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After DHS’s $2.3M PenLink contract gets ‘shady’ label

A group of 70 US lawmakers has called on Homeland Security's inspector general to investigate whether its agencies - including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - illegally purchased Americans' location data without first obtaining warrants.…

No more hiding in the server closet: Cyber ops mentioned alongside kinetic warfare as critical to conflict

In what may be the most public acknowledgment of its cyber operations capabilities to date, the Pentagon has admitted that cyber soldiers are playing a key role in its attacks on Iran. …

The deal includes all Ookla assets including Speedtest, Ekahau, and RootMetrics

Accenture is going to get a closer look into how web traffic is moving...or not moving. The company has announced plans to buy Downdetector parent company Ookla from Ziff Davis as part of a package deal with other software for $1.2 billion.…

Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thing

BunsenLabs Linux is a lightweight, Debian-based distro forked from CrunchBang, and seven months after Debian 13 "Trixie" arrived, the project has released its latest version, dubbed Carbon.…

Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddies

Contrary to what some believe, cybercrime is not a kids' game. Middle-aged adults, not teenagers, now make up the biggest chunk of people getting busted.…

Telecoms coalition wants to avoid another 5G-style vendor scramble with early security guardrails

A group of Western governments has launched a fresh bid to shape 6G before it's even standardized, unveiling a set of security and resilience principles to bake supply chain controls and cyber safeguards into the next generation of mobile networks.…

Risk management? Continuity plan if our provider disappears? We've heard of these things

AI adoption is moving too rapidly say senior tech leaders, as the pressure to deploy clashes with risk management and compliance concerns.…

AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market

The Open VSX registry, used for installing extensions in editors compatible with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), will run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in Europe as part of a "strategic investment" from the cloud giant.…

AI browsing agent left local files open for the taking

If you wanted to steal local files from someone using Perplexity's Comet browser, until last month you could just schedule the theft by sending your victim a calendar event.…

Redmond wants a monthly cut from every digital worker on your payroll. Agents don't need dental, they will need a SKU

Microsoft is reportedly planning to license AI agents like employees – and charge accordingly.…

Deputy governor tells MPs central bank now has in-house skills and IP to maintain revamped RTGS

As the last Accenture employee clocked off from supporting the Bank of England's £431 million Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street was assured it would no longer depend on the global consultancy.…

Heidi Richards paid more than $5M for certificate of authenticity labels in five years

A Florida woman will spend nearly two years behind bars after being found guilty of fraudulently acquiring Microsoft certificate of authenticity (COA) labels and selling them in bulk.…

Third-party software supplier breached leading to leak of notes

Around 15.8 million administrative files were stolen after attackers breached a software supplier to France's health ministry.…

High-severity flaw let malicious add-ons access system via browser's embedded AI feature

Security boffins have discovered a high-severity bug in Google Chrome that allowed malicious extensions to hijack its Gemini Live AI panel and inherit privileges they were never meant to have.…

From Bavarian Alps to Congo basin and other places where laying cable is a PITA

Vodafone has signed a deal with Amazon Leo to use its satellites as a backhaul connection for cellular base stations in remote areas of Europe and Africa, saving it from having to cable them up to its core network.…

NCSC urges all to review posture as escalating tensions increase risk of indirect digital spillover

The UK's cybersecurity agency is warning British organizations to brace for potential digital blowback as the Middle East conflict spills further into the online world.…

Trick uses a simple configuration profile to convince your Mac that upgrading isn't allowed

Averse to "liquid glass"? Are you happy enough with your Mac as it is? Try this local policy and banish those upgrade nag screens for a few months.…

Analysis claims €500 per EV could secure local production and cut reliance on foreign supply chains

Europe's EV battery cost gap with China – currently around 90 percent – could shrink to roughly 30 percent by 2030 if Brussels is willing to pay what campaigners call a "sovereignty premium."…

Multiple zones Middle East in UAE disrupted, with water damage complicating recovery

UPDATED  Multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones in the Middle East are experiencing outages or degraded connectivity after objects struck a UAE facility, as Iranian retaliatory missile and drone attacks hit targets across the Gulf.…

Claims it can build and deploy them fast, whether they run at speed is another matter

As the AI boom rages, investors and buyers have thrown cash at anyone that even looks capable of selling them hardware capable of crunching tokens at speed. And now they have a new option: China’s Huawei.…