Thursday April 3, 2025
18:14
Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for...Simple denial-of-service blunder turned out to be remote unauth code exec disaster Suspected Chinese government spies have been exploiting a newly disclosed critical bug in Ivanti VPN appliances since mid-March. This is now at least the third time in three years these snoops have been pwning these products.…
13:15
Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCsArm-based silicon to help Google hardware muscle in on territory of Microsoft's own Arm-based PCs MediaTek is bringing out a new chip for Chromebooks that blurs the boundary with Copilot+ PCs, sporting an 8-core CPU cluster and a neural processing unit (NPU) rated at 50 TOPS.…
11:43
Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products?Espionage? Botnets? Trying to exploit a zero-day? Someone or something is probing devices made by Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks, and researchers think it could be evidence of espionage attempts, attempts to build a botnet, or an effort to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities.…
10:17
EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption!ProtectEU plan wants to have its cake and eat it too The EU has shared its plans to ostensibly keep the continent's denizens secure – and among the pages of bureaucratese are a few worrying sections that indicate the political union wants to backdoor encryption by 2026, or even sooner.…
08:31
Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmareRecovery's never been harder in today's tangled, outsourced infrastructure Comment Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it's not floods or fires causing most outages anymore - ransomware now leads the pack, taking down systems faster than any natural disaster.…
07:30
UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spendFormer official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and products drives up the cost of investment, MPs have heard.…
06:34
On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over...Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind Opinion Former UK prime minister Tony Blair became famous for standing shoulder to shoulder with allies, even though the fallout from the Iraq war forever sullied his reputation. ...
05:27
Customer info allegedly stolen from Royal Mail, Samsung via...Stamp it out: Infostealer malware at German outfit may be culprit Britain's Royal Mail is investigating after a crew calling itself GHNA claimed it has put 144GB of the delivery giant’s data up for sale, perhaps after acquiring it with the same stolen credentials it used to crack Samsung Germany.…
00:14
Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burdenCrawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.…
Wednesday April 2, 2025
22:09
Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket...Tech slugged with higher duties, broad base 10% hike, semiconductors avoid retaliatory levies for now US President Donald Trump has imposed a base ten percent tariff on imports into America, and higher levies on goods from major producers of digital tech, such as China, South Korea, and Taiwan.…
20:17
Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW...Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027 Developers on Wednesday announced plans to bring up to 4.5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power online by 2027 at the site of what was once Pennsylvania's largest coal plant, as part of a proposed datacenter campus running AI and high-performance computing workloads.…
18:09
Crimelords at Hunters International tell lackeys ransomware too 'risky'Bosses say theft now the name of the game with a shift in tactics, apparent branding Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become 'unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky,' and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an apparent rebrand.…
13:54
Oracle's masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeatFallout shows how what you say must be central to disaster planning Opinion Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge all of the events as well as allegedly deleting evidence from the web.…
11:32
Qualcomm set to move in on UK chip IP biz AlphawaveHas until month end to make an offer for semiconductor design and licensing shop Qualcomm has confirmed its interest in buying high-speed connectivity module designer Alphawave Semi, a move that could see yet another major British tech operation swallowed up by a foreign business.…
10:52
UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spendFormer official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment The UK government does not have a clear picture of what it is spending on digital technology, and its approach to buying associated services and products drives up the cost of investment, MPs have heard.…
07:38
Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options£5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support International optometry company Specsavers has paused the global standardization of its Oracle ERP system and moved to third-party support, saving £5 million ($6.5 million) that can be reallocated to the business.…
06:24
Speech now streaming from brains in real-timeBoosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak Some smart cookies have implemented a brain-computer interface that can synthesize speech from thought in near real-time.…
05:13
Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSesCupertino already squashed 'em in more recent releases - which this week get a fresh round of fixes Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent releases.…
Tuesday April 1, 2025
23:49
Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rivalThunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more Thunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla's open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform.…