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WordPress war latest: Ploy to trademark Hosted WordPress, Managed WordPress derailed
The WordPress Foundation's effort to trademark the terms HOSTED WORDPRESS and MANAGED WORDPRESS has been thwarted, for now, following a petition from a dissenting member of the open source WordPress community.…
Mysterious Palo Alto firewall reboots? You're not alone
Administrators of Palo Alto Networks' firewalls have complained the equipment falls over unexpectedly, and while a fix has bee prepared, it's not yet generally available.…
Cisco says it’s already dug in to protect itself – and customers – if trade war breaks out
Cisco has prepared for trade war and thinks it can ride things out by reconfiguring its supply chain if that becomes necessary.…
Have I Been Pwned likely to ban resellers from buying subs, citing ‘shitty behavior’ and onerous support requests
Troy Hunt, proprietor of data breach lookup site Have I Been Pwned, is likely to ban resellers from the service.…
Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow vulnerabilities
US authorities have labelled buffer overflow vulnerabilities "unforgivable defects”, pointed to the presence of the holes in products from the likes of Microsoft and VMware, and urged all software developers to adopt secure-by-design practices to avoid creating more of them.…
Sophos sheds 6% of staff after swallowing Secureworks
Nine days after completing its $859 million acquisition of managed detection and response provider Secureworks, Sophos has laid off around six percent of its staff.…
Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including people's DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study
If governments want AI to improve services and security for their citizens, then they need to put all their information in one place – even citizens’ genomic data – according to Larry Ellison, the Oracle database tycoon.…
IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI
IBM has begun what a source describes as a soft layoff for its Finance & Operations business unit, in the form of a return-to-office (RTO) order.…
Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber
President Trump has reportedly chosen a candidate for National Cyber Director — another top tech appointee with no professional experience in that role.…
Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un
An Arizona woman who created a "laptop farm" in her home to help fake IT workers pose as US-based employees has pleaded guilty in a scheme that generated over $17 million for herself... and North Korea.…
Ransomware isn't always about the money: Government spies have objectives, too
Feature Ransomware gangsters and state-sponsored online spies fall on opposite ends of the cyber-crime spectrum.…
DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech
After several years of lab-testing ideas for orbital manufacturing technology, the US Department of Defense's research arm has decided to head into orbit for the latest round of experiments. …
Russia's Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs
An initial-access subgroup of Russia's Sandworm last year wriggled its way into networks within the US, UK, Canada and Australia, stealing credentials and data from "a limited number of organizations," according to Microsoft.…
James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to be pointed at asteroid 2024 YR4 to reduce uncertainty regarding the chances of the object impacting Earth in the coming years.…
Running hot? Server shipments forecast to cool in 2025
US tech sanctions and supply chain readiness for racks of Nvidia's latest gear will likely cause AI server sales to cool-off in 2025.…
SpaceX Crew Dragons swapped so ISS crew can go home early
The crew of the Boeing Starliner test mission is set to return to Earth ahead of schedule after managers decided to swap the Crew Dragon originally planned for the Axiom-4 flight with Crew-10.…
Crimelords and spies for rogue states are working together, says Google
Google says the the world's lawmakers must take action against the increasing links between criminal and state-sponsored cyber activity.…
EU plans to 'mobilize' €200B to invest in AI to catch up with US and China
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will top up a continental AI push to hit €200 billion ($207 billion).…
Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP
By 2030, 40 percent of SAP customers currently using its legacy ERP systems will still not have migrated to the latest software, prompting the business apps giant to rethink its support deadline.…
UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant
The British government is pressing ahead with "AI Growth Zones" amid fears the rush to build datacenters to power AI could backfire and leave the countryside littered with expensive high-tech "white elephants."…