Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of former coworker [Thu Apr 4 2024]

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Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of former coworker

Actions sent homeless victim to jail and a mental hospital for more than a year

 

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AWS severs connection with several hundred staff

'Necessary,' 'focusing our efforts,' 'deliver maximum impact' ... sounds just like all the other tech layoffs lately

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TSMC evacuated fabs after M7.4 earthquake hit Taiwan

Internet outages recorded as Japan issues tsunami warning

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PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again

The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027

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Uber Eats to rid itself of pesky human drivers with food delivery by robo Waymo

First they came for the taxis and I did nothing because I was not a taxi driver

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FCC to reinstate net neutrality in the US until someone decides to scrap it again

Pendulum returns to the Obama era – don't be surprised if it swings right back

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Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of former coworker

Actions sent homeless victim to jail and a mental hospital for more than a year

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Outlook.com trips over Google's spam blocking rules

Microsoft has a workaround but it's not a great look

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Intel's foundry business bled $7B in 2023 with more to come

CEO Gelsinger promises sunny days ahead as he confirms reorg

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UK government sets sights on £8B tech procurement overhaul

Mega framework set to replace earlier deals coming to an end next year

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Singapore expands regulations for digital payment token service providers

More entities will need a license

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Nearly 1M medical records feared stolen from City of Hope cancer centers

Is there no cure for this cyber-plague?

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Cyberattack hits Omni Hotels systems, taking out bookings, payments, door locks

As WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, other Meta bits plus Apple stuff fall offline today

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Security pioneer Ross Anderson dies at 67

A man with a list of accolades long enough for several lifetimes, friends remember his brilliance

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Google bakes new cookie strategy that will leave crooks with a bad taste

Device Bound Session Credentials said to render cookie theft useless

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Meet clickjacking's slicker cousin, 'gesture jacking,' aka 'cross window forgery'

Web devs advised to do their part to limit UI redress attacks

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Microsoft slammed for lax security that led to China's cyber-raid on Exchange Online

CISA calls for 'fundamental, security-focused reforms' to happen ASAP, delaying work on other software

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Software engineer helped put Sam Bankman-Fried behind bars, say prosecutors

CTO shared code from his laptop with investigation after FTX collapsed

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Opera browser dev branch rolls out support for running LLMs locally

150 variants from about 50 families to choose from

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Want to keep Windows 10 secure? This is how much Microsoft will charge you

Hint: It will keep going up

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Bon Jovi, Billy Eilish, other musicians implore AI devs to think of humanity

Using copyrighted material to train models affects artists' livelihoods, says open letter

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Linux Foundation marshals support for open source alternative to Redis

Follows the vendor's decision to overhaul licensing of the popular cache database

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How this open source LLM chatbot runner hit the gas on x86, Arm CPUs

Way to whip that LLaMA's ass

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Turns out AI chatbots are way more persuasive than humans

Next time you get in a Facebook argument, just let ChatGPT handle it

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US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone

What's a few microseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually

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Alibaba signs to explore one-hour rocket deliveries

Chinese space startup claims it has the tech to make it happen. Yeah, right

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Simulation reveals all Japanese will have the same surname by 2531

Konnichiwa, Sato-San

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