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For healthcare orgs, disaster recovery means making sure docs can save lives during ransomware infection

Wed, 2025-04-02 11:36
Organizational, technological resilience combined defeat the disease that is cybercrime

When IT disasters strike, it can become a matter of life and death for healthcare organizations – and criminals know it.…

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Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence

Wed, 2025-04-02 10:54
Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue

Specialist class action lawyers have launched proceedings against Oracle in Texas over two alleged data breaches.…

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One of the last of Bletchley Park's quiet heroes, Betty Webb, dies at 101

Wed, 2025-04-02 09:36
Kept quiet for 30 years before becoming an 'unrivalled advocate' for the site

Obit Betty Webb MBE, one of the team who worked at the code-breaking Bletchley Park facility during the Second World War, has died at the age of 101.…

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Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options

Wed, 2025-04-02 08:38
£5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support

International optometry company Specsavers has paused the global standardization of its Oracle ERP system and moved to third-party support, saving £5 million ($6.5 million) that can be reallocated to the business.…

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Speech now streaming from brains in real-time

Wed, 2025-04-02 07:24
Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak

Some smart cookies have implemented a brain-computer interface that can synthesize speech from thought in near real-time.…

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Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSes

Wed, 2025-04-02 06:13
Cupertino already squashed 'em in more recent releases - which this week get a fresh round of fixes

Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent releases.…

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North Korea’s fake tech workers now targeting European employers

Wed, 2025-04-02 05:58
With help from UK operatives, because it’s getting tougher to run the scam in the USA

North Korea’s scamming, thieving, and AI-abusing fake IT workers are increasingly targeting European employers.…

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Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work

Wed, 2025-04-02 01:36
But his emails! Sharing them with Google!

Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail accounts to exchange sensitive information.…

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Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival

Wed, 2025-04-02 00:49
Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more

Thunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla's open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform.…

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Lightmatter says it's ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer

Tue, 2025-04-01 23:57
AI accelerators to see the light, literally

Lightmatter this week unveiled a pair of silicon photonic interconnects designed to satiate the growing demand for chip-to-chip bandwidth associated with ever-denser AI deployments.…

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Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block

Tue, 2025-04-01 22:09
Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder

Vision Not even Intel's top brass know what's on newly minted CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block.…

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To avoid disaster-recovery disasters, learn from <em>Reg</em> readers' experiences

Tue, 2025-04-01 19:33
Nobody’s tested the tapes this decade, thinks to back up the Recycle Bin, or takes care when using rm

On Call Special How can you avoid a disaster recovery disaster?…

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Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake

Tue, 2025-04-01 18:36
The old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table

Comment At its GPU Technology Conference last month, Nvidia broke with convention by shifting its definition of what counts as a GPU.…

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FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion

Tue, 2025-04-01 16:27
New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is closing its investigations into both the SpaceX Starship Flight 7 explosion and Blue Origin New Glenn-1 landing failure.…

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Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

Tue, 2025-04-01 15:32
Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer

Microsoft will officially hit the half-century mark on Friday as the Windows giant turns 50 years old. What do you consider the highs and lows of the company's journey to dominance?…

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Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it

Tue, 2025-04-01 14:29
'There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework', Thomson Reuters CPO tells us

Interview Thomson Reuters, based in Canada, recently scored a partial summary judgment against Ross Intelligence, after a US court ruled the AI outfit's use of the newswire giant's copyrighted Westlaw content didn't qualify as fair use.…

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Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough

Tue, 2025-04-01 13:46
Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending

More doubt is being cast over the US CHIPS Act program with the Trump administration threatening to halt payments unless companies in line to receive funding commit to substantially expand their own investments.…

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Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users

Tue, 2025-04-01 13:00
The UK government must be thrilled

Google will soon offer end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email for all users, even those who do not use Google Workspace, and says it'll do so without imposing any undue stress on IT admins.…

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Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into open source cloud federation tech

Tue, 2025-04-01 12:32
Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers

An alliance of cloud service providers in Europe is investing €1 million into the Fulcrum Project, an open source cloud federation tech that gives an alternative to local customers anxious about using US hypercalers.…

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UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill

Tue, 2025-04-01 11:37
Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time

The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration.…

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