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It may take ten years but vendors must be held accountable for the vulnerabilities they introduce CYBERUK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) CTO Ollie Whitehouse kicked off day two of Britain's cyber watchdog's annual shindig, CYBERUK, with a tirade about the tech market, pulling it apart to demonstrate why he believes it's at fault for many of the security problems the industry is facing today....

So why not drop the policy? Productivity bias or productivity paranoia perhaps Evidence is mounting that tech companies' policies demanding staff return to the office are only serving to drive out the talent that became accustomed to remote work....

IT minister boasts of tech titan building network of local vendors Apple is expected to have a quarter of all iPhones made in India by 2028, according to the country's IT minister....

No more illicit gains, for a while at least The FBI, in combination with police around the world, have taken control of the website and Telegram channel of ransomware brokerage site BreachForums....

More government data allegedly stolen by prolific criminals An extortionist claims to have stolen files from the US Army Aviation and Missile Command in August 2023, and now claims they are selling access to a $75 billion aerospace and defense company....

Fundamentals are for losers: It's a good time to head the worst performing stock in the S&P Owners of Tesla stock will vote on June 13 to determine whether the company's CEO Elon Musk deserves a $46 billion payday....

'Reads like it was written by Sam Altman and Big Tech lobbyists,' say critics A quartet of US senators have released an AI legislation roadmap that calls for billions of dollars in research funding, but largely kicks the can down the road on determining federal AI legislation....

Musk venture allegedly decided imperfect design was usable Elon Musk's neurotech startup's revelation that the tiny wires on its chip implants came loose from its first human patient's brain might not have been a first....

Apple might be hanging on to nuked iPhone snaps for a while Some iPhone users are reportedly seeing photos they had previously deleted resurface on their devices ever since updating to the latest version of iOS....

Smaller bills mean more fine-grained control over vastly different AI products interview The AI legislation roadmap published this week by a bipartisan group of US senators hasn't pleased everyone, but the Federal Trade Commission's former chief technologist believes it takes the perfect approach....

The cars might be zero emission, but accusers claim the paint shops aren't Tesla is facing a lawsuit brought under the US Clean Air Act by the Environmental Democracy Project (EDP) claiming pollution from its Fremont facility....

Aviation firm has violated 2021 deferred prosecution agreement, claims DoJ, so criminal charges could come back Boeing avoided prosecution for a pair of 737 Max crashes thanks to a 2021 agreement with the Department of Justice, but the DoJ says the jetmaker has since violated the order and can be prosecuted....

One eye on Windows, the other winking at penguins Qualcomm may be leading the push for Windows on Arm systems, but the corporation also has an eye on Linux support with a roadmap for updates to enable the OS to boot on its Arm-based PC hardware....

It's not just EVs - semiconductors, batteries, and solar cells all hiked The Biden administration's Chinese tariff hikes were formally announced on Tuesday including, among other items, a doubling on semiconductors and solar cells and a more than tripling on batteries....

Distro formerly known as Zinc cuts the fat, rather than just replacing it The latest version of Teejeetech's take on Ubuntu offers what many users wish Canonical did - natively packaged Firefox and the choice of whether to use Snap, Flatpak, or neither....

Webcam art installation quickly descended into public Chatroulette Doomed internet cesspits Omegle and Chatroulette should have been warning enough of what happens when a webcam is placed between random strangers, yet the Portal art project linking New York City to Dublin didn't last a week before being shut down....

LLMs running on a dedicated card: The final frontier as hacker makes it so Consider your wish for an AI digital assistant that runs locally and offline officially granted. Not by a major industry player, naturally - your personal data is too enticing - but by a guy on GitHub who built one to run on a Raspberry Pi....

Another push for backup buyers uneasy about Broadcom buy Data protection outfit Veeam has confirmed it is to add support for the open source virtualization platform Proxmox, bringing more backing behind the VMware alternative....

Sutskever leaves behind mysterious message on next venture Co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, has announced he is leaving the company and posted a mysterious message about what might be next....

While Tokyo pours billions into revitalizing chipmaking sector, it might want to check out the grid Japan reckons it may need to generate 50 percent more electricity by 2050 because of growing local demand from chipmaking and datacenters running AI. The move follows a warning by DigitalBridge that it may run out of power within two years....

Saturday's power failures toppled border-check system offline A power outage affecting one of the IT systems used to process imports to the UK has caused delays to perishable goods crossing the border, which businesses have described as a "disaster."...

Multimodal models promise machines can do more - if you let them In the future, "Google will do the Googling for you" - or so suggests Liz Reid, VP of search....

The little computer that could gets ready for an IPO Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an Initial Public Offering and today published figures showing just how important commercial customers have become to the company....

'A series of large ocean waves caused by a sudden and powerful disturbance,' according to ChatGPT International Monetary Fund managing director Dr Kristalina Georgieva has warned of a "tsunami" hitting the global labor market as businesses adopt AI technologies....

