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Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service....

'This was a deliberate, coordinated, digital attack' Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the state's National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the city of Saint Paul....

Can we have this as a global feature in all software? Please? Zed, a fast new Rust-based text editor aimed at programmers, now lets you totally disable LLM bot integration. We're sure some users will rejoice - but how many?...

Competiton regulator smells abuse of a dominant market position, Zuckercorp claims all is well Meta's addition of AI services to encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp has Italian officials suspecting the Silicon Valley giant may be abusing its dominant market position to push unwanted features on users....

The lure? Identity security and privileged access management tools to verify humans and... machines Palo Alto Networks will buy Israeli security biz CyberArk in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal confirmed today....

If at first you succeed, have some more money NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace $176.7 million to deliver a pair of rovers and a trio of scientific instruments to the Moon as part of the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative....

Brazil is the latest browser battlefield Veteran browser maker Opera has filed a complaint with Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) against Microsoft over alleged anti-competitive practices in Windows that favor Edge....

Distie insists global operations restored despite some websites only now coming back online The cybercriminals claiming responsibility for Ingram Micro's ransomware attack put a deadline on leaking its data nearly a month after the raid....

Gigaclear slapped by watchdog for failings, admits 'seriousness of the error' Ofcom is to impose a 122,500 fine (about $164,000) on UK broadband provider Gigaclear for failing to deliver accurate caller location information when customers called the emergency services....

Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new bill Oracle has introduced new licensing terms that some users may see as hidden within the terms for VirtualBox, the general-purpose virtualization software for x86_64 hardware....

Birdsong stores 176 KB, but can it run Doom? Forget flash storage - flock storage is here after it was demonstrated that data can be saved to a bird....

Green rules risk short-circuiting AI ambitions, warns group including AWS, Microsoft and Google A trade body representing datacenter operators in Europe worried about standards for efficiency imposed by the EU has published a report to ensure its arguments are heard first....

Users and developers struggle to comply as situation evolves It is a little more than four years since the European Union first proposed legislation to govern tech companies that build AI systems and how users deploy them. A lot has changed since then....

AI frameworks are becoming a Russian nesting doll of abstraction layers Cisco's Agntcy project is the latest AI framework to find refuge at the Linux Foundation....

We want kids to know who they are before platforms assume who they are' says Minister Australia will require Google to ensure that children aged under 16 cannot sign up for YouTube accounts....

Russian rumbler has authorities across the Pacific warning of possible problems A vastly powerful earthquake that radiated out from the eastern Russian coast on Wednesday has caused a significant tsunami but hasn't disrupted communications or cloud computing services....

I would have liked more flight time but happy with this' says CEO of private rocket outfit Australia's attempt to return to space lasted just 14 seconds, after a Wednesday launch barely made it off the ground....

Q Link claimed subsidies for ineligible customers The former CEO of Florida telco Q Link will spend up to five years in jail after attempting to steal more than $100 million from two US government programs....

The security nerds' equivalent of the Epstein files saga The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday finally agreed to make public an unclassified report from 2022 about American telecommunications networks' poor security practices....

Knowledge workers will be most affected Microsoft researchers have found that people get the most use of AI for writing and knowledge work, but they offer some comfort to worried white-collar workers, saying that their jobs may only change rather than go away completely....

Chinese IT giant's CloudMatrix 384 promises GB200-beating perf, if you ignore power and the price tag Analysis Nvidia has the green light to resume shipments of its H20 GPUs to China, but while the chip may be plentiful, bit barn operators in the region now have far more capable alternatives at their disposal....

Strict regulations, lack of funding, and hallucinations remain hurdles to implementation US federal government agencies have identified a surge in AI use cases over the past year. But rolling them out? That's where things slow down, thanks to funding gaps, compute shortages, outdated policies, and a workforce still playing catch-up....

New malware, even better social engineering chops The FBI and a host of international cyber and law enforcement agencies on Tuesday warned that Scattered Spider extortionists have changed their tactics and are now breaking into victims' networks using savvier social engineering techniques, searching for organizations' Snowflake database credentials, and deploying a handful of new ransomware variants, most recently DragonForce....

Vibe coding is right out, say most respondents in Stack Overflow survey According to a new survey of worldwide software developers released on Tuesday, nearly all respondents are incorporating AI tools into their coding practices - but they're not necessarily all that happy about it....

Auterion CEO explains how autonomy will change the face of warfare interview The war in Ukraine is increasingly becoming a battle of drones, and defense software firm Auterion has just won a $50 million Pentagon contract to supply 33,000 AI-powered strike kits" that aim to augment Ukrainian UAVs and push them to the front lines....

Alphabet's driverless darling taps Avis to manage the fleet for 2026 debut With Tesla horning in on its Texas territory, robotaxi outfit Waymo has decided to expand to a new city in the Lone Star state: Dallas....

Redmond's last mostly sane OS nears end-of-life as AI nags take over It has been ten years since Microsoft made Windows 10 generally available. With mere months left until the plug is unceremoniously pulled on support for many versions, let's take a look at how the last decade went for the one-time flagship operating system....

