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ai-pocalypse
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The proposed 1:1 chip rule means nothing but pain for US tech until he’s out of office
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UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X
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Public Sector29 Sep 2025 | 2
Harrods blames its supplier after crims steal 430k customers’ data in fresh attack
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Cyber-crime29 Sep 2025 | 3
Oh the joy: OpenNvidia may be the AI generation's WinTel
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AI + ML29 Sep 2025 | 1
Jaguar Land Rover gets £1.5B government jump-start after cyber breakdown
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Cyber-crime29 Sep 2025 | 13
Digital ID, same place, different time: In this timeline, the result might surprise us
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Personal Tech29 Sep 2025 | 23
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity
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Networks29 Sep 2025 | 14
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Security29 Sep 2025 | 3
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe
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Software29 Sep 2025 | 10
NASA administrator says US should have ‘village’ on Moon in a decade
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Science29 Sep 2025 | 11
Three in four European companies are hooked on US tech
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Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs
Alleges bias and security problems
Public Sector29 Sep 2025 | 37
Dutch teen duo arrested over alleged 'Wi-Fi sniffing' for Russia
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Security29 Sep 2025 | 3
Datacenter fire takes 647 South Korean government services offline
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Trump’s tariff‑shaped stick can’t beat reality on US chip fabbing
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Hunt for RedNovember: Beijing hacked critical orgs in year-long snooping campaign
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Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up
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AI + ML27 Sep 2025 | 1
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Cyber threat-sharing law set to shut down, along with US government
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Security26 Sep 2025 | 8
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery
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Public Sector26 Sep 2025 | 22
NASA and Sierra Space clip Dream Chaser's ISS wings
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Science26 Sep 2025 | 10
Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice
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Systems26 Sep 2025 | 130
Microsoft spots fresh XCSSET malware strain hiding in Apple dev projects
Upgraded nasty slips into Xcode builds, steals crypto, and disables macOS defenses
Security26 Sep 2025 | 2
Salesforce facing multiple lawsuits after Salesloft breach
Updated CRM giant denies security shortcomings as claims allege stolen data used for ID theft
Cyber-crime26 Sep 2025 | 5
Google fuses SQL, Python, and Spark in Colab Enterprise push
Move comes as Snowflake and Databricks chase the same all-in-one analytics dream
Databases26 Sep 2025 | 4
‘An attacker's playground:’ Crims exploit GoAnywhere perfect-10 bug
Researchers say tens of thousands of instances remain publicly reachable
Patches26 Sep 2025 | 2
LockBit's new variant is 'most dangerous yet,' hitting Windows, Linux and VMware ESXi
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Cyber-crime26 Sep 2025 | 42
Software CEO tells Catholic uni panel AI won't take out jobs, but it could take out brains
As exorcist convention decries AI's potential for 'necromancy'
Offbeat26 Sep 2025 | 21
Prompt injection – and a $5 domain – trick Salesforce Agentforce into leaking sales
More fun with AI agents and their security holes
AI + ML26 Sep 2025 | 8
Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel
On Call Contractor sneakily fired after pointing out odious ignorance
Volvo North America confirms staff data stolen following ransomware attack on IT supplier
The downstream consequences of Miljödata’s ransomware attack continue to affect major organizations
Cyber-crime26 Sep 2025 | 5
SpaceX Dragon huffs, puffs... and fizzles out as NASA aborts ISS boost
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Science26 Sep 2025 | 16
Microsoft digs up Vista-era animated wallpaper for Windows 11. Here's how to get it
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OSes26 Sep 2025 | 38
Imaging infrastructure needs to catch up with how healthcare operates
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UK and US security agencies order urgent fixes as Cisco firewall bugs exploited in wild
CISA gives feds 24 hours to patch, NCSC urges rapid action as flaws linked to ArcaneDoor spies
Patches26 Sep 2025 | 12
UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029
Prime Minister Starmer revives controversial scheme despite past denials, sparking civil liberties backlash
Public Sector26 Sep 2025 | 285
Brits warned as illegal robo-callers with offshored call centers fined half a million
It’s amazing the number of calls Jo, Helen, and Ian get through
Security26 Sep 2025 | 46
Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions
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OSes26 Sep 2025 | 76
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OSes26 Sep 2025 | 14
Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find
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On-Prem26 Sep 2025 | 147
Security begins with visibility: How IGA brings hidden access risks to light
Who has access to what? Without centralized governance, orgs struggle to answer this simple question.
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Apple, Google tell Europe its Digital Markets Act isn't working for them – or consumers
They would say that, wouldn’t they?
Legal26 Sep 2025 | 11
Dell enters the earbud market with kit you can control from the cloud
Apple prices meet Dell style
Personal Tech26 Sep 2025 | 17
800,000 tons of mud probably just made electronics a little more expensive
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Offbeat26 Sep 2025 | 32
Intel reportedly wants TSMC's help to end its reliance on ...TSMC
Chipzilla seeks investment from its top fab frenemy
On-Prem26 Sep 2025 | 3
Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI
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OSes25 Sep 2025 | 30
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 | 22
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
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Legal25 Sep 2025 | 16
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
Public Sector25 Sep 2025 | 18
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
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EU probes SAP over alleged software support stranglehold
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