China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over ‘backdoor code’ fears
China’s National Vulnerability Database (CNVDB) is urging developers to uninstall recent Claude Code versions over the fear that they can […]
Month: July 2026
Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die
A “systematic vulnerability pattern” in at least six of the most widely used AI coding assistants can be abused to […]
Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint
UK comms regulator Ofcom has fined Virgin Media £28 million for repeatedly obstructing customers seeking to switch broadband, pay TV, […]
Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B
The UK’s third-largest supermarket, Asda, has reported that the cost of its tech divorce from Walmart — which included building […]
Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down
Aussie telco Telstra is currently battling the mother of all borks after blaming a “software defect” for an outage that […]
Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design
Lurking in the release notes for this month’s Patch Tuesday preview is a fix for a world of storage pain […]
Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander
Former NASA boss Jim Bridenstine has warned that the space agency’s plan to land astronauts on the Moon risks becoming […]
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road
Other regions of Germany are starting to move away from proprietary tools and cloud services from the US in favor […]
AI’s biggest challenge is not compute – it’s data storage
AI continues to evolve at pace. The novelty of generative models producing their own content is already giving way to […]
NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits
A campaign group has written to the UK health minister to force him to clarify data used by the government […]