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As ransomware gangs threaten physical harm, 'I am afraid of what's next,' ex-negotiator says
Ransomware gangs now frequently threaten physical violence against employees and their families as a way to force victim organizations into paying their demands.…
Gene scanner pays $9.8 million to get feds off its back in security flap
Biotech firm Illumina has agreed to cut the US government a check for the eminently affordable amount of $9.8 million to resolve allegations that it has been selling the feds genetic testing systems riddled with security vulnerabilities the company knew about but never bothered to fix.…
Altman embraces inner Viking, raids Europe with 100K GPU supercluster in Norway
OpenAI's Stargate initiative has teleported to Europe, where the AI flag bearer has enlisted datacenter builder Nscale and Norwegian energy magnate Aker ASA to deploy a 100,000-GPU compute cluster in the Arctic by 2026.…
NIST discovers DevSecOps, thinks world should really check this out
Watch out, world: The US government has finally found out about DevSecOps, and it has become a late evangelist for the security-by-default software development practice.…
Microsoft's Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake
Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech.…
Beijing summons Nvidia over alleged backdoors in China-bound AI chips
China's internet watchdog has hauled Nvidia in for a grilling over alleged backdoors in its H20 chips, the latest twist in the increasingly paranoid semiconductor spat between Washington and Beijing.…
Microsoft removes the whiff of Vista from Windows 11 Insider Preview
Great news! Microsoft has finally squashed a Windows 11 Insider bug. No, it still hasn't "Made the Start Menu Great Again." No, you still can't drag the taskbar wherever you like. But yes, it simply kills the bug that played the Windows Vista boot chime on startup.…
Arm plots move up the stack with push into end-to-end silicon
Chip designer Arm says it is looking to bring more compute subsystems, chiplets, and even end-to-end solutions to market as customers increasingly expect a more complete starting point for their custom silicon.…
Kremlin goons caught abusing ISPs to spy on Moscow-based diplomats, Microsoft says
Russian cyberspies are abusing local internet service providers' networks to target foreign embassies in Moscow and collect intel from diplomats' devices, according to a Microsoft Threat Intelligence warning.…
Silk Typhoon spun a web of patents for offensive cyber tools, report says
Security researchers have uncovered more than a dozen patents for offensive cybersecurity tools filed by Chinese companies allegedly tied to Beijing's Silk Typhoon espionage crew.…
Canonical dusts off TPM encryption for Ubuntu 25.10
Canonical's Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop has published a roadmap for the 25.10 release, which includes a feature that was originally planned for 23.10.…
Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with 'strategic market status'
Britain's competition regulator says Microsoft and AWS are using their dominance to harm UK cloud customers and proposes to designate both with strategic market status (SMS) to take action against them.…
Figma debuts on Wall Street at $33 per share – still shy of abandoned Adobe deal
Figma is offering 36,937,080 shares of Class A common stock at $33 apiece, in an initial public offering that values the web design tool developer at $19.3 billion.…
NHS disability equipment provider on brink of collapse a year after cyberattack
A major supplier of healthcare equipment to the UK's National Health Service and local councils is on the verge of collapse 16 months after falling victim to cyber criminals.…
SpaceX Crew Dragon lofting next batch of 'nauts to ISS today
The next International Space Station (ISS) crew is set to launch today, commanded by an astronaut who gave up her Crew-9 seat to make way for the Boeing Starliner test team.…
AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill
Vercel claims it's slashed AWS Lambda costs by up to 95 percent by reusing idle instances that would otherwise rack up charges while waiting on slow external services like LLMs or databases.…
Capgemini wins £107M HMRC extension – no competition needed
UK tax collector His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has awarded Capgemini a £107 million support and services deal, without competition, under a relationship that started more than twenty years ago.…
Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that
Analysis With the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) now in effect, it was only a matter of time before tech-savvy under-18s figured out how to bypass the rules and regain access to adult content.…
Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved
Deep dive The journal Science is preparing to remove an editorial expression of concern that cast doubt on a five-year-old Microsoft quantum computing research paper.…
Internet exchange points are ignored, vulnerable, and absent from infrastructure protection plans
Internet Exchange Points are an underappreciated resource that all internet users rely on, but governments have unfortunately ignored them, despite their status as critical infrastructure.…