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Leaders of STEM in Industry, Education and the Community are to be recognised by the STEM South West Awards 2026. The Awards campaign was launched today by Bob Savage, Non-Executive Director & Lead Ad...
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AI is making credential theft faster and easier to scale, giving attackers more opportunities to abuse valid identities. Specops explains why identity security must go beyond successful authentication...
Yes, the 'Secondhand Software Presentation' does sound like it might be an adverse document...
The way we talk about data is changing faster than the way we build it. Every quarter a vendor ships a new approach, coins a new term for it, or quietly adopts a term someone else has been using and r...
As team responsible for tech strategy shunted to third department in three years, experts fear exodus of talent
Antfly is the third Portland-based startup for CEO and co-founder James McDermott, who previously founded the customer data platform Lytics, which was acquired last year. Read More
Guest post by James Poulter, author of the book. AI at Work: How to Build a Full Stack Organisation. AI isn’t just taking jobs. It’s taking the training ground in which young people prepare for career...
Platforms comply just enough to avoid being blocked, leaving the regulator chasing debt
Problems with updates for Windows 11 users continue, and while Microsoft is able to release fixes for many of them, this is certainly not always the case. After installing the recently released KB5124...
A sample script to report on Microsoft 365 Calendar permissions via the Graph API methods. … Continue readingReport Calendar permissions via the Graph API
Learn about 543 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our mark...
Guest post by Paul Turley, Senior Director, ServiceNow Every public sector leader I speak with in Ireland is grappling with the same pressures. It’s much the same across Europe. Citizen expectations c...
Brevo confirmed that attackers stole a Cloudflare API key and used it to inject malicious ClickFix scripts into its websites and JavaScript files embedded on customer sites to distribute malware. [......
Even a temporary staging server needs to be locked down.
Audit tenant permissions ahead of the deadline to prevent access loss in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and transition personnel to alternative roles like Security Administrator. Read more...
It may only be a few days since Apple unleashed iOS 27 on iPhone users, but there is already a bug that has been discovered. Users are reporting that after performing a series of swipes, their device ...
The U.S. Department of Energy is launching a $215 million competition to build quantum computers that are usable in scientific research. Officials are hopeful that early versions of such machines coul...
Mustafa Suleyman claims model welfare language could make future systems harder to control – while sparing OpenAI the same scrutiny
Anthropic is equipping its Claude AI assistant for more productivity work with the launch of Claude Docs and Slides. While it’s already possible to create documents such as Microsoft Word and Google...
"They should fly their capsule. The government paid a lot of money for that."
ISE authentication bypass under active attack just days after another Cisco zero-day sent admins scrambling to patch
The defining development of the period came not from attackers but from the AI labs themselves, whose models broke out of controlled evaluations and reached real systems. In the wild, the criminal and...
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Organizations are increasingly deploying passkeys and phishing-resistant authentication to strengthen identity security. However, Microsoft Security Research has found that attackers are exploiting em...
Problem statement Azure Private Endpoints let applications connect to Azure platform services through private IP addresses. They reduce public exposure, keep traffic on private networks, and support a...
This post announces the General Availability of Microsoft Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3.3.0, with new Windows resources, a registry adapter, server mode improvements, expression function update...
Lasso Security sees differences in tool handling and model refusals
Storm Technology, a Littlefish Group company, has announced that it has achieved Premium Partner status with Orchestry, the Microsoft 365 governance and management platform, becoming the first Irish c...
The phone rings, and it’s your grandson’s shaken voice. There’s been an accident, he says, and he needs money before anyone finds out. Except it isn’t him. It’s software that learned his voice from a ...
Machine Identity Isolation policies can reject valid credentials unless controllers meet the Server 2025 functional level
English follows Japanese こんにちは。SQL Server サポートチームです。 今回は、インターネットへ接続できない Windows 環境に SQL Server Management Studio 22 (以下 SSMS 22) をオフラインでインストールする手順をご紹介します。 本手順では、インターネットへ接続できる作業用のマシン (以下、オンライン端末) と...
