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Restrictive licensing keeps businesses grounded in cloud vendor vortex 2024-02-02 at 14:31 By Richard Speed Microsoft named – again – by EU trade groups seeking to level the playing field New research is highlighting the restrictive licensing practices deployed to prevent businesses from switching cloud providers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Former CIA Engineer Sentenced to 40 Years for Leaking Classified Documents 2024-02-02 at 13:31 By A former software engineer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been sentenced to 40 years in prison by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) for transmitting classified documents to WikiLeaks and for possessing child pornographic material. Joshua

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Cloudzy Elevates Cybersecurity: Integrating Insights from Recorded Future to Revolutionize Cloud Security 2024-02-02 at 13:31 By Cloudzy, a prominent cloud infrastructure provider, proudly announces a significant enhancement in its cybersecurity landscape. This breakthrough has been achieved through a recent consultation with Recorded Future, a leader in providing real-time threat intelligence and cybersecurity analytics. This initiative,

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Return to Office mandates boost company profits? Nope 2024-02-02 at 12:47 By Paul Kunert Biz boffins say bottom line and market cap didn’t change post directive – but staff mood did Research has shed light on the profitability gains that the biggest US corporations experienced after issuing return to office mandates: There weren’t any, and

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INTERPOL Arrests 31 in Global Operation, Identifies 1,900+ Ransomware-Linked IPs 2024-02-02 at 12:47 By An INTERPOL-led collaborative operation targeting phishing, banking malware, and ransomware attacks has led to the identification of 1,300 suspicious IP addresses and URLs. The law enforcement effort, codenamed Synergia, took place between September and November 2023 in an attempt to blunt the “growth,

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Building a 16-bit CPU in a spreadsheet is Excel-lent engineering 2024-02-02 at 11:47 By Richard Speed But can it run Doom? Microsoft Excel was used for many purposes over the years from accounting to 3D rendering, yet implementing a 16-bit CPU in the spreadsheet is something else.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge 2024-02-02 at 09:46 By Thomas Claburn Asks why only one Bing ad – the one you see when searching for other browsers – looks like a Windows popup Mozilla on Thursday accused Microsoft of forcing its Edge browser down the throats of

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Cloudflare Breach: Nation-State Hackers Access Source Code and Internal Docs 2024-02-02 at 08:47 By Cloudflare has revealed that it was the target of a likely nation-state attack in which the threat actor leveraged stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access to its Atlassian server and ultimately access some documentation and a limited amount of source code.

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Amazon extends the life of its servers to six years, expects $900m benefit in 90 days 2024-02-02 at 08:01 By Simon Sharwood Cloud optimization efforts ebb, and migrations resume Amazon.com has completed a “useful life study” for its servers and decided they can be used for an extra year – taking the working life from

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Wikileaks source and former CIA worker Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years jail 2024-02-02 at 06:01 By Laura Dobberstein ‘Vault 7’ leak detailed cyber-ops including forged digital certs Joshua Schulte, a former CIA employee and software engineer accused of sharing material with WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison by the US Southern District

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