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Ace holed: Hardware store empire felled by cyberattack [Wed Nov 1 2023]

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Apple swipes left on the last Touch Bar Mac, replaces it with a pricier 14″ model

Proper function keys are the norm once more and the dream of a touchscreen Mac appears to be dead

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Trademark fight: Brit biz Threads has a teeny tiny problem with Meta's Threads

Software house says it's had UK trademark since 2012 as Zuck & Co know full well

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X says it's only worth $19B after year of Muskmanagement

Everything's down, except Elon's engagement, and that's what really matters, right?

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Intel dumps its silicon photonics bells and whistles into Jabil's lap

10th arena that chip giant has quit in 2.5 years for $1.8B in annual savings

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FCC throws an $18B bone to rural broadband

Funds intended to support carriers for more than 15 years

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Dell cosies up to Meta to tame Llama 2 AI beast on-prem

Spitting in the cloud's eye

The UK government? On the right track with its semiconductor strategy?

Oh, you're not joking

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Google formally gets to work on Android on RISC-V

Emulators coming in 2024, first for wearables

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Vietnam becomes latest nation to pitch itself as a chip biz hub

50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested

Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of 'scary fast' M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process

MacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199

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US officials close to persuading allies to not pay off ransomware crooks

'We're still in the final throes of getting every last member to sign'

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'Mass exploitation' of Citrix Bleed underway as ransomware crews pile in

At least two extortion gangs abusing CVE-2023-4966, we're told

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Now Russians accused of pwning JFK taxi system to sell top spots to cabbies

Big Apple unlikely to get a bite out of them at this rate, though

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Ace holed: Hardware store empire felled by cyberattack

US outfit scrambles to repair operations, restore processing of online orders

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Finance orgs have 30 days to confess cyber sins under incoming FTC rules

Follows similar efforts from the SEC and DHS in recent months

Cybersecurity snafu sends British Library back to the Dark Ages

Internet, phone lines, websites, and more went down on Saturday morning

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UK policing minister urges doubling down on face-scanning tech

'No question' it will solve more crimes, Tory MP claims

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Meta's ad-free scheme dares you to buy your privacy back, one euro at a time

If you're in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland

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Stop what you’re doing and patch this critical Confluence flaw, warns Atlassian

Risk of ‘significant data loss’ for on-prem customers

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Tesla swerves liability in Autopilot death lawsuit

Cali jury decides 9-3 Muskmobile maker wasn't at fault when Model 3 veered into tree and exploded

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Judge bins AI copyright lawsuit against DeviantArt, Midjourney – Stability still in the mix

Artists' lawyers vow to fight on

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Unit4 ditching on-prem in favor of SaaS come 2025

Clients have a little over a year to get their affairs in order

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Microsoft's 11-year itch: The uncelebrated anniversary of Windows 8

Lots to like under the covers, but what was on top made it truly unforgettable

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Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting

All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit

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Canada to remove China’s top messaging app WeChat from government devices

Kaspersky also on the way out due to ‘unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security'

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As NASA struggles to open OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample can, probe heads off to next rock

Screw it... no wait, unscrew it, cry boffins

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NASA and Boeing try to chase the contrail clouds away

The sky isn't the limit when it comes to greener fuel alternatives

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To prevent 'lost' nukes, scientists suggest storing them in a hall of mirrors

Radio bouncing off multiple reflectors is a hard-to-defeat method of monitoring a weapons cache

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