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Key KDE developer Jonathan Riddell quits
Sad news for KDE: one of the core people guiding the project for the whole century so far has left the building.…
Self-propagating worm fuels latest npm supply chain compromise
The npm platform is the target of another supply chain attack, with crims already compromising 187 packages and counting.…
Users in SAP's heartland call for greater license transparency
DSAG, the SAP user group for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, has called for greater transparency in cloud licensing to enable the migration and upgrade of on-prem systems to the cloud.…
Office 2016 and 2019 face October 14 execution date
While Windows 10 might seem to be the biggest casualty as a result of Microsoft's ax-swinging, Office and recent versions of Windows 11 are also set to be chopped.…
Rust-style safety model for C++ 'rejected' as profiles take priority
The C++ standards committee abandoned a detailed proposal to create a rigorously safe subset of the language, according to the proposal's co-author, despite continuing anxiety about memory safety.…
'FileFix' attacks use fake Facebook security alerts to trick victims into running infostealers
An attack called FileFix is masquerading as a Facebook security alert before ultimately dropping the widely used StealC infostealer and malware downloader.…
Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates
European e-waste campaigners are calling on EU leadership to force tech vendors to provide 15 years of software updates, using Microsoft's plan to end Windows 10 support next month — which may make an estimated 400 million PCs obsolete — as a textbook case of avoidable e-waste.…
JLR stuck in neutral as losses skyrocket amid cyberattack cleanup
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced a further extension to its multi-site global shutdown, bringing its cyber-related downtime to nearly four weeks.…
The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it
Beware the meeting room zombies. We don't mean you when you're listening to a colleague reading out a 100-slide PowerPoint presentation, but some expensive Microsoft meeting room hardware that may be obsolete in a few short weeks.…
Google unmasks itself as mystery hyperscaler behind £3.75B UK datacenter
Google today confirmed it is the mystery hyperscaler behind one of Europe's largest datacenter campuses as it cut the ribbon on a facility situated on the outskirts of the M25 in Hertfordshire.…
Overmind bags $6M to predict deployment blast radius before the explosion
Exclusive How big could the blast radius be if that change you're about to push to production goes catastrophically wrong? Overmind is the latest company to come up with ways to stop the explosion before it happens.…
Linux Mint picks up the pace with LMDE 7 and Wayland-ready Cinnamon
The Linux Mint team plans to speed up its release cycle and get two more versions out in the next few months.…
China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents
Beijing will soon expect Chinese network operators to 'fess up to serious cyber incidents within an hour of spotting them – or risk penalties for dragging their feet.…
It's the final countdown: Windows 10 hits end of support in less than 30 days
Start the countdown! For any administrators living under a rock, Microsoft has posted another warning that Windows 10 22H2 will reach end of servicing on October 14.…
ChatGPT: Why do most of your users ask for help writing - prose, not code?
Users of individual accounts for OpenAI’s ChatGPT mostly use it for research and to help with writing, according to a new study into the kind of queries fed into the service.…
Indian court stops streaming hearings on social media to protect lawyers from mean memes
The High Court of the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh has stopped live-streaming hearings to protect local lawyers from ridicule on social media.…
Trump backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea
Analysis On Sunday, President Trump took to his personal social media channel to calm a growing diplomatic storm with one of America's closest allies, South Korea.…
After years of strife, AFRINIC has elected a board. Now the hard work begins
The African Network Information Center (AFRINIC) last week held elections and announced the appointment of eight directors, which means it has a chance to convene a board for the first time since 2022.…
Dems wave hands, stomp feet about ICE using mobile face recognition app
A group of senators has penned a sternly-worded letter to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) saying that they're very worried about the agency's use of facial recognition in its mission to cleanse the nation of immigrants with improper documents. …
Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned
Failing to encrypt sensitive data leaves you wide open to attack. During the recent SonicWall attack spree, intruders bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) in at least one case, because a user's recovery codes were left sitting in a plaintext file on their desktop.…

