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Homeland Security boss says CISA has gone off the rails, vows to set it right
RSAC Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has gone off the rails by trying to dispel disinformation, according to US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.…
Intel tweaks its 18A process with variants tailored to mass-market chips, big AI brains
Direct Connect Intel has revealed a pair of variants of its long-awaited 18A process node to make it better suited for, one, manufacturing mass-market processors and, two, complex multi-die semiconductors for – of course – AI.…
Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices
World War Fee On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced Amazon after it was reported the tech giant intended to show how much President Trump's import tariffs would inflate the price of stuff sold through its internet souk.…
RSA cofounder: The world would've been better without cryptocurrencies
RSAC It was a somewhat gloomy Cryptographers' Panel at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, with two of the industry's sages in a pretty grim mood.…
Meta bets you want a sprinkle of social in your chatbot
Meta is scrambling to grab some of that ChatGPT and Grok buzz with the launch of its own standalone AI app. Built on its Llama 4 LLM, the assistant touts personalization and smoother voice chats, but the most visible feature is a Discover feed showing off how other users interact with it, and even that feels more like a gimmick than a game-changer.…
TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech
Federal legislation that would protect people from having explicit images of themselves posted and shared online without their consent is set to become law in the USA after passing the House on Monday.…
Watch out for any Linux malware sneakily evading syscall-watching antivirus
A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring "blind spot" in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface.…
Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors
Duolingo has become the latest tech outfit to attempt to declare itself 'AI-first,' with CEO Luis von Ahn telling staff the biz hopes to gradually phase out contractors for work neural networks can take over.…
Enterprise tech dominates zero-day exploits with no signs of slowdown
Backblaze denies 'sham accounting' claims as short sellers circle
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has denied accusations made by financial analysts of "sham accounting" and "insider dumping," as well as claims it inflated cash flow forecasts to hide its real performance.…
China now America's number one cyber threat – US must get up to speed
RSAC Russia used to be considered America's biggest adversary online, but over the past couple of years China has taken the role, and is proving highly effective at it.…
OpenBSD 7.7 released with updated hardware support, 9Front ships second update of 2025
Fresh from their respective bunkers, OpenBSD 7.7 and a new version of Plan 9 fork 9Front have dropped, bringing hardened security, obscure charm, and, oddly enough, artwork from the same designer.…
Infosec pros tell Trump to quit bullying Chris Krebs – it's undermining security
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and numerous infosec leaders are lobbying US President Donald Trump to drop his enduring investigation into Chris Krebs, claiming that targeting the former CISA boss amounts to bullying.…
The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already
OpenLogic's 2025 State of Open Source Report offers a slightly different perspective on modern corporate adoption of FOSS – and it's not a reassuring one.…
China is using AI to sharpen every link in its attack chain, FBI warns
RSAC The biggest threat to US critical infrastructure, according to FBI Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser, can be summed up in one word: "China."…
808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40
It is 40 years since the first Arm processor was powered up, and the UK's Centre for Computing History (CCH) celebrated in style, with speakers to mark the event, hardware on show, and a countdown to the anniversary.…
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
RSAC Concerned a new recruit might be a North Korean stooge out to steal intellectual property and then hit an org with malware? There is an answer, for the moment at least.…
After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade
The UK's tax collector plans to appoint a new CRM vendor to manage its vast interactions with citizens over their tax affairs.…
Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists
Instead of depressing wages or taking jobs, generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have had almost no wage or labor impact so far – a finding that calls into question the huge capital expenditures required to create and run AI models.…
Swiss boffins admit to secretly posting AI-penned posts to Reddit in the name of science
Researchers from the University of Zurich have admitted to secretly posting AI-generated material to popular Subreddit r/changemyview in the name of science.…