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DPP Law is appealing against data watchdog's conclusions A law firm is appealing against a £60,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog after 32 GB of personal information was stolen from its systems.…

Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair AWS estimates that half of the workloads Microsoft enterprise customers run on Azure would migrate to its own datacenters if only the licensing costs of doing so were not prohibitively high and a competitive deterrent.…

Dutch lithography king sticks to €35B forecast despite investor jitters Euro tech giant ASML hit its revenue guidance last quarter and still expects the coffers to swell this year, but order bookings are down as Trump's tariff turmoil casts uncertainty over the entire industry.…

Vintage phishing varietal has improved with age Russia never stops using proven tactics, and its Cozy Bear, aka APT 29, cyber-spies are once again trying to lure European diplomats into downloading malware with a phony invitation to a lux event.…

Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns Digital forensics in the UK is in need of reform, says one expert, as the deadline to advise the government on computer evidence rules arrives.…

Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first? Microsoft Teams experienced a file-sharing outage overnight that disrupted collaboration for many users and forced the software biz to roll back a recent backend change.…

£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC In 2022, the UK's tax collector put £4.5 billion ($5.9 billion) on the table to help its applications become 'less dependent upon legacy technologies.' The extent to which His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) achieved that goal is debatable, but there is no doubt it intends to spend up to £5.2 billion ($6. ...

It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right? TalkTalk Business customers were forced to survive without email nearly a week after a technical fault disrupted domain hosting.…

It's LLMs all the way down Apple, having starved its AI models of data by respecting customer privacy, plans to improve its chatbot suggestions by using made-up emails.…

It involves a number close to three or six depending on the pickle you're in Ransomware operators jack up their ransom demands by a factor of 2.8x if they detect a victim has cyber-insurance, a study highlighted by the Netherlands government has confirmed.…

Fancy a doctorate in semiconductor design? The land of K-Pop wants you to help future-proof its industry South Korea has decided to dish out over $25 billion in help to industries impacted by the USA’s new tariff regime.…

Won't let the Big G require its apps and search to be installed on smartphones Japan’s Fair Trade Commission yesterday ordered Google to stop doing deals that require manufacturers of Android handsets to include its apps.…

So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago World War Fee The Trump administration's latest salvo in the US-China trade war has forced Nvidia to take a $5.5 billion charge, the GPU goliath revealed in a Tuesday regulatory filing that sent its stock tumbling in after-hours trading.…

Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right? US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.…

Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically World war fee Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of thine actions. The Trump administration's global trade war is threatening to hit US military readiness.…

800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info stolen from it than previously disclosed.…

Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm? Meta on Monday said it plans to start training its AI models using public posts and comments shared by adults in the EU, along with interactions users have with its chatbot.…

Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard had been ransacked by an intruder, with someone on a rival forum claiming to have leaked its source code, moderator identities, and users' IP addresses.…

There's a new tariff in town World War Fee Uncle Sam is kicking off a probe into the national security risks associated with America relying on imported foreign-made semiconductors.…

Beijing claims NSA went for gold in offensive cyber, got caught in the act China's state-run press has taken its turn in trying to highlight alleged foreign cyber offensives, accusing the US National Security Agency of targeting the 2025 Asian Winter Games.…

Login green-lit for lone staffer if he’s trained, papered up, won’t pull an Elez A federal judge has partly lifted an injunction against Elon Musk's Trump-blessed cost-trimming DOGE unit, allowing one staff member to access sensitive US Treasury payment systems. This access includes personally identifiable financial information tied to millions of Americans.…

Pricier successor due in July. Three months is plenty of time to test it, right? Microsoft has warned administrators that less than half a year remains until support ends for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. However, the follow-up, Exchange Server SE, won't arrive for another few months.…

Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger Databricks, the machine learning and data lake biz valued at around $62 billion, is contributing to the open source Iceberg table format preferred by rivals in the market.…

Prefab SmartRun kit from Vertiv promises 85% faster deployment and fewer plumbing headaches With rack space at a premium amid unrelenting demand for datacenter capacity, more modular solutions are hitting the market to speed deployment times, even for infrastructure prefabricated for AI training.…

Let the espionage and access resale campaigns begin (again) A cyberspy crew or individual with ties to China's Ministry of State Security has infected global organizations with a remote access trojan (RAT) that's 'even better' than Cobalt Strike, using this stealthy backdoor to enable its espionage and access resale campaigns.…

Bipartisan support needed to keep DOGE from the door The proposed cuts to NASA's budget are drawing sharp criticism from US lawmakers, with one saying: 'If you cut this budget, you cut into the heart of America's leadership when it comes to space exploration.'…

Stopping users shooting themselves in the foot with last century's tech Microsoft has twisted the knife into ActiveX once again, setting Microsoft 365 to disable all controls without so much as a prompt.…

Car hire biz takes your privacy seriously, though Car hire giant Hertz has confirmed that customer information was stolen during the zero-day data raids on Cleo file transfer products last year.…

You can't keep a good OS down The first Intel-based Mac was 19 years ago, but new versions of apps for both Classic Mac OS and PowerPC Mac OS X still occasionally appear, and we are here for it.…

UK's play to win a quantum computing race that is still highly theoretical To mark World Quantum Day, the UK government says it will stump up a £121 million ($158 million) investment in the ever-distant technology that proponents claim has the potential to shake up the world.…

See no error, hear no error, speak no error The three wise Microsoft monkeys have spoken. If Windows Update displayed an error after installing the April 2025 Windows Recovery Environment release, you didn't see anything. Best to ignore it and move on.…

That would put America on the same level as China for espionage The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times.…

When the power went out, they didn’t switch on Google has revealed that a recent six-hour outage at one of its cloudy regions was caused by uninterruptible power supplies not doing their job.…

Meanwhile in China, factories that work for Apple and HP are reportedly closing some production lines Tech manufacturers worked overtime in early 2025 to produce hardware before the US imposed tariffs that would increase the prices punters pay for product.…

Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months Nvidia wants to build and sell up to half a trillion US dollars of American-made AI supercomputer equipment over the next four years, with the help of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, aka TSMC, and its partners.…

Copilot vibe coding for OS development? Why not Canny Windows users who've spotted a mysterious folder on hard drives after applying last week's security patches for the operating system can rest assured – it's perfectly benign. In fact, it's recommended you leave the directory there.…

Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy Updated In June 2024, users of the OneDrive sync client for macOS and Windows began reporting that shared folders had vanished from their local drives, replaced with web shortcuts.…

IT admins, get ready to grumble CA/Browser Forum – a central body of web browser makers, security certificate issuers, and friends – has voted to cut the maximum lifespan of new SSL/TLS certs to just 47 days by March 15, 2029.…

Buy high, sell low: FPGA biz cost x86 giant $16B decade ago A decade after gobbling up Altera, Intel is loosening its grip. On Monday, the x86 giant said it's flogging a 51 percent stake in the FPGA slinger to private equity firm Silver Lake.…