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Second attack on McLaren Health Care in a year affects 743k people

Mon, 2025-06-23 15:48
Criminals targeted the hospital and physician network’s Detroit cancer clinic this time

McLaren Health Care is in the process of writing to 743,131 individuals now that it fully understands the impact of its July 2024 cyberattack.…

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Private equity types to snap up NoSQL biz Couchbase

Mon, 2025-06-23 15:02
$1.5 billion offered for database company valued at $1.2 billion four years ago

Document database company Couchbase is set to be bought by a private equity biz in all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion.…

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Breaking the nerd internet: Three overlapping generations of tech history – in one selfie

Mon, 2025-06-23 13:44
Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Dave Cutler have dinner

Sysinternals founder Mark Russinovich's after-dinner photo just flipped the nerd world into Kardashian-like levels of internet meltdown.…

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Wolfspeed to file for Chapter 11 in deal cutting 70% of debt

Mon, 2025-06-23 12:59
Power chip biz to hand over equity to lenders, wipe out most shareholders, and keep running during restructuring

Wolfspeed, maker of bandgap chips for power and radio frequency applications, is to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the "near future" after striking an agreement with creditors to cut its $6.5 billion debt by roughly 70 percent.…

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Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell

Mon, 2025-06-23 11:29
Cyber Monitoring Centre issues first severity assessment since February launch

Britain's Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of £270-440 million ($362-591 million).…

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Economists sceptical over UK Spending Review's partly AI-driven 10% budget cuts

Mon, 2025-06-23 10:00
MPs hear doubts over efficiency savings that are reliant on speculative gains from IT, machine learning

Leading economists have questioned how the UK government's Spending Review can determine exactly 10 percent cuts to admin budgets — partly powered by AI and digital transformation — across central departments when they are starting from different places and have different projects to manage.…

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The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world

Mon, 2025-06-23 08:33
Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off

Opinion The smaller the org, the better the jobs. Not universally true, but a good rule of thumb. Small organizations have fewer layers of management, and each individual has much more influence. One voice in 50 is 100 times louder than one in 5,000. You get to say what you want to do and get to do it. Happiness. …

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Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown

Mon, 2025-06-23 07:26
And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else

Who, Me? Welcome to another working week and therefore another installment of Who, Me? – The Register's reader-contributed column where you confess to making a mess and somehow find safe egress.…

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Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t

Mon, 2025-06-23 06:32
Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers

Huawei’s chairman Xu Zhijun – aka Eric Xu – has called out China’s enormous lead in fiber-to-the-room (FTTR) installations.…

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AI-hosted infomercial shifts $7.5 million worth of product in China

Mon, 2025-06-23 03:30
PLUS: India tries to untangle TXT marketing opt-ins; China’s AI crackdown succeeds; Australia and Boeing team AWACS, drones; and more!

Asia In Brief Chinese web giant Baidu last week staged a livestream hosted by an AI version of local influencer Yonghao Luo and scored 13 million hits and $7.5 million of sales.…

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Former US Army Sergeant pleads guilty after amateurish attempt at selling secrets to China

Mon, 2025-06-23 00:33
PLUS: 5.4M healthcare records leak; AI makes Spam harder to spot; Many nasty Linux vulns; and more

Infosec in brief A former US Army sergeant has admitted he attempted to sell classified data to China.…

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The AIpocalypse is here for web sites as search referrals plunge

Sun, 2025-06-22 10:14
Turn out the lights, the internet is over

Google AI Overviews and other AI search services appear to be starving the hand that fed them.…

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Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says

Sat, 2025-06-21 09:09
Skull emoji knife emoji moneybag emoji

Seven people, including a 14-year-old, have been arrested or surrendered to Danish authorities after allegedly using encrypted messaging apps to hire other teenagers for contract killings in what Europol calls a "violence-as-a-service" operation.…

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Netflix, Apple, BofA websites hijacked with fake help-desk numbers

Fri, 2025-06-20 21:10
Don’t trust mystery digits popping up in your search bar

Scammers are hijacking the search results of people needing 24/7 support from Apple, Bank of America, Facebook, HP, Microsoft, Netflix, and PayPal in an attempt to trick victims into handing over personal or financial info, according to Malwarebytes senior director of research Jérôme Segura.…

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New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers

Fri, 2025-06-20 20:38
Welcome to bill shock, AI style

Microsoft's GitHub this week said paying GitHub Copilot customers will now face monthly limits on certain types of high-powered AI requests, and will have to pay more if they want to surpass those limits.…

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US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it

Fri, 2025-06-20 18:59
'The selected vendor must be willing to receive consideration that is primarily non-monetary,' says the USPTO

The US Patent and Trademark Office is exploring a plan for using AI at the agency to speed up the process of granting patents - but its initial request for information says that vendors should expect to be paid in exposure rather than cold, hard cash.…

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EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons

Fri, 2025-06-20 18:15
DataFusion and WarehousePG meant to deal with AI-related workloads, not to compete with analytics data platforms

PostgreSQL exponent EDB has enhanced its new data platform, claiming this will help bring transactional, analytical, and AI workloads into a single environment.…

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Looks like Aflac is the latest insurance giant snagged in Scattered Spider’s web

Fri, 2025-06-20 17:55
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck...

Aflac is the latest insurance company to disclose a security breach following a string of others earlier this week, all of which appear to be part of Scattered Spider's most recent data theft campaign.…

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Qilin ransomware top dogs treat their minions to on-call lawyers for fierier negotiations

Fri, 2025-06-20 17:31
It's a marketing move to lure more affiliates, says infosec veteran

The latest marketing ploy from the ransomware crooks behind the Qilin operation involves offering affiliates access to a crack team of lawyers to ramp up pressure in ransom negotiations.…

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Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink

Fri, 2025-06-20 17:00
French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti

Satellite biz Eutelsat is looking to raise €1.35 billion ($1.55 billion) to grow its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network to take on Starlink and benefit from anticipated growth in demand for connectivity.…

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