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Wynn Resorts takes attacker's word for it that stolen staff data was deleted

Wed, 2026-02-25 12:39
Security pros question assurances as company offers staff credit monitoring

Wynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was stolen from its servers, and is taking the hackers' word that they've since deleted it.…

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Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

Wed, 2026-02-25 12:30
It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'

The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs.…

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Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive

Wed, 2026-02-25 12:23
Overhauling immigration system a 'significant change for millions of travelers,' government admits

Many British citizens who hold another nationality are being barred from entering the UK unless they have a British passport or a £589 certificate as a result of the Home Office's efforts to digitize travel documents.…

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Recycling biz reckons AI features are destroying smartphone resale values

Wed, 2026-02-25 11:22
Galaxy S25 sheds 63% in 12 months as reseller questions LLM emphasis

Smartphone makers love touting AI, but the technology may be quietly destroying resale values.…

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DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700m with no explanation

Wed, 2026-02-25 10:47
Agency that can't keep bots out of its booking system more than doubles size of services agreement

The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency has more than doubled the maximum offer on the table for a new online theory test service to £700 million.…

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OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents

Wed, 2026-02-25 10:01
Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diary

A ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement tried to use the AI chatbot to run smear campaigns targeting the Japanese prime minister and other critics of the Chinese Communist Party, according to OpenAI's latest report on malicious uses of its models.…

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Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves

Wed, 2026-02-25 09:30
Dude, where's my operating system?

Bork!Bork!Bork! Airports and computers remain uneasy travel companions. At London Gatwick, the inter-terminal shuttle briefly demonstrated why, with one information screen declaring: "Operating System not found."…

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Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links, researchers find

Wed, 2026-02-25 05:49
And they're being stressed by geopolitical concerns that threaten to slow important data-sharing efforts

Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to improve data sharing that they think will make it stronger.…

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HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent

Wed, 2026-02-25 04:29
Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster

HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter. And the company expects RAM’s contribution will rise through the year.…

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Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

Wed, 2026-02-25 02:47
Analyst firm bemoans ‘peak insanity’ among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth server farms

Analyst firm Gartner thinks talk of placing datacenters in space has reached “peak insanity,” because orbiting facilities can’t be run economically or satisfy demand for compute power on Earth.…

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Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast

Wed, 2026-02-25 01:02
Claims HR company can escape the SaaSpocalypse with its core expertise

Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri has used the first quarterly earnings announcement since he returned to the big chair to reassure investors the company is building more capable agentic AI while keeping the fundamentals of the HR platform strong.…

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Meta frees React to live in its own foundation

Wed, 2026-02-25 00:30
Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance

Meta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed React Foundation, fulfilling a commitment made last October.…

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It's only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding

Wed, 2026-02-25 00:08
Fears of an AI bubble haven't tempered vulture capitalists' enthusiasm for silicon

AI chip startups collectively walked away with more than a billion dollars of new capital on Tuesday, showing that venture capitalists are still excited about the opportunity to challenge Nvidia's dominance despite all the talk of an AI bubble.…

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Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI

Tue, 2026-02-24 22:54
Protect the robot, sacrifice the human

opinion I've been watching AWS explain away outages for the better part of a decade. And this is hard!…

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AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them

Tue, 2026-02-24 22:36
Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren’t

What good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches. But security researchers say that's not enough.…

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Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026

Tue, 2026-02-24 20:09
Cofounder promises transparency and full technical explanation of plans, which aren't actually changing

Discord is delaying age verification checks for a little while after its plan inspired a lot of hand-wringing among the community. But it's not backing down. …

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Patch these 4 critical, make-me-root SolarWinds bugs ASAP

Tue, 2026-02-24 19:55
SolarWinds + file transfer software = what attackers' dreams are made of

If you run SolarWinds’ Serv-U, you should patch promptly. Four critical vulnerabilities in the file transfer software can allow attackers to execute code as root.…

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'Merica-made Mac Minis marked for manufacturing

Tue, 2026-02-24 19:26
iGiant also ramping US chip and AI server production

Your next Mac might be made in the US of A. Apple this week revealed plans to manufacture its most affordable Macintosh computer at a new Foxconn facility in Texas.…

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Rogue devs of sideloaded Android apps beg for freedom from Google’s verification regime

Tue, 2026-02-24 19:09
37 groups urge the company to drop ID checks for apps distributed outside Play

Soon, developers who just want to make Android apps for sideloading will have to register with Google. Thirty-seven technology companies, nonprofits, and civil society groups think that the Chocolate Factory should keep its nose out of third-party app stores and have asked its leadership to reconsider.…

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North Korea's Lazarus Group targets healthcare orgs with Medusa ransomware

Tue, 2026-02-24 18:25
New ransomware of choice, same critical targets

North Korea’s Lazarus Group appears to have added another tool to its kit. It has begun using Medusa ransomware in extortion attacks targeting at least one US healthcare organization and an unnamed victim in the Middle East, according to Symantec and Carbon Black threat hunters.…

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