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NCSC neutralizes fewer cyber crime campaigns for first time in six years
News Drop in takedowns may be due to short lifetimes of extortion email servers and crypto scams
Iranian hackers targeted nuclear expert, ported Windows infection chain to Mac in a week
News Fresh research demonstrates the sophistication and capability of state-sponsored threat actors to compromise diverse targets
Ubuntu publisher Canonical to assume control of LXD
News Linux Containers team “regrets” decision to make tool a project of the Ubuntu vendor
Cyber insurance costs fall in 2023 despite steep rise in ransomware attacks
News Premiums drop from historic highs as insurers eye a ransomware resurgence
HPE plans to spend $1 billion on high-volume servers in India
News HPE said local demand and supply chain diversification is a key motivation behind the ambitious five-year plan
Swedish privacy concerns result in fines over Google Analytics
News Swedish privacy authority ordered companies to stop using the ubiquitous web traffic analysis tool, in line with recent EU rulings
UK competition watchdog expresses concern over Adobe and Figma deal
News Competition and Markets Authority is taking a closer look at Adobe’s plans
Red Hat: Distro vendors must abide by enterprise agreements amid source code ‘furor’
News Ongoing confusion around how distro development teams can work around Red Hat’s latest restrictions has prompted a response
Oracle missed the cloud boat - is it doing the same with AI?
Analysis Founder and chairman Larry Ellison says billions will be spent to lure AI companies to Oracle’s cloud, but is it too little too late?
MITRE publishes the top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses
News The annual list features the usual suspects and some new entries too
OpenAI is being sued again - why is generative AI such a legal conundrum?
News Legal woes continue to bedevil AI technology amid privacy and copyright concerns
Red Hat adds four years of extended support for RHEL 7
News An additional three years are also added to RHEL 8 and 9's lifecycles, which are still both fully supported
Intel and Dell secure deal to build a digital twin of a UK fusion power plant
News The simulation will be critical for meeting the ambitious goal of delivering fusion energy to the UK’s energy network in the 2040s
GitHub: 30% of Copilot coding suggestions are accepted
News Senior developers say the steady increase in Copilot success rates may lead to a shortage of junior coders
Quantum 'toggle switch' will eliminate computing errors, researchers claim
Analysis NIST says the new approach will cut down on so-called 'noise' that produces inconsistent results in many quantum computers
Mizuho bank says it will roll out generative AI to 45,000 employees
News Japan’s Mizuho is providing access to Microsoft Azure OpenAI at a time when the US is placing greater restrictions on ChatGPT
What Red Hat's source code restrictions mean for businesses
News Red Hat's source code restrictions for Enterprise Linux have caused a stir in the industry, with some users still investigating the degree to which they'll be affected
Report reveals the tech jobs worst hit by generative AI automation
News Some roles could face as much as 26% of tasks being automated, although humans likely to remain an 'essential part of the workforce'
Google expands Classroom with new features in free and paid tiers
News More analytics and support for educators as Classroom evolves
Researchers uncover novel RDStealer malware targeting remote desktop protocol
News Bitdefender's experts said the level of disguise observed in this campaign “surpasses anything witnessed thus far”
Report: UK lags behind US in auditing code for security flaws
News The CTO of open source software firm SUSE suggested the US’ DevOps maturity can be attributed to the difference in aptitude
Squarespace to acquire Google Domains: What it means for customers
News Google will wind up its domain registration business while offloading assets and customers
