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Wednesday August 13, 2025. 08:15 AM
Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack The Interlock ransomware gang has flaunted a 43GB haul of files allegedly stolen from the city of Saint Paul, following a late-July cyberattack that forced the Minnesota...
First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor In late June media speculated that a meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere caused widespread sightings of a celestial fireball during daylight hours across the southeast USA. Scientists have now...
Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power Australia’s Federal Court has given Epic Games another win in its global fight against the way Apple and Google run their app stores.…
AI startup Perplexity has sent Google/Alphabet an offer to buy Chrome for $34.5 billion. The offer was made in a letter from Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas to Sundar Pichai, who serves as the CEO of both Alphabet and Google. A copy of the letter, provided to Computerworld ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: You can't say Linux creator Linus Torvalds didn't give the kernel developers fair warning. He'd told them: 'The upcoming merge window for 6.17 is going to be slightly chaotic for me. I have multiple family events this August (a ...
Tells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct' Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called 'stablecoin' Terra USD and now faces time in jail.…
Cornell University researchers have developed an 'invisible' light-based watermarking system that embeds unique codes into the physical light that illuminates the subject during recording, allowing any camera to capture authentication data without special hardware. By...
Turns out stealing from poor people isn't as easy as just running a health insurance or payday loan company — sometimes you have to actually work for it. As reported in the LA Times, Romanian citizen Catalin-Marius Graur got himself a decade in the slammer for running an...
Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud over the $40 billion collapse of TerraUSD and Luna in 2022. Reuters reports: Kwon, 33, who co-founded Singapore-based Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and...
ole_timer shares a report from the New York Times: Investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least partly responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents, including highly sensitive records with information that could...
None under active exploit…yet Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday flaw-fixing festival addresses 111 problems in its products, a dozen of which are deemed critical, and one moderate-severity flaw that is listed as being publicly known.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest public library systems in the country, is launching a project this summer with OpenAI and Harvard Law School to make its trove of historically significant government documents...
Rubrik has announced Agent Rewind, software that provides visibility into agent actions and enables enterprises to undo agent mistakes by rewinding changes to applications and data. Announced August 12, Agent Rewind combines Predibase AI infrastructure (acquired by Rubrik in ...
The move will pinch users in rural or remote areas not yet served by broadband infrastructure or satellite internet. Around 175,000 households still use dial-up internet in the US.
IBM and Google report they will build industrial-scale quantum computers containing one million or more qubits by 2030, following IBM's June publication of a quantum computer blueprint addressing previous design gaps and Google's late-2023 breakthrough in scaling error...
spatwei shares a report from SC Media: Just as it had at BSides Las Vegas earlier in the week, the risks of artificial intelligence dominated the Black Hat USA 2025 security conference on Aug. 6 and 7. We couldn't see all the AI-related talks, but we did catch three of the...
Tuesday August 12, 2025. 11:30 PM
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Meta's Threads has surpassed 400 million monthly active users, adding 50 million in the last quarter and closing the gap with rival X in mobile daily usage. 'As of a few weeks ago [there are] more than 400 million people active on Threads every month,' said Instagram head...
Want to make your kid a millionaire? It may sound like a lofty goal, but it can actually be done with as little as $15 a week thanks to the app FutureMoney. This investing platform was made for parents, helping them set and reach financial goals for their children right from ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Beijing has urged local companies to avoid using Nvidia's H20 processors, particularly for government-related purposes, complicating the chipmaker's return to China after the Trump administration reversed an effective US...
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