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Fashion retailer ASOS has confirmed a cyberattack after hackers compromised a third-party communications platform and used it to push rogue notifications to customers. The breach is a reminder that your security is only as strong as the weakest link in your vendor chain, and for ASOS users, that chain just snapped.
Shifting gears, LibreOffice is making waves not for what it added, but for what it refused to. Following the release of version twenty-six point eight, The Document Foundation pushed back against criticism over its lack of AI features, declaring plainly that "no AI is now a feature." Their position is straightforward: until artificial intelligence can be implemented privately and securely, it has no place in their editor by default.
And in a quieter but telling corner of tech, Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes used the company's Team Europe twenty-six event in Amsterdam to reframe how businesses should think about AI agents. His message was that working with AI is no longer a solo exercise, it is collaborative, multiplayer work, and human roles are not disappearing anytime soon.
That's your briefing for today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
