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Friday November 21, 2025
01:38Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s...
Plans a universal API to back up all hypervisors, too Backup software vendor Veeam has thrown its weight behind more alternatives to VMware.…
Thursday November 20, 2025
22:20SEC drops SolarWinds lawsuit that painted a target on CISOs everywhere
Company 'clearly delighted' with the outcome The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has abandoned the lawsuit it pursued against SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer for misleading investors about security practices that led to the 2020 SUNBURST attack.…
20:38SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions
Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference SC25 Hydrogen-fueled gas turbines, backup generators, and air handlers probably aren't the kinds of equipment you'd expect on the show floor of a supercomputing conference. But your expectations would be wrong.…
20:27Gemini tries to sniff out AI slop images while also making them easier ...
Featuring an image of a man creating an image of a man creating an image... hands on Google Gemini users can now use the AI's app and website to figure out whether an image is AI-generated, though with some considerable limitations.…
20:03PHP 8.5 lays down long-awaited pipe operator, adds new URI tools
Unfashionable web workhorse refreshed for its ongoing run PHP 8.5 landed on Thursday with a long-awaited pipe operator and a new standards-compliant URI parser, marking one of the scripting language's more substantial updates.…
19:30Salesforce-linked data breach claims 200+ victims, has ShinyHunters’...
They keep coming back for more Salesforce has disclosed another third-party breach in which criminals - likely ShinyHunters (again) - may have accessed hundreds of its customers' data.…
18:12LLM-generated malware is improving, but don't expect autonomous...
Researchers tried to get ChatGPT to do evil, but it didn't do a good job LLMs are getting better at writing malware - but they're still not ready for prime time.…
17:35Don't spill your guts to your chatbot friend - it'll hoover up that...
LLM makers may be training on user chat with few privacy safeguards, lawmakers hear The US House of Representatives has heard that LLM builders can exploit users’ conversations for further training and commercial benefit with little oversight or concern for privacy risks.…
17:02Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI
If at first you don’t succeed, swing again - Big Tech certainly isn’t complaining The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are trying again to eliminate state-level AI regulations in favor of a federal standard. The plan faces opposition from many state governments and civil-society organizations, while AI vendors have welcomed it.…
16:08Thunderbird 145 finally adds ‘native’ Exchange support
EWS-powered email only for now, with calendars and contacts still on the to-do list It's easy to forget in the FOSS world, but Exchange still runs most corporate email – and the new version of Thunderbird can talk to it directly.…
15:44Fired techie admits sabotaging ex-employer, causing $862K in damage
PowerShell script locked thousands of workers out of their accounts An Ohio IT contractor has pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's systems and causing nearly $1 million worth of damage after being fired.…
15:33Nvidia pushes out hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming...
Quick and dirty driver aims to undo slowdown introduced in OS patch The Windows 11 October 2025 Update is still causing headaches for users of Microsoft's flagship operating system.…
15:15AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market
Google and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base The big three cloud companies are all growing thanks to an expanding market, but Amazon is under increasing pressure from Microsoft and Google, while newcomers are on the rise.…
15:03TP-Link accuses rival Netgear of 'smear campaign' over alleged China...
Networking vendor claims rival helped portray it as a national-security risk in the US TP-Link is suing rival networking vendor Netgear, alleging that the rival and its CEO carried out a smear campaign by falsely suggesting, it says, that the biz had been infiltrated by the Chinese government.…
13:46Education boards left gates wide open for PowerSchool mega-breach, say ...
Privacy cops say attack wasn't just bad luck but a result of sloppy homework Canadian privacy watchdogs say that school boards must shoulder part of the blame for the PowerSchool mega-breach, not just the ed-tech giant that lost control of millions of student and staff records.…
13:26Google and Westinghouse lean on AI to speed US nuclear plant builds
Pair say digital twin-powered scheduling will cut costs, shrink timelines for 10 planned reactors Google and atomic power biz Westinghouse Electric claim that AI will speed construction and cut the cost of building the new US power plants it is planning in response to rising demands for energy to fuel AI.…
10:38Palo Alto kit sees massive surge in malicious activity amid mystery...
GlobalProtect login endpoints targeted, sparking concern that something bigger may be brewing Malicious traffic targeting Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect portals surged almost 40-fold in the space of 24 hours, hitting a 90-day high and putting defenders on alert for whatever comes next.…
09:31Systemd 259 release candidate flexes musl support – with long list of...
PostmarketOS pushed for the change, but devs warn it may not last Along with new functionality, systemd is broadening its distro support even further, which will surely delight members of the wider Linux community.…
08:01Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform
Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) has again put off its adoption of an NHS data platform prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir until there is more evidence that it will be in the 'best interests' of the city's population.…
05:10Eleven years after Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 server biz, profits are...
