August 2025

Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your ‘garbage’ RISC-V patches are ‘making the world worse’

Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your ‘garbage’ RISC-V patches are ‘making the world worse’ 2025-08-11 at 14:02 By Gareth Halfacree Well, at least he didn’t drop the F-bomb Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer “on notice” for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V […]

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Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study

Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study 2025-08-11 at 13:32 By Gareth Halfacree Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins In space, no one can hear you sneeze – but that hasn’t stopped a team of boffins researching exactly what happens when an astronaut gets a case of the sniffles,

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Big Tech workers top donations to Mamdani campaign in headache for Google, Meta

Big Tech workers top donations to Mamdani campaign in headache for Google, Meta 2025-08-11 at 13:03 By Thomas Barrabi Big Tech workers were among the biggest donors to Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral campaign – creating a fresh dilemma for Google, Meta and other firms that may be privately skeptical of the self-proclaimed Democratic socialist’s policies.

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BTC price to fill $117K CME gap? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week

BTC price to fill $117K CME gap? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week 2025-08-11 at 13:03 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin has a new dip target as a new week begins with BTC price action targeting all-time highs — will bulls end up defending $117,000? This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com

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The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business

The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business 2025-08-11 at 12:56 By Lindsay Clark AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance Survey Feature  Britain’s Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is interloping in the digital age. Minecraft, AR gaming, and EV charger locations have all become part

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WinRAR zero day exploited by RomCom hackers in targeted attacks

WinRAR zero day exploited by RomCom hackers in targeted attacks 2025-08-11 at 12:55 By Sinisa Markovic ESET researchers have discovered a previously unknown vulnerability in WinRAR, exploited in the wild by Russia-aligned group RomCom. If you use WinRAR or related components such as the Windows versions of its command line tools, UnRAR.dll, or the portable

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Russian Hackers Exploited WinRAR Zero-Day in Attacks on Europe, Canada

Russian Hackers Exploited WinRAR Zero-Day in Attacks on Europe, Canada 2025-08-11 at 12:55 By Eduard Kovacs WinRAR has patched CVE-2025-8088, a zero-day exploited by Russia’s RomCom in attacks on financial, defense, manufacturing and logistics companies. The post Russian Hackers Exploited WinRAR Zero-Day in Attacks on Europe, Canada appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an

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S&P Global assigns ‘B-’ credit rating to Sky Protocol, first for DeFi protocol

S&P Global assigns ‘B-’ credit rating to Sky Protocol, first for DeFi protocol 2025-08-11 at 11:06 By Cointelegraph by Lyne Qian S&P Global’s credit rating of Sky Protocol reflects key concerns over governance centralization, weak capitalization and regulatory uncertainty. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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BadCam: New BadUSB Attack Turns Linux Webcams Into Persistent Threats 

BadCam: New BadUSB Attack Turns Linux Webcams Into Persistent Threats  2025-08-11 at 11:05 By Eduard Kovacs Eclypsium researchers have demonstrated a BadCam attack against Lenovo cameras, but others may be impacted as well. The post BadCam: New BadUSB Attack Turns Linux Webcams Into Persistent Threats  appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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Bitcoin surge to $122K was ‘just a matter of time,’ Analyst says

Bitcoin surge to $122K was ‘just a matter of time,’ Analyst says 2025-08-11 at 10:02 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Bitcoin surged above $122,000, within 1% of its all-time high, following last week’s pro-crypto White House executive order and three strong days of Bitcoin ETF inflows. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

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WinRAR Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation – Update to Latest Version Immediately

WinRAR Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation – Update to Latest Version Immediately 2025-08-11 at 09:46 By The maintainers of the WinRAR file archiving utility have released an update to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2025-8088 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has been described as a case of path traversal affecting the Windows version

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China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests

China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests 2025-08-11 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030 China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna – and

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How Brandolini’s law informs our everyday infosec reality

How Brandolini’s law informs our everyday infosec reality 2025-08-11 at 09:00 By Help Net Security Brandolini’s law, also known as the “bullshit asymmetry principle”, is simple but devastating: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” While it’s often thrown around in political debates and

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Google fixing Gemini so it doesn’t channel paranoid androids quite so often

Google fixing Gemini so it doesn’t channel paranoid androids quite so often 2025-08-11 at 08:48 By Simon Sharwood Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to solve a problem

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From legacy to SaaS: Why complexity is the enemy of enterprise security

From legacy to SaaS: Why complexity is the enemy of enterprise security 2025-08-11 at 08:32 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Robert Buljevic, Technology Consultant at Bridge IT, discusses how the coexistence of legacy systems and SaaS applications is changing the way organizations approach security. He explains why finding the right balance

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Ethereum bag holders will rotate back to Bitcoin: Samson Mow

Ethereum bag holders will rotate back to Bitcoin: Samson Mow 2025-08-11 at 08:16 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Bitcoin maximalist Samson Mow predicts the ETH investors will rotate back to BTC, but previous market cycles suggest altcoin growth patterns will continue. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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