep Android Open' movement fights back against Google sideloading restrictions
Starting next year, Google plans to require all apps installed on certified Android devices, including sideloading, to come from developers it has verified. Many Android developers see the move as a power grab and have started a movement to "Keep Android Open."…
Samsung picks fights with Google and Qualcomm
Samsung has signaled it intends to take on Google and Qualcomm.…
AI is making Google and Meta even stronger and richer
When generative AI exploded into public view in late 2022, plenty of pundits predicted it would be bad news for the likes of Google and Meta as nimble AI-powered rivals found new ways to capture netizens’ attention and monetize it.…
Major telecom supplier compromised by unnamed nation-state attackers
Nation-state snoops broke into Ribbon Communications – an outfit that provides software and networking gear to Verizon, CenturyLink, and the US Defense Department – last December, remained hidden for about nine months, and stole files belonging to three customers, according to the US telecommunications firm.…
Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown
Microsoft Azure has been experiencing a global outage since around 1600 UTC, or 0900 PDT on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.…
This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet
Exclusive A critical, currently unpatched bug in Chromium's Blink rendering engine can be abused to crash many Chromium-based browsers within seconds, causing a denial-of-service condition – and, in some tests, freezing the host system.…
