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Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free
Encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a free storage system for its users, with extra space if folks are willing to pay for it.…
Citrix products sold under old licenses will get glitchy unless users upgrade
Citrix on Monday advised its customers that products acquired under its current file-based licensing system will experience “loss of functionality and potential impacts on end-users” next April, and that upgrading to a new cloudy licensing scheme is the way to avoid potential problems.…
Intel shuffles executive deckchairs, tosses 30-year veteran chief overboard
Intel’s CEO of Products, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, will leave the business, as part of the latest executive shake-up since CEO Lip Bu Tan seized the company's reins.…
WhatsApp's former security boss claims reporting infosec failings led to ousting
WhatsApp's former head of security, Attaullah Baig, has filed a lawsuit against its parent company, Meta, alleging that the social media megalith retaliated against him for reporting security failings that violated legal commitments.…
Chip designer SiFive aims to cram more RISC-V cores into AI chips
Every quarter, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is asked about the growing number of custom ASICs encroaching on his AI empire, and each time he downplays the threat, arguing that GPUs offer superior programmability in a rapidly changing environment.…
Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage'
The latest release candidate for Linux is out, but before its release, Linus Torvalds had something he wanted to get off his chest in his usual style.…
The US government has no idea how many cybersecurity pros it employs
The US federal government employs tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals at a cost of billions per year – or at least it thinks it does, as auditors have found the figures are incomplete and unreliable. …
Drift massive attack traced back to loose Salesloft GitHub account
The Salesloft Drift breach that compromised "hundreds" of companies including Google, Palo Alto Networks, and Cloudflare, all started with miscreants gaining access to the Salesloft GitHub account in March.…
Dev snared in crypto phishing net, 18 npm packages compromised
Crims have added backdoors to at least 18 npm packages after developer Josh Junon inadvertently authorized a reset of the two-factor authentication protecting his npm account.…
AI chip startup d-Matrix aspires to rack scale with JetStream I/O cards
AI chip startup d-Matrix is pushing into rack scale with the introduction of its JetStream I/O cards, which are designed to allow larger models to be distributed across multiple servers or even racks while minimizing performance bottlenecks.…
Salt Typhoon used dozens of domains, going back five years. Did you visit one?
Security researchers have uncovered dozens of domains used by Chinese espionage crew Salt Typhoon to gain stealthy, long-term access to victim organizations going back as far as 2020.…
Microsoft hits pause on Copilot ... in SQL Server Management Studio
Microsoft's policy of inserting Copilot into every corner of its portfolio is on brief hiatus, at least in the first preview of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22.…
Perplexity wants to get discounted AI products into the US government too
Perplexity has entered the race to inject AI into the federal government with a new public sector version of its AI search engine, another AI discount, and a pledge to start enforcing new security measures for government-related use, which weren't applied by default until now. …
Ubuntu users left waiting after Canonical's servers take weekend off
When is an outage not an outage? According to Canonical's forum, it's when a 36-minute server disruption creates a multi-day backlog that leaves users unable to install or update Ubuntu systems.…
French datacenter biz signs 12-year nuclear pact with EDF
The datacenter industry's unquenchable thirst for nuclear energy has seen French bit barn operator Data4 sign a 12 year supply deal with EDF.…
PACER buckles under MFA rollout as courts warn of support delays
US courts have warned of delays as PACER, the system for accessing court documents, struggles to support users enrolling in its mandatory MFA program.…
Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not
IBM-owned subsidiary Red Hat is docking a bunch of its back-office staff, along with the techies that support them, into the mothership.…
CISA sounds alarm over TP-Link wireless routers under attack
Infosec in brief The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has said two flaws in routers made by Chinese networking biz TP-Link are under active attack and need to be fixed – but there's another flaw being exploited as well.…
UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle
UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer cleared out the officials in charge of tech and digital law in a dramatic cabinet reshuffle at the weekend.…
Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban
Microsoft's tussle with UK-based reseller ValueLicensing over the sale of secondhand licenses returns to the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal this week, with the Windows behemoth now claiming that selling pre-owned Office and Windows software is unlawful.…