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Wednesday August 20, 2025. 11:01 PM
Move along, nothing to see here Amazon has quietly fixed a couple of security issues in its coding agent: Amazon Q Developer VS Code extension. Attackers could use these vulns to leak secrets, including API keys from a developer's machine, and run arbitrary code.…
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Have a complaint? Need a benefit? Agentforce now has a bot for that American citizens seeking help from the federal government may soon find themselves being assisted by an AI agent, if Salesforce's new public sector offering is a success.…
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Dragging DNS into the modern age. And if that means fewer people need to buy IPv4, so much the better A pair of networking researchers have proposed that the Internet Engineering Task Force define support for IPv6 as a best practice for operators of DNS resolvers – the...
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Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched updated To the surprise of no one in the security industry, processing untrusted, unvalidated input is a bad idea.…
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Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans CachyOS bills itself as a Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution and that seems to be winning it friends. In the last month, it's the number one distro on the popularity chart on the widely-used...
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Snarfing up config files for 'thousands' of devices…just for giggles, we're sure The FBI and security researchers today warned that Russian government spies exploited a seven-year-old bug in end-of-life Cisco networking devices to snoop around in American critical...
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GSA AI chief says market can do better but the feds needed a kickstart The Trump administration just launched a detailed, AI-pushing platform for federal agencies last week, but a government leader is already promising to kill it. …
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Plessey sold to Haylo Labs, financed by $100M Goertek loan The UK's Plessey Semiconductors has been acquired by Haylo Labs, using funding supplied by a Chinese company, Goertek Inc. The move was cleared by the British government.…
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Researchers disclosing their findings said 'it's as bad as it sounds' Updated Researchers at watchTowr just published working proof-of-concept exploits for two unauthenticated remote code execution bug chains in backup giant Commvault.…
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iiNet breach blamed on single stolen login, with emails, phone numbers, and addresses exposed Aussie telco giant TPG Telecom has opened an investigation after confirming a cyberattack at subsidiary iiNet.…
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No word yet on when any homegrown hardware production begins Texas fabless chip firm Cirrus Logic has announced a new partnership with GlobalFoundries on next-generation bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) and gallium nitride (GaN) parts.…
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Epic boss brands the changes 'malicious compliance' Google has announced changes to its Play Store rules in an effort to appease the European Commission and dodge Digital Markets Act (DMA) fines.…
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Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is set to join the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) in an effort to 'cut red tape' and, presumably, save some cash.…
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Hmmm, state ownership of private corps... what does that remind us of? The US government is considering taking a stake in Intel and other semiconductor companies that benefit from CHIPS Act funding, according to officials from the Trump administration. The move follows...
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LLMs flop at selling Fair Trade – unless you're a true believer Interview Large language models stumble when trying to sway buyers with moral arguments, according to research from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Sakarya Business School.…
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Good start, but you have to keep it up, say key players Feature It's not easy to grow a national chip industry. Semiconductor startups are a risky investment. They chew through early-stage capital, often with little to show for it, making them a long-term proposition. Those...
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Redmond scrambles to undo damage after tools borked by August patch Microsoft has moved swiftly to remove the bullet it fired into its own foot with the August 2025 Security Update reset and recovery bug.…
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Rotten is as Rotten does Opinion It's 1976, and in the country of the Beatles, another guitar band is giving it some. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols isn't so keen on love and blackbirds. Instead, he sings lustily that he wants to be an anarchist, destroying passers-by and...
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Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them Security boffin Eaton Zveare has highlighted some serious holes in the online infrastructure of chip giant Intel – walking through services with coding flaws to gain access to supposedly...
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Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped A white-hat hacker has discovered a series of critical flaws in McDonald's staff and partner portals that allowed anyone to order free food online, get admin rights to the burger slinger's marketing...
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