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Russia, hotbed of cybercrime, says nyet to ethical hacking bill - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:15:06 GMT)Politicians uneasy over potential impact on national security, local reports sayRussia, home to some of the world's most lucrative and damaging cybercrime operations, has rejected a bill to legalize ethical hacking.… |
Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:28:12 GMT)Shipments in America flat, surge across ROTW ahead of Win 10 support cutoffTariff uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump still hangs over the PC industry despite manufacturers navigating a "complex regulatory maze" to avoid being in the firing line over import taxes when the shooting begins.… |
Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:17:06 GMT)'I don't think there's a spare megawatt sitting anywhere idle in all of Europe, or the US, as a matter of fact'Microsoft intends to more than double its European datacenter capacity by 2027, but suspects this won't be easy because of all the red tape and environmental safeguards it faces.… |
Former reality TV star appointed NASA Interim Administrator - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:19:15 GMT)Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge?NASA has a new interim Administrator. US President Donald Trump has announced that former reality TV star and current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be taking on the role.… |
NCA arrests four in connection with UK retail ransomware attacks - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:33:15 GMT)Crimefighting agency cagey on details, probes into intrusions at M&S, Harrods, and Co-op continueThe UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four individuals suspected of being involved with the big three cyberattacks on UK retail businesses in recent weeks.… |
Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud keeps AI data in UK, but not the support - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:45:13 GMT)Processing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in BlightyGoogle Cloud is attempting to ease concerns about where AI data is stored by offering organizations the option to keep Gemini 2.5 Flash machine learning processing entirely within the UK.… |
Outlook takes another sick day – Microsoft says it'll get better soon, promise - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:02:05 GMT)12 hours, millions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamedMicrosoft Outlook is down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the past 11 hours.… |
Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:29:06 GMT)Controversial system requires local NHS investment to maximize productivityThe benefits of the UK health sector's Palantir-powered data and analytics system are being suppressed by the limits of writing back to NHS software, MPs heard this week.… |
At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:27:11 GMT)Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automationUsing AI models to generate exploits for cryptocurrency contract flaws appears to be a promising business model, though not necessarily a legal one.… |
Swiss boffins just trained a 'fully open' LLM on the Alps supercomputer - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:27:12 GMT)Source code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on topSupercomputers are usually associated with scientific exploration, research, and development, and ensuring our nuclear stockpiles actually work. … |
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:37:43 GMT)New Zealand’s Giant Moa stood over three meters tall but were easy preyResearchers from New Zealand will try to revive extinct birds, with help from Colossal Biosciences and film-maker Sir Peter Jackson.… |
Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:32:41 GMT)Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro waysChina’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according to a professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education.… |
Citrix signals return to the mainstream hypervisor market with a product it says isn’t quite ready for the job - (pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:45:47 GMT)Cites ‘aggressive licensing changes’ from rivals, but like Broadcom only sells bundlesCitrix has decided to return to the market for mainstream hypervisors with a version of its XenServer product which it currently claims isn’t ready for the job.… |
Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:30:08 GMT)'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missingPresident Trump's budget slashes funding for science and led to the cancellation or reduction of thousands of research programs, so scientists have staged a series of presentations to show legislators innovations that America will miss out on in the future.… |
How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:31:45 GMT)No, really, those are the magic wordsA clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game.… |
Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:31:13 GMT)Built on Chromium, ironicallyPerplexity has released its own web browser called Comet, and it's clearly aimed at Google.… |
Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:00:09 GMT)Hey, teacher, leave those kids to AIAfter committing more than $13 billion in strategic investments to OpenAI, Microsoft is splashing out billions more to get people using the technology.… |
Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:47:29 GMT)Welcome back to the age of dark patternsThe US was supposed to celebrate the enforcement date for an FTC rule requiring companies to offer simple, clear, one-click subscription cancellations next Monday, but a panel of appeals court judges has decided otherwise.… |
US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:06:00 GMT)Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle SamThe US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang.… |
AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:17:12 GMT)Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordinglyAMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead to information disclosure.… |
Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:01:48 GMT)Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burnUS Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer has a blunt message for AI hype-chasers: Shiny-object syndrome too often drives teams to leap into AI without defining a clear use case or vetting their data, leaving them to wonder why it doesn't work.… |
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:21:50 GMT)Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of 'AI' companiesUpdated Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying to feed their hungry LLM bots.… |
Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:18:10 GMT)Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 siliconEuro chip designer SiPearl has finally taped out its Rhea1 processor destined for Jupiter, the first European exascale supercomputer, just as its Series A financing round ends with an injection of cash from a new investor.… |
Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:23:24 GMT)But Chocolate Factory love-in sorely lacks detailThe UK government has signed a pact with Google Cloud to "upskill" as many as 100,000 civil servants in the latest tech by 2030.… |
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:15:06 GMT)No word on who pressed the 'MechaHitler' buttonxAI is scrambling to contain the fallout after its Grok chatbot went – and there is no other way of putting this – full Nazi in its X (formerly Twitter) posts.… |
Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:15:12 GMT)Version 140 has built-in MS Exchange support – and a year's updates aheadThe latest version of the messaging client from Mozilla subsidiary MZLA has a bunch of useful new features, and will get updated until mid 2026.… |
Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their home address - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:26:13 GMT)Plus: Confirms less serious data points like meal preferences also leakedQantas says that when cybercrooks attacked a "third party platform" used by the airline's contact center systems, they accessed the personal information and frequent flyer numbers of the "majority" of the circa 5.7 million people affected.… |
ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:39:13 GMT)Oodles of euros on offer for not accidentally blowing up stuffComment The European Space Agency (ESA) is pressing ahead with its European Launcher Challenge (ELC), and the good news is that three of the five pre-selected candidates have yet to explode anything in public.… |
Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attack - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:22:09 GMT)Customers say things are still far from perfect as lengthy support queues hamper business dealingsIngram Micro says it is gradually reactivating customer's ordering capabilities across the world, region by region, now its ransomware attack is thought to be "contained".… |
Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:30:28 GMT)Activists argue the resources spent on tech aren't leading to worthwhile numbersPrivacy activists are unimpressed with London's Metropolitan Police and its use of live facial recognition (LFR) to catch criminals, saying it is not effective use of taxpayer money and an overreach by government.… |
C-suite sours on AI despite rising investment, survey finds - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:26:12 GMT)Akkodis report suggests people skills may be helpful to bring out the best in AIExecutives are losing faith in AI initiatives despite rising investment, according to a study conducted by consultancy Akkodis.… |
Iranian ransomware crew reemerges, promises big bucks for attacks on US or Israel - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:33:07 GMT)Tells would-be affiliates they don't need to worry because cyberattacks don't violate a cease fireAn Iranian ransomware-as-a-service operation with ties to a government-backed cyber crew has reemerged after a nearly five-year hiatus, and is offering would-be cybercriminals cash to infect organizations in the US and Israel.… |
Chipmaker GlobalFoundries acquires chip designer MIPS - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:59:08 GMT)A big bet that RISC-V can make a dent in the AI marketGlobalFoundries has acquired chip design firm MIPS, creating a company that both designs and creates semiconductors.… |
Samsung acquires Xealth to merge hospital records with data from wearables - (pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 02:28:10 GMT)Envisions info from your watch informing treatment. What could possibly go wrong?Samsung has acquired US company Xealth to combine data drawn from its wearable devices and hospital records.… |
Tim Cook's Tim Cook stepping down from Apple - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:59:07 GMT)Operations king Jeff Williams abdicates – just don't give him a watchApple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is stepping down from his role next month and leaving the company later this year to spend more time with friends and family.… |
Microsoft enjoys first Patch Tuesday of 2025 with no active exploits - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:01:36 GMT)Sure, 130 fixes were sent out, but bask in the security goodnessFor the first time this year, Microsoft has released a Patch Tuesday bundle with no exploited security problems, although one has been made public already, and there are ten critical flaws to fix.… |
IBM boasts new Power11 chips are stingy on power usage - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:17:14 GMT)More efficient cores plus an optional energy saver mode in Big Blue's latest CPUsIn case you'd forgotten, IBM is still blazing its own trail with regard to silicon. And in terms of speeds and feeds, Big Blue's latest crop of Power chips boasts up to 55 percent faster cores than its Power9 chips.… |
Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:18:40 GMT)It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internetSerial entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and currently acts as CEO of payments company Block, has released the source code for a peer-to-peer messaging app called bitchat that relies on Bluetooth for network connectivity.… |
Army and Navy have both asked for right to repair, now Senators want to give it to them - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:35:23 GMT)You want that military contract? Then no more proprietary repairability clauses!A bipartisan pair of Senators is so happy with the US Army's right to repair policy that they want to enshrine it in federal law as the standard across military branches. … |
Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:07:27 GMT)These extensions weren't malware-laced from the start, researcher saysA Chrome and Edge extension with more than 100,000 downloads that displays Google's verified badge does what it purports to do: It delivers a color picker to users. Unfortunately, it also hijacks every browser session, tracks activities across websites, and backdoors victims' web browsers, according to Koi Security researchers.… |
Trump's budget bill opens wide swath of spectrum for sale - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:32:44 GMT)Including frequencies that overlap with Wi-Fi 6E and private mobile networkingupdated A provision in the new US budget bill opens a wide swath of spectrum for sale, including some that overlaps with frequencies currently allotted for private mobile networks and Wi-Fi 6E. … |
Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:31:12 GMT)Climate risks threaten to fry the supply chain for essential chipmaking metalClimate change could pose a threat to the technology industry as copper production is vulnerable to drought, while demand may grow to outstrip supply anyway.… |
One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:28:14 GMT)'If this is the priority for our tax dollars, we are doomed'The US Congress has passed President Donald Trump's budget bill. In addition to the possibility of a Space Shuttle move, significant changes are on the way for NASA.… |
Post Office and Fujitsu execs 'should have known' Horizon IT system was flawed - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:40:08 GMT)First volume of inquiry report focuses on the UKscandal's human impactSenior Post Office staff in the UK – and those working for suppliers Fujitsu and ICL – knew or should have known about the defects causing errors in the Horizon system that contributed to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of branch workers, 13 of whom committed suicide, most probably as a result, according to the first volume of a report submitted by the independent public inquiry into the computer scandal.… |
Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:32:13 GMT)'We are troubled by the citation of bogus cases in the trial court’s order'The Georgia Court of Appeals has tossed an order from the US state trial court because it relied on cases that do not exist, presumably generated by an AI model.… |
SUSE launching region-locked support for the sovereignty-conscious - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:27:11 GMT)Move targets European orgs wary of cross-border data exposureLinux veteran SUSE has unveiled a new support package aimed at customers concerned about data sovereignty.… |
Feds brag about hefty Oracle discount – licensing experts smell a lock-in - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:24:05 GMT)If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably isThe US General Services Administration (GSA) has announced an agreement with Oracle it claims offers a 75 percent discount on the vendor's license-based technology.… |
Suspected Chinese cybersnoop grounded in Italy after US tipoff - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:47:09 GMT)Zewei Xu's family reportedly bemused at arrest as extradition tabledA man who US authorities allege is a member of Chinese state-sponsored cyberespionage outfit Silk Typhoon was arrested in Milan last week following a tipoff from the US embassy.… |
Britain's 5G experience 'among the worst in Europe' says MedUX - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:14:26 GMT)Official figures for network performance don't play out in user's reality, says monitoring bizThe UK's 5G networks are among the worst in Europe when it comes to measurements such as download speed, upload speed, latency, and packet loss, according to a report published today.… |
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not - (pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:35:13 GMT)Mozilla's management is a bug, not a featureOpinion Dominance does not equal importance, nor is dominance the same as relevance. The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users.… |
