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Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions
The latest version of the messaging client from Mozilla subsidiary MZLA has a bunch of useful new features, and will get updated until mid 2026.…
Qantas begins telling some customers that mystery attackers have their home address
Qantas says that when cybercrooks attacked a "third party platform" used by the airline's contact center systems, they accessed the personal information and frequent flyer numbers of the "majority" of the circa 5.7 million people affected.…
ESA backs five rockets in Launcher Challenge – only some have exploded
Comment The European Space Agency (ESA) is pressing ahead with its European Launcher Challenge (ELC), and the good news is that three of the five pre-selected candidates have yet to explode anything in public.…
Ingram Micro restarts orders – for some – following ransomware attack
Ingram Micro says it is gradually reactivating customer's ordering capabilities across the world, region by region, now its ransomware attack is thought to be "contained".…
Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests
Privacy activists are unimpressed with London's Metropolitan Police and its use of live facial recognition (LFR) to catch criminals, saying it is not effective use of taxpayer money and an overreach by government.…
C-suite sours on AI despite rising investment, survey finds
Executives are losing faith in AI initiatives despite rising investment, according to a study conducted by consultancy Akkodis.…
Iranian ransomware crew reemerges, promises big bucks for attacks on US or Israel
An Iranian ransomware-as-a-service operation with ties to a government-backed cyber crew has reemerged after a nearly five-year hiatus, and is offering would-be cybercriminals cash to infect organizations in the US and Israel.…
Chipmaker GlobalFoundries acquires chip designer MIPS
GlobalFoundries has acquired chip design firm MIPS, creating a company that both designs and creates semiconductors.…
Samsung acquires Xealth to merge hospital records with data from wearables
Samsung has acquired US company Xealth to combine data drawn from its wearable devices and hospital records.…
Tim Cook's Tim Cook stepping down from Apple
Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is stepping down from his role next month and leaving the company later this year to spend more time with friends and family.…
Microsoft enjoys first Patch Tuesday of 2025 with no active exploits
For the first time this year, Microsoft has released a Patch Tuesday bundle with no exploited security problems, although one has been made public already, and there are ten critical flaws to fix.…
IBM boasts new Power11 chips are stingy on power usage
In case you'd forgotten, IBM is still blazing its own trail with regard to silicon. And in terms of speeds and feeds, Big Blue's latest crop of Power chips boasts up to 55 percent faster cores than its Power9 chips.…
Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth
Serial entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and currently acts as CEO of payments company Block, has released the source code for a peer-to-peer messaging app called bitchat that relies on Bluetooth for network connectivity.…
Army and Navy have both asked for right to repair, now Senators want to give it to them
A bipartisan pair of Senators is so happy with the US Army's right to repair policy that they want to enshrine it in federal law as the standard across military branches. …
Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users
A Chrome and Edge extension with more than 100,000 downloads that displays Google's verified badge does what it purports to do: It delivers a color picker to users. Unfortunately, it also hijacks every browser session, tracks activities across websites, and backdoors victims' web browsers, according to Koi Security researchers.…
Trump's budget bill opens wide swath of spectrum for sale
updated A provision in the new US budget bill opens a wide swath of spectrum for sale, including some that overlaps with frequencies currently allotted for private mobile networks and Wi-Fi 6E. …
Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry
Climate change could pose a threat to the technology industry as copper production is vulnerable to drought, while demand may grow to outstrip supply anyway.…
One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts
The US Congress has passed President Donald Trump's budget bill. In addition to the possibility of a Space Shuttle move, significant changes are on the way for NASA.…
Post Office and Fujitsu execs 'should have known' Horizon IT system was flawed
Senior Post Office staff – and those working for suppliers Fujitsu and ICL – knew or should have known about the defects causing errors in the Horizon system that contributed to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of branch workers, 13 of whom committed suicide, most probably as a result, according to the first volume of a government report into the computer scandal.…
The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience
Partner content Every organization is investing in cyberresilience tools, training, and processes. Unfortunately, only some of them will be able to successfully respond and recover from an attack. Regardless of how hard they work, many IT and security teams are constrained by legacy technology architectures that were built for the challenges of 2015, not 2025.…