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Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried

Tue, 2025-12-23 00:09
25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has created a Special Task Force to investigate the failed launch of its H3 rocket on Monday.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

Mon, 2025-12-22 22:04
And it's especially dangerous because the code works

A malicious npm package with more than 56,000 downloads masquerades as a working WhatsApp Web API library, and then it steals messages, harvests credentials and contacts, and hijacks users' WhatsApp accounts.…

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Palo Alto's new Google Cloud deal boosts AI integration, could save on cloud costs

Mon, 2025-12-22 21:19
SEC filings show the outfit cut projected 2027 cloud purchase commitments by $114M

Security vendor Palo Alto Networks is expanding its Google Cloud partnership, saying it will move "key internal workloads" onto the Chocolate Factory's infrastructure. The outfit also claims it is tightening integrations between its security tools and Google Cloud to deliver what it calls a "unified" security experience. At the same time, Palo Alto may trim its own cloud purchase commitments.…

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SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year

Mon, 2025-12-22 20:28
Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list

Japanese tech investment giant SoftBank needs to secure $22.5 billion before the end of the year to make good on its commitments to AI partner OpenAI.…

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Spy turned startup CEO: 'The WannaCry of AI will happen'

Mon, 2025-12-22 19:39
Ah, the good old days when 0-day development took a year

Interview "In my past life, it would take us 360 days to develop an amazing zero day," Zafran Security CEO Sanaz Yashar said.…

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Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China

Mon, 2025-12-22 17:49
Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing

Now that it can legally export them, Nvidia has reportedly informed its Chinese customers that it'll begin shipping H200s, one of its most potent graphics accelerators for AI training and inference, in time for Chinese New Year. One caveat: Beijing could spike the deal before then.…

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Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

Mon, 2025-12-22 17:24
Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post

What would happen to the world's music collections if streaming services disappeared? One hacktivist group says it has a solution: scrape around 300 terabytes of music and metadata from Spotify and offer it up for free as what it calls the world’s first “fully open” music preservation archive.…

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Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim

Mon, 2025-12-22 16:37
Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK

The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says a fraudster who claimed to be part of MI6 must repay £125,000 ($168,000) to a former love interest that he conned.…

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What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Mon, 2025-12-22 15:35
Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card

Opinion I've run Linux desktops since the big interface question was whether to use Korn or Bash for your shell. Before that, I'd used Unix desktops such as Visix Looking Glass, Sun OpenWindows, and SCO's infamous Open Deathtrap Desktop.…

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EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031

Mon, 2025-12-22 14:35
Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics

The EU has extended its adequacy decision, allowing data sharing with and from the UK under the General Data Protection Regulation for at least six more years.…

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Vultures rake our claws over COSMIC as Pop OS 24.04 LTS with 'Epoch 1' emerges

Mon, 2025-12-22 14:01
Even with the latest Gparted Live, it's not easy to dual boot – but it's worth the hassle

Hands On It's been a long time coming but version 1.0 of the first ground-up Rust-based desktop is here… and it is shaping up very well.…

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