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The UK's data protection watchdog has reprimanded a school in Essex for using facial recognition for canteen payments, nearly three years after other schools were warned about doing the same.…

Embassies are bubbles of sovereignty that local authorities cannot freely enter and in which certain communications are privileged – an arrangement that is generally agreed as essential to facilitate international relations. And now the same protections are being suggested as needed to create a "data embassy" – datacenters that local authorities can't access and in which nations can store info and run software on foreign shores.…

Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billions.…

CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week.…

Security awareness and training provider KnowBe4 hired a fake North Korean IT worker for a software engineering role on its AI team, and only realized its mistake once the worker started using his company-provided computer for evil.…

VMware users have had a little win, as the Broadcom business unit has extended the supported life of its flagship vSphere software.…

Google has managed to cap the costs it incurs when using AI to generate results.…

The Philippines has decided to dismantle the worst of its offshored industries: the bits that run gambling and scam operations.…

Meta today released Llama 3.1 405B, its largest and most capable large language model yet, which the social network claims can go toe-to-toe with OpenAI and Anthropic's top models.…

Analysis Last week, at 0409 UTC on July 19, 2024, antivirus maker CrowdStrike released an update to its widely used Falcon platform that caused Microsoft Windows machines around the world to crash.…

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into "surveillance pricing," a phenomenon likely familiar to anyone who's had to buy something in an incognito browser window to avoid paying a premium. …

If administrators have learned anything from the CrowdStrike chaos, it's to understand exactly what delayed updates mean – or don't mean – in the anti-malware world.…

The results of the largest universal basic income (UBI) trial program in the United States – this one backed by billionaire Sam Altman, no less – are in and entirely unsurprising.…

Analysis With Joe Biden out of the US Presidential race, his VP Kamala Harris is poised to become the Democratic Party's nominee, but whether her history with Silicon Valley will help is far less assured.…

Thousands of typosquatting domains are now registered to exploit the desperation of IT admins still struggling to recover from last week's CrowdStrike outage, researchers say.…

On the day of Alphabet's Q2 earnings call, cybersecurity firm Wiz has walked from a $23 billion takeover bid by Google's parent company.…

An AT&T cellular outage lasting more than 12 hours that prevented US customers from accessing services including 911 was caused by misconfigured hardware and a failure to follow standard procedures when deploying.…

SAP has expanded the number of jobs affected by its restructuring program by up to 20 percent after generating higher revenue but lower operating profit in the most recent full quarter.…

The US House Committee on Homeland Security has requested public testimony from CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz in the wake of the chaos caused by a faulty update.…

Hands-on CachyOS is a performance-optimized rebuild of Arch Linux, with a simpler installer and dozens of desktops and options to tweak. Stable reliability, not so much.…