Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability
Analysts say the shift offers stability, but embedded usage caps ensure vendors keep control
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Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text
Operators accidentally left a way for you to get your data back
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The dream of electric sheep gets a reality check from Moore’s Law
British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted
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AI + ML13 Dec 2025 | 37
Microsoft RasMan DoS 0-day gets unofficial patch - and a working exploit
Exploit hasn't been picked up by any malware detection engines, CEO tells The Reg
Patches12 Dec 2025 | 5
New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks
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Patches12 Dec 2025 | 3
Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger
Executive order sidesteps Congress and sets up Litigation Task Force
AI + ML12 Dec 2025 | 31
Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
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AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns
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The Future of the Datacenter12 Dec 2025 | 18
Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program
Critical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' move
Security12 Dec 2025 | 4
Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims
Justice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirements
Off-Prem12 Dec 2025 | 7
Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing
Competition Appeal Tribunal to decide if multibillion-pound overcharging case can go to trial
SaaS12 Dec 2025 | 13
UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout
Rights groups say digital-only record is leaking data and courting trouble
Public Sector12 Dec 2025 | 25
Half of exposed React servers remain unpatched amid active exploitation
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Cyber-crime12 Dec 2025 | 9
Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers
Younger finance pros are just as loyal to Microsoft's venerable spreadsheet app as their elders
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Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system
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Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban
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Crypto-crasher Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn UST bust
Judge said his fraud was on 'epic, generational scale'
Legal12 Dec 2025 | 22
Silicon photonics won’t matter ‘anytime soon’ says Broadcom CEO
Chips ’n’ code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to come
Systems12 Dec 2025 | 5
AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says
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VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA
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Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images
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Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text
Operators accidentally left a way for you to get your data back
Cyber-crime11 Dec 2025 | 6
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
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European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger
Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known better
Legal11 Dec 2025 | 12
Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms
So far, Overview Energy says it has only beamed power from a moving aircraft to standard solar panels
Science11 Dec 2025 | 46
Google fixes super-secret 8th Chrome 0-day
No details, no CVE, update your browser now
Patches11 Dec 2025 | 8
LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco
UK data regulator says failures were unacceptable for a company managing the world's passwords
Cyber-crime11 Dec 2025 | 34
Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads
Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras
OSes11 Dec 2025 | 27
Taikonauts inspect cracked Shenzhou-20 window during Tiangong spacewalk
Eight-hour EVA was also first outing for new spacesuits
Science11 Dec 2025 | 17
Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion
DOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academia
Science11 Dec 2025 | 16
VS Code update brings agent overload, TypeScript 7 preview, and the end of IntelliCode
Research: AI can help or hinder software development, and old-style best practices make the difference
JetBrains abandons Fleet IDE, pins hopes on forthcoming Air agentic development tool
AWS shows Rust love at re:Invent: 10 times faster than Kotlin, one tenth the latency of Go
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Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life
Copilot – your cuddly companion for nighttime introspection
AI + ML11 Dec 2025 | 52
10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet
Flare warns devs are unwittingly publishing production-level secrets
Research11 Dec 2025 | 12
Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030
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Users report chaos as Legal Aid Agency stumbles back online after cyberattack
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Cyber-crime11 Dec 2025 | 3
India’s government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models
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AI + ML11 Dec 2025 | 7
Intel Core Ultra Processors: Powering business-ready AI PCs
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NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter
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Science11 Dec 2025 | 33
Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties
Blame changed market conditions and attitudes, not the return of Nvidia's H200 to China
Systems11 Dec 2025 | 3
Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors
But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming
Databases11 Dec 2025 | 15
Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can
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Systems10 Dec 2025 | 2
700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent
More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised
Cyber-crime10 Dec 2025 | 14
US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains
Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, it’s a worry
AI + ML10 Dec 2025 | 40
Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers
Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting
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US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy
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Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition
California chipset giant says it’ll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel
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US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia
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Microsoft won't fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say
Updated Devs and users should know better, Microsoft tells watchTowr
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Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents
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Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car
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Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to Debian 13
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Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts
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