Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum [Thu Aug 29 2024]

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Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum

Phew! Consumer-grade tracking devices are good for more than finding your keys and stalking

 

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Microsoft partners beware: Action Pack to be retired in 2025

Windows giant continues march away from on-prem and into a cloudy future

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AT&T to shell out $950,000 after quad-state 911 outage

Service takes another dive just as settlement is announced

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Supermicro delays 10-K filling due to accounting issues

Financial research org labels server-maker a ‘serial recidivist’, alleges quality product problems

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HP secures $50M CHIPS Act boost to adapt inkjet tech for life sciences

Major funding backs printer giant's microfluidics work as market waits to see if regular printing revs recover

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Missing Fujitsu PCs? It's back with a fresh lineup of 16 models

Business left Europe last year, but remains ticking away

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As the Apple Watch turns 10, disabled users demand real accessibility

Forget wrist acrobatics, we need smarter wake word detection and on-device voice recognition

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Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits

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Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum

Phew! Consumer-grade tracking devices are good for more than finding your keys and stalking

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Big Tech: Malaysia won't let us set our own rules and that's not fair and makes us grumpy

Asia Internet Coalition asks for rethink of social media licensing law with the old 'You'll scare away investors' line – a week after AWS opened a region

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Chinese broadband satellites may be Beijing's flying spying censors, think tank warns

Ground stations are the perfect place for the Great Firewall to block things China finds unpleasant

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Microsoft hosts a security summit but no press, public allowed

CrowdStrike, other vendors, friendly govt reps…but not anyone would can tell you what happened

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Iran's Pioneer Kitten hits US networks via buggy Check Point, Palo Alto gear

The government-backed crew also enjoys ransomware as a side hustle

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Dick's Sporting Goods discloses cyberattack

Authorities probing unwanted intrusion; hard questions ahead

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From Copilot to Copirate: How data thieves could hijack Microsoft's chatbot

Prompt injection, ASCII smuggling, and other swashbuckling attacks on the horizon

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Proof-of-concept code released for zero-click critical Windows vuln

If you haven't deployed August's patches, get busy before others do

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Google trains a GenAI model to simulate DOOM's game engine in real-ish time

The proof of concept shows promise despite big limitations

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Warren Buffett’s favorite insurer, GEICO, drops VMware for OpenStack

Seeks customizable cloud and less lock-in

Elon Musk reins in Grok AI bot to stop election misinformation

Because who needs yet another lawsuit?

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'Uncertainty' drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux

Significant improvements to Microsoft's in-house Linux may follow

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Enterprise SAP users split between on-prem and cloud as migration challenges loom

This is despite the German vendor's preferred upgrade path

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Gartner warns Omnissa – formerly VMware's end-user compute biz – represents new risks

Weak roadmap, tricky migration path, and Broadcom dependencies add up to uncertainty

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Public clouds are 'dirty' about VMware's on-prem push, says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan

Virtzilla's sales swing decisively to the Cloud Foundation bundle

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TikTok isn't protected by Section 230 in 10-year-old’s ‘blackout challenge’ death

Want a bot to pick engaging content and immunity from liability? Sorry, no

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NASA's billion-dollar launcher is behind schedule and burning cash

Stop us if you've heard this one before

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Rocket Factory Augsburg breaks down the SaxaVord blowout

'Enjoy the footage. It has cost us quite some money to generate'

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