PLUS: Smartphone sales slump in India, China; Singapore's Temasek denies crypto investment; Dyson's new battery plant; and more Asia In Brief Chinese state media on Monday announced the return to Earth of a reusable spacecraft after 276 days in orb…
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Lees meerCan't wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec's village people This year's DEF CON AI Village has invited hackers to show up, dive in, and find bugs and biases in large language models (LLMs) built by Open…
Lees meerIt's time to take out the trash New York State Attorney General Letitia James has proposed a law that would ban cryptocurrency exchanges from trading their own tokens, which in turn might save folks from burning their fingers on erratic or errant as…
Lees meerSecurity hole ranks 9.8 out of 10 in severity, 0 out of 10 in patch availability There is a critical security flaw in a Cisco phone adapter, and the business technology giant says the only step to take is dumping the hardware and migrating to new ki…
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Lees meerDense debris left by Halley's Comet more than 3k years ago will produce more than 100 fireballs per hour The annual Halley's Comet-linked Eta Aquariid meteor shower will peak tonight and tomorrow, and for those able to see it, this year's show promi…
Lees meerTake it Huawei? Not if they don't think Feds will refund them FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel has warned US Congress that telco networks and service providers are not going to start projects to rip and replace kit made by ZTE and Huawei unless they ar…
Lees meerTexas officials preach limited government ... but not this limited The city of Dallas, Texas, is working to restore city services following a ransomware attack that crippled its IT systems.…
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Lees meerIRIS² program aims to get the EU off other countries' infrastructure A bunch of European space and telecoms companies have banded together to answer the EU's call for a satellite constellation to guarantee "communications sovereignty" for the region…
Lees meerHow to appease antitrust regulators by looking like you're doing something Microsoft is putting forward a plan to charge customers different prices for Office if it does or doesn’t come with Teams - the latest twist in its campaign to head off an EU…
Lees meerLLVM champ Chris Lattner is at the helm, so consider us intrigued Modular, an AI startup with above-average technical cred, has unveiled a programming language called Mojo that aspires to combine the usability of Python with the speed of C.…
Lees meerPutin FOSS to work when Microsoft et al abandoned pariah state Russia tops the global table for downloads of open source software over the last quarter, according to a survey tracking around 2,000 FOSS projects.…
Lees meerWeeks after outsourcer admits 'cyber incident' more warnings issued Capita is telling pension customers that some data contained within its systems was potentially accessed when criminals broke into the outsourcing giant's tech infrastructure earlie…
Lees meerNational Savings & Investment contracting for massive tech deals as customers complain of 2FA failure Updated The UK National Savings and Investment bank is being bombarded with complaints over failing online security and authentication features wh…
Lees meerA preview of what Uranus Orbiter and Probe might find in the 2040s NASA revealed on Thursday that four of the largest moons of ice giant Uranus likely contain a layer of water beneath their surface.…
Lees meerLawyers quip: 'The definition of hell is European legislation with American enforcement' A major decision on GDPR compensation rights handed down today includes what looks like a nasty surprise for many businesses: there is no threshold that non-mat…
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