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Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app

Thu, 2025-07-10 23:58
Oh my sweet secret informant lover, what happened in that NATO meeting today?

A lovestruck US Air Force employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit confidential national defense information after sharing military secrets information about the Russia-Ukraine war with a woman he met on a dating app.…

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Now everybody but Citrix agrees that CitrixBleed 2 is under exploit

Thu, 2025-07-10 22:13
Add CISA to the list

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added its weighty name to the list of parties agreeing that CVE-2025-5777, dubbed CitrixBleed 2 by one researcher, has been under exploitation and abused to hijack user sessions.…

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Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about time

Thu, 2025-07-10 21:49
Not even in the top 10, CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly tells employees

Comment Pat Gelsinger's tenure as Intel's chief executive was epitomized by his unwavering optimism and ambitious plan to return the ailing chipmaker to its former glory. His successor has no such delusions of grandeur.…

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Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed

Thu, 2025-07-10 20:58
It could have the same headcount as 1960 by the end of the month

NASA senior staff are being offered the opportunity to leave voluntarily before the axes start swinging, and it seems likely that thousands will take the escape hatch.…

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Ex-ASML engineer who stole chip tech for Russia gets three years in Dutch prison

Thu, 2025-07-10 20:29
'Whether those files were allowed to go to Russia? I didn't ask'

A former ASML and NXP semiconductor engineer will spend three years in a Dutch prison after stealing secret chip technology from his employers and sharing it with Russia.…

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IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center

Thu, 2025-07-10 20:00
Company mum on whether the site will be shuttered

IBM, which employees say stands for "I've Been Moved" due to frequent relocation directives, is moving research scientists from its Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, to its Silicon Valley Lab a few miles east.…

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EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law

Thu, 2025-07-10 19:25
A new code aims to make it easy to figure out

The EU has a new set of AI regulations poised to take effect soon. While debate over them continues, Brussels has put out a handy guidebook to help companies make sense of what they can and cannot do. …

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Slow down on building power plants for all those new AI datacenters, report warns

Thu, 2025-07-10 18:39
Projections are likely exaggerated, a new analysis from an environmental group says

Datacenters are slurping ever more energy to meet the growing demands of AI, but some estimates of future demand imply an increase in hardware that would be beyond the capacity of global chipmakers to supply, according to an environmental nonprofit.…

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Please don't cut funds for space traffic control, industry begs Congress

Thu, 2025-07-10 18:01
TraCSS is like an FAA for space, and it's slated for the chopping block

Space industry bigwigs have sent letters to Congressional leaders urging them not to eliminate funding for preventing space collisions, as requested in a budget proposal for FY 2026. …

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Red Hat sweetens the RHEL deal for biz devs – just don't put it in prod

Thu, 2025-07-10 17:32
Up to 25 instances for free, but only to play with

IBM's Linux subsidiary is offering a new way to get RHEL without paying, now with up to 25 instances.…

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Firebase Studio's new Agent Mode wants to code so you don't have to

Thu, 2025-07-10 16:28
Gemini CLI integration is nice, but there's little polish in building apps from prompts

Google today unveiled updates to Firebase Studio at its Cloud Summit event in London, adding Gemini command-line interface (CLI) integration, initial Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, and "Agent Mode."…

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Russia, hotbed of cybercrime, says nyet to ethical hacking bill

Thu, 2025-07-10 15:15
Politicians uneasy over potential impact on national security, local reports say

Russia, home to some of the world's most lucrative and damaging cybercrime operations, has rejected a bill to legalize ethical hacking.…

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Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax

Thu, 2025-07-10 14:28
Shipments in America flat, surge across ROTW ahead of Win 10 support cutoff

Tariff uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump still hangs over the PC industry despite manufacturers navigating a "complex regulatory maze" to avoid being in the firing line over import taxes when the shooting begins.…

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Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion

Thu, 2025-07-10 13:17
'I don't think there's a spare megawatt sitting anywhere idle in all of Europe, or the US, as a matter of fact'

Microsoft intends to more than double its European datacenter capacity by 2027, but suspects this won't be easy because of all the red tape and environmental safeguards it faces.…

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Former reality TV star appointed NASA Interim Administrator

Thu, 2025-07-10 12:19
Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge?

NASA has a new interim Administrator. US President Donald Trump has announced that former reality TV star and current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be taking on the role.…

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NCA arrests four in connection with UK retail ransomware attacks

Thu, 2025-07-10 11:33
Crimefighting agency cagey on details, probes into intrusions at M&S, Harrods, and Co-op continue

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four individuals suspected of being involved with the big three cyberattacks on UK retail businesses in recent weeks.…

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Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud keeps AI data in UK, but not the support

Thu, 2025-07-10 10:45
Processing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in Blighty

Google Cloud is attempting to ease concerns about where AI data is stored by offering organizations the option to keep Gemini 2.5 Flash machine learning processing entirely within the UK.…

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Outlook takes another sick day – Microsoft says it'll get better soon, promise

Thu, 2025-07-10 10:02
12 hours, millions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamed

Microsoft Outlook is down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the past 11 hours.…

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Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform

Thu, 2025-07-10 08:29
Controversial system requires local NHS investment to maximize productivity

The benefits of the UK health sector's Palantir-powered data and analytics system are being suppressed by the limits of writing back to NHS software, MPs heard this week.…

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At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto

Thu, 2025-07-10 07:27
Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automation

Using AI models to generate exploits for cryptocurrency contract flaws appears to be a promising business model, though not necessarily a legal one.…

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