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Hunt for RedNovember: Beijing hacked critical orgs in year-long snooping campaign
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Research27 Sep 2025 | 6
Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up
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Many employees are using AI to create 'workslop,' Stanford study says
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AI + ML26 Sep 2025 | 36
Cyber threat-sharing law set to shut down, along with US government
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Security26 Sep 2025 | 6
If you can't use AI then it's bye bye, Accenture tells staff
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Federal agencies DOGE questions about what cost-cutting team is doing
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NASA and Sierra Space clip Dream Chaser's ISS wings
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Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice
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Microsoft spots fresh XCSSET malware strain hiding in Apple dev projects
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Salesforce facing multiple lawsuits after Salesloft breach
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Google fuses SQL, Python, and Spark in Colab Enterprise push
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Three in four European companies are hooked on US tech
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Microsoft digs up Vista-era animated wallpaper for Windows 11. Here's how to get it
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UK and US security agencies order urgent fixes as Cisco firewall bugs exploited in wild
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UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029
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Brits warned as illegal robo-callers with offshored call centers fined half a million
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Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions
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Apple, Google tell Europe its Digital Markets Act isn't working for them – or consumers
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Dell enters the earbud market with kit you can control from the cloud
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Intel reportedly wants TSMC's help to end its reliance on ...TSMC
Chipzilla seeks investment from its top fab frenemy
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Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI
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OSes25 Sep 2025 | 28
Microsoft cuts off Azure phone surveillance support for Israeli military
Brad Smith says 'we do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians'
Off-Prem25 Sep 2025 | 21
Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel
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X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s latest attempt to bring Apple’s M-series magic to the PC
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Systems25 Sep 2025 | 8
North Korea's Lazarus Group shares its malware with IT work scammers
Keeping Pyongyang's coffers full
Cyber-crime25 Sep 2025 |
Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime
Former FTC chair Khan not happy her legal wrath ended in settlement worth just 14% of Amazon's quarterly net
Legal25 Sep 2025 | 16
Imaging infrastructure needs to catch up with how healthcare operates
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AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42
Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors
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Callous crims break into preschool network, publish toddlers' data
Images of toddlers and home addresses leaked in reprehensible landmark attack
Cyber-crime25 Sep 2025 | 23
Harness pitches AI agents as your new DevOps taskmasters
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AI + ML25 Sep 2025 | 2
DARPA wants AI to know when it's being an energy hog
New research program seeks ‘energy-aware’ ML that balances performance with power draw
AI + ML25 Sep 2025 | 1
EU probes SAP over alleged software support stranglehold
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Open source to closed doors: RubyGems control fight erupts
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Google reminds EU that Microsoft's cloudy licensing still stinks a year later
Mountain View gripes over slow-moving regulators while Redmond rakes it in
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Oracle saddles up with $18B debt amid AI infrastructure gamble
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Zero-day deja vu as another Cisco IOS bug comes under attack
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Bcachefs goes DKMS after Torvalds' kernel banishment
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SAP's 'simplified' licensing leaves users more confused
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EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners
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Empty shelves, empty coffers: Co-op pegs cyber hit at £80m
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Check your own databases before asking to see our passport photos, Home Office tells UK cops
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The sweetest slice of Pi: Raspberry Pi 500+ sports mechanical keys, 16GB, and built-in SSD
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Google, Meta and Vodafone want smartphone-makers to reduce their bandwidth bills
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Networks25 Sep 2025 | 23
Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know
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Alibaba Cloud plans expansion into Europe and South America
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