Another week, another protest over budget proposals A letter protesting the imminent demise of US research vessel and icebreaker the Nathaniel B. Palmer was this week sent to the National Science Foundation (NSF) amid proposed funding reductions....

Some users keen while others point out pile of unresolved bugs in core product The open source Blender 3D editing suite may be adapted to run on Apple's iPad and other tablets, despite concern from one contributor that the team is already stretched with "thousands of bugs languishing in the tracker."...

Mostly minor changes under the hood - a lot of them Over the weekend, the world's most famous Finn pushed out the latest version of the Linux kernel - and warned of upcoming disruption....

Bumper's 1950 liftoff paved way for thousands of missions from iconic spaceport It is 75 years since the first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral: a two-stage rocket consisting of a German V-2 missile and a US sounding rocket....

5 V-tolerant GPIO opens the way to some intriguing retro-nerdery The Raspberry Pi team has released an update to the RP2350 microcontroller with bug fixes, hardening, and a GPIO tweak that will delight retro hardware enthusiasts....

Changes enacted in Trump's budget cover cost of penalty Electronic design biz Cadence has agreed to plead guilty and pay more than $140 million in fines over charges that it unlawfully sold semiconductor design tools to a university linked with the Chinese military....

Support for migrations to be scrapped come October The clock is ticking for administrators pondering a migration path to Exchange Online from an elderly version of Microsoft's email server. Support for public folder migrations from Exchange Server 2010 and older is set for deprecation....

Troopers to swap radios for Turtle Beaches in preparation for 21st century challenges' The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is doubling down on its endorsement of esports by tasking the British Esports Federation to establish a new tournament to upskill existing servicepeople in the digital skirmishes....

Google's AI Overviews are wrecking its old ad model, but Google's revenue is increasing with ads based on it Opinion Alphabet, Google's parent company, is making money hand over fist. In its latest quarterly report, Google's revenue grew 14 percent year-over-year to $96.4 billion. While Google's cloud revenue, $13.6 billion, with 31 percent year-over-year growth, is growing fast, the bulk of its cash, $54.2 billion worth, still comes from advertising....

Advocacy group tells UK competition watchdog proposal favors Google Exclusive Movement for an Open Web (MOW), an advocacy group that supports web publishers, has filed a complaint with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) challenging the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) call to eliminate third-party cookies....

Replacement deal not ready, so old one gets 6 more months and budget bump The UK government is extending two major cloud purchasing agreements due to delayed replacement arrangements under frameworks that could be worth an additional 1.65 billion....

'Edge, order two tons of creamed corn...' Microsoft on Monday introduced Copilot Mode in its Edge browser, a way to use voice or text commands to automate web-based tasks via AI....

Look over there! Amidst its own failure to fix a couple of bugs now under mass exploitation and being abused for espionage, data theft, and ransomware infections, Microsoft said Monday that it spotted a macOS vulnerability some months ago that could allow attackers to steal private data. Redmond reported the bug to Cupertino, which issued a fix back in March....

At least big bags of CO can be built faster than a fusion plant Caught in a constant race between its AI power needs and carbon emissions reduction pledges, Google's latest sustainability commitment sees it considering giant bags of carbon dioxide as a solution to dirty energy....

Plus, 60% don't have enough analysts to make sense of it Too many threats, too much data, and too few skilled security analysts are making companies more vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to the IT and security leaders tasked with protecting these organizations from digital threats....

But overall sales are basically flat, says Canalys For the first time, India has overtaken China as the top manufacturing hub for smartphones shipped to the US....

The greatest mathematician-cum-singer-songwriter of all time Obituary The field of satirists and hit singer-songwriters who were also professional mathematicians and lecturers is a very small one, and as such, we feel sure Tom Lehrer was the greatest who ever lived... And he also invented the modern Jell-O shot....

Businesses don't seem to care about exclusive features like Recall Copilot+ PCs are so far failing to penetrate the enterprise as IT decision makers remain understandably unimpressed with the exclusive Windows AI features they offer and other efforts, such as the need to refresh fleets with Windows 11-capable gear, take priority....

But they were supervised by American 'digital escorts' Microsoft has been left with egg on its face after an independent investigation revealed a concerning pattern of using workers based in China to maintain and support US government customers on its Azure cloud....

Europe is acting like the victim of a bully world war fee The US president and EU chief agreed to a deal over the weekend, averting a trade war between the world's two largest economies, but the agreement has a number of European leaders calling foul....

Some heading into retirement, others to private sector Almost 3,900 of NASA's workforce is set to leave the agency thanks to voluntary incentives, with senior staffers among those heading out the door....

Investigators detail persistent background connections and file transmissions despite telemetry opt-out An analysis of data collection in the Trae AI-powered IDE from ByteDance shows extensive network activity, which continued even when telemetry was disabled in settings....

No word on who's behind it, but attack has hallmarks of the usual suspects Financial services biz Allianz says the majority of customers of one of its North American subsidiaries had their data stolen in a cyberattack....