Badass Russian techie outsmarts FSB, flees Putinland all while being tracked with spyware [Mon Dec 9 2024]

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Badass Russian techie outsmarts FSB, flees Putinland all while being tracked with spyware

Threatened with life in prison, Kyiv charity worker gives middle finger to state spies

 

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Euro cloud body heads off to Microsoft's HQ to check it's keeping promises

Wine-tasting seems to be an essential part of an EU-friendly Azure Local

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Kyndryl's consulting business may be less than it seems

Insiders say it's largely a matter of labeling

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How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system

'It's a double-edged sword,' security researchers tell The Reg

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Microsoft teases Copilot Vision, the AI sidekick that judges your tabs

Edge-exclusive tool promises 'second set of eyes' for browsing

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Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump

Plus, xAI scores another $6B to fuel Tesla tycoon's war on OpenAI

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Facing sale or ban, TikTok tossed under national security bus by appeals court

Video slinger looks to Supremes for salvation, though anything could happen under Trump

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Boeing busted by employee over plans to surveil workers, quickly reverses course

Crashing stock, plummeting reputation, but yeah, of course, let's focus on office usage

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Intel aims to reinvent itself as foundry focus sharpens amid leadership shake-up

Interim chief David Zinsner claims core strategy intact, will stay the course to contract manufacturer

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Europe's largest local authority settles on ERP budget 5x original estimate

Schools taken out of scope, but £108M plan still dwarfs initial £20M

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No, I can't help – you called the wrong helpdesk, in the wrong place, for the wrong platform

Call the boss instead. He's not a big fan of sleep

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Huawei handed 2,596,148,429,267,413,
814,265,248,164,610,048 IPv6 addresses

That's 2.56 decillion of them, destined for use in CDNs and the cloud – and APNIC needed 83 decillion more to handle the request

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Micropatchers share 1-instruction fix for NTLM hash leak flaw in Windows 7+

Microsoft's OS sure loves throwing your creds at remote systems

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Salt Typhoon forces FCC's hand on making telcos secure their networks

Proposal pushes stricter infosec safeguards after Chinese state baddies expose vulns

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Badass Russian techie outsmarts FSB, flees Putinland all while being tracked with spyware

Threatened with life in prison, Kyiv charity worker gives middle finger to state spies

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PoC exploit chains Mitel MiCollab 0-day, auth-bypass bug to access sensitive files

Still unpatched 100+ days later, watchTowr says

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China launches AI that writes politically correct docs for bureaucrats

PLUS: Politician thought Korea's martial law declaration was a deepfake; Apple finds a billion for Indonesia; China worries about open source intel; and more

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OpenAI to charge $200 per month for ChatGPT Pro

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AI and analytics converge in new generation Amazon SageMaker

Calling everything SageMaker is confusing – but a new name would have been worse says AWS

Veteran Microsoft engineer shares some enterprise support tips

How to tell a customer they're an idiot without telling them they're an idiot

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British boffins build diamond battery capable of working for a millennium or five

Carbon-14 decay could be coming to an implant in you

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Digital Isle of Man: For all your connected tax haven needs?

Fantasizing about leaving the mess at home behind? Pretty island packed with medieval ruins promotes itself as a venue for e-business

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Vega-C finally launches ESA's next Sentinel satellite

Return to flight almost two years since the previous endeavor failed

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NASA finds Orion heatshield cracks won't cook Artemis II crew

Lunar flights therefore set for seven-month delay and change re-entry approach, but redesign not needed

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