artificial intelligence The Times they are a-suing: NYT accuses AI heavyweights of harvesting content The New York Times is suing a pair of high-profile AI firms alleging its articles were illegally used to train AI models on newswriting
Kaspersky Kaspersky dishes dirt on 'Operation Triangulation' attacks Kaspersky has provided new details on how attackers were able to exploit a little-known debugging tool to work around iOS security features
apple Apple Watch US sales ban averted with last-minute appeal Apple will continue to be able to sell its two high-end Watch models in the US following a last-minute court order to halt an ITC ban over patent infringement claims
Twitter Twitter loses battle over bonuses for axed employees Twitter, now known as X, lost its bid to throw out the complaint from former employees who say that they are still owed bonus money promised prior to their mass firing under Elon Musk
Hyperloop Hyperloop will only live up to its first syllable following liquidation announcement Elon Musk's Hyperloop One startup is reportedly doomed to shut down at the end of the year as the revolutionary rail system failed to gain a foothold
Windows 11 Windows 10 end of life could kill 240 million PCs Microsoft's decision to switch to a new version of Windows could create an epic wave of e-waste as some 240 million PCs stand to lose support according to industry analysts
Microsoft Microsoft won't get back to mixed reality Microsoft has dropped support for its augmented reality system, signaling a major shift for the company and its vision of the future
Lapsus Lapsus$ hacker sent to hospital custody A hacker associated with the infamous Lapsus$ hacking crew has been handed over to medical professionals over mental health concerns related to Autism
Apple Vision Apple Vision Pro rumored for February release Apple's augmented reality headset could be arriving sooner than later, according to reports out of China
comcast Hello Americans: you, you, you, you, you, you, (not you), you, you, you... did not lose your personal data in a Comcast breach Comcast says that it lost the data of roughly 35.9 million people as the result of data breach related to a Citrix software error
SLAs The evolving role of technology industry SLAs "SLAs are becoming differentiators and, in many cases, the ultimate decider in purchasing decisions..."
News Google to cough up $700m in antitrust settlement Google has settled with a number of US states over a lawsuit regarding its handling of Android apps and pricing. The total fee will tally out at $700m
News Feds bust Blackcat malware ring The US department of justice has busted up a prolific ransomware as a service ring that targeted hundreds of companies
Qualys Bugs are turning into exploits faster than ever Vulnerabilities are turning into actively exploited flaws at a rapid pace, often within the same day. This according to research from security vendor Qualys.
News NSA updates software guidelines The NSA has posted a new set of cybersecurity guidelines for government agencies
Cybersecurity $11 billion North Face owner, VF Corp., hit by ransomware Attacker "disrupted… business operations by encrypting some IT systems, and stole data from the company"
Members only MongoDB MongoDB hacked: Hints at authentication system compromise Attackers had access to certain corporate systems “for some period of time before discovery”
Bristol Supercomputer city: How Bristol became one of the UK’s hottest AI hubs The UK’s fastest supercomputer, Isambard-AI, will open in Bristol in 2024. Owen Hughes explores how the city’s unique blend of academia, entrepreneurship and engineering heritage made it a national hub for AI development.
SEC New SEC cyber rules are go... Firms need to disclose any cybersecurity incident they determine to be material and to describe the material aspects of the incident's nature, scope, and timing within four days.
Members only ERP HMG puts massive £500m ERP contract out to tender An early Christmas present for Systems Integrators and their SaaS partners as a ten-year ERP centralisation contract lands
News Google praised for rollout of anti-tracking policy updates Google has won praise from the Electronic Frontier Foundation after it issued a new set of policies and default settings for its Location History feature that could limit police overreach in surveillance and search
cybercrime Microchargers charged for chump change charges The DOJ has launched a legal campaign against what it says are a network of fraudsters that thrive on extracting micropayment charges in order to avoid detection by banks
News 'Tis the season: Box gifts customers an early weekend with Friday outage File sharing and collaboration service Box fell victim to an extended outage that affected all of its services on Friday
Members only banks Europe's banks steel themselves for a tough ECB cyber resilence test after blistering criticism "Institutions continue to report gaps in risk control areas considered fundamental to cyber hygiene, such as proper identity and access management, timely vulnerability patching or network security"
AI Dropbox’s AI integration with OpenAI turns into a messaging mess – as Amazon’s CTO apologises over data protection post "To data scientists and developers in the domain, the answers to these questions may be laughably obvious and the questions naive, but to most end-users they will not be."