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China moves to extend control over tech industry's critical rare earths
China is hitting back at US export restrictions with some of its own, tightening its control on so-called rare earth minerals and introducing laws that require companies to get licenses before they can ship goods containing rare earths, even those made outside of the country.…
Windows 11 gets a fresh Start in latest Canary build
It's taken a while, but Microsoft has finally made its redesigned Start menu available to Canary Channel Windows Insiders, while also removing .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 as a Feature On Demand, and adding Edit, the command-line text editor.…
Kubernetes kicks down Azure Front Door
If you struggled to access the Azure Portal or Microsoft Entra this morning, you weren't alone – Microsoft has blamed a Kubernetes crash for the outage.…
Clearview AI sees red as UK tribunal sides with regulator over $10M GDPR fine
The UK General Regulatory Chamber's Upper Tribunal (UT) has ruled in favor of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which appealed against a 2023 decision that it could not fine Clearview AI over GDPR violations.…
SonicWall breach hits every cloud backup customer after 5% claim goes up in smoke
SonicWall has admitted that all customers who used its cloud backup service to store firewall configuration files were affected by a cybersecurity incident first disclosed in mid-September, walking back earlier assurances that only a small fraction of users were impacted.…
Intel's open source future in question as exec says he's done carrying the competition
Over the years, Intel has established itself as a paragon of the open source community, but that could soon change under the x86 giant's new leadership. …
Panther Lake sets stage for Intel's 2 nm comeback, but many details still TBD
Intel has begun clawing back production from TSMC with the introduction of its Panther Lake processors, the company's first chip based on its long-awaited 18A process tech.…
SoftBank snaps up ABB's robotics biz for $5.4B to fuel 'physical AI' dreams
SoftBank Group has added more arms to its portfolio, this time of the robotic kind.…
Nextcloud withdraws European Commission OneDrive bundling complaint
Nextcloud has withdrawn a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission over OneDrive bundling, citing a lack of progress with the governing body.…
Hundreds of millions of business PCs are still on Windows 10 as D-Day nears
With days to go before Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 support, there are hundreds of millions of computers that have yet to upgrade to Windows 11, despite the best efforts of hardware manufacturers and the operating system's marketers.…
Zero-day lets nation-state spies cross-examine elite US law firm Williams & Connolly
Washington's elite law firm Williams & Connolly has confirmed that attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability to access a handful of attorney email accounts in what it believes was a nation-state-linked cyberattack.…
McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits
Software vendors keen to monetize AI should tread cautiously, since they risk inflating costs for their customers without delivering any promised benefits such as reducing employee head count.…
Hobble your AI agents to prevent them from hurting you too badly
Michael Bargury, CTO of AI security company Zenity, welcomed attendees to the company's AI Agent Security Summit on Wednesday with an unexpected admission.…
CoreWeave bets on serverless agent builder to woo penny-pinching enterprises
Rent-a-GPU outfit CoreWeave continued its push into the AI services arena on Wednesday with the introduction of a platform that aims to make reinforcement learning more accessible to enterprise customers.…
3 more infamous cybercrime crews team up to 'maximize income' in 'challenging' ransomware biz
Following in the footsteps of an earlier unholy alliance between three other cybercrime crews, ransomware-as-a-service giants DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit claim to be collaborating on ransomware attacks. …
The price is wrong! California goes Bob Barker on algorithmic price rigging
California companies that use algorithms to fix the prices of their products and services could now face stiff antitrust penalties if they continue to do so. …
Cisco’s new router unites disparate datacenters into AI training behemoths
Cisco has unveiled a new routing ASIC designed to help bit barn operators overcome power and capacity constraints by stitching together their existing datacenters into a single unified compute cluster.…
Mars’ powerful whirlwinds blow dust everywhere, could affect future missions
Mars is windier than thought, according to research into decades of data from European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, and that has implications for missions to the red planet.…
AI gets more 'meh' as you get to know it better, researchers discover
AI hype is colliding with reality yet again. Wiley's global survey of researchers finds more of them using the tech than ever, and fewer convinced it's up to the job.…
Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort
Salesforce won't pay a ransom demand to criminals who claim to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records and are threatening to leak the data if the CRM giant doesn't pony up some cash.…