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Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware

Tue, 2026-01-13 12:10
Dutchman fails to convince judges his trial was unfair because cops read his encrypted chats

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.…

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Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data

Tue, 2026-01-13 11:47
Yes, London property prices are high. But here's a picture of Boris Johnson

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.…

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Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board

Tue, 2026-01-13 11:00
Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster

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.…

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Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back

Tue, 2026-01-13 10:15
Project Nightfall aims to deliver a UK-built long-range strike capability at speed

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.…

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Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott

Tue, 2026-01-13 09:29
Turns out the voluntary pledge to restrict public sector tendering during Horizon scandal inquiry has loopholes

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.…

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Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows

Tue, 2026-01-13 07:23
Satya Nadella's call to accept and embrace desktop brainboxes faces skepticism

Software developers have created a PowerShell script to remove AI features from Windows.…

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Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware

Tue, 2026-01-13 05:48
Tweaks its hardware to run multiple private cloud stacks, and shift between them

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.…

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India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove they’re real

Tue, 2026-01-13 02:48
Government is fed up with bad actors using digi-cash to fund dodgy deeds

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.…

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No fire sale for firewalls as memory shortages could push prices higher

Mon, 2026-01-12 22:41
In SEC filings, Fortinet and Palo Alto show shrinking product margins taking hold.

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.…

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'Violence-as-a-service' suspect arrested in Iraq, extradition underway

Mon, 2026-01-12 22:40
Gang members 'systematically exploited children and young people,' cops say

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.…

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Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters

Mon, 2026-01-12 22:21
No wonder he's going nuclear

Meta has formed a new initiative called “Meta Compute” to oversee the planning, deployment, and operations of its growing fleet of AI datacenters.…

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Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote

Mon, 2026-01-12 21:43
Just insert a disk and the TV starts playing three-year-old’s favorite shows

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. …

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