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Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia - (pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:31:13 GMT)Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market powerAustralia’s Federal Court has given Epic Games another win in its global fight against the way Apple and Google run their app stores.… |
Crypto crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion - (pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 02:29:07 GMT)Tells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct'Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called "stablecoin" Terra USD and now faces time in jail.… |
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday baker's dozen: 12 critical bugs plus a SharePoint RCE - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:34:37 GMT)None under active exploit…yetMicrosoft’s August Patch Tuesday flaw-fixing festival addresses 111 problems in its products, a dozen of which are deemed critical, and one moderate-severity flaw that is listed as being publicly known.… |
Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 20:25:21 GMT)Could the most popular browser change hands?AI search biz Perplexity has offered to pay about twice as much as it is worth to acquire Chrome from Google.… |
Manpower franchise discloses data theft after RansomHub posts alleged stolen data - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:49:56 GMT)And yes, there’s the usual credit monitoringGlobal staffing firm Manpower confirmed ransomware criminals broke into its Lansing, Michigan franchise's network and stole personal information belonging to 144,189 people, months after the extortionists claimed that they pilfered "all of [the company's] confidential data." … |
You've got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by . . . deleting old emails - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:08:01 GMT)Keep calm and clear out that inbox. Also maybe lay off the GenAIWith many parts of England grappling with a water shortage, the UK's National Drought Group (NDG), which includes both government and non-government agencies, has suggested citizens can help by... clearing out their inboxes.… |
Beijing doesn't want Nvidia's H20s anywhere near sensitive government workloads - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:43:54 GMT)Don't need to give Uncle Sam any more reason to think kill switches are a good ideaNvidia may have the Trump administration's blessing to resume shipments of its H20 AI accelerators to China, but in Beijing, government officials are now pressuring companies to use what they describe as less-advanced semiconductors.… |
US lawmakers introduce bill to update ancient export control IT systems - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:12:09 GMT)Last year's attempt failed, but increased concern over the state of the BIS might make the second time the charmThe US government agency in charge of keeping advanced technology out of the hands of America's enemies desperately needs an IT modernization to accomplish its mission. So a group of elected officials is trying (again) to get the funds it needs to do so. … |
GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:44:00 GMT)Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filingAnthropic has become the latest company to benefit from the US government's frenetic AI adoption pace, inking a deal to get its software into the hands of federal agencies at a deep discount.… |
Suetopia: Generative AI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:15:11 GMT)Enter a prompt and get back a copyright infringementMore and more US companies are using generative AI as a way to save money they might otherwise pay creative professionals. But they're not thinking about the legal bills.… |
Major outage at Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office blamed on 'cyber incident' - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:45:08 GMT)Website, emails, and phones are down for a second dayThe Pennsylvania's Office of Attorney General (OAG) is blaming a digital blackout of its services on a "cyber incident."… |
Platform9 pushes swing capacity workaround for VMware migrants - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:01:15 GMT)Efforts to build easier off-ramps are … err … ramping upPrivate cloud platform vendor Platform9 has a new lure for disaffected VMware users: A tool that allows migrations without requiring extra hardware.… |
No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:34:00 GMT)'Hung' is out and 'Unresponsive' is in, according to the Academy Software Foundation and the Alliance for OpenUSDA Linux Foundation project has published an Inclusive Language Guide to recommend replacements for common tech terms deemed potentially offensive to some users.… |
BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:00:13 GMT)US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang - but the crooks remain at largeIn a display of bureaucratic bravado, US law enforcement agencies say they've “disrupted” the BlackSuit ransomware gang (also known as Royal), freeing millions of dollars in virtual currency from its clutches.… |
Java 25 puts 32-bit x86 out to pasture, adds 17 shiny new features - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:15:14 GMT)Long-term support release candidate arrives, general availability comes next monthJava 25, an LTS (long-term support) version, is now at release candidate (RC) stage with general availability scheduled for September 16.… |
Arm juices mobile GPUs with neural tech for better graphics - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:30:08 GMT)Designs scheduled for launch in 2026, developer kit for programmers out todayChip designer Arm is bringing dedicated neural accelerator hardware to its GPU blueprints used in phones. It expects this to deliver higher quality visuals while boosting AI performance.… |
Debian 13 'Trixie' arrives: x86-32 and MIPS out, RISC-V in - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:02:06 GMT)Aside from glam, includes cool features like standalone GNOME Flashback session with no GNOME shellDebian 13 has arrived, now with RISC-V and preconfigured "blends" right in the main installer.… |
Trump does a 180 on Intel chief following White House meeting - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:30:06 GMT)Chip giant praises 'president's strong leadership,' promises to 'restore this great American company'US President Donald Trump has now reversed his opinion of Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan following their meeting at the White House yesterday, hinting that the two will work more closely together.… |
Oh, great.Three notorious cybercrime gangs appear to be collaborating - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:00:08 GMT)Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ spent the weekend bragging to each other on a Telegram channelProlific cybercrime collectives Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ appear to be working together to break into businesses' networks, steal their data, and force an extortion payment.… |
Hyundai: Want cyber-secure car locks? That'll be £49, please - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:39:02 GMT)Automaker's answer to spate of car thefts is to charge customers for extraHyundai is charging UK customers £49 ($66) for a security upgrade to prevent thieves from bypassing its car locks.… |
Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:00:14 GMT)UK online reseller bought out of administration in -pre-pack agreement, say sourcesExclusive updated London Stock Exchange-listed Fraser Group is understood to have bought struggling UK online tech bazaar Ebuyer from administrators in a pre-pack agreement, sources have told The Register.… |
VS Code previews chat checkpoints for unpicking careless talk - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:31:41 GMT)Microsoft’s AI-centric code editor and IDE adds the ability to rollback misguided AI promptsThe Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) team has rolled out version 1.103 with new features including GitHub Copilot chat checkpoints.… |
Colo operators flock to emerging markets to build DCs - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:00:15 GMT)Joburg and Warsaw among the hotspots for sprawling server farm constructionLagos, Warsaw and Dubai are among the fastest growing cities for colocation services - with metro areas in the Asia-Pacific and EMEA regions expanding more rapidly than traditional datacenter hotspots.… |
Defra doubles contract value for cloud and DC services - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:15:08 GMT)Legacy tech for nation's farmers must migrate ... contract swells to £245MThe UK's government department for agriculture and the countryside has upped the potential contract value on offer for cloud and datacenter hosting by more than £100 million.… |
The White House could end UK's decade-long fight to bust encryption - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:30:06 GMT)Home Office officials reportedly concede Brit government on back foot as Trump moves to protect US Big Tech playersAnalysis The Home Office's war on encryption – its most technically complex and controversial aspect of modern policymaking yet – is starting to look like battlefield failure after more than ten years of skirmishes.… |
UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly' - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:15:06 GMT)Taskforce delivers damning interim report on next generation of energy generationAn independent taskforce commissioned by the UK government has warned of the nation's "unnecessarily slow, inefficient, and costly" approach to nuclear power (and weaponry).… |
Poisoned telemetry can turn AIOps into AI Oops, researchers show - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:33:13 GMT)Sysadmins, your job is safeAutomating IT operations using AI may not be the best idea at the moment.… |
News from a possible future: ‘Rampant jellyfish cause AI outage by taking datacenter offline' - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 05:32:09 GMT)Don’t laugh, a French nuclear power plant just shut down for a while after invertebrates overwhelmed its intakesProponents of increased use of nuclear energy to power datacenters have a new foe: Jellyfish.… |
IBM Cloud hit by Severity One incident with the same symptoms as other recent SNAFUs - (pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:51:30 GMT)Outages, degraded service, and login troubles hit 10 regions and 27 servicesIBM Cloud experienced a Severity One outage on Monday that left customers unable to access resources.… |
Nvidia gives its tiniest workstation GPUs a Blackwell boost - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:16:36 GMT)70W TDP means the new RTX Pro 4000 SFF and RTX Pro 2000 won't blow power budgetsNvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs are a pair of itty-bitty workstation cards that aim to deliver the highest performance possible for professional visualization and local AI workloads within a 70-watt energy diet.… |
Fed cloud contracts up 2x this year after red tape slashing - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:43:15 GMT)Biden-era program has reduced FedRAMP processing times to just five weeks from previous year or moreThe US Government's process for certifying cloud services safe for official use has long been slow, but that's no longer the case. Approvals so far this fiscal year are more than double the total for all of FY 2024.… |
Trump seeing green as he weighs deal to allow Nvidia Blackwell GPU sales to China - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:22:42 GMT)And shave 15% of the top no doubt.Nerfed versions of Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs could soon join its H20 on the list of AI accelerators approved for sale in China.… |
Russia's RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:08:27 GMT)A few weeks earlier 'zeroplayer' advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploitRussia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix.… |
GitHub head ankles as Microsoft takes biz by the hand - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:26:38 GMT)Code hosting biz takes a back seat within Microsoft's CoreAI divisionGitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke plans to leave the company and corporate parent Microsoft will not appoint a successor.… |
US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:20:13 GMT)The alleged perpetrators remain at largeThe US Department of Justice is trying to recoup around $1 million that three IT specialists secretly working for the North Korean government allegedly stole from a New York company.… |
Californian man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he's suing Microsoft - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:57:46 GMT)He wants Microsoft to keep supporting Windows 10 until its market share drops below 10%Many are unhappy about Microsoft's Windows 10 retirement plans, but a California man appears to be angrier than most. He's sued Redmond over the matter, and is demanding continued free Win 10 updates until the OS's popularity wanes. … |
Red teams are safe from robots for now, as AI makes better shield than spear - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:23:12 GMT)The bad news? The machines, and their operators, are coming on fastBlack Hat/DEF CON At the opening of Black Hat, the largest security shindig in the Hacker Summer Camp week ahead of DEF CON and BSides, the opening keynote speaker suggested the current state of AI slightly favors defenders over attackers, but he warned that was not a given for much longer.… |
Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:57:36 GMT)But it can contest if it lands up in 'Category 1,' and the move hurts operations, says judgeWikipedia today lost a legal battle against the UK's tech secretary to tighten the criteria around the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), as it seeks to exclude itself from the strictest regulations.… |
Viennese virtualization veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4 - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:09:46 GMT)Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment updateViennese virtualization veteran Proxmox has updated its hypervisor and its storage offering to new, Debian 13 versions.… |
Hanging up: AOL to pull the plug on its dial-up service after 36 years - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:09:00 GMT)A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms!From the department of "Want to feel old?" comes news that AOL is finally pulling the plug on dial-up Internet access.… |
'Suddenly deprecating old models' users depended on a 'mistake,' admits OpenAI's Altman - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:30:07 GMT)Tech biz tweaks GPT-5, brings back 4 and others as options after customer backlashOpenAI has brought back GPT-4o after a weekend of user protests - mostly about removal of model choice - following the rollout of GPT-5.… |
Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:00:08 GMT)Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductorsIntel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has an appointment at the White House today, just days after President Donald Trump called for his resignation. The move comes as Intel's former CEO Craig Barrett weighs in on the troubled chipmaker's future.… |
Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:30:12 GMT)By video, picture, and voice – the fakers are coming for your moneyDEF CON While AI was on everyone's lips in Las Vegas this week at the trio of security conferences in Sin City – BSides, Black Hat, AND DEF CON – there were a lot of people using the F-word too: fraud.… |
Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:00:15 GMT)Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.… |
UK retail giant M&S restores Click & Collect months after cyber attack, some services still down - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:15:29 GMT)Many core offerings now back in action, says retailerBritish retailer Marks and Spencer updated its website today, confirming its Click & Collect service is once again available to customers.… |
Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse' - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:45:15 GMT)Well, at least he didn't drop the F-bombLinux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer "on notice" for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which "makes the world actively a worse place to live" – in a scathing missive harkening back to his invective-laden tirades of old.… |
Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:18:54 GMT)Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffinsIn space, no one can hear you sneeze – but that hasn't stopped a team of boffins researching exactly what happens when an astronaut gets a case of the sniffles, and why. The key takeaway, should you find yourself on board a space station and in need of a tissue: maybe skip the spacewalk.… |
The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:44:07 GMT)AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance SurveyFeature Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is interloping in the digital age. Minecraft, AR gaming, and EV charger locations have all become part of its portfolio, alongside the paper-based maps beloved by the nation's legion of cagoule-clad outdoor types.… |
Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:00:12 GMT)And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchersThe job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's best to think of this as dealing with a buggy lump of undocumented code, because frankly that's what is between you and your next job.… |
AI coding tools crash on launch, could reboot better in future - (pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:15:07 GMT)Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital lettersOpinion Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding’s universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do all the coding and that’s a good thing. Meanwhile, real life AI coding tools make coders less productive while spreading the hallucination that they’re more so.… |
