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Lees meerThe Feds may see things differently Cryptocurrency bridge Nomad sent a message to the looters who drained nearly $200 million in tokens from its coffers earlier this week: return at least 90 percent of the ill-gotten gains, keep 10 percent as a boun…
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Lees meerTwo lightweight distros get updated after extended pauses Slax, one of the lightest-weight Linux distros around, and Peppermint OS, a web-centric Debian remix, both put out new versions this week.…
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Lees meerFolk of flash meet in person as Compute Express Link 3.0 debuts Flash Memory Summit The Flash Memory Summit 2022 was held as an in-person event again this week for the first time since 2019, at the Santa Clara Convention Center San Francisco, showc…
Lees meerSuspected security attack at Advanced takes down part of server estate that hosted range of apps Tech services provider Advanced has taken part of its infrastructure offline as it tries to contain a suspected security incident, with a range of hoste…
Lees meerSet hyperdrives for the Chorizos system ... oh actually it's baloney A French scientist's spicy tweet fooled the internet into believing a slice of chorizo was a detailed picture of a star captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. …
Lees meerBuys up land to train and entertain space tourists when they do start Virgin Galactic (VG) is once again delaying its commercial service, shifting the expected launch of well-to-do space tourists from the first three months of 2023 to Q2, amid widen…
Lees meerChip giant's efforts to building production capacity outside of Asia gains steam Intel is preparing to close a deal worth at least $5 billion that will see the chip giant build a semiconductor plant in Italy.…
Lees meerBeijing-backed PR firm is behind at least 72 ersatz web titles, Mandiant says A Beijing-backed PR firm has been accused of being behind at least 72 fake-news websites and social media accounts pushing pro-China propaganda and criticizing the US and …
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Lees meerStanford academics peeved over LaMDA chatbot brouhaha AI chatbots are not sentient – they have just got better at tricking humans into thinking they might be, experts at Stanford University conclude.…
Lees meerAt least Switchzilla thinks they're salvageable, unlike the boxes it ordered binned back in June Cisco has revealed four of its small business router ranges have critical flaws – for the second time in 2022 alone.…
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