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Charming Kitten unsheathes its claws and tries to catch credentials

The cyber-ops arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has started a spear-phishing campaign intent on stealing credentials from Israeli journalists, cybersecurity experts, and computer science professors from leading Israeli universities.…

Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice

The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft’s Office suite and plans to adopt Linux and PostgreSQL.…

Rabo’s ‘Catlog’ smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app

A Japanese company called Rabo that makes a smart collar for cats and uses the motto “Because nine lives are never enough” has started using AI to monitor feline stress levels.…

Lip-Bu Tan calls in the crusher

Intel is shuttering its automotive efforts and laying off the bulk of the team responsible.…

Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free

The US State Department last week said foreign nationals seeking to study in the US must make their social media profiles public, prompting some students to delete their social media posts.…

NetAdmins may be mere years away from devolving into babysitters for bots

Not all the autonomous agentic AI that HPE announced at its annual Discover conference this week is live and ready for customers, but don't tell that to the Aruba networking group – whose enthusiasm outpaces its parent company’s, at least in terms of talking points.…

A bottomless appetite for tracking people as 'objects'

A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.…

Two emergency patches issued in two weeks

Hot on the heels of patching a critical bug in Citrix-owned Netscaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that one security researcher dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," the embattled networking device vendor today issued an emergency patch for yet another super-serious flaw in the same products — but not before criminals found and exploited it as a zero-day.…

Why are you even reading this story? Patch now!

Citrix patched a critical vulnerability in its NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products that is already being compared to the infamous CitrixBleed flaw exploited by ransomware gangs and other cyber scum, although there haven't been any reports of active exploitation. Yet.…

Terabytes per second of bandwidth, miles of copper cabling, all crammed into the back of a single rack

Analysis  If you thought AI networks weren't complicated enough, the rise of rack-scale architectures from the likes of Nvidia, AMD, and soon Intel has introduced a new layer of complexity.…

It's meant to cut down on false positives but could be a trove for mischief-makers

Ring doorbells and cameras are using AI to "learn the routines of your residence," via a new feature called Video Descriptions.…

New UI library has 23 years of history – and unexpected roots

Cosmoe is a modern C++ UI library, but it's also a new iteration of a project with roots in one of the most elegant GUIs ever written.…

Who is the third party that does the thing in our thing? Yep. Attacks explode over past year

The vast majority of global businesses are handling at least one material supply chain attack per year, but very few are doing enough to counter the growing threat.…

Millions of customers left speechless

Britain's Three mobile network has suffered a major outage, with voice calls out of action and limitations on texting.…

Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22%

Hyperscale operators are expected to account for 61 percent of all datacenter capacity by 2030, thanks in part to the growth of cloud services and rising demand for compute to feed AI.…

Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes

The Paris police force's cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums.…

Chinese crew built 1,000+ device network that runs on home devices then targets critical infrastructure

A stealthy, ongoing campaign to gain long-term access to networks bears all the markings of intrusions conducted by China’s ‘Typhoon’ crews and has infected at least 1,000 devices, primarily in the US and South East, according to SecurityScorecard's Strike threat intel analysts. And it uses a phony certificate purportedly signed by the Los Angeles police department to try and gain access to critical infrastructure.…

Learning from the lessons of the past

interview  Anuj Kapur, CEO of DevOps darling CloudBees, reckons that AI could retest the founding assumptions of DevOps as a whole, but warns against the risk of creating black-boxed code in the pursuit of greater efficiency. He also says that some customers who rushed into AI-generated code for fear of missing out (FOMO) are starting to slow down and be more considered.…

Or your cloud-bound soul. Otherwise, $30 please

Microsoft has found a new use for Reward Points – and another incentive to upload everything you hold dear to someone else's servers.…

Just like people

Anthropic published research last week showing that all major AI models may resort to blackmail to avoid being shut down – but the researchers essentially pushed them into the undesired behavior through a series of artificial constraints that forced them into a binary decision.…