Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming
It looks like the Racoon has bedded in and settled down, as Canonical releases the first point release of this […]
Month: August 2026
US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies
The former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist previously accused of trying to pass secret and top-secret information to foreign […]
Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution
OpenAI has gathered more than 100 of the world’s biggest tech and infosec companies to warn that cyber defense is […]
CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago
CISA is still crying out for software vendors to adopt Secure by Design (SBD) development practices, and says in its […]
Microsoft preps this year’s Windows 11 feature tweaks: 26H2 hits Release Preview
Microsoft has dropped Windows 11 26H2 into the Windows Insider Release Preview Channel and released August’s preview update. Windows 11 […]
Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn’t have
The Pentagon illegally blacklisted Anthropic as a national security threat based partly on things Claude couldn’t actually do, a US […]
Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff
The IEEE is warning that China’s export controls on rare earth minerals could start to impact datacenters, as shipments of […]
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount
OPINION It wasn’t that long ago, like earlier this year, that AI leaders were doing their usual pie-in-the-sky proclamations of […]
Microsoft’s virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting
Microsoft has pushed back detection and question answering by the Teams Facilitator to November, after initially scheduling General Availability for […]
BOFH: Schrödinger’s petty cash puts us in a very awkward superposition
EPISODE 16: “So it looks like we have ourselves a Schrödinger’s cash situation,” I say. “We have a what now?” […]