Welcome, once again, to PWNED, where all the victims are self-owned. This week, we welcome you to a London hotel where you could check out its admin credentials for a booking website just by walking past the front desk.Our story comes courtesy of Ne...
Keeping sensitive data within national borders might satisfy a residency requirement. But does it mean your organization is genuinely in control?Not necessarily. Data could be stored locally while remaining subject to another jurisdiction's laws, de...
Every so often a flaw comes along that shows how fast the ground can shift under IT and security teams. PHP2Shell, a pair of critical flaws in PHP, was one of them. Details leaked before the planned disclosure, frontier AI helped researchers find th...
AWS has released an emulator that kind-of-almost lets you use its cloud on a PC.As explained in the GitHub repository for the prosaically named “AWS Emulator,” the tool “is a local program that serves an AWS API endpoint.”The emulator doesn’t replic...
Former certification authority eMudhra has claimed a buggy Python script is the main reason it issued laughably insecure digital certificates.The company posted its account of the matter on Bugzilla where a user with the handle “Naveen Kumar ML” wro...
Russian cloud operator Yandex has admitted to data loss after a drone attack on one of its datacenters.The attack, which Ukrainian press said was ordered by Kyiv, happened in early October and caused a fire and subsequent outage at Yandex’s ru-centr...
Datacenter power consumption in the US is growing roughly ten times faster than grid capacity, meaning facilities may soon need to find a large chunk of their own electricity from other sources.Surging demand for AI infrastructure is driving a wave...
Nvidia's board is preparing to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang following a report from the New York Times about a second alleged extramarital affair, just days after he admitted to a separate affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy, The Wall S...
The image of the red ring around the black hole M87, produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) array, made front-page news around the world in 2019. There was one problem: there was a slim chance the depiction might be wrong. This week, a small...
The Aux-2 can be many things. Even a hat for your amp! | Photo: Nathan Edwards / The Verge Nabu Casa - the commercial side of the Open Home Foundation, which runs Home Assistant - just launched the Home Assistant Connect Aux-2, a multi-functio...
United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns.The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book their flights, The Wall Street Journal reports...
A swathe of Canonical's web services has been offline for hours, an awkward warm-up for tomorrow's Ubuntu Summit.Canonical's status page lists widespread disruption beginning at approximately 1100 UTC, affecting gopkg.in, Ubuntu cloud images and mai...
Apple's first touchscreen MacBook got a mixed reception from iFixit's teardown specialists, who praised its easily replaced lid but found fans and USB-C ports buried beneath the logic board.The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display was unveiled at the...
Users are having difficulty installing Microsoft's latest Windows patch.Patch Tuesday contained a truckload of fixes for Microsoft products. However, for some users, installing the update, KB5132061, is proving challenging. In the hours after the pa...
Voyager 1 will become the first human-made object to reach one light-day from Earth next week, and NASA wants us to mark the occasion by flashing our lights at the sky.The spacecraft, which suffered a communications hiccup last month, is traveling a...
A 2013 breach of Russian-language cybercrime forum YouHack exposed its members' login details – and millions of credentials they had posted about other victims, according to newly cataloged data.Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) added the breach on Wednesday...
Gaming, social media, and e-commerce platforms are facing a fresh wave of sweeping European Union rules that aim to make "your online experience fairer." The newly proposed Digital Fairness Act (DFA) published by the EU Commission on Wednesday...
Apple has abruptly stopped accepting new posts on its Support Community, putting the forum into read-only mode ahead of permanent closure on November 20, 2026.Users seeking help with their gizmos from other Apple customers were greeted with the mess...
Toyota is dusting off the Scion badge for a radically different mission. Rather than targeting youth-market hatchbacks, "Scion by Toyota" is being positioned as an experimental mobility incubator - and its first vehicle is an authentic Japanese...
Shipping behemoth A.P. Moller-Maersk says it is investigating "an IT security incident" involving the potential theft of data from a legacy system.In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Denmark-based shipping, cargo, and logistics giant confirmed i...