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Digital revolution at HMRC left 99,000 UK taxpayers on hold over five-day fiasco 25/07/2023 at 13:50 By Lindsay Clark Technology resilience gets red rating in tax collector’s annual report Poor IT performance caused a five-day shutdown of the UK tax authority’s phone services in December last year, affecting around 99,000 citizens.… This article is an […]

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Too many bytes and not enough bricks for datacenters 25/07/2023 at 12:57 By Dan Robinson More than 3,000 needed to meet demand, and that won’t be easy, says Aggreko The European datacenter industry is facing issues meeting the growing demand for capacity with materials and heavy equipment to build sites in short supply, among other

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Apple owes Brit iOS app devs millions from excessively high commission, lawsuit claims 25/07/2023 at 11:33 By Paul Kunert Lawyers look to scale the walled garden Apple is facing a legal challenge over the “creator tax,” or the commission it charges developers who write the apps that populate its digital walled garden.… This article is

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Germany raids climate piggy bank for €20B to bankroll chip fabs 25/07/2023 at 10:35 By Tobias Mann Less than a quarter will go to locals though German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reportedly plans to siphon €20 billion ($22 billion) from the country’s Climate and Transformation Fund to offset the cost of building semiconductor manufacturing plants.… This

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Tokkers can Tok like Tweeters can Tweet – for now 25/07/2023 at 10:17 By Laura Dobberstein Scavenging for disgruntled former Twitter users? Fellow vulture, we honor thee. Chinese short video platform TikTok announced yesterday it will offer text-based content – a feature that mimics capabilities of various other social media sites, including what is formerly

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Google’s next big idea for browser security looks like another freedom grab to some 25/07/2023 at 09:32 By Thomas Claburn Safe to say, this proposal has gone down like a poweroff -fn Analysis  Googlers have proposed a way to determine whether browsers can be trusted, as a defense against criminal fraud and other bad behavior.

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Apple Rolls Out Urgent Patches for Zero-Day Flaws Impacting iPhones, iPads and Macs 25/07/2023 at 08:18 By Apple has rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari to address several security vulnerabilities, including one actively exploited zero-day bug in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-38606, the shortcoming resides in the kernel and permits a malicious

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Ivanti Releases Urgent Patch for EPMM Zero-Day Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation 25/07/2023 at 08:18 By Ivanti is warning users to update their Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) mobile device management software (formerly MobileIron Core) to the latest version that fixes an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. Dubbed CVE-2023-35078, the issue has been described as a remote unauthenticated API

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Atlassian Releases Patches for Critical Flaws in Confluence and Bamboo 25/07/2023 at 08:18 By Atlassian has released updates to address three security flaws impacting its Confluence Server, Data Center, and Bamboo Data Center products that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution on susceptible systems. The list of the flaws is below – CVE-2023-22505 (CVSS score:

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TETRA radio comms used by emergency heroes easily cracked, say experts 25/07/2023 at 02:32 By Thomas Claburn If it looks like a backdoor, walks like a backdoor, maybe it’s a … Midnight Blue, a security firm based in the Netherlands, has found five vulnerabilities that affect Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA), used in Europe, the United

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