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Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers
Opinion There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won't be much of an impact at all.…
AI upstart aims to do what mere mortals can't: Make sense of Microsoft licensing
Interview It was inevitable that AI would be deployed to help enterprises navigate the labyrinth that is modern software licensing, given the myriad options available from the tech giants.…
VMware bungles cloud management portal upgrade, twice in two weeks
VMware has bungled a portal upgrade project that aims to give its customers a superior experience when managing their clouds.…
YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump 'censorship' case go away
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to end the case brought by US president Donald Trump, who alleged the vid-streamer had infringed his freedom of speech.…
Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday will cut its ties to - and funding for - the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost cybersecurity services to state and local governments.…
California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car
Police in a Silicon Valley suburb were flummoxed last weekend after pulling over a self-driving Waymo robo-taxi for making an illegal turn, then finding no driver they could issue with a ticket.…
Whitebridge AI created false and alarming reputation reports, complaint alleges
Whitebridge AI, based in Lithuania, faces a privacy complaint for allegedly selling "reputation reports" based on unlawfully collected data and AI misinformation.…
Your AI conversations are a secret new treasure trove for marketers
ai-pocalypse Profound is a startup that promises to help companies understand how they appear in AI responses to customer queries. But one expert in the field thinks the AI analytics startup has been sucking up information on users' AI conversations without proper consent.…
One line of malicious npm code led to massive Postmark email heist
A fake npm package posing as Postmark's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server silently stole potentially thousands of emails a day by adding a single line of code that secretly copied outgoing messages to an attacker-controlled address.…
Asahi runs dry as online attackers take down Japanese brewer
Japan's largest brewery biz, Asahi, has shut down distribution systems following an online attack, and local drinkers will just have to make do with stocks as they stand.…
FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again
After years of relying on the FAA to certify its jets as airworthy, Boeing is finally going to be allowed to do so itself – sometimes. …
Forget vibe coding - Microsoft wants to make vibe working the new hotness
Microsoft is jumping on the vibe coding bandwagon with "vibe working," its name for adding AI agents to the online Office suite to help you complete your work.…
Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst
As part of its $300 billion cloud compute contract with OpenAI, Oracle may need to borrow roughly $100 billion over the next four years to build the datacenters required, according to KeyBanc's projections.…
ChatGPT wants teens to agree to let their parents spy on them
OpenAI says it is introducing parental controls to ChatGPT that will help improve the safety of teenagers using its AI chatbot. The only catch? Teens will have to allow their parents to connect to their accounts before the controls can take effect.…
UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests
The former head of MI5 says hostile cyberattacks and intelligence operations directed by The Kremlin indicate the UK might already be at war with Russia.…
Fork yeah: Valkey 9 sharpens edge against Redis
Open source key-value database Valkey is set for its ninth iteration next month, promising improved resource optimization and availability.…
Russia-backed Indian oil company loses bid to compel SAP support as sanctions bite
An Indian court has refused urgent relief to an SAP customer after the vendor withheld support due to EU sanctions introduced in the summer.…
Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'
The F-Droid project, which distributes open source apps for Android, will end if Google goes ahead with its plans to enforce developer registration for app installation, according to the project's board member Marc Prud'hommeaux.…
EU member states pile pressure on Brussels for Chips Act rethink
Momentum is gathering behind calls for a Chips Act 2.0 to strengthen Europe's competitiveness in the semiconductor sector amid growing geopolitical uncertainty over global markets and supply chains.…
Windows 95 was too fat to install itself so needed help from the slimmer 3.1
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has answered the question of why Microsoft insisted on running up a miniature Windows 3.1 rather than a diminutive Windows 95 to install the full-fat version of the latter.…