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All the cool kids signed licensing deals with the recently-listed forum site

Reddit, the popular internet discussion forum, sued Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that the AI biz scraped content generated by its users in violation of contractual terms and technical barriers.…

New products must show potential for 50% gross margin to get the greenlight

Mounting losses and financial turmoil has Intel cutting the deadweight, an effort that won’t end with axing staff.…

Recompiled binaries and phone threats used to boost the pressure

Groups linked with the Play ransomware have exploited more than 900 organizations, the FBI said Wednesday, and have developed a number of new techniques in their double-extortion campaigns - including exploiting a security flaw in remote-access tool SimpleHelp if orgs haven't patched it.…

Silicon photonics and gallium nitride a major focus

GlobalFoundries plans to funnel another $3 billion into US semiconductor production, bringing its total investment to $16 billion, the New York-based foundry operator said on Wednesday.…

Drones are not enough

Following a daring drone attack on Russian airfields, Ukrainian military intelligence has reportedly also hacked the servers of Tupolev, the Kremlin's strategic bomber maker.…

Login.gov hasn't shown its backup testing policy is working, GAO warns

The US government's Login.gov identity verification system could be one cyberattack, or just a routine IT hiccup, away from serious trouble, say auditors, because it hasn't shown its backup testing policy is actually in use or effective.…

Literally adding insult to injury

Kettering Health patients who had chemotherapy sessions and pre-surgery appointments canceled due to a ransomware attack in May now have to deal with the painful prospect that their personal info may have been leaked online.…

Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors

A group of financially motivated cyberscammers who specialize in Scattered-Spider-like fake IT support phone calls managed to trick employees at about 20 organizations into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader that allows the crims to steal sensitive data.…

Four years later, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon

It is 60 years since Ed White became the first American to float outside a spacecraft.…

A real-world Trojan Horse attack

Ukraine claims it launched a cunning drone strike on Sunday against multiple Russian airbases, hitting over 40 military aircraft and inflicting an estimated $7 billion in damage, in an operation dubbed "Spiderweb."…

Encourages move to Linux but, for goodness sake, RTFM first

Linux desktop darling KDE is weighing in on the controversy around the impending demise of Windows 10 support with a lurid "KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" campaign.…

Stale designs and market maturation aren't helping either, says Counterpoint Research

World War Fee  The Trump administration's chaotic tariff regime is likely to have a serious impact on the smartphone market worldwide, but the latest forecasts predict the disruption will be felt most keenly in the one economy Trump is trying to protect: The United States. …

Tech giants say blocking purloined devices via IMEI could open new fraud risks

UK legislators are questioning why Apple and Google have yet to implement measures to allow smartphones to be locked, reset, and prevented from accessing cloud services after they've been stolen, as requested by police.…

Did somebody say ransomware? Not the newspaper group, not even to deny it

Regional newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises says data belonging to around 40,000 people was stolen during an attack on its network earlier this year.…

Trump's on again off again tariffs, economic uncertainty, no vital apps and higher price tags

World War Fee  PC makers were salivating at the prospect of AI notebooks driving up their margins yet it seems the price difference coupled with a lack of killer apps and the destabilizing influence of tariff talk means customer adoption is slower than expected.…

AI sales are a little 'lumpy' but all things hybrid cloud are going well - including job cuts

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri remains optimistic that US regulators will allow its planned acquisition of Juniper Networks but has admitted the company has considered other plans if regulators nix the deal.…

Government details latest initiative following announcement last week

Revealing more details about the Cyber and Electromagnetic (CyberEM) military domain, the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) says "there are pockets of excellence" but improvements must be made to ensure the country's capability meets the needs of national defense.…

Altnet claims upgrade puts it ahead of Openreach on performance and cost, with more to come in 2026

Alternative UK network CityFibre has lifted the lid on a 5.5 Gbps wholesale package it says will allow internet service provider (ISP) customers to operate a service more than twice as fast than its current top-speed fiber product.…

Why? There's a war in Europe, Finland has a belligerent neighbor, and cyber is a settled field

Interview  Mikko Hyppönen has spent the last 34 years creating security software that defends against criminals and state-backed actors, but now he's moving onto drone warfare.…

Chip giant's latest ASIC promises 200GbE to up to 512 GPUs

Broadcom began shipping its answer to Nvidia's upcoming Quantum-X and Spectrum-X switches on Tuesday: the Tomahawk 6. The chip doubles the bandwidth of its predecessor and comes in both standard and co-packaged optics flavors.…