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Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition

Exclusive  European software vendor Nextcloud has accused Google of deliberately crippling its Android Files application, which it says has more than 800,000 users.…

Labour health secretary’s vision for one record to rule 'em all, for each patient, set to come to market

The state health service for England has asked tech suppliers to submit ideas to help it build an online service for a single health record, as promised by the country's Health Minister last year.…

Rise of the machines postponed ... for now

Robots in Amazon's fulfillment warehouse can pick and stow products well enough that the e-tail giant is happy to begin beta testing, but not well enough to leave human workers behind.…

'MarbledDust' gang has honed the skills it uses to assist Ankara

Turkish spies exploited a zero-day bug in a messaging app to collect info on the Kurdish army in Iraq, according to Microsoft, which says the attacks began more than a year ago.…

Linux 6.15 is coming along nicely too, unless autocorrect messes things up

Linux kernel project boss Linus Torvalds has re-joined the ranks of full-size mechanical keyboard aficionados.…

Chinese and Australian boffins ask what else could be slowing down seismic waves as they pass through the Red Planet?

Mars may still be home to oceanic quantities of liquid water, according to a recent paper published by the National Science Review.…

One problem down, x - 1 problems go

There are plenty of reasons why fusion energy has yet to become reality, but according to a group of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and their collaborators, we may be one modeling breakthrough closer.…

Support for the underlying OS is another story

Microsoft has pledged to support and issue security fixes for M365 apps on Windows 10 into late 2028. That's well past a cut-off point of October 14 this year, when Redmond's support for Windows 10 officially ends unless you buy an extended support package.…

Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off

TrueNAS is alive and well, but iXsystems has shifted its focus to the Linux-based SCALE edition. For the FreeBSD faithful left clinging to CORE, a new contender is limbering up: zVault.…

Musicians, artists, writers, actors urge government to protect copyright

More than 400 of the UK's leading media and arts professionals have written to the prime minister to back an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, which promises to offer the nation's creative industries transparency over copyrighted works ingested by AI models.…

IT projects may remain in limbo due to deal being far from final, but markets are up, so Trump'll declare a win

world war fee  The impending disaster of trade-freezing tariffs on Chinese imports to the US has been averted, but like a Chinese cargo ship anchored off the coast of California, it's not gone entirely.…

Intruders claim they stole GlobalX's flight records and manifests

GlobalX, a charter airline used for deportations by the US government, has admitted someone broke into its network infrastructure.…

So alchemists had the right idea – they just lacked a 27 km particle accelerator

The dream of every medieval alchemist – turning lead into gold – has finally come true thanks to some impractical physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.…

It was acceptable in the '80s

Who, Me?  Sometimes, a favor done for friends years ago can come back to bite you in a very corporate way. Welcome to another cautionary tale from the files of Who, Me?…

As long as those fit into a 20 x 20 x 20 grid and can be built from 8 basic bricks

At last, an AI model we can really get behind: LegoGPT takes a text prompt and spits out a physically stable design.…

One concrete suggestion: Looser visa requirements

The EU and nation states have already heralded schemes to attract top scientific talent seeking to escape the Republic of Trump. So where's Britain in the mix?…

Providers argue that if end users prioritized security, they'd get it

CYBERUK  Intervention is required to ensure the security market holds vendors to account for shipping insecure wares – imposing costs on those whose failures lead to cyberattacks and having to draft in cleanup crews. The security market must properly incentivize security vendors to do security better.…

PLUS: Celsius scammer sent to slammer; Death-by-hacking victim warns you're never safe; and more

Infosec in brief  Good cybersecurity habits don't appear to qualify anyone to work at DOGE, as one Musk minion seemingly fell victim to infostealer malware.…

We need to make taking IT systems 'off the books' a problem for corporate types

Opinion  It's been a devastating few weeks for UK retail giants. Marks and Spencer, the Co-Op, and now uber-posh Harrods have had massive disruptions due to ransomware attacks taking systems down for prolonged periods.…

And if it's your first time around, there's a whole new free book on FreePascal

Lazarus 4 is the latest version of the all-FOSS but Delphi-compatible IDE for the FreePascal compiler.…