Speedy storage for your Pi 5 The Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ has finally put in an appearance, allowing Pi 5 owners to connect M.2 M-key peripherals to their computers and take advantage of NVMe drives....

PHEVs make a lot of sense for traditional automakers faced with battery-powered losses Global passenger electric vehicle (EV) sales have continued to grow. However, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) sales have significantly increased year-on-year, leaving their battery-only counterparts trailing....

It's not settled law. And it's going to mean trouble Opinion I've been writing software for almost half a century, and my recent experiences with AI suggest that developers may soon find ourselves in a very sticky situation....

White House contends MineOne's equipment could be used to for surveillance and espionage If you're a majority Chinese-owned company looking for cheap real estate in the US, you might want to steer clear of American missile silos and military bases....

Plus: Google Chrome, Apple bugs also exploited in the wild Happy May Patch Tuesday. We've got a lot of vendors joining this month's patchapalooza, which includes a handful of bugs that have been exploited - either in the wild or at Pwn2Own - and now fixed by Microsoft, Apple, Google and VMware....

Agency is on the lookout for a Prince among men The US Federal Communications Commission has named its first robocall gang, dubbing the crew "Royal Tiger," and detailed its operations in an attempt to encourage international action against the scammers....

Promises 4.7x performance boost over its older silicon I/O Google blew the lid off its sixth tensor processing unit (TPU) codenamed Trillium, designed to support a new generation of bigger, more capable of large language and recommender models....

Reports of collisions with stationary objects and failing to obey traffic laws The US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Monday opened an investigation into self-driving car maker Waymo following reports that its robocars have not been complying with traffic laws....

More stringent rules led to staff to find more remote options A study has found that return to office mandates resulted in a noteworthy number of senior employees leaving jobs at Microsoft, Apple, and SpaceX....

More cores, more memory, more delays ISC Chip designer SiPearl has issued updated specs for its Rhea1 processor that will power Europe's first exascale system and is working with Samsung to integrate high-bandwidth memory (HBM) into its design....

Chrome is getting an onboard artificial intelligence model that devs can query Google's annual developer conference is still called Google I/O, though this year Google A/I would be equally apt....

It's definitely to protect the whales and not the fossil fuel industry In a rally held on Saturday in Wildwood, New Jersey, former US President Donald Trump promised that his first day back in office would feature the destruction of offshore wind farms....

Guidebook aims to undermine the criminal business model The latest effort to reduce the number of ransom payments sent to cybercriminals in the UK involves the country's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) locking arms with insurance associations....

Hit by a return-to-office mandate? Let the Copilot Company help you find co-workers and a desk to work at Return-to-office mandates are all the rage, and Microsoft is shoehorning AI into the conversation with Microsoft Places, a service aimed at coordinating employees heading back to their desks on a flexible basis....

Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down to pursue new ventures. The cloud giant's future now rests in AWS veteran Matt Garman's hands....

Drama between two of the leading secure messaging services Telegram CEO Pavel Durov issued a scathing criticism of Signal, alleging the messaging service is not secure and has ties to US intelligence agencies....

Largest local authority in Europe expects to go live with re-implementation Birmingham City Council -Europe's largest local authority, serving over one million customers -has agreed to re-implement an Oracle Fusion system following a failed rollout that saw costs escalate by more than 100 million ($125.6 million) and the authority unable to fulfill its statutory duties....

After years of people being victimized, it's about time Google and Apple are rolling out an anti-stalking feature for Android 6.0+ and iOS 17.5 that will issue an alert if some scumbag is using a gadget like an AirTag or similar to clandestinely track the user....

A nice gesture among the sh!tshow of Broadcom's acquisition VMware has made another small but notable post-merger concession to users: the Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro desktop hypervisor products will now be free for personal use....

'Who you gonna call?' Dunno, my phone's been stolen British police officers are setting their phasers to stun in response to an explosion in scooter and electric bike-based crime....

SoftBank to focus on AI, but might pick up LINE, Yahoo! holding company SoftBank, once Alibaba's biggest investor, has sold its stake in the Chinese tech company, it told investors on an earnings call....

STS-125 - the Space Shuttle mission that almost never happened It is fifteen years since the Hubble Space Telescope was captured by a Space Shuttle for the final time....

First commercial flight trials of a quantum-based system that could be a backup for GPS The UK has just completed commercial flight trials of quantum-based navigation systems that are designed to be immune to conventional jamming and spoofing....

When PoC code is released within a day of disclosure, it's only a matter of time before attacks kick off The UK's NHS is warning of the possibility that vulnerabilities in Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) software are being actively exploited....

Aux.computer fragments the community - but doesn't fix the technological objections Comment Recent ructions in the Nix project over moderation, leadership, and funding, have led to a fork... but one that fails to address the technical and human issues with Nix packaging itself....

Breaking news, perhaps literally: AI content blocking tool in Safari for iOS The UK News Media Association (NMA) has written to Apple, warning that its reported plan to provide AI-powered ad blocking in iOS 18 threatens the revenue of news publications....