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Four years later, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon It is 60 years since Ed White became the first American to float outside a spacecraft....

Encourages move to Linux but, for goodness sake, RTFM first Linux desktop darling KDE is weighing in on the controversy around the impending demise of Windows 10 support with a lurid "KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" campaign....

Stale designs and market maturation aren't helping either, says Counterpoint Research World War Fee The Trump administration's chaotic tariff regime is likely to have a serious impact on the smartphone market worldwide, but the latest forecasts predict the disruption will be felt most keenly in the one economy Trump is trying to protect: The United States....

Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors A group of financially motivated cyberscammers who specialize in Scattered-Spider-like fake IT support phone calls managed to trick employees at about 20 organizations into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader that allows the crims to steal sensitive data....

Did somebody say ransomware? Not the newspaper group, not even to deny it Regional newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises says data belonging to around 40,000 people was stolen during an attack on its network earlier this year....

Trump's on again off again tariffs, economic uncertainty, no vital apps and higher price tags World War Fee PC makers were salivating at the prospect of AI notebooks driving up their margins yet it seems the price difference coupled with a lack of killer apps and the destabilizing influence of tariff talk means customer adoption is slower than expected....

Tech giants say blocking purloined devices via IMEI could open new fraud risks UK legislators are questioning why Apple and Google have yet to implement measures to allow smartphones to be locked, reset, and prevented from accessing cloud services after they've been stolen, as requested by police....

AI sales are a little 'lumpy' but all things hybrid cloud are going well - including job cuts Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri remains optimistic that US regulators will allow its planned acquisition of Juniper Networks but has admitted the company has considered other plans if regulators nix the deal....

Government details latest initiative following announcement last week Revealing more details about the Cyber and Electromagnetic (CyberEM) military domain, the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) says "there are pockets of excellence" but improvements must be made to ensure the country's capability meets the needs of national defense....

Altnet claims upgrade puts it ahead of Openreach on performance and cost, with more to come in 2026 Alternative UK network CityFibre has lifted the lid on a 5.5 Gbps wholesale package it says will allow internet service provider (ISP) customers to operate a service more than twice as fast than its current top-speed fiber product....

Why? There's a war in Europe, Finland has a belligerent neighbor, and cyber is a settled field Interview Mikko Hypponen has spent the last 34 years creating security software that defends against criminals and state-backed actors, but now he's moving onto drone warfare....

Chip giant's latest ASIC promises 200GbE to up to 512 GPUs Broadcom began shipping its answer to Nvidia's upcoming Quantum-X and Spectrum-X switches on Tuesday: the Tomahawk 6. The chip doubles the bandwidth of its predecessor and comes in both standard and co-packaged optics flavors....

CEO of India's KiranaPro, which brings convenience stores online, vows to name the perp The CEO of Indian grocery ordering app KiranaPro has claimed an attacker deleted its GitHub and AWS resources in a targeted and deliberate attack and vowed to name the perpetrator....

Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins Security researchers say Meta and Yandex used native Android apps to listen on localhost ports, allowing them to link web browsing data to user identities and bypass typical privacy protections....

Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and pals promise clarity on cybercrew naming, deliver alias salad instead Opinion Microsoft and CrowdStrike made a lot of noise on Monday about teaming up with other threat-intel outfits to "bring clarity to threat-actor naming."...

The 20-year deal with Constellation will slake Zuckercorp's thirst for energy to power AI datacenters Meta has signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to keep the lights on at an Illinois nuke plant that was facing an uncertain future once state subsidies dry up in 2027....

TAG team spotted the V8 bug first, so you can bet nation-states weren't far behind Google revealed Monday that it had quietly deployed a configuration change last week to block active exploitation of a Chrome zero-day....

Plus, Europeans will find it easier to sideline Bing and uninstall the Windows Store Microsoft has announced more tweaks to Windows in a bid to stay on the right side of Europe's Digital Markets Act, including a promise that Edge will only nag users to become their default browser if they open it first....

Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads Elon Musk's X social media platform is rolling out a new version of its direct messaging feature that the platform owner said had a "whole new architecture," but as with many a Muskian proclamation, there's reason to doubt what's been said....

Outdoorsy brand blames credential stuffing Joining the long queue of retailers dealing with cyber mishaps is outdoorsy fashion brand The North Face, which says crooks broke into some customer accounts using login creds pinched from breaches elsewhere....

Locally run, Euro-controlled, legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025 In a nod to European customers' growing mistrust of American hyperscalers, Amazon Web Services says it is establishing a new organization in the region "backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections."...

Microsoft's latest and greatest still lags behind predecessor as time runs out User adoption of Windows 11 is slowing down, with the operating system still lagging behind Windows 10 as end of support nears....

Diagnosing a borkage from a million miles away NASA's Psyche spacecraft is back in business after engineers successfully switched to a backup fuel line in an impressive piece of remote maintenance....

Out-of-band is becoming the norm rather than the exception Microsoft is patching another patch that dumped some PCs into recovery mode with an unhelpful error code....

