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Indications of compromise and Sigma rules report for your security scanners amid ongoing 'ToolShell' blitz

CISA has published a malware analysis report with compromise indicators and Sigma rules for "ToolShell" attacks targeting specific Microsoft SharePoint Server versions.…

No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims

Snowflake is launching a client connector to run Apache Spark code directly in its cloud warehouse - no cluster setup required.…

Privacy campaigner Max Schrem's NOYB is back on Zuck's back

Updated  Meta's enthusiasm for training its AI on user data is not shared by the users themselves – at least for some Europeans – according a study commissioned by Facebook legal nemesis Max Schrems and his privacy advocacy group Noyb.…

Watch out, the phishermen are about, customers told

European airline giants Air France and KLM say they are the latest in a string of major organizations to have their customers' data stolen by way of a break-in at a third party org.…

Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark

Feature  "Deceptively spacious." "Prime location." "Up-and-coming area." "Some original features," which occasionally turn out to be asbestos. Estate agents are known for sometimes stretching the truth in pursuit of a sale, but the generative AI boom appears to have thrown things into overdrive – providing an easy way to present images of properties which simply don't reflect reality.…

Forensics experts say the state of the K8’s battery suggests it led to the living room blaze

A Scottish woman who suffered a house fire in 2018 has won her case against LG after a judge ruled that her work-issued phone caused the blaze.…

Bold, clean, much less legacy tech – and a bit less like old SUSE

A release candidate of openSUSE Leap 16.0 is here. It boldly strips out more established legacy tech than almost any other Linux we've seen.…

'IOWN' backers think it can replace the PCI bus, reinvent servers, and rewire motherboards

In December 2024, Japanese tech giant NTT revealed two impressive feats of high-speed networking.…

Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has stated in a personal blog that the most advanced developers have "moved from writing code to architecting and verifying the implementation work that is carried out by AI agents."…

Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act

Amnesty International claims Elon Musk's X platform "played a central role" in pushing the misinformation that stoked racially charged violence following last year's Southport murders.…

Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU

The UK public sector expects to spend around £9 billion on Microsoft products and services over five years under its current contract.…

All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience

Hands On  Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because you can download them, you can run them locally.…

Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs

World War Fee  US president Donald Trump appears to have settled his semiconductor tariff strategy.…

Tokyo Electron reveals a former employee is involved, and that no info reached third parties

UPDATED  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has launched legal proceedings against an unknown number of employees as it investigates a potential breach of trade secrets.…

Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers

Uber has revealed its ambition to offer hyper-personalized offers to its customers, but to do so it needs more of them to use more of its apps.…

It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program

Computer scientist Peter Burke has demonstrated that a robot can program its own brain using generative AI models and host hardware, if properly prompted by handlers.…

As US charges 2 Chinese nationals with illegally shipping chips to China

Federal authorities in the US have charged two Chinese nationals with secretly exporting advanced AI chips to China.…

Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India

US President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook made a joint announcement from the White House on Wednesday of another Apple pledge to move manufacturing back to the United States, with an additional $100 billion in funding for domestic projects. The move could keep Apple one step ahead of Trump's unpredictable tariff policy, which threatens to increase costs on iPhones manufactured overseas. …

Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market

Apple now faces challenges to its WebKit browser requirement in three jurisdictions, as authorities around the globe try to jumpstart competition in the mobile software industry.…

Cloud giant erased decade of work – denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool

Updated  An open source developer is claiming AWS deleted his ten-year-old account, wiping all the data. He believes this was due to a botched test of a script designed to prune dormant accounts.…