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Who knew social media stars had a role to play in building national cyber resilience?

The world's biggest brands have benefited from influencer marketing for years – now the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has hopped on the bandwagon to preach two-factor authentication (2FA) to the masses.…

At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE

Britain's telecoms regulator could authorize satellite-to-smartphone services in the UK before the end of this year.…

PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost

Aardvark, a novel machine learning-based weather prediction system, teases a future where supercomputers are optional for forecasting - but don't pull the plug just yet.…

Firefly Aerospace choses Amazon boss's Honeybee Robotics to supply vehicle for 2028 mission

Elon Musk may have launched hundreds of rockets and sent his own Tesla Roadster into space, but rival billionaire Jeff Bezos will soon be able to boast he’s built a moon rover.…

Joe Tsai says speculative datacenter builds could exceed actual demand

Alibaba is warning of a datacenter spending "bubble" amid the rush to build infrastructure in anticipation of an AI feeding frenzy.…

User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org

Europe's German-speaking SAP user group is reporting a sharp uptick in organizations signing up or planning to sign up for the application vendor's preferred cloud migration route.…

An impressive recreation of the Windows golden age

The ReactOS project is putting out a point-release for the first time in a few years, and this insanely optimistic effort is making progress.…

Throw a spanner in the works, best get good at fixing things. Now, where did you put that spanner?

Opinion  Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This works well in sane times, less so when "but it's both" is the default. Apply it to Microsoft's decision to make bug reports include not only a working example but a video of the same, and the meter oscillates wildly. What were they thinking? What did they expect?…

Officials likely broke Privacy Act by dishing out info without consent

A Maryland judge has dealt another blow to Elon Musk's cost-trimming DOGE unit, temporarily blocking the US Treasury, Dept of Education, and Office of Personnel Management from sharing union members' personal data with the billionaire's minions.…

The man who helped make Sammy the biggest name in modern tellies

Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee died this week in the Samsung Medical Center in southern Seoul after a cardiac arrest. He was 63.…

Kari, OK, we'll see you in court

An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding – and expressed fears that if the cash stops flowing, the tools it supports could become harder to access.…

Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale

Oracle has straight up denied claims by a miscreant that its public cloud offering has been compromised and information stolen.…

Customers come forward claiming info was swiped from prod

Oracle Cloud's denial of a digital break-in is now in clear dispute. A infosec researcher working on validating claims that the cloud provider's login servers were compromised earlier this year says some customers have confirmed data allegedly stolen and leaked from the database giant is genuine.…

We have one, yes – but what about a second death ray?

Still shopping for the perfect death ray, the US Army has tapped Huntington Ingalls to build and test a prototype laser weapon designed to fry drones in flight.…

Redmond veteran proposes Zero Sugar and Caffeine Free variants

Baffled by the plethora of Outlook options out there? You aren't alone. Microsoft veteran Scott Hanselman posted a list of some more variants that could be used to do the same thing.…

16,000 stolen records pertain to former and active mail subscribers

Infosec veteran Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned fame is notifying thousands of people after phishers scooped up his Mailchimp mailing list.…

'Don't wait for another pandemic or civil challenge,' says US spy-tech biz

Comment  It might take a particularly shameless company to grasp the opportunity presented by the UK's coronavirus pandemic and step in with a sales pitch. US spy-tech biz Palantir is willing to give it a go.…

Microsoft and Dell keeping quiet on their work-life-balance trials

A four-day working week pilot programme is being squarely aimed at the UK tech sector with the final results to be assessed by academics.…

Other cities either started with rival kit, or had Chinese vendor core already built before any bans, says expert

Interview  Recent research found that London is ranked at the foot of the table when it comes to 5G mobile service, but why should that be? The answer is a combination of issues, including available spectrum, investment and the great Huawei replacement.…

Just an FYI, like

Generative AI assistants packaged up as browser extensions harvest personal data with minimal safeguards, researchers warn.…