Safety margin set to narrow - yes that buffer that helps prevent cascading failure events The US electricity grid is likely to be highly constrained and less stable by 2030, and datacenters aren't helping....

To stop the JINX-0132 gang behind these attacks, pay attention to HashiCorp, Docker, and Gitea security settings Up to a quarter of all cloud users are at risk of having their computing resources stolen and used to illicitly mine for cryptocurrency, after crims cooked up a campaign that targets publicly accessible DevOps tools....

February jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says Workday has promised to rehire the 1,750 jobs it chopped earlier in the year, but in no particular timeframe and with a focus on investments in AI, the CFO has said....

Nothing terribly valuable taken in data heist, though privacy a little tarnished Global jewelry giant Cartier is writing to customers to confirm their data was exposed to cybercriminals that broke into its systems....

Software among the sectors seeing a productivity boost, PwC claims Sectors in which AI can be readily used for some tasks - including the software industry - have seen higher productivity and wage growth than others, according to research by PwC....

That's how much on average they saved with Microsoft Copilot AI, according to a GDS study The United Kingdom's Government Digital Service (GDS) has found that giving civil service employees access to Microsoft 365 Copilot saved them an average 26 minutes per day on office tasks....

No wonder those products always rated so highly Australia's Securities & Investments Commission has sued a product comparison website that it alleges only considered products from a related company....

Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye Atlassian has notified its customers of a new maximum quantity billing" scheme that is good news for those who want more of its wares, but less fun for others....

Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths may be affected' IBM's Cloud has experienced a second Severity One incident in a fortnight. Both meant users could not log in to the Big Blue Cloud, and therefore were prevented from controlling or creating resources....

One possible solution - go join a union like recently-acquired-by-Redmond ZeniMax UPDATED Less than a month after Microsoft announced it was axing three percent of its staff, regulatory filings indicate new cuts at the tech behemoth....

Unsurprisingly, it's all about agents, the buzzword du jour IBM on Monday unveiled watsonx AI Labs, a New York City hub where startups, researchers, and IBM engineers are expected to co-create agentic AI tools for enterprise use....

A big win for North Dakota CoreWeave is headed to North Dakota, where the rent-a-GPU outfit has signed two roughly 15-year lease agreements with Applied Digital for 250 megawatts of capacity, which the datacenter builder expects will generate around $7 billion in revenue....

A real-world Trojan Horse attack Ukraine claims it launched a cunning drone strike on Sunday against multiple Russian airbases, hitting over 40 military aircraft and inflicting an estimated $7 billion in damage, in an operation dubbed "Spiderweb."...

Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them Computer scientists have developed a way for an AI system to rewrite its own code to improve itself....

Remember Salt Typhoon? Anyone? A group of Democratic senators has urged Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to reestablish the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), which had been investigating how China's Salt Typhoon hacked US government and telecommunications networks....

NAACP claims that 'temporary' gas turbines were an attempt to get around environmental laws Elon Musk's smog-belching Colossus AI datacenter in Memphis, Tennessee, is once again catching heat, this time from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which urges local authorities to halt operations and fine the startup for what it sees as a "clear" violation of the Clean Air Act....

$100 million+ deals are beholden to enterprises' on-prem upgrade cycles Snowflake's ability to grow in the market for larger enterprise customers is hampered by the renewal cycle for older, on-prem data warehouse and analytics tech....

Is that 'best' for customers or for shareholders? Any vendors that think they've got this 'all figured out is kidding themselves' A senior Salesforce exec says users need to be flexible about AI pricing models while vendors determine which one works best....

White House withdraws Isaacman pick amid potential $6B funding drop More details are emerging about potential NASA budget cuts alongside the abrupt withdrawal of the nomination of Jared Isaacman as the agency's new administrator....

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them Microsoft is updating Notepad again. The latest indignity for the veteran Windows text wrangler? Text formatting....

29M customers, four radio suppliers, and one hell of a network headache Network engineers can take solace from the completed merger of Three and Vodafone announced today, as the difficult technical work now starts to unify their separate networks over the next several years....

Disclosure at MainStreet Bancshares comes as American finance orgs beg for looser reporting requirements Community bank MainStreet Bancshares says thieves stole data belonging to some of its customers during an attack on a third-party provider....

Vision AI won't be part of sale but strategic supercomputers will Stumbling Euro tech giant Atos looks set to finally sell its Advanced Computing assets to the French state....

Fancy getting rolling with something Qt and Italian? OpenMamba is an independent Italian distribution which uses Fedora's packaging tools and offers a choice of KDE Plasma or LXQt....

The word Microsoft does not appear in this article. Why would you think otherwise? Opinion Congratulations! As CEO of a giant tech company, head of a sovereign wealth fund, or a VC bored with megayacht leapfrog, you have billions of dollars of other people's cash to spend. You want to make a difference. You want to be a success....

So much for cushy public sector roles - a non-IT manager at McDonalds makes more How much is an IT manager worth? Well, if you're working for a government agency, the answer seems to be about 60k (about $81k), according to a new vacancy being advertised....