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Analytics provider: We didn't expose smut site data to crims

Tue, 2025-12-16 21:48
An employee of the adult site could be responsible.

Analytics vendor Mixpanel says it is not the source of data stolen from Pornhub and says the info was last accessed by an employee of the adult site.…

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Meta's SAM bot keeps 'em separated as it isolates voices and instruments from audio clips

Tue, 2025-12-16 21:36
No mention of protections to stop it being used to snoop on people

Want to hear just the guitar riff from a song? How about cutting out the train noise from a voice recording? Meta says its new SAM Audio model can separate and edit sounds using simple prompts, cutting down on the manual work typical of audio-editing tools.…

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Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats

Tue, 2025-12-16 21:03
More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions

Ad blockers and VPNs are supposed to protect your privacy, but four popular browser extensions have been doing just the opposite. According to research from Koi Security, these pernicious plug-ins have been harvesting the text of chatbot conversations from more than 8 million people and sending them back to the developers.…

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Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators

Tue, 2025-12-16 19:45
Amazon, meanwhile, claims its datacenters are helping ratepayers despite tons of evidence to the contrary

Concerned over continually rising energy costs linked to AI datacenter construction projects, three Democratic Senators are asking leading bit barn operators to explain why their promises of not passing grid expansion costs onto consumers are falling short. …

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Nvidia fills the void of American open-weights models with some of its own

Tue, 2025-12-16 19:31
Nemotron 3 is a grab bag of 2025's top machine learning advancements

For many, enterprise AI adoption depends on the availability of high-quality open-weights models. Exposing sensitive customer data or hard-fought intellectual property to APIs so you can use closed models like ChatGPT is a non-starter.…

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SantaStealer stuffs credentials, crypto wallets into a brand new bag

Tue, 2025-12-16 18:58
All I want for Christmas … is all of your data

A new, modular infostealer called SantaStealer, advertised on Telegram with a basic tier priced at $175 per month, promises to make criminals' Christmas dreams come true. It boasts that it can run "fully undetected" even on systems with the "strictest AntiVirus" and those belonging to governments, financial institutions, and other prime targets.…

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Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm

Tue, 2025-12-16 16:13
And parades its latest trio of Nemotron models

Nvidia burnished its open source credentials this week after buying the company behind the veteran Slurm scheduler and announcing a slew of open source AI models.…

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Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on

Tue, 2025-12-16 15:08
Coalition for App Fairness warns App Store fees remain unlawful despite non-compliance ruling

Six months after EU regulators found Apple's App Store rules in breach of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), developers say Cupertino is still behaving as if compliance were optional.…

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US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row

Tue, 2025-12-16 14:40
Tech Prosperity Deal paused after London resists pressure on online services levy

The US government has put a proposed $42 billion (£31 billion) trade pact with the UK on ice because the European country has yet to budge on its Digital Services Tax (DST).…

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From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill

Tue, 2025-12-16 14:21
Communities on both sides of the Atlantic push back against rapid build-outs

Frenzied demand for AI development is driving a wave of datacenter construction, but new projects are facing growing public opposition over concerns about their impact on local communities and the environment.…

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Smartphones face a memory cost crunch – and buyers aren't in the mood

Tue, 2025-12-16 13:45
Rising DRAM and NAND prices are squeezing handset makers and threatening a fragile market recovery

AI-nflation The smartphone industry's brief bounce back now looks set to run straight into a wall, with analysts warning that rising memory costs are about to test buyers' patience.…

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Mozilla Corporation installs Firefox driver in CEO reboot

Tue, 2025-12-16 13:16
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo picked to replace interim boss Laura Chambers

Mozilla Corporation on Tuesday said it has appointed Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as Chief Executive Officer, replacing Laura Chambers, who served as interim CEO for the past two years.…

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Intel hires ex-Trump fixer as Washington whisperer

Tue, 2025-12-16 13:11
But when will Chipzilla bring back will.i.am?

Intel has hired a veteran Republican operator as its head of government affairs, just months after Uncle Sam became the struggling chip vendor's biggest shareholder.…

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From pr0n to playlists and paperclips, trio of breaches spills data of millions

Tue, 2025-12-16 12:33
Adult site, streaming platform, and Japanese retailer expose user info, but not credentials

Three very different companies have now confirmed data breaches affecting millions of users – each insisting the damage stopped well short of passwords and payment details.…

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MI6 chief: we'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian

Tue, 2025-12-16 11:45
New spy boss says officers must master code alongside tradecraft as agency navigates 'space between peace and war'

MI6's new chief Blaise Metreweli outlined her vision for technology-augmented intelligence gathering in her first public speech on 15 December, warning that the UK operates "in a space between peace and war."…

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UK.gov doubles hardware spending framework to £24B in 6 months

Tue, 2025-12-16 11:03
Massive procurement deal for laptops and software comes after minister vows to squeeze better value from big vendors

The UK government plans to tender a commercial framework for end-user hardware and software worth up to £24 billion ($32.18 billion) including tax - double the £12 billion maximum announced six months ago.…

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Bishop of Hong Kong tells peers AI is not the devil's work

Tue, 2025-12-16 10:15
Theologians give scriptural OK to online faith communities

The Bishop of Hong Kong said last week that AI was definitely not a gift from the devil at a meeting of his peers across Asia that called for sensible engagement with the technology.…

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Ofcom comes knocking after BT, Three mobile outages cut 999 access

Tue, 2025-12-16 09:30
Watchdog reviews if failures breached availability rules after downtime left millions unable to make calls

Ofcom has opened formal investigations into BT and Three after mobile outages this summer left Britons unable to make calls – including to emergency services.…

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No, SoundCloud hasn’t started tuning out VPNs. It’s mopping up after a cyberattack

Tue, 2025-12-16 05:20
Bum note for 20 percent of users whose data leaked

Music hosting and streaming service SoundCloud has admitted it suffered a cyberattack.…

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Ford shifts gears to build batteries for datacenters

Tue, 2025-12-16 02:05
EV sales didn’t accelerate as hoped, so it will repurpose idling factories

Automotive giant Ford has decided to start a business building big batteries, in part to cash in on the datacenter construction boom.…

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