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Everyone wants a fancy phone – even the folk buying them second-hand
Premium devices are what smartphone buyers want right now, and it seems that applies equally to the latest devices and second-hand models destined for emerging markets.…
Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a £14 million ($18.6 million) penalty to outsourcing giant Capita following a catastrophic 2023 cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 6.6 million people.…
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack
Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany, has finally concluded one element of a long-running project to eject Microsoft from its infrastructure by giving Exchange Server the boot.…
Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone
Canalys Forums 2025 US President Donald Trump released a wrecking ball that smashed through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies stateside – and it's now swinging across the Atlantic, according to analysts.…
UK government's £45B AI savings pitch built on broad-brush guesswork, MPs told
UK government's plans to save £45 billion through the application of AI in the public sector lack clarity and are based on broad-brush assumptions, Members of Parliament have heard.…
AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage
Column Steve Jobs probably didn't remember how many times he skinned his knees learning to ride a bike before describing a personal computer as a "bicycle for the mind." Jobs' point was that both tools help us to go further, faster, with just a little extra effort.…
Salesforce pumps the dream of AI agents as helpers, not replacements
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff heralded the arrival of the agentic era during his keynote at the CRM giant's annual Dreamforce conference.…
Frightful Patch Tuesday gives admins a scare with 175+ Microsoft CVEs, 3 under attack
Spooky season is in full swing, and this extends to Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday with security updates for a frightful 175 Microsoft vulnerabilities, plus an additional 21 non-Microsoft CVEs. And even scarier than the sheer number of bugs: three are listed as under attack, with three others publicly known, and 17 deemed critical security holes.…
CISA cuts more staff and reassigns others as government stays shut down
The Trump administration has continued to cut staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and is reportedly reassigning others, further imperiling the US' cybersecurity posture. …
Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects
Six days ago, upgradeable laptop maker Framework tried to convince its fractious user community to live in a "big tent" after a Debian developer objected to the company's sponsorship of Hyprland and its social media promotion of Omarchy, with both projects associated with politically polarizing viewpoints.…
18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year
Oracle on Tuesday revealed it would field more than 18 zettaFLOPS worth of AI infrastructure from Nvidia and AMD by the second half of next year.…
Some like it bot! ChatGPT promises AI-rotica is coming for verified adults
OpenAI has mitigated ChatGPT behavior that might exacerbate users' mental health issues, claims CEO Sam Altman, so the natural next step is to make ChatGPT act more human again - complete with the ability to generate "erotica for verified adults."…
Microsoft seeding Washington schools with free AI to get kids and teachers hooked
Not content to shove Copilot into every corner of the enterprise it can think of, Microsoft has announced plans to force feed AI to students across its home state of Washington. …
Chinese gang used ArcGIS as a backdoor for a year – and no one noticed
A Chinese state-backed cybergang known as Flax Typhoon spent more than a year burrowing inside an ArcGIS server, quietly turning the trusted mapping software into a covert backdoor.…
DGX Spark, Nvidia’s tiniest supercomputer, tackles large models at solid speeds
hands on Nvidia bills its long-anticipated DGX Spark as the "world's smallest AI supercomputer," and, at $3,000 to $4,000 (depending on config and OEM), you might be expecting the Arm-based mini-PC to outperform its less-expensive siblings.…
Researchers intercept unencrypted satellite traffic from space blabbermouths
Updated Geostationary satellites are broadcasting large volumes of unencrypted data to Earth, including private voice calls and text messages as well as consumer internet traffic, researchers have discovered.…
KuzuDB says so long and thanks for all the commits, marooning community
The KuzuDB embedded graph database, open source under the MIT license, has been abandoned by its creator and sponsor Kùzu Inc, leaving its community pondering whether to fork or find an alternative.…
Asahi breach leaves bitter taste as brewer fears personal data slurped
Asahi's cyber hangover just got worse, with the brewer now admitting that personal information may have been tapped in last month's attack.…
What do we want? Windows 10 support! When do we want it? Until 2030!
Updated Campaigners staged a protest outside Microsoft's Brussels office yesterday over the company's decision to end support for Windows 10.…
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is facing another round of layoffs, with 550 additional employees set to lose their jobs.…