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All your 8Base are belong to us: Ransomware crew busted in global sting 2025-02-11 at 00:31 By Iain Thomson Dark web site seized, four cuffed in Thailand An international police operation spanning the US, Europe, and Asia has shuttered the 8Base ransomware crew’s dark web presence and resulted in the arrest of four European suspects […]

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Elon Musk-led group makes shock $97.4B bid for OpenAI — but Sam Altman quips, ‘No thank you’ 2025-02-11 at 00:05 By Thomas Barrabi A group of investors led by Elon Musk has reportedly made an unsolicited $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI – adding new intrigue to the billionaire’s legal war with the

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Intel loses another exec as datacenter, AI chief named Nokia CEO 2025-02-10 at 22:48 By Tobias Mann Justin Hotard tapped to replace Pekka Lundmark at the Finnish telco Intel is going to need more than a new CEO after its Datacenter and AI (DCAI) chief on Monday announced he’s leaving to run Nokia as its

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Reclassification is making US tech job losses look worse than they are 2025-02-10 at 20:38 By Brandon Vigliarolo IT hiring ticks up in January, but unemployment climbs to 5.7% The latest job numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics make IT hiring look like it’s in freefall, but that’s not the case at all,

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Meta’s plan to erase 5% of workforce starts today 2025-02-10 at 19:50 By Paul Kunert ‘Intense year’ ahead, warned Zuck. Got to spend billions on AI and work to stay out of Trump’s bad books Meta has confirmed to The Register that today marks the start of a mass redundancy process with thousands of workers

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New York bans DeepSeek from government devices over ‘serious’ data privacy, censorship concerns 2025-02-10 at 19:33 By Thomas Barrabi New York banned the China-based DeepSeek app from government devices and networks on Monday due to “serious concerns” about its potential data privacy and censorship risks, Gov. Kathy Hochul confirmed. This article is an excerpt from

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T-Mobile goes live with beta of satellite phone service for the US 2025-02-10 at 18:48 By Dan Robinson Free text messages for users of its own and rival networks during test period T-Mobile US has started a public beta of its Direct-to-Cell service using Starlink satellites, offering just text messages for now, with data and

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Hackers Exploit Google Tag Manager to Deploy Credit Card Skimmers on Magento Stores 2025-02-10 at 18:30 By Threat actors have been observed leveraging Google Tag Manager (GTM) to deliver credit card skimmer malware targeting Magento-based e-commerce websites. Website security company Sucuri said the code, while appearing to be a typical GTM and Google Analytics script

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Boeing warns SLS staff that job cuts could be on the way 2025-02-10 at 17:35 By Richard Speed Overdue, over budget and now… perhaps just over? Boeing has notified staff that hundreds of jobs could be eliminated if the Artemis program is canceled or heavily revised.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway 2025-02-10 at 16:54 By Rupert Goodwins When your state machines are vulnerable, all bets are off Opinion  All malicious attacks on digital systems have one common aim: taking control. Mostly, that means getting a CPU somewhere to turn traitor, running code that silently steals or scrambles

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Ransomware extortion rose by 46% in Q4 2024 2025-02-10 at 16:20 By According to a Nuspire report, ransomware extortion publications rose by 46% compared to Q3, with Clop ransomware emerging as the most active group. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation 2025-02-10 at 16:02 By Richard Currie Simian saboteur or a grid screaming for modernization? Sri Lanka’s electricity grid was brought down nationwide on Sunday after monkey business struck a power station south of the capital of Colombo.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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DeepSeek hired talent from Microsoft’s controversial AI research lab in China 2025-02-10 at 15:26 By Thomas Barrabi Several DeepSeek employees honed their skills at Microsoft’s controversial artificial intelligence research labs in China before joining the Chinese startup – whose release of an ultra-efficient model sparked a $1 trillion selloff in US tech stocks, The Post

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US news org still struggling to print papers a week after ‘cybersecurity event’ 2025-02-10 at 15:08 By Connor Jones Publications across 25 states either producing smaller issues or very delayed ones US newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises is one week into tackling a nondescript “cybersecurity event,” saying the related investigation may take “weeks or longer” to

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