AI-slop threatens open source: why your company must audit now
AI-generated code is flooding open-source repositories with low-quality contributions. For businesses relying on OSS, this is a hidden risk to your software supply chain.
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Why your next AI assistant shouldn't run in the cloud
Everyone is rushing to the cloud for AI. Here's why that might be the wrong move — especially if you're handling anything sensitive.
12 petabytes wiped — Iran hackers turned Intune into kill switch
Handala hijacked Stryker's Intune console and wiped 200,000 devices in one night. 12 petabytes gone. Medical device connectivity disrupted.
AI learned to use your computer — 12 new models dropped
GPT-5.4 launched with native computer use and 1M token context. The same week saw Gemini 3.1, DeepSeek V4, Nemotron 3, and Claude Opus 4.6.
45,000 tech jobs gone — companies are blaming AI
Block cut 40% citing 'intelligence tools.' Amazon laid off 16,000. Meta planning 20%+ cuts. The AI job displacement wave has arrived.
Odido hack: 6.2 million customers breached — third of NL exposed
Dutch telecom Odido confirmed 6.2M customer accounts compromised. Passport scans, IBANs, and government ministers' data leaked.
Consumers revolt against Big Tech — AI companies on the list
Scott Galloway's 'Resist and Unsubscribe' boycott targets 10 companies including OpenAI. $700B in AI spending while consumers feel squeezed.
The open-source AI revolution: paying for GPT may not be necessary
DeepSeek and Qwen went from 1% to 15% market share in one year. Self-hosted, private, and free alternatives are now competitive.
Cybersecurity split into three worlds — January 2026 is when
China banned foreign security software. European hospitals cancelled surgeries after ransomware. Microsoft took down a $40M cybercrime platform.
Apple surrenders to Google on AI — Microsoft puts Copilot behind paywall
Apple partnering with Google Gemini for Siri. Microsoft ending free Copilot in Office. One company can't build AI, the other won't give it away.
🎄 Christmas Special: 2025 — the year tech broke, AI grew up
A year-end look back at the stories that defined technology, AI, and cybersecurity in 2025 — and what it means for 2026.
EU Cyber Resilience Act: 9 months until security passport
The CRA entered into force one year ago. Reporting obligations start September 2026. Penalties up to €15M.
AI beat every human engineer — infrastructure keeps breaking
Claude Opus 4.5 scored 80.9% on SWE-bench and beat every human on Anthropic's exam. Forbes declared 2025 'the year systems broke.'
The cybersecurity company got hacked by its own employee
CrowdStrike terminated an employee who shared internal screenshots and authentication material with hackers for $25,000.
Pentagon demands certification — its own budget office got hacked
CMMC went mandatory for all DoD contracts the same day the Congressional Budget Office confirmed a foreign hacker breach.
October 2025: the month your infrastructure failed
AWS down 15 hours. Azure down 9 days later. Ransomware hit record 86 incidents. Your infrastructure was vulnerable in every direction.
Harvard, airlines, and hospitals — enterprise software is the battlefield
Oracle EBS zero-day mass-exploitation hit Harvard, Envoy Air, and GlobalLogic. EU publishes hospital cybersecurity plan.
The defenders went agentic — Google's AI hunts threats
Google launched Agentic Threat Intelligence: AI agents that investigate threats, correlate data, and deliver answers through conversation.
22.2 Tbps — the largest DDoS attack in history
Cloudflare mitigated a 22.2 Tbps DDoS attack in 40 seconds. The record was broken three times in one year.
Agentic AI hit the enterprise — most companies aren't ready
Bain, McKinsey, and MIT Sloan published agentic AI reports in the same week. Gartner: 40% of enterprise apps will have AI agents by end of 2026.
7.4 million luxury customers' data stolen
Kering confirmed hackers stole data of 7.4 million customers via Salesforce. Shiny Hunters claimed responsibility.
First week of September: everything breached at once
Six major breaches in the first week of September 2025 — Google, WhatsApp, Azure AD, Jaguar Land Rover, and Salesforce.
Your software bill is about to jump — AI is the excuse
Salesforce raised prices 6%. SaaS inflation hit 11.4% — 4x general inflation. Every major vendor is using AI to justify increases.
Claude now reads 200,000 tokens at once
Anthropic expanded Claude to 200K tokens — 150,000 words in a single request. What you can do with it that you couldn't before.
GPT-5 drops Thursday — what it means for your business
OpenAI launches GPT-5 on 7 August. Better coding, reasoning, writing, and safety. Here's what businesses should expect.
EU drops two AI bombs in one day
On 24 July, the EU published mandatory training data disclosure templates and a strict liability study — same day, same message: self-regulation is over.
The EU just clarified the rules for AI models
The European Commission published draft guidelines clarifying key provisions of the AI Act for GPAI models. Here's what Dutch businesses need to know.