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Usual three-week window to address significant risks to federal agencies applies The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says vulnerabilities in Fortinet and Ivanti products are now being exploited, earning them places in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog....

Analysts can't agree whether market is marginally up or down The PC market is not showing many signs of a rebound, despite the hype around AI PCs, with market watchers split over whether unit shipments are up or down slightly....

Firefixed: It's maintenance time for low-complexity, high-impact security flaw It's patch time for Firefox fans as Mozilla issues a security advisory for a critical code execution vulnerability in the browser....

Ideal for black-clad ultra-minimalist types. You probably wouldn't like it OpenBSD is arguably the most secure general-purpose OS for general-purpose computers. This version has better laptop support, includes more Arm64 kit, and brings hardware-accelerated video playback....

Acquisition signals consolidation in the market Exclusive The consolidation of the British tech services market is continuing with Advania UK's acquisition of CCS Media....

Hired in 2019, he claims the recruitment failed to mention ongoing litigation The chief executive of the Post Office has agreed the organization's leadership team was living in a "dream world" in the months leading up to the launch of a statutory inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history....

Humans dumped by famously fusty tennis tournament The All England Lawn Tennis Club, organizer of the famed Wimbledon tennis tournament, will make line-ball calls with machines instead of human in 2025....

Two arrested after allegedly trying to make off with their ill-gotten gains The alleged administrators of the infamous Bohemia and Cannabia dark web marketplaces have been arrested after apparently shuttering the sites and trying to flee with their earnings....

Developers get auto-coding ideas drawn from bug reports, and more AI besides Atlassian has debuted a new cut of its project management and bug-tracking tool Jira, which for the first time allows users to deal with things other than issues"....

Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code OpenAI has alleged the company disrupted a spear-phishing campaign that saw a China-based group target its employees through both their personal and corporate email addresses....

31 million users' usernames, email addresses and salted-encrypted passwords are out there The Internet Archive had a bad day on the infosec front, after being DDoSed and exposing user data....

USB sticks help, but it's unclear how tools that suck malware from them are delivered A cyberespionage APT crew named GoldenJackal hacked air-gapped PCs belonging to government and diplomatic entities at least twice using two sets of custom malware, according to researchers from antivirus vendor ESET....

Modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript plays nicer with Node.js Deno, the runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript, reached version 2.0 on Wednesday, bringing with it baggage from the past in the form of broad Node.js compatibility....

Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change Smart TVs are watching their viewers and harvesting their data to benefit brokers using the same ad technology that denies privacy on the internet....

Intruders stayed for free on the network between 2014 and 2020 Marriott has agreed to pay a $52 million penalty and develop a comprehensive infosec program following a series of major data breaches between 2014 and 2020 that affected more than 344 million people worldwide....

On the bright side, auroras may dazzle skies as far south as mid-latitudes Watch out, Earth: There's another strong geomagnetic storm headed our way from the Sun, following the G5-class one that hit back in May....

One-man-band faces a mountain of lawsuits but has few assets The Florida business behind data brokerage National Public Data has filed for bankruptcy, admitting "hundreds of millions" of people were potentially affected in one of the largest information leaks of the year....

Let's just hope they don't give the literature award to a bot, too This year's Nobel Prizes are shaping up to be a triumph for AI. After awarding the physics prize to early AI pioneers yesterday, the chemistry prize has now gone to the creators of AI protein prediction platform AlphaFold and protein design tool Rosetta....

Fabless chip shop alleged to be hiring 'litigation hit men' to kneecap rival Taiwanese chip firm MediaTek is under scrutiny with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) taking an interest in an antitrust dispute with semiconductor compatriot Realtek....

'If I was Satoshi I would have destroyed my ability to prove I'm Satoshi' The man identified as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in a new HBO documentary has something to say: Wrong again, world....

Backs RHEL-compatible distro with indemnification and update guarantees CIQ has unveiled a version of Rocky Linux backed by service level objectives and indemnities for enterprises requiring more than the support of an enthusiastic community behind an operating system....

Go forth and install your important security fixes Microsoft says that the problems with the Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview have now been resolved....

IT service giant denies claims, will appeal against verdict A US jury has found that employment practices at Cognizant constitute discriminatory conduct toward non-Indian workers in a case that originated in 2013 and claimed the tech giant favored H-1B visa holders from India over local workers....

As if hospitals and clinics didn't have enough to worry about At least one US healthcare provider has been infected by Trinity, an emerging cybercrime gang with eponymous ransomware that uses double extortion and other "sophisticated" tactics that make it a "significant threat," according to the feds....

Tech giant snaps back, calls DoJ proposals on splitting up Alphabet and more 'government overreach' The US government has confirmed it is considering asking a judge to force Google to divest parts of its business as part of potential remedies in the antitrust case over its control of online searches....

Big emphasis on photos in mobile app Microsoft has unveiled a slew of new features for its OneDrive cloud storage service "all through the magic of AI."...

The real issue is a reluctance to invest Comment Over summer, the UK witnessed a change in government. However, the incoming Labour Party shares some ideas about regulation and innovation with its Conservative predecessor....

BT and some MVNOs very much against union, VMO2 more relaxed because of spectrum deal Opinion is divided in the telecoms industry over the proposed Vodafone and Three UK merger, with at least one rival in favor of the deal, while others want to see the Brit competition regulator scrap it altogether....

A traditional-style rich email client - but for tablets MZLA, the company behind the Thunderbird email client, is finally putting its mobile email client app into beta testing - but it's a lot more mature than that sounds....

Surely Redmond knows that almost nobody has tamed unstructured data? Opinion A year ago it looked as if the world could be Microsoft's oyster. The software giant dominated the enterprise, was catching up to cloudy rivals, and then managed to purchase forty-nine percent of the for-profit subsidiary of ChatGPT creator OpenAI....

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, new Supermarionation is GO! Video Previously unseen footage from the classic British TV show Thunderbirds has been found in a garden shed and restored - where possible - for viewing next year....

Can handle edge inferencing or run a 64 display command center GPU-enhanced servers can typically pack up to eight of the accelerators, but Supermicro has built a box that manages to fit 18 of them inside an air-cooled chassis that'll eat up just 3U of rack space....

Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside Chat GPT-maker Open AI announced today that it's appointed a new boss to lead its international expansion....

Still sticking with Arm and not taking RISC-Vs Fabless Taiwanese chip biz MediaTek has unveiled the fourth flagship entry in its Dimensity family of system-on-chips for smartphones and other mobile devices. It's sticking with close companion Arm rather than jumping ship to RISC-V for the CPU cores, for those wondering....

UN report finds Telegram, cryptocurrency are tools of a growing 'criminal service economy' Organized crime syndicates across Asia are using AI, messaging platforms like Telegram, and cryptocurrency to help them expand, with help from dedicated service providers, according to a report the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published on Monday....

Artificial intelligence still no substitute for the real thing Microsoft's LinkedIn will update its User Agreement next month with a warning that it may show users generative AI content that's inaccurate or misleading....

Plus: SAP re-patches a failed patch for critical-rated flaw Patch Tuesday It's the second Tuesday of the month, which means Patch Tuesday, bringing with it fixes for numerous flaws, bugs and vulnerabilities in major software. And this one is a doozy....

First-ever awarded for contributions to artificial intelligence If you needed another sign that we've well and truly entered the AI age, here it is: The first Nobel Prize has been awarded for contributions to artificial intelligence....

Given Amnesty's involvement, it's a safe bet spyware is in play Qualcomm has issued 20 patches for its chipsets' firmware, including one Digital Signal Processor (DSP) software flaw that has been exploited in the wild....

Penned Analytical Engine algorithm in her youth, imagine if she'd lived past 36 Today we remember Ada Lovelace Day, famed for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine....

Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4 TensorWave on Tuesday secured $43 million in fresh funding to cram its datacenter full of AMD's Instinct accelerators and bring a new inference platform to market....

What does IT glimpse but a dating app on your wee little screen If you're using iPhone Mirroring at work: It's time to stop, lest you give your employer's IT department the capability to snoop through the list of apps you have on your phone - dating apps, those tracking medical conditions or sexual history, or any other NSFW apps that you might want to keep to yourself....

Hallucinations, made-up facts... and that's just the human politicians Generative AI has reached its logical conclusion with a chatbot ready to stand in for a congressional incumbent at a debate....

And now SpaceX clarifies special promotion Updated The free Starlink service Elon Musk and SpaceX so graciously promised for communities devastated by Hurricane Helene in the US is not actually entirely free, according to those living in the aftermath - and the satellite operator's own signup page....

How does 90 exaFLOPS sound? Nvidia has confirmed it will be working with mega electronics contractor Foxconn to construct Taiwan's most powerful AI supercomputer....

'Deconversion' can begin now, but initial enrichment, transportation and storage to processors is still TBD The US Department of Energy has awarded shares of an $800 million contract for advanced nuclear fuel deconversion to four companies, but it's unclear who will be in charge of getting refined fuel to those deconversion sites....

NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature rudely discovers its wife never existed The demise of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey remains a haunting cinema moment nearly six decades on for the questions it raises about consciousness, the ethics of AI control, and the limits of rationality, among many other philosophical issues....

Nearly a billion dollars in rural broadband subsidies wouldn't go amiss The Chairman of the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, James Comer, is investigating the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decision to revoke an award of almost $900 million in rural broadband subsidies to Elon Musk's Starlink....

Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEO Google's former chief Eric Schmidt thinks we shouldn't let AI's ballooning power consumption worry us, because putting AI to work on climate change issues will be our best shot at solving them....

Stability? Predictability? Reliability? Where's the fun in that? EuroBSDcon 2024 One of Stefano Marinelli's NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be....