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2 charged over alleged New IRA terrorism activity linked to cops' spilled data
Two suspected New IRA members were arrested on Tuesday and charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 after they were found in possession of spreadsheets containing details of staff that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) mistakenly published online.…
Voda-Three name post-merger top team, keep schtum on layoffs
Vodafone and Three have detailed the exec line-up taking the reins of post-merger UK biz, yet there is no word on when the deal will close, what name it will take, or how many staff face the chop to cut role duplication.…
Watchdog ponders why Apple doesn't apply its strict app tracking rules to itself
Apple is feeling the heat over its acclaimed iPhone privacy policy after a German regulator's review of iOS tracking consent alleged that the tech giant exempted itself from the rules it enforces on third-party developers.…
Techie cleaned up criminally bad tech support that was probably also an actual crime
On Call If it's Friday, it's time for another edition of On Call, our reader contributed column in which you tell tales of crimes against tech support.…
HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive
HPE has fired back at the US Department of Justice’s objection to its takeover of Juniper Networks, with arguments that include an assertion that blocking the deal will benefit Huawei and therefore have national security implications.…
Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal
Chinese AI continued to march onto the world stage this week, with Alibaba and Baidu both taking major strides.…
Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit
Demonstrating yet again that uncritically trusting the output of generative AI is dangerous, attorneys involved in a product liability lawsuit have apologized to the presiding judge for submitting documents that cite non-existent legal cases.…
Chinese spies suspected of 'moonlighting' as tawdry ransomware crooks
A crew identified as a Chinese government-backed espionage group appears to have started moonlighting as a ransomware player – further evidence that lines are blurring between nation-state cyberspies and financially motivated cybercriminals.…
After clash over Rust in Linux, now Asahi lead quits distro, slams Torvalds' leadership
Hector Martin, project lead of Asahi Linux, resigned that project early Friday, Japan Standard Time, citing developer burnout, demanding users, and Linus Torvalds's handling of the integration of Rust code into the open source kernel.…
Reddit’s first public year shows growth, but Wall Street’s still not happy
Reddit's first year as a public company delivered solid results by most earnings metrics, but try telling that to Wall Street: Falling short on one key growth target sent shares tumbling despite an otherwise upbeat year-end report.…
More victims of China's Salt Typhoon crew emerge: Telcos just now hit via Cisco bugs
China's Salt Typhoon spy crew exploited vulnerabilities in Cisco devices to compromise at least seven devices linked to global telecom providers and other orgs, in addition to its previous victim count.…
Analysts welcome ACID transactions on real-time distributed Aerospike
With its 8.0 release, distributed multi-model database Aerospike has added ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications in a move it claims is an industry first.…
US lawmakers press Trump admin to oppose UK's order for Apple iCloud backdoor
US lawmakers want newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to back up her tough talk on backdoors. They're urging her to push back on the UK government's reported order for Apple to weaken iCloud security for government access.…
WD told to pay half a billion in patent damages before company splits
Western Digital has less than a week to file a bond or stump up the $553 million it owes in a patent infringement case, after a federal judge on Tuesday denied the company a stay of execution while it tries to get the ruling overturned.…
SAP snared in revenue trap unless it extends legacy ERP support
In the sizeable global ERP market, SAP's biggest threat is not some other software giant like Oracle. It is its own legacy software supported by other vendors.…
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be
Google may be the latest big tech corporation to scale back diversity, equity, and inclusion programs – but Arm, HPE, and Apple are going against the current direction of travel in their hiring and training policies.…
North Korea targets crypto developers via NPM supply chain attack
North Korea has changed tack: its latest campaign targets the NPM registry and owners of Exodus and Atomic cryptocurrency wallets.…
Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel
It isn't often that a decades-old assumption underpinning modern technology is overturned, but a recent paper based on the work of an undergraduate and his two co-authors has done just that.…
LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
FOSDEM 2025 LibreOffice is a big, mature chunk of code now, but that doesn't make it impossible to teach it impressive new tricks. Some of them could make it more important than ever.…
Insurance giant finds claims rep that gives a damn (it's AI)
It doesn't sleep, it doesn't eat, and it doesn't get sick of dealing with incompetent customers.…