AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing another outage after a CloudFront issue began throwing 5xx errors, knocking a string of […]
Month: July 2026
Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas
Australia’s Privacy Commissioner has revealed a tech support scam was the cause of the massive 2025 data breach at Australian […]
Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all
PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we gather lessons from organizations that didn’t take security seriously enough. […]
How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
HANDS-ON Dortania’s OpenCore Legacy Patcher lets you run newer versions of macOS on unsupported Intel Macs. It’s handy, but there […]
Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has fined HP Inc. and some of its resellers, for what it calls “cartelisation” […]
Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC
The crippling high-consequence attack on vital infrastructure that cybersecurity experts have warned about for years is upon us, in the […]
Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won’t: releases a frontier AI model that’s actually open
If you’re in the market for a frontier-class open weights model, your options are few and far between outside of […]
Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists
Another day, another programming language feels the heat from AI. A prominent Haskell-based software platform is shifting new development to […]
Amazon Web Services’ most vocal customer now runs EC2
Dave Brown, a 19-year veteran of AWS and member of its S-team leadership cabal, is leaving Amazon for parts undisclosed. […]
Cadence’s AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design
How AI will change the way scientific computing is done remains an open question. One relies on ultra-precise double-precision mathematics, […]