Progress Software restored ShareFile cloud access for customers using self-hosted Storage Zone Controllers as of 5 p.m. ET on July 12, but told them to keep the Windows servers hosting those controllers powered off while it investigates what it described as a credible external security threat.
The company says it has no evidence of unauthorized access or an active threat. It has not publicly disclosed the suspected threat, affected software versions, or when customers can safely return the controllers to service.
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Irish data centres used 23 percent of metered electricity in 2025
Ireland’s Central Statistics Office says data centres consumed 7,663 GWh of metered electricity in 2025, 10 percent more than in 2024, while consumption by all other users rose 2 percent. Their share of national metered consumption increased from 5 percent in 2015 to 23 percent in 2025; the CSO notes that source data do not classify data centres separately, so it identifies them through operator names, industry reports, internet research, and reviews of high-consumption customers.
Filed from: TechRadar , Central Statistics Office .
NHTSA asks automated-vehicle developers to address interference with first responders
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told automated-vehicle developers to prioritize how driverless systems respond at emergency scenes after documenting vehicles entering active scenes, blocking emergency vehicles, or failing to respond to lights, flares, smoke, fire, and cones. The agency plans meetings with developers by the end of July; its letter is a call to action backed by a warning about enforcement authority, not a new vehicle standard or penalty.
Filed from: TechCrunch , NHTSA , agency letter .
Cloudflare adds session-wide behavior signals to enterprise bot management
Cloudflare has begun rolling out Precursor, an optional Enterprise Bot Management feature that injects JavaScript into HTML responses and evaluates pointer movement, keyboard timing, focus changes, and page visibility across a session. Cloudflare says these signals feed bot scores, challenge decisions, and security rules, while actual keys are not recorded; those detection and privacy claims come from the company’s launch announcement and have not been independently evaluated here.
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Sandisk begins sampling 332-layer BiCS10 NAND
Sandisk has begun sampling its 1-terabit BiCS10 TLC 3D NAND, made with 332 memory layers and bonded logic and memory-array wafers. The company reports up to 4.8 Gb/s interface speed and 59 percent greater bit density than BiCS8; this announcement covers the NAND component, while the 512 TB SSD discussed in TechRadar’s report remains a later roadmap target.
Filed from: TechRadar , Sandisk .
Meta removes public Instagram-account references from Muse Image
Meta has withdrawn the Muse Image feature that let people reference public Instagram accounts by @-mention when generating images. In a July 10 update to its launch announcement, Meta said the feature missed the mark after feedback; the change applies to public-account references rather than the Muse Image model and its other editing and generation features.
Filed from: The Register , Meta .
sqlite-utils 4.1.1 blocks a destructive foreign-key transform edge case
sqlite-utils 4.1.1 now raises a TransactionError when table.transform() runs inside a transaction with foreign keys enabled and destructive ON DELETE actions reference the table. The release notes say the previous behavior could drop the old table during a transform and silently delete or modify referencing rows because SQLite cannot change the foreign_keys pragma inside an open transaction.
Filed from: Simon Willison , GitHub release .
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Chrome 148 exposes OS-specific rounding through browser math
Scrapfly reports that Chrome 148 changed V8’s Math.tanh implementation to use the host operating system’s math library, producing small but measurable differences across Linux, macOS, and Windows. The same investigation found host-library differences in CSS trigonometric functions and Web Audio paths, creating fingerprinting signals that the researchers reproduced against real browser and operating-system combinations.
Filed from: Scrapfly Engineering .
InfiniteDiffusion generates unbounded terrain with random access
InfiniteDiffusion reformulates diffusion sampling as a lazy, unbounded process indexed by seed and coordinates, providing deterministic generation and constant-time random access without persistent external state. Its Terrain Diffusion demonstration combines hierarchical models for planetary and local detail, runs on consumer hardware, and has been integrated into open-source Minecraft and Unity demonstrations; the work is scheduled for SIGGRAPH 2026.
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Ploy reports faster, cheaper production builds after moving to GPT-5.6
Ploy says its website-building agent completed an internal redesign evaluation 2.2 times faster and at 27 percent lower cost after moving from Claude Opus 4.8 to GPT-5.6 Sol. The company also describes fixing model-specific assumptions in its evaluation harness, rewriting optional tool properties as required but nullable, and changing prompt-cache handling; the performance figures are Ploy’s own production evaluation rather than an independent benchmark.
Filed from: Ploy .
DOM-docx converts semantic HTML into editable Word documents
DOM-docx is an MIT-licensed library for converting semantic HTML fragments into native, editable OOXML documents with support for paragraphs, lists, tables, images, and inline formatting. Its default Node.js path does not require a browser, while an optional Playwright-backed mode can resolve computed styles before conversion.
Filed from: GitHub repository .
Beavis Ultrasound publishes an open replica of a Gravis ISA sound card
The Beavis Ultrasound project publishes a four-layer replica of the Gravis Ultrasound PnP ISA sound card, including its schematic and reverse-engineered GAL source code around the AMD InterWave AM78C201 chip. The designer has not fabricated or tested the board and explicitly presents it as a build-at-your-own-risk design.
Filed from: GitHub repository .
