Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods
The European Commission yesterday fined Alibaba subsidiary AliExpress €550 million ($630m/ £467m) for not doing enough to stop selling dodgy […]
Month: July 2026
Judgment day looms for UK’s £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade
The UK government’s projects authority has sounded the alarm over progress on Skynet 6, the estimated £8.35 billion program to […]
OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy
French cloud operator OVH has revealed it used its Sydney, Australia, datacenter as the crash test dummy to test a […]
Frontier LLMs couldn’t help Hugging Face fight off evil agents
Apparently, being a leading destination for AI development doesn’t mean AI will bail you out. AI agents broke into Hugging […]
Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid
AI datacenters wreak havoc on the power grid under normal circumstances, so what happens if a bad actor controls all […]
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
Nothing can ruin the end of a week like finding out that all of the websites and hosted email you’re […]
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims
Real FBI agents won’t slide into your DMs and offer to help you recover stolen funds. The bureau’s Internet Crime […]
Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief
If you use WordPress, patch now. Just hours after fixes came out, attackers have begun exploiting two bugs that, when […]
The Document Foundation says Microsoft’s file formats keep users on a short leash
The Document Foundation (TDF) has criticized proprietary file formats and the lock-in they create, with Microsoft’s ubiquitous Office formats drawing […]
Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft’s metadata mountain
Microsoft’s aging Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has hit “severe degradation,” leaving some organizations facing painfully slow synchronizations or timeouts […]