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Expired Juniper routers find new life – as Chinese spy hubs
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Cyber-crime12 Mar 2025 |
ServiceNow's new AI agents will happily volunteer for your dullest tasks
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AI + ML12 Mar 2025 | 1
This is the FBI, open up. China's Volt Typhoon is on your network
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Cyber-crime12 Mar 2025 | 4
Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return
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Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes
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UK must pay cyber pros more than its Prime Minister, top civil servant says
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MariaDB reboots DBaaS plans with open source at the core
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Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users
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Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labelled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'
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Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital
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CISA worker says 100-strong red team fired after DOGE cancelled contract
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Official HP toner not official enough after dodgy update, say users
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Cerebras to light up datacenters in North America and France packed with AI accelerators
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On-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 4
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Eight days later, Microsoft Outlook users still struggle on iOS devices
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Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
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Databases11 Mar 2025 | 57
Britain dusts off idle spectrum for rail and emergency comms
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Networks11 Mar 2025 | 23
MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users
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AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 11
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PyPI repository takes steps towards paid services as volunteers struggle to meet demand
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IBM dodges BMC's $1.6B bullet in US as London court slaps down LzLabs
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On-Prem11 Mar 2025 |
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Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build
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No peace for Gandi this past weekend, after storage SNAFU breaks email and more
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Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it
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Rhysida pwns two US healthcare orgs, extracts over 300K patients' data
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