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Kaseya CEO: Why AI adoption is below industry expectations

Thu, 2025-06-26 12:45
Business data is fragmented and change management is hard

Interview Adoption of generative AI for enterprise customers isn't taking off in the manner many in the industry expected – and there are major obstacles in the way, according to Rania Succar, recently appointed CEO at Kaseya.…

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Glasgow City Council online services crippled following cyberattack

Thu, 2025-06-26 12:01
Nothing confirmed but authority is operating under the assumption that data has been stolen

A cyberattack on Glasgow City Council is causing massive disruption with a slew of its digital services unavailable.…

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Qilin ransomware attack on NHS supplier contributed to patient fatality

Thu, 2025-06-26 11:02
Pathology outage caused by Synnovis breach linked to harm across dozens of healthcare facilities

The NHS says Qilin's ransomware attack on pathology services provider Synnovis last year led to the death of a patient.…

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OpenDylan sheds some parentheses in 2025.1 update

Thu, 2025-06-26 10:14
Apple's advanced next-generation Lisp is still being maintained as FOSS

OpenDylan is a Lisp without all the parentheses – just as John McCarthy originally intended for LISP-2.…

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UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers

Thu, 2025-06-26 09:14
Aircraft meant to bolster NATO deterrent will rely on allied support to stay airborne

The UK government is to buy 12 F-35A fighters capable of carrying nuclear weapons as part of the NATO deterrent, but there's a snag: the new jets are incompatible with the RAF's refueling tanker aircraft.…

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Frozen supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech

Thu, 2025-06-26 08:30
Privacy campaigner brands Iceland's use of 'Orwellian' camera tech 'chilling,' CEO responds: 'It'll cut violent crime'

Privacy campaigners are branding frozen food retailer Iceland's decision to trial facial recognition technology (FRT) at several stores "chilling" – the UK supermarket chain says it's deploying the cameras to cut down on crime.…

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Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds

Thu, 2025-06-26 07:36
Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out

Five popular AI models all show signs of bias toward viewpoints promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, and censor material it finds distasteful, according to a new report.…

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That WhatsApp from an Israeli infosec expert could be a Iranian phish

Thu, 2025-06-26 06:28
Charming Kitten unsheathes its claws and tries to catch credentials

The cyber-ops arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has started a spear-phishing campaign intent on stealing credentials from Israeli journalists, cybersecurity experts, and computer science professors from leading Israeli universities.…

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French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools

Thu, 2025-06-26 05:30
Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice

The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft’s Office suite and plans to adopt Linux and PostgreSQL.…

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Japanese company using mee-AI-ow to detect stressed cats

Thu, 2025-06-26 03:31
Rabo’s ‘Catlog’ smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app

A Japanese company called Rabo that makes a smart collar for cats and uses the motto “Because nine lives are never enough” has started using AI to monitor feline stress levels.…

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ICANN writes angry letter to African regional internet registry after election suspended

Thu, 2025-06-26 00:30
The group in charge of IP addresses for 54 countries hasn't had a board since 2022

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers (ICANN) has demanded the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) explain why the nomination committee overseeing its board elections suspended voting, or face disciplinary action.…

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Intel totals automotive group

Wed, 2025-06-25 22:42
Lip-Bu Tan calls in the crusher

Intel is shuttering its automotive efforts and laying off the bulk of the team responsible.…

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Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore

Wed, 2025-06-25 22:04
Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free

The US State Department last week said foreign nationals seeking to study in the US must make their social media profiles public, prompting some students to delete their social media posts.…

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Citrix bleeds again: This time a zero-day exploited - patch now

Wed, 2025-06-25 21:10
Two emergency patches issued in two weeks

Hot on the heels of patching a critical bug in Citrix-owned Netscaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that one security researcher dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," the embattled networking device vendor today issued an emergency patch for yet another super-serious flaw in the same products — but not before criminals found and exploited it as a zero-day.…

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Rack-scale networks are the new hotness for massive AI training and inference workloads

Wed, 2025-06-25 19:32
Terabytes per second of bandwidth, miles of copper cabling, all crammed into the back of a single rack

Analysis If you thought AI networks weren't complicated enough, the rise of rack-scale architectures from the likes of Nvidia, AMD, and soon Intel has introduced a new layer of complexity.…

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Amazon's Ring can now use AI to 'learn the routines of your residence'

Wed, 2025-06-25 19:02
It's meant to cut down on false positives but could be a trove for mischief-makers

Ring doorbells and cameras are using AI to "learn the routines of your residence," via a new feature called Video Descriptions.…

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Cosmoe: New C++ toolkit for building native Wayland apps

Wed, 2025-06-25 18:24
New UI library has 23 years of history – and unexpected roots

Cosmoe is a modern C++ UI library, but it's also a new iteration of a project with roots in one of the most elegant GUIs ever written.…

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Computer vision research feeds surveillance tech as patent links spike 5×

Wed, 2025-06-25 17:55
A bottomless appetite for tracking people as "objects"

A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.…

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Supply chain attacks surge with orgs 'flying blind' about dependencies

Wed, 2025-06-25 17:36
Who is the third party that does the thing in our thing? Yep. Attacks explode over past year

The vast majority of global businesses are handling at least one material supply chain attack per year, but very few are doing enough to counter the growing threat.…

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Three goes to zero as UK mobile provider suffers voice and text outage

Wed, 2025-06-25 16:32
Millions of customers left speechless

Britain's Three mobile network has suffered a major outage, with voice calls out of action and limitations on texting.…

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