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BCS calls for digital literacy GCSE alongside Computer Science The UK's professional body for the IT workforce has called for a more "inclusive" digital literacy age-16 qualification alongside Computer Science, which it says is "theoretical and demanding."...

'I love this work. I love what I'm doing. It's so cool' Feature The Voyager probes have entered a new phase of operations. As recent events have shown, keeping the venerable spacecraft running is challenging as the end of their mission nears....

'See you in court', defendant posts Google filed a lawsuit last week against an Indian semiconductor engineer for allegedly posting trade secrets related to its Google Pixel chip designs online....

Scumbags play on victims' worst fears in phishing campaign referencing UK Employment Tribunal A current phishing campaign scares recipients into believing they've been sacked, when in reality they've been hacked - and infected with infostealers and other malware that means a payday for the crooks behind the scam....

120-meter colossus expected to be online in 2028 - around the same time the Square Kilometer Array A 120-meter diameter radio telescope is under construction in China and, once built, will be the world's largest fully steerable device of its kind, according to the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)....

Investigation is apparently sweeping, but keen on info about AI, security, and cloud The US Federal Trade Commission appears to have launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft....

Memory and foundry businesses get new leaders as Chaebol seeks to enter HBM heaven Generative AI has created a once-in-a-generation surge in memory sales and semiconductor production - which Samsung Electronics has managed to flub, leading to a Wednesday announcement that it's named new senior leadership for its memory and foundry businesses....

Sure, it sent an email and FAQ saying it had - but that was a mistake, you see Broadcom has made an embarrassing mistake: sending an email in which it mistakenly announced the end of its VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certification....

Let's see how this goes India has decided to rebuild the platforms it offers citizens to process their taxes and make the system paperless....

Plus, a brand-new backdoor, GhostSpider, is linked to the cyber spy crew's operations The reach of the China-linked Salt Typhoon gang extends beyond telecommunications giants in the United States, and its arsenal includes several backdoors - including a brand-new malware dubbed GhostSpider - according to Trend Micro researchers....

Funny what putting more effort and resources into IT security can do Attackers - possibly China's Salt Typhoon cyber-espionage crew - compromised an unnamed wireline provider's network and used this access to try to break into T-Mobile US systems multiple times over the past few weeks, according to its Chief Security Officer Jeff Simon....

Even if 98% say they're worried about energy availability and reliability Investors are increasingly concerned about the availability and reliability of power for datacenters, yet most are still confident that investment in the sector will expand over the next several years, driven by demand for AI and cloud services....

Researcher spotted open database before criminals ... we hope Exclusive More than 600,000 sensitive files containing thousands of people's criminal histories, background checks, vehicle and property records were exposed to the internet in a non-password protected database belonging to data brokerage SL Data Services, according to a security researcher....

Authorization conditional on operations not causing harmful interference Despite granting Starlink conditional authorization for direct-to-cell satellite-based phone services, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has deferred a request to operate at signal strengths beyond those allowed....

Bootkitty doesn't bite... yet Security researchers say they've stumbled upon the first-ever UEFI bootkit targeting Linux, illustrating a key moment in the evolution of such tools....

Confusion over Connected Experiences settings in 365 apps spark concerns Updated Microsoft's Connected Experiences option in its productivity suite has been causing consternation amid accusations that the default setting might allow Microsoft to train AI models using customers' Word and Excel documents and other data....

From post-Athlon 64 dive into near obscurity to chip market stalwart A decade ago, the landscape of the x86 processor market was nowhere near as competitive as it is now. AMD really wasn't the force in the processor market it is known as today....

Same form factor, more performance for industry The Raspberry Pi maker has rounded off a busy few weeks with the launch of an updated Compute Module 5 - it has the same form factor but considerably more power than the previous generation....

And the company is doing the right thing with its database Foursquare Labs is closing its venue-finding app, rather than the mobile game - but it's open sourcing the worldwide database it built....

$190 million project under scrutiny after reported failures Oracle's electronic health records system is under scrutiny by multiple Swedish authorities after a $190 million rollout in the Vastra Gotaland region (VGR) encountered significant issues....

Poor software projects among efforts to overhaul FCA that came up short, MPs find UK politicians have slammed the nation's financial regulator for failing to implement a transformation program underpinned by technology....

Cracked Labs report explores the use of motion sensors and wireless networking kit to monitor offices Office buildings have become like web browsers - they're full of tracking technology, a trend documented in a report out this week by Cracked Labs....

Thinks customers may have forgiven it after revenue hits a record CrowdStrike can't yet confidently predict the financial impact of the failed update to its Falcon software that crashed millions of computers around the world last July, but is confident its third quarter results show customers can't find a better security product....

But PCs and Nvidia are weak points, because you're not buying one and can't buy the other Dell believes its customers are consolidating server fleets to save energy and free up rack space for AI hardware - and has a giant jump in revenue to to prove it....

Provides insight to how China gets inside US systems, perhaps at Verizon and Infosys A 59 year-old Florida telco engineer was sentenced to 48 months in prison after he served as a spy for China and provided Beijing with details like his employer's cybersecurity, according to the US Department of Justice....