PC sales are pushing upwards nicely, but AI PCs only account for a third of the new fleet Lenovo has again said its enterprise hardware business is on the cusp of becoming consistently profitable, despite the division again posting a loss after massive revenue growth.…
03:27Palo Alto CEO tips nation-states to weaponize quantum computing by 2029
Company thinks you’ll contemplate replacing most security kit in the next few years to stay safe Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has suggested hostile nation-states will possess quantum computers in 2029, or even a little earlier, at which point most security appliances will need to be replaced.…
00:30US, UK, Australia sanction Lockbit gang’s hosting provider
‘Bulletproof’ hosts partly dodged the last attack of this sort Cybercrime fighters in the US, UK, and Australia have imposed sanctions on several Russia-linked entities they claim provide hosting services to ransomware gangs Lockbit, BlackSuit, and Play.…
Wednesday November 19, 2025
22:56It's a good time to be the arms dealer for the AI boom
Bubble? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doesn't see one Nvidia kicked the can labeled 'AI bubble' down the road on Wednesday.…
22:07Fortinet 'fesses up to second 0-day within a week
Attackers may be joining the dots to enable unauthenticated RCE Fortinet has confirmed that another flaw in its FortiWeb web application firewall has been exploited as a zero-day and issued a patch, just days after disclosing a critical bug in the same product that attackers had found and abused a month earlier.…
20:48Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats
The force-feeding will continue until morale improves Some software developers complain that they're being required to use AI tools to the detriment of code quality and their own skills.…
20:06Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos
The latest attack on Section 230 is likely to face the same fate as many previous efforts A pair of bipartisan senators wants to hold social media giants accountable for pushing content that radicalizes Americans.…
17:55Pegasus XL rocket dusted off to rescue NASA’s Swift observatory from...
Air-launched antique picked for tricky low-inclination orbit job NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, facing the risk of an uncontrolled dive back to Earth, is set for a rescue ride on a Pegasus XL, the air-dropped rocket that hasn't flown since 2021.…
17:26Amazon security boss: Hostile countries use cyber targeting for...
And companies are getting caught in the crossfire interview Warfare has become a joint cyber-kinetic endeavor, with nations using cyber operations to scope out targets before launching missiles. And private companies, including shipping, transportation, and electronics manufacturers, are getting caught in the crossfire, according to Amazon.…
17:16DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move
Skim the atmosphere and air-breathing VLEO sats can theoretically maintain orbit DARPA is on the verge of reaching a new low - an orbital one - as the Defense Department's research arm moves its Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) Otter satellite program into the production phase. …
16:25Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376M
Massive jump in spending shows the Great White North isn’t betting everything on NASA Canada will boost its investment in European Space Agency (ESA) programs by CA$528.5 million ($376 million USD), a tenfold increase, according to the Canadian Space Agency.…
16:01Ford rolls into the Xen Project as hypervisor gears up for autos
Version 4.21 also brings advances in the datacenter, on ARM, and RISC-V The Xen Project today delivered a major release of its hypervisor and associated tools, including contributions from automaker Ford, which quietly joined the project in June.…
15:41US pumps $1B into Three Mile Island nuclear plant reboot to keep AI...
A reactor at the site suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 The Trump administration is so eager to get extra power into the grid that it is offering a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy to help it restart the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear facility.…
15:30San Jose's 'warrantless' license plate queries land cops in court
Digital rights groups argue cameras used to unconstitutionally surveil locals The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) are suing the City of San Jose and its police department over alleged abuses of automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) technology.…
13:18Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh
Burnout and slowing growth push Eugen Rochko into an advisory role after nearly a decade in charge Eugen Rochko, CEO and founder of decentralized social network Mastodon, is stepping down after nearly a decade at the helm and walking away with a sizable exit payment.…
13:08Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI market
Analysts warn LPDDR4 supply is tightening fast with shift to higher-end components Updated Memory prices could soon be double what they were earlier this year as chipmakers switch to advanced products to target the AI market, leaving a shortfall of more mature chips such as those meeting the LPDDR4 standard.…
12:57Microsoft-SAP pact aims to keep Euro cloud running in a crisis
Vendors set up sovereign fallback so customers aren't stranded by foreign interference SAP and Microsoft have struck a partnership designed to provide safeguards for users of the US vendor's cloud services in Europe during 'times of crisis.'…
12:16Researchers claim 'largest leak ever' after uncovering WhatsApp...
Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms Researchers in Austria used a flaw in WhatsApp to gather the personal data of more than 3.5 billion users in what they believe amounts to the 'largest data leak in history.'…
11:33Ignite awash with agents as Microsoft triples down on AI
Event supposedly for IT pros doesn't have much to tell admins on the Windows front The Copilot company kicked off its Ignite shindig this week with AI, AI, and more AI. Oh, and a lot of agents.…
10:45Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres...
Open source RDMS popularity offers devs 'something other than Oracle' as database standard, analyst says Microsoft has announced a distributed PostgreSQL database service designed to rival other hyperscaler systems and third-party RDBMSes such as CockroachDB and YugabyteDB.…
10:00CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out
Preliminary proposal is already provoking debate The Python community is chewing over a new idea: allowing the C-based reference implementation, CPython, to incorporate Rust. It's only at the 'pre-PEP' stage, but it's already sparked lively debate.…
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