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Illegal products abound on Chinese site and its processes to stop ‘em are hopeless

The European Commission has found Chinese e-tail giant AliExpress in breach of its obligation to assess and mitigate risks related to the dissemination of illegal products as required under the Digital Services Act (DSA).…

Phishing, Python and RATs, oh my

A sneaky malware campaign slithers through Cloudflare tunnel subdomains to execute in-memory malicious code and give unknown attackers long-term access to pwned machines.…

‘Windows 365 Reserve’ will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed fee

Microsoft has announced a preview of “Windows 365 Reserve”, a service that provides pre-configured cloud PCs it suggests as ideal when physical machines aren’t usable.…

Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to ‘other areas’

The government of Iran appears to have shut down the internet within its borders, perhaps in response to Israel-linked cyberattacks.…

Polling was supposed to start on Monday - moved to Wednesday after court revisited the case

UPDATED  A court in Mauritius has postponed the long-awaited election at the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC).…

$650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 2030

Datacenter operators’ desire for cheap and clean energy to power their facilities has led to renewed interest in nuclear energy and small modular reactors (SMRs) – a tech Nvidia has just decided is worthy of investment.…

Move fast and blow things up

Silicon Valley-backed weapons maker Anduril and German armaments biz Rheinmetall have signed a deal to see US-designed drones and missiles integrated into European military platforms.…

In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for

Exclusive  Support for AMD's Instinct GPUs is coming to Voltron Data's accelerated SQL engine Theseus in the latest sign Nvidia's CUDA moat is getting shallower.…

EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much

Using AI chatbots actually reduces activity in the brain versus accomplishing the same tasks unaided, and may lead to poorer fact retention, according to a new preprint study out of MIT.…

Infostealers posing as popular cheat tools are cropping up on GitHub

Trojanized Minecraft cheat tools hosted on GitHub have secretly installed stealers that siphon credentials, crypto wallets, and other sensitive data when executed by players.…

New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks

Asana has fixed a bug in its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that could have allowed users to view other organizations' data, and the experimental feature is back up and running after nearly two weeks of downtime to fix the issue.…

Sec Def Hegseth says funds better spent elsewhere, because it's not like the military needs new tech, right?

A federal judge has temporarily blocked an attempt by the Department of Defense to cut funding for university research programs, perhaps inadvertently saving the DoD from an own-goal.…

The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix

The second of three KDE point releases planned for 2025 is here, with more tiling options, accessibility improvements, and much more.…

Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips

Less than a third of European consumers trade in or sell their old phones, limiting the supply of secondhand devices that might otherwise stimulate a more environmentally friendly alternative to buying brand new.…

Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though

Mastodon is the latest platform to push back against AI training, updating its terms and conditions to ban the use of user content for large language models (LLMs).…

China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms

MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in terms of performance and cost.…

Version 13 can’t come soon enough

Veeam Backup & Replication users are urged to apply the latest patches that fix another critical bug leading to remote code execution (RCE) on backup servers.…

Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm

ScyllaDB, the wide-column database used by Comcast, Samsung, and banking giant Santander, has released a new database service it claims improves scalability and lowers cost.…

Some servers can't renew IP addresses, and there's no fix yet

Microsoft has admitted that June's Patch Tuesday updates could break the DHCP service on Windows Server.…

Amid growing unease that US may compel cloud providers to hand over European data

Capitalizing on the new interest in sovereign cloud, UK datacenter biz Pulsant has teamed up with Nine23, a firm specializing in high-assurance managed services for users such as the government, law enforcement, and defense sectors.…