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Victims' details at risk after criminals download 9,000 files from court database Australian police are currently investigating the theft of "sensitive" data from a New South Wales court system after they confirmed approximately 9,000 files were stolen....

It's not a party until someone builds a bit barn on greenbelt land It's International Datacenter Day, when people around the world get together to share their love of faceless concrete edifices....

Bad news about the Linux system monitor may be on the way Veteran sysadmin and tech blogger Rachel Kroll posted a cryptic warning yesterday about a popular Linux system monitoring tool. Maybe it's better to be safe than sorry....

Now the only nonsense printed out will come from the user Months after releasing a patch that left some printers spouting gibberish, Microsoft is issuing another update to deal with it....

Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies The US government has initiated another crackdown on Chinese businesses skirting chip export bans, adding a few dozen new names, and offshoots of repeat offenders, to the entity list....

Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center....

Meanwhile, Apple is lining up '$1B' of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra kit Schneider Electric plans to spend $700 million through 2027 to expand its US operations and bolster the supply of its power equipment necessary to sustain the proliferation of AI datacenters....

Who knew social media stars had a role to play in building national cyber resilience? The world's biggest brands have benefited from influencer marketing for years - now the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has hopped on the bandwagon to preach two-factor authentication (2FA) to the masses....

At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE Britain's telecoms regulator could authorize satellite-to-smartphone services in the UK before the end of this year....

Spending watchdog says digital professionals need seat at top table to ensure 'transformation' The parlous state of UK government legacy IT systems is hampering attempts to adopt AI, a report from MPs has warned....

PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost Aardvark, a novel machine learning-based weather prediction system, teases a future where supercomputers are optional for forecasting - but don't pull the plug just yet....

Firefly Aerospace choses Amazon boss's Honeybee Robotics to supply vehicle for 2028 mission Elon Musk may have launched hundreds of rockets and sent his own Tesla Roadster into space, but rival billionaire Jeff Bezos will soon be able to boast he's built a moon rover....

As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement VMware has sued industrial giant AG Siemens's US operations for alleged use of unlicensed software and accused it of changing its story negotiations....

Binned an e-commerce tax last year so this may not be complete capitulation The lower house of India's parliament on Tuesday passed the nation's budget for 2025, after making a last-minute change that removed a tax on digital ads....

Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right? Two academic organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday for the allegedly unlawful withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University and associated demands for policy changes....

Chip guru preaches virtues of 'values-aligned' pray-I, sorry, AI Pat Gelsinger, once CEO of VMware and later Intel, has announced he's taken a new job as executive chair and head of technology at Gloo, a Colorado-based startup offering technology tools for churches and other faith-based organizations....

Officials likely broke Privacy Act by dishing out info without consent A Maryland judge has dealt another blow to Elon Musk's cost-trimming DOGE unit, temporarily blocking the US Treasury, Dept of Education, and Office of Personnel Management from sharing union members' personal data with the billionaire's minions....

The man who helped make Sammy the biggest name in modern tellies Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee died this week in the Samsung Medical Center in southern Seoul after a cardiac arrest. He was 63....

An impressive recreation of the Windows golden age The ReactOS project is putting out a point-release for the first time in a few years, and this insanely optimistic effort is making progress....

Customers come forward claiming info was swiped from prod Oracle Cloud's denial of a digital break-in is now in clear dispute. A infosec researcher working on validating claims that the cloud provider's login servers were compromised earlier this year says some customers have confirmed data allegedly stolen and leaked from the database giant is genuine....

We have one, yes - but what about a second death ray? Still shopping for the perfect death ray, the US Army has tapped Huntington Ingalls to build and test a prototype laser weapon designed to fry drones in flight....

User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org Europe's German-speaking SAP user group is reporting a sharp uptick in organizations signing up or planning to sign up for the application vendor's preferred cloud migration route....

Joe Tsai says speculative datacenter builds could exceed actual demand Alibaba is warning of a datacenter spending "bubble" amid the rush to build infrastructure in anticipation of an AI feeding frenzy....

Redmond veteran proposes Zero Sugar and Caffeine Free variants Baffled by the plethora of Outlook options out there? You aren't alone. Microsoft veteran Scott Hanselman posted a list of some more variants that could be used to do the same thing....

16,000 stolen records pertain to former and active mail subscribers Infosec veteran Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned fame is notifying thousands of people after phishers scooped up his Mailchimp mailing list....

Thoughtful and considered ... even if it is based on an American distro EU OS is a proposal for an immutable KDE-based Linux distribution with a Windows-like desktop, designed for use in European public-sector organizations....

'Don't wait for another pandemic or civil challenge,' says US spy-tech biz Comment It might take a particularly shameless company to grasp the opportunity presented by the UK's coronavirus pandemic and step in with a sales pitch. US spy-tech biz Palantir is willing to give it a go....

