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The city council in the Japanese city of Toyoake has passed an ordinance that symbolically limits recreational use of smartphones to just two hours each day.…

Memory-maker Micron says it is close to securing customers for all the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) it will make next year. Unsurprisingly, the company also predicts it will enjoy improved profit margins.…

India’s minister for information technology yesterday said he’s dumping his current word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics packages, will adopt the locally made alternatives from Zoho instead, and urged India’s 1.4 billion residents to do likewise.…

The Stargate project, the OpenAI-led plan to cover the world with datacenters, has announced plans to construct five new bit barns in the US.…

Mirrors can fool the Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors used to guide autonomous vehicles by making them detect objects that don’t exist, or failing to detect actual obstacles.…

The H-1B lottery in the US is being tipped heavily in favor of high-wage earners under a long-awaited rule proposal unveiled on Tuesday.…

A survey of cybersecurity bosses has shown that 62 percent reported attacks on their staff using AI over the last year, either by the use of prompt injection attacks or faking out their systems using phony audio or video generated by AI.…

SonicWall on Monday released a firmware update that the security vendor says will remove rootkit malware deployed in recent attacks targeting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 appliances.…

Software development was one of the first areas to adopt generative AI, but the promised revolution has so far delivered only modest productivity gains, and Bain says only a full rethink of the software lifecycle will shift the dial.…

SolarWinds on Tuesday released a hotfix - again - for a critical, 9.8-severity flaw in its Web Help Desk IT ticketing software that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to run commands on a host machine. …

Security researchers report that OnePlus smartphone users remain vulnerable to a critical bug that allows any application to read SMS and MMS data — a flaw that has persisted since late 2021.…

The new Debian-13 version of MX Linux, version 25, is looking very close to ready for release. A big change may divide its audience, though.…

The US Secret Service has dismantled a network of SIM farms in and around New York City it claims was behind multiple incidents targeting senior government officials and had enough power to disrupt entire cellular networks.…

Kaspersky has raised the alarm over the resurgence of hotel-hacking outfit "RevengeHotels," which it claims is now using artificial intelligence to supercharge its scams.…

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has had enough of being the unpaid janitor of the world's software supply chain.…

GitHub, which owns the npm registry for JavaScript packages, says it is tightening security in response to recent attacks.…

The White House has promised that all US user data on TikTok will be stored on Oracle servers in the United States, according to a deal to be announced later this week.…

Jaguar Land Rover is extending the shutdown of its production plants another week in a move that experts say could cost the business in the multiple billions.…

Houseplants could be slowing down your Wi-Fi, according to Broadband Genie, which reckons surfers can increase broadband speeds by almost 40 percent just by moving their router away from any greenery.…

Suspected Iranian government-backed online attackers have expanded their European cyber ops with fake job portals and new malware targeting organizations in the defense, manufacturing, telecommunications, and aviation sectors.…