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Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware
A Dutch appeals court has kept a seven-year prison sentence in place for a man who hacked port IT systems with malware-stuffed USB sticks to help cocaine smugglers move containers, brushing off claims that police shouldn't have been reading his encrypted chats.…
Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data
From the "there but for the grace of God" department comes a new website to find affordable housing in London containing data it shouldn't.…
Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board
Birmingham City Council has pushed back the relaunch of its troubled Oracle Fusion ERP system, saying staff need more time to adapt to the vendor's standard processes.…
Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back
The British government is asking defense firms to rapidly produce a new ground-launched ballistic missile to aid Ukraine's fight against Russia - hardware that might also be adopted by UK's armed forces in future.…
Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott
Fujitsu has won a place on a UK government framework despite its commitment not to compete for new public sector contracts during the ongoing inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal.…
Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows
Software developers have created a PowerShell script to remove AI features from Windows.…
Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware
Lenovo has a hunch that some of you are about to shift to a different hypervisor and has created hardware to make the move easier.…
India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove they’re real
India’s government has updated the regulations it imposes on cryptocurrency services providers, as part of its efforts to combat fraud, money laundering, and terrorism.…
No fire sale for firewalls as memory shortages could push prices higher
PCs and datacenters aren't the only devices that need DRAM. The global memory shortage is roiling the cybersecurity market, with the cost of firewalls expected to balloon and hit both customers and vendors in the pocketbook in 2026, according to research analysts Wedbush.…
'Violence-as-a-service' suspect arrested in Iraq, extradition underway
A 21-year-old Swedish man accused of being a key organizer of violence-as-a-service linked to the Foxtrot criminal network, which police say has recruited and exploited minors, has been arrested in Iraq.…
Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters
Meta has formed a new initiative called “Meta Compute” to oversee the planning, deployment, and operations of its growing fleet of AI datacenters.…
Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote
Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn't learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams based on what disk you insert. …