A new version of the in-memory key-value database Redis has been released. Redis 8.2 is now generally available and includes a range of performance improvements. The previous FOSS release, version 7.2, will reach end of life in February 2026. About a year and a half ago, Redis sw … | Continue reading
US President Donald Trump appears to have changed his mind. Having called on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign over his ties to China, Trump has now applauded his “amazing story”. Nevertheless, another exhilirating tale will need to unfold for Tan’s company to make it through its da … | Continue reading
Sessions within Entra ID can be hijacked if the correct authentication is disabled. A new attack allows malicious actors to perform a FIDO downgrade and take over accounts. Fortunately for Microsoft, it was not cyber attackers but Proofpoint researchers who discovered the exploit … | Continue reading
When ChatGPT received an upgrade to GPT-5 last week, the curtain fell on a large number of other OpenAI models. Following public dissatisfaction with the disappearance of the popular GPT-4o, o3, GPT-4.1, and o4-mini are now also returning. GPT-4.5 is also available for Pro users … | Continue reading
The recently hacked Clinical Diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands paid millions of euros in ransom to cybercriminals from Nova. The Rijswijk-based lab hoped to prevent more stolen medical data from appearing on the dark web. The hack affected 485,000 Dutch women who particip … | Continue reading
NTT DATA and Google Cloud have announced a global partnership to accelerate AI-driven cloud solutions for businesses. The focus will be on agentic AI solutions that will transform industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government. The partnership combines NTT DATA … | Continue reading
Hackers stole sensitive data from 2.8 million customers and business partners in an attack on insurer Allianz Life. The information was taken from Salesforce, the CRM system used by the company. The attack is part of a broader campaign by the hacker group ShinyHunters. This campa … | Continue reading
The digital domain normally knows no borders. However, geopolitical tensions have suddenly made their real-world origin more relevant than ever. This is also true for SUSE, a European infrastructure specialist and potential tip of the spear for digital sovereignty. We discuss the … | Continue reading
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced new updates for ChatGPT on X. The changes follow criticism from users after the launch of GPT-5, which saw older models such as GPT-4o suddenly removed. Users will now be able to choose from three modes for GPT-5: Auto, Fast, and Think. The Aut … | Continue reading
NetApp announces that Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now supported by Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) on AWS. This integration is designed to help organizations migrate VMware workloads to the cloud faster without re-platforming. NetApp introduces enhanced ransomware p … | Continue reading
Perplexity is attempting to acquire Google Chrome for $34.5 billion (€29.5 billion). The startup is offering more than twice its value for the browser, which is crucial in the AI search war. Chrome is suddenly at the center of an acquisition battle. In addition to Perplexity, Ope … | Continue reading
Cybercriminals are earning more and more from ransomware attacks. The second quarter of 2025 shows a doubling of average ransom payments to $1.13 million (€970,000) compared to the first quarter. This is according to research by Coveware by Veeam. Traditional ransomware revolved … | Continue reading
LevelBlue is launching a new Managed Web Application and API Protection service in collaboration with Akamai. The offering is designed to help organizations consolidate, simplify, and secure their web applications and APIs at scale. According to research by Enterprise Strategy Gr … | Continue reading
NetSuite enables organizations to connect their own LLMs to data within NetSuite. But this NetSuite AI Connector Service promises more than just this basic capability. With the adoption of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), NetSuite should be the most intelligent, extensible, and … | Continue reading
Rubrik is introducing Agent Rewind, a new product that helps organizations undo mistakes made by AI agents. The solution also provides visibility into AI actions and enables secure rollback. According to Rubrik, it is already time to pull the emergency brake on some AI agents. Al … | Continue reading
The Wikimedia Foundation has suffered a legal setback in the United Kingdom. On August 11, the High Court of Justice dismissed the organization’s appeal against the categorization regulations of the Online Safety Act (OSA). The regulations determine which online platforms are sub … | Continue reading
Researchers at NeuralTrust have succeeded in jailbreaking GPT-5 within just 24 hours of its launch using the so-called Echo Chamber method in combination with narrative guidance via storytelling. Without explicitly harmful prompts, the team managed to get the model to provide det … | Continue reading
Trump met with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan earlier this week, just days after publicly calling for his resignation. The US president spoke highly of Tan and called the conversation very interesting. Intel’s share price rose immediately. The meeting took place together with Secretary of … | Continue reading
HPE announces significant expansions to its Nvidia AI Computing portfolio. The new developments strengthen integration with Nvidia AI Enterprise and bring the latest Nvidia AI models to HPE Private Cloud AI. In addition, HPE will deliver ProLiant servers with Nvidia Blackwell arc … | Continue reading
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, has announced that he will be stepping down at the end of 2025. Dohmke wants to refocus his efforts on founding a new company. Until then, he will remain in his position to ensure a smooth transition. Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018. However, the d … | Continue reading
The Clinical Diagnostics laboratory was already aware of a hack involving cervical cancer tests in July, but only informed the parties involved last week. The National Screening Program Bevolkingsonderzoek Nederland has described the behavior as “shocking.” It was only last week … | Continue reading
The NCSC has released an important update on sophisticated cyberattacks in which Dutch organizations have been successfully compromised via vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler. The attacks use a zero-day exploit and active trace removal, which makes forensic investigation difficu … | Continue reading
Harry Reid International Airport is a special airport, with some very specific needs. The network infrastructure is very important. That makes it possible to offer travelers a good experience, from curb to gate. During HPE Discover, we sat down with Rishma M. Khimji, the airport’ … | Continue reading
Linus Torvalds has publicly called out a Linux kernel developer for a late patch that “makes the world actively a worse place to live.” The Linux founder’s fierce response is reminiscent of his infamous rants from the past. Torvalds aimed Palmer Dabbelt, a Google employee and lon … | Continue reading
