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Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN

Tue, 2025-10-14 13:28
Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months

Mozilla is working on a built-in VPN for Firefox, with beta tests opening to select users shortly.…

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Oracle rushes out another emergency E-Business Suite patch as Clop fallout widens

Tue, 2025-10-14 12:32
Latest in a long line of EBS flaws leta miscreants remotely compromise enterprise systems to pinch sensitive data

Oracle is rushing out another emergency patch for its embattled E-Business Suite as the fallout from the Clop-linked attacks continues to spread.…

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Shadow AI: Staffers are bringing AI tools they use at home to work, warns Microsoft

Tue, 2025-10-14 12:04
Bring Your Copilot To Work Day, anyone?

Microsoft, the corporation that just 13 days ago implored customers to bring their Copilot to work, has now published a report warning of the dangers of Shadow AI.…

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Lance takes aim at Parquet in file format joust

Tue, 2025-10-14 11:34
Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads

A fledgling file format that aims to address limitations in the widely-used Parquet is under review for adoption by an open source foundation.…

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British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%

Tue, 2025-10-14 10:51
Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing

Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government's cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled.…

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Ofcom refuses to bite over Openreach's fiber freebies

Tue, 2025-10-14 10:10
Watchdog says it sees no case to investigate discounted FTTP upgrade offer – but will keep an eye on it

Ofcom has declined to intervene after smaller network providers complained that a special upgrade offer from Openreach could threaten competition in the broadband market.…

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Brit AI boffins making bank with £560K average pay packet at Anthropic

Tue, 2025-10-14 09:00
Google, DeepMind, Microsoft also shower UK staff with six-figure salaries

The UK units of some US technology companies are paying average salaries of well into six figures, with some more than matching that with share-based payments, according to annual accounts recently published by Companies House.…

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Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken

Tue, 2025-10-14 08:15
Canonical's Questing Quokka waddles in at 5.7 GB with AppArmor woes

The latest interim release of Ubuntu is here, showcasing some significant changes. This isn't a long-term release, yet many of its differences will be in 26.04 next year.…

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Unwary SAP private cloud users face 10% renewal hikes, warns Gartner

Tue, 2025-10-14 07:29
On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing

Gartner has reported that SAP customers opting for private cloud have seen price increases of 10 percent or more on renewal proposals if they fail to negotiate a renewal price cap in the original deal.…

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EU biometric border system launches, suffers teeting problems

Tue, 2025-10-14 06:45
Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits

The European Union's new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague's international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals manually.…

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Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag

Mon, 2025-10-13 23:53
Systems from Nvidia, Dell, and others available starting Oct. 15

Nvidia's tiniest Grace-Blackwell workstation is finally making its way to store shelves this week, the better part of a year after the GPU giant first teased the AI mini PC, then called Project Digits, at CES.…

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Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

Mon, 2025-10-13 17:48
Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more!

Microsoft's OneDrive is increasing the creepiness quotient by using AI to spot faces in photos and group images accordingly. Don't worry, it can be turned off – three times a year.…

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Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb

Mon, 2025-10-13 17:18
Cloud support to be ditched on older hardware, customers left with pricey paperweights

Audio equipment biz Bose is discontinuing cloud support for its SoundTouch product line, effectively reducing the premium devices to basic speakers with limited functionality.…

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Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers

Mon, 2025-10-13 16:49
Outage knocks out phones, broadband – even telco's own status page

Vodafone fell over in the UK this afternoon, with Register readers reporting that many services including mobile coverage, internet services, and even the company's own status page went down.…

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Broadcom cozies up to OpenAI for 10 GW custom chip love-in

Mon, 2025-10-13 16:29
Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creator

Broadcom has cuddled up with OpenAI as the ChatGPT outfit looks for ever more help building out the vast infrastructure it needs to deliver on its dreams of advanced intelligence – and possibly even a profit some day.…

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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters rage-quit the internet (again), promise to return next year

Mon, 2025-10-13 16:17
'We will never stop,' say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month

The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its clearweb site.…

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Bun 1.3 stuffs everything and kitchen sink into JS runtime

Mon, 2025-10-13 15:17
All-in-one toolkit or over-ambitious feature creep? You decide

Version 1.3 of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit has landed, pushing forward the project's goal to consolidate fragmented JavaScript toolchains into a single solution. Yet the rapid expansion has some developers questioning whether Bun is trying to do too much, too fast.…

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Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco

Mon, 2025-10-13 14:36
Salesforce CEO praises Trump before walking back criticism of city's policing

San Francisco’s political establishment rounded on Marc Benioff over the weekend after the Salesforce founder backed the idea of sending in the National Guard to clean up the city’s streets.…

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Android 'Pixnapping' attack can capture app data like 2FA codes

Mon, 2025-10-13 14:00
GPU-based timing attack inspired by decade-old iframe technique

Security researchers have resurrected a 12-year-old data-stealing attack on web browsers to pilfer sensitive info from Android devices.…

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Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog

Mon, 2025-10-13 13:38
Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR

An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the software giant "illegally" tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data.…

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