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Türkiye-linked spy crew exploited a messaging app zero-day to snoop on Kurdish army in Iraq
Turkish spies exploited a zero-day bug in a messaging app to collect info on the Kurdish army in Iraq, according to Microsoft, which says the attacks began more than a year ago.…
OpenAI wants to build a subscription for something like an AI OS, with SDKs and APIs and 'surfaces'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company doesn’t have a master plan but does hope to develop a product that’s akin to a subscription operating system, but for AI, and models that ingest every experience you have in your life…
Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos
Linux kernel project boss Linus Torvalds has re-joined the ranks of full-size mechanical keyboard aficionados.…
Mars may have vast underground oceans and enough H<sup>2</sup>O to make it a water world
Mars may still be home to oceanic quantities of liquid water, according to a recent paper published by the National Science Review.…
Amazon tested warehouse robots and found they're not ready to replace humans
Robots in Amazon's fulfillment warehouse robots can pick and stow products well enough that the e-tail giant is happy to begin beta testing, but not well enough to leave human workers behind.…
Fusion eggheads claim modeling fix for particle escape - at least in stellarators
There are plenty of reasons why fusion energy has yet to become reality, but according to a group of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and their collaborators, we may be one modeling breakthrough closer.…
M365 apps on Windows 10 to get security fixes into 2028
Microsoft has pledged to support and issue security fixes for M365 apps on Windows 10 into late 2028. That's well past a cut-off point of October 14 this year, when Redmond's support for Windows 10 officially ends unless you buy an extended support package.…
Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start their own biz
Companies with higher levels of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic saw more of their employees launch startups, economists have found. They argue this entrepreneurial spillover is a factor policymakers and firms should weigh when shaping remote work policies.…
CISA mutes own website, shifts routine cyber alerts to Musk’s X, RSS, email
The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced Monday that going forward, only urgent alerts tied to emerging threats or major cyber activity will appear on its website. Routine updates, guidance, and other notifications will instead be shared via email, RSS, and X.…
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
TrueNAS is alive and well, but iXsystems has shifted its focus to the Linux-based SCALE edition. For the FreeBSD faithful left clinging to CORE, a new contender is limbering up: zVault.…
Attackers pwn charter airline helping Trump's deportation campaign
GlobalX, a charter airline used for deportations by the US government, has admitted someone broke into its network infrastructure.…
CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost
The dream of every medieval alchemist – turning lead into gold – has finally come true thanks to some impractical physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.…
US, China agree to roll back tariffs to 10% – but only for 90 days
world war fee The impending disaster of trade-freezing tariffs on Chinese imports to the US has been averted, but like a Chinese cargo ship anchored off the coast of California, it's not gone entirely.…
OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release
The Windows team has come up with a bug so bad that Microsoft has had to postpone some Insider builds until the issue is dealt with.…
Paul McCartney, Elton John and other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping
More than 400 of the UK's leading media and arts professionals have written to the prime minister to back an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, which promises to offer the nation's creative industries transparency over copyrighted works ingested by AI models.…
LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true
At last, an AI model we can really get behind: LegoGPT takes a text prompt and spits out a physically stable design.…
Britain's cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software
CYBERUK Intervention is required to ensure the security market holds vendors to account for shipping insecure wares – imposing costs on those whose failures lead to cyberattacks and having to draft in cleanup crews. The security market must properly incentivize security vendors to do security better.…
Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness
Opinion It's been a devastating few weeks for UK retail giants. Marks and Spencer, the Co-Op, and now uber-posh Harrods have had massive disruptions due to ransomware attacks taking systems down for prolonged periods.…
So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?
Who, Me? Sometimes, a favor done for friends years ago can come back to bite you in a very corporate way. Welcome to another cautionary tale from the files of Who, Me?…
US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired
The head of the US Copyright Office has reportedly been fired, the day after agency concluded that builders of AI models use of copyrighted material went beyond existing doctrines of fair use.…