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HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under IBM

Thu, 2025-06-05 08:30
Freshly acquired cloud darling talks mainframes, Ansible, and influencing Big Blue at HashiDays event

HashiCorp is now an IBM company, with one staffer remarking: "We're actually quite happy for it, most of us sitting in this room at least."…

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Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire

Thu, 2025-06-05 07:28
Water, water everywhere, but it would just make it worse

US Coast Guard and civilian vessels have rescued 22 sailors off the coast of Alaska after some of the electric cars they were transporting caught fire.…

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AI kept 15-year-old zombie vuln alive, but its time is drawing near

Thu, 2025-06-05 06:29
Researchers have come up with a fix for a path traversal bug first spotted in 2010

A security bug that surfaced fifteen years ago in a public post on GitHub has survived developers' attempts on its life.…

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Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia

Thu, 2025-06-05 05:35
Who can begrudge them? Maybe all of us if IP brokers send them to loose operators

Ukrainian telcos and ISPs have leased their IPv4 holdings to stay afloat during the nation’s war with Russia.…

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China accuses Taiwan of running five feeble APT gangs, with US help

Thu, 2025-06-05 04:49
The authors who claimed America hacked itself to discredit Beijing are back with another report

Beijing complains it’s under relentless attack by the equivalent of an ant trying to shake a tree China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center on Thursday published a report in which it claims Taiwan targeted it with a years-long but feeble cyber offensive, backed by the USA.…

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IBM Cloud login breaks for second time this week and Big Blue isn't saying why

Thu, 2025-06-05 02:32
To make matters worse, IBM's security software has a critical vuln caused by an exposed password

IBM isn’t having its best week after the company experienced another cloudy outage and a critical-rated vulnerability.…

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Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping content into the maw of its eternally ravenous AI

Thu, 2025-06-05 00:23
All the cool kids signed licensing deals with the recently-listed forum site

Reddit, the popular internet discussion forum, sued Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that the AI biz scraped content generated by its users in violation of contractual terms and technical barriers.…

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If it can’t double our money, we’re not building it, Intel Products chief says

Wed, 2025-06-04 23:59
New products must show potential for 50% gross margin to get the greenlight

Mounting losses and financial turmoil has Intel cutting the deadweight, an effort that won’t end with axing staff.…

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Play ransomware crims exploit SimpleHelp flaw in double-extortion schemes

Wed, 2025-06-04 23:40
Recompiled binaries and phone threats used to boost the pressure

Groups linked with the Play ransomware have exploited more than 900 organizations, the FBI said Wednesday, and have developed a number of new techniques in their double-extortion campaigns - including exploiting a security flaw in remote-access tool SimpleHelp if orgs haven't patched it.…

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GlobalFoundries commits $3B more to US fabs in Trump tariff flex

Wed, 2025-06-04 21:25
Silicon photonics and gallium nitride a major focus

GlobalFoundries plans to funnel another $3 billion into US semiconductor production, bringing its total investment to $16 billion, the New York-based foundry operator said on Wednesday.…

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Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack

Wed, 2025-06-04 20:53
Drones are not enough

Following a daring drone attack on Russian airfields, Ukrainian military intelligence has reportedly also hacked the servers of Tupolev, the Kremlin's strategic bomber maker.…

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US govt login portal could be one cyberattack away from collapse, say auditors

Wed, 2025-06-04 20:14
Login.gov hasn't shown its backup testing policy is working, GAO warns

The US government's Login.gov identity verification system could be one cyberattack, or just a routine IT hiccup, away from serious trouble, say auditors, because it hasn't shown its backup testing policy is actually in use or effective.…

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Ransomware scum leak patient data after disrupting chemo treatments at Kettering

Wed, 2025-06-04 19:42
Literally adding insult to injury

Kettering Health patients who had chemotherapy sessions and pre-surgery appointments canceled due to a ransomware attack in May now have to deal with the painful prospect that their personal info may have been leaked online.…

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60 years ago the US took its first walk in space with Gemini 4

Wed, 2025-06-04 17:31
Four years later, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon

It is 60 years since Ed White became the first American to float outside a spacecraft.…

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KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast'

Wed, 2025-06-04 16:59
Encourages move to Linux but, for goodness sake, RTFM first

Linux desktop darling KDE is weighing in on the controversy around the impending demise of Windows 10 support with a lurid "KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" campaign.…

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Trump tariff turmoil hurting global smartphone market, but hitting US hardest

Wed, 2025-06-04 16:24
Stale designs and market maturation aren't helping either, says Counterpoint Research

World War Fee The Trump administration's chaotic tariff regime is likely to have a serious impact on the smartphone market worldwide, but the latest forecasts predict the disruption will be felt most keenly in the one economy Trump is trying to protect: The United States. …

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Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns

Wed, 2025-06-04 15:05
Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors

A group of financially motivated cyberscammers who specialize in Scattered-Spider-like fake IT support phone calls managed to trick employees at about 20 organizations into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader that allows the crims to steal sensitive data.…

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Crims stole 40,000 people's data from our network, admits publisher Lee Enterprises

Wed, 2025-06-04 13:35
Did somebody say ransomware? Not the newspaper group, not even to deny it

Regional newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises says data belonging to around 40,000 people was stolen during an attack on its network earlier this year.…

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Please tell us Reg: Why are AI PC sales slower than expected?

Wed, 2025-06-04 12:36
Trump's on again off again tariffs, economic uncertainty, no vital apps and higher price tags

World War Fee PC makers were salivating at the prospect of AI notebooks driving up their margins yet it seems the price difference coupled with a lack of killer apps and the destabilizing influence of tariff talk means customer adoption is slower than expected.…

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Cops want Apple, Google to kill stolen phones remotely – so why won't they?

Wed, 2025-06-04 11:28
Tech giants say blocking stolen devices via IMEI could open new fraud risks

UK legislators are questioning why Apple and Google have yet to implement measures to allow smartphones to be locked, reset, and prevented from accessing cloud services after they've been stolen, as requested by police.…

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