Microsoft and Dell keeping quiet on their work-life-balance trials A four-day working week pilot programme is being squarely aimed at the UK tech sector with the final results to be assessed by academics....

Other cities either started with rival kit, or had Chinese vendor core already built before any bans, says expert Interview Recent research found that London is ranked at the foot of the table when it comes to 5G mobile service, but why should that be? The answer is a combination of issues, including available spectrum, investment and the great Huawei replacement....

Just an FYI, like Generative AI assistants packaged up as browser extensions harvest personal data with minimal safeguards, researchers warn....

There's only one rule - don't attack Russia, duh Check Point has spotted a fresh ransomware-as-a-service crew in town: VanHelsing, touting a cross-platform locker targeting Microsoft Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi systems, among others. But so far, only Windows machines have fallen victim, we're told....

Time to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough DrayTek router owners in the UK and beyond had a pretty miserable weekend after some ISPs began to notice a lot of their customers' gateways going offline....

It's just pure incompetence' confesses penguin emperor Linux kernel development boss Linus Torvalds has admitted his own pure incompetence" led him to forget to deliver version 6.14 of the project....

How many K8s systems are sat on the internet front porch like that ... Oh, thousands, apparently Cloudy infosec outfit Wiz has discovered serious vulnerabilities in the admission controller component of Ingress-Nginx Controller that could allow the total takeover of Kubernetes clusters - and thinks more than 6,000 deployments of the software are at risk on the internet....

Kari, OK, we'll see you in court An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding - and expressed fears that if the cash stops flowing, the tools it supports could become harder to access....

Massive OPSEC fail from the side who brought you 'lock her up' Senior Trump administration officials used the messaging app Signal to discuss secret government business - including detailed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen - and accidentally invited a journalist to join the group in which they chatted....

Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting rackets The FCC is investigating whether Chinese manufacturers black-listed on its so-called Covered List - including Huawei - are still somehow doing business in America, either by misreading the rules or willfully ignoring them....

Ex-US Air Force officer says companies shouldn't wait for govt mandates Interview Former US Air Force cyber officer Sarah Cleveland worries about the threat of a major supply-chain attack from China or another adversarial nation. So she installed solar panels on her house: "Because what if the electric grid goes down?"...

Capital costs of creating document-relational serverless database take their toll FaunaDB - the database that promised relational power with document flexibility - will shut down its service at the end of May. The biz says it plans to release an open-source version of its core tech....

Official PoE+ HAT+ for the Pi 5 still MIA The Raspberry Pi team has launched a Power-over-Ethernet Injector aimed at users who are seeking to add some juice to their network but who lack a network switch capable of doing so....

$280M of excess spending makes for a ripe - and reasonable - DOGE target After blowing deadlines and budgets for years, the Pentagon has finally pulled the plug on a troubled project to overhaul its outdated civilian HR IT systems....

Looking to sort through large volumes of security info? Redmond has your backend Microsoft's Security Copilot is getting some degree of agency, allowing the underlying AI model to interact more broadly with the company's security software to automate various tasks....

The answer to the ultimate question of Linux, the Universe, and Everything? Fedora 42 is now in beta testing, with more desktops and editions than ever....

CEO steps down after multiple failed attempts to take the DNA testing company private Beleaguered DNA testing biz 23andMe - hit by a massive cyber attack in 2023 - is filing for bankruptcy protection in the US following years of financial uncertainty....

First woman and first person of color pledges dropped The purge of DEI language from US federal websites has claimed another victim. This time, it is NASA's pledge to land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon as part of the Artemis program....

Return to office, hours and intensity of work cited as reasons to walk Two in five techies quit in the past year because their employer didn't offer requisite flexibility with respect to hours, location and the "intensity of work."...

It's been a very busy week for Digicash Donald's administration Analysis Is the US retreating from its hardline stance on crypto? On Friday, the US Treasury Department lifted sanctions imposed on notorious crypto mixer Tornado Cash, once accused of washing billions in illicit crypto for criminals and nation-states alike....

Tweaks mean smoother operation even on low-end kit GNOME 48 is here, with some under-the-hood tweaks to improve performance even on low-end kit....

Education authority still searching for an alternative after 13 years A public body in Northern Ireland has granted Capita 208 million in additional contracts and extensions without competition after ditching a 485 million Fujitsu deal last November....

Throw a spanner in the works, best get good at fixing things. Now, where did you put that spanner? Opinion Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This works well in sane times, less so when "but it's both" is the default. Apply it to Microsoft's decision to make bug reports include not only a working example but a video of the same, and the meter oscillates wildly. What were they thinking? What did they expect?...