Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset [Tue Mar 11 2025]

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Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset

Expired SSL cert kerfuffle leaves second-gen, Audio gadgets useless

 

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No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more

Oh, and Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X downtime

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Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset

Expired SSL cert kerfuffle leaves second-gen, Audio gadgets useless

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ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China

Center will reuse and recondition systems returned from field

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Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses

Staff warned that for Q1, non-compliance = 'Disciplinary action'

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Junior techie rushed off for fun weekend after making a terminal mistake that crashed a client

Using one green screen to manage multiple machines needs more than a Friday afternoon brain

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Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it

Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands

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Sidewinder goes nuclear, charts course for maritime mayhem in tactics shift

Phishing and ancient vulns still do the trick for one of the most prolific groups around

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Rhysida pwns two US healthcare orgs, extracts over 300K patients' data

Terabytes of sensitive info remain available for download

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How NOT to f-up your security incident response

Experts say that the way you handle things after the criminals break in can make things better or much, much worse

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The NHS security culture problem is a crisis years in the making

Insiders say board members must be held accountable and drive positive change from the top down

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Microsoft admits GitHub hosted malware that infected almost a million devices

Also, phone cleaner apps are a data-sucking scam, Singapore considering the literal rod for scammers, and more

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The IT leader's guide to optimising your cloud budget

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Google's Chrome divorce still on the cards as Trump's DoJ plays hardball

$1M donation to inauguration fund and a personal appearance by Pichai appear to have been pointless

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Consumer Reports calls out slapdash AI voice-cloning safeguards

Study finds 4 out of 6 providers don't do enough to stop impersonation

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The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?

Mission-critical app migration, 'if it ain't broke...' and more. All that glitters isn't gold when it comes to biz needs

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Strap in, get ready for more Rust drivers in Linux kernel

Likening memory safety bugs to smallpox may not soothe sensitive C coders

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Manus mania is here: Chinese ‘general agent’ is this week’s ‘future of AI' and OpenAI-killer

Prompts see it scour the web for info and turn it into decent documents at reasonable speed

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$16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet. It hasn’t gone well

It's just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP

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Things are looking down for cutting-edge cosmic observatories

Space is the place? Not if you're nuts about neutrinos

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