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Non-profit's IT manager accused of embezzling $400k by buying gear, services from his own fake companies

Boss used org's credit card to buy stuff from Amazon, Square accounts he set up, say prosecutors

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UK watchdog launches full probe of Motorola Solutions' cop-comms deals on Emergency Services Network

Firm working on both old programme and its replacement - CMA checks potential 'incentive' to delay

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Poor data sharing is holding back the UK court system's pandemic recovery, says National Audit Office

Lack of data for planning also a problem, spending watchdog finds

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IT outsourcing: SLAs, patches – and how uptime funk's going to get to you

Cheaper, better than running it yourself? Maybe

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Orders wrong, resellers receiving wrong items? Must be a programming error and certainly not a rushing techie

Some of those punch cards may still be lying at the bottom of a lift shaft

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Here comes the blob: Asia's top 'net boffin thinks 'shapeless services' could replace the Internet

Common network services are less important when we've moved to apps hosted at the edge

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Ransomware criminals have feelings too: BlackMatter abuse caused crims to shut down negotiation portal

Or so says infsec outfit Emsisoft

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SolarWinds attacker on the move: Russia's Nobelium crew has trebled attacks targeting MSPs, cloud resellers, says Microsoft

Phishing and password spraying on the up

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HIV Scotland fined £10,000 for BCC email blunder identifying names of virus-carriers' patient-advocates

'Serious deficiencies in tech and organisational measures'

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Online harms don’t need dangerous legislation, they need a spot of naval action

It worked on Jolly Roger, it can work on ProudWhiteGuy66373

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Facebook sues scraper who sold 178 million phone numbers and user IDs

Apparently The Social NetworkTM is the only one allowed to do nasty things with users' data

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Cleanup on aisle C: Tesco app back online after attack led to shopping app outages

With an average 1.27 million orders a week, many customers left hacked off

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Windows XP@20: From the killer of ME to banging out patches for yet another vulnerability

When NT and 9x became one

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Intel hopes to burn newly open-sourced AI debug tech into chips

Chipzilla dreams of planting ControlFlag in hardware

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Tesla slams into reverse, pulls latest beta of Full Self-Driving software from participating car owners

FSD rolled back to 10.2 after 'issues' found

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Twitter's machine learning algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians over those on the left

Engineers and researchers don't know why

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Asia's 'superapps' bundle ride-share, food delivery, even financial services – and they're beating big tech

China backed the concept of tools users perceive as an extension of the OS, not just an app

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Amazon warehouse workers in New York to labor watchdog: We want our union vote

Unions face test on Staten Island after defeat in Bessemer, Alabama

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Electronic Frontier Foundation ousts co-founder John Gilmore from its board

He's free of governance duties now, but still an emeritus member

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