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Law enforcement crackdowns are gathering pace but online marketplaces still teeming with valuable tokens

A VPN vendor says billions of stolen cookies currently on sale either on dark web or Telegram-based marketplaces remain active and exploitable.…

Users leaving App Store to make a third party payment must be free of charge, says Euro Commish

The European Commission (EC) this week released the full text of its decision that found Apple in violation of its digital competition rules, known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA).…

Even when instructed to allow shutdown, o3 sometimes tries to prevent it, research claims

A research organization claims that OpenAI machine learning model o3 might prevent itself from being shut down in some circumstances while completing an unrelated task.…

Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up

The European Commission (EC) has kicked off a scheme to make Europe a better place to nurture global technology businesses, providing support throughout their lifecycle, from startup through to maturity.…

Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more

With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers' analytics and machine learning tools to their data, which is often spread across different systems.…

Telegram to get 50% cut of xAI subscriptions too

Telegram founder Pavel Durov on Wednesday announced that the Dubai-based messaging service will make unspecified Grok models from Elon Musk's xAI available to users.…

‘Consumers will not tolerate deceit’ Minister tells Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Uber

India’s government has reminded big tech companies that it has rules that prohibit the use of dark patterns – deceptive design practices that deliberately mislead and confuse customers of online services and apps – and called for an end to their use.…

Hardware biz gets a reprieve but administration’s plans are unchanged

World War Fee  The USA’s Court of International Trade has ruled the Trump administration improperly implemented its “Liberation Day” tariff policy, effectively blocking the imposition of the duties.…

But don't worry, sales are still up 69 percent

US export controls blocking the sale of Nvidia’s H20 GPUs to will cost the company $10.5 billion in lost revenues in the first half of the 2026 fiscal year, executives revealed on Wednesday's Q1 earnings call.…

Knickers outlet knackered

Underwear retailer Victoria's Secret’s website has been down for three days, with the company blaming an unspecified security problem.…

Also in preview: a settings backup feature to support OS upgrades

Microsoft is previewing a Windows Update orchestration platform for app developers and management tool vendors, aiming to centralize update scheduling across Windows 11 devices.…

Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick

Over the past few years, Uncle Sam has made it progressively harder for US chip designers to flog their AI wares in China. But not impossible.…

'Everyone's holding their breath'

Interview  It's hard to pinpoint exactly when the "culture of fear" began to permeate America's top cyber-defense agency.…

Prototype packs triple the energy density of lithium-ion, they claim

MIT boffins have built a prototype fuel cell using liquid sodium and air that could one day power aircraft, and may help capture carbon through its byproducts.…

So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you'

Google co-founder Sergey Brin claims that threatening generative AI models produces better results.…

Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself

LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) is the latest big-name organization to disclose a serious cyberattack leading to data theft, with the number of affected individuals pegged at 364,333.…

Latest kernel includes 14,612 changesets, Penguinistas been busy

Over the holiday weekend, Linus Torvalds released the latest Linux kernel – signalling the end of the line for 486-class chips.…

Researchers find AI models weak for medical reasoning when it comes to X-rays and CT scans

AI is not ready to make clinical diagnoses based on radiological scans, according to a new study.…

Project shutdowns at Mozilla are not encouraging, though

Another month, another new version of Firefox, with several handy changes. The future is less certain, though.…

SimpleHelp was the vector for the attack

Updated  DragonForce ransomware infected a managed service provider, and its customers, after attackers exploited security flaws in remote monitoring and management tool SimpleHelp.…