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Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years PLUS: Cost of Halliburton hack disclosed; Time to dump old D-Link NAS; More UN cybercrime convention concerns; and more

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UK energy watchdog slaps down Capita's £130M smart meter splurge

Regulator finds poor planning and overuse of consultants added to costs in ailing rollout

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The National Museum of Computing reboots Bletchley Park's H Block

Tunny and Colossus galleries re-roofed

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That hardware will be more reliable if you stop stabbing it all day

Knives and lasers don't mix … until they do

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EU stings Meta for nearly a billion bucks over competition-trampling Facebook Marketplace

Mark Z does not like this

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Google decides Europe's political ad rules are too hard to implement at scale

Will stop accepting ads instead before TTPA comes into force

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Lenovo China clones the ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an old, slow, local x86

Four-core crawler can’t beat current – or ancient – AMDs or Intels

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Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years

PLUS: Cost of Halliburton hack disclosed; Time to dump old D-Link NAS; More UN cybercrime convention concerns; and more

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Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they?

Here's why they really should

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Bloke behind Helix Bitcoin launderette jailed for three years, hands over $400M

Digital money laundering pays, until it doesn't

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Mystery Palo Alto Networks hijack-my-firewall zero-day now officially under exploit

Yank access to management interface, stat

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Keyboard robbers steal 171K customers' data from AnnieMac mortgage house

Names and social security numbers of folks looking for the biggest loan of their lives exposed

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Bitfinex burglar bags 5 years behind bars for Bitcoin heist

A nervous wait for rapper wife who also faces a stint in the clink

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Microsoft Power Pages misconfigurations exposing sensitive data

NHS supplier that leaked employee info fell victim to fiddly access controls that can leave databases dangling online

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US, China, agree machines must not be allowed to control nuclear weapons

PLUS: LG struts catwalk in stretchy screen; Samsung’s strike nears end; Vietnam warns Chinese e-commerce players; and more

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AI poetry out-humans humans as readers prefer bots to bards

Uncultured swine prone to believe complexity of verse is machine-generated babble

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NASA and Microsoft intro Earth Copilot to tame satellite data overload

Proof of concept allows geospatial datasets to be conversationally queried

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Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again

It's memory-safe, with a few caveats

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Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you'd expect

LLM-controlled droids easily jailbroken to perform mayhem, researchers warn

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Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework

First true sign of AGI – blowing a fuse with a frustrating user?

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Photoshop FOSS alternative GNU Image Manipulation Program 3.0 nearly here

Nearly 21 years since version 2.0

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LXQt packs Wayland punch with 2.1 release

The lightest mainstream Linux desktop joins the tiny handful that support X.org replacement

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Musk also wants to fight Microsoft in legal grudge match with OpenAI

House of GPT says suit is 'baseless and overreaching'

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Microsoft Exchange update fixes security flaws, breaks other stuff

Flawed patch stops on-premises, hybrid server transport rules in their tracks for some

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O2's AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers' time

Brit mobile network's Daisy has time, patience, and plenty of yarns to spin

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WP Engine revs Automattic lawsuit with antitrust claim

Revised sueball over WordPress brawl tries Sherman Antitrust Act on for size

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Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with metre-long tool left inside engine

Emails and tool-tracking software weren't heeded, but nothing scary happened - except to the nylon tool

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Friday, November 15, 2024

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Sunday, November 17, 2024

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Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years [Mon Nov 18 2024]

Daily Headlines

Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years

On-Prem

UK energy watchdog slaps down Capita's £130M smart meter splurge

The National Museum of Computing reboots Bletchley Park's H Block

That hardware will be more reliable if you stop stabbing it all day

EU stings Meta for nearly a billion bucks over competition-trampling Facebook Marketplace

Google decides Europe's political ad rules are too hard to implement at scale

Lenovo China clones the ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an old, slow, local x86

Performance benchmarks: A pocket guide

Reclaim Your Time

Security

Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years

Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they?

Bloke behind Helix Bitcoin launderette jailed for three years, hands over $400M

Mystery Palo Alto Networks hijack-my-firewall zero-day now officially under exploit

Keyboard robbers steal 171K customers' data from AnnieMac mortgage house

Bitfinex burglar bags 5 years behind bars for Bitcoin heist

Microsoft Power Pages misconfigurations exposing sensitive data

Google sets BigQuery apart with GenAI, Open Choices, and Cross-Cloud Querying

Future Of Restaurants

Software

US, China, agree machines must not be allowed to control nuclear weapons

AI poetry out-humans humans as readers prefer bots to bards

NASA and Microsoft intro Earth Copilot to tame satellite data overload

Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again

Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you'd expect

Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework

Photoshop FOSS alternative GNU Image Manipulation Program 3.0 nearly here

LXQt packs Wayland punch with 2.1 release

Musk also wants to fight Microsoft in legal grudge match with OpenAI

Microsoft Exchange update fixes security flaws, breaks other stuff

O2's AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers' time

WP Engine revs Automattic lawsuit with antitrust claim

Accelerating generative Al-driven transformation with databases

Offbeat

Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with metre-long tool left inside engine

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