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Would 'destroy a pipeline of top talent essential for hunting' Chinese spies in US networks, Congress told

Video  Looming staffing cuts to America's security and intelligence agencies, if carried out, would "have a devastating effect on cybersecurity and our national security," former NSA bigwig Rob Joyce has told House representatives.…

Former allies, take note. This is a WOPR

Updated  The American military has signed a deal with Scale AI to give artificial intelligence, as far as we can tell, its most prominent role in the Western defense sector to date – with AI agents to now be used in planning and operations. …

Redmond doesn't have total control over GPT maker so we lack authority, say monopoly cops

The UK's investigation into competition concerns arising from Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI has reached a conclusion, albeit an anticlimactic one in which officials have left loose ends.…

A major policy directive strongly suggesting use of the royalty-free architecture is apparently imminent

The permissively licensed RISC-V instruction set architecture appears to be gaining significant momentum in China.…

Muskmobile Facebook group becomes support circle for anti-Tesla abuse

Comment  Since Elon Musk vigorously threw up a gesture once thought reprehensible at a Trump rally on the day of the president's inauguration, owning a Tesla has taken on a whole new meaning for some.…

A first-of-its-kind legal challenge set to be heard this month, per reports

Updated  Apple has reportedly filed a legal complaint with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) contesting the British government's order that it must forcibly break the encryption of iCloud data.…

Native mail app? More like no mail app

Users of Microsoft Outlook on Apple devices are experiencing service disruptions for a second day.…

No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims ... no consent

Research from a leading academic shows Android users have advertising cookies and other gizmos working to build profiles on them even before they open their first app.…

Redmond says you could ask one for a 'list of deals ... at risk of falling through'

Microsoft today announced two software agents that automate certain business functions for Dynamics 365, its enterprise resource planning and customer relationship suite, and Microsoft 365, its cloud productivity suite.…

NASA and AstroForge missions prove Space is Hard

Engineers are continuing to attempt to make contact with NASA's stricken Lunar Trailblazer probe as hopes for the science planned for the mission begin to fade.…

Wasn't the cloud supposed to be the cheap, reliable option?

Updated  Microsoft's Exchange Administration Center (EAC) has fallen over and appears to be struggling to get up.…

English football club offers apologies after fans' card details stolen from online retail store

English football club Leeds United says cyber criminals targeted its retail website during a five-day assault in February and stole the card details of "a small number of customers." …

And the FAA's modernization efforts are going so badly they won't exit turbulence any time soon

Over a third of the USA’s air traffic control systems are in an “unsustainable" state, and the FAA's decades-long project to upgrade them is not going well.…

Hat and scarf no longer needed for diminutive computer

New variants of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 have been launched, giving the devices an extended operating temperature range from -40°C to 85°C.…

That's competition, that's protecting our IP, Redmond's lawyers tell UK monopoly cops

For AWS and Google to urge the UK competition regulator to "intervene and constrain the price" that Microsoft charges them to license its software in their clouds is both "extraordinary and unprecedented."…

Great, we've taken away computers' ability to be accurate and given them anxiety

If you think us meatbags are the only ones who get stressed and snappy when subjected to the horrors of the world, think again. A group of international researchers say OpenAI's GPT-4 can experience anxiety, too – and even respond positively to mindfulness exercises.…

Hunters International ready to off-shore 1.4 TB of info allegedly swiped from Indian giant

A subsidiary of Indian multinational Tata has allegedly fallen victim to the notorious ransomware gang Hunters International.…

FOSS bods file amicus brief in hope of preserving core GNU tenet of freedom forever

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) on Monday backed a lone developer's brave effort to overturn a pivotal court ruling that threatens to undermine the AGPLv3 – the foundation's GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.…

Air to ship with M3 while base model gets the A16

Apple on Tuesday unveiled an updated iPad Air with fresh-ish new M-series silicon alongside a new Magic Keyboard with function keys.…

Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass

Users of some of the less well-known web browsers are getting blocked from accessing multiple sites by Cloudflare's flaky browser-detection routines.…