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Australia to let Big Tech choose its own adventure to enact kids social media ban
Australia’s eSafety commissioner has told social media operators it expects them to employ multiple age assurance techniques and technologies to keep children under sixteen off social media, as required by local law from December 10th.…
Microsoft blocks bait for ‘fastest-growing’ 365 phish kit, seizes 338 domains
Microsoft has seized 338 websites associated with RaccoonO365 and identified the leader of the phishing service - Joshua Ogundipe - as part of a larger effort to disrupt what Redmond's Digital Crimes Unit calls the "fastest-growing tool used by cybercriminals to steal Microsoft 365 usernames and passwords."…
Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say
When lithium-ion batteries degrade, they emit acoustic signals that reveal what's going wrong inside. Now, MIT researchers say they've figured out how to interpret those sounds, and the subtle creaks and pops that come before major failures, to help predict problems before things go up in smoke.…
Criminals broke into the system Google uses to share info with cops
Google confirmed that miscreants created a fraudulent account in its Law Enforcement Request System (LERS) portal, which police and other government agencies use to ask for data about Google users.…
Fiverr cuts 30% of staff in pivot to being 'an AI-first company'
ai-pocalypse Freelance services marketplace Fiverr has told around 250 staffers that they are back on the market as it pivots to having "a modern, clean, AI-focused infrastructure from the ground up."…
Google unveils master plan for letting AI shop on your behalf
Google has given the go-ahead to a plan that lets AI agents make purchases on your behalf and, on Tuesday, released its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to make it happen. The system comes with touted safeguards that are intended to prevent thieves from draining bank accounts.…
Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright believes that the country will have at least one small nuclear rector up and running by July 2026, despite the fact that not a single one has been built to date, after multiple failed attempts.…
Apple 0-day likely used in spy attacks affected devices as old as iPhone 8
Apple backported a fix to older iPhones and iPads for a serious bug it patched last month – but only after it may have been exploited in what the company calls "extremely sophisticated" attacks.…
Key KDE developer Jonathan Riddell quits
Sad news for KDE: one of the core people guiding the project for the whole century so far has left the building.…
Self-propagating worm fuels latest npm supply chain compromise
The npm platform is the target of another supply chain attack, with crims already compromising 187 packages and counting.…
Users in SAP's heartland call for greater license transparency
DSAG, the SAP user group for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, has called for greater transparency in cloud licensing to enable the migration and upgrade of on-prem systems to the cloud.…
Office 2016 and 2019 face October 14 execution date
While Windows 10 might seem to be the biggest casualty as a result of Microsoft's ax-swinging, Office and recent versions of Windows 11 are also set to be chopped.…
Rust-style safety model for C++ 'rejected' as profiles take priority
The C++ standards committee abandoned a detailed proposal to create a rigorously safe subset of the language, according to the proposal's co-author, despite continuing anxiety about memory safety.…
'FileFix' attacks use fake Facebook security alerts to trick victims into running infostealers
An attack called FileFix is masquerading as a Facebook security alert before ultimately dropping the widely used StealC infostealer and malware downloader.…
Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates
European e-waste campaigners are calling on EU leadership to force tech vendors to provide 15 years of software updates, using Microsoft's plan to end Windows 10 support next month — which may make an estimated 400 million PCs obsolete — as a textbook case of avoidable e-waste.…
JLR stuck in neutral as losses skyrocket amid cyberattack cleanup
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced a further extension to its multi-site global shutdown, bringing its cyber-related downtime to nearly four weeks.…
The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it
Beware the meeting room zombies. We don't mean you when you're listening to a colleague reading out a 100-slide PowerPoint presentation, but some expensive Microsoft meeting room hardware that may be obsolete in a few short weeks.…
Google unmasks itself as mystery hyperscaler behind £3.75B UK datacenter
Google today confirmed it is the mystery hyperscaler behind one of Europe's largest datacenter campuses as it cut the ribbon on a facility situated on the outskirts of the M25 in Hertfordshire.…
Overmind bags $6M to predict deployment blast radius before the explosion
Exclusive How big could the blast radius be if that change you're about to push to production goes catastrophically wrong? Overmind is the latest company to come up with ways to stop the explosion before it happens.…
Linux Mint picks up the pace with LMDE 7 and Wayland-ready Cinnamon
The Linux Mint team plans to speed up its release cycle and get two more versions out in the next few months.…