Zero Downtime

Denmark’s national population register got breached through a vendor whose administrator password was reportedly “123456”, and the intrusion was finally caught because the invoice looked too high. Fortnite is coming to Linux, with a boot-chain checklist long enough to require reading glasses. French supermarkets had their refrigeration systems hacked, with attackers forcing freezers into defrost mode ...

Some iPhone 18 Pro Max owners on AT&T have phones that can’t reliably make phone calls, and Apple says the already-broken ones need hardware replacement. A group of developers is rebuilding Adobe’s entire creative suite from scratch as open-source Rust applications. The Citrix NetScaler story we covered last week turned out to be exactly as bad as the shutdown warnings suggested. And a suspected ShinyHu...

WinRAR may have finally figured out how to get people to give them money, and it only took three decades. The answer wasn't licensing enforcement. It was a $150 messenger bag shaped like the WinRAR icon. Meanwhile, there are credible reports of two actively exploited Citrix NetScaler zero-days, a 16-year-old typed "admin" into a Microsoft analytics platform and got access to 17 trillion rows of data, and Microsoft's We...

Flock Safety, the $8 billion license plate reader company, just launched a "voluntary" employee separation program while cities across the country cancel their contracts. Windows quietly assigns a persistent 64-bit device identifier even when you set up a local account. The FCC has accidentally started a civil war inside Meshtastic and MeshCore mesh networks. And Microsoft's second Weekly Damage Report covers what got ...

A China-based operation used Claude to power more than 20 fraudulent dating apps and fake 4,700 AI "soulmates" for at least 25,000 real people. German police are quietly connecting their computers to citizens' WhatsApp accounts through phones handed over voluntarily. Chess.com just had 7.3 million records show up online. And attackers are now phishing Microsoft 365 accounts by pretending to help you set up a passkey. T...

LG Ad Solutions actually tells advertisers they can "own the living room." European governments and militaries are actively migrating off Microsoft. Microsoft 365 suffered a multi-day outage that took down Exchange and authentication. And ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all had overlapping outages on the same day. This week, John and Logan break down nine stories covering surveillance, cloud reliability, cybersecurity, and w...

Infostealer malware is quietly harvesting active Claude login sessions and burning through victims' AI quotas, and 2FA won't stop it. Google removed a key hardware security feature from the Pixel 11, and GrapheneOS is now telling people to buy a Motorola instead. The EU has officially decided ChatGPT is a "search engine." And a China-linked hacking group turned compromised Cisco routers into full-blown spy platforms th...

T-Mobile stopped a Chinese state-sponsored hacking campaign by physically cutting a network cable with a pair of scissors. The GTA 6 leaker appears to actually have a playable build of the unreleased game. Walmart is finally accepting Apple Pay after a 12-year cold war. And university researchers just figured out how to bring expired Visa credit cards back from the dead. This week, John and Logan break down seven stori...

Amazon is buying rare books, cutting the bindings off, and shredding them into an AI training pipeline. Bill Gates' daughter's shopping startup is accused of dropping affiliate cookies without earning them. Apple just warned iPhone users in 110 countries that they've been individually targeted by mercenary spyware. And McDonald's, Costco, Dell, and Charles Schwab all showed up in the same corporate data dump this week....

An autonomous AI agent cancelled someone else's Pilates reservation to move its owner up the waitlist. A California city's 911 system went down in a cyberattack. Signal is quietly working on letting you sign up without a phone number. And Zero Downtime pushes back on the current media panic about data centers. This week, John and Logan cover five stories a...

Attackers just drained more than a thousand Bitcoin wallets and roughly $100 million in 41 minutes because of a firmware bug in a "secure" hardware wallet, job applicants are hiding invisible instructions in their resumes to trick AI hiring systems, cheap streaming sticks may be running as botnet infrastructure in millions of homes, and Disney+ just downgr...

The feds want to send a traveler to prison for entering the Duress PIN on his GrapheneOS phone at the border, a new website indexes exposed AI inference servers so anyone can use other people's GPUs for free, hackers are hijacking hotel WiFi to steal Microsoft 365 logins, and the Chick-Fil-A breach was not really a Chick-Fil-A breach. This week, John and L...

LG just updated its smart TV terms to require wiretap consent from anyone whose voice might get captured, or you lose your security updates. Researchers just disclosed a WordPress core exploit chain that gives unauthenticated attackers remote code execution. The FCC wants your ID before you can activate a prepaid phone. And Nissan is officially killing the...

The FCC just approved a startup that wants to launch satellites with giant mirrors to redirect sunlight to Earth after dark, a U.S. government body reportedly paid hackers a million dollars for nothing more than a promise the stolen data was deleted, and there is a Windows 11 bug hoarding hundreds of gigabytes of storage on some machines. This week, John and Logan b...

The man who spent millions trying not to die just got diagnosed with a chronic autoimmune disease, Ford quietly rehired hundreds of engineers after its AI systems fell short, Sony is killing physical PlayStation games in 2028, and 630GB of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro supply chain data just landed on the dark web. This week, John and Logan break down nine stories covering ...

Apple products are about to get more expensive and Apple is pointing at AI as the reason, Samsung and SK hynix and Micron are being sued for allegedly restricting consumer RAM supply, Best Buy accidentally listed a $149,999 TV for $2,999, and T-Mobile is quietly walking away from the Un-carrier identity that built the company. This week, John and Logan break down ei...

Researchers say they have found an iPhone exploit Apple cannot patch, a man in the UK was just criminally convicted in 2026 for burning and selling pirated CDs, and a high school student in India just cracked open Apple's AirPods walled garden. This week, John and Logan break down ten stories covering AI, Apple, healthcare breaches, wireless plans, and one genuinely...

The White House just forced Anthropic to shut down Claude Fable 5 less than a week after launch, and the fingerprints on that decision lead straight back to Amazon. This week, John and Logan break down the wild 48-hour Fable 5 shutdown, the new class-action lawsuit hitting Anthropic over Claude Max usage limits, Fox's $22 billion acquisition of Roku, and the UK's ag...

Apple's new Siri is quietly powered by Google's Gemini, hackers took over Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram by simply asking Meta's AI, and Microsoft just shipped native Linux commands directly into Windows. This week, John and Logan break down WWDC 2026, the critical UniFi exploit IT teams need to patch immediately, the AI customer support failure that gave away 20,000 Instagram accounts, and the historical shift in how Windows treats L...