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Change Healthcare faces second ransomware dilemma weeks after ALPHV attack
Change Healthcare is allegedly being extorted by a second ransomware gang, mere weeks after recovering from an ALPHV attack.…
Engine cover flies from Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 during takeoff
The engine cover on a Boeing 737-800 used by Southwest Airlines detached during takeoff from Denver on Sunday, prompting an investigation by aviation regulators.…
A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS
More than 30 years before the xz backdoor became the near disaster of the week, an intern tried to sneak some unexpected code into MS-DOS. Not a backdoor, but potentially a bit silly.…
What happened to agility and new business models? Cloud benefits have all gone to IT
The migration of IT workloads to the cloud is benefiting tech departments rather than the wider business, according to a McKinsey survey.…
Tele2 secure collaboration hub for public sector keeps Swedish data in Sweden
A Swedish telco has rolled a collaboration platform for public sector organizations worried about sensitive data leaving Sweden.…
Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there's a get out of jail card
Opinion The Sleepwalking Into Disaster klaxon is echoing through the corridors of power. Again. This time, the corridors are British and the klaxonner is the Cabinet Office's Central Digital & Data Office.…
Windows 95 support chap skipped a step and sent user into Micro-hell
Who, Me? Greetings, gentle reader, and welcome once again to Who, Me? in which Reg readers like yourself try to make each Monday a little less manic by sharing tales of foible and fallibility.…
Head of Israeli cyber spy unit exposed ... by his own privacy mistake
In Brief Protecting your privacy online is hard. So hard, in fact, that even a top Israeli spy who managed to stay incognito for 20 years has found himself exposed after one basic error.…
Use of India's CBDC declines, but central bank presses ahead
India's Reserve Bank deputy governor has revealed that transaction volumes using the nation's central bank digital currency (CBDC) have trended downwards since December 2023 – and may even have been inflated by one-off uses of the currency.…
Cloud Software Group and Microsoft pledge another eight years of co-opetition
Cloud Software Group (CSG) and Microsoft have renewed their alliance for another eight years, this time with a $1.65 billion commitment for the Group to use Redmond's cloud, productivity tools, and AI.…
Naver debuts multilingual HyperCLOVA X LLM it will use to build sovereign AI for Asia
Korean web giant Naver last week debuted a family of large language models named HyperCLOVA X, which it claimed perform better at cross-lingual reasoning in Asian languages than other models – and may therefore help the region to develop sovereign large language models.…
Wipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia takes over
ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: YouTube admits Indian tech services giant Wipro on Friday named a new CEO: Srini Pallia is the company’s new leader, effective immediately, after previous boss Thierry Delaporte stepped down “to pursue passions outside the workplace.”…
Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves
Robots may make companies more productive, as some studies have suggested, but they make people feel that their jobs have less meaning.…
What can be done to protect open source devs from next xz backdoor drama?
Kettle It's been about a week since the shock discovery of a hidden and truly sophisticated backdoor in the xz software library that ordinarily is used by countless systems.…
AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of surveyed executives
A survey of senior biz executives reveals that 41 percent expect to have a smaller workforce in five years due to the implementation of AI technologies.…
Huawei's Iran sanctions evasion trial pushed to 2026
Huawei looks set to face trial in 2026 over charges that it misled banks and Washington about historic business dealings in Iran in breach of US sanctions.…
Google sues app devs, claims they're Play Store crypto scammers with 100k+ victims
Google is suing two Chinese app developers claiming they allegedly spent years creating fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps that were downloaded from its Play Store.…
Microsoft warns that China is using AI to stir the pot ahead of US election
With the US presidential election looming, China is stepping up its disinformation game with increased use of AI, Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) reports.…
Liquid cooling specialist snags Microsoft datacenter wizard as advisor
Liquid cooling specialist Iceotope has hired an ex-Microsoft datacenter exec on an advistory capacity as the company eyes global expansion amid insatiable demand for high-powered bit barns to feed the AI craze.…
AMD to open source Micro Engine Scheduler firmware for Radeon GPUs
AMD plans to document and open source its Micro Engine Scheduler (MES) firmware for GPUs, giving users more control over Radeon graphics cards.…