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ServiceNow thinks you're doing AI fast and wrong

Tue, 2025-09-30 13:01
And of course thinks it can help you do it right, once it gets around to delivering

Three weeks after releasing one of its biannual platform upgrades, ServiceNow has started delivering an "AI Experience."…

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NASA's deep-space laser comms demo has left the chat

Tue, 2025-09-30 12:12
DSOC hit record speeds beaming data from Psyche before going dark

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) demonstration has completed its final pass, although there is a chance the system might be reactivated in the second half of 2026.…

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'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab

Tue, 2025-09-30 10:44
Projected £1.5M running costs balloon to £12M under new contracts

The UK government is set to see annual spending on a procurement portal designed to help save money increase by more than eight times compared to projected plans.…

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Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide

Tue, 2025-09-30 10:01
Met's Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year

The government is to encourage police forces across England and Wales to adopt live facial recognition (LFR) technology, with a minister praising its use by the London's Metropolitan Police in a suburb in the south of the city.…

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£5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run

Tue, 2025-09-30 09:31
Zhimin Qian recruited takeaway worker to launder funds through property overseas

London's Metropolitan Police has secured a "landmark conviction" following a record-busting Bitcoin seizure and seven-year investigation.…

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UK splurges £4.4M on drones, e-planes, and other flights of fancy

Tue, 2025-09-30 08:55
Taxpayer cash fuels 14 projects from NHS blood-hauling UAVs to posh eVTOL shuttles

The British government is splashing several million pounds on next-gen aviation projects to advance the use of unmanned aircraft for applications such as cargo delivery and infrastructure monitoring, as well as potential electric-powered light aircraft carrying passengers.…

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Healthcare lags in Windows 11 upgrades – and lives may depend on it

Tue, 2025-09-30 08:27
Most orgs still on Windows 10, so maybe don't get ill after October 14

Interview Enterprise plans for the end of Windows 10 should already be well underway, but some sectors are lagging, and there are other potential time bombs for administrators to worry about, according to asset management outfit Lansweeper.…

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Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers

Tue, 2025-09-30 07:45
Impact? Nope, don't worry, be happy, says Linux veteran

Opinion There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won't be much of an impact at all.…

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AI upstart aims to do what mere mortals can't: Make sense of Microsoft licensing

Tue, 2025-09-30 07:00
Thankfully, Onyx's model also knows when to defer to a human for advice

Interview It was inevitable that AI would be deployed to help enterprises navigate the labyrinth that is modern software licensing, given the myriad options available from the tech giants.…

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VMware bungles cloud management portal upgrade, twice in two weeks

Tue, 2025-09-30 05:29
Promises to get it right this coming weekend

VMware has bungled a portal upgrade project that aims to give its customers a superior experience when managing their clouds.…

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YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump 'censorship' case go away

Tue, 2025-09-30 02:51
Alphabet's vid-streamer will fund construction of a ballroom The Donald adores

YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to end the case brought by US president Donald Trump, who alleged the vid-streamer had infringed his freedom of speech.…

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Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments

Tue, 2025-09-30 00:16
The federal government's not the only thing shutting down on Oct. 1

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday will cut its ties to - and funding for -  the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost cybersecurity services to state and local governments.…

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California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car

Mon, 2025-09-29 23:57
Don't tell Elon, he'd have Tesla's Robotaxis going ludicrous speed

Police in a Silicon Valley suburb were flummoxed last weekend after pulling over a self-driving Waymo robo-taxi for making an illegal turn, then finding no driver they could issue with a ticket.…

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Whitebridge AI created false and alarming reputation reports, complaint alleges

Mon, 2025-09-29 23:22
Privacy group Noyb wants Lithuania to throw the GDPR book at 'em

Whitebridge AI, based in Lithuania, faces a privacy complaint for allegedly selling "reputation reports" based on unlawfully collected data and AI misinformation.…

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Your AI conversations are a secret new treasure trove for marketers

Mon, 2025-09-29 21:15
And they may not be seeking proper consent

ai-pocalypse Profound is a startup that promises to help companies understand how they appear in AI responses to customer queries. But one expert in the field thinks the AI analytics startup has been sucking up information on users' AI conversations without proper consent.…

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One line of malicious npm code led to massive Postmark email heist

Mon, 2025-09-29 20:44
MCP plus open source plus typosquatting equals trouble

A fake npm package posing as Postmark's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server silently stole potentially thousands of emails a day by adding a single line of code that secretly copied outgoing messages to an attacker-controlled address.…

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Asahi runs dry as online attackers take down Japanese brewer

Mon, 2025-09-29 20:42
No personal info gulped as yet, but don't call for help

Japan's largest brewery biz, Asahi, has shut down distribution systems following an online attack, and local drinkers will just have to make do with stocks as they stand.…

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FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again

Mon, 2025-09-29 20:14
Jet maker only gets to issue certs every other week, though, freeing up FAA inspectors to do more poking around

After years of relying on the FAA to certify its jets as airworthy, Boeing is finally going to be allowed to do so itself – sometimes. …

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Forget vibe coding - Microsoft wants to make vibe working the new hotness

Mon, 2025-09-29 19:44
Adds more Anthropic into the mix as Redmond hedges its bets

Microsoft is jumping on the vibe coding bandwagon with "vibe working," its name for adding AI agents to the online Office suite to help you complete your work.…

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Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst

Mon, 2025-09-29 18:16
Bubble, you say? OpenAI will borrow billions to pay Big Red, who will borrow billions on the hope OpenAI pays it

As part of its $300 billion cloud compute contract with OpenAI, Oracle may need to borrow roughly $100 billion over the next four years to build the datacenters required, according to KeyBanc's projections.…

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