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FCC kicks off 'Space Month' with vow to fast-track satellite licensing
The US Federal Communications Commission has launched "Space Month," with Chairman Brendan Carr saying that "we'll replace a default to no at the agency to a default to yes" for satellite licensing requests.…
Nearly a year after attack, US medical scanning biz gets clear image of stolen patient data
Florida-based Doctors Imaging Group has admitted that the sensitive medical and financial data of 171,862 patients was stolen during the course of a November 2024 cyberattack.…
Police and military radio maker BK Technologies cops to cyber break-in
BK Technologies, the Florida-based maker of mission-critical radios for US police, fire, and defense customers, has confessed to a cyber intrusion that briefly rattled its IT systems last month.…
OpenAI bans suspected Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to plan surveillance
OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts believed to be linked to Chinese government entities attempting to use AI models to surveil individuals and social media accounts.…
Trio who made foundational quantum computing discovery bag Nobel physics prize
Three researchers in sub-atomic physics have been awarded a Nobel prize for work which helped lay the foundations for quantum computing.…
JetBrains backs open AI coding standard that could gnaw at VS Code dominance
JetBrains has joined Google and Zed Industries in adopting the fledgling Agent Client Protocol (ACP), a standard for how AI agents interact with code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs).…
Clop raid on Oracle E-Business Suite started months ago, researchers warn
Security boffins say the Clop cybercriminal gang has been rummaging through Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) for months – and now the exploit code's out there for anyone to grab.…
Qualcomm solders Arduino to its edge AI ambitions, debuts Raspberry Pi rival
Qualcomm has acquired Arduino, maker of microcontrollers (and now single-board computers), in a move designed to boost its presence in edge computing, as evidenced by a new Arduino product based on one of its Dragonwing chips.…
How your mouse could eavesdrop and rat you out
The mouse sitting next to you can be turned into a microphone thanks to some cunning use of its sensors to pick up vibrations from your voice in an attack dubbed Mic-E-Mouse.…
Red Hat breach escalates as criminals collaborate on 'multi-terabyte' extortion plot
Red Hat's breach nightmare just got worse, as the Crimson Collective crew that claims to have ransacked its GitLab repos has joined forces with the ShinyHunters-linked "Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters" gang to turn the screw with a full-blown extortion campaign.…
London cops unplug iPhone crime ring said to nick 40% of city's mobiles
London's Metropolitan Police says it dismantled an iPhone-robbing gang responsible for what's thought to be nearly half of all phone thefts in England's capital.…
No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut
Microsoft is closing a popular loophole that allowed users to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account.…
Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones
The UK is pressing ahead with cutting-edge defense projects, the latest including research to protect satellites from laser attack and a technology demonstrator for a jet-powered drone to operate from Royal Navy carriers.…
UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project
The UK's Home Office is inviting tech suppliers to take part in a £60 million "market engagement" for an application that uses data from automated number plate recognition (ANPR) systems.…
Google DeepMind minds the patch with AI flaw-fixing scheme
Google says its AI-powered security repair tool CodeMender has been helping secure open source projects through automated patch creation, subject to human approval.…
Cerebras CEO insists dinner-plate-sized chip startup will still go public
Just days after announcing a $1.1 billion Series G funding round, AI chip startup Cerebras Systems pulled its S-1 IPO filing without so much as an explanation. …
Microsoft blames Medusa ransomware affiliates for GoAnywhere exploits while Fortra keeps head buried
Medusa ransomware affiliates are among those exploiting a maximum-severity bug in Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) product, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.…
Amazon turns James Bond into the Man Without the Golden Gun
In more than 60 years of adventures, James Bond has faced off against villains ranging from Blofeld to Le Chiffre. But none of them has managed to do what Jeff Bezos and his henchmen did to the international superspy: take his weapons away.…
Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT
ai-pocalypse A US Senate committee led by Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has produced a report claiming that about 97 million US jobs could be lost to AI and automation over the next decade. There's just one problem: it got those figures from ChatGPT.…