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Penalty follows year-long probe into flaws that allowed attack to affect so many

The UK's data watchdog is fining beleaguered DNA testing outfit 23andMe £2.31 million ($3.13 million) over its 2023 mega breach.…

Parent company Mozilla's not my fave either

Opinion  I know some people still love Firefox. But, folks, it's a bad relationship, and the problems have been going on for a while now.…

GLAM-E Labs report warns of risk to online cultural resources

Bots harvesting content for AI companies have proliferated to the point that they're threatening digital collections of arts and culture.…

Last of Whitehall-wide ERP overhaul will not kick off until next year

The UK's Ministry of Defence has delayed procurement of a £92 million contract to implement Oracle's Fusion cloud-based ERP system.…

Flights still flying - just don't count on the app or website working smoothly

updated  Canadian airline WestJet is warning of "intermittent interruptions or errors" on its app and website as it investigates a cybersecurity incident.…

A moment of panic as some customers thought the free tiers were going away

On Monday, Railway, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, decided to throttle software builds by customers in its lowest paying tiers to accommodate unexpected demand for service following the Google Cloud Platform outage last week.…

Preferred and secured creditors walk away with nothing

Brit-based ruggedized phone maker Bullitt Group's liquidation has finally wrapped up – and the firm was in such dire straits that none of its creditors received any recovered funds.…

As for agentic AI, don’t get him started about the enormous challenge of making it work vendors just won't discuss

“AI is not doing its job today and should leave us alone” according to analyst firm Gartner’s global chief of AI research Erick Brethenoux.…

STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished

UPDATED  The UK government has just allocated another £2.5 billion to an ambitious fusion energy project without any indication it's progressed much beyond the planning stages.…

Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users

Microsoft has created a version of its 365 productivity suite that runs on-premises, as part of a move to satisfy European regulations.…

Google threat analysts warn the team behind the Marks & Spencer break-in has moved on

Cyber-crime crew Scattered Spider has infected US insurance companies following a series of ransomware attacks against American and British retailers, according to Google, which urged this sector to be on "high alert."…

No need to plagiarize if you can have AI do it for you

A series of Freedom of Information requests shows that students in British universities are increasingly getting busted for using AI to cheat.…

MAGA MVNO and the gold-plated telephone of destiny

The Trump family is getting into the wireless business - and what better way to do it than with a gold-colored Android smartphone that could someday be designed and manufactured in the USA?…

Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet

Gaze into the temporal distance and you might spot the end of the age of silicon looming somewhere out there, as a research team at Penn State University claims to have built the first working CMOS computer entirely from two-dimensional materials.…

For researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.0

Japan is the latest nation hoping to tempt disgruntled US researchers alarmed by the Trump administration's hostile attitude to academia to relocate to the Land of the Rising Sun.…

Next version to drop Windows 7 through 8.1, and 32-bit Windows support is on the way out, too

The LibreOffice project is preparing to cut some Windows support – and encourages users to switch to Linux.…

Evaluation of latest repairs to Russian segment ongoing

NASA has pushed back the launch of Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station (ISS), citing concerns over persistent leaks aboard the aging orbital outpost. A new No Earlier Than (NET) date is set for June 19.…

Marketplace as big as Silk Road had more than 600k users and turnover of 'at least' €250M

Operation Deep Sentinel is the latest international law enforcement collaboration against cybercrime, shutting down Archetyp – one of the largest dark web drug marketplaces.…

But lose your code and it's gone for good

Updated  Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area will shortly receive a new Recall Export feature, allowing Recall snapshots to be shared with third-party apps and websites.…

6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks

A new benchmark developed by academics shows that LLM-based AI agents perform below par on standard CRM tests and fail to understand the need for customer confidentiality.…