Personal data of more than 485,000 women has been stolen from the Clinical Diagnostics NMDL laboratory in Rijswijk. Between July 3 and 6, hackers gained access to names, addresses, social security numbers, and possibly test results of participants in the cervical cancer screening … | Continue reading
Marks & Spencer has finally restored its full online services after almost four months. The British retailer initially estimated the impact of the cyberattack in April at £300 million (€258 million) on this year’s profits. After a chaotic period, customers can now order all produ … | Continue reading
Newly launched this month, Cloudera Data Services brings private AI into on-premises private cloud deployments with secure GPU-accelerated generative AI capabilities behind an organisation’s own firewall. Our current exposure to modern artificial intelligence functions is general … | Continue reading
Google has provided customers with more information about the security incident in one of its business Salesforce instances. This system is used to connect with potential Google Ads customers. According to Google, a limited set of data, including company names, phone numbers, and … | Continue reading
AOL will permanently discontinue its dial-up internet service on September 30. For decades, this technology symbolized the early days of the internet. This marks the end of a service that began in 1991, 34 years ago. At the time, home computers were rapidly gaining popularity. AO … | Continue reading
According to sources, Nvidia and AMD must hand over 15 percent of their revenue from the sale of AI chips to China to the US government. This is in exchange for export licenses. The White House and the companies involved have not confirmed the report. This is according to The New … | Continue reading
Almost two and a half years after the release of GPT-4, OpenAI has enough confidence in a new AI model to promote it to GPT-5. The reactions online have been mixed, partly because the company has switched everyone to the new LLM. Is GPT-5 the next big step in the competitive AI l … | Continue reading
Google’s AI-powered vulnerability detector Big Sleep has found twenty previously unknown security vulnerabilities in widely used open source software, including FFmpeg and ImageMagick. The discoveries are the result of a collaboration between Google DeepMind and the security depa … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced that Microsoft 365 apps for Windows will block access via the insecure FPRPC protocol by default from the end of August 2025. The change is intended to increase security by reducing exposure to outdated technologies. The step follows an earlier announcemen … | Continue reading
TSMC continues to grow strongly, but is increasingly in Washington’s sights. The US government wants to force higher investments in American factories. It is still unclear whether exemptions from new import duties will ultimately prove beneficial. TSMC posted a 26 percent increas … | Continue reading
Snowflake announces the public preview of Snowpark Connect for Spark. The new architecture enables Apache Spark code to run directly in Snowflake warehouses without maintaining separate Spark clusters. Until now, many Snowflake organizations have chosen the Spark Connector to pro … | Continue reading
Researchers at Socket have discovered two malicious NPM packages that pose as legitimate WhatsApp development tools but actually contain destructive code that deletes files from the developer’s system. The packages, naya-flore and nvlore-hsc, were published in the NPM registry an … | Continue reading
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, the latest version of its artificial intelligence model that powers ChatGPT. The model is available to all 700 million users, Reuters reports. According to CEO Sam Altman (photo), this is OpenAI’s first model that feels like an expert at a high academic … | Continue reading
Atlassian announces a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to strengthen AI capabilities and accelerate cloud transformation. The collaboration brings Jira, Confluence, and Loom to Google’s infrastructure, with deep integrations of Gemini and Rovo agents. The partnership offe … | Continue reading
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has the full support of the board of directors after Trump called for him to resign because of his Chinese connections. The chipmaker emphasizes its commitment to US national security and says it is working to clear up misinformation. In response to the alleg … | Continue reading
In today’s industrial landscape, complexity has become the norm. Driven by growing customer demand for smart, connected, and personalized products, manufacturers face increasing pressure across the entire value chain. Whether building watches, cars, aircraft, or advanced machines … | Continue reading
Oracle today launched Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure. This new service is designed to distribute critical business applications across multiple regions, with automatic data synchronization and built-in protection against regional outages. … | Continue reading
openSUSE Leap 16.0 has made the transition from Beta to Release Candidate with Build 148.4. The Linux distribution is now very close to its final version. A notable new feature in openSUSE Leap 16.0 is the availability of Xfce on Wayland as an experimental preview. Thanks to inte … | Continue reading
US President Donald Trump has called on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign immediately due to concerns about his ties to Chinese companies. Republican Senator Tom Cotton had previously raised questions about the security implications of Tan’s connections. Intel responded with a state … | Continue reading
Veeam’s backup software now fully integrates with Scale Computing’s virtualization platform. After months of preparation, agentless hypervisor backup is now available for SC//Platform users in the Veeam Data Platform. The new integration solves a major problem. Organizations can … | Continue reading
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to hold a secondary sale that could raise its valuation to $500 billion. This has been reported by several publications, including SiliconAngle. A secondary sale is a transaction in which existing shareholders of a company sell shares. The company it … | Continue reading
Microsoft, AT&T, and Santander already know all about it: being hit by the hacker collective ShinyHunters. What’s known about their latest series of attacks on Salesforce environments, including those of Google, Air France-KLM, LVMH, and Adidas? In recent weeks, many victims of d … | Continue reading
Fortinet reported good financial results for the second quarter of 2025, but the stock market reacted negatively to the company’s cautious forecasts. The share price fell by more than 16 percent after the market closed. In the quarter ending June 30, Fortinet reported revenue of … | Continue reading
Google has officially launched its AI coding assistant Jules and taken it out of beta. The tool, which was introduced as a public preview at the end of May, can now be used as a regular product. This was reported by TechCrunch and Golem. Jules runs on Gemini 2.5 Pro and is design … | Continue reading