Your Thursday intelligence
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing the June 2026 security updates to fail on Windows Server 2016 systems that weren't up to date. [...]
Read →OpenAI appears to be testing a new subscription and experience for science use cases, but it's unclear if it'll be available to everyone regardless of their background. [...]
Read →From August 3, 2026, Google will use IP addresses from UK, EEA and Switzerland users for ad measurement and personalization. It lands as the ICO weighs new consent rules, and years after Google itself called using such signals to identify d
Read →An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging paid or promoted posts on legitimate news websites to drum up buzz for their warez, according to new findings from Check Point Research. The threat actor also has at their disposal a dedi
Read →Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company's first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the "cat pictures" produced by its AI image generator. Dubbed The Midjourney Sc
Read →Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including users inside the US and its own employees,
Read →According to the latest Pew Research poll, 49 percent of Americans report using chatbots at least occasionally, but 63 percent think the tech is advancing too quickly. Overall, use of AI chatbots has increased dramatically since 2024, when
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Read →Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook says "price increases are unavoidable:" We're doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that
Read →VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app rolling out today on iOS and coming to macOS later this year, as Bloomberg reports. At launch, the app offers tools for batch editing, style matching from a reference image, and shar
Read →Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn't yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big ste
Read →The most poorly secured government network in South Africa belongs to the Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape which has 94 "critical" vulnerabilities in a single server, some as old as from 2015.
Read →A high profile banking scam struck Middelburg-based engineering firm Jormid, with scammers making off with R21.55 million after a series of phone calls.
Read →A cybersecurity expert has warned that many South Africans make a basic mistake regarding their banking passwords that could put their accounts at risk.
Read →SITA is unable to upgrade government ICT systems to protect them against cyberattacks because it must have permission and funding from each individual department.
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