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You DO see Windows 11 as an AI PC opportunity, say Dell and Intel
With three months to go until Microsoft ends support for Windows 10, Dell and Intel want to convince corporate buyers that upgrading their PC fleet is a virtue and not a necessity.…
Microsoft CEO feels weighed down by job cuts
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday told employees in a memo that the company's recent layoffs have been "weighing heavily on me."…
A billion dollars' worth of Nvidia chips fell off a truck and found their way to China, report says
An estimated $1 billion worth of smuggled high-end Nvidia AI processors have reportedly found their way onto the Chinese black market, despite the US government's strict restrictions on exports of the tech.…
Laptop farmer behind $17M North Korean IT worker scam locked up for 8.5 years
An Arizona woman who ran a laptop farm from her home - helping North Korean IT operatives pose as US-based remote workers - has been sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for her role in a $17 million fraud that hit more than 300 American companies.…
Trump promises he won't put his boot on Musk's neck
Elon Musk could use a win after Tesla's weak second-quarter earnings, and he sort of got it when President Donald Trump proclaimed he wasn't going to use the power of the presidency to destroy his businesses. …
Euro healthcare giant AMEOS Group shuts down IT systems after mystery attack
The AMEOS Group, which runs over 100 hospitals across Europe, has shut down its entire network after crims busted in.…
Weapons jam: Pentagon sucks at removing foreign objects from its gear, auditors say
The Pentagon doesn't know where components of its critical systems come from, and it's doing a poor job of finding out, say government auditors. …
White House bans 'woke' AI, but LLMs don't know the truth
The White House on Wednesday issued an executive order requiring AI models used by the government to be truthful and ideologically neutral.…
Print Screen is for noobs: Capture images in Windows like a pro
hands on It happens every day. There's something interesting on your screen that you want to share with others. Perhaps it's an error message you want to send to support. Or maybe you're writing instructions for colleagues and you need to outline how to use software. Whatever the reason, you need a screenshot.…
Wayback 0.1 debuts as early Wayland server for X11 diehards
Wayback 0.1 is out, the first preliminary release of the new Wayland display server whose announcement we reported a few weeks ago.…
No login? No problem: Cisco ISE flaw gave root access before fix arrived, say researchers
Threat actors have actively exploited a newly patched vulnerability in Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) software since early July, weeks before the networking giant got around to issuing a fix.…
So much for watermarks: UnMarker tool nukes AI provenance tags
Computer scientists with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, say they've developed a way to remove watermarks embedded in AI-generated images.…
T-Mobile's satellite service lifts off, and it's open season on rivals
T-Mobile's Starlink-to-cellphone service is now out of beta – and the company is using the opportunity to woo customers from other providers by offering à la carte satellite services to AT&T and Verizon customers.…
Microsoft: SharePoint attacks now officially include ransomware infections
Ransomware has officially entered the Microsoft SharePoint exploitation ring.…
AI is an over-confident pal that doesn't learn from mistakes
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have likened today's large language model (LLM) chatbots to "that friend who swears they're great at pool but never makes a shot" - having found that their virtual self-confidence grew, rather than shrank, after getting answers wrong.…
Coyote malware abuses Microsoft's UI Automation to hunt banking creds
A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft's UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.…
The EFF is 35, but the battle to defend internet freedom is far from over
Interview In July 1990, before the World Wide Web even existed, an unusual alliance was formed to fight for the rights of the emerging online community.…
Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped
The official Amazon Q extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was compromised to include a prompt to wipe the user's home directory and delete all their AWS resources.…
Tesla bets on bot smoke screen as political and market realities bite
Opinion Speaking to Tesla investors last night, CEO Elon Musk was optimistic about the future of his automotive manufacturer.…
AI data-suckers would have to ask permission first under new bill
A bipartisan pair of US Senators introduced a bill this week that would protect copyrighted content from being used for AI training without the owner's permission. Content creators from large media companies to individual bloggers could effectively block Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others from appropriating their work.…