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13 February 2025

Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber GOP lawyer Sean Cairncross will be learning on the fly, as we also say hi to new intelligence boss Tulsi Gabbard

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IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI

Demand described as a 'soft layoff'

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Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber

GOP lawyer Sean Cairncross will be learning on the fly, as we also say hi to new intelligence boss Tulsi Gabbard

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Running hot? Server shipments forecast to cool in 2025

Supply chain and regulatory hurdles likely to shrink figures

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

Economy-boosting bit barn? Not in my back yard, some locals expected to say

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Murena boss says customers about to wake up from its cloud storage nightmare

Four months since cloud drive kicked the bucket, but resolution comes today... hopefully

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Ignorance really is bliss when you’re drowning in information

If only the joy of missing out was easier to achieve

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Numerix, Leading Provider of Capital Markets Technology, Migrates to AWS with RapidScale Case Study

MAeHC Migrates Quality Data Center Application to AWS with RapidScale Case Study

Security

Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow vulnerabilities

FBI, CISA harrumph at Microsoft and VMware in call for coders to quit baking avoidable defects into stuff

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Sophos sheds 6% of staff after swallowing Secureworks

De-dupes some roles, hints others aren't needed as the infosec scene shifts

Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un

300+ US companies, 70+ individuals hit by the fraudsters

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Ransomware isn't always about the money: Government spies have objectives, too

Analysts tell El Reg why Russia's operators aren't that careful, and why North Korea wants money AND data

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Russia's Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs

'Near-global' initial access campaign active since 2021

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Crimelords and spies for rogue states are working together, says Google

Only lawmakers can stop them. Plus: software needs to be more secure, but what's in it for us?

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February's Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft offer just 63 fixes

Don't relax just yet: Redmond has made some certificate-handling changes that could trip unprepared admins

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HIPAA Compliance on AWS Checklist

How Data Scientists Are Using the AWS Cloud to Help Consumers Save Money Case Study

Software

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

From the billionaire who said real-time surveillance is good for keeping us in check

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EU plans to 'mobilize' €200B to invest in AI to catch up with US and China

Captain's Log, Stardate 3529.7 – oh yeah, Commish also withdrawing law that would help folks sue over AI harms

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Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP

Users' sluggish migration of critical apps mean current deadline not workable, says analyst

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AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds

Research after Apple Intelligence fiasco shows bots still regularly make stuff up

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After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected

Not all bad news for Redmond as Australian agency also found strong ROI and some unexpected upsides

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A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap

You gotta fight ... for your Reuters ... to party

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The Art of Auto Scaling: Learn the Latest Best Practices And Avoid Common Mistakes

With Sample Architecture Diagrams and CloudFormation Templates

Offbeat

DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech

Previous NOM4D experiments have gone so well, says project leader, that it's time to get real

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James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world

40 m or 90 m? The difference matters in the case of impact

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SpaceX Crew Dragons swapped so ISS crew can go home early

'Stranded' Starliner astronauts set for a March homecoming

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Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation

Einstein’s spooky action at a distance just got an upgrade

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Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber [Thu Feb 13 2025]

Daily Headlines

Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber

On-Prem

IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI

Trump’s cyber chief pick has little experience in The Cyber

Running hot? Server shipments forecast to cool in 2025

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

Murena boss says customers about to wake up from its cloud storage nightmare

Ignorance really is bliss when you’re drowning in information

Numerix, Leading Provider of Capital Markets Technology, Migrates to AWS with RapidScale

MAeHC Migrates Quality Data Center Application to AWS with RapidScale

Security

Feds want devs to stop coding 'unforgivable' buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Sophos sheds 6% of staff after swallowing Secureworks

Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un

Ransomware isn't always about the money: Government spies have objectives, too

Russia's Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs

Crimelords and spies for rogue states are working together, says Google

February's Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft offer just 63 fixes

HIPAA Compliance on AWS

How Data Scientists Are Using the AWS Cloud to Help Consumers Save Money

Software

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

EU plans to 'mobilize' €200B to invest in AI to catch up with US and China

Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP

AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds

After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected

A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap

The Art of Auto Scaling: Learn the Latest Best Practices And Avoid Common Mistakes

Offbeat

DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech

James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world

SpaceX Crew Dragons swapped so ISS crew can go home early

Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation

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