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30 November 2023

UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms Acts under the guise of protecting the public from fraud, yet history suggests Home Office has other motives

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Two sats, one customer: Japan's NTT signs up for Amazon's space internet

Take that, Elon

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The Business Value of Aiven Data Cloud Solutions IDC White Paper

2023 Data and AI Trends Report

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Meta yanks VR headset's strap-on booster battery after charging bricks it

A misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin - what could possibly go wrong?

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Goldman sacked: Apple 'wants out' of credit card collab

Don't be too shocked: Financial giant has been fleeing normie banking lately after failing to find footing

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Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive

No one's buying these things. Just, uh, ignore the massive markups

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Time to take action: Google's inactive account purge begins Friday

You should've received an email if you're affected, but here's a reminder just in case

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Server sales down 31% at HPE as enterprises hack spending

Customers still 'digesting' shipments bought in 2022, says exec in mixed fiscal year for hardware biz

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Google goes geothermal to power some bitbarns

Search giant exploring more locations to squeeze watts from rocks

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2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Whitepaper

Best-in-class customer security; fast and easy How Customer Identity delivers best-in-class security for Small and Medium Businesses

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Rogue ex-Motorola techie admits cyberattack on former employer, passport fraud

Pro tip: Don't use your new work email to phish your old firm

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Uncle Sam probes cyberattack on Pennsylvania water system by suspected Iranian crew

CISA calls for stronger IT defenses as Texas district also hit by ransomware crew

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Okta data breach dilemma dwarfs earlier estimates

All customer support users told their info was accessed after analysis oversight

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British Library begins contacting customers as Rhysida leaks data dump

CRM databases were accessed and library users are advised to change passwords

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UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms

Acts under the guise of protecting the public from fraud, yet history suggests Home Office has other motives

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Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS

Planning portal back online with a more secure connection

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Japan's space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory

JAXA is having a tough time in cyberspace and outer space, the latter thanks to an electrical glitch

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Meta: If you're in our house running AI-massaged political ads, you need to 'fess up

Facebook titan vows to protect two billion voters ... but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU

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IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon

Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though

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Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org

Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too

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Microsoft .NET MAUI devs vent over bugs backlog, response times

New features are great and all, but maybe fix some of the issues too?

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Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator

Competition Markets Authority claims merger will reduce innovation for designers and other creative types

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AI won't take your job, might shrink your wages, European Central Bank reckons

In the US, however, folks are ready and willing to bin you for a bot

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Good luck finding competent Copilot help, warns Microsoft MVP

Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred

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VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint

Amid accounts of wider layoffs and Broadcom doing a 'strategic review' of end-user compute and Carbon Black products

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Dragonfly delayed – formal confirmation of journey to Saturn's moon slips into 2024

Titan trip postponed while NASA awaits the FY 2025 budget request

That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth

Forget Martian dust devils, it's the peril of the blue smoke you have to worry about

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No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins

'We looked very hard for a smoking gun linking technology and well-being and we didn't find it'

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Japan's digital minister flamed and shamed for using his smartphone in Parliament

His job is to modernise Japan but Googling electoral trivia to ensure accurate answers is not allowed

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UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms [Thu Nov 30 2023]

{* Daily Headlines *}

UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms

Off-Prem

Two sats, one customer: Japan's NTT signs up for Amazon's space internet

The Business Value of Aiven Data Cloud Solutions

2023 Data and AI Trends

On-Prem

Meta yanks VR headset's strap-on booster battery after charging bricks it

Goldman sacked: Apple 'wants out' of credit card collab

Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive

Time to take action: Google's inactive account purge begins Friday

Server sales down 31% at HPE as enterprises hack spending

Google goes geothermal to power some bitbarns

2022 Accelerate State of DevOps

Best-in-class customer security; fast and easy

Security

Rogue ex-Motorola techie admits cyberattack on former employer, passport fraud

Uncle Sam probes cyberattack on Pennsylvania water system by suspected Iranian crew

Okta data breach dilemma dwarfs earlier estimates

British Library begins contacting customers as Rhysida leaks data dump

UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms

Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS

Japan's space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory

Apache Kafka® for tech leaders

Software

Meta: If you're in our house running AI-massaged political ads, you need to 'fess up

IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon

Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org

Microsoft .NET MAUI devs vent over bugs backlog, response times

Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator

AI won't take your job, might shrink your wages, European Central Bank reckons

Good luck finding competent Copilot help, warns Microsoft MVP

VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint

Offbeat

Dragonfly delayed – formal confirmation of journey to Saturn's moon slips into 2024

That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth

No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins

Japan's digital minister flamed and shamed for using his smartphone in Parliament

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