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You can now put your US passport into Apple Wallet for domestic travel
Need to fly domestically, but want to leave your passport or driver's license at home? Apple has you covered, as long as you're using an iOS device and traveling between or within one of the dozen or so states that support digital IDs and Apple Wallet. Unfortunately, it's not clear which states those are, and the TSA's web site is not up to date thanks to the ongoing government shutdown.…
Google sues 25 China-based scammers behind Lighthouse 'phishing for dummies' kit
Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed China-based scammers, which it claims have stolen more than 115 million credit card numbers in the US as part of the Lighthouse phishing operation.…
OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft
OpenAI may be burning far more capital serving its GPT-family of models than previously thought. Leaked documents show the company paying more than $12 billion to Microsoft for compute power since 2024 and suggest much weaker revenue than it needs to pay for all those expenses.…
Google apes Apple, swears cloud-based AI will keep your info private
Google, perhaps not the first name you'd associate with privacy, has taken a page from Apple's playbook and now claims that its cloud AI services will safeguard sensitive personal data handled by its Gemini model family.…
First stellar Coronal Mass Ejection detected beyond our Sun
Astronomers have made the first definitive observation of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on a nearby star.…
Attackers turned Citrix, Cisco 0-day exploits into custom-malware hellscape
An "advanced" attacker exploited CitrixBleed 2 and a max-severity Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) bug as zero-days to deploy custom malware, according to Amazon Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses.…
Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas
Apple, the reassuringly expensive US technology brand, is selling a sock in which iPhone owners can house their gadget.…
VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong
If you don't know what app will open a random media file (or URL), VLC is the answer. It runs on everything, plays anything, and it's free – thanks to Jean-Baptiste Kempf.…
Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch
Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update on November 11 to fix a malfunctioning enrollment wizard that prevented eligible Windows 10 users from accessing Extended Security Updates (ESU).…
Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere
Microsoft has released C# 14 and .NET 10, a long-term support version, along with a bunch of related products including Visual Studio 2026 and Aspire 13. Copilot Free is included but devs will soon hit its limits.…
Brussels weighs banning China from major EU research scheme
The European Commission is preparing to block Chinese institutions from significant portions of its €95.5 billion ($110 billion) Horizon Europe research program, citing intellectual property risks and links between Chinese universities and Beijing's military.…
MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows
As Microsoft's Task Manager celebrates three decades - and grapples with its modern tendency to leave orphaned processes behind - its creator has shared the story of how the much loved troubleshooting tool came to be.…
Broadcom creates a new Seal Of Approval for servers that run AI under VMware
Broadcom will let its hardware allies self-certify their boxes as compliant with a new spec it developed that describes rigs ready to run AI workloads under its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud platform.…
Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI
Firefox 145 is out, with more privacy, better profile handling, better image search for Google users… and, almost inevitably, more LLM bot integration.…
Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase
The Metropolitan Police's seven-year investigation into a record-setting fraudster has ended after she was sentenced to 11 years and eight months in prison on Tuesday.…
UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill makes Parliamentary debut
UK government introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill to Parliament today, marking a significant overhaul of local cybersecurity legislation to sharpen the security posture of the most critical sectors.…
Aviation watchdog says organized drone attacks will shut UK airports ‘sooner or later’
Britain's aviation watchdog has warned it's only a matter of time before organized drone attacks bring UK airports to a standstill.…
Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan
SAP insists customers wanting "innovation" such as AI must upgrade to its latest platform for ERP, using prescribed cloud migration plans. Kingfisher - which operates 2,000 European retail stores including UK brands Screwfix and B&Q - rejected that approach.…
Tablet market stalls because there’s not much new worth buying
Shipments of tablet computers from minor vendors are on the slide, according to analyst firm IDC.…
China hates crypto and scams, but is now outraged USA acquired bitcoin from a scammer
China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has alleged a nation-state entity, probably the USA, was behind a 2020 attack on a bitcoin mining operation and by doing so has gone into bat for entities that Beijing usually blasts.…