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Google has admitted that hackers stole more than 200 companies’ data stored in Salesforce in a massive supply chain hack. Salesforce said Thursday that “Salesforce data for certain customers” had been compromised, although it did not name the affected companies. The data was stolen through an app published by Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform for other companies. Austin Larsen, principal threat analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, said in a statement that the company is “aware of over 200 Salesforce instances that may be affected.” After Salesforce announced the breach, a notorious and somewhat obscure hacking group known…
November 21, 2025Rabi LakshmananVulnerability/Threat Mitigation Grafana has released a security update to address a maximum severity security flaw that could allow privilege escalation and user impersonation under certain configurations. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-41115 and has a CVSS score of 10.0. It resides within the System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) component, which enables automated user provisioning and management. It was first introduced in April 2025 and is currently in public preview. “In Grafana version 12.x with SCIM provisioning enabled and configured, a vulnerability in user ID handling could allow a malicious or compromised SCIM client to provision a…
SpaceX rolled out an upgraded version of its Starship rocket booster in south Texas to begin testing on Thursday, but just hours later something inside exploded. Live streamers watching SpaceX’s Starbase complex captured the explosion up close before dawn on Friday, around 4 a.m. local time. Other creators in the area have since taken photos detailing the damage. Unlike the fireball explosions that SpaceX has dealt with during previous rocket development, this explosion appears to have blown off the entire side of the bottom of the booster, leaving the rest of it intact. It happened very early in the process…
Imagine driving down a highway in the summer. The windows are down, the music is loud, and the wind is whipping through your hair. Now picture your car’s windshield. You might expect to see a handful of splats from unfortunate bugs. But 30 years ago, there would have been significantly more buggy skid marks plastered on the front of your vehicle.”When I was a kid, you could go out driving in the summer, and you would come home and your car windshield was covered in bugs,” said Cheryl Schultz, an ecologist at Washington State University. “Now, you can go across…
The UK Space Agency is investing £6.9m in satellite communications that will transform connectivity and secure the UK’s position as Europe’s space leader. The funding will support five ground-breaking projects through the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems) program to develop breakthrough satellite communications, from faster connectivity to lunar missions. These projects will showcase the UK’s expertise in next generation satellite technology and strengthen the UK’s role in advanced communications. This investment supports the UK’s industrial strategy priority capabilities: satellite communications, positioning, navigation and timing, on-orbit servicing and manufacturing, space domain awareness and space data for…
The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 along party lines Thursday to repeal a rule requiring major U.S. phone and internet companies to meet certain minimum cybersecurity requirements. Two Trump-appointed FCC commissioners, Chairman Brendan Carr and his Republican colleague Olivia Trustee, voted in favor of repealing a rule requiring telecommunications carriers to “protect their networks from unlawful access and interception.” The Biden administration adopted these rules before leaving office earlier this year. Anna Gomez, the FCC’s only Democratic commissioner, opposed it. In a statement after the vote, Gomez said the overturned rules were “the only meaningful effort this agency has taken”…
Anders Jensen, Executive Director of EuroHPC JU, explains how the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking is helping accelerate innovation high performance computing across Europe. High performance computing (HPC) is at the heart of Europe’s digital transformation, driving innovation, scientific discovery, and industrial competitiveness. Using supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computational problems, HPC applications include research, science, design, simulation, and business intelligence. Europe’s HPC landscape is driven by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) – a joint initiative between the EU, European countries, and private partners to develop a world-class supercomputing ecosystem in Europe. Established…
November 21, 2025Rabi LakshmananData protection/technology Surprisingly, Google announced Thursday that it has updated its peer-to-peer file transfer service, Quick Share, to work with Apple’s AirDrop device, allowing users to more easily share files and photos between Android and iPhone devices. The cross-platform sharing feature is currently limited to the Pixel 10 lineup and works with iPhone, iPad, and macOS devices, but will be expanded to other Android devices in the future. The only caveat to transferring files from a Pixel 10 smartphone via AirDrop is that Apple device owners must make their iPhone (or iPad or Mac) discoverable by everyone.…
Large-scale language models (LLMs) are more likely to report being self-aware when prompted to think about themselves if their ability to lie is inhibited, according to new research.In experiments with artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as GPT, Claude, and Gemini, researchers found that models that were discouraged from lying were more likely to describe what they were aware of and had subjective experience when prompted to think about their thoughts.All models can make this claim to some extent, but such claims became stronger and more common when researchers suppressed the ability to role-play or give deceptive responses. In other words,…
People in Silicon Valley tend to dismiss the startup market across the pond as too small or not hungry enough, a sentiment not unlike how Europeans view their potential. This year’s annual Slush conference in Helsinki showed a venture market that feels on the brink of transformation, poised for the first trillion-dollar startups. Founders, venture investors and government officials alike acknowledged the obstacles that have traditionally prevented Europe from reaching its true size and potential. For years, European founders have moved to the United States to start their companies or exited earlier than necessary because they operated in markets lacking…