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B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident

Company continues to investigate root cause

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Microsoft closes Windows 11 upgrade loophole in latest Insider build

Pretending you're a server won't stop the hardware police

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Virginia's datacenters guzzle water like there's no tomorrow, says FOI-based report

AI's thirst for power is only making things worse

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Raspberry Pi 5 slims down for cut-price 2 GB RAM version

Nobody really needs more than that, right?

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Digital wallets can allow purchases with stolen credit cards

Researchers find it's possible to downgrade authentication checks, and shabby token refresh policies

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OpenAI kills Iranian accounts using ChatGPT to write US election disinfo

12 on X and one on Instagram caught in the crackdown

Multiple flaws in Microsoft macOS apps unpatched despite potential risks

Windows giant tells Cisco Talos it isn't fixing them

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National Public Data tells officials 'only' 1.3M people affected by intrusion

Investigators previously said the number was much, much higher

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RansomHub-linked EDR-killing malware spotted in the wild

Also: Your external-facing NetSuite sites need a review; five popular malware varieties for Q2, and more

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GM axes 1,000+ jobs in software and service division, majority in US

Automaker claims it has to ‘make bold choices’

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Gentoo Linux to drop Itanium support as Funtoo fork enters 'Hobby Mode'

Founder's side-project is letting in water

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Ubuntu 24.04.1 will be late, but fresher kernels are coming

Bad news for impatient LTS users, balanced out by tweaked policy

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Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

Autonomy founder's wife rescued, daughter and others unaccounted for

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CockroachDB scuttles away from open source Core offering

Distributed database biz doesn't like bigger customers using the free version of its software

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Sorry, Moxie. Blaming Agile for software stagnation puts the wrong villain in the wrong play

Innovation dead for twenty years? Tell that to 2004

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Chinese chip equipment maker AMEC sues Pentagon for entity list removal

Plus: China's richest man used to work for Google; Singtel profit jumps; most APAC governments don't have AI governance policies, and more

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Nvidia's latest AI climate model takes aim at severe weather

That tornado warning couldn't possibly be a hallucination... could it?

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ESA's Juice probe dances with Earth and Moon before shooting off to Jupiter

Gravity assist flybys planned for tonight and tomorrow

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Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage

Debugging software on the waterfront is a strangely dangerous task

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Japan's Astroscale wins contract for space junk harvesting robotic arm

The plan is to do away with an H-IIA rocket upper stage – and prove it's possible

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