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Affects users regardless of when their backups were created

SonicWall has admitted that all customers who used its cloud backup service to store firewall configuration files were affected by a cybersecurity incident first disclosed in mid-September, walking back earlier assurances that only a small fraction of users were impacted.…

Coin toss odds for spotting a deepfake, study finds. And that's before the machines learn to sing

Think you can distinguish between a human voice and a robot? Think again, because the numbers are starting to say otherwise. …

Independent technical governance will hope to unite fractured ecosystem

Meta will contribute React, React Native, and JSX (JavaScript XML) to a new React Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, and said that "it is important that no single company or organization is overrepresented."…

New laws restrict goods that are manufactured outside of China

China is hitting back at US export restrictions with some of its own, tightening its control on so-called rare earth minerals and introducing laws that require companies to get licenses before they can ship goods containing rare earths, even those made outside of the country.…

Meanwhile, Microsoft resurrects Edit and kills .NET 3.5 SP1 on demand

It's taken a while, but Microsoft has finally made its redesigned Start menu available to Canary Channel Windows Insiders, while also removing .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 as a Feature On Demand, and adding Edit, the command-line text editor.…

This time outage was not actually Microsoft's fault

If you struggled to access the Azure Portal or Microsoft Entra this morning, you weren't alone – Microsoft has blamed a Kubernetes crash for the outage.…

Notebook chip promises 8 to 16 cores and up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance when it hits shelves in January

Intel has begun clawing back production from TSMC with the introduction of its Panther Lake processors, the company's first chip based on its long-awaited 18A process tech.…

Court says ICO can chase US outfit for unlawfully hoovering up Brits' selfies

The UK General Regulatory Chamber's Upper Tribunal (UT) has ruled in favor of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which appealed against a 2023 decision that it could not fine Clearview AI over GDPR violations.…

Kevork Kechichian says x86 giant's contributions should benefit Intel first

Over the years, Intel has established itself as a paragon of the open source community, but that could soon change under the x86 giant's new leadership.  …

It's the end of support as we know it and users feel fine

With days to go before Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 support, there are hundreds of millions of computers that have yet to upgrade to Windows 11, despite the best efforts of hardware manufacturers and the operating system's marketers.…

Japanese tech goliath gets grabby with industrial automation as ABB shelves spin-off plans

SoftBank Group has added more arms to its portfolio, this time of the robotic kind.…

Blames 'lack of interest' from the EU policy enforcer for towel throwing

Nextcloud has withdrawn a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission over OneDrive bundling, citing a lack of progress with the governing body.…

China-linked snoops crack email at DC powerhouse that represented Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Holmes

Washington's elite law firm Williams & Connolly has confirmed that attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability to access a handful of attorney email accounts in what it believes was a nation-state-linked cyberattack.…

Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivity

Software vendors keen to monetize AI should tread cautiously, since they risk inflating costs for their customers without delivering any promised benefits such as reducing employee head count.…

That's the main takeaway from the Zenity AI Agent Security Summit

Michael Bargury, CTO of AI security company Zenity, welcomed attendees to the company's AI Agent Security Summit on Wednesday with an unexpected admission.…

Because what enterprises really love are vague consumption-based pricing models

Rent-a-GPU outfit CoreWeave continued its push into the AI services arena on Wednesday with the introduction of a platform that aims to make reinforcement learning more accessible to enterprise customers.…

It's hard out there for a crim

Following in the footsteps of an earlier unholy alliance between three other cybercrime crews, ransomware-as-a-service giants DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit claim to be collaborating on ransomware attacks. …

When sellers collude through a computer algorithm, that doesn't make it right

California companies that use algorithms to fix the prices of their products and services could now face stiff antitrust penalties if they continue to do so. …

With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second

Cisco has unveiled a new routing ASIC designed to help bit barn operators overcome power and capacity constraints by stitching together their existing datacenters into a single unified compute cluster.…

Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA’s veteran orbiters

Mars is windier than thought, according to research into decades of data from European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, and that has implications for missions to the red planet.…