Daily Tech News 2 August 2025

• UK premium luggage service Airportr, which provided door-to-door service and worked with ten European airlines, was not hacked, exactly. (Wired) (archive site)
  
  Because it had no security at all. Anyone could look up anyone's personal information, or even log in as an administrator and redirect their luggage.

  The vulnerabilities resulted in complete confidential private information exposure of all airline customers in all countries who used the service of this company, including full control over all the bookings and baggage. Because once you are the super-admin of their most sensitive systems, you have have the ability to do anything.

  It was found by security analysts before anyone took advantage of it. The CEO of security group Cyber9X is quoted above.

• Three senior executives are retiring from Intel Foundry, Intel's foundry division. (Tom's Hardware)

  The departures come as Intel implements a major cost-cutting plan, aiming to reduce its global workforce by 15%. The company expects to close the year with approximately 75,000 employees worldwide, which means that the company will have fired 30,000 people in 2025.

  Those numbers don't add up because Intel has already laid off 15,000 staff this year.
  
  
  
• Titan Quest II is out in early access right now, available on Steam at 50% of the planned launch price of $50. (WCCFTech)
  
  Titan Quest was a great game - linear, yes, but a very long line - but that was all the way back in 2006.
  
  Titan Quest II is reportedly good as well, though the playable content in the early access release so far only lasts about four hours.
  
  
  
• Google has filed an emergency motion in its failed case against Epic, arguing that it needs more time to make the changes ordered. (Thurrott)
  
  Google has been given only 14 days to deliver, which is not a lot of time, true.
  
  But the lawsuit started five years ago, and Epic won the case - on all counts - twenty months ago.
  
  Time for Google to pull an all-nighter.
  
  
  
• Atlassian - Australia's largest tech company as far as I know - fired 150 of its European staff via prerecorded video. (Cyberdaily)
  
  I used to kind of like Atlassian because small companies could buy any of their products for $10 and host them on they own servers. They did get their fangs into you as you grew, of course.
  
  Now it's just loathing all the way down.

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