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Putinswap: France trades alleged ransomware crook for conflict researcher
France has released an alleged ransomware crook wanted by the US in exchange for a conflict researcher imprisoned in Russia.…
QR codes a powerful new phishing weapon in hands of Pyongyang cyberspies
North Korean government hackers are turning QR codes into credential-stealing weapons, the FBI has warned, as Pyongyang's spies find new ways to duck enterprise security and help themselves to cloud logins.…
Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info
Microsoft is celebrating the resurgence of interest in physical media in the only way it knows how… by halting the Windows Media Player metadata service.…
NASA decides to bring Crew-11 home early after astronaut health scare
NASA is bringing the Crew-11 astronauts back to Earth early after one encountered a medical issue that could not be dealt with aboard the orbiting outpost.…
Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more
Concerns are mounting over copper supplies, with a fresh study warning that demand will likely outstrip production within a decade, threatening to constrain global technological advancement.…
China-linked cybercrims abused VMware ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure
Chinese-linked cybercriminals were sitting on a working VMware ESXi hypervisor escape kit more than a year before the bugs it relied on were made public.…
The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders
Opinion Wait? What? I was just cruising along the information superhighway – yes, I'm old, deal with it – when I spotted a Y Combinator story announcing, "Microsoft Office renamed to 'Microsoft 365 Copilot app'." Excuse me!? I looked closer and found that, sure enough, it certainly looked like Microsoft had renamed Office to the God-awful "Microsoft 365 Copilot."…