February 2025

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to ‘feedback’ 2025-02-21 at 13:40 By Paul Kunert It woz The Reg wot won it… or maybe just common sense prevailed among management HP today abruptly ditched the mandatory 15-minute wait time that it imposed on customers dialling up its telephone-based support team due to “initial feedback.”… This

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AI-Powered Deception is a Menace to Our Societies 2025-02-21 at 13:30 By Wherever there’s been conflict in the world, propaganda has never been far away. Travel back in time to 515 BC and read the Behistun Inscription, an autobiography by Persian King Darius that discusses his rise to power. More recently, see how different newspapers

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Inside the new baby-boom movement that’s taken hold of Silicon Valley — complete with gene editing and artificial wombs 2025-02-21 at 13:21 By Rikki Schlott As American fertility rates continue to hit record lows — well below the “replacement rate” from one generation to the next — the pronatalism movement has found a foothold in

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5 health lessons we can learn from the 1950s — 4 are easy things you can do at home 2025-02-21 at 13:21 By Tracy Swartz The viral tradwife movement, which encourages women to be homemakers and men to be breadwinners, has some people waxing nostalgic for the mid-century. This article is an excerpt from Latest

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Hey programmers – is AI making us dumber? 2025-02-21 at 12:34 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols If you don’t need to think about easy questions, will you be able to answer complex questions? Opinion  I don’t want to sound like an aging boomer, yet when I see junior programmers relying on AI tools like Copilot, Claude,

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Venture capital firm Insight Partners faces security breach 2025-02-21 at 12:18 By A global venture capital firm has announced it experienced a cyber incident. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Cisco Confirms Salt Typhoon Exploited CVE-2018-0171 to Target U.S. Telecom Networks 2025-02-21 at 10:41 By Cisco has confirmed that a Chinese threat actor known as Salt Typhoon gained access by likely abusing a known security flaw tracked as CVE-2018-0171, and by obtaining legitimate victim login credentials as part of a targeted campaign aimed at major

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CISA Flags Craft CMS Vulnerability CVE-2025-23209 Amid Active Attacks 2025-02-21 at 10:41 By A high-severity security flaw impacting the Craft content management system (CMS) has been added by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-23209

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As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit the scripts we’ve working on for the next flick 2025-02-21 at 09:49 By Iain Thomson The name’s Bezos, Jeff Bezos As part of its quest for world domination, Amazon has bought the creative rights to fictional British spy James Bond.… This article is an excerpt from

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Ivanti endpoint manager can become endpoint ravager, thanks to quartet of critical flaws 2025-02-21 at 09:00 By Jessica Lyons PoC exploit code shows why this is a patch priority Security engineers have released a proof-of-concept exploit for four critical Ivanti Endpoint Manager bugs, giving those who haven’t already installed patches released in January extra incentive

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1.6M clinical research records exposed in data leakage 2025-02-21 at 08:05 By Research reveals a non-password-protected database associated with a clinical trial site network. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Lenovo isn’t fussed by Trumpian tariffs or finding enough energy to run AI 2025-02-21 at 07:49 By Simon Sharwood Enterprise hardware biz produced record revenue, just $1m of profit, but execs think losses are behind it Lenovo believes its enterprise hardware business is finally on track to achieve consistent profits, if its customers can secure

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