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Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman
A Florida woman will spend nearly two years behind bars after being found guilty of fraudulently acquiring Microsoft certificate of authenticity (COA) labels and selling them in bulk.…
Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way - like the humans they'll replace
Microsoft is reportedly planning to license AI agents like employees - and charge accordingly.…
Chrome Gemini panel became privilege escalator for rogue extensions
Security boffins have discovered a high-severity bug in Google Chrome that allowed malicious extensions to hijack its Gemini Live AI panel and inherit privileges they were never meant to have.…
Cybercriminals swipe 15.8M medical records from French doctors ministry
Around 15.8 million administrative files were stolen after attackers breached a software supplier to France's health ministry.…
Vodafone to use Amazon sats for cell backhaul in remote parts of Europe, Africa
Vodafone has signed a deal with Amazon Leo to use its satellites as a backhaul connection for cellular base stations in remote areas of Europe and Africa, saving it from having to cable them up to its core network.…
Brussels urged to pay 'sovereignty premium' to narrow China battery gap
Europe's EV battery cost gap with China – currently around 90 percent – could shrink to roughly 30 percent by 2030 if Brussels is willing to pay what campaigners call a "sovereignty premium."…
Gamers furious as Brit studio Cloud Imperium quietly admits to data breach
Gamers are ready to unleash their mightiest virtual weapons and point them at British games studio Cloud Imperium, after it sat on news of a data breach and then announced it without fanfare.…
Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours
Anthropic’s AI service Claude is having artificially intelligent hiccups and availability problems across its basic chat service, API, and Claude Code offering.…
Huawei brings its flatpack AI datacenters, packed full of Chinese chips, to the world
As the AI boom rages, investors and buyers have thrown cash at anyone that even looks capable of selling them hardware capable of crunching tokens at speed. And now they have a new option: China’s Huawei.…
Phish of the day: Microsoft OAuth scams abuse redirects for malware delivery
Microsoft has warned organizations about ongoing OAuth abuse scams that use phishing emails and URL redirects to infect victims' machines with malware and take over their devices.…
Nvidia burns $4B to light up American photonics manufacturing
Nvidia is dipping into its war chest once again this week, investing $2 billion each in Coherent and Lumentum to lock in supply of the vendors' respective silicon photonics technologies.…
Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays
The war against Iran is causing an air and shipping jam, but it will likely have little effect on the global technology market unless the conflict widens significantly, according to analysts.…
AWS outages spread as Iran bombards targets across Gulf region
Multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones in the Middle East are experiencing outages or degraded connectivity after objects struck a UAE facility, as Iranian retaliatory missile and drone attacks hit targets across the Gulf.…
Iran's cyberwar has begun
Iranian hackers have launched spying expeditions, digital probes, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the wake of the US and Israel launching missile strikes over the weekend, and security researchers urge organizations to expect more cyber intrusions as the war continues.…
Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack
Imagine your favorite app encouraging you to surrender during a war. That's happening right now in Iran.…
Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones
GrapheneOS is headed to Motorola smartphones in 2027, pending hardware from the Lenovo-owned brand that satisfies the privacy-focused Android fork's requirements.…
US struck Iran with copies of its own drones
The Pentagon has confirmed that US forces struck Iranian targets using weapons that are copies of Iran's own Shahed 136 suicide drones.…
UK Businesses told to brace cyber defenses amid Iran conflict risk
The UK's cybersecurity agency is warning British organizations to brace for potential digital blowback as the Middle East conflict spills further into the online world.…
Qualcomm, Nvidia ready for 'AI-native' 6G, if only the world knew what it was
It seems like just yesterday that the 5G rollout started. Now, at Mobile World Congress, major companies are already talking about commercializing 6G. Never mind that binding 6G standards haven't been nailed down yet.…
Singapore eyes barge-based hydrogen power for datacenters
Datacenters increasingly want dedicated power, and Singapore has a unique solution. Bridge Data Centres (BDC) and Concord New Energy (CNE) are working to put hydrogen power generators on barges, saying that this arrangement is particularly suited to the local environment.…

