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Obituary Venerable computer scientist and information security expert Ross Anderson has died at the age of 67.…

Google reckons that cookie theft is a problem for users, and is seeking to address it with a mechanism to tie authentication data to a specific device, rendering any stolen cookies useless.…

Cloud giants AWS, Google, and Oracle have come out in support of a Linux Foundation open source fork of Redis, the popular in-memory database frequently used as a cache, following changes to its licensing.…

A handy open source tool for packaging up LLMs into single universal chatbot executables that are easy to distribute and run has apparently had a 30 to 500 percent CPU performance boost on x86 and Arm systems.…

Revenue at Intel's foundry business declined in 2023, leading to a $7 billion operating loss, and CEO Pat Gelsinger says this year could produce even nastier numbers as he revealed a reorg to help the chipmaker behave more like its rivals.…

The UK government has launched the procurement of a package of tech deals worth up to £8 billion, attempting to consolidate two earlier purchasing arrangements.…

If you're scratching your head wondering what's the use of all these chatbots, here's an idea: It turns out they're better at persuading people with arguments. …

Web browsers still struggle to prevent clickjacking, an attack technique first noted in 2008 that repurposes web page interface elements to deceive visitors.…

Alibaba's Taobao e-commerce platform is exploring one-hour delivery by – wait for it – rocket.…

On Tuesday, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) extended digital payment token (DPT) restrictions that seek to prevent money laundering and financing of terrorism.…

A significant earthquake has struck Taiwan, shuttering some of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's chip fabrication plants.…

A review of the June 2023 attack on Microsoft's Exchange Online hosted email service – which saw accounts used by senior US officials compromised by a China-linked group called "Storm-0558" – has found that the incident would have been preventable save for Microsoft's lax infosec culture and sub-par cloud security precautions.…

A simulation run by a Japanese professor and released on Monday revealed that by the year 2531, everyone in Japan will have the surname Sato.…

The massive GPU clusters needed to train Stability AI's popular text-to-image generation model Stable Diffusion are apparently also at least partially responsible for former CEO Emad Mostaque's downfall – because he couldn’t find a way to pay for them.…

The FCC appears to finally be stepping up efforts to secure decades-old flaws in American telephone networks that are allegedly being used by foreign governments and surveillance outfits to remotely spy on and monitor wireless devices.…

Grok, the edgy generative AI model developed by Elon Musk's X, has a bit of a problem: With the application of some quite common jail-breaking techniques it'll readily return instructions on how to commit crimes. …

Amazon will furnish recent AI startups partnered with Y Combinator with $500k in credits each on Amazon Bedrock to use with third-party models like Anthropic and Mistral AI.…

Meta allegedly starved its Facebook Watch video service to appease Netflix and sustain its ad monopoly, advertisers suing the biz have claimed.…

Comment Generally the head of US government agencies and comedy don't mix, but on Monday night the Lina Khan, head of the Federal Trade Commission, was on the Daily Show set recounting how the agency is going after Amazon, Facebook and others over monopolistic practices. She also got evidence of her persona non grata status with Cook & Co.…

A DARPA leader has revealed that around 70 percent of the US government agency's programs involve AI in some shape or form, and those projects could have serious ramifications for the future of jobs in software development.…