DoJ: Ex-soldier tried to pass secrets to China after seeking a 'subreddit about spy stuff' (2023/10/09) FBI agent claims sergeant with top clearance offered access to DoD tech systems
Qualtrics culls 780 jobs amid 'complex' growth spurt (2023/10/09) Staff get Zoom meeting to hear how they might be hit after phase of rapid hiring ends
SpaceX accused of paying less to women and minority engineers (2023/10/09) Suit alleges female staff were forced to start as technical writers despite doing largely same work
Hacktivist attacks erupt in Middle East following Hamas assault on Israel (2023/10/09) Groups range from known collectives to new outfits eager to raise their profile
Microsoft drops official support for Python 3.7 in Visual Studio Code (2023/10/09) Should still work for the foreseeable future, but rely on it at your own risk
Datacenter cabling biz Volex confirms digital break-in (2023/10/09) All sites operational, no 'material' financial impact expected but stock markets still worried
UK data watchdog warns Snap over My AI chatbot privacy issues (2023/10/09) AI in brief Plus: 4channers are making troll memes with Bing AI, and more
When Microsoft complains that you're a monopolist you know things are bad (2023/10/09) Kettle Google and Amazon are both in antitrust trouble as the US gets tough
Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher (2023/10/09) FOSS Fest Hackintoshing reaches a wider audience – owners of older Macs
Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair (2023/10/09) Opinion All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please
Scripted shortcut caused double-click disaster of sysadmin's own making (2023/10/09) Who, Me? Tech remembers why those safeguards were there there to start with
SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son predicts artificial general intelligence is a decade away (2023/10/09) 'Investo-bot, make me rich' is his vision – powered by Arm chips, natch
China updates national computing plan with calls for more edge, storage, memory, and … Blu-ray? (2023/10/09) Beijing wants latency down, more sharing of compute capacity
India demands social networks 'swiftly' remove all CSAM (2023/10/09) X, YouTube, and Telegram told to make it happen, or feel the wrath of 'zero tolerance' regime
Chinese smart TV boxes infected with malware in PEACHPIT ad fraud campaign (2023/10/09) Infosec in brief PLUS: Sony admits to MoveITbreach; Blackbaud fined again, Qakbot's sorta back from the dead; and more
US lawmakers want China export bans to include open tech like RISC-V (2023/10/09) ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: South Korea to fine Apple, Google; Digital fraud booms in Hong Kong; Singtel slings TrustWave
Blockchain biz goes nuclear: Standard Power wants to use NuScale reactors for DCs (2023/10/08) Please, no crypto boom, thank you
FTC: Please stop falling for social media scams, you've given crooks at least $650M so far this year (2023/10/07) Internet considered harmful
Beethoven and Brahms move audience members to synchronization symphony (2023/10/07) Music sets hearts beating in lockstep, researchers find