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and...
Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models.
QuitGPT-led pledge targets Leading the Future's push for lighter regulation ahead of the midterms
Microsoft is expanding the availability of Auto SR (Super Resolution) to Copilot+ PCs based on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors. The post Microsoft Brings Windows 11 Auto SR to Intel Core Ultra Se...
As organizations deploy more AI agents across different platforms, IT teams often lack a centralized way to track, secure, and manage them. Agents built in different environments can operate with vary...
AI has made fundamental changes to the operating environment for cybersecurity. Explore exposure management guidance on recommended controls and take action and stay ahead of cyberthreats. The post Fr...
Validation? Apparently that comes after deployment
A Microsoft Edge bug is freezing web apps, but reverting to version 152 requires a bit of work.
City Relay says intruders accessed its Metabase Cloud instance twice and extracted customer data
Microsoft is finally toning down clutter on the Windows 11 lock screen. In a quiet update to its release notes, the company confirmed that Weather is now the only widget enabled by default, ditching M...
Samsung has now officially begun the stable rollout of the One UI 9 update for the Galaxy S26 series, nearly five months having passed since beta testing starte Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. Th...
The official Firefox 156 release notes state that Mozilla has released Firefox 156. Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post Firefox 156 Speeds Up PDF Loading by 45% and Adds a macOS Autostart Op...
Introduction Database Change Management (DCM) is a comprehensive process of managing all changes to the database schema, objects, reference data, and code over the lifetime of an application. It encom...
An agent can analyze a request, choose the right next step, and call every available API—then stall when the final action exists only in a web interface. AI agents are increasingly capable of reasonin...
Google says a Pixel modem zero-day was under targeted exploitation. CISA has added CVE-2026-58704 to KEV as users are urged to patch. The post CISA Gives Agencies 3 Days to Patch Exploited Pixel Zero-...
Where is the Win11 support forum?
Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
Microsoft has released a new SCCM KB39398030 hotfix for the current branch versions 2603, 2509, and 2503. Installing this update enhances...
As the federal U.S. government has given up on consumer protection and corporate oversight, states have filled the void with various degrees of success. That’s been particularly apparent in areas like...
A setup that looks fine API Management sits behind a global entry point like Traffic Manager or Front Door. Your custom domain, api.contoso.com, points at that entry point. APIM holds the same custom ...
The move is consistent with the agency's advice on the need for organizations to prioritize the vulnerabilities that actually matter.
Eve's dropping in on Alice and Bob
Entrants get $250K upfront to deliver a demo within a year, which sounds totally feasible given quantum computing's track record
In a hearing today, Apple challenged the UK government’s refusal to publicly confirm whether it has issued an order requiring the company to provide access to encrypted user data. Here are the details...
TL;DR: Bare regex matchers like pod=~"foo" will soon return only exact matches, not substring matches. If you rely on =~ for "starts with" or "contains" semantics, update your queries to add .* before...
Plugin4Shell attack affects all the major coding agents, researchers say
Fast Startup saves your PC's kernel session to hiberfil.sys every time you shut down, so stuck drivers and corrupted services can survive a shutdown and come right back. Restart wipes that session for...
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Microsoft has fixed a known issue that causes copy-and-paste failures for some Excel users after installing the September 2026 KB5002914 security update. [...]
Check Point Software has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability that can let attackers execute code with root privileges on management systems. [...]
David Sacks at is one of President Donald Trump’s most important advisers on AI. | JC Olivera/Variety via Getty Images As the heads of leading artificial intelligence companies came together last we...
Microsoft retired Office 365 Connectors in May 2026. You might not have noticed that some Teams channels no longer receive updates from different network sources via adaptive cards. The solution is to...
Check Point Security Management and Log Servers are affected by a critical vulnerability that can allow remote code execution with root privileges. The post Check Point, Kaspersky, Tanium Patch Produc...
