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If you thought China's Salt Typhoon was booted off critical networks, think again
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.…
Online property ad reveals looted Nazi war art, triggers police raid
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.…
Japan exploring whether AI could help inspect its nuclear power plants
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has requested extra funds to experiment with AI-powered nuclear plant inspectors.…
ChatGPT hates LA Chargers fans
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.…
AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war
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.…
VMware tweaked software licenses for submarines
VMware has tweaked its software licensing so submarines can keep their computers running when they’re beneath the waves.…
Nvidia details its itty bitty GB10 superchip for local AI development
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.…
Sting nails two front firms in Nork IT worker scam
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.…
Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise
comment Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud.…
Windows Backup for Organizations doesn't actually save data files
Microsoft continues to take what's familiar to ordinary users and offer it to enterprises. The latest functionality is Windows Backup for Organizations.…
Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev
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.…
Word to autosave new docs to the cloud before you can even hit Ctrl+S
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.…
Bun JS toolkit adds MySQL driver, secrets API, YAML, and more
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.…
Nx NPM packages poisoned in AI-assisted supply chain attack
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.…
Uncle Sam throws AI 'chili cook-off' to spice up healthcare fraud detection
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.…
The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams
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.…
Taiwan indicts three over alleged theft of TSMC trade secrets
Taiwanese prosecutors have charged three people over the alleged theft of TSMC's trade secrets.…
Classic Psion fan releases proof-of-concept language server for OPL
Vintage computing enthusiast Colin Hoad has released a gift to anyone who fondly remembers Psion's classic EPOC-based palmtops and their Open Programming Language (OPL): a language server which brings modern quality-of-life features to the OPL programmer, regardless of their development environment.…
Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so'
Interview European cloud provider OVHcloud has long warned about the risks of relying on foreign tech giants for critical infrastructure – especially when it comes to data sovereignty.…
GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist
The latest release of GhostBSD, an easy graphical FreeBSD distribution, includes a brand new macOS-like desktop environment, "Gershwin."…