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UK govt promises digital reform in spending review. We've heard that before
Opinion Today, the UK chief finance minister is set to detail government spending for the next three years and capital budgets for the next four. As the first multi-year spending review since 2021, it is a big deal.…
AI's the end of the Shell as we know it and I feel fine … but insecure
Column Generative AI is changing so rapidly, it’s hard to stay up to date, so I generally avoid the newest shiny thing until it becomes unavoidable.…
Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers
Lenovo has pulled a couple of European supercomputer wins out of the bag, one using Intel chips for Imperial College London and an AMD-based system for the European Institute of Oncology.…
CISO who helped unmask Badbox warns: Version 3 is coming
Badbox 2.0, the botnet that infected millions of smart TV boxes and connected devices before private security researchers and law enforcement partially disrupted its infrastructure, is readying for a third round of fraud and digital attacks, according to one of the threat hunters who uncovered the original scheme.…
Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome
Mozilla is concerned that Google's efforts to build Gemini into its Chrome browser will make it even more difficult for rivals to compete with the search and ads giant.…
Microsoft warns of 66 flaws to fix for this Patch Tuesday, and two are under active attack
Patch Tuesday It's Patch Tuesday time again, and Microsoft is warning that there are a bunch of critical fixes to sort out - and two actively exploited bugs.…
Cisco president says dredging coding syntax from wetware memory wastes engineers' expensive synapses
Cisco Live Cisco president Jeetu Patel wants the company’s engineers to halve the amount of code they write.…
Apple-Intel divorce to be final next year
Apple's macOS operating system will drop support for Intel chips next year, marking the end of a twenty-year relationship.…
Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub
We're less than a month away from the Trump administration's launch of an initiative to push AI across the entire federal government, based on a code repository eagle-eyed onlookers spotted on GitHub before it disappeared. …
Cisco Borgs all its management tools into a single Cloud Control console
Cisco Live There’s light at the end of the tunnel for netadmins tired of juggling multiple management consoles: Cisco announced it’s testing a tool called Cloud Control that will drive all its networking, security, and observability tools – and hopefully make the biz more relevant in the AI era.…
Tinfoil hat wearers can thank AI for declassification of JFK docs
AI has been a "game changer" for the intelligence community, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who noted two key applications of the technology for classified government work at the Amazon Web Services DC Summit on Tuesday.…
Texas warns 300,000 crash reports siphoned via compromised user account
The Texas Department of Transportation says a compromised user account was used to improperly download nearly 300,000 crash reports, exposing personal data that could be exploited for financial fraud against Lone Star drivers.…
Judge cites big OPM records leaks from 2015 in DOGE slapdown
The US federal government's HR department violated the law and bypassed its own cybersecurity safeguards by giving DOGE affiliates access to personnel records, a federal judge ruled Monday, issuing a preliminary injunction to halt further disclosures.…
Probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon increases
The chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon has increased, according to boffins making observations from the James Webb Space Telescope.…
Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire
The recently released Xlibre server aims to modernize the X.org X11 server and improve both its security and performance.…
Critical Wazuh bug exploited in growing Mirai botnet infection
Cybercriminals are trying to spread multiple Mirai variants by exploiting a critical Wazuh vulnerability, researchers say – the first reported active attacks since the code execution bug was disclosed.…
Google outfoxed by crafty squatters in $1B London HQ's rooftop garden
Over a billion dollars, a renowned architect, and more than a decade under construction haven't prevented Google being beaten to its new London digs by unexpected tenants – urban foxes.…
Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 Start Menu updates
The latest changes to Microsoft's Start Menu are being rolled out to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. However, users in the European Economic Area have a little longer to wait for the promised Android and IOS device integration.…
Trump guts digital ID rules, claims they help 'illegal aliens' commit fraud
President Donald Trump late Friday signed a cybersecurity-focused executive order that, in the White House's words, "amends problematic elements of Obama and Biden-era Executive Orders."…
ChatGPT users wake to find it's even more wrong, slower than usual
If you're having trouble getting ChatGPT to do your work for you this morning, you wouldn't be alone. It appears OpenAI services are experiencing a variety of issues.…