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Featured Article : Time Is Running Out For Cyber Security, Warn Top Tech Firms
More than 100 major technology, financial and security organisations have warned that businesses and public bodies have only a limited window to strengthen their cyber defences before increasingly capable AI makes attacks faster, cheaper and considerably more difficult to contain.Why Is The Warning Being Issued Now?The open letter has been signed by organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Mastercard...
Company Check : 28-Year Linux Code Fight Nears Its End
A US appeals court has upheld the dismissal of the last live claim in a decades-long dispute over IBM’s use of code from Project Monterey, bringing one of the technology industry’s longest-running legal battles close to an end while removing another layer of uncertainty around Linux and open-source software.Where Did The Dispute Begin?The story goes back to 1998, when IBM...
Security Stop-Press : Cyber Security Event Attendees Targeted With Malicious Google Docs
Cyber criminals targeted Black Hat and DEF CON attendees after the events with convincing follow-up messages and malicious Google Docs.A Huntress researcher was contacted on X by someone posing as a CoinDesk executive and was sent a Google Doc containing a malicious Apps Script sidebar.Mac users were targeted with AMOS infostealer malware, while Windows users faced NetSupport RAT and other...
Tech News : Amazon Hikes Device Prices As AI Fuels Memory Shortage
Amazon has sharply increased the US prices of many of its Echo, Fire TV, Kindle and eero devices, with some rises reaching 60 per cent, as the company passes on higher memory and storage costs linked to the wider AI-driven squeeze on semiconductor supply.How Much Have Prices Risen?The biggest increase is on one of Amazon’s cheapest devices. The Echo Dot...
Tech Insight : OpenAI Makes Privacy A Competitive Advantage
OpenAI is turning data privacy into a competitive weapon, promising eligible business customers its frontier AI models can operate without retaining their prompts or responses, just as rival Anthropic is requiring 30-day retention for some frontier-model traffic.Zero Data Retention As A Selling PointThe company has just previewed Private Safety Processing, a system designed to let organisations keep Zero Data Retention,...
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