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UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home
Police in the United Kingdom appear to be taking a cue from Homer Simpson's playbook, with officers in multiple departments accused of "key jamming" to make it look like they were working from home when they likely weren't. …
Ex-US cyber boss slams politics getting in the way of preparedness
interview The bodies responsible for securing America from cyberattacks are currently too fragmented to be successful, according to former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, the first person ever to hold that job. …
Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack
A software platform used by law enforcement agencies and major tech companies to manage subpoenas and data requests went dark this week after attackers socially engineered AWS into freezing its domain.…
Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told
How would you move Space Shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Texas? The White House Office of Management and Budget asked NASA and the Smithsonian Institution and the response was to dismantle it.…
Mad man builds chatbot in Minecraft with redstone, Python, and patience
Never mind Doom running on a potato, or whatever – the next generation of ridiculous computing belongs to Minecraft YouTuber Sammyuri, who built a working chatbot in the perennially popular voxel building sandbox.…
OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject
OpenAI has persuaded two of South Korea's chip titans to fuel its bid to build the biggest AI engine yet.…
Dirty little Electron secret tanks macOS 26 performance
The Electron team has fixed code that caused system-wide slowdowns on the newly released macOS 26 "Tahoe."…
SaaS turbo-charged software spending tough for CIOs to control, says research
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is warning that organizations need to rethink their approach to buying software as the ongoing push of SaaS into the market gathers pace.…