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Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall 2025-01-18 at 01:15 By Iain Thomson Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds Capital One is still battling to fix whatever brought down its systems on Wednesday, which has left people unable to access their money.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

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Tech founder pledges to give away half his wealth to ‘share’ the American dream, address inequality 2025-01-18 at 00:33 By Associated Press Entrepreneur Jeff Atwood sees the staggering wealth inequality in the U.S. today as unfair, astonishing, and un-American. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original

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FCC to telcos: Did you know you must by law secure your networks from foreign spies? 2025-01-18 at 00:18 By Jessica Lyons Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from intercepting communications isn’t mere

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Bumble shares fall after founder Whitney Wolfe Herd announces impending return as CEO 2025-01-17 at 23:34 By Reuters Wolfe Herd, executive chair of Bumble, will take the reins from Lidiane Jones, who steps down after a tenure of about a year that was marked by a nearly 50% decline in the company’s shares. This article is

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Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it 2025-01-17 at 22:35 By Jessica Lyons Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there’s something for everyone in the presidential directive Analysis  Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity order that is nearly as vast in

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China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies 2025-01-17 at 21:48 By Dan Robinson Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors The “chip wars” between the US and China show no sign of cooling off as Beijing prepares to examine whether America is unfairly subsidizing its own semiconductor companies. Meanwhile,

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So, is TikTok banned now? The Supreme Court decision and the Tiktok ban explained 2025-01-17 at 21:01 By Thomas Barrabi TikTok is widely expected to go dark on Sunday – leaving more than 170 million American users unable to access the China-owned app. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews

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Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading 2025-01-17 at 20:51 By Connor Jones Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year Fortinet has confirmed that previous analyses of records leaked by the Belsen Group are indeed genuine FortiGate configs stolen during a zero-day raid in 2022.… This

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Looming TikTok ban poses financial nightmare for Google, Apple — and other American tech firms ties to China’s ByteDance 2025-01-17 at 20:22 By Thomas Barrabi A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology

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EU steps up probe into Elon Musk’s X, days ahead of Trump inauguration 2025-01-17 at 19:35 By Reuters The Commission said President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House did not affect its commitment to enforcing its laws. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View

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Clock ticking for TikTok as US Supreme Court upholds ban 2025-01-17 at 19:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo With Biden reportedly planning to skirt enforcement and kick the can to Trump, this saga might still not be over The US Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring TikTok to either divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance

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EU demands a peek under the hood of X’s recommendation algorithms 2025-01-17 at 18:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Commission insists the timing has nothing to do with Musk meddling in German politics ahead of election The European Commission is stepping up its ongoing investigation of Elon Musk’s X with a request to examine recent changes made

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Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg blamed former lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg for pushing ‘inclusivity initiative’ in meeting with Trump aides: report 2025-01-17 at 18:03 By Ariel Zilber Stephen Miller told Zuckerberg that the billionaire mogul had “an opportunity to help reform America, but it would be on Trump’s terms.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology

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Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day 2025-01-17 at 18:03 By Liam Proven Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast Don’t panic. Yes, there were a bunch of CVEs affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of users found in rsync in early December – and made public

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Crypto bros won’t throw off yoke of SEC regulations despite backing Trump 2025-01-17 at 17:13 By Charles Gasparino One big ask, On The Money has learned, includes no longer having to deal with the heavy hand of regulation by the SEC, also known as Wall Street’s top cop. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology

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Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer 2025-01-17 at 17:13 By Tobias Mann €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 Hundreds of AMD APUs fired up on Thursday as Germany’s High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart announced the completion of its latest supercomputer dubbed Hunter.… This article

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Critical Flaws in WGS-804HPT Switches Enable RCE and Network Exploitation 2025-01-17 at 17:12 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three security flaws in Planet Technology’s WGS-804HPT industrial switches that could be chained to achieve pre-authentication remote code execution on susceptible devices. “These switches are widely used in building and home automation systems for a variety of

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Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month 2025-01-17 at 15:49 By Richard Speed Many users less than impressed by unexpected arrival of AI assistant in Word Copilot is coming to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family, and Vulture Central has had some hands-on experience with the generative AI assistant’s

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Python-Based Bots Exploiting PHP Servers Fuel Gambling Platform Proliferation 2025-01-17 at 15:48 By Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new campaign that targets web servers running PHP-based applications to promote gambling platforms in Indonesia. “Over the past two months, a significant volume of attacks from Python-based bots has been observed, suggesting a coordinated effort to exploit

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