Ars TechnicaOct 9, 2026
PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
"The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."
IT
Source: Ars Technica · Scharon Harding
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TechCrunchOct 8, 2026
Asos confirms breach of customer data after hackers send rogue app notification
The hackers alerted the fashion giant's customers through a push notification that said they had "fully compromised" the company's cloud storage.
CybersecurityIT
Source: TechCrunch · Zack Whittaker
Ars TechnicaOct 6, 2026
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
CybersecurityIT
Source: Ars Technica · Dan Goodin
Ars TechnicaOct 6, 2026
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
AICybersecurity
Source: Ars Technica · Dan Goodin
Ars TechnicaOct 6, 2026
Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey
Users want to "reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption" while making changes.
IT
Source: Ars Technica · Scharon Harding
Ars TechnicaOct 5, 2026
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
IT
Source: Ars Technica · Dan Goodin
Ars TechnicaOct 2, 2026
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
AIIT
Source: Ars Technica · Dan Goodin
Ars TechnicaOct 1, 2026
Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data
It has been a bad month for federal government cybersecurity.
ITCybersecurity
Source: Ars Technica · Dan Goodin
Ars TechnicaOct 1, 2026
Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
Prices for memory sold for 2027 "are much higher than 2026 prices."
IT
Source: Ars Technica · Scharon Harding