Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director [Mon Apr 22 2024]

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Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director

With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer

 

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Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director

With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer

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Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash

Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: 'Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage'

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SpaceX, Northrop Grumman reportedly working on US spy sat program

LEO rising in US military: Close encounters of the recon kind

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AI energy draw from Chicago datacenters to rise ninefold

No wonder industry is exploring nuclear as an alternative to electricity

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A quarter of 5-7 year olds now use smartphones, says regulator

Social media use and gaming show steep increases within the age group, after UK comms watchdog given new powers

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Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed

UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware

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Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting

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Huawei's latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises

Kirin 9010 SoC powering the Pura 70 is impressive, but doesn't indicate unforeseen prowess

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Sacramento airport goes no-fly after AT&T internet cable snipped

Police say this appears to be a 'deliberate act.'

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WhatsApp, Threads, more banished from Apple App Store in China

Still available in Hong Kong and Macau, for now

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Cybercriminals threaten to leak all 5 million records from stolen database of high-risk individuals

It’s the second time the World-Check list has fallen into the wrong hands

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Germany cuffs alleged Russian spies over plot to bomb industrial and military targets

Apparently an attempt to damage Ukraine's war effort

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Microsoft teases deepfake AI that's too good to release

VASA-1 framework can turn a still image and a cloned voice file into a plausible video of a person talking

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Lightweight LXQt 2.0.0 updates to same toolkit as KDE Plasma 6

4-letter survivor's move to Qt 6 means that, love it or hate it, Wayland is looming

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Google squashes AI teams together in push for fresh models

You can leave your personal vendettas at home – we have work to do, Pichai warns

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Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show that there's room to innovate

Hot on the heels of Ubuntu Noble beta come the betas of the Qt-based remixes, with some interesting differences

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UK unions publish AI bill to protect workers from 'risks and harms' of tech

TUC questions government's approach so far

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A knotty problem: Boffins working on fuel-efficient trajectories for space travel

Not yet the London Underground style efficient schematic we want, but it's a start

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NASA solar sail to be Siriusly visible in orbit from Earth

Look out for a new star next week

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Unintended acceleration leads to recall of every Cybertruck produced so far

That isn't what Tesla meant by Full Self-Driving

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Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95

No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest

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