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Would you believe it, this RaaS cartel says Russia is off limits

DragonForce, a new-ish ransomware-as-a-service operation, has given organizations another cyber threat to worry about — unless they’re in Russia, which is off limits to the would-be extortionists.…

Probe indicates it was all over for Bayesian in just 9 minutes

An interim report by the UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has indicated that extreme wind was to blame for the sinking of the yacht Bayesian, claiming the lives of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his daughter, and five others.…

Sometimes, less information is more

In its latest gambit to reduce the noise of unnecessary security alerts, Socket has acquired Coana, a startup founded in 2022 by researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark that tells users which vulnerabilities they can safely ignore.…

Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown looms

Microsoft is retiring Bing Search APIs on August 11, directing customers toward AI products as an alternative.…

Lessons learned from last year's security snafu

interview  Being the chief information security officer at Snowflake is never an easy job, but last spring it was especially challenging.…

Aiming for the stars, but sometimes hitting the Caribbean

SpaceX supremo Elon Musk says the next Starship will launch next week, however, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hasn't yet given it the green light.…

MEWSIC to Brit crews' ears will see off anti-ship missiles, among other things

Britain's Royal Navy is to get updated electromagnetic warfare (EW) capabilities including launchable decoys to help defend its vessels against threats such as modern anti-ship missiles.…

Linux types mobilize website to help people avoid creating more e-waste

The "End of 10" website is a cooperative effort to let people know that they have other options besides buying a new computer.…

Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changes

Interview  Version 8.1 of Valkey was recently released, marking a year since the creation of the Redis fork. Valkey's co-maintainer, Madelyn Olson, is looking ahead to version 9 as the project settles down.…

And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remain

Updated  Italy's Leonardo supercomputer is to get an AI upgrade to beef up support for the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) and multi-modal generative AI, in addition to the 13 AI factories now being procured around the EU.…

AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn’t thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, too

Google's AI shop DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, its "evolutionary coding agent" powered by large language models to discover and optimize algorithms.…

More than $100M in costs could be cut by gutting duplicative IT alone, making DOGE itself look a bit redundant

Comment  Cost-trimming in the US federal government is all the rage right now – and a new report finds more than $100 million in savings available to the Feds by doing nothing but eliminating redundant and unnecessary IT investments. …

Prince Mohammed bin Bone Saw will take a few hundred thousand GPUs with his missiles and fighter jets

The Saudi government on Tuesday announced a massive $600 billion investment in US defense, transportation, energy, and IT infrastructure.…

Ransomware or critical infra hit? Top US manufacturer maintains steely silence

Nucor, the largest steel manufacturer in the US, shut down production operations after discovering its servers had been penetrated.…

Air Force Dumb

The Trump administration is set to accept a $400 million luxury 747-8 from the royal family of Qatar – a lavish "palace in the sky" meant as a temporary Air Force One. But getting it up to presidential security standards could take years and cost hundreds of millions more.…

Touchdown with no topple? Company aims for third time lucky

Intuitive Machines has blamed poor lighting, a problematic altimeter, and difficulties spotting craters for the company's second lunar lander tipping over.…

GA date slips out on Japanese site, vanishes from English

Red Hat appears to have quietly made RHEL 10 available to paying customers, days ahead of its expected debut at next week's Red Hat Summit.…

Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts

The future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce.…

Plus: All the fun and frolic of fixes from Adobe, SAP, Ivanti

Patch Tuesday  It's that time of the month again, and Microsoft has made it extra spicy by revealing five flaws it says are under active exploitation – but rates as important rather than critical fixes.…

Cripes, we were only joking when we called Elon's social network the new state media

Updated  The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced Monday that going forward, only urgent alerts tied to emerging threats or major cyber activity will appear on its website. Routine updates, guidance, and other notifications will instead be shared via email, RSS, and X.…