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Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India
US president Donald Trump has told Apple CEO Tim Cook he has a problem with his plan to manufacture iThings in India.…
Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI
The FBI has warned that fraudsters are impersonating "senior US officials" using deepfakes as part of a major fraud campaign.…
DoorDash scam used fake drivers, phantom deliveries to bilk $2.59M
A former DoorDash driver has pleaded guilty to participating in a $2.59 million scheme that used fake accounts, insider access to reassign orders, and bogus delivery reports to trigger payouts for food that was never delivered.…
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
NASA has revived a set of thrusters on the nearly 50-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft after declaring them inoperable over two decades ago. …
Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing
An attorney defending AI firm Anthropic in a copyright case brought by music publishers apologized to the court on Thursday for citation errors that slipped into a filing after using the biz's own AI tool, Claude, to format references.…
Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress
Proposed legislation gaining steam in Congress this week would require high-end GPUs and AI chips to include location-tracking safeguards to ensure US-designed components don't end up in nations against Uncle Sam's wishes, with exporters on the hook for compliance.…
Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%
US immigration officials say they are winning the war on H-1B fraud – and say they've got the numbers to prove it.…
Cyber fiends battering UK retailers now turn to US stores
Interview The same miscreants behind recent cyberattacks on British retailers are now trying to dig their claws into major American retailers' IT environments – and in some cases possibly even deploying ransomware, according to Google.…
Coinbase extorted for $20M. Support staff bribed. Customers scammed. One hell of a breach disclosure…
Coinbase says some of its overseas support staff were paid off to steal information on behalf of cybercriminals, and the company is now being extorted for $20 million.…
Socket buys Coana to tell you which security alerts you can ignore
In its latest gambit to reduce the noise of unnecessary security alerts, Socket has acquired Coana, a startup founded in 2022 by researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark that tells users which vulnerabilities they can safely ignore.…
Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative
Microsoft is retiring Bing Search APIs on August 11, directing customers toward AI products as an alternative.…
Snowflake CISO on the power of 'shared destiny' and 'yes and'
interview Being the chief information security officer at Snowflake is never an easy job, but last spring it was especially challenging.…
Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization
SpaceX supremo Elon Musk says the next Starship will launch next week, however, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hasn't yet given it the green light.…
70-knot winds blamed for yacht disaster that killed Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch
An interim report by the UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has indicated that extreme wind was to blame for the sinking of the yacht Bayesian, claiming the lives of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his daughter, and five others.…
Royal Navy freshens up ships' electromagnetic warfare defenses
Britain's Royal Navy is to get updated electromagnetic warfare (EW) capabilities including launchable decoys to help defend its vessels against threats such as modern anti-ship missiles.…
The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet
The "End of 10" website is a cooperative effort to let people know that they have other options besides buying a new computer.…
A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis
Interview Version 8.1 of Valkey was recently released, marking a year since the creation of the Redis fork. Valkey's co-maintainer, Madelyn Olson, is looking ahead to version 9 as the project settles down.…
Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos
Google's AI shop DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, its "evolutionary coding agent" powered by large language models to discover and optimize algorithms.…
Here's what we know about the DragonForce ransomware that hit Marks & Spencer
DragonForce, a new-ish ransomware-as-a-service operation, has given organizations another cyber threat to worry about — unless they’re in Russia, which is off limits to the would-be extortionists.…
Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they're ready to rock
Some organizations have started hiring for a new tech job: The Machine Learning Administrator – aka the “ML admin”.…