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Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible
Those who find modern smartphones too distracting from real life might be interested in the Boring Phone (no relation to the smartphone of the same name), a novelty flip phone based on HMD's Nokia 2660 Flip.…
Prolific phishing-made-easy emporium LabHost knocked offline in cyber-cop op
Feature Cops have brought down a dark-web souk that provided cyber criminals with convincing copies of trusted brands' websites for use in phishing campaigns.…
Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug
Major updates to Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool don't come along very often, but APT 2.9 is here with a significant facelift.…
AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope
Forrester Research says that although 50 models of AI PCs are already on sale today there remains "no killer app" that would make any of them an essential tool for business users.…
Valkey publishes release candidate and attracts new backer
Valkey, the value-key database pitched as an open source alternative to Redis, has acquired new backers and announced its first release candidate.…
Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches
Cisco has developed a product called Hypershield that it thinks represents a new way to do network security.…
Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app
The European Commission on Wednesday gave TikTok 24 hours to explain the risk assessment procedures it used before launching a version of the made-in-China app that rewards users for using it in certain ways.…
Singapore infosec boss warns China/West tech split will be bad for interoperability
One of the biggest challenges Singapore faces is the potential for a split between tech stacks developed and used by China and the West, according to the island nation's Cyber Security Administration (CSA) chief executive David Koh.…
Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter concluded its mission on Tuesday, sending a final signal in its role as a companion to the Perseverance Rover.…
Taiwanese film studio snaps up Chinese surveillance camera specialist Dahua
Chinese surveillance camera manufacturer Zhejiang Dahua Technology, which has found itself on the USA’s entity list of banned orgs, has fully sold off its stateside subsidiary for $15 million to Taiwan's Central Motion Picture Corporation, according to the firm's annual report released on Monday.…
Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash
A software glitch at Star Casino in Sydney, Australia, saw it inadvertently give away millions in cash without realizing it – for weeks.…
HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has filed a lawsuit against Inspur Group, China's largest server maker, for allegedly violating five of its server technology patents.…
Hugely expanded Section 702 surveillance powers set for US Senate vote
On Thursday the US Senate is expected to reauthorize the contentious warrantless surveillance powers conferred by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and may even strengthen them with language that, according to US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), "will force a huge range of companies and individuals to spy for the government."…
Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road
Amazon Web Services is abandoning its fleet of Snowmobile data haulers, the trucks packed with petabytes of spinning disks designed to get large enterprises into the cloud.…
Uncle Sam earmarks $54M of CHIPS funding for small-biz semiconductor boffinry
Small businesses wishing they could get their hands on some of those billions of dollars in semiconductor funding being doled out as part of America's CHIPS Act are in luck, as the White House has set aside $54 million for tiny firms with big ideas.…
Psst, hey. It's the NSA. You want some AI security advice?
The NSA has released guidance to help organizations protect their AI systems and better defend the defense industry.…
America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway
A law professor is warning a proposed reintroduction net neutrality in the US will allow cellular networks to create “fast lanes” for some applications, and that this undermines the entire net neutrality principle.…
ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client
Dutch semiconductor toolmaker ASML has shipped its second-ever high numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine to an undisclosed customer.…
Kremlin's Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities
The Russian military's notorious Sandworm crew was likely behind cyberattacks on US and European water plants that, in at least one case, caused a tank to overflow.…
Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas is dead, long live the ... new commercial Atlas
Video Atlas, the humanoid robot that's been a centerpiece of Boston Dynamics' robot lineup for nearly a decade, has been retired. In its place is, well, Atlas - an all-electric version designed for commercial use. …