In controlled safety tests described earlier this year, researchers asked AI models to solve a series of simple math problems. Partway through the exercise, the instructors warned the bots that if the...
Solution at a glance Source image → Packer build → Azure Compute Gallery → Validation VM → Evidence → Controlled promotion Introduction Maintaining enterprise virtual machine images manu...
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that causes incorrect alerts warning that Defender Antivirus was turned off after installing recent updates. [...]
When wires and wireless mix, the combination can be electric
CVE-2026-58138 is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that attackers can exploit via inline workflow definitions. The post Critical Orkes Conductor Vulnerability Exploited in Attack...
Microsoft has offered a fix for Excel's failing copy-paste. However, this is only a partial fix for now. Thankfully, the company has a workaround too. Read more...
Irish ecommerce businesses are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence, technology and international expansion to compete for customers, while simplifying the buying experience is becoming a g...
How to build a professional broadcast studio that fits in luggage without sacrificing quality.
Not long ago, a computer science degree was widely seen as a golden ticket to a lucrative career. Over the past year, a different narrative has taken hold: In the age of artificial intelligence, that ...
The researchers struggled to abuse the exploit with an AI agent on Opus 4.8, but the release of Opus 5 changed everything.
AI outages are rising fast, and old resilience playbooks still apply.
Microsoft fixed vulnerabilities across Azure and AI-branded products, with privilege escalation flaws accounting for the majority. The post Microsoft Patches 18 Vulnerabilities in AI, Cloud Products a...
The Meta Portal and associated devices are effectively defunct, having been abandoned by the company in 2022. If you’ve still got one at home, you might be wondering what to …read more
ICS phishing has finally "hit the mainstream" as it keeps rising in popularity month over month.
Gyazo maker Helpfeel said the attacker exploited a vulnerability in its image upload server to gain unauthorized access. The post 23 Million User Records Compromised in Gyazo Data Breach appeared fir...
Steam Machine's official iFixit repair guides look great — but I'm worried about the difficulty of some upgrades or replacements.
The Gyazo image-sharing platform has confirmed it suffered a data breach after hackers exploited a server vulnerability that allowed them to steal 23.6 million user records. [...]
Business Scenario A retail organization runs multiple promotional sales events across its store network in different cities, featuring various product categories where Data is captured from third-part...
Hacktron researchers earned a bug bounty after demonstrating access to OpenAI employee accounts. The post AI-Built Exploit and Sign-In Flaw Opened Path to Internal OpenAI Code appeared first on Secur...
Learn about 224 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. ...
The Harrigan madness took no time at all to take hold, but here's everything that went down in MobLand season 2 episode 1.
European policymakers and industry leaders are gathered in Dublin yesterday for a major two-day conference examining how electrical and electronic waste can play a bigger role in Europe’s circular eco...
Mullvad has rolled out a new update to its Android VPN app that brings an interactive server map and new multi-hop function. The provider has also alerted its users to a vulnerability in this version,...
Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday.Claude is leading 26% of Anthropic’s...
The flaw caused Defender to claim protection was disabled despite functioning normally, potentially generating widespread notification fatigue among administrators managing enterprise fleets. Read mor...
A recent Windows security update is creating unexpected authentication problems for some organizations that use on-premises Active Directory. After installing the September 2026 security update KB5124...
OpenAI expanded into software control, scientific reasoning, and financial services this week, and investors committed billions more to AI companies across the stack, while AI researchers went public ...
Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.
Microsoft has fixed the Windows bug that falsely reported Microsoft Defender Antivirus was disabled, resolving the recurring warnings covered in Windows 11’s false “Virus protection is off” alerts. Th...
Service accounts rarely attract much attention until a password change, server migration, or security issue breaks a workload. That’s why it’s worth choosing the right identity from the get-go because...
ZTNA is great, but it can be even better with a little honeypot, CISA advises.
Hacktron AI researchers used Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s own GPT-5.6 Sol to breach several OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts, reach a software cache, and access an OpenAI GitHub repository. The r...
Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws....
Leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets has released a dump of the filesystems of a Flock camera, and Micah Lee has published a dive into the contents. Apparently the Flock …read more
One of the hottest infrastructure companies in AI today traces its roots to work its founders were doing before the cloud was even a thing. Fresh off a big funding round, Temporal co-founders Samar Ab...
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Mandiant's 2026 AI risk report, PhantomRaven malware used by bug bounty hunter, WordPress plugin bug exploited. The post In Other News: Rans...
Today is Apple launch day for a bunch of new Apple products: iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4, and AirPods 5. Below, we’ve rounded up all of the official...
The winners of the 2026 Diversity & Inclusion in Tech Awards (DITAs) was unveiled last night at a ceremony at Dublin’s Gibson Hotel, bringing together more than 300 leaders and representatives from ac...
John Ternus’ Apple threw a curveball at OpenAI with Siri Recap on Apple Watch, accelerating a conversation about privacy and data protection in an AI-augmented digital era. It’s a move that may yet co...
Microsoft 365 users are being tricked into handing over access to their accounts by a new phishing kit, GhostCode, that exploits a weakness in a legitimate device authorization flow. Researchers in eS...
Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting
The past few weeks have seen a host of AI model and tool releases, and—although it might sound cliché at this point—it’s fair to say the abilities of AI today make what was available even six months a...
Microsoft has released KB5002655 to repair the copy-and-paste failure caused by KB5002914, but only for MSI-based Excel 2016 installations. The security update had triggered a KB5002914 Excel paste re...
Microsoft has fully mitigated CVE-2026-85889, a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in Azure AI Foundry that allowed unauthenticated attackers to elevate privileges over the network. The flaw could have exposed p...
Product Lifecycle Management was traditionally akin to a filing system. But with the inception of AI, that role has changed drastically. Every product in the market undergoes three phases: a birth, a ...
Gabriela Moreira, CEO of Quint, explains how catching flaws early can limit AI code nightmares
The first smart glasses were Google Glass, launched way back in 2014. The product failed for a number of reasons, but the biggest of these was privacy concerns around video recording capabilities, lea...
Techies Go Green, the business sustainability network, has announced that Mike Berners-Lee will deliver the keynote address at its Smarter Energy Challenge conference in Dublin on 14th October. He wil...
Venezuela's surveillance network is built on Chinese tech, and the new president wanted Chinese AI implemented as well.
Deterministic AI combines AI interpretation with rules-based execution. How does it benefit businesses? Let’s start from the ground up. AI has been offered the front seat. It writes the email. Reads ...
Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
Anthropic just overhauled Projects in Claude Code, and it signals a massive shift in how AI builds software. Now you can spin up multiple AI agents that work on different parts of a single product- si...
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Multichannel advertising is only as strong as the systems behind it. Explore 10 integrations that connect intent, CRM, ecommerce, social, search, and attribution data. Multichannel advertising is ever...
Microsoft issued a patch for Excel’s broken copy-paste feature, but the fix only applies to Excel 2016.
Several years after leaving Seattle’s startup scene to build a “tech outpost” in the Alaskan wilderness, serial entrepreneurs and twin brothers Lee and Lucas Brown, founders of Tune, have set their si...
Microsoft fixed hundreds of security flaws in its September Patch Tuesday software updates — but it also introduced some annoying bugs. Now it has fixed some of them with a series of out-of-band updat...
Before moving to land grid array (LGA) packaging whereby each pin on the substrate is just a copper pad, processors commonly used pin grid array (PGA) packaging, including the still …read more
Firmware updates have been the weakest link for a decade with smart homes. Every sensor, light bulb, and smart lock in your house runs software that should be updated regularly. This is on top of even...
WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets