Go ahead and ignore Patch Tuesday – it might improve your security
Patch Tuesday has rolled around again, but if you don't rush to implement the feast of fixes it delivered, your security won't be any worse off in the short term – and may improve in the future.…
C-suite at Alphabet make B-A-N-K from 2024 equity awards
The C-suite at Google's parent Alphabet collectively scooped up more than $215 million in compensation for 2024, and the CEO was the worst paid among them.…
Everyone's deploying AI, but no one's securing it – what could go wrong?
CYBERUK Peter Garraghan – CEO of Mindgard and professor of distributed systems at Lancaster University – asked the CYBERUK audience for a show of hands: how many had banned generative AI in their organizations? Three hands went up.…
Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project
The UK Post Office has confirmed it is ending in-house efforts to replace the troubled Horizon accounting and point of sale system as it launches a £410 million (c $540 million) procurement for alternative suppliers.…
Ransomware scum have put a target on the no man's land between IT and operations
Criminals who attempt to damage critical infrastructure are increasingly targeting the systems that sit between IT and operational tech.…
OpenAI wants to build a subscription for something like an AI OS, with SDKs and APIs and 'surfaces'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company doesn’t have a master plan but does hope to develop a product that’s akin to a subscription operating system, but for AI, and models that ingest every experience you have in your life…
AMD is Ryzen to the SMB occasion with a bundle of baby Epycs
AMD on Tuesday revealed its latest chips to get a Zen 5 refresh with the launch of its itty bitty Epyc 4005-series CPUs.…
Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports
Biden's controversial AI Diffusion rules, which were set to restrict the sale of American GPUs and AI accelerators beginning this week, are officially dead.…
NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now
Employees at Uncle Sam's National Science Foundation (NSF) are relieved that the Trump administration's plan to downsize the federal government collided with the US court system on Friday – but they're worried that the relief is only temporary.…
Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have found a way around Intel's defenses against Spectre, a family of data-leaking flaws in the x86 giant's processor designs that simply won't die.…
Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull, middle managers first in line
Microsoft is axing 3 percent of its global workforce - its biggest purge since chopping 10,000 jobs in early 2023 - this time to flatten its management structure.…
OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release
The Windows team has come up with a bug so bad that Microsoft has had to postpone some Insider builds until the issue is dealt with.…
Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz
Companies with higher levels of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic saw more of their employees launch startups, economists have found. They argue this entrepreneurial spillover is a factor policymakers and firms should weigh when shaping remote work policies.…
Commvault fixes critical Command Center issue after flaw finder alert
An update that fixed a critical flaw in data protection biz Commvault's Command Center was initially not available to a significant user subset – those testing out a free trial version of the product. That is, until a security researcher pointed out the problem.…
Judge puts two-week pause on Trump's mass government layoffs
The Trump administration's ongoing mass firing of government employees has been put on hold, with a federal judge calling the move "likely illegal" and ordering the government to hand over evidence to prove it didn't violate the law.…
'We still have embeds in CISA': CTO of Brit cyber agency talks post-Trump relationship with US counterpart
CYBERUK The top brass from the UK's cyber agency say everything is business as usual when it comes to the GCHQ arm's relationship with CISA, amid growing unease about the current administration's treatment of its US equivalent.…
Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies
A report from a British university warns that scientific knowledge itself is under threat from a flood of low-quality AI-generated research papers.…
After more than half a century, the voyage of Kosmos 482 is over
The odyssey of the Soviet Union's failed attempt to reach Venus came to an end over the weekend with the probe either disintegrating during reentry or what remained of it splashing harmlessly into the ocean.…
Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info
Marks & Spencer has confirmed that customer data was stolen as part of its cyberattack, fueling conjecture that ransomware was involved.…
As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database
The European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) is now fully operational, offering a streamlined platform to monitor critical and actively exploited security flaws amid the US struggles with budget cuts, delayed disclosures, and confusion around the future of its own tracking systems.…
