February 2025

Watchdog ponders why Apple doesn’t apply its strict app tracking rules to itself 2025-02-14 at 11:30 By Jude Karabus Germany’s Federal Cartel Office voices concerns iPhone maker may be breaking competition law Apple is feeling the heat over its acclaimed iPhone privacy policy after a German regulator’s review of iOS tracking consent alleged that the […]

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HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive 2025-02-14 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Analyst argues stopping the deal benefits Switchzilla by preventing rise of strong challenger for AI networks HPE has fired back at the US Department of Justice’s objection to its takeover of Juniper Networks, with

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Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal 2025-02-14 at 07:30 By Simon Sharwood New ‘Deep Search’ thinking and planning bot to go up against peoples’ champion DeepSeek Chinese AI continued to march onto the world stage this week, with Alibaba and Baidu both taking major strides.… This article

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PostgreSQL Vulnerability Exploited Alongside BeyondTrust Zero-Day in Targeted Attacks 2025-02-14 at 07:22 By Threat actors who were behind the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products in December 2024 likely also exploited a previously unknown SQL injection flaw in PostgreSQL, according to findings from Rapid7. The

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Shadow AI: The silent threat to enterprise data security 2025-02-14 at 07:03 By Just as IT departments have started to get a handle on shadow IT by setting policies for oversight and permissions on the use of applications, a new challenge has emerged — shadow AI. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security

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Lawyers face judge’s wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit 2025-02-14 at 06:16 By Thomas Claburn Talk about court red-handed Demonstrating yet again that uncritically trusting the output of generative AI is dangerous, attorneys involved in a product liability lawsuit have apologized to the presiding judge for submitting documents that cite non-existent

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Chinese spies suspected of ‘moonlighting’ as tawdry ransomware crooks 2025-02-14 at 04:34 By Jessica Lyons Some employees steal sticky notes, others ‘borrow’ malicious code A crew identified as a Chinese government-backed espionage group appears to have started moonlighting as a ransomware player – further evidence that lines are blurring between nation-state cyberspies and financially motivated

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TikTok returns on Apple, Google app stores as Trump delays ban 2025-02-14 at 04:16 By Reuters President Donald Trump delayed the TikTok ban until April 5 as the app is back on the U.S. app stores of Apple and Google. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York

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After clash over Rust in the Linux kernel, Asahi lead quits, slams ‘failure of leadership’ 2025-02-14 at 00:20 By Thomas Claburn I fought the Torv and … the Torv won Hector Martin, project lead of Asahi Linux, resigned early Friday, Japan Standard Time, citing developer burnout, demanding users, and Linus Torvalds’s handling of the integration

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Trump admin prepares to change conditions of CHIPS Act and its $39B subsidies: sources 2025-02-14 at 00:06 By Reuters One of the sources said the White House is also frustrated by companies that accepted CHIPS Act subsidies and then announced significant overseas expansion plans, including in China. The law allowed some investments in China. This

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Reddit’s first public year shows growth, but Wall Street’s still not happy 2025-02-13 at 22:36 By Brandon Vigliarolo User numbers fall short, triggering investor sell-off Reddit’s first year as a public company delivered solid results by most earnings metrics, but try telling that to Wall Street: Falling short on one key growth target sent shares

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More victims of China’s Salt Typhoon crew emerge: Telcos, unis hit via Cisco bugs 2025-02-13 at 20:56 By Jessica Lyons Networks in US and beyond compromised by Beijing’s super-snoops pulling off priv-esc attacks China’s Salt Typhoon spy crew exploited vulnerabilities in Cisco devices to compromise at least seven devices linked to global telecom providers and

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