23 Jun 2026
Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era
Sometimes it takes a while to detect a vuln. A 29-year-old, Heartbleed-style vulnerability in Squid, a popular open-source caching proxy server, silently leaked users' plaintext HTTP requests and potentially revealed sensitive data, including credentials and session tokens, for decades - until AI (and a few humans) saved the day.
Jessica Lyons
2026
16 Jun 2026
Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges
REG AD SOFTWARE Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not! Microsoft is facing AI-related issues on multiple fronts. Disgruntled investors have flung a sueball at the company over its Copilot claims, while it is reportedly turning to other cloud vendors to help with AI-induced scalability issues at its coding collaboration tentacle, GitHub.
Richard Speed
2026
12 Jun 2026
Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure
Software Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized
Thomas Claburn
2026
03 Jun 2026
Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows
Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft released coreutils, a Rust-built multi-call binary file for Windows that serves over 75 Unix commands directly in the Windows CMD and PowerShell command lines – including favorites such as cat, ls,…
Joab Jackson
2026
26 May 2026
EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project
REG AD Systems DIY or die. Just don't let the CIA buy it OPINION There's a spy in the court of Europe's digital sovereignty. Actually there are two, the half-siblings Intel and AMD, whose chips power the Old World bit barns on which the sovereign cloud is based.
Rupert Goodwins
2026
19 May 2026
Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and doting parent company Alphabet, opened its Google I/O developer conference with a celebration of token and capital expenditures. Tokens are the basic data exchange unit of AI models and Google has vastly increased its token processing to accommodate internal and external demand for AI inference.
Thomas Claburn
2026
11 May 2026
Cookie thieves caught stealing dev secrets via fake Claude Code installers
Cookie thieves caught stealing dev secrets via fake Claude Code installers
Jessica Lyons
2026