Software snafu took five minutes to roll back. The mess it made took hours to clean up Cloudflare has admitted that it broke its own logging-as-a-service service with a bad software update, and that customer data was lost as a result....

Connection will tie remote territory to Darwin in North Australia A Google-funded subsea cable will connect the Australian territory of Christmas Island to Darwin on the mainland....

You need to know in advance when your kit will be bricked or downgraded - it's the law Makers of software-enabled products have been put on notice by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for failing to disclose how long their products will receive software updates....

America's neighbors now face 25% because of fentanyl and immigration, China just 10% on top of existing duties President-elect Donald Trump's tariff threats have been formalized with a pair of social media statements that, while not nearly as steep as promised on the campaign trail, still threaten to complicate relations with the US's three largest trade partners....

Impact of AI-integrated notebooks on overall market remains limited for now, says TrendForce The global laptop market is forecast to grow by 4.9 percent during 2025, but commercial upgrade cycles and the looming Windows 10 end of life are driving this rather than demand for AI-capable PCs....

Complaint claims he trespassed, gave himself discounts, and sorted CCTV access... A Kansas City man who stands accused of having a disregard for basic opsec made his first court appearance on Friday over a series of alleged cybercrimes....

Scanners, printers, and... fax machines? Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 24H2 has issues with USB-connected devices that support the Scanner Communication Language (eSCL) protocol. A compatibility hold has been applied to the hardware....

A mere 13 years since the last point release FLTK, one of the oldest and most stable FOSS toolkits for programming GUI apps, is back with new shiny....

In case anyone forgot about Change Healthcare American hospitals and healthcare organizations would be required to adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) and other minimum cybersecurity standards under new legislation proposed by a bipartisan group of US senators....

Microsoft free tool snooping on users? Surely not! If you've been tempted to download the Bing Wallpaper app to spice up your Windows 11 desktop backgrounds, you may want to think twice....

Outgoing administration rushes to allocate money ahead of Inauguration Day Intel has finalized an agreement with the US Department of Commerce to receive up to $7.86 billion awarded via the CHIPS and Science Act, funding that has come into question since the election....

Ad slinger alleged to have abused position, resulting in higher prices for consumers Google must face a 7 billion ($8.8 billion) claim in the UK over allegations it abused its search engine dominance, a tribunal has ruled....

Third time this year an NHS unit's IT systems have come under attack A UK hospital is declaring a "major incident," cancelling all outpatient appointments due to "cybersecurity reasons."...

Just what you want to find when you start a new week Updated Taiwanese NAS maker QNAP addressed 24 vulnerabilities across various products over the weekend....

Meanwhile, budget clambered from 2.6M to nearly 40M, says report A UK council had no fully costed and resourced plan in place to deliver a critical Oracle ERP project two years after beginning an SAP-replacement program, one which has seen years of delay with costs set to climb to 15 times the initial budget....

Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM are all doing it. Andy Jassy's rent-a-server shop may have felt it was leaving money on the table Amazon Web Services has introduced a VMware-as-a-service offering that conforms to Broadcom's licensing schemes....

X rival also under fire for failing to designate legal representative Updated The Bluesky social network is not yet big enough to be considered "Very Large Online Platform" subject to special obligations under Europe's Digital Services Act (DSA) - but it's already having trouble complying with the law....

'Be in no doubt: the UK and others in this room are watching Russia' The government of the United Kingdom on Monday announced the formation of a Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR) to make the nation more resilient to AI-powered cyber threats from Russia....

Wants Cook to look under the couch again and find at least another $15 million Indonesia's Ministry of Industry has snubbed Apple's proposal to invest 1.6 trillion Rupiah ($100 million) in an iPhone accessory and component factory, saying it's not enough to justify lifting a ban on sales of the iPhone 16 in the world's fourth-most populous nation....

'Global Scheduling Ethernet' looks a lot like tech the Ultra Ethernet Consortium is also working on Chinese tech giants last week announced the debut of chips to power a technology called "Global Scheduling Ethernet" that is intended to offer a version of the networking protocol tuned to the needs of AI and other demanding workloads....

Petition claims database titan maintained its mark by making a fraudulent claim Deno Land, maker of the Deno runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly, has filed a petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark....

And it looks like major UK retailers that rely on it are feeling the pinch US-based supply chain SaaS vendor Blue Yonder has revealed a service disruption caused by ransomware, and its customers are reportedly struggling to get goods onto shelves as a result....

Camp Century could spill millions of gallons of sewage, diesel fuel, and nuclear waste as climate warms Deep within the ice sheet of Greenland lies a US military secret that hasn't been seen since the 1960s, but a NASA flyover earlier this year has provided an unprecedented look at the buried Cold War relic....

Mac Mini and iPhone repairability strides have yet to make it to flagship computer Despite improved repairability scores for Apple's latest iPhone and Mac Mini, the iFixit team says it was left underwhelmed after tearing into the new M4 MacBook Pro....

Remedies should be refined with an eye toward broad platform rights and responsibilities Opinion The US Justice Department's proposed remedies to address Google's monopoly control of the search services and search text advertising markets should be reconsidered in light of the broader problems with technology platforms....