Russian cloud service provider Yandex said drone strikes damaged three of its data centers, forcing it to close two facilities and partially paralyze a third. Yandex customers are experiencing service outages. Some of them report that they cannot access files stored in the company’s cloud infrastructure. The affected data centers are located in Sasovo (attack … Read more
Atlassian is warning customers about a critical vulnerability known as CVE-2026-21589 that can be exploited for arbitrary file access in several self-hosted data center products, including Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket. The security issue allows an unauthenticated attacker to access certain files in the web root of an affected application. However, exploitation requires knowledge of the … Read more
Apple has announced tightened controls for full disk access in macOS, given the risks posed by ever-evolving AI agents. Apple introduced full disk access in macOS Mojave (10.14) to give users control over application access to the entire system. The function can be switched on or off Apple Menu > System Preferences > Privacy & … Read more
Google’s Gemini could soon access every file on your macOS device, open apps, browse the web and perform actions without asking for permission every time. As discovered by TestingCatalog On The feature isn’t live yet and Google hasn’t confirmed it, but when enabled, Google Gemini would be able to read, create, modify, or even delete … Read more
After switching to desktop-based usage in May, Google will introduce limits to what free Gemini users and AI Plus subscribers can access. according to Updated support documentation This week, Gemini app users Without applying Google AI will be limited to Flash-Lite (3.5) format. Starting October 9th, users who have not paid for Gemini will no … Read more
Days after reporters claimed that Meta’s Muse app on the Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed — Apple announced that it was introducing additional controls over a setting called “Full Disk Access” in macOS. The feature was designed to allow backups to work properly, but now AI agents have added … Read more
The ability of AI systems to act as agents, to perform tasks on our behalf, is the single biggest development in technology. This is the ability to introduce Siri AI to Apple devices, and I tend to trust the protection of privacy and security that Apple has put in place. But Siri AI isn’t the … Read more
Collaboration suites like M365 offer unparalleled convenience. Millions of teams rely on them to quickly share documents with colleagues, customers and business partners. But when sharing is so easy, data security becomes much more difficult. Cloud sharing is so integral to the modern workplace that it’s hard to imagine how offices could ever function without … Read more