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How to avoid another SolarWinds, Log4j, and XZ Utils situation

Organizations concerned about software supply chain attacks should focus on role-based access control, system monitoring, and boundary protection, according to a new preprint paper on the topic.…

Wow, a government project that could be on time for once ... cos it's gonna be wayyyy more than a decade

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today started the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) countdown clock by claiming organizations have ten years to migrate to a safer future.…

You might need that – the file system has some hard-to-squish bugs

A new version of the handy all-in-one bootable system toolkit distro is here, now with a whole new file system for you to play with.…

There goes AMD's capacity advantage

GTC  Nvidia's Blackwell GPU architecture is barely out of the cradle – and the graphics chip giant is already looking to extend its lead over rival AMD with an Ultra-themed refresh of the technology.…

VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it's already contacted 'known vulnerable customers'

UK telco Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is preparing to retire its 3G services, and is set to start with the city of Durham in northeast England this April.…

Even looming support deadline isn't tempting ECC users to haul themselves over to S/4HANA, say analysts

The majority of SAP's ECC users have not purchased licenses for S/4HANA – meaning its unlikely some of the world's largest businesses will migrate before mainstream support for the legancy platform ends in 2027.…

Begun, preparation for orbital wars has

China has practiced co-ordinated satellite maneuvers in space that resemble aerial combat, according to a US Space Force General.…

Tech channel increases stockpiling amid 'volatile trade policies.' CIOs to get fewer devices for same money

Comment  US President Donald Trump's "volatile trade policies" are creating uncertainty among suppliers of computers and among biz customers looking to use budgets wisely amid a game of on-and-off Oval Office tariffs.…

Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line

Comment  The Crew-9 mission has safely returned to Earth, marking the end of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's extended time in space and possibly NASA's bipartisan leanings.…

Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money

HP Inc. has settled a class action lawsuit in which it was accused of unlawfully blocking customers from using third-party toner cartridges - a practice that left some with useless printers – but won’t pay a cent to make the case go away.…

SSNs, payment details, and health info too

The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) says a July 2024 "security incident" exposed sensitive personal data on more than half a million individuals, including financial and health info.…

Big Blue's workstation workhorse patches hole in network installation manager that could let the bad guys in

IBM "strongly recommends" customers running its Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) operating system apply patches after disclosing two critical vulnerabilities, one of which has a perfect 10 severity score.…

Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a ©

Updated  The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling that content created by an AI model without human input cannot be copyrighted.…

Cyber-crime is officially getting out of hand

One of the world's largest sperm banks, California Cryobank, is in a sticky situation.…

One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out

Researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) tend to parrot buggy code when tasked with completing flawed snippets.…

How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then?

Elon Musk's DOGE promoted the decision to terminate a deal with service-disabled veterans supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs 10 days before the contract was set to expire anyway.…

HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work

GTC  The age of the 20-petaFLOPS desktop is upon us as Dell announced a machine capable of achieving that massive processing power today at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley.…

Remaining Republicans don't like the right to repair, non-compete clause ban, or some social media moderation

Analysis  In a surprise Tuesday move, US President Donald Trump fired the two remaining Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission, potentially accelerating a shift in the consumer and competition watchdog's stance towards tech and other businesses.…

Because guesswork won't keep the lights on

GTC  Schneider Electric has developed a digital twin system to simulate how an AI datacenter operates in order to accurately design for the appropriate power requirements.…

Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server

GTC  After a Hopper hiatus, Nvidia's DGX Station returns, now armed with an all-new desktop-tuned Grace-Blackwell Ultra Superchip capable of churning out 20 petaFLOPS of AI performance.…