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FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds

donderdag 19 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks China-backed spies are said to have tore down their own 260,000-device botnet after the FBI and its international pals went after them.…

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ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it

donderdag 19 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts Over the last 20 years, ERP is the category of enterprise software deemed slowest to modernize because of priority given to sexier front office applications and senior…

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Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe

donderdag 19 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Concerns over the elimination of a future competitor through acquihiring The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has declared it needs fresh powers after the European Commission elected not to investigate Microsoft's acquihire of A…

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UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group

donderdag 19 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy Four UK-based proponents of human rights and critics of Middle Eastern states today filed a report with London's Metropolitan Police they hope …

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Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it

donderdag 19 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Kubernetes doyen talks to The Reg about keeping coders coding Interview  Acclaimed engineer Kelsey Hightower, who stopped coding for money in 2023, remains an influential figure in the world of software, and he's proposing something that might stir …

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With billions in UK govt IT contracts about to expire, get the next vendors to act right

donderdag 19 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Poor performers get renewals, new small outfits discouraged from bidding, say researchers UK government IT contracts worth £23.4 billion are due to end during the current five-year Parliament, according to researchers who warn that poor performing s…

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SiFive shifts from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator

donderdag 19 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Seems someone's looking for an Arm wrestle SiFive, having designed RISC-V CPU cores for various AI chips, is now offering to license the blueprints for its own homegrown full-blown machine-learning accelerator.…

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LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

donderdag 19 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

You'll have to opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others excepted LinkedIn started harvesting user-generated content to train its AI without asking for permission, angering netizens.…

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LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

donderdag 19 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

You'll have to opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others excepted LinkedIn started harvesting user-generated content to train its AI without asking for permission, angering netizens.…

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IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

We did warn you, Big Blue tells The Reg, as Cisco also cuts staff as promised IBM has been laying off a substantial number of employees this week and is trying to keep it quiet, our sources have said.…

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Google Cloud Document AI flaw (still) allows data theft despite bounty payout

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Chocolate Factory downgrades risk, citing the need for attacker access Updated  Overly permissive settings in Google Cloud's Document AI service could be abused by data thieves to break into Cloud Storage buckets and steal sensitive information.…

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Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life? In an intriguing move, notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims once again to have compromised eFile.com, which offers online services for electronically filing tax returns with the US Internal Re…

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IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

We did warn you, Big Blue tells The Reg, as Cisco also swings the ax as promised IBM has been laying off a substantial number of employees this week and is trying to keep it quiet, our sources have said.…

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FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks China-backed spies are said to have tore down their own 260,000-device botnet after the FBI and its international pals went after them.…

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Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life? Notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims once again to have compromised eFile.com, which offers online services for electronically filing tax returns with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).…

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Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Second wave of exploding gear kills at least 14 today First it was pagers, now Lebanon is being rocked by Hezbollah's walkie-talkies detonating across the country, leaving more than a dozen dead.…

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LockBit boasts of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life? Notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims to have compromised eFile.com, which offers online services for electronically filing tax returns with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).…

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Putin really wants Trump back in the White House

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

US govt, Microsoft report on Kremlin trolls' latest antics to Make America Grate Again Russia really wants Donald Trump to be the next US President, judging by reports from American government agencies and now Microsoft's threat intelligence team.…

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IBM is quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

We did warn you, Big Blue tells The Reg IBM has been laying off a substantial number of employees this week and is trying to keep it quiet, our sources have said.…

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Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, going gray

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

AI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot's work The majority of open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work, spend three times as much time on security than they did three years ago, and have become less trusting …

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Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls

woensdag 18 september 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

The more successful FOSS gets, the more it becomes a target Patent trolls are increasingly targeting cloud native open source projects, leading the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation to make efforts to extend their legal shields …

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