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Microsoft worker accidentally exposes 38TB of sensitive data in GitHub blunder [Tue Sep 19 2023]

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Microsoft worker accidentally exposes 38TB of sensitive data in GitHub blunder

Included secrets, private keys, passwords, 30,000+ internal Teams messages

 
 

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Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure

At least it was the weekend

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Activist investor KKR buys 20 percent of Asian datacenter outfit

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Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging

Don't get too excited, tech won't be ready until the end of the decade

Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay abruptly announces departure

Rumors point to Panay headed to Amazon to take over for outgoing Alexa and Echo chief David Limp

AMD's latest Epyc is slimmer, cooler, and ready to party at the edge

Little chip promises big power savings

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

Fuming customers steamed as they'd already paid luxury prices

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Chap blew up critical equipment on his first day – but it wasn't his volt

Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

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37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million

CTO David Heinemeier Hansson reckons he’s on track to hit $10 million over five years

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SK hynix vice-chair denies selling to Huawei, calls for memory probe

PLUS: Hong Kong’s CoinEx crypto exchange frozen; Uber eyes off India; and more!

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Thousands of Juniper Junos firewalls still open to hijacks, exploit code available to all

Unauthenticated and remote code execution possible without dropping a file on disk

Former CIO accuses Penn State of faking cybersecurity compliance

Now-NASA boffin not impressed

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Microsoft worker accidentally exposes 38TB of sensitive data in GitHub blunder

Included secrets, private keys, passwords, 30,000+ internal Teams messages

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California passes bill to set up one-stop data deletion shop

Also, LockBit gets a new second stringer, AirTag owners find yet another illicit use, and this week's critical vulns

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Cryptojackers spread their nets to capture more than just EC2

AMBERSQUID operation takes AWS's paths less travelled in search of compute

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Sonos secures a victory in audio patent fight against Google

ITC judge rules you can't sue over invalid patents, but the fight goes on

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CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit

Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project

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Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy

Auditors unable to sign off accounts partly due to lack of IT controls amid challenging ERP deployment

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Having read the room, Unity goes back to drawing board on runtime fee policy

But the damage has already been done

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UK judge rates ChatGPT as 'jolly useful' after using it to help write a decision

PLUS: Coca-Cola's AI-designed drink to debut; chip startups struggle to compete with Nvidia as funding flees

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US Defense Department enlists Google for AI-powered cancer-spotting kit

A different type of ARM - the Augmented Reality Microscope

World's most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second

US DoE particle will be a 'strobe light' in atomic disco

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SEC gets $10m from Lyft over failure to disclose $424m pre-IPO stock sale

Board member sold off stock just before listing, Lyft forgot to mention it

Textbook publishers sue shadow library LibGen for copyright infringement

Yet another attempt at a permanent takedown – but will it stick?

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If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon

US military enlists public to help track down missing jet

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Mention AI in earnings calls ... and watch that share price leap

This week's story is brought to you by the letters C, E, O, as well as B and S

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Britcoin or Britcon? Bank of England grilled on Digital Pound privacy concerns

At least the economists seem to have a better grip on tech than Online Safety Bill pushers...

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South Korean telco SK Broadband and Netflix call a truce in network payment fight

Maybe better together? Duo announce AI and entertainment product partnership

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Apples to apples: Boffins find a way to make e-waste edible

We're rubbish at recycling plastic, but Singaporean scientists think they can make more of it recoverable. Even the hard cases used in electronics

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