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Rest of the world surges on Windows 10 end-of-life upgrades WORLD WAR FEE The global PC market is ticking upward as Windows 10's end-of-life nears, except in North America, where tariff shocks and economic jitters have slowed demand....

Analyst predicts over-supply will trigger a market correction in favor of deep-pocketed incumbents Gartner has signaled that the supply of "agentic AI" in terms of models, platforms, and products far outstrips demand, creating a situation that will lead to consolidation and market correction....

Coin toss odds for spotting a deepfake, study finds. And that's before the machines learn to sing Think you can distinguish between a human voice and a robot? Think again, because the numbers are starting to say otherwise....

Independent technical governance will hope to unite fractured ecosystem Meta will contribute React, React Native, and JSX (JavaScript XML) to a new React Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, and said that "it is important that no single company or organization is overrepresented."...

New laws restrict goods that are manufactured outside of China China is hitting back at US export restrictions with some of its own, tightening its control on so-called rare earth minerals and introducing laws that require companies to get licenses before they can ship goods containing rare earths, even those made outside of the country....

Meanwhile, Microsoft resurrects Edit and kills .NET 3.5 SP1 on demand It's taken a while, but Microsoft has finally made its redesigned Start menu available to Canary Channel Windows Insiders, while also removing .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 as a Feature On Demand, and adding Edit, the command-line text editor....

This time outage was not actually Microsoft's fault If you struggled to access the Azure Portal or Microsoft Entra this morning, you weren't alone - Microsoft has blamed a Kubernetes crash for the outage....

Court says ICO can chase US outfit for unlawfully hoovering up Brits' selfies The UK General Regulatory Chamber's Upper Tribunal (UT) has ruled in favor of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which appealed against a 2023 decision that it could not fine Clearview AI over GDPR violations....

Affects users regardless of when their backups were created SonicWall has admitted that all customers who used its cloud backup service to store firewall configuration files were affected by a cybersecurity incident first disclosed in mid-September, walking back earlier assurances that only a small fraction of users were impacted....

Kevork Kechichian says x86 giant's contributions should benefit Intel first Over the years, Intel has established itself as a paragon of the open source community, but that could soon change under the x86 giant's new leadership....

Notebook chip promises 8 to16 cores and up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance when it hits shelves in January Intel has begun clawing back production from TSMC with the introduction of its Panther Lake processors, the company's first chip based on its long-awaited 18A process tech....

Japanese tech goliath gets grabby with industrial automation as ABB shelves spin-off plans SoftBank Group has added more arms to its portfolio, this time of the robotic kind....

Blames 'lack of interest' from the EU policy enforcer for towel throwing Nextcloud has withdrawn a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission over OneDrive bundling, citing a lack of progress with the governing body....

It's the end of support as we know it and users feel fine With days to go before Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 support, there are hundreds of millions of computers that have yet to upgrade to Windows 11, despite the best efforts of hardware manufacturers and the operating system's marketers....

China-linked snoops crack email at DC powerhouse that represented Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Holmes Washington's elite law firm Williams & Connolly has confirmed that attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability to access a handful of attorney email accounts in what it believes was a nation-state-linked cyberattack....

Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity Software vendors keen to monetize AI should tread cautiously, since they risk inflating costs for their customers without delivering any promised benefits such as reducing employee head count....

That's the main takeaway from the Zenity AI Agent Security Summit Michael Bargury, CTO of AI security company Zenity, welcomed attendees to the company's AI Agent Security Summit on Wednesday with an unexpected admission....

Because what enterprises really love are vague consumption-based pricing models Rent-a-GPU outfit CoreWeave continued its push into the AI services arena on Wednesday with the introduction of a platform that aims to make reinforcement learning more accessible to enterprise customers....

It's hard out there for a crim Following in the footsteps of an earlier unholy alliance between three other cybercrime crews, ransomware-as-a-service giants DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit claim to be collaborating on ransomware attacks....

When sellers collude through a computer algorithm, that doesn't make it right California companies that use algorithms to fix the prices of their products and services could now face stiff antitrust penalties if they continue to do so....

With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second Cisco has unveiled a new routing ASIC designed to help bit barn operators overcome power and capacity constraints by stitching together their existing datacenters into a single unified compute cluster....

Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA's veteran orbiters Mars is windier than thought, according to research into decades of data from European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, and that has implications for missions to the red planet....

Most scientists now use the tech in their work, but still question its usefulness AI hype is colliding with reality yet again. Wiley's global survey of researchers finds more of them using the tech than ever, and fewer convinced it's up to the job....

CRM giant 'will not engage, negotiate with, or pay' the scumbags Salesforce won't pay a ransom demand to criminals who claim to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records and are threatening to leak the data if the CRM giant doesn't pony up some cash....

UK central bank warns of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee has warned of the dangers of a sudden correction in the financial markets, owing to the value of tech and AI stocks, and has compared the risks to the dotcom bubble....

Giving the mainframe customers what they want IBM's Spyre Accelerator is set to be generally available later this month, delivering a boost to the AI capabilities of its enterprise-grade hardware including the z17 mainframe, LinuxONE 5, and Power11 systems....

