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Two 'Scattered Spider' teens charged over attack on London’s transport network
Two teenagers are set to appear in court today after being charged with offences related to the cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) in August 2024.…
Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder
Cloudflare has confessed to a coding error using a React useEffect hook, notorious for being problematic if not handled carefully, that caused an outage for the platform's dashboard and many of its APIs.…
Airbus flight left circling while Corsican controller caught some Zs
In the high-stress and safety-critical world of air traffic control, "don't fall asleep" probably comes pretty far toward the top of the rule book, and yet that's apparently the reason for the landing delay of an Air Corsica Airbus A320 this week.…
Insight Partners confirms ransomware hit, more than 12,000 caught in data dragnet
Venture capital giant Insight Partners has confirmed that a January ransomware attack compromised the personal data of more than 12,000 people, including employees, former staff, and the firm's usually-secretive limited partners.…
Panda-monium: China-backed cyber crew spoof Congressman to dig for dirt on US trade talks
Chinese state-aligned online attackers are back at it, targeting US trade policy wonks as Washington and Beijing spar over economic ties.…
China's DeepSeek applying trial-and-error learning to its AI 'reasoning'
Chinese AI company DeepSeek has shown it can improve the reasoning of its LLM DeepSeek-R1 through trial-and-error based reinforcement learning, and even be made to explain its reasoning on math and coding problems, even though explanations might sometimes be unintelligible.…
Microsoft weaves Oracle and BigQuery data mirroring into Fabric platform
Microsoft is extending its Fabric cloud-based data platform by including Oracle and Google's BigQuery data warehouse in its mirroring capability, and launching a new graph database based on an in-house LinkedIn project.…
How and why Linux has thrived after three decades in Kernelland
Open Source Summit At OSS EU, LWN editor and long-time kernel developer Jonathan Corbet shared a long-term perspective on how and why Linux has thrived for a third of a century.…