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NoEscape promises 'colossal wave of problems' if IJC doesn't pay up The International Joint Commission, a body that manages water rights along the US-Canada border, has confirmed its IT security was targeted, after a ransomware gang claimed it stole 80GB of data from the organization....

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, laptops on fire off the shoulder of Orion... Google said Thursday it will provide a decade of service updates for recent model Chromebooks, a policy change that reflects the growing political clout of right-to-repair campaigners....

Is there nothing crowdsourcing and open source phone apps can't solve? NASA on Thursday released its final report on how to best study Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and the US space agency wants to hear more from the hoi polloi, or common folk....

Zero-days are so 2022. Why not just social engineer the help desk? Updated Casino giant Caesars Entertainment has confirmed miscreants stole a database containing customer info, including driver license and social security numbers for a "significant number" of its loyalty program members, in a social engineering attack earlier this month....

Terrible IT practices at the DoD? You don't say Pointing out IT failures at the US Department of Defense is like shooting fish in a barrel, but here we are with another in the cross-hairs: this time it's the DoD that has failed to account for the costs associated with restrictive cloud licensing agreements....

At least artists are being paid to train its models Adobe has sprinkled its products with AI while also hiking prices to pay for all that generative goodness....

Will Elon actually pay this bill? Lawyers for thousands of ex-Twitter employees who sued for unpaid severance have somehow managed to bring Elon Musk and company back to the negotiating table....

Who needs an IPO when you have Series I? Databricks has inhaled $500 million in funding - giving the data platform provider a nominal $43 billion valuation....

Company noticed data warehouse break-in via compromised account a month later Cloud-based bug tracking and monitoring platform Rollbar has warned users that attackers have rifled through their data....

Starboard Blue LLC says management failed to create shareholder goodness, 'change needed' GoDaddy needs to cut more jobs, reduce the tech budget, and address why it is falling short of financial targets outlined at its shareholder day in 2022, or the board should consider exploring a sale of the business....

British chip designer to trade on Nasdaq only The long anticipated Arm flotation is set to kick off today with shares being offered to the public at $51 apiece, putting a value on the company of $54.5 billion....

You can't puff puff pass on the Securities Act This week just got worse for married actor couple Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis - the US Securities and Exchange Commission has set fire to an NFT project they were involved in, Stoner Cats....

Europe worried about French safety findings Apple's woes over the iPhone 12's electromagnetic waves do not seem to be going away, with more EU countries intending to take another look at the device following France's decision to halt sales earlier this week....

How about the ministers go next? UK citizens wondering if Whitehall civil servants really "get" technology may be heartened to learn that the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology have signed up for the STEM Futures scheme....

And they cost less than a box of donuts Stolen cloud credentials cost about the same as a dozen donuts, according to IBM X-Force, whose threat intel team says logins make up almost 90 percent of goods and services for sale on dark web marketplaces....

Well, when it's finished, anyway Google has begun breaking out its Outline proxy client-server code into an SDK so developers can eventually bake the censorship-evading tech into their apps....

Build a new XT with HDMI graphics or run Windows ME at 4K - because why not? The retro computing hobby is always throwing up innovative ideas and methods... such as a CGA card with HDMI output, new 8088 PC systems, or drivers to enable full hardware-accelerated 3D for Windows 98 in a VM....

Black hole stun: They're more than 1,400 light years closer than the previous record holder Not to alarm anyone, but the nearest black holes to Earth are closer than we previously thought....

When you're shopping from 'TBMPOY' or 'CARWORNIC' will you even notice the difference? Amazon.com has unleashed a generative AI service for sellers in its supersized souk....

TikTok-esque Mini Worlds, part of the Tencent empire, shamed, fined, warned to do better China's cyberspace regulator on Wednesday ordered Tencent's QQ messaging platform to shut down its short video creation and sharing service for 30 days after it found it had exposed minors to graphic sexual material....

Those of you happy to spend ten hours in a single-aisle A321, take note Airbus has commenced functional and reliability testing of its A321XLR, a passenger plane expected to open up new routes by allowing the aviation workhorse that is the A320 family to easily handle transatlantic trips and journeys of ten hours or more....

Security is important, so is fair trade, says Foreign Ministry China's Foreign Ministry has denied reports that government agencies have restricted the use of Apple's iPhone....

To Nutanix go the spoils, to VMware users comes a compatibility nightmare Cisco has discontinued its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure products....

Hundreds about to find out first hand how the tough the job market is right now Google has confirmed it is this week laying off a few hundred staff from its global recruitment team....

Decision to combine user-curated feed with algorithmic stuff leaves coders fuming A week ago, GitHub fused its home page feed with algorithmic recommendations, infuriating more than a few users of the Microsoft-owned code-hosting giant....

Homeland Security told to mind costs, fix up privacy controls Twice delayed and over budget, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been told by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that it needs to correct shortcomings in its biometric identification program....

Another load of automakers teams up to lean into the inevitable If you want to gauge the automotive industry's temperature on electric vehicles, just take a look at the volume of collaborative projects they're all working on, including most recently an initiative from Ford, BMW and Honda's American arm to develop a standard for bidirectional vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging....

No, your CEO is not on Teams asking you to transfer money Deepfakes are coming for your brand, bank accounts, and corporate IP, according to a warning from US law enforcement and cyber agencies....

Ransomware group nicked info from employee of airline, say researchers Aerospace giant Airbus has fallen victim to a data breach, thanks in part to the inattention of a third party....

We're just better, says Big G Google is facing charges from the US Department of Justice that it maintains a dominant position in internet search through payments to device makers and browser developers that keep it as the default search option....

Who's that poking around in your infrastructure? Roles, permissions, policies, and more Sure, cloud infrastructure is complex. But keeping track of identities (human and machine) and permissions across multiple cloud environments, and making sure all of these entitlements aren't abused to break into cloud environments - well, that's truly a Herculean task....

This would make the Golden State the third to enact a similar law The Apple-backed California right-to-repair bill has made its way effortlessly through the state Assembly, and is now just one procedural vote away from heading to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk for signature....

Think Debian 12 plus Mint's polish and a friendlier UX for non-techies The next version of Linux Mint's alternative flavor, its Debian 12-based edition, is looming, and it's reassuringly unexciting....

It's not as if space is hard, is it? The three companies tapped by Amazon to launch its Project Kuiper constellation have confirmed that they're definitely going to get the satellites into orbit despite repeated delays....

Watchdog worries over electromagnetic waves, Apple disagrees Apple's launch party for its latest iPhone was marred slightly yesterday as the French National Frequency Agency (ANFR) told the company that its iPhone 12 breached electromagnetic wave limits....

No, miscreants won't be able to use it to read secret printed docs Researchers in California have found that Wi-Fi signals can be used to image objects on the far side of a wall, and claim to have demonstrated that such a system can even pick out complex shapes such as letters of the alphabet....

Cut and shut is so last century, now it's copy and clone Researchers have found almost 15,000 automotive accounts for sale online and pointed at a credential-stuffing attack that targeted car makers....

Plus: Spending watchdog slams 'counter-productive staffing cuts' in technology Tech skills shortages and reliance on legacy systems are holding back the UK government's efforts to improve efficiency at a time when public finances are under severe pressure....

Fun technique - but how practical is it? Some smart cookies at institutions in China and Singapore have devised a technique for reading keystrokes and pilfering passwords or passcodes from Wi-Fi-connected mobile devices on public networks, without any hardware hacking....

Pensioners, employees and medical pros among those aiming to be compensated for data exposure The number of claimants signing up to a collective action against Capita over the infamous March cyber security break-in and subsequent data exposure keeps going up, according to the lawyer overseeing the case....

Deal for tax collector's legacy application services goes to troupe of suppliers including Accenture, Capgemini and IBM Exclusive UK government has named the winning suppliers on the first tranche of a tech deal which could be worth a total of 4.2 billion ($5.24 billion) for application software services supporting the nation's tax collector....

If the Chocolate Factory can't track you to sell ads, what does it have left? A group of Dutch consumer orgs sued Google today for what it alleges are "large-scale privacy violations."...

Personal AI can redefine the handheld experience and perhaps preserve privacy too Column Smartphone innovation has plateaued. The iPhone 15, launched overnight, has some nice additions. But my iPhone 13 will meet my needs for a while and I won't rush to replace it. My previous iPhone lasted four years....

Humans just can't leave anything alone, huh The leftover lunar descent module, which carried the Apollo 17 crew to the surface of the Moon in 1972, triggers tiny artificial moonquakes that rumble through Earth's natural satellite every lunar morning, according to research....

Same salespeople and same lock-in, which may actually help this time Analyst firm Gartner has observed its clients asking hyperscale cloud vendors to behave more like legacy tech vendors - and feels that might not be the worst thing to happen to organizations seeking to tap into the value of multi-cloud....

Running unsupported and unpatched versions of Exchange Server will do that to a country Sri Lanka's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) is currently investigating a ransomware attack on the government's cloud infrastructure that affected around 5,000 email accounts, it revealed on Tuesday....

As Japan's space agency preps a rover to land on Martian moon Phobos South Korea's science ministry has released a photo taken by the nation's Danuri Moon orbiter depicting the landing site of India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission....

'Obtaining a disruptive capability could be one possible motivation behind this surge in attacks' Espionage-ware thought to have been developed by China has once again been spotted within the power grid of a neighboring nation....

White House bags more voluntary commitments Eight big names in tech, including Nvidia, Palantir, and Adobe, have agreed to red team their AI applications before they're released and prioritize research that will make their systems more more trustworthy, the White House tells us....

Plus: Adobe and Android also tackle abused-in-the-wild flaws Patch Tuesday It's every Windows admin's favorite day of the month: Patch Tuesday. Microsoft emitted 59 patches for its September update batch, including two for bugs that have already been exploited....