Microsoft promises fewer 'mailbox full' errors in face of message deluge Microsoft's latest attempt to make the dreaded "mailbox full" response a thing of the past is rolling out in October and November. Threshold-based auto-archiving is coming to Exchange Online....

Vendors promote bridge to modern architecture for legacy systems, but Db2 not going anywhere just yet IBM has signed an OEM agreement with Cockroach Labs - maker of the distributed PostgreSQL-like cloud RDBMS CockroachDB - in a bid to help modernize mission-critical applications reliant on mainframe hardware....

Can be shifted for a tenth of the price AND the wings don't have to come off - allegedly Texas senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz have hit back at a Smithsonian memo on relocating Space Shuttle Discovery, claiming the institute's cost estimates are "more than ten times higher" than quotes from private logistics firms....

Berlin's opposition likely kills off Brussels' bid to scan everyone's messages Germany has committed to oppose the EU's controversial "Chat Control" regulations following huge pressure from multiple activists and major organizations....

JIT compiler included but experimental and can slow performance The Python team has released version 3.14, with big new features including free threading support, the ability to use concurrent interpreters, improved debugger support, and an opt-in new interpreter which improves performance by 3 to 5 percent....

From homework helper to psychological hazard in 300 hours of sycophantic validation Feature When a close family member contacted Etienne Brisson to tell him that he'd created the world's first sentient AI, the Quebecois business coach was intrigued. But things quickly turned dark. The 50-year-old man, who had no prior mental health history, ended up spending time in a psychiatric ward....

Broadband biz teams up with Good Things Foundation to teach the digitally doddery how to dodge fraud UK network Virgin Media O2 is taking steps to combat fraud with a nationwide education scheme that aims to help vulnerable people and older folk avoid becoming victims....

No idea who's behind it, just happy it's over London-based wholesale telecoms biz ICUK is back on track after a multi-day DDoS attack on its network and systems....

Department also wedded to Big Red in shared service applications The UK's Home Office has signed a new deal with Oracle for around 54 million ($72 million) in cloud infrastructure and platform services as it gears up as the centerpiece of a government shared services strategy based on Big Red....

Recyclers reckon millions of obsolete PCs could yield a small fortune in precious metals There's gold in them thar piles of old Windows 10 PCs. Quite literally, according to recyclers....

Researchers argue that this dark pattern poses a legal risk AI companion apps such as Character.ai and Replika commonly try to boost user engagement with emotional manipulation, a practice that academics characterize as a dark pattern....

Both men, 17, taken into custody London cops on Tuesday arrested two teenagers on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail following a ransomware attack on a chain of London preschools....

Jailbreaks, direct prompt injection not allowed Google on Monday rolled out a new AI Vulnerability Reward Program to encourage researchers to find and report flaws in its AI systems, with rewards of up to $30,000 for a single qualifying report....

House Committee on China wants more comprehensive ban on chipmaking equipment exports to Middle Kingdom US export controls have had mixed results in stemming the flow of chipmaking equipment into China, according to a congressional investigation, which found US and allied companies sold $38 billion worth of semiconductor tools in 2024 alone....

Microsoft Copilot, not so much Employees could be opening up to OpenAI in ways that put sensitive data at risk. According to a study by security biz LayerX, a large number of corporate users paste Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or Payment Card Industry (PCI) numbers right into ChatGPT, even if they're using the bot without permission....

Agency aims to replace its default 'no' with default 'yes' while overhauling rules for operators The US Federal Communications Commission has launched "Space Month," with Chairman Brendan Carr saying that "we'll replace a default to no at the agency to a default to yes" for satellite licensing requests....

No fraud monitoring and no apology after miscreants make off with medical, financial data Florida-based Doctors Imaging Group has admitted that the sensitive medical and financial data of 171,862 patients was stolen during the course of a November 2024 cyberattack....

Florida comms outfit serving cops, firefighters, and the military says hackers pinched some employee data but insists its systems stayed online BK Technologies, the Florida-based maker of mission-critical radios for US police, fire, and defense customers, has confessed to a cyber intrusion that briefly rattled its IT systems last month....

It also banned some suspected Russian accounts trying to create influence campaigns and malware OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts believed to be linked to Chinese government entities attempting to use AI models to surveil individuals and social media accounts....

Studies at UC Berkeley in the 1980s paved the way for quantum computing and cryptography Three researchers in sub-atomic physics have been awarded a Nobel prize for work which helped lay the foundations for quantum computing....

Google and Zed have already adopted ACP - will Microsoft now follow? JetBrains has joined Google and Zed Industries in adopting the fledgling Agent Client Protocol (ACP), a standard for how AI agents interact with code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs)....

Strap in, admins. Exploits began in August and now the code is out there Security boffins say the Clop cybercriminal gang has been rummaging through Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) for months - and now the exploit code's out there for anyone to grab....

Cali chip giant insists single-board computer house will remain independent Qualcomm has acquired Arduino, maker of microcontrollers (and now single-board computers), in a move designed to boost its presence in edge computing, as evidenced by a new Arduino product based on one of its Dragonwing chips....

Mic-E-Mouse can roar by literally vibe hacking speech The mouse sitting next to you can be turned into a microphone thanks to some cunning use of its sensors to pick up vibrations from your voice in an attack dubbed Mic-E-Mouse....