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Top Trump lieutenant Stephen Miller hopes to skewer Big Blue's Linux slinger on behalf of ex-director

IBM-owned Red Hat has been sued for allegedly discriminating against a White male employee. The legal team behind the suit is led by Stephen Miller, a key anti-immigration advisor to Donald Trump during his presidency.…

If it ain't broke, make it less accessible

Updated  Much to the chagrin of security pros, VMware security advisories are now only viewable if users sign up for a Broadcom Support account first.…

That's a new twist on open, then

OpenAI released model safety guidance on Wednesday while acknowledging that it's looking into how to support the creation of content that's NSFW, or "not safe for work."…

Give us an opt-out button or give us (temporary) account death!

Stack Overflow users are revolting against the Q&A site's partnership with OpenAI, announcing they'd rather remove their posts and sacrifice their reputation scores than have their submissions used to train ChatGPT. …

Spoiler alert: We're gonna talk about AI

Interview  Mick Baccio, global security advisor at Splunk, has watched the evolution of election security threats in real time.…

Sources claim ransomware is to blame

Healthcare organization Ascension is the latest of its kind in the US to say its network has been affected by what it believes to be a "cybersecurity event."…

IT giant tries to downplay leak as just names, addresses, info about kit

Dell has confirmed information about its customers and their orders has been stolen from one of its portals. Though the thief claimed to have swiped 49 million records, which are now up for sale on the dark web, the IT giant declined to say how many people may be affected.…

Security's an uphill battle ... does this latest move have teeth?

RSAC  Some of the biggest names in tech – including AWS, Microsoft, Google, Cisco and IBM – have signed up to a US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency-led effort and promised to take a series of actions within a year to make their products more secure.…

Having China, Russia, and Iran routinely rummaging around is cause for concern, says ex-NSA man

RSAC  Digital intruders from China, Russia, and Iran breaking into US water systems this year should be a "wake-up call," according to former National Security Agency cyber boss Rob Joyce.…

Any way you network slice it, you can't favor an app, says US watchdog

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the final text of its net neutrality order, adding changes that appear to rule out so-called "fast lanes" for applications that some advocates feared would undermine it.…

Where have you been, Cupertino?

Updated  We can add Apple to the list of tech titans developing their own custom AI accelerators – at least that's what unnamed sources are telling the Wall Street Journal.…

Oh well – next!

The first human to get a Neuralink implant may be doing fine now, but that's after a good deal of work to address post-surgical trouble that saw its performance significantly degrade.…

New-ish Kirin SoC performance doesn’t impress, however

A teardown of Huawei's Pura 70 Pro reveals that the China tech company's latest smartphone is mostly made in China, with one notable exception.…

Research lands weeks after the Copilot company said it was still trying to convince customers of benefits

Microsoft's 2024 Work Trend Index makes grand claims about the benefits of AI, but might make disturbing reading for administrators worrying about shadow IT.…

Stick to data pipelines and ontology, says expert after share price dip

Spy-tech biz Palantir has overstated its claim to be a generative AI company, according to one investment analyst who thinks this might explain its recent slowdown in growth from commercial markets.…

Customers can be pushed into renewing agreements for fear of the unknown, but there are cheaper options

Oracle is threatening software audits as customers seek to exit Unlimited License Agreements (ULAs).…

Despite record revenues, Wall Street doesn't expect growth to last

Chip designer Arm predicts that PCs based on its architecture will account for a significant share of the Windows market within three years as the company claims record revenues for the quarter just ended.…

Intel and Qualcomm reportedly among those cut off

Updated  The US Commerce Department has revoked some of the licenses held by tech companies to supply Chinese megacorp Huawei.…

No it's not happened, but officials want readiness in the South China Sea

The US Secretary of Commerce says it would be "absolutely devastating" if China seized Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and locked down the South China Sea.…

Duplication across geographies no defense against the 'one-of-a-kind' accidental deletion

Google's Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has weighed in on the UniSuper fiasco and confirmed that UniSuper's Private Cloud subscription was accidentally deleted.…