Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed "CopyFail" is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit.…
Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time
Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time OPINION NASA's budget and its new administrator's statements are evoking a ghost from the agency's past: Faster, better, cheaper.…
Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future
Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future Bun creator Jarred Sumner has posted a Zig-to-Rust porting guide, igniting speculation that the project may migrate away from Zig, though Sumner said there is no commitment to rewriting, only that he i...
Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats
Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats Real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield has confirmed a data breach after two cybercrime groups, ShinyHunters and Qilin, separately claimed responsibility for attacks on the company.…
ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration
ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration SAP has snapped up Dremio, a data integration and analytics provider, to extend the reach of its data analytics and AI agent-building tools into external data sources.…
Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock
Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock VMware has announced an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite and tried to make it fit the times by adding features that allow users to run with less hardware.…
Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched
Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched More than 119,000 Vimeo users's email addresses were extracted in a breach traced to a third-party analytics vendor, according to Have I Been Pwned.…
Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech
Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."…
Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories
Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures.…
CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule
CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule Vodafone has struck a deal to take full ownership of VodafoneThree, the mobile network formed from last year's merger of its British operations with Three, in a move designed to accelerate its UK ambitions.…
Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags