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UK unions want 'worker first' plan for AI as people fear for their jobs

Thu, 2025-08-28 10:20
Labor group says new technologies could increase inequality if we're not careful

AI-Pocalypse Over half of the British public are worried about the impact of AI on their jobs, according to employment unions, which want the UK government to adopt a "worker first" strategy rather than simply allowing corporations to ditch employees for algorithms.…

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Wastewater monitoring project could catch next pandemic early, says health agency

Thu, 2025-08-28 09:33
UK starts early warning system combing through stuff that folks flush away

The UK Health Security Agency is looking to set up an early warning system ahead of future pandemics, launching a £1.3 million (around $1.75 million) program to identify "cutting-edge technologies" which could turn people's pee and poop into valuable data on the spread of viruses.…

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Solo.io boss: I was wrong, I made mistakes – and that made me a better CEO

Thu, 2025-08-28 08:21
Idit Levine on going from startup to a billion-dollar valuation

Interview "I feel that a founder always needs to be a little bit stupidly optimistic." Solo.io CEO Idit Levine has been on an interesting journey in cloud computing since starting the networking and API management company in 2017.…

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If you thought China's Salt Typhoon was booted off critical networks, think again

Thu, 2025-08-28 07:32
13 governments sound the alarm about ongoing unpleasantness

China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies continue their years-long hacking campaign targeting critical industries around the world, according to a joint security alert from cyber and law enforcement agencies across 13 countries.…

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Online property ad reveals looted Nazi war art, triggers police raid

Thu, 2025-08-28 06:26
Stolen painting still mising, sadly

Police in Argentina reportedly raided a home in a coastal town on Monday after someone spotted a real estate ad that included images of art the Nazis looted in the Second World War.…

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Japan exploring whether AI could help inspect its nuclear power plants

Thu, 2025-08-28 03:00
If regulators heed the lessons of Fukushima, testing will have to jump Godzilla-sized hurdles

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has requested extra funds to experiment with AI-powered nuclear plant inspectors.…

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ChatGPT hates LA Chargers fans

Wed, 2025-08-27 23:59
Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user's inferred politics and other affiliations

OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of the Los Angeles Chargers football team than to followers of other teams.…

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AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war

Wed, 2025-08-27 23:23
China would be a $50 billion a year market for Nvidia if Uncle Sam would let us sell competitive products, says Jensen Huang

Nvidia's top brass urged Washington to approve the sale of Blackwell accelerators to China during the GPU giant's Q2 earnings call on Wednesday.…

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VMware tweaked software licenses for submarines

Wed, 2025-08-27 22:55
Virtzilla also helping banks to sink and re-float software-defined infrastructure to stop stealthy malware

VMware has tweaked its software licensing so submarines can keep their computers running when they’re beneath the waves.…

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Nvidia details its itty bitty GB10 superchip for local AI development

Wed, 2025-08-27 20:50
Starting at $2,999, tiny doesn't mean cheap

Hot Chips Back in 2023, Nvidia's superchip architecture introduced a new programming model for accelerated workloads by coupling the CPU to the GPU via a high-speed NVLink fabric that makes PCIe feel positively glacial.…

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Sting nails two front firms in Nork IT worker scam

Wed, 2025-08-27 20:27
There's also a rogue Russian on the list

The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against two Asian companies and two individuals for allegedly helping North Korean IT workers fake their way into US jobs.…

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Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise

Wed, 2025-08-27 19:53
AI lowers the bar for cybercrime, Anthropic admits

comment Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud.…

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Windows Backup for Organizations doesn't actually save data files

Wed, 2025-08-27 19:29
Not a disaster recovery option, but good enough for a migration

Microsoft continues to take what's familiar to ordinary users and offer it to enterprises. The latest functionality is Windows Backup for Organizations.…

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Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev

Wed, 2025-08-27 18:53
Fast-glob is widely used in government, security lab says

A Node.js utility used by thousands of public projects - and more than 30 Department of Defense ones - appears to have a sole maintainer whose online profiles identify him as a Yandex employee living in Russia.…

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Word to autosave new docs to the cloud before you can even hit Ctrl+S

Wed, 2025-08-27 18:25
Feature rolls out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, stashing unnamed files in OneDrive by default

Ever get that sinking feeling when Word crashes before you've made your first save? An application update is set to save the day by automatically enabling autosave to the cloud for new documents, before you've even given them a filename.…

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Bun JS toolkit adds MySQL driver, secrets API, YAML, and more

Wed, 2025-08-27 17:54
Feature bloat, or added value for this JavaScript toolkit?

The Bun team has released version 1.2.21 of its JavaScript bundler and runtime, written in Zig, adding features including built-in drivers for MySQL and SQLite, a YAML parser, and a secrets manager for tools and local development.…

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Nx NPM packages poisoned in AI-assisted supply chain attack

Wed, 2025-08-27 17:34
Stolen dev credentials posted to GitHub as attackers abuse CLI tools for recon

Nx is the latest target of a software supply chain attack in the NPM ecosystem, with multiple malicious versions being uploaded to the NPM registry on Tuesday evening.…

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Uncle Sam throws AI 'chili cook-off' to spice up healthcare fraud detection

Wed, 2025-08-27 17:03
No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data

Seeking to rein in healthcare fraud, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking explainable AI models that can identify patterns suggestive of malfeasance.…

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The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams

Wed, 2025-08-27 16:51
Don't let it happen to you

Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise's on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org's Azure environment. The criminals then contacted the victim via a Microsoft Teams account that they'd also compromised in the attack, demanding a ransom payment for the stolen files.…

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Taiwan indicts three over alleged theft of TSMC trade secrets

Wed, 2025-08-27 15:56
Chipmaker keen to protect assets as race for 2nm process heats up

Taiwanese prosecutors have charged three people over the alleged theft of TSMC's trade secrets.…

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