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Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing

A suspected Chinese espionage group impersonated AI policy figures, including a senior Anthropic employee and a former White House official, in phishing campaigns targeting AI policy experts at US universities, think tanks, and law firms, security r...

AWS offers local, open source leash for agent harnesses

If you don't want your AI agents running out of control and changing files or transferring data outside your rules, AWS has published an open source software library that it claims can add a new layer of policy control. Just as a dog’s harness is us...

Microsoft makes Windows settings backup the default in 26H2

Windows 11 26H2 is out, and Microsoft has enabled Windows settings backup by default, a move that could send administrators scrambling to opt out where they once had to opt in. The latest release hasn't made a lot of shockwaves in the community feat...

Build the right AI factory for your needs: partner for success

AI ambition is easy to describe - using data and models to improve decisions, automate work, accelerate discovery, or create new services. Delivering those outcomes is harder and takes a significant amount of experience to be successful. Training a...

Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure

Attackers were poking at a critical Zimbra mail server bug weeks before it was publicly disclosed, and then moved on to steal credentials, raid mailboxes, and take deeper control of compromised systems. Microsoft Threat Intelligence said it tracked...

MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies

MI5 has warned that more than 100 UK-linked academics contributed to research projects allegedly funded to improve China's spying capabilities. The Security Service issued an unusually public espionage alert this week naming the China General Techno...

CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch

Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we warn you about weak security practices. This week’s terrifying tale involves a lack of important patching and a humorously bad password belonging to the person in charge of tech security at a law fir...

Exchange Web Services enters the final stretch before Microsoft pulls access

Microsoft begins disabling Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online today, ahead of the API's permanent retirement on April 1, 2027. Introduced with Exchange Server 2007, EWS allows applications to access mailbox data including email, calendar...

Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data

Palantir's newly appointed UK senior vice president Tom Watson has accused Labour MP Clive Lewis of making "incorrect claims" about the company – while repeating NHS performance figures that the statistics regulator has said require careful caveats....

England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents

England's secondary schools are reporting slightly fewer cybersecurity incidents and faster recovery when disaster strikes, according to a survey by exams regulator Ofqual. Twenty-seven percent of schools reported an incident during the 2025/26 acad...

Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s AI Overviews

A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Re...

Sony brings AI graphics upscaling to the regular PS5

Sony is launching a new AI upscaling technology specifically for the regular PS5. The new tech, called Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), is a "new performance tier of AI upscaling" that's a result of Sony's Project Amethyst work with AMD,...

UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ

Britain's data protection watchdog has acquired a new legal identity and governance structure, although the familiar ICO initials are staying put. On September 30, the Information Commission replaced the Information Commissioner as the statutory reg...

Can VR glasses save VR?

Sean wears the Meta VR Glasses. | Photo: Meta I'm pretty sure I won't be buying the $1,299 Meta VR Glasses. That's too rich for my blood in today's economy, and my feelings about Meta are… conflicted. But I want you to understand that Meta jus...

Microsoft’s Office and Teams chief is leaving

After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky is leaving the company. Roslansky, who until recently was the CEO of LinkedIn, was promoted to the head of Office last year and then took control of Microsoft Teams earlier this ye...

Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal

Sopra Steria has expanded its legal challenge to a major UK government contract award after obtaining an unredacted copy of the agreement between Capita and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The company alleges that previously undisclosed...

Inside Microsoft’s big Copilot rethink

Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hosted an intimate, invite-only event for leaders from some of its key enterprise customers. Instead of a flashy media event, Nadella outlined the future of Copilot directly to the customers Microsoft real...

Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry

The proportion of workers in the UK cybersecurity industry identifying as women has dropped to 16 percent, the lowest level since 2021. Gender diversity has long been an issue pervading the STEM fields, although in cybersecurity this is especially p...

NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions

Image: Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images | AFP via Getty Images New York City residents struggling to get out of recurring subscription fees can now submit complaints to the city government. As of Thursday, the city's click-to-cancel rule ha...

OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?

A pop-up shop for "dots," a personal assistant agent at OpenAI DevDay 2026. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) | Getty Images At OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals - primarily...