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FBI: Watch out for these signs Scattered Spider is spinning its web around your org
The FBI and a host of international cyber and law enforcement agencies on Tuesday warned that Scattered Spider extortionists have changed their tactics and are now breaking into victims' networks using savvier social engineering techniques, searching for organizations' Snowflake database credentials, and deploying a handful of new ransomware variants, most recently DragonForce. …
Devs are frustrated with AI coding tools that deliver nearly-right solutions
According to a new survey of worldwide software developers released on Tuesday, nearly all respondents are incorporating AI tools into their coding practices — but they're not necessarily all that happy about it.…
US sends 33,000 smart 'strike kits' to make Ukrainian drones even deadlier
interview The war in Ukraine is increasingly becoming a battle of drones, and defense software firm Auterion has just won a $50 million Pentagon contract to supply 33,000 AI-powered “strike kits” that aim to augment Ukrainian UAVs and push them to the front lines.…
Waymo plots Dallas robotaxi launch, stays ahead of Tesla in Texas turf war
With Tesla horning in on its Texas territory, robotaxi outfit Waymo has decided to expand to a new city in the Lone Star state: Dallas. …
Windows 10 turns 10: Dying OS just worked, lacked compatibility chaos
It has been ten years since Microsoft made Windows 10 generally available. With mere months left until the plug is unceremoniously pulled on support for many versions, let's take a look at how the last decade went for the one-time flagship operating system.…
US science left out in the cold amid plans to retire Antarctic icebreaker
A letter protesting the imminent demise of US research vessel and icebreaker the Nathaniel B. Palmer was this week sent to the National Science Foundation (NSF) amid proposed funding reductions.…
Blender 3D app suite could touch down on tablets, starting with iPad
The open source Blender 3D editing suite may be adapted to run on Apple's iPad and other tablets, despite concern from one contributor that the team is already stretched with "thousands of bugs languishing in the tracker."…
Linux kernel 6.16 lands without any headline features but 38M lines of code
Over the weekend, the world's most famous Finn pushed out the latest version of the Linux kernel – and warned of upcoming disruption.…
Cape Canaveral marks 75 years since its first rocket launch
It is 75 years since the first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral: a two-stage rocket consisting of a German V-2 missile and a US sounding rocket.…
Raspberry Pi RP2350 A4 update fixes old bugs and dares you to break it again
The Raspberry Pi team has released an update to the RP2350 microcontroller with bug fixes, hardening, and a GPIO tweak that will delight retro hardware enthusiasts.…
Taxman picks up $140M tab after Cadence fined for China export violations
Electronic design biz Cadence has agreed to plead guilty and pay more than $140 million in fines over charges that it unlawfully sold semiconductor design tools to a university linked with the Chinese military.…
Microsoft pops legacy Exchange public folders on the chopping block
The clock is ticking for administrators pondering a migration path to Exchange Online from an elderly version of Microsoft's email server. Support for public folder migrations from Exchange Server 2010 and older is set for deprecation.…
War Games: MoD asks soldiers with 1337 skillz to compete in esports
The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is doubling down on its endorsement of esports by tasking the British Esports Federation to establish a new tournament to upskill existing servicepeople in the digital skirmishes.…
How Google profits even as its AI summaries reduce website ad link clicks
Opinion Alphabet, Google's parent company, is making money hand over fist. In its latest quarterly report, Google's revenue grew 14 percent year-over-year to $96.4 billion. While Google's cloud revenue, $13.6 billion, with 31 percent year-over-year growth, is growing fast, the bulk of its cash, $54.2 billion worth, still comes from advertising.…
Publishers cry foul over W3C crusade to rid web of third-party cookies
Exclusive Movement for an Open Web (MOW), an advocacy group that supports web publishers, has filed a complaint with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) challenging the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) call to eliminate third-party cookies.…
UK buys time with £1.65B extension to G-Cloud framework
The UK government is extending two major cloud purchasing agreements due to delayed replacement arrangements under frameworks that could be worth an additional £1.65 billion.…
Microsoft bolts Copilot Mode onto Edge to chase AI-browser crowd
Microsoft on Monday introduced Copilot Mode in its Edge browser, a way to use voice or text commands to automate web-based tasks via AI.…
Microsoft spotlights Apple bug patched in March as SharePoint exploits continue
Amidst its own failure to fix a couple of bugs now under mass exploitation and being abused for espionage, data theft, and ransomware infections, Microsoft said Monday that it spotted a macOS vulnerability some months ago that could allow attackers to steal private data. Redmond reported the bug to Cupertino, which issued a fix back in March.…
Google’s latest renewable energy deal is all gas bags and hot air
Caught in a constant race between its AI power needs and carbon emissions reduction pledges, Google's latest sustainability commitment sees it considering giant bags of carbon dioxide as a solution to dirty energy.…
Security pros are drowning in threat-intel data and it's making everything more dangerous
Too many threats, too much data, and too few skilled security analysts are making companies more vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to the IT and security leaders tasked with protecting these organizations from digital threats.…