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Appeals court revives lawsuit alleging IBM bilked pensioners

Fri, 2025-04-04 18:03
Panel finds plaintiffs should get a chance to prove docs not submitted too late

IBM may have seen off a lawsuit accusing it of using outdated mortality data to underfund retiree pensions, but an appeals court has now reopened the matter to further litigation.…

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Ukraine's techies a 'pillar of support' for national economy after Russian invasion

Fri, 2025-04-04 16:35
Experts in IT services held up while other sectors fell over the last 5 years, says report

Ukraine's technology industry has held up during Russia's invasion, with activity falling markedly less than other industries and increasing as a proportion of national exports since 2019.…

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UK convicts five romance fraudsters who stole millions from duped singles

Fri, 2025-04-04 15:38
Prosecutors said individuals were scammed repeatedly until they had nothing left

Five romance scammers-turned-money launderers were convicted in the UK today after police shuttered a multimillion-pound fraud operation.…

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US DoE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land

Fri, 2025-04-04 14:57
But analysts say tariffs could disrupt equipment supply chains

The US Department of Energy (DoE) is looking to co-locate datacenters with energy generation facilities to further America's AI ambitions, and is putting up its own land for this purpose.…

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Windows 11 poised to beat 10, mostly because it has to

Fri, 2025-04-04 13:32
Market share increase accelerating, but Microsoft's flagship OS not yet at the 50% mark

The gap between Windows 10 and Windows 11 continues to narrow, and Microsoft's flagship operating system is on track to finally surpass its predecessor by summer.…

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Ubuntu 25.04 beta takes flight – but this Plucky Puffin is still molting

Fri, 2025-04-04 12:35
'Pudgy' might be more apt given the download size

The beta version of Ubuntu 25.04, the next interim release of this Linux OS, has arrived.…

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30 minutes to pwn town: Are speedy responses more important than backups for recovery?

Fri, 2025-04-04 11:29
The industry’s approach to keeping quality backups may be masking the importance of other recovery mainstays

Maintaining good-quality backups is often seen as the spine of any organization's ability to recover from cyberattacks quickly. Naturally, given the emphasis placed on them by experts of all stripes, you'd be forgiven for thinking that prioritizing them over anything else would be the way to go.…

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Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption

Fri, 2025-04-04 10:35
The need to scale still battling security worries ... on both sides

Governments continue to adopt cloud services, for better or worse, hoping to modernize their IT services, leading big cloud operators to aggressively court public sector bodies for lucrative contracts.…

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Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system

Fri, 2025-04-04 09:33
'Full benefit' of replacement will not be realized until old one is shut down, projects watchdog warns

The effectiveness of new IT systems designed to speed up asylum claim processing in the UK continues to be held back by the Home Office's failure to decommission its 25-year-old case management database, five years after it promised to retire it.…

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Alan Turing Institute: UK can't handle a fight against AI-enabled crims

Fri, 2025-04-04 08:30
Law enforcement facing huge gap in 'AI adoption'

The National Crime Agency (NCA) will "closely examine" the recommendations made by the Alan Turing Institute after it claimed the UK was ill-equipped to tackle AI-enabled crime.…

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How do you explain what magnetic fields do to monitors to people wearing bowling shoes?

Fri, 2025-04-04 07:29
Techie demoed the effect in about 3 seconds, as On Call again tries to break tech-support world records

On Call The working week sometimes speeds by, sometimes crawls, and often ends with a crash. Each Friday, we try to avert the latter by delivering a new edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed tales of handling ridiculous, ribald, and remarkable tech support requests.…

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Ex-ASML, NXP staffer accused of stealing chip secrets, peddling them to Moscow

Fri, 2025-04-04 06:36
We're not Putin up with this alleged industrial espionage, say the Dutch

A Russian national appeared in a Netherlands court on Thursday accused of industrial espionage against ASML, the world’s leading manufacturer of chip factory equipment and a key supplier that helps the likes of TSMC pump out top-drawer processors.…

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Retirement funds reportedly raided after unexplained portal probes and data theft

Fri, 2025-04-04 05:48
Australians checking their pensions are melting down call centres and websites

Australian retirement fund operators are scrambling after reports emerged of unauthorized access to customer accounts leading to theft of cash.…

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China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too

Fri, 2025-04-04 04:31
Probably still behind western rivals, but improved GPU and higher core count can’t hurt

Chinese chip designer Loongson, whose products have been promoted by China’s government, has teased two new designs that will make it more of a contender for mobile and industrial applications. It may also have a new server up its sleeve.…

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Signalgate: Pentagon watchdog probes Defense Sec Hegseth

Fri, 2025-04-04 00:36
Classification compliance? Records retention requirements? How quaint

A US Department of Defense watchdog has opened an investigation into its own Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, over his use of instant-messaging app Signal to discuss government business.…

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Flux off: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat

Thu, 2025-04-03 22:54
Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security

The US govt's Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency, aka CISA, on Thursday urged organizations, internet service providers, and security firms to strengthen defenses against so-called fast flux attacks.…

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Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

Thu, 2025-04-03 20:58
And it can be yours for a rather steep $349

Microsoft's Windows 365 Link has reached general availability, although some may question its value.…

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Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years

Thu, 2025-04-03 19:14
Simple denial-of-service blunder turned out to be remote unauth code exec disaster

Suspected Chinese government spies have been exploiting a newly disclosed critical bug in Ivanti VPN appliances since mid-March. This is now at least the third time in three years these snoops have been pwning these products.…

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Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance

Thu, 2025-04-03 17:21
Jeff Bezos' other space business finally shows signs of life with launch scheduled for next week

The first batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites is due to be lofted into orbit next week.…

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When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance

Thu, 2025-04-03 15:01
It's going to happen to you one day, so get your ducks in a row

As Benjamin Franklin famously said: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and that's especially true when it comes to disaster recovery.…

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