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Former Amazon exec appointed as chair of UK’s competition watchdog 2025-01-22 at 14:19 By Richard Speed Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being ‘sufficiently focused on growth’ The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has a new chair after the sudden departure of the previous incumbent.… This article is an excerpt from

Discover Hidden Browsing Threats: Free Risk Assessment for GenAI, Identity, Web, and SaaS Risks 2025-01-22 at 13:04 By As GenAI tools and SaaS platforms become a staple component in the employee toolkit, the risks associated with data exposure, identity vulnerabilities, and unmonitored browsing behavior have skyrocketed. Forward-thinking security teams are looking for security controls and

President Trump Pardons Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison 2025-01-22 at 13:04 By U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a “full and unconditional pardon” to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous Silk Road drug marketplace, after spending 11 years behind bars. “I just called the mother of Ross William

Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom 2025-01-22 at 12:23 By Lindsay Clark The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner Tech analysts have forecast 9.8 percent year-over-year growth in worldwide IT spending in 2025, reaching $5.61 trillion and driven by continuing AI investments, despite “moonshot” projects seeing a high

Ransomware scum make it personal for Reg readers by impersonating tech support 2025-01-22 at 11:33 By Jessica Lyons That invitation to a Teams call on which IT promises to mop up a spamstorm may not be what it seems Two ransomware campaigns are abusing Microsoft Teams to infect organizations and steal data, and the crooks

PlushDaemon APT Targets South Korean VPN Provider in Supply Chain Attack 2025-01-22 at 11:17 By A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network (VPN) provider in 2023, according to new findings from ESET. “The attackers replaced the

China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run 2025-01-22 at 10:42 By Simon Sharwood 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion reactor that

Google DeepMind CEO says 2025’s the year we start popping pills AI helped invent 2025-01-22 at 09:41 By Tobias Mann Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon Clinical trials of the first drugs designed with the help of artificial intelligence could commence this year, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis suggested Tuesday.…

Oracle Releases January 2025 Patch to Address 318 Flaws Across Major Products 2025-01-22 at 09:41 By Oracle is urging customers to apply its January 2025 Critical Patch Update (CPU) to address 318 new security vulnerabilities spanning its products and services. The most severe of the flaws is a bug in the Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle

Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3 2025-01-22 at 09:22 By Tobias Mann Plus: Google stuffs Gemini into Workspace, with a hidden off switch? Ready or not, generative AI assistants and productivity aids are getting harder to avoid with a growing number of software vendors enabling them by default.…

Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Device 2025-01-22 at 09:22 By Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever attack to be reported to date. The UDP protocol-based attack took place on

The end of digital transformation, the rise of AI transformation 2025-01-22 at 07:07 By Security magazine talks with Steve Tait, Chief Technology Officer at Skyhigh Security, regarding the key areas of risk that generative AI can create.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source