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FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control'

1 hour 22 min ago
One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend

China's "hacker-for-hire ecosystem has gotten out of control," according to Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division.…

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Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation

1 hour 59 min ago
Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average

Remember the early days of the smartphone revolution when, even after six months, your phone felt outdated? Not anymore. Smartphone replacement cycles are getting longer as discretionary household budgets come under pressure from inflation, with demand for new devices expected to fall for the rest of this year.…

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Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet

2 hours 35 min ago
Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs

If you thought 800 Gbps Ethernet was fast, just wait. Celestica's latest switches cram 64 1.6 Tbps ports into a single chassis.…

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Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines

3 hours 38 min ago
This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows

If you use Gemini CLI, watch out: Google has patched a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in its command-line AI tool and is warning anyone running it in headless mode, or through GitHub Actions, to review their workflows.…

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French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency

4 hours 14 min ago
Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online

French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old on April 25 over the alleged theft of millions of records from France Titres (ANTS), the agency handling secure documents.…

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Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool

4 hours 35 min ago
Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor

The Rust-built Zed editor has reached version 1.0, released yesterday, with development led by former members of the Atom team at GitHub.…

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AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud

5 hours 50 min ago
When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job

The great memory shortage is having yet another effect, pushing enterprises into the waiting arms of the cloud operators as they can't secure enough on-prem compute themselves.…

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Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI

6 hours 34 min ago
Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party

The Coalition for Fair Software Licensing has published research showing that US workers reckon Microsoft is using its productivity tools to lock their employers into the company's AI services.…

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SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy

7 hours 12 min ago
Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations – including AI – that connect to SAP systems

An influential SAP user group has criticized the vendor's API policy update, saying it lacks clarity and potentially prevents users from starting new projects and innovating on their SAP platforms.…

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Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans'

7 hours 53 min ago
But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya?

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told investors during an earnings call last night that the company needs to "win back" its fans.…

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Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes

8 hours 33 min ago
AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them

Anthropic is pulling in more LLM revenue than OpenAI, despite having a fraction of the users.…

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Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005

9 hours 18 min ago
Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support'

Nearly half of UK businesses are still getting breached, and in many cases, the attacker's big breakthrough is an employee clicking "sure, why not" on a fake login page.…

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What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia

9 hours 53 min ago
Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit

Exclusive A novel China-linked threat group infiltrated more than a dozen critical networks in Poland, Asian countries, and possibly beyond, beginning in December 2024 and with activity uncovered as recently as this month.…

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Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day

10 hours 39 min ago
Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected

Emergency patches are available for a critical vulnerability in cPanel and WHM that allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain root access to servers managed using it.…

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Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs

11 hours 24 min ago
Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops

London cops are being told by their staff association to be "extremely cautious" about carrying work devices off duty, after the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) deployed Palantir's technology to investigate hundreds of its own officers.…

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Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops

12 hours 8 min ago
Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves

Britain's notorious Ajax armored vehicles are being accepted back from the manufacturer after investigations found no single cause for the symptoms plaguing crews, meaning soldiers will need to grin and bear it.…

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Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet

12 hours 53 min ago
Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection

PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found their own pile of quicksand and then jumped right into it. This week's story involves keeping sensitive information in a very vulnerable place and then not protecting it adequately.…

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Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds

13 hours 54 min ago
Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management

Microsoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering large-scale sovereign infrastructure.…

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Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs

17 hours 4 min ago
AI is driving more searches and ads

Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues.…

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Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises

19 hours 37 min ago
Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand

If you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026 capital expenditure will hit $190 billion, with $25 billion of that due to rising component costs.…

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