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Two 'Scattered Spider' teens charged over attack on London’s transport network

Thu, 2025-09-18 13:00
Decisive action comes nearly a year after the attack and first arrest took place

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.…

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Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder

Thu, 2025-09-18 12:38
Dashboard loop caused API outage that was hard to troubleshoot

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.…

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Airbus flight left circling while Corsican controller caught some Zs

Thu, 2025-09-18 12:03
Wake-up call for dozed and confused chap who had to turn on runway lights

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.…

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Insight Partners confirms ransomware hit, more than 12,000 caught in data dragnet

Thu, 2025-09-18 11:25
VC giant rebuilt boxes, patched holes, and says it’s beefed up security – but won’t say who did it

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.…

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Panda-monium: China-backed cyber crew spoof Congressman to dig for dirt on US trade talks

Thu, 2025-09-18 10:30
Proofpoint spots efforts to spy on US economic policy nerds

Chinese state-aligned online attackers are back at it, targeting US trade policy wonks as Washington and Beijing spar over economic ties.…

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China's DeepSeek applying trial-and-error learning to its AI 'reasoning'

Thu, 2025-09-18 09:30
Model can also explain its answers, researchers find

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.…

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Microsoft weaves Oracle and BigQuery data mirroring into Fabric platform

Thu, 2025-09-18 09:00
And knits a graph DB out of LinkedIn cast-offs

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.…

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How and why Linux has thrived after three decades in Kernelland

Thu, 2025-09-18 08:15
'Just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU...'

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.…

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