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Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop em are hopeless The European Commission has found Chinese e-tail giant AliExpress in breach of its obligation to assess and mitigate risks related to the dissemination of illegal products as required under the Digital Services Act (DSA)....

Phishing, Python and RATs, oh my A sneaky malware campaign slithers through Cloudflare tunnel subdomains to execute in-memory malicious code and give unknown attackers long-term access to pwned machines....

Windows 365 Reserve' will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed fee Microsoft has announced a preview of Windows 365 Reserve", a service that provides pre-configured cloud PCs it suggests as ideal when physical machines aren't usable....

Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to other areas' The government of Iran appears to have shut down the internet within its borders, perhaps in response to Israel-linked cyberattacks....

$650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 2030 Datacenter operators' desire for cheap and clean energy to power their facilities has led to renewed interest in nuclear energy and small modular reactors (SMRs) - a tech Nvidia has just decided is worthy of investment....

Move fast and blow things up Silicon Valley-backed weapons maker Anduril and German armaments biz Rheinmetall have signed a deal to see US-designed drones and missiles integrated into European military platforms....

EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much Using AI chatbots actually reduces activity in the brain versus accomplishing the same tasks unaided, and may lead to poorer fact retention, according to a new preprint study out of MIT....

Infostealers posing as popular cheat tools are cropping up on GitHub Trojanized Minecraft cheat tools hosted on GitHub have secretly installed stealers that siphon credentials, crypto wallets, and other sensitive data when executed by players....

New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks Asana has fixed a bug in its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that could have allowed users to view other organizations' data, and the experimental feature is back up and running after nearly two weeks of downtime to fix the issue....

In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for Exclusive Support for AMD's Instinct GPUs is coming to Voltron Data's accelerated SQL engine Theseus in the latest sign Nvidia's CUDA moat is getting shallower....

Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it's not like the military needs new tech, right? A federal judge has temporarily blocked an attempt by the Department of Defense to cut funding for university research programs, perhaps inadvertently saving the DoD from an own-goal....

The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix The second of three KDE point releases planned for 2025 is here, with more tiling options, accessibility improvements, and much more....

Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips Less than a third of European consumers trade in or sell their old phones, limiting the supply of secondhand devices that might otherwise stimulate a more environmentally friendly alternative to buying brand new....

Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though Mastodon is the latest platform to push back against AI training, updating its terms and conditions to ban the use of user content for large language models (LLMs)....

Version 13 can't come soon enough Veeam Backup & Replication users are urged to apply the latest patches that fix another critical bug leading to remote code execution (RCE) on backup servers....

Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm ScyllaDB, the wide-column database used by Comcast, Samsung, and banking giant Santander, has released a new database service it claims improves scalability and lowers cost....

Some servers can't renew IP addresses, and there's no fix yet Microsoft has admitted that June's Patch Tuesday updates could break the DHCP service on Windows Server....

UK needs skills task force to get slice of $1.8 trillion pie, Lords told The British space industry is struggling to compete for math, physics, and engineering graduates against a banking sector that can offer 90,000 ($120,000) salaries....

For that laptop feel without the laptop Logitech has embraced the sound of silence with its Signature Slim Wired K620 keyboard and M520 mouse combo....

Amid growing unease that US may compel cloud providers to hand over European data Capitalizing on the new interest in sovereign cloud, UK datacenter biz Pulsant has teamed up with Nine23, a firm specializing in high-assurance managed services for users such as the government, law enforcement, and defense sectors....

Meanwhile, next-gen script kiddies are levelling up faster thanks to agentic AI Interview Iran's state-sponsored cyber operatives and hacktivists have all increased their activities since the military conflict with Israel erupted last week - but not necessarily in the way that Amazon chief information security officer CJ Moses expected....

Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions Google has been testing a new way for websites to ask permission to access sensitive browser controls, such as the microphone and camera, despite longstanding opposition from Mozilla and Apple. Following recent refinements to the proposal, Mozilla now appears to be warming to the changes....

France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day Japanese automotive giant Honda has successfully launched and landed a small rocket....

Quick reminder: The law that banned the app is called Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act' The Trump administration is set to again waive the 2024 law that requires the made-in-China social network TikTok to either sell its US operations to a local company or stop operating on US soil....

Expect headcount reductions over the next few years, says Andy Jassy Amazon staff on Tuesday got an email from their CEO advising that some of them will probably be replaced by bots....

Little agents everywhere Salesforce is raising prices for a bunch of its products and claims that increasing integration with AI justifies the increased bills, even after one of its own researchers recently said that AI agents are often underdelivered on basic CRM tasks....

Plus adds a ton more security capabilities for cloud customers at re:Inforce Amazon Web Services hit a major multi-factor authentication milestone, achieving 100 percent MFA enforcement for root users across all types of AWS accounts....

They're taking the data from IRSengard, claim Dems; officials tell us that's not true A coalition of House and Senate Democrats has sent an aggressive letter to Palantir CEO Alex Karp questioning whether the controversial data intelligence biz is breaking federal law by allegedly helping the IRS build a searchable "mega database" of taxpayer information, and, likening his firm to US companies accused of aiding human rights violations in apartheid South Africa, Nazi Germany, and the People's Republic of China....

A symbolic political move Taiwan has added China's leading foundry operator Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC) and IT giant Huawei to its export control list. The move effectively blacklists the duo from doing business with the chip manufacturing mecca....

China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open-source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in terms of performance and cost....

Third time's a charm? Apple has escaped a $300 million patent infringement damages penalty - for now - due to what a trio of judges said comes down to faulty jury instructions....

Amazon's satellite constellation hits another snag as ULA rocket aborts on pad A hardware glitch on United Launch Alliance's (ULA) workhorse Atlas V rocket delayed the launch of the second batch of Project Kuiper satellites....

Hardcoded passwords and path traversals keeping bug hunters in work Security researchers have issued a warning about a pre-authentication exploit chain affecting a CMS used by some of the biggest companies in the world....

Layoffs loom at Foundry biz despite CHIPS Act relief on the horizon Intel is reportedly set to shed 15 to 20 percent of its fabrication plant staff from next month, blaming company finances for the move, but the chip giant may get a boost from increased tax credits in a draft bill passing through the US Senate....

Promises silos for VMs, storage, and networks are out. Happy cloud-like days are in, without hyperscale complications 573 days after closing the acquisition of VMware, Broadcom has released the product that expresses its vision for the virtualization giant's future and what it claims is the template for a modern private cloud....

Out-of-band getting out of hand Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to deal with a Surface Hub problem introduced with June's Patch Tuesday fixes....

Still buying B200s and MI300Xs? Don't feel bad, Nvidia and AMD's NVL72 and Helios rack systems aren't really for the enterprise anyway Analysis With all the hype around Nvidia's NVL72, AMD's newly announced Helios, and Intel's upcoming Jaguar Shores rack systems, you'd be forgiven for thinking the days of eight-way HGX servers are numbered....

Penalty follows year-long probe into flaws that allowed attack to affect so many The UK's data watchdog is fining beleaguered DNA testing outfit 23andMe 2.31 million ($3.13 million) over its 2023 mega breach....

Forms Library blamed for issues experienced by some users Microsoft is so keen for users to migrate to the New Outlook email client that it has broken Classic Outlook again. This time, affected users are unable to open or create a message....

Parent company Mozilla's not my fave either Opinion I know some people still love Firefox. But, folks, it's a bad relationship, and the problems have been going on for a while now....

GLAM-E Labs report warns of risk to online cultural resources Bots harvesting content for AI companies have proliferated to the point that they're threatening digital collections of arts and culture....

Last of Whitehall-wide ERP overhaul will not kick off until next year The UK's Ministry of Defence has delayed procurement of a 92 million contract to implement Oracle's Fusion cloud-based ERP system....

Preferred and secured creditors walk away with nothing Brit-based ruggedized phone maker Bullitt Group's liquidation has finally wrapped up - and the firm was in such dire straits that none of its creditors received any recovered funds....

As for agentic AI, don't get him started about the enormous challenge of making it work vendors just won't discuss AI is not doing its job today and should leave us alone" according to analyst firm Gartner's global chief of AI research Erick Brethenoux....

Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users Microsoft has created a version of its 365 productivity suite that runs on-premises, as part of a move to satisfy European regulations....

Polling was supposed to start on Monday. Organizers warn situation is fluid A court in Mauritius has postponed the long-awaited election at the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC)....

DoD says deal covers 'warfighting'. OpenAI merely mentions healthcare and 'supporting proactive cyber defense' The US Department of Defense has contracted OpenAI to run a pilot program that will create "frontier AI," but it's not clear what they're building together....

A moment of panic as some customers thought the free tiers were going away On Monday, Railway, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, decided to throttle software builds by customers in its lowest paying tiers to accommodate unexpected demand for service following the Google Cloud Platform outage last week....

Google threat analysts warn the team behind the Marks & Spencer break-in has moved on Cyber-crime crew Scattered Spider has infected US insurance companies following a series of ransomware attacks against American and British retailers, according to Google, which urged this sector to be on "high alert."...

No need to plagiarize if you can have AI do it for you A series of Freedom of Information requests shows that students in British universities are increasingly getting busted for using AI to cheat....