Thursday September 18, 2025
Wednesday September 17, 2025
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Russian fake-news network, led by an ex-Florida sheriff's deputy,...As the Trump administration guts efforts to counter election disinfo The Russian troll farm that in the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election posted a bizarro video claiming Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was a rhino poacher, is back with hundreds of new fake news websites serving up phony political commentary with an AI assist.
20:50US tech giants pledge $42 billion in UK investment as Trump tours...Datacenters galore, plus some vague cooperation on AI, nuclear, quantum, and more America and the UK have announced a $42 billion (£31 billion) trade pact, funded by Microsoft, Google, and others, that predicts bit barns will spring up over Britain's green and pleasant Land. But there's a lot more than money involved.
20:20Scale AI says 'tanks a lot' to Pentagon for data-classifying dealFirst up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong? Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.
19:40AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 softwareHouse of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software AMD closed the performance gap with Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators with the launch of the MI355X this spring. Now the company just needs to overcome Nvidia's CUDA software advantage and make that perf more accessible to developers.
17:37Scattered Spider gang feigns retirement, breaks into bank insteadYou didn't really trust the crims to keep their word, did you? Spiders don't change their stripes. Despite gang members' recent retirement claims, Scattered Spider hasn't exited the cybercrime business and instead has shifted focus to the financial sector, with a recent digital intrusion at a US bank.
17:01Social Security admin denies DB data leak, DOGEs questions about a copyCarefully crafted response makes no mention of whether DOGE employees duplicated critical database The Social Security Administration (SSA) has disputed a whistleblower's allegations that claimed DOGE made an unauthorized, unsecured copy of a critical database - but it's what the denial doesn't say that speaks volumes.
16:30Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in...Crew will have to wait a little longer for science supplies, spares, and 'fun food' NASA has delayed a supply delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) after the engines of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft did not perform as expected during an orbit-raising burn.
15:15Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helpingAmerican businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform World War Fee The US PC industry is suffering from inventory indigestion caused by resellers over-ordering hardware to avoid Donald Trump's expected import taxes on China-made kit.
14:30AI in your toaster: Analyst predicts $1.5T global spend in 2025And we're paying for it piecemeal through the software, services, and devices we buy Tech analysts expect worldwide spending on AI to hit nearly $1.5 trillion in 2025, including $268 billion on optimized servers. These investments will also soon appear in even more consumer products.
13:51Axiom Space aims for orbit with its Orbital Data Center NodeBut will the International Space Station still be there to host its node? Axiom Space and Spacebilt have announced plans to add optically interconnected Orbital Data Center (ODC) infrastructure to the International Space Station (ISS).
12:26Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to doJared Spataro, boss of modern work and biz apps division, says 'hard to make the ROI argument for it' A Microsoft exec claims Copilot is boosting productivity among the customers that adopted it yet sustained efforts to convince many them of the returns on investment remains a work in progress.
11:43Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25But efforts to simplify popular programming language for beginners are unlikely to boost popularity Oracle has released JDK (Java Development Kit) 25, the first long term support (LTS) version since JDK 21 two years ago. New features include beginner-friendly compact source files, succinct module imports, and more flexible constructors.
10:18Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology GroupInsiders say AI trials involving 'critical network services' underway and some engineering roles being moved to India Exclusive Sky Group, the Brit-based commercial TV and broadband service slinger owned by Comcast, is chopping up to 600 employees from the Technology, Consumer Group and COO divisions in the UK.
08:30Why Microsoft has the name of an old mouse hidden in its Bluetooth...Screw-up or conspiracy? Lurking within the Windows Bluetooth stack is a hardcoded reference to the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000. Is this nostalgic favoritism from Microsoft? Or is it just somebody, somewhere, making a mistake that an engineer had to work around?
07:45Whitehall lobs £40M at 'critical' phase of police DB rebootOfficials say there's no time to switch suppliers if they want the PNC off life support before March 2026 The Home Office is flinging nearly £40 million in taxpayer cash at PA Consulting to get the big-ticket successor to the Police National Computer (PNC) over the finish line.
07:00Microsoft Surface 7 laptop: Nice hardware, shame about the OSArm, AI, and Copilot, oh my! hands on The Arm-based Surface Laptop 7 was introduced in 2024, followed by an Intel-powered version a few months later. As with much of the Surface line, it's a well-engineered piece of hardware. I needed something that could run off the battery for a full day, wouldn't break the strap of a courier bag or the bank, and featured a decent spec.
06:15UEFI Secure Boot for Linux Arm64 where do we stand?Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of global computer hardware, where the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) with Secure Boot incorporated is a standard. ...
04:15Ruh-roh. DDR5 memory vulnerable to new Rowhammer attackGoogle and ETH Zurich found problems with AMD/SK Hynix combo, will probe other hardware Researchers from Google and Swiss university ETH Zurich have found a new class of Rowhammer vulnerability that could allow attackers to access info stored in DDR5 memory.
01:27Australia to let Big Tech choose its own adventure to enact kids...Suggests using multiple overlapping approaches and being kind to kids who get kicked off Australias eSafety commissioner has told social media operators it expects them to employ multiple age assurance techniques and technologies to keep children under sixteen off social media, as required by local law from December 10th.
Tuesday September 16, 2025
20:33Microsoft blocks bait for fastest-growing 365 phish kit, seizes 338...Redmond names alleged ringleader, claims 5K+ creds stolen and $100k pocketed Microsoft has seized 338 websites associated with RaccoonO365 and identified the leader of the phishing service - Joshua Ogundipe - as part of a larger effort to disrupt what Redmond's Digital Crimes Unit calls the 'fastest-growing tool used by cybercriminals to steal Microsoft 365 usernames and passwords.'
18:16Fiverr cuts 30% of staff in pivot to being 'an AI-first company'250 people now have the chance to sell their freelance services on the site ai-pocalypse Freelance services marketplace Fiverr has told around 250 staffers that they are back on the market as it pivots to having 'a modern, clean, AI-focused infrastructure from the ground up.'
17:20Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalfMastercard, American Express, Coinbase, and PayPal sign up at launch Google has given the go-ahead to a plan that lets AI agents make purchases on your behalf and, on Tuesday, released its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to make it happen. The system comes with touted safeguards that are intended to prevent thieves from draining bank accounts.
16:19Apple 0-day likely used in spy attacks affected devices as old as...May have been used in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks against 'specific targeted individuals' Apple backported a fix to older iPhones and iPads for a serious bug it patched last month but only after it may have been exploited in what the company calls 'extremely sophisticated' attacks.
15:15Key KDE developer Jonathan Riddell quitsFormer head of Kubuntu and neon says adiσs after 25 years Sad news for KDE: one of the core people guiding the project for the whole century so far has left the building.
13:16Users in SAP's heartland call for greater license transparencyDSAG players grappling with cloud migration want more consistency with commercial models DSAG, the SAP user group for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, has called for greater transparency in cloud licensing to enable the migration and upgrade of on-prem systems to the cloud.
