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DeepSeek installer or just malware in disguise? Click around and find out
'BrowserVenom' is pure poison Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called "BrowserVenom"....
Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews
Design software slinger warns it won't hire devs who aren't good at modern tools Australian SaaS-y graphic design service Canva now requires candidates for developer jobs to use AI coding assistants during the interview process....
US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens
Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance US Navy Secretary John Phelan has told the Senate the service needs the right to repair its own gear, and will rethink how it writes contracts to keep control of intellectual property and ensure sailors can fix hardware, especially in a fight....
DARPA is testing a device soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed
Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic DARPA has announced a research program to explore whether an "ingestible form factor" device can stimulate gut neurons to modulate stress responses, potentially improving decision-making and reducing the risk of PTSD....
Altman fluffs superintelligence to save humanity as OpenAI slashes prices
Everything is AWESOME!!! OpenAI on Tuesday rolled out its o3-Pro model for ChatGPT Pro and Teams subscribers, slashed o3 pricing by 80 percent, and dropped a blog post from CEO Sam Altman teasing "intelligence too cheap to meter."...
RIP: Bill Atkinson, co-creator of Apple Lisa and Mac
His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more Obit Bill Atkinson, widely acclaimed as perhaps the most brilliant computer programmer ever, has succumbed to pancreatic cancer at 74....
Hire me! To drop malware on your computer
FIN6 moves from point-of-sale compromise to phishing recruiters In a scam that flips the script on fake IT worker schemes, cybercriminals posing as job seekers on LinkedIn and Indeed are targeting recruiters - a group hated only slightly less than digital crooks - with malware hosted on phony resume portfolio sites....
Salesforce tags 5 CVEs after SaaS security probe uncovers misconfig risks
The 16 other flagged issues are on customers, says CRM giant Salesforce has assigned five CVE identifiers following a security report that uncovered more than 20 configuration weaknesses, some of which exposed customers to unauthorized access and session hijacking....
Starbucks brews up AI to support baristas instead of replace them
Customers weren't sold on automation, so the search for ROI continues After lackluster results from customer-facing automation, Starbucks is now redirecting its tech ambitions toward helping its own employees....
Cisco returns to load balancing market as it chases VMware refugees
Uses eBPF, which both Google and Meta have proven out at scale Cisco Live Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta....
NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts
All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience' NASA is shutting down many of its social media accounts, including those dedicated to the Voyager mission and the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers....
Asia dismantles 20,000 malicious domains in infostealer crackdown
Interpol coordinates operation, nabs 32 across Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Nauru Thirty-two people across Asia have been arrested over their suspected involvement with infostealer malware in the latest international collaboration against global cybercrime....
Tug reaches flaming ship carrying electric cars off Alaska coast
It's still smoking, but help is on hand A tug has reached the Morning Midas, six days after a presumed battery fire broke out, causing the crew to abandon ship....
Schneider, Nvidia sign pact to cool Europe's AI ambitions
With 1 MW racks and prefab bit barns, the heat is on GTC Paris Schneider Electric and Nvidia are jointly developing cooling, management, and control systems for AI datacenters in support of the EU's AI action plan, with Schneider detailing support for racks with 1 MW loads....
Half of businesses rethink ditching humans for customer service bots
Agentless contact center 'not yet technically feasible, nor operationally desirable' Good news for consumers frustrated by wading through pools of AI treacle in search of customer service - businesses are reportedly turning back to human agents "amid AI integration challenges."...
SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip
Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks Euro chip designer SiPearl has released a reference server design featuring its Rhea1 processor, the chip that powers Jupiter, Europe's most powerful supercomputer....
UK bets big (and small) on nuclear as datacenter demand expected to climb
14.2B Sizewell C among the investments along side Small Modular Reactors The UK has bet big on nuclear power - both big and small - following a series of warnings about energy capacity and supply for datacenter investments....
Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue'
On your marks, get set... bork! Microsoft has set a new record with June's security update for the time between release and an admission of borkage....
UK govt promises digital reform in spending review. We've heard that before
How much wishful thinking has entered the pipeline will come to light in 2027 Opinion Today, the UK chief finance minister is set to detail government spending for the next three years and capital budgets for the next four. As the first multi-year spending review since 2021, it is a big deal....
AI's the end of the Shell as we know it and I feel fine … but insecure
Model Context Protocol has many fine uses, but then it hinted at becoming a Von Neumann machine Column Generative AI is changing so rapidly, it's hard to stay up to date, so I generally avoid the newest shiny thing until it becomes unavoidable....
Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers
Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside Lenovo has pulled a couple of European supercomputer wins out of the bag, one using Intel chips for Imperial College London and an AMD-based system for the European Institute of Oncology....
CISO who helped unmask Badbox warns: Version 3 is coming
The botnet's still alive and evolving Badbox 2.0, the botnet that infected millions of smart TV boxes and connected devices before private security researchers and law enforcement partially disrupted its infrastructure, is readying for a third round of fraud and digital attacks, according to one of the threat hunters who uncovered the original scheme....
Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome
AI could bring a new round of browser wars Mozilla is concerned that Google's efforts to build Gemini into its Chrome browser will make it even more difficult for rivals to compete with the search and ads giant....
Microsoft warns of 66 flaws to fix for this Patch Tuesday, and two are under active attack
Stealthy Falcon swoops on WebDAV and Redmond's even patching IE! Patch Tuesday It's Patch Tuesday time again, and Microsoft is warning that there are a bunch of critical fixes to sort out - and two actively exploited bugs....
Cisco president says dredging coding syntax from wetware memory wastes engineers' expensive synapses
Wants to let AI do the boring bits so his team can invent more cool stuff Cisco Live Cisco president Jeetu Patel wants the company's engineers to halve the amount of code they write....
Apple-Intel divorce to be final next year
After twenty years, it's Intel outside Apple's macOS operating system will drop support for Intel chips next year, marking the end of a twenty-year relationship....
Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub
The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry - we captured backups We're less than a month away from the Trump administration's launch of an initiative to push AI across the entire federal government, based on a code repository eagle-eyed onlookers spotted on GitHub before it disappeared....
Cisco Borgs all its management tools into a single Cloud Control console
Not just a salve for netadmins - this is also a play to ensure Switchzilla is AI-relevant Cisco Live There's light at the end of the tunnel for netadmins tired of juggling multiple management consoles: Cisco announced it's testing a tool called Cloud Control that will drive all its networking, security, and observability tools - and hopefully make the biz more relevant in the AI era....
Tinfoil hat wearers can thank AI for declassification of JFK docs
Plus: AWS launches second Secret-level cloud region AI has been a "game changer" for the intelligence community, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who noted two key applications of the technology for classified government work at the Amazon Web Services DC Summit on Tuesday....
Texas warns 300,000 crash reports siphoned via compromised user account
Lone Star State drivers with accident records need to be careful about fraud The Texas Department of Transportation says a compromised user account was used to improperly download nearly 300,000 crash reports, exposing personal data that could be exploited for financial fraud against Lone Star drivers....
Judge cites big OPM records leaks from 2015 in DOGE slapdown
Federal court blocks further data sharing, blasts lack of safeguards The US federal government's HR department violated the law and bypassed its own cybersecurity safeguards by giving DOGE affiliates access to personnel records, a federal judge ruled Monday, issuing a preliminary injunction to halt further disclosures....
Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases
Scientists improve knowledge by 20% thanks to James Webb Space Telescope data The chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon has increased, according to boffins making observations from the James Webb Space Telescope....
Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire
Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversy The recently released Xlibre server aims to modernize the X.org X11 server and improve both its security and performance....
Critical Wazuh bug exploited in growing Mirai botnet infection
The open-source XDR/SIEM provider's servers are in other botnets' crosshairs too Cybercriminals are trying to spread multiple Mirai variants by exploiting a critical Wazuh vulnerability, researchers say - the first reported active attacks since the code execution bug was disclosed....
Google outfoxed by crafty squatters in $1B London HQ's rooftop garden
Vulpes vulpes has run of five-story park before staffers move in Over a billion dollars, a renowned architect, and more than a decade under construction haven't prevented Google being beaten to its new London digs by unexpected tenants - urban foxes....
Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 Start Menu updates
Windows Insiders will be first to see if the Windows 10 itch has been scratched The latest changes to Microsoft's Start Menu are being rolled out to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. However, users in the European Economic Area have a little longer to wait for the promised Android and IOS device integration....
Trump guts digital ID rules, claims they help 'illegal aliens' commit fraud
Also axes secure software mandates - optional is the new secure, apparently President Donald Trump late Friday signed a cybersecurity-focused executive order that, in the White House's words, "amends problematic elements of Obama and Biden-era Executive Orders."...
ChatGPT users wake to find it's even more wrong, slower than usual
Oh, great - now who'll do my thinking for me? Updated If you're having trouble getting ChatGPT to do your work for you this morning, you wouldn't be alone. It appears OpenAI services are experiencing a variety of issues....
Cloud brute-force attack cracks Google users' phone numbers in minutes
Chocolate Factory fixes issue, pays only $5K A researcher has exposed a flaw in Google's authentication systems, opening it to a brute-force attack that left users' mobile numbers up for grabs....
Snowflake and Databricks bank PostgreSQL acquisitions to bring transactions onto their platforms
Data analytics vendors have tried this before with limited success In the past few weeks, both Snowflake and Databricks dipped into their respective acquisition funds and found the resources to buy specialist providers of PostgreSQL database systems....
M&S online ordering system operational 46 days after cyber shutdown
A milestone in cyberattack recovery - but deliveries will take a while and normal service not yet back UK retailer Marks & Spencer has reinstated online orders for some customers, marking a major milestone in its recovery from a cyberattack in April....
Peep show: 40K IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser
Majority of exposures located in the US, including datacenters, healthcare facilities, factories, and more Security researchers managed to access the live feeds of 40,000 internet-connected cameras worldwide and they may have only scratched the surface of what's possible....
Jupiter, Europe’s most powerful super, takes maiden flight - but misses exascale orbit
Full system expected to break the exaFLOP barrier - perhaps in time for SC25 this fall? ISC Germany's long-awaited Jupiter supercomputer launched into the number four spot on the Top500 list of publicly ranked systems, dethroning Italy's HPC6 as Europe's biggest, baddest iron....
Old but gold: Paper tape and punched cards still getting the job done – just about
Will your data still be readable in half a century? The State of Storage As storage media grows denser and more complex over time, it's worth remembering that older formats were sometimes far more durable. Sometimes....
Huawei founder says USA overestimates its semiconductor prowess
Ren Zhengfei says his company is a generation behind, but he knows Huawei to catch up Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has said the USA overestimates his company's semiconductor design prowess, which is at least a generation behind rival chipmakers....
Apple tries to contain itself with lightweight Linux VMs for macOS
Swift-based containerization framework aims to improve performance and security Apple on Monday unveiled an open source containerization framework for creating and running Linux container images on the Mac....
China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support
Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has ordered extensive trials of intelligent aged care robots....
Apple goes glass whole as it pours new UI everywhere
Annual infomercial spruiks visual change, modest functional enhancements, and a movie Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday opened the company's annual developer conference by talking up a forthcoming racing film called F1"....
ICANN waves hands in protest at AFRINIC election arrangement
Worries lawyers overseeing poll may have disqualifying entanglements The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has called for changes to the roster of officials appointed to oversee the forthcoming election at the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC), the latest twist in a conflict that stretches back years and has left the African regional internet registry in limbo....
As AI gallops through the federal workforce, lawmakers once again call for expanded training
The last effort never went anywhere AI is here to stay, so representatives Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Shontel Brown (D-OH) have introduced a bill to ensure more US federal government employees are properly trained to use it....
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