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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.…

There are fresh new releases of two of the more controversial and divisive projects in the Linux world for everyone to argue about… and then adopt anyway.…

A flagship Office for National Statistics project to share data across the UK government appears to be ending several years before its time after failing to make enough progress, getting a "Red" risk rating two years in a row, and never appointing a program director.…

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is blaming Moscow for Britain's latest cyber woes, an attribution that seems about as solid as wet cardboard given the trail of evidence pointing to attackers much closer to home.…

Some software is more difficult to kill than a horror movie villain, it seems, as Domino and Notes versions 9.0.x and 10.0.x are now set to limp on until the end of this decade.…

Managed service provider Node4 has won a £2.4 million (c $3.2 million) damages award against the founder of Microsoft Dynamics consultancy Tisski, after the High Court ruled the company was sold with problematic contracts that were collapsing as the deal was being finalized.…

Comment The UK has bitterly expensive power, an energy minister who sees electricity as bad, a lethargic planning system, and a grid with a backlog for connections running to 2039.…

An electric vehicle charging point provider is telling users that their data may be compromised, following a recent security "incident" at a service provider.…

China’s Cyberspace Administration yesterday announced a two-month campaign to quash netizens who “maliciously incite negative emotions”.…

Before Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Rupert Murdoch put pen to paper to take over TikTok’s US operations from ByteDance, they might want to consider that one of the Chinese company’s network boffins thinks the app and others like it create “massive data wastage”.…

ai-pocalypse Ten Nobel Prize winners are among the more than 200 people who've signed a letter calling on the United Nations to define and enforce “red lines” that prohibit some uses of AI.…

Google DeepMind added a new AI threat scenario - one where a model might try to prevent its operators from modifying it or shutting it down - to its AI safety document. It also included a new misuse risk, which it calls "harmful manipulation."…