DSIT gets sums badly wrong on AI datacentre carbon footprint
Government figures for projected carbon footprint for datacentres have been miscalculated. New figures for the likely carbon output resulting from electricity use by datacentres published…
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Australia to charge Big Tech companies two percent levy unless they strike local news deals
The Australian government said that Meta, Alphabet’s Google and TikTok could face multimillion-dollar charges if they did not negotiate deals to pay local media outlets…
Energy and Water Management Firm Itron Hacked
US-based energy and water management solutions provider Itron has launched an investigation after hackers gained access to some of its systems. Itron helps utilities and…
Firefox bug CVE-2026-6770 enabled cross-site tracking and Tor fingerprinting
Firefox bug CVE-2026-6770 enabled cross-site tracking and Tor fingerprinting Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2026 CVE-2026-6770 let attackers fingerprint Firefox and Tor users, even in Private…
AI Is Not the Villain (or the Hero)
Hey all, I want to take a moment to clarify what I think is happening with jobs, AI, and tech in general right now. The…
Chinese national extradited to US for pandemic-era Silk Typhoon attacks
A Chinese national allegedly involved in a massive, pandemic-era attack spree that compromised nearly 13,000 U.S. organizations was extradited from Italy to the United States…
Macquarie Government appoints former Defence advisor Dr Chris Peiris as Microsoft Security and Azure lead
Macquarie Government has appointed Dr Chris Peiris as its Microsoft Security and Azure Lead, as the company seeks to expand its work with federal and…
Infected Cisco firewalls need cold start to clear persistent Firestarter backdoor
He underscored the CISA and Cisco advice that to mitigate damage, an infected device must be physically disconnected from all power sources, including redundant ones,…
Attackers Didn’t Wait for AI. They Built Workflows Around It.
The earliest adopter of AI wasn’t your security team. It wasn’t even your vendor. It was the adversary. “Adversarial poetry” is an intriguing phrase making…
Robinhood account creation flaw abused to send phishing emails
Online trading platform Robinhood’s account creation process was exploited by threat actors to inject phishing messages into legitimate emails, tricking users into believing their accounts…
Critical Gemini CLI Vulnerability Enables Remote Code Execution Attacks
Google has fixed a critical security flaw in the Gemini CLI that could allow attackers to execute remote code in certain automated workflows. The issue…
Fake YouTube Downloads Spread Vidar Malware to Steal Corporate Logins
A new Vidar infostealer campaign is abusing fake software download links on YouTube to compromise corporate employees and sell their stolen credentials on Russian cybercrime…