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AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads Now if only the councils could afford to fill them Offbeat21 Jan 2025 | 20
VMware migrations will be long, expensive, and risky, warns Gartner And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon Virtualization21 Jan 2025 | 8
TSMC reportedly pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan Geopolitical rumblings one day, geological rumblings the next Off-Prem21 Jan 2025 | 4
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency emerges with tech modernization mission US Digital Service re-named and told to audit government tech and work on data-sharing Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 25
China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale Updated President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy Public Sector21 Jan 2025 | 6
Improved Windows Search arrives... but only for Copilot+ PCs Semantic indexing does some discreet rifling through local drawers of Insiders Software20 Jan 2025 | 14
Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies OSes20 Jan 2025 | 10
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format Databases20 Jan 2025 |
Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf Public Sector20 Jan 2025 | 5
Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users Ready or not, here I come OSes20 Jan 2025 | 35
SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean 'entertainment' Science20 Jan 2025 | 16
Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog FYI Regulator asks people to link their credit cards, mobile accounts, or face scans for smut use to protect kids
Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency Personal Tech20 Jan 2025 | 78
How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian Networks20 Jan 2025 | 35
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Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account? Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble Columnists20 Jan 2025 | 75
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior 'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs AI + ML20 Jan 2025 | 19
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Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic Infosec in brief PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more Security20 Jan 2025 | 5
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Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark Public Sector20 Jan 2025 | 112
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Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 36
FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping CSO17 Jan 2025 | 28
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Banks must keep ahead of risks and reap AI rewards AI has transformed banking across APAC. But is this transformation secure? Partner Content
China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors Systems17 Jan 2025 | 10
Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year Cyber-crime17 Jan 2025 | 5
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Another open source project shifts to restrictive license: Fluent Assertions following Xceed partnership
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Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast Patches17 Jan 2025 | 19
Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 HPC17 Jan 2025 | 2
Cybersecurity rethink - from reaction to resilience Proactive strategies for data security and identity management in 2025 Webinar
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Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved' AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 45
IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door With a near half-billion-pound price hike bringing contract value to £1.4B Networks17 Jan 2025 | 57
Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK's Gateshead Council Pastes allegedly stolen documents on leak site with £600K demand Cyber-crime17 Jan 2025 | 12
Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administration Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions supplier in hands of FRP Advisory
Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight On Call Fixed the problem anyway – with no approval for a purchase and no permission to use a device
Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever
AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero Updated Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris
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In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows Bootnotes16 Jan 2025 | 86
Feds sue Southwest for chronic delays, unrealistic schedules Department of Transportation wants in on last-minute Biden administration action too Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 8
Russia's Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts updated FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says Security16 Jan 2025 | 3
TSMC plans to have 1.6nm chips in 'volume production' by 2026 You've got to spend money – like $36 billion+ – to make, er, AI chips Systems16 Jan 2025 | 3
How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries The S in LLM stands for Security
Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark
Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior 'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account? Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic Infosec in brief PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more
Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors Students have work to complete at home in the meantime
Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions? Comment While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers
Enzo Biochem settles lawsuit over 2023 ransomware attack for $7.5M That's in addition to the $4.5M fine paid to three state AGs last year Cyber-crime16 Jan 2025 | 1
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Google reports halving code migration time with AI help Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas AI + ML16 Jan 2025 | 14
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Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5 The eighth point-release of Bookworm – yes, you read that right – and the latest MX with new Xfce OSes16 Jan 2025 | 36
Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery Jeff Bezos' space company achieves milestone with payload delivered Science16 Jan 2025 | 60
Infoseccer: Private security biz let guard down, exposed 120K+ files Assist Security’s client list includes fashion icons, critical infrastructure orgs Security16 Jan 2025 | 14
Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue Free Software Foundation Europe and others urge European Commission to double down on DMA Software16 Jan 2025 | 21
UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects Personal Tech16 Jan 2025 | 68
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter Science16 Jan 2025 | 13
Securing AI workloads in multi-tenant K8s clusters Discover how F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes offloads critical AI tasks to BlueField-3 DPUs Partner Content
US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off Legal16 Jan 2025 | 4
Parallels brings back the magic that was waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot In a preview of x86_64 VMs running on Apple silicon, so it’s excusable for now Virtualization16 Jan 2025 | 31
Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems HPC16 Jan 2025 | 23