October 2025

Microsoft’s ancient icon library still lurks deep within Windows 11

Microsoft’s ancient icon library still lurks deep within Windows 11 2025-10-21 at 19:13 By Richard Speed Pixels of the past ‘created just for fun’ The pifmgr.dll still lingers in modern Windows installations – a throwback to a simpler and blockier time, according to veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

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SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition

SpaceX is behind schedule, so NASA will open Artemis III contract to competition 2025-10-21 at 19:13 By Richard Speed Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk’s rocketeers NASA’s Acting Administrator has admitted that SpaceX is behind in plans to return astronauts to the Moon, has reopened lander contract competition, and pushed the deadline for

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CISA warns of Windows SMB flaw under active exploitation (CVE-2025-33073)

CISA warns of Windows SMB flaw under active exploitation (CVE-2025-33073) 2025-10-21 at 19:13 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2025-33073, a Windows SMB Client vulnerability that Microsoft fixed in June 2025, is being exploited by attackers. The confirmation comes from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which has added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog,

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DataDome secures MCP infrastructure for trusted agentic AI

DataDome secures MCP infrastructure for trusted agentic AI 2025-10-21 at 19:13 By Industry News DataDome announced a new capability to secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server infrastructure. With a standard DataDome integration module, enterprises can now gain visibility into and protect MCP interactions, enabling them to build agentic customer experiences on a foundation of trust

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Dataminr’s $290 million ThreatConnect deal expands AI for real-time cyber defense

Dataminr’s $290 million ThreatConnect deal expands AI for real-time cyber defense 2025-10-21 at 19:13 By Industry News Dataminr has announced its intent to acquire ThreatConnect in a transaction valuing the company at $290 million. The fusion of Dataminr’s AI platform for public data signals with ThreatConnect’s deep internal data capabilities will create agentic AI-powered, client-tailored

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Veeam to Acquire Data Security Firm Securiti AI for $1.7 Billion

Veeam to Acquire Data Security Firm Securiti AI for $1.7 Billion 2025-10-21 at 19:13 By Eduard Kovacs The acquisition will unify data resilience with DSPM, privacy, governance, and AI trust across production and secondary data. The post Veeam to Acquire Data Security Firm Securiti AI for $1.7 Billion appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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Fed mulls ‘skinny’ payment accounts to open rails for fintech, crypto firms

Fed mulls ‘skinny’ payment accounts to open rails for fintech, crypto firms 2025-10-21 at 19:12 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Industry watchers welcomed the idea of “skinny” master accounts as another sign of the end of crypto’s banking troubles, in what insiders describe as “Operation Chokepoint 2.0.” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

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Gravwell Closes $15.4M Funding Round to Expand Data Analytics and Security Platform

Gravwell Closes $15.4M Funding Round to Expand Data Analytics and Security Platform 2025-10-21 at 19:06 By SecurityWeek News The Series A round was led by Two Bear Capital and included participation from Gula Tech Adventures, Next Frontier Capital, and others. The post Gravwell Closes $15.4M Funding Round to Expand Data Analytics and Security Platform appeared first on

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AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists 2025-10-21 at 19:05 By Carly Page Amazon’s hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos When Amazon’s cloud face-planted on Monday, it didn’t just take down some of the world’s most popular apps –

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Google introduces agentic threat intelligence for faster, conversational threat analysis

Google introduces agentic threat intelligence for faster, conversational threat analysis 2025-10-21 at 19:00 By Mirko Zorz Security teams spend much of their day pulling data from reports, forums, and feeds, trying to connect clues across multiple sources. Google says that work can now happen through a simple conversation. A new way to interact with threat

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SBOM Pioneer Allan Friedman Joins NetRise to Advance Supply Chain Visibility

SBOM Pioneer Allan Friedman Joins NetRise to Advance Supply Chain Visibility 2025-10-21 at 18:16 By Kevin Townsend NetRise appointed the former CISA Senior Advisor and Strategist as a Strategic Advisor. The post SBOM Pioneer Allan Friedman Joins NetRise to Advance Supply Chain Visibility appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View

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Andrew Cuomo’s crypto Hail Mary unlikely to give an edge over Mamdani

Andrew Cuomo’s crypto Hail Mary unlikely to give an edge over Mamdani 2025-10-21 at 18:10 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood As the New York mayor’s race draws to a culmination, Andrew Cuomo has developed a crypto and AI strategy for the city. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Meta Rolls Out New Tools to Protect WhatsApp and Messenger Users from Scams

Meta Rolls Out New Tools to Protect WhatsApp and Messenger Users from Scams 2025-10-21 at 18:03 By Meta on Tuesday said it’s launching new tools to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. To that end, the company said it’s introducing new warnings on WhatsApp when users attempt to share their screen with an

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California just drew the line between crypto and cash: Here’s why it matters

California just drew the line between crypto and cash: Here’s why it matters 2025-10-21 at 18:00 By Cointelegraph by Dilip Kumar Patairya California’s SB 822 ends forced crypto sell-offs and requires holders to send in-kind transfers of unclaimed crypto to the state, promoting stronger consumer rights. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

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Defakto Raises $30 Million for Non-Human IAM Platform

Defakto Raises $30 Million for Non-Human IAM Platform 2025-10-21 at 17:41 By Eduard Kovacs Defakto’s Series B funding, which brings the total raised to $50 million, was led by XYZ Venture Capital. The post Defakto Raises $30 Million for Non-Human IAM Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Government, Industrial Servers Targeted in China-Linked ‘PassiveNeuron’ Campaign

Government, Industrial Servers Targeted in China-Linked ‘PassiveNeuron’ Campaign 2025-10-21 at 17:34 By Ionut Arghire A threat actor has been infecting servers of high-profile entities with backdoors to exfiltrate information and deploy additional payloads. The post Government, Industrial Servers Targeted in China-Linked ‘PassiveNeuron’ Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View

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Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough

Introducing NTFSplus – because just one NTFS driver for Linux is never enough 2025-10-21 at 17:01 By Liam Proven Dev unveils a faster, modernized take on Microsoft’s file system for penguin-powered PCs Just under four years after the Linux kernel gained built-in read-write access to Windows drives, an alternative option has appeared.… This article is

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