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Docker Compose vulnerability opens door to host-level writes – patch pronto

49 min 39 sec ago
Windows Desktop installer also fixed after DLL hijack flaw rated 8.8 severity

Docker Compose users are being strongly urged to upgrade their versions of the orchestration tool after a researcher uncovered a flaw that could allow attackers to stage path traversal attacks.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Trump and Xi ease trade tensions, but Nvidia still can't sell Blackwell in China

1 hour 27 min ago
US President did discuss chip exports with his counterpart, but made no breakthroughs

Talks between US President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea yielded a modest thaw, with the two agreeing to trim tariffs and pause new rare-earth export curbs. But whether Nvidia can sell its latest GPUs to China remains an open question.…

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US government shutdown clouds an otherwise sunny ServiceNow forecast

1 hour 29 min ago
Enterprise software giant lifts guidance but adds 'prudence' as federal contracts stall

ServiceNow has built some "prudence" into its earnings guidance due to the ongoing US government shutdown.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

KDE tidies up Plasma 6.5 with 60-odd fixes and smoother setup for OEMs

2 hours 25 min ago
Big release with a lot of new features – and a few inevitable glitches

The KDE Plasma 6.5 graphical shell arrived last week for Unix-like operating systems, and now 6.5.1 is here for the more cautious. The team's squashed over 60 bugs – and they're by no means all new.…

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Invisible npm malware pulls a disappearing act – then nicks your tokens

2 hours 58 min ago
PhantomRaven slipped over a hundred credential-stealing packages into npm

A new supply chain attack dubbed PhantomRaven has flooded the npm registry with malicious packages that steal credentials, tokens, and secrets during installation. The packages appear safe when first downloaded, making them particularly difficult for security apps to identify.…

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Italian tech company promises to make America Online great again

3 hours 39 min ago
Dial-up dinosaur finds yet another corporate home as Yahoo waves goodbye

Bending Spoons, an Italian tech biz, is buying AOL from Yahoo, funded by a $2.8 billion debt financing package that will also bankroll future acquisitions.…

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Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market

4 hours 20 min ago
'We should be a public company,' Shuttleworth tells The Reg, just not 'with our trousers around our ankles'

Interview An initial public offering is a matter of when, not if, for Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth, though interested stock owners shouldn't expect a prospectus anytime soon.…

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Equinix revealed as occupant of £3.9B UK datacenter campus

4 hours 21 min ago
Investment will fund 250 MW, three-facility campus near London as AI and cloud demand surge

Equinix will occupy a massive datacenter campus near London's M25, investing £3.9 billion ($5.1 billion) in the 85-acre (0.34 square kilometers) Hertfordshire plot close to South Mimms services.…

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Cyberpunks mess with Canada's water, energy, and farm systems

5 hours 16 min ago
Infosec agency warns hacktivists broke into critical infrastructure systems to tamper with controls

Hacktivists have breached Canadian critical infrastructure systems to meddle with controls that could have led to dangerous conditions, marking the latest in a string of real-world intrusions driven by online activists rather than spies.…

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Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

5 hours 29 min ago
Time to put eggs in more than one basket?

As Azure staggers back to its feet following an hours-long outage last night, British and European businesses are questioning their reliance on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.…

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Postcode Lottery's lucky dip turns into data slip as players draw each other's info

6 hours 23 min ago
Biz says 'technical error' caused short-lived leak affecting small number of users

A major UK lottery organization says it has resolved a technical error that exposed customer data to other users.…

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France jacks into the Matrix for state messaging – and pays too

7 hours 2 min ago
Governments eye comms alternatives as sovereignty worries mount

Comment Decentralized communications network Matrix is hoping to be the beneficiary as European public and private sector organizations ponder alternatives to the messaging status quo.…

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There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing

7 hours 47 min ago
Ohio State boffins coax shiitake and button varieties into behaving like memristors

US boffins claim early tests indicate edible mushrooms can function as organic memory devices, though significant challenges remain before the lab experiment can be turned into something practical.…

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DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage

10 hours 46 min ago
We’re guessing that turning it off and on again won’t help given qubits can be on and off at the same time

IBM has one-upped AWS and Microsoft by reporting an outage in one of its cloudy quantum computers.…

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Samsung picks fights with Google and Qualcomm

12 hours 20 min ago
Brings its largely unloved browser to PCs and promises to make its Exynos SoCs more competitive

Samsung has signaled it intends to take on Google and Qualcomm.…

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AI is making Google and Meta even stronger and richer

15 hours 24 min ago
So they’re increasing spending on infrastructure to keep it that way

When generative AI exploded into public view in late 2022, plenty of pundits predicted it would be bad news for the likes of Google and Meta as nimble AI-powered rivals found new ways to capture netizens’ attention and monetize it.…

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Major telecom supplier compromised by unnamed nation-state attackers

Wed, 2025-10-29 23:33
Snoops remained undetected for nearly 10 months

Nation-state snoops broke into Ribbon Communications – an outfit that provides software and networking gear to Verizon, CenturyLink, and the US Defense Department – last December, remained hidden for about nine months, and stole files belonging to three customers, according to the US telecommunications firm.…

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Microsoft gives Windows 11 a fresh Start - here’s how to get it

Wed, 2025-10-29 23:24
The new Start has a more convenient layout that saves you a click

Four years after the debut of Windows 11, Microsoft has finally fixed one of the biggest problems with its Start menu: The need to click the “All” button to view a complete list of all of your apps. A new Start menu, which gives you three different ways to view all installed programs without that extra click, is slowly rolling out to users.…

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Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

Wed, 2025-10-29 23:17
Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised

Microsoft reported earnings for the quarter ended Sept. 30 on Wednesday after market close and buried in its financial filings were a couple of passages suggesting that OpenAI suffered a net loss of $11.5 billion during the quarter.…

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Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown

Wed, 2025-10-29 22:22
Azure Front Door service outage disrupts airlines and other online services

Microsoft Azure has been experiencing a global outage since around 1600 UTC, or 0900 PDT on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.…

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