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FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:52:24 GMT)Justice Department claims unlicensed exchange funneled ransomware profitsUS feds have dismantled a crypto laundering service that they say helped cybercrooks wash tens of millions of dollars in dirty digital cash, seizing its servers and unsealing charges against an alleged Russian operator.… |
Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:19:29 GMT)Billionaire space tourist inherits troubled agency facing budget chaos, workforce cuts, and a Moon race against ChinaNASA has a new administrator. Billionaire and space tourist Jared Isaacman was confirmed by the US Senate by a vote of 67 to 30.… |
NHS tech supplier probes cyberattack on internal systems - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:02:22 GMT)Around 2,000 GP practices use its productsAn NHS tech supplier is investigating a cyberattack that affected its systems in the early hours of Sunday.… |
React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:42:39 GMT)Security boffins warn flaw is now being used for ransomware attacks against live networksMicrosoft says attackers have already compromised "several hundred machines across a diverse set of organizations" via the React2Shell flaw, using the access to execute code, deploy malware, and, in some cases, deliver ransomware.… |
BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:01:06 GMT)Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giantsThe UK government wants the BBC to help Brits understand AI and develop basic technology skills as part of the public broadcaster's next charter period.… |
DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:38:26 GMT)18-year-old platform crumbles under 94M daily requests while resellers flog £62 tests for £500The UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has appointed a new chief exec to tackle spiraling waits for practical driving tests with bots overrunning its aging booking system.… |
UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:15:12 GMT)Investigatory Powers Commissioner says reforms have failed to close oversight gapsThe UK's Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) has several regulatory gaps that must be plugged in future legislative reforms, according to Investigatory Powers Commissioner (IPC) Sir Brian Leveson.… |
Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:37:53 GMT)MPs press minister for answers – and get fewIf UK readers are perplexed by the country's seemingly shambolic state of broadband and telecoms, relative to other European nations, insight can be gleaned from a one-off evidence session conducted by Parliament.… |
United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:45:06 GMT)World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'NetThe United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday reached consensus on a review of the world’s internet governance arrangements and preserved the current multi-stakeholder model that means governments are just one of many voices that debate the future of the internet.… |
Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future - (pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:41:21 GMT)Even with its new fabs coming online, demand will exceed supplyMemory-maker Micron Technology has predicted that RAM shortages are here to stay, meaning higher prices for servers probably are, too.… |
ServiceNow unworried by Salesforce firing shots across its bow - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:52:54 GMT)Believes it can translate workflow smarts into AI ROIIn October, Salesforce debuted Agentforce IT in a direct challenge to ServiceNow’s ITSM product, and analyst firm Forrester’s vice president and principal analyst Charles Betz rated it the “most credible threat” ServiceNow has ever faced.… |
Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:28:05 GMT)GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their headsPurdue University last week said it will require incoming undergraduate students to meet an "AI working competency" requirement in order to graduate.… |
Attacks pummeling Cisco AsyncOS 0-day since late November - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:51:46 GMT)No timeline for a patchSuspected Chinese-government-linked threat actors have been battering a maximum-severity Cisco AsyncOS zero-day vulnerability in some Secure Email Gateway (SEG) and Secure Email and Web Manager (SEWM) appliances for nearly a month, and there's no timeline for a fix.… |
CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:29:10 GMT)Plus: automated SBOMs, $250,000 bounties aheadinterview No good idea - like rewarding open source software developers and maintainers for their contributions - goes unabused by cybercriminals, and this was the case with the Tea Protocol and two token farming campaigns.… |
Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:54:54 GMT)Amazon bets that by making AI its own group, it can outpace Microsoft and GoogleIn today's episode of "Amazon Kremlinology," AWS has put out a press release that shows a significant shuffle of one of AWS's most storied leaders.… |
Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:17:03 GMT)Vermont lawmaker proposes DC moratorium to give Congress time to rein in the AI boomUS Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is calling for a nationwide moratorium on datacenter construction, saying it would "give democracy a chance to catch up … and make sure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the wealthiest people on Earth."… |
All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:18:47 GMT)Startup expects its first Kaleidos reactor to power on at Idaho National Lab next yearAmid the AI boom, nuclear power is in vogue, with venture capitalists lining up to plow hundreds of millions into small modular reactor (SMR) startups to make their datacenter energy headaches go away.… |
GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:26:35 GMT)Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.updated Following publication of our original article, GitHub reversed its decision. The Microsoft-owned developer site has taken to X to admit it might have made a mistake by unilaterally announcing plans to charge people for using their own hardware to host runners.… |
NASA tries savin' MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:42:22 GMT)Spacecraft was 'rotating in an unexpected manner' and might have shifted orbitNASA is still trying to recontact the MAVEN Mars orbiter after it stopped responding earlier this month, with fragmentary tracking data hinting the craft may be tumbling and off its predicted trajectory.… |
Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:03:39 GMT)Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failingsIn proposing a settlement agreement, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that Illusory Systems must repay users funds lost in a 2022 cyberattack.… |
AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:00:12 GMT)CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankersGenerating code using AI increases the number of issues that need to be reviewed and the severity of those issues.… |
NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:54:57 GMT)Build a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information warNATO is in an existential race to develop sovereign cloud-based technologies to underpin its mission, the alliance's Assistant Secretary General for Cyber and Digital Transformation told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) last week.… |
California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:10:13 GMT)Full Self-Driving Capability marketing deemed a 'violation of state law'The California DMV says Tesla's use of the term Autopilot is misleading and violated state law, but has hit the brakes on a proposed 30-day suspension of the car maker's manufacturing and dealer licenses.… |
Microsoft security update breaks MSMQ on older Win systems - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:52:05 GMT)Folder permission changes cause queue failures and misleading error messages, no real fix yetMicrosoft has good news for administrators: while some organizations now pay for security updates on older Windows versions, the inconsistent quality remains free.… |
X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:07:34 GMT)Lawsuit concedes the bird is still the word for manyX has filed a lawsuit against a social media startup over the Twitter brand, effectively acknowledging that millions still use the Twitter domain, call Elon Musk's platform "Twitter," and their emissions "tweets."… |
Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:33:17 GMT)Follows Nick Clegg at Meta and Rishi Sunak at Anthropic in snuggling up to US techOpenAI has hired former UK finance minister George Osborne, continuing a trend of British politicians whose careers have peaked cozying up to US tech giants.… |
UK.gov accused of Grinching Christmas by ignoring phone theft scourge - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:00:13 GMT)Six months after expert testimony, no one has yet dialed into promised summit on technical solutionsMPs have blasted the UK government for complacency over surging mobile thefts after a "long-delayed" summit on the issue disappeared into the New Year.… |
England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:15:08 GMT)Regulator proposes strict limits on screen-based testing, cites infrastructure concerns and lack of evidence for benefitsMost students taking school and college GCSE, A-level, and AS-level exams in England will continue to use pen and paper, according to proposals from the sector's regulator for a very limited expansion of screen-based assessments.… |
UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:30:06 GMT)Changes to Electronic Communications Code would bypass landlord objections to fiber installationsThe UK government is consulting on plans to give the owners of 1.2 million flats in England and Wales a formal right to request gigabit-capable broadband.… |
Cisco decides its homegrown AI model is ready to power its products - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:24:20 GMT)Apparently you’re about to get better advice on any identity issues lurking in your infrastructureCisco has decided its homegrown AI models are ready to power its products, starting with its Duo Identity Intelligence offering.… |
India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64 - (pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:29:18 GMT)No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic prideIndia’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) on Monday revealed its most advanced processor yet and hailed it as a “reliable” product and a step towards the creation of a domestic semiconductor industry that challenges current global giants.… |
China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:19:08 GMT)Misconfigured servers are in, 0-days outChinese espionage crew Ink Dragon has expanded its snooping activities into European government networks, using compromised servers to create illicit relay nodes for future operations.… |
Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:56:45 GMT)The company has reportedly consulted itself and decided it needs fewer peopleConsultant cut thyself! Where consulting firms typically tell other companies how to make more money by trimming the fat, they are now looking inward, as advances in AI and a push for efficiency prompt layoffs, with blue-chip advisor McKinsey weighing thousands of job cuts, according to reports.… |
Analytics provider: We didn't expose smut site data to crims - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:48:17 GMT)An employee of the adult site could be responsible.Analytics vendor Mixpanel says it is not the source of data stolen from Pornhub and says the info was last accessed by an employee of the adult site.… |
Meta's SAM bot keeps 'em separated as it isolates voices and instruments from audio clips - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:36:12 GMT)No mention of protections to stop it being used to snoop on peopleWant to hear just the guitar riff from a song? How about cutting out the train noise from a voice recording? Meta says its new SAM Audio model can separate and edit sounds using simple prompts, cutting down on the manual work typical of audio-editing tools.… |
Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:03:54 GMT)More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactionsAd blockers and VPNs are supposed to protect your privacy, but four popular browser extensions have been doing just the opposite. According to research from Koi Security, these pernicious plug-ins have been harvesting the text of chatbot conversations from more than 8 million people and sending them back to the developers.… |
Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:45:10 GMT)Amazon, meanwhile, claims its datacenters are helping ratepayers despite tons of evidence to the contraryConcerned over continually rising energy costs linked to AI datacenter construction projects, three Democratic Senators are asking leading bit barn operators to explain why their promises of not passing grid expansion costs onto consumers are falling short. … |
Nvidia fills the void of American open-weights models with some of its own - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:31:13 GMT)Nemotron 3 is a grab bag of 2025's top machine learning advancementsFor many, enterprise AI adoption depends on the availability of high-quality open-weights models. Exposing sensitive customer data or hard-fought intellectual property to APIs so you can use closed models like ChatGPT is a non-starter.… |
SantaStealer stuffs credentials, crypto wallets into a brand new bag - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:58:42 GMT)All I want for Christmas … is all of your dataA new, modular infostealer called SantaStealer, advertised on Telegram with a basic tier priced at $175 per month, promises to make criminals' Christmas dreams come true. It boasts that it can run "fully undetected" even on systems with the "strictest AntiVirus" and those belonging to governments, financial institutions, and other prime targets.… |
Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:13:50 GMT)And parades its latest trio of Nemotron modelsNvidia burnished its open source credentials this week after buying the company behind the veteran Slurm scheduler and announcing a slew of open source AI models.… |
Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:08:28 GMT)Coalition for App Fairness warns App Store fees remain unlawful despite non-compliance rulingSix months after EU regulators found Apple's App Store rules in breach of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), developers say Cupertino is still behaving as if compliance were optional.… |
US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:40:08 GMT)Tech Prosperity Deal paused after London resists pressure on online services levyThe US government has put a proposed $42 billion (£31 billion) trade pact with the UK on ice because the European country has yet to budge on its Digital Services Tax (DST).… |
From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:21:15 GMT)Communities on both sides of the Atlantic push back against rapid build-outsFrenzied demand for AI development is driving a wave of datacenter construction, but new projects are facing growing public opposition over concerns about their impact on local communities and the environment.… |
Smartphones face a memory cost crunch – and buyers aren't in the mood - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:45:22 GMT)Rising DRAM and NAND prices are squeezing handset makers and threatening a fragile market recoveryAI-nflation The smartphone industry's brief bounce back now looks set to run straight into a wall, with analysts warning that rising memory costs are about to test buyers' patience.… |
Mozilla Corporation installs Firefox driver in CEO reboot - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:16:11 GMT)Anthony Enzor-DeMeo picked to replace interim boss Laura ChambersMozilla Corporation on Tuesday said it has appointed Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as Chief Executive Officer, replacing Laura Chambers, who served as interim CEO for the past two years.… |
Intel hires ex-Trump fixer as Washington whisperer - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:11:14 GMT)But when will Chipzilla bring back will.i.am?Intel has hired a veteran Republican operator as its head of government affairs, just months after Uncle Sam became the struggling chip vendor's biggest shareholder.… |
From pr0n to playlists and paperclips, trio of breaches spills data of millions - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:33:50 GMT)Adult site, streaming platform, and Japanese retailer expose user info, but not credentialsThree very different companies have now confirmed data breaches affecting millions of users – each insisting the damage stopped well short of passwords and payment details.… |
MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:45:23 GMT)New spy boss says officers must master code alongside tradecraft as agency navigates 'space between peace and war'New MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli outlined her vision for technology-augmented intelligence gathering in her first public speech on December 15, warning that the UK operates "in a space between peace and war."… |
UK.gov doubles hardware spending framework to £24B in 6 months - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:03:22 GMT)Massive procurement deal for laptops and software comes after minister vows to squeeze better value from big vendorsThe UK government plans to tender a commercial framework for end-user hardware and software worth up to £24 billion ($32.18 billion) including tax - double the £12 billion maximum announced six months ago.… |
Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work - (pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:15:50 GMT)Theologians give scriptural OK to online faith communitiesThe Bishop of Hong Kong said last week that AI was definitely not a gift from the devil at a meeting of his peers across Asia that called for sensible engagement